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
Monday, July 28, 2008
Photo + Food Blog: PGG's adeventure
The three of us finally met up after a very looooooooooooooong time. Six months I think, ever since CNY! We embarked on an adventure up Dempsey Hill. Up we went and continued walking till we saw a map and realised we were in the opposite direction as instructed by the map. We happily trekked back until we saw the map again.
To our great astonishment, we found ourselves at the other end of the hill. By then, we were sweating like a waterfall under the hot scorching sun. Thus, we decided to cab and Mr Nice taxi driver was willing to send us up the hilltop before anything undesire happens
We sat ourselves down in the indoor tuckshop. The tall roof ceilings gave the place spatial respite despite the bust. We took our orders (today's lunch special) first before going for grocery shopping. They have everything and anything and I was pretty amazed. They served breakfast till 3pm too! Who says only the early bird has
Iced Mocha
With ice-cream
Ice Chocolate
With ice-cream too
Renee's poached chicken with Jones aidi + mixed green (walnut bread)
Jane and mine oven baked ham with swiss emmental cheese + apple + tomato chutney (baguette)
Renee's sandwich was pale in comparison to ours. hahah. I love mine loads, especially with the apple and tomato chutney. This fusion is really good, not very sweet and a tad sour. Totally refreshing and I'm savouring at the thought of it. Furthermore, the greens was crunchy and the sauce/gravy/ whatever added on was addictive, it makes me wanna go for more!
The iced mocha and chocolate were good too, both with devilish swirls of chocolate at the bottom and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top is to die for. Not overly sweet but rich nonetheless. The money was well-spent there
After eating, I went around to explore and take many many photos
As I was saying, they have a wide variety like jams, coffees, chocolates, sausages, hams, wines, tea, pasta, sauces etc. After shopping, we had Green Tea Earlgrey. We sat down and chit-chat and gossip everything under the sun, from secondary school to present. Missy Jane has alot to share!
Some photos before we left as they were closing (They closed early every Monday) and the both of them needed to rush for classes
JONES THE GROCER
Blk 9 #01–12
Dempsey Road
Open daily: 9.30am to 11.00pm (up to 6pm on Mondays)
Headed to our next destination at Raffles City to get their dinner (the photos show part of it only) and I wanted to get something sweet because I was feeling alil giddy after the bus ride =/
Renee's tomato soup
My passion fruit ocha - More of the ocha taste
Jane's sausage prata from elsewhere
- End
Seems to have mapped out what's for me for the next few years if everything goes the way I want? Yet I haven make the first step. A little apprehensive and scared at the same time. Probably, when the results are released, I can be abit more certain? Right now, I just feel doubtful, fearful, worry and the added stress from my parents as I'm slacking way too much in their eyes -_-
It makes me wanna vanish......
Labels: Dempsey Hill, Drinks, Food - Australian, PGG, Raffles City
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