Food hopping

The plan was simple... we'd food hop around chinatown area. But we ended up being overloaded on porridges so the night was kinda kept short. Plus all the participants were quite tired - me especially.

We had frog leg porridge, pork porridge and pork liver porridge and tofu. The food was good - I'd give it two thumbs up. The pork liver was done just right, not over cooked. The frog leg was a bit tough, plus of course we can't compare with the ones at Geylang, but decent enough that I had 3-4 helpings.

The tofu was also soft and flavourful. I liked it but the chili sauce was a bit too salty.

Later, we went to the dessert store where we had black seasame (because my almond egg white paste was out of order), milk pudding and egg pudding with ginger. It was disappointing so we thought we'd end the dessert galore with mango sago to save the night... which was good but I'm not sure it helped to save the day. All in all, the desserts here were less than satisfactory than ones we had in HK.... so I'd only give it 1 thumb up. But then again, what were we thinking...

Quality porridge eat-all-you-can

If you are craving for a simple, no-fuss, taiwan sweet potato porridge with good variety of dishes at excellent price (buffet style eat all you can), then the one at Quality Hotel is the choice for you. At $10.80 per pax only for weekdays, we finally got ourselves a table here as we had been trying to eat here for the nth time but was always unsuccessful as we would try to make a reservations at the last minute over the weekends. If you want to try the weekends, make sure you book at least one week in advance. Otherwise, try the weekdays but come at 'odd' hours like 8pm onwards. My 2 thumbs up... I'd give a 3rd if I had an extra thumb.

台湾吃什么好呢？

豬屠口豬血湯
台北市昌吉街46號
2596-1640
營業時間：10：00~20：00
豬血湯40元
豬血湯加大腸70元
麻辣豬血50元
米粉30元/小
涼拌脆腸60元
魯豆皮30元
焢肉飯45元


大龍街肉圓、老店米粉湯
大龍街民族西路口
米粉湯營業時間14：00~22：00
肉圓營業時間15：30~23：30周日休
肉圓35元
米粉湯25元


維格餅家
台北市酒泉街76號
2599-7533
鳳梨酥250元/10入
墨條酥400元/6入
太極鳳梨酥1000/6入

Hans... go solo?

Ok, cheesy title, but we had dinner at Hans today at Novena Sq. As lunch was super filling (we ate at Kia Hiang, our favourite teochew homecooked diner), so I didn't feel like having much. I had pasta for the nth time, and it was just vegetarian aglio olio (spicy) yet again. Yes, I think I am minus sauce type of girl who likes it ala 'solo' style with 'no complications'. Just plain ol' pasta like plain ol' Jane. For extra kicks, I added in many dashes of tabasco sauce. Goes well with the chili padi slices. Oh, and I washed it down with hot lemon tea. 2 thumbs up.

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Pasta la viva!

Guess what, I googled the above name and found that there is a restaurant called "Viva la Pasta" in USA. How about that!

Anyway, had lunch with Jac today at tcc in One Marina Boulevard where I was attending a 2-day conference on Search Marketing. I've had meals at tcc before but I think the one here has some work to do with service and taste of food. I ordered the chili beef soup and seafood aglio olio (but I forgot to take the pic for my pasta, duh!) while Jac had the wild mushroom pasta, which was kind of the same thing she had at mussles guys the other day.

Unfortunately for Jac, hers was bland and guess she didn't like it all that much. She was raving about the one at mussles guys, but tcc's version was not good for her.

Me, I was happy with my soup and pasta. In fact, I think my seafood pasta was much fresher than the mussels guys one and they had tons of garlic to give it flavour. The soup had 3 chilis to indicate its spiciness and I wasn't too disappointed as there was some kick to the taste.

However the service was quite atrocious. Yes, it was office peak hour lunch time period but it's not like the restaurant had THAT many people that they couldn't see what we needed at our end of the restaurant floor. The floor area was quite small as the tcc store just took a part of the 'walkway' on floor 1M leading from the escalator on the first floor to the level where connecting lifts were to get to higher floor offices.

Anyway, for this outlet, I'd give it 1.5 thumbs up for food and just 1 thumb up for overall. Not likely to patronize this particular outlet again but will still go back to other tcc outlets.

Heads up!

We had steamed fish head at Chinatown foodcourt for dinner. Dad likes this store's version of the FH because of the freshness of the fish, the mere size of it plus the sweet based sauce with a very light tint of spiciness and sourish flavour (which must be from the chili padi as well as sour plums bits). It is also showered with lots of fried lard pieces.

We also ordered 2 vegetable sides - bitter gourd in black bean sauce and kailan in oyster sauce. Both are nice, but for me, bittergourd shouldn't be cooked this way in such huge, ugly slices. So 'uncouth'. Although they were sliced thinly, the shape of the BG was not at all the way I'd like to eat 'em. I don't mind 'big' pieces, but just not sliced this way. Ok, call me fussy. I'd give it 2 thumbs up for the fish and 1 thumb up only for the bittergourd.

Oh, we had juices as well from the juice stall near where we were seated... and they were priced so darn cheaply - $1 for selected fruits. Nice!