Mart Boulevard @ AXA towers

Looking for cheap and good thai food? Mart bouvelard has that, and an option of the comforts of the aircon with indoor seating or the chillax alfresco seating for the pub-goers.. They are a thai restaurant/bar/pub that serves reasonably priced and large array of thai dishes.. Every single dish that my group of friends ordered were less than $10 other than the snack sampler platter to share which was price below $20.. 

The usual tom yam soup must-have, everyone loved it and slurp the whole bowl dry.. there are a few variation to this dish, you ask for it to be on its own, served with rice, or with thai noodles in it just like the picture below.. 

Green curry was lemak enough, with adequate portions of ingredients immersed in the fragrant coconut spicyness...

Seafood phad thai was average, but tasty.. They had a variation with chicken wings, like the photo below.. My friend loved the wings, but found the phad thai mediocre as well..

Tell me what you see from the above picture? IKR, it looked like they counted their calamari slices, but then again, this dish is less than $10, so what more should we bargain for? Crispy and matches the thai sweet chilli sauce well.. But i wouldn't say its the best calamaris...

Thai mango salad was awesome, my friend and I finished the whole plate without a trace.. 

Fried beancurd was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, matches the chilli sauce well.. But nothing to die for..

My side of the table, somehow quite famished I supposed? After finishing up all that mains and sides, we still craved for more food, so we ordered a snack sampler platter that was portioned for 3 pax and a plate of pandan chicken... 

Everything on the platter was awesome, especially the beancurd ngoh hiang lookalike thingy... as for the pandan chicken, it was abit troublesome to eat this one, cause you have to use your hands to untangle the pandan leave before getting to the meat, but this was good, just that portion small.. then again, nothing to "hiam" about, cause below $10..

Overall? Good food, awesome ambience, but only open mondays to fridays, so making reservations would be advisable. Alcohol prices are pretty market priced, so not that cheap in this aspect.. Otherwise, all else is fine with this place..

They are located at;
8 Shenton Way, AXA Tower
#01-08 Singapore (068811)
Open Mon-Fri, 11am to 11pm
Tel: 6227 3487

XOXO,
CheryL

Bornga Korean Restaurant, Hui Lau Shan, Taang Shi Fu @ JB City Square

If you guys do get bored of SG environment and prices, you guys could hop onto the sbs bus at kranji mrt to get into woodlands checkpoint, and crossover to JB for some foodhunt.. I did that a few weeks ago, was kinda late, 12pm then reached kranji, and queue was freaking long, longer than my previous visit..

And if you guys are not that adventurous and prefer to be safe, then i would recommend just staying within the 2 malls just across the JB checkpoint, that way you'll be covered by aircon throughout the day.. I reckon every level at JB citysquare has something to eat, so you can have 3 meals at 3 different places..

First i tried Bornga, well i've tried the one in SG at Star Vista, and well they are pricey cause they are a well known celebrity chef restaurant.. But in JB, the food was almost half the price of SG's and provide better service!

The usual banchans that you will get at most korean restaurants, couldn't resist the endless refills of the braised peanuts and fruits & macaroni salad, i think we refilled those two dishes slightly more than 5 times, buay paiseh one... XD the rest of them were pretty normal..

Ever since i tried the army stew at Seoul Yummy at Bugis Plus, i usually will order this if there is enough people to share with me, as usually the portions are huge! If 2 army guys can finish it, i'm not surprised.. Picture above is before the ingredients were boiled, kimchi, spam, sausage, korean rice cake, tofu, minced beef, mushroom, baked beans, leeks, vegetables, glass noodles and instant noodles..

My friend's bibimbap, awesome presentation, and tasted up to standard.. 

And here's the army stew after being cooked and stirred... It was so yummy i finished all the spam and leeks, didn't managed to finished it though, as it was too huge for 2 to share.. Only flaw was that i didnt get to eat the baked beans much, the stew kept boiling, the soft baked beans dissolved into the soup and became a powdery base that sinked to the bottom of the pot...

This was the rubus like plum like sorbet drink that they gave every customer after their meals, the staff were quite auto within this one, once they see you're almost done, they don't even ask u, they just serve it to us.. 

Definitely will eat here again, will never eat in SG anymore after this JB visit..

