Cause of the pandemic, dining out is stressful, sometimes no dine in, sometimes two to dine in. Finally, we can have five to dine in. Hard to meet up with family or friends in big group.
Met up with some of my siblings and decided to have lunch at Chen's Mapo Tofu Restaurant at Nex. The food was tasty and good.
We need to order and pay for the food first before they seat us.
Chen's Signature Spicy Dan Dan Mien
Chen's Signature Mapo Tofu and minced meat over rice
We had lunch at Soup Restaurant. Since it is still Chinese New Year, we ordered Salmon Yusheng. This year will be different, is a muted affair. We are unable to shout out loud all the Yusheng chants. As we are still under Phase 3 of Covid 19 Pandemic, we can only gather in group of eight while dining and no shouting during the tossing of Yusheng. So sad, the chinese new year atmosphere is a quiet affair unlike other years. But there's no choice as this is to prevent the spread of the virus.
Just hope the situation will improve and we can have our normal lives back.
Just turned 61, my family celebrated my birthday at Palm Beach Fullerton with a seafood Lunch, the Lobster was really big about 2 kg.
The claws looked big like giant crab but is really lobster, did not took photo of the whole lobster. The lobster was really huge and lots of meat in it.
Coco Lobo - Lobster cooked in superior broth (there's noodles inside the soup)
Spare pork ribs cooked with marmite - Oh I really love this, the meat is so soft and fall off the bone when bite into it. Love the taste of the marmite.
Sambal Kangkong
Grilled Otah
Chendol
Orh nee (hot sweet yam paste with gingko nuts and creamy pumpkin
Last month, had lobster lunch at Jumbo Seafood Restaurant (Riverpoint). It was so good. They had a promotion for 2 live boston lobsters for $88 which end 30 November 2020. But they having another lobster and king crab promotion for Christmas. You can check their website for more information.
Best to make reservation before going there. Each table can sit a maximum of five only due to social distance.
Alcohol wet wipes were available, very useful during this time.
We ordered the scallop in yam basket
Assorted vegetables and seafood claypot (Prawns, fish and tofu and vegetables)
Finally the real luxury is here, the lobsters. We can order the lobsters to be cooked in any flavour according to their menu. We ordered one of the lobster to be steamed with butter and cheese and the other steamed with garlic.
Service is good as now there's no crowd and capacity were greatly reduced.
So excited to use my new Thermal Cooker Pot, is slightly bigger than my old thermal cooker pot which means I can add more ingredients to the pot to make delicious soup.
This time I make Old Cucumber Soup with carrots, I did not have to add any seasoning as all the ingredients make the soup very tasty.
Ingredients
300 to 400 gm Pork ribs
300 to 400 gm old cucumber
1 carrot
handful of dried scallops
handful of wolfberries (wash and soak)
few red dates (removed seeds)
dried squid
1200 ml water
Method
1. Wash and scrub old cucumber skin lightly (optional to cut away the skin if preferred)
2. Remove the seeds from the old cucumber and cut the old cucumber into slices
3. Cut the carrots diagonally
4. Boil and blanch the pork ribs and wash them
5. Add all the ingredients and pork ribs into the thermal pot and add water to cover the ingredients (I added around 1200 ml of water)
6. Boil the soup on medium heat for about twenty minutes.
7. During the last few minutes, add the wolfberries
8. Remove and place the inner thermal pot into the outer thermal pot and covered both lids of the pot and leave them to cook on their own for about three hours.
9. Serve hot
Very useful thermal pot and the best of it, it saves electricity and gas. Monthly bill reduce a lot haha.
One of our favourite spot for lunch is at Nex