I'm still loving the Carman's fruit and seed porridge for breakfast.
As a snack, I've been loving the new chobani coconut yogurt. It's the same as their old ones in that the top is just their plain 2% yogurt and the bottom has the coconut flavouring. It's essentially coconut flavour with desiccated coconut. The coconut doesn't taste too artificial and it's not too sweet as well, love!
I've been to a few food/drink places this week:
Went to Uncle Ming's on York St and luckily I was with people who knew where it was because it would've been pretty hard to find. There was a small sign outside but you have to go down some stairs to get there. The interior was beautiful, there was a wall of asian posters, lanterns and smelled pretty strongly of incense (which I didn't mind at all!). The lighting was extremely dim though and we all had to get our phones out to see the menu. The service was very friendly. They also made my friend a delicious mocktail, even though it's not on their menu.
Very cool place, cocktails were yum and all around the $18-20 mark.
This was the Jackie Chan, it was really nice and the flavours masked the vodka.
I got the Mao Tai, very strong but delicious and quite tropical. Tasted like there was almond essence or something in there. Love me a marischino cherry. This is our waitress's favourite as well.
Another friend got the Cookie Kwan but I didn't try it.
Also went to the Malaya at 39 Lime St. Sorry about the bad pictures though! It was pretty dimly lit. We also got the Barbequed fish fillet with chili sambal but didn't take a picture. I chose it but it wasn't that great especially for sharing. It was a very small piece of fish that cost $35 and it tasted a little dry to me. I thought most of the dishes were quite expensive for what you get but the view was nice, it was right by the harbour and service was great.
Salt and pepper prawns. Everyone LOVED these, gone in minutes. Very light batter, delicious seasoning and not too oily. YUM
Sayor Masak Lemak, vegetarian curry. Really liked this, had some decent sized well cooked pieces of vegetable that still had some crunch to them.
Sorry, I'm not too sure which dish this was but it was a chicken one
Kwai Du, flat skir fried noodles with chicken, prawns, bean sprout and egg. It tasted like Char Kway Teow.
This was another meat dish, maybe beef rendang?
If you haven't been here before, you basically line up and say your order (what you want, if you want it hot/cold, regular/large and if you want soba/udon noodles). Then you get a tray and wait until they've finished and they put your dish on the tray. You move along the line and get any of the tempura you want and put it on your tray. They have a little chilled cabinet as well of some side dishes (seaweed salad, potato salad etc.). They you can add tempura flakes and green onion and pay. That's it!
She loved it and found the ordering experience a little stressful but exciting. The manager was so nice, as it's extremely busy there (communal seating as well) he helped us clear 3 seats so we could sit next to each other and gave us the name of the chili powder they use. He said they get theirs from Japan but you can get it from any asian/japanese food store. It's called Schichimi and it's a 7 spice powder. They put it on the tables and I go nuts with it.
I got the Ontama Bukkake Soba:
I recommended the Ontama Bukkake Mentaiko Soba to her, the only difference is the mentaiko which is a cod roe butter. Adds a richness to the dish.
My friend went to Menya Oiden, which is next door and got the vegetarian one, which she always gets when it's her vegetarian day. Really nicely flavoured. I think this is their take on a korean bibimbap.