They are located at:

BornGa Korean Restaurant

JB City Square, Level : 3, Lot : MF-23

Next stop for high tea after some digestive and calorie burning shopping.. Saw that 許留山 is quite popular on reviews, so decided to try how nice it was, below is the picture of their top 10 desserts..

Mango sago was pretty awesome, worth the money for this one..

Look at the awesomely ripe and sweet mango cubes..

This was what my friend ordered, birdnest in coconut milk..

And it was kinda like eating jelly bits in coconut milk, after awhile it gets pretty jelat and filling.. Not advisable to eat this alone, better share with 2-3 people...

This was what I ordered, coconut jelly with a side serve of birdnest in some sweetened milk..

This was awesome, my personal preference though, cause my friend didn't like how the birdnest was in the milk.. Definitely would eat this dessert again, i can finish it all on my own..

And well the joke was this, when we the desserts came to our table, my friend and I mixed up our own orders, so i ended up finishing hers which I didn't really like, and she ended up not finishing mine as she didn't really like it as well, and was sulking throughout.. 

Somehow, JB's version of 白果薏米 abit different.. I don't know if its because hongkong style or malaysia style, but they served it with a hard boiled egg, which was pretty peculiar, as its my first time seeing such way of serving.. Nonetheless, it was a pretty fair dish..

Definitely coming back for the coconut jelly though it costs like SGD$4-5 for a serving.. They are located at:

Hui Lau Shan

JB City Square, Level 3 - J3-20

Next stop for dinner! Taang Shi Fu, another one of the popular restaurants at City Square, apparently famous for their dry mee sua..

Vintage tea china..

This abalone and chicken soup mee sua, i know it looks simple and the ingredients look meagre... But the richness of the broth for this one is just awesome!

My friend ordered this thick mushroom scallop XO broth together with the dried mee sua.. The thick broth was awesomely fragrant and not too salty, that i actually kinda drank it as soup, cause my friend didn't liked it that much, as it was served to her lukewarm, which I was abit disappointed.. Wanted to get the waiter to change a hot one, but my friend doesn't want to.. So..

And the dried abalone meesua dish above is mine! Never had mee sua served in this way before, and this was just awesome, practically can just lick the plate clean.. I think main highlight is at ball of brown stuff served on top, which i'm guessing is deep fried shallots, dried scallops and shrimps.. Cause it was so fragrant, wished they give more of those though..

Ordered chicken feet for the bf, served in a different style than those we get at HK dimsum stored that has red sauce... This one was peppery and bf finished the whole plate.. Im not a fan of feets, but i tried the sauce and honestly love it..

My friends congee, loved the way they serve it, but portion was quite small, pretty silky texture but slightly lacking in flavour.. 

Well, if you are looking for good tasting food, then they are worth a try.. As for service, i was so pissed with their service, not attentive and machiam unwilling to serve us, took me like 3-4times to get them to our table to answer our queries.. Value for money? Honestly, they charge abit high just for those meagre portions of noodles and ingredients, but cause they tasted awesome, it kinda did covered up for that.. 

They are located at:

Taang Shi Fu

JB CIty Square, Level : 4 - Lot J4-21

My friend suggested for us to buy this pretty swissroll, as she tried before and find them quite delicious.. Apparently there is another store in city square that offers the same kind of swissrolls, but my friend tried both and prefer this store's version.. Located right at the level where you enter City Square..

Strawberry one was pretty mediocre, considering i paid for about SGD$5-6 for this one, i don't think it is so awesome that i must buy it the next time i go JB... Other than smoothness and softness of the spongey texture, its all average..

Matcha azuki swissroll, well as long as there is green tea, i sure buy.. This one was mediocre as well, thought there will be like pieces of red bean everywhere in this sponge or even inside the cream.. End up they used red bean paste and roll them into 2 parts of the cake, which i felt was pretty -.-||| my verdict? Not enough green tea powder and red bean needs modification.. 

If you guys still wanna try after my review, they are located at;

Yong Sheng Gift Shop

JB City Square, Level 3 - MF-14

XOXO,

CheryL

The Nook All Day Dining @ BIG Hotel

Heya! The night after sushi airways, i had a staycation at BIG hotel.. Yup, the new flashy hotel near kaplan @ wilkie edge, quite near rochor tau huey store.. So the next day, we actually had breakfast at their self-serve café which was included in the price of my staycation, thought i did a review, cause the food was pretty awesome, and not much people review on them yet...

