Sunday, October 18, 2009
Food Blog: The Hand Burger
This is a newly opened fast-food restaurant, located at the basement of Raffles City. My detective friends brought me there for a food review, meet ups and grow fat session. Read on to know why~
It was kinda packed and we queued like 15 minutes before it was our turn. The restaurant was quite small. However, it looks big with a super big piece of mirror mounted on the wall and it was brightly lit with white lights, contrasted well with the black paintings. The cupboards has cute designs on it too. Gives a modern yet a classy and comfortable feel. Refreshing~
The menus are very special. Pieces of papers are clipped onto a board. You just need to flip to choose what burgers you want. The menus are very descriptive - The name of the burgers are boldly written on the front page. As you flipped, each burger's description with what's inside is (ingredients) clearly explained and a picture of it is given.
Therefore, it's kinda headache to choose from unless you know what you want as everything looks good. heh.
I was busier than them. hah
Stalking Robin??
The three of us shared a glass of this humongous mint freeze! It was godlike! It was refreshing and unbelieveably fantastic! Even much better than what the cafes (those you can slack and drink coffees) brought out. tsktsk~
Lemonade mint freeze
Finger licking good? Our turn soon to find out. heh
With our food
Gen and I ordered the same! We were like 'we should have ordered different ones to try hor after we placed our orders' -_- I ordered the duck as it has been a long long time since I ate duck meat! haha.
Anyways, food time! All the burgers come with either fries or a stuffed tomato. I dunno what's inside the stuffed tomato and since I prefer fries; fries was definitely my choice.
Tea Smoked Duck Burger: Tea smoked duck breast, mandarin orange, shredded leek, handmade peanut sesame sauce on a bed of coral lettuce, tomato on a toasted honey wholewheat multigrain bun.
The set
Tea smoked duck burger
Dun it just look good by staring at the pictures. heh. I simply love the burger! The bread was toasted just nice, with a bit of crisp and it taste kinda sweet even eaten it plainly. The smoked duck was yummy! Marinated well enough and the sauce enhanced the flavours even more!
The fries are good too! Yet, after finishing the whole burger, it will be hard to finish the fries. hahah. I especially love the sauce used to dip the fries. I suspect it's bbq sauce? I dunno ah~ But it's addictive. Once you dip, you cant stop!
Alternatively, if you dun want to have any meat (chicken, duck, beef, pork available), you can have a healthier choice like Grace! hahah
Stuffed Portobello Burger: Oven baked portobello stuffed with spinach, walnuts, parmesan cheese and beancurd topped with breadcrumbs served with handmade tomato herb sauce on a bed of coral lettuce, tomato on a toasted spinach with parmesan cheese bun.
Stuffed Portobello (Mushroom) Burger
The mushroom so hugeeeeee!
Note that for different burgers, they come with different healthy breads. heh. Grace sliced the mushroom for me to share. hah. I could taste the freshness of the mushroom and the patty stuffed inside. Yummy~
The burgers are kinda healthy with those wholemeal, multigrains bread and there's fruits like orange, mango added inside. It's not like those fast food chains with deep fried stuffs =D
Definitey will return for more burgers cravings. heh. The burgers satisfy me. A satisfy customer will always be delighted to go back for more. haha~
After such a hearty and filling meal, the two of them still wanna go for desserts. tsktsk. Every time after our meals, they will want to have desserts, especially cakes!!!! At this particular place when we meet at Vivo. lol.
Raffles City dun have that particular outlet here so they hunt for another hangout. hah
Waffles and what's not
Tiramisu in crepes with what's not
The waffles kinda win me rather than the tiramisu. heh. The ice-cream on the tiramisu is powerful strong though (coffee flavour). Yet, it was godlike. hahah. I surrender after finished my piece of waffles but they going stronger and stronger. tsk. How to slim down lidat!!!! They're bad friends!!! wahahahahah =/
And many thanks to Graceeee! hahah.
Tml, I'm meeting them for more food again!!!! And hopefully, Gen brought back some good stuffs for us in Rome! lol. I got this feeling, she will buy food back for us =/
Labels: Food - Western, JuZone, Raffles City
11:50 PM
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Food & Photo Blog: The Cathay - Nihon Mura and BnJ
Met up with part of the Juzoners for dinner at The Cathay. I was pondering on the location as to why in the world would they want to meet there, when there's not much food choices. We decided on Nihon Mura, a Japanese restaurant, nonetheless.
Anyway, I was the last one to reach but not late loh as the organiser (Gen) mentioned to reach around five plus which was so vague. I assumed if I reached at 1745hr was reasonable right. lol.
The place was dimly lighted, yet simple and nice. It felt like I was dining in a densely 'bambooed' eatery. Actually, I love the wood finishings. It makes the restaurant looks like a village.
The waitress then directed us to our table and summarised on how they work - The sushis on the conveyor belt are all for $0.99 and the rest are ala carte which we've gotta pick up ice-cream sticks and placed in on a small black container. Afterthat, hand it over to the cashier and food will be served promptly.
I think if you stick to the sushi, it's pretty much a good deal and they offer quite a wide variety. Sushis were decent. Nothing of the extraordinary. But when you're hungry, you eat almost everything. The hind sight was that the rice fell off quite easily.
By ordering the other dishes through ice-cream sticks is a cool idea. Just that, you dun feel the pinch till you see the bill. Crafty marketing eh. The concept here is like Marche and Shokudo where they dun make you pay upfront and you can order as much as you like. I feel that the food here is slighty better than Shokudo's even though Shokudo presents a more diversified variety. I'm still upset bout the 10% service charge when majority of the work is done by us =(
The drinks here are charged and no free refills. I guess that's because of the 99CENTS sushis. However, if you're a fan of sashimi, this place is probably worth the money. It's damn shiok!
Then, it was some photography time to let our tummies to grasp for air before they started to scream for help =/ But I think I'm only three quarter full? =P
After dinner, we headed upstairs for more food. heh
-End
I think most of the time I'm like totally in a world of my own. Met HY afterthat, talked pretty much and with her updating me juicy news was quite entertaining. We seldom have this chance to sit together and talked for that long when furthermore, it's so near my place. hahah. Oh well, thanks for ditching your friends =P
Btw, I happened to read Wormy's blog and this got me thinking.
Do people realise when they slowly drift and float away?
Do they realise or do they choose to believe otherwise?
Or maybe, they werent even close in the first place?
Labels: BnJ, Food - Japanese, Food for Though, JuZone, Nihon Mura, The Cathay
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