Let me tell you about this great, no-fuss, restaurant in Rome that we absolutely fell in love with that we had to go back again!
I’ve used my sometimes trusty Rome Wallpaper guide (iPhone edition) to pick our restaurants and this is the one time it did not fail us.
I’ll just show you what we had during our two visits…
Now wasn’t that mouth-watering?
Posts coming up: regional italian dishes and the best meal we have ever had!
This is my first post on my trip to Italy and naturally it’s on gelato!
I consumed so much gelato during my trip that sometimes they constituted as meals. They slab the gelato, and not scoop, on your cone until it forms a mountain!
I don’t think I will write much in these posts because these images speak for themselves…
In Milan, we accidentally stumbled on a gelato/chocolate store (in the most unexpected area)
and with the quirkiest logo…
They had mostly chocolate flavored gelatos with exciting additions!
I had chocolate gelato with candied orange peel and my friend N. had chocolate gelato with chili.
I’m hopefully going back to Milan in October and this is one shop I can’t wait to go back to!
More posts coming soon..
My afternoon tea time. Flower blossom tea with an oats and dates cookie
Doesn’t this remind you of the scene in the film Marie Antoinette when she gets excited about the flower blossoming, which was a gift from China? Or the Chinese Ambassador?
Well it is quite exciting to watch as the flower blooms in the hot water. It is just lovely!
My last weekend in Singapore, my sister was with me and fortunately was also my only full free weekend.
On that Saturday we went to have brunch at Jones, mix of grocery store and cafe.
And now let’s take a look at their mouth-watering display of tartlets
And best of all they make all their pastries right in front of you!
The pastry chef here was preparing pastry to make croissants.
Since it was a weekend, it took us at least 30 minutes to get seated but it was worth the wait!
My cappuccino!
My Eggs Dish which was fantastic! The tomato sauce, the bread the perfectly cooked eggs and the spinach…all beyond excellent!
My sister’s dish: Poached eggs, mushrooms and bread. You can never go wrong with perfectly cooked poached eggs but my dish was far more superior and yummier!
Although I just had lunch, I am salivating as I remember my egg dish. It was THAT good. So if you happen to be in Singapore be sure to check this place out. It’s located at the top floor of the Mandarin Gallery on Orchard Road.
And oh yeah! I have a brunch post coming up soon!
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I almost gave up on documenting my trip through food.
I miss home. I miss home-cooked meals. I have breakfast, lunch and dinner and I just feel like I lost my enthusiasm for taking out my camera and snapping pictures.
…. Until today!
This is where we (thats me, my parents and my sister!) went: Eastcoast Seafood Centre
I went there 10 years ago with my family on my first trip to Singapore. It has changed quite a bit but the food is still very fresh and exciting!
It’s a strip of seafood restaurants right on the beach. We picked the largest and busiest one, Jumbo!
This is what we ordered:
For larger view, please click on the image. I didn’t want to upload one by one, I would shoot myself by the time I am done.
After leaving the restaurant, the taxi driver showed us this area, which is very close to our hotel, with a line of food street vendors and it’s open till very late at night! Can not wait until we explore that street! Very excited!
Today was my day off!
Although I woke up 2 hours later than what I had planned for, I still managed to do everything on my list for today. I was quite impressed with myself as I have no sense of time management.
First on my list: museum hopping
I went to the Singapore Art Museum and National Museum of Singapore. Both were fantastic but the national museum made me envious, it was so beautiful!
National Museum of Singapore
I went to Little India afterwards to go to this veggie eatery that’s part of an art project.
It’s called Food #03 and it’s part of the PostMuseum project, which the website explains more.
They only served pizzas this week, so I ordered the mixed vegetables one.
It was light and crispy. I quite liked it! It’s also a very relaxed place to just go hang out, read a book or meet up with friends. I would go back if I have an unplanned afternoon.
And then I finally went to Max Brenner. At first, I was disappointed about the size of the place. It was tiny, in comparison to the one in New York and so was their menu but the dessert was still very satisfying.
I had chocolate-filled crepe with caramel sauce, vanilla sauce, bananas and crystallized nuts.
Needless to say, it was yum-mee!
The shop was located at the Esplanade Theatre mall, Singapore’s main theatre, close to the marina bay. Since it was the weekend, they had a band playing outside, just by the bay. It was lovely.
I stayed for a few hours, listening to them play and just enjoying it. At around 9, I decided to head back to the hotel. I had a very long day so I picked up food from the nearby thai restaurant, ThaiExpress.
I was honestly not expecting it to be good but to my surprise, it was! I ordered spicy beans fried in a shrimp paste sauce (left) and seafood pad thai (right).
Back to work tomorrow at the museum…
But on the brighter side, my parents are coming in tomorrow! Now I can’t wait to finally try Singapore’s fine dining restaurants.
Today was not as exciting as I hoped. Far from it.
I basically had breakfast on the run because I woke up late, not that the hotel’s breakfast is anything to look forward to.
For lunch, I wanted to try a sandwich/soup/salad place next to where all the banks are (very close to my hotel and the museum).
So I went there…
And had this…
Grilled vegetable sandwich. It was good, nothing spectacular.
After finishing my sandwich, the weather was beautiful, so I decided to take a lemon cupcake and put my lime juice in a plastic cup and sit outside with all those bankers.
After finishing our work at the museum at 5pm, the weather was getting hotter and stickier. We saw the ice cream vendor. I see them all the time but never got the courage to actually get ice cream from there. My DAI team members went straight to the ice cream man and I asked for chocolate.
He cuts them in thick rectangular slices and sandwiches them between two wafers, and sometimes bread!
I went back to the hotel and never left. I ordered room service.
And this is what I ordered…
Mushroom risotto. And again it wasn’t anything spectacular..
I guess you can’t always have exciting food discoveries every day…
So… today’s post will be short but I will compensate with more pictures.
Breakfast and dinner sucked so much that I won’t even mention them.
But what was in between was beyond fantastic!
During our lunch break, my colleagues at the museum decided to take me to a spicy restaurant….exciting!
We walk around new territories (at least for me) and it was wonderful! Small shops and vendors everywhere and an air conditioning street!
And then we pass by a row of small restaurants that almost look like street vendors. We get to the Malay one.
Doesn’t it look so colorful and wish you could have everything on there! Well I did!
And this is what my colleague ordered for us…
Roasted peanuts and dried anchovies
From left clockwise: A vegetable curry that reminds of Thai green curry, a stir-fried green leaf that I dont know what it is but it was yummy and this is all it matters, prawn in a chilli gravy, and the gravy of butter chicken (quite pointless)
Bbqed chicken which is possibly then later cooked in this sauce
My plate! They give each customer a plate of rice laid on a banana leaf. Very cute!
This is the kind of food I wanted to try! I am so glad they took me there. It really was the best food I have had so far here in Singapore and I can’t wait to go back. Everything was delicious! From the perfectly cooked chicken to the can’t have enough vegetable curry to the surprisingly sweet roasted peanut and dried anchovies dish. I highly recommend it. I’ll get the name of the place tomorrow.
I hope tomorrow’s food post is as exciting.
Goodnight for now!
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