So basically they do serve ala-carte dishes which you can order and pay from their self-serve kiosks, otherwise their hotel guests gets to have breakfast buffet from 6-11am, and after 11am if u happen to wake up late you are still able to redeem for a sandwich at their snack shelf..

Look at the amount of people at the cafe at 10am, and the interiors above were pretty awesome.. Like harry potter's library, just that instead of books, i see wine, lots of them..

So above is bf's and my first portion of breakie! Mee goreng fried using spaghetti which he quite like... And i had awesome baked beans, grilled tomatoes, beef, and awesome mushroom soup.. They are not those creamy kind where you get the mushroom taste but cant find much mushroom to chew on kind... Their version had lotsa mushroom minces in every mouthful of soup you take.. 

Oh and the highlights was them liu sha bao aka salted egg custard bun! You'll be surprised! They served  pretty awesome version of it! Not sure if their supplier made it, or their chef made it themselves, but either way it was addictive and awesome... Look at the awesomely hot and flowy custard oozing out when i tore the bun apart! Heavenly start for brekkie for me!

They had cereals, buns, a salad bar, fruit bar and some yoghurts for the health concscious people as well! But forgotten to snap a picture of that area... Oops :(

Sausage was awesome, hard boiled eggs were abit damaged, hashbrown was good too..

Overall verdict, so far one of the value for money breakfast, i wouldnt say that there are alot of variety, but every section provides substantial variety, and taste and quality was there, the food wasn't too salty or oily.. Not really sure if they do sell their breakfast buffet to the public, even if they have, im not sure how much they charge, but you guys can call the recept and ask;

BIG Hotel Singapore

200 Middle Rd, Singapore

bighotel.com

6809 7988

Sushi Airways @ Baghdad Street

Hello Everyone! after 2 weeks and i'm here to post again, pardon the delay, kept putting it off for my US and Korean dramas...

So I've been wanting to go to this restaurant ever since I saw their photos on instagram, think it was last year, and I finally got to try this on the 1st week of July... Look at the pretty lighted steps leading to the 2nd floor where SushiAirways Sushibar is located at;

Look at the awesome menu! Comes as a Flight Manual, and my flight ticket cause i made a reservation, so they indicated my name :)

 & here's a fun fact for the reason behind their awesomely fresh food!

Pretty lighted bar :)

Paid $11+ for this 4 thick pieces, but I reckon it was every inch worth, super succulent & fresh!

And my favourite, the larger version of my usual amaebi order at sushi express, paid $15+ for this 4 pieces, again super freshness and sweetness that I reckon was worth every cent.. :)

One of their signature dishes, the Double salmon roll, 8 pieces at $30+, way pricier than Shiok Maki at koh's grill & bar, but it was every piece worth with this dish as well :)

Look at this pretty close-up, and the flowers can actually be eaten, I didn't taste any unusual taste with the flower, you can almost say it almost wasn't there.. Of course if you guys prefer your maki to be drizzled with dollops of "fatteningly" awesome mayo and ebiko then well shiok maki would be the one for you, otherwise this was a fine dish as well, the crispy skin on top was a surprising combi...

Wanted to order their other signature dish, some mango lobster roll, but bf didn't quite like lobster, so we ordred the kani mentai cheese maki at $30+, another one of their dish recommended by the super friendly waitress...

Honestly, this was an intriguing dish, as I never had such a maki in this variant before... Then again, where was the mentai, couldn't taste much of it, it was more of the melted cheese top and the teaspoonfull of ebiko that was the highlights, should order to try but i'm definitely not a fan of it.. but we finished both plates of sushi though... :)

The verdict for this? Pleasant atmosphere facing the nightlife of haji lane, old japanese airplanes interior design, pleasant and attentive staff, even the boss asks us if we liked the food, and we see him patiently mentoring his chefs... GST already included in their pricings, and they only charge 10% service charge on your total bill.. this meal amounted to about $100 for 4 dishes, pricier than Koh's Grill & Sushi Bar, but this restaurant was every bit worth, you guys should give them a try.

Area of the restaurant is quite small, so it'll be good to call for reservations, they are more known for their value for money weekday lunch sets which I will never get to try unless I get an off day, i heard it was priced less than $20, you guys can google other reiews.. They are located at;

20A Baghdad Street
Singapore 199569
Tel: 6291 1151