Mother's day at Carousel

Hi there! How did you celebrate your mother's day? Sorry, I know this post is long overdue! But schooooooooooooooooooooooooooool sucks. Hehe.

Anyway, I do feel that Mother's day is not really a day to cherish your mother, or be grateful to her, nor is it a day to tell your mother that you love her. Remember that period of Valentine's day where people keep saying that for a couple, everyday should be Valentine's day if you love each other? Well should it not be the same for mother's day? You should cherish your mother everyday, be grateful and not take her for granted everyday and ideally tell your mother that you love her everyday. (Of course being Asians, we don't do that..)

Haha in my opinion, mother's day is a day that the government has set for us to celebrate our mothers. It's also a day to remind children about our dear mothers are there, and that they should be celebrated for everything they've done for us. So it's not really a mother's day, it's more of a remember-your-mother day. Haha can you spot the difference between those two greetings? Anw, that's what mom's day is for me :)

SO. Mother's day has always been a big deal in my family. As soon as us siblings have our own money and could go out, we'd always go searching for the most perfect present. My mom is fussy like that lol. This year though, my mom was adamant that we dont buy her anything. We acquiesced, well mostly anyway.

We got her gorgeous pink carnations plus some other flowers of which I don't know the names of. Sidetrack: I never knew flowers were so expensive! Annnnnd we also brought her for high tea at Carousel! It's a buffet and omgggggg food was gorgeous :) We celebrated on Saturday because Sunday reservations were full. So pictures below are the food! (Haha! While people were circling around food, I was snapping the pictures.)

 Cold cuts! Sushi, raw prawns, clams, salmon etc. Can you see the 1 piece of fish there? Omg its damn yummy (Y)(Y)(Y)

 Sandwiches

 Gado-gado station

 The chefs

 Salad station which I kinda didn't like

 Ice kachang station

 Fondue and ice cream station. Ice cream flavours were boring ol' chocolate, vanilla and strawberry

 Things to eat the fondue with

3 flavours!! I totally regret not eating the white choc one now, but I was too full that day.

 Pastries! SCONES YUM.

Popiah station which none of us tried..

Laksa station. Tried my mom's and it was quite naise.

 Kebab station!

 Vanilla custard.

Fruit cake

 Some mango thingy

 Brownie

Forgot the name

 Chocolate orange thingy (which according to my father was awesome)

Malay kueh

Btw, I didn't manage to snap pictures of ALL the food. Was too hungry by then lol.

Pictures of the food I ate :) #glutton

 FIRST PLATE.

 SECOND PLATE

 THIRD PLATE

 FOURTH PLATE

 FIFTH PLATE (omg sconesssssssss!!)

SIXTH PLATE

HAHA so a lot or not? Okay I feel like a glutton now :( To be fair, I didn't finish everything that was on the plates. Like whatever that I felt wasn't worth eating after taking a bite of it, I won't finish it. Since got more food to taste mah ^^

Hehe I got my mother a photoframe of us siblings too, for her to put at her work so that she can gaze upon our be-yoo-ti-ful faces at work ^^ HAHA. Okay, so that was how I celebrated mother's day. Hope yours went as well as mine did! :)

Breeks

Breeks offers Western inspired food, ranging from salads right up till dessert. I have been wanting to eat at Breeks, although for some reason when my friends ask me if I wanted to eat anywhere, I didn't think of suggesting Breeks. Haha! So my desire to eat there have been ongoing for quite awhile, until one day I had a break between school and a school outing to go to IMH.

That's mental hospital for those who don't know. IMH is a lovely place, and the programs and interventions they do for the mentally ill is inspiring. I've gone to the mental institution in Hong Kong and I shall proudly state that Singapore's facility looks better :D

Haha deviated to such a far topic. Back to fooood. My friend and I ordered the Baked Chicken Pattie and the Shrimp Etouffee. After ordering, the waitress asked if we wanted to purchase a set of soup+drink for $5. The soup was a choice between Cream of Mushroom or Crab Gumbo Soup, while the drinks was a choice between Nutella Milkshake or the Blue Dolphin.

We chos the Crab Gumbo Soup cuz it sounded unique! (Does gumbo mean anything? o.o) Haha then we chose the Nutella Milkshake cuz I love nutella!! :) Anyway the set is super worth it k! Individually, the soup and drink would have been $3.90 + $6.90!!

 

The Gumbo soup. Hmm. The texture was similar to the cream of mushroom. Actually it looks like it too. But it has a different taste that that. No crab taste la, though it tastes quite nice.

Oooh yummy! The milkshake was thick, sweet and cold! Hahahaha omg of course it's cold -_-! Hehe anyway it was naaaaaaaise. Yumyum.

Baked chicken pattie. I don't know what was inside the pattie, but I felt quite healthy eating it! Hahaha. There were also capsicums beneath the melted cheese which adds to the flavour. Love the mash potatoes and the sauce that comes with it.

(just realised that this photo completely hides my potatoes o.o)

Shrimp Etouffee. The picture doesn't look nice (haha okay my photograping skills sucks), but it tasted good! The description on the menu sounded nice actually. "A traditional Cajun and Creole cuisine made up of sumptuous baked shrimps with Jambalaya rice and topped with creamy melted cheese." Lol stole it from the website.

There was like a thick cheesy taste on the rice and for the side, they had some beans/peanuts thingy that was also topped with the cheese. Nice! :)

We went to the Breeks at City Square and I love how nice the waitress was! Wish that I saw her name so that I can state it here. She even helped us take photos!

Location: City Square Mall, #03-21/22
Price: $40.70

Sakura Cuisine

Mom and I had a lunch date one day and we went to Sakura for it. Nope, not Sakura International! But rather, Sakura Cuisine which is located at Far East Plaza. I've been going to this particular restaurant for quite a long time! Ever since I was really little, and since then, the restaurant has changed its decor to become a nicer and more welcoming place.

This restaurant offers local cuisine such as fried rice, kway teow etc, and it also offers local side dishes. That day, mom and I had the beef fried rice and dendeng kway teow. Haha tbh, the names are just a good guess on my part because I forgot what they were called. But! I'm confident that it's somewhat similar.

Beef Fried Rice

Large serving, a lot of beef and egg. Not salty. Yum!

Dendeng Kway Teow

Can you see the dendeng? It's those rectangle-ish stuff... Okay, maybe not. But there were many pieces of it, and it was good! Super like it :)

Fried wan tan

This is one of my family's favourites when we dine here! Very crispy and the crispyness has a really nice taste. Only thing was that on that day, the filling inside was very little! >:{

All in all, a good meal. And guess what!! Even though we were served and all, there's no service charge!! Hoho I love restaurants that has no service charge :)

Before this visit and way before I opened this blogshop, I had went there before and took pictures of my food for my personal blog. So here they are, not gonna comment on them because I've forgotten what they tasted like.

 Seafood fried rice

 

Some crispy noodle thing? Lol.

Anyway, it's been quite some time since the lunchdate with my mom, and I seem to have lost my receipt for this restaurant, thus I can't record down the price. Many apologies!! I do know that each dish is around 4-6 bux though! It's definitely affordable la, and like I said, no service charge! That should definitely lure you in, if nothing else. In any case, if you're at far east, do drop by to check out their food :D

Location: Far East Plaza, #05-36

Tang Tea House

How sad, poly is starting soon! I'm on the fence about whether I'm happy for school to start or not. On one hand, getting back to my normal scheduled life sounds good, but on the other hand, I love being bored! Being bored after all holds many possibilities of activities to do. You can watch tv, read, eat, go out, etc etc. Lol yes I lead a pretty happy life during the hols.

So when my friend asked me if I wanted to eat halal dim sum, of course I leapt at the chance. We went to Tang Tea House at Bedok. Tang Tea House is a little higher class than a hawker centre, but lower class than a restaurant. I wasn't fussed because that means that the food would be cheaper! Hoho.

The menu

The place is quite big, and there are seats outside too

Halal logo!

Ordered the homemade ice lemon tea ($1.60) and fresh lemon juice with sour plum ($2.20). The ice lemon tea tastes normal but the fresh lemon juice with sour plum was super sweet!

Waited for awhile and then the food came!! :)

 Hehe ^^

So let me break them down for you.

 Pan fried chicken dumpling - $3.80

Har kow - $3.50

Steamed beancurd roll in thai style - $3.20

 Shanghai steamed chicken dumpling - $3.80

HAHA i dont know what else to say about them other than the fact that they all taste good! Realllyyyy not kidding lol. They were bursting with flavour and the meat/shrimp inside them was juicy and succulent.

Soup shrimp ball - $3.00

And this thing is super cute! Before eating it, you're supposed to suck the soup inside it. Didn't like the soup much though. It was quite salty and... You know how sometimes when you eat something decadent, you know with a fact that your weight/health is gonna pay for it? Well it was the same for the soup, it was simply too salty to be healthy.

Anw! This is what it looks like when I cut it.

The outside is crispy while the inside is chewy (in a good way). Yummy :)

Sooo I definitely had a good lunch! The service was good and the rest of the food looks tempting too. I definitely want to come back here again!!

Total cost: $24.10 (no service charge or gst!!)

Location: No. 357/359 Bedok Road (opp Bedok Post Office)

Website: http://www.tangteahouse.com

Directions on how to get there from Tanah Merah MRT: http://tinyurl.com/82ejyvf

 

Anyway, like I mentioned, school is starting soon and I worry that I won't have any thing to blog about! I have some food places that I haven't blogged about yet, but only one or two. Was thinking of posting recipes that I've been trying out in my free time! Anyone interested in hearing about that? Hmm.

BB'Z Collection

Hi there!

I'm aware that I haven't been updating here lately, but that's because I haven't been going to eat at places worth blogging about! I should stop eating fastfood tsk.

Anyway, a few weeks ago, my sister ordered cake in a jar from an online malay seller. I managed to snap a few pictures of it before we gobbled it up :D

 The entire pretty package, set with a spoon

 The many layers

 How the top looks like

Yumz

Heh this is called the Oreo Nutella Cheesecake, and it's really gobble-icious. Get it from BB'Z if you're a fan of chocolate or cheesecake! :) If you're not, check them out still because they have a number of other flavours, and they even have homemade ice cream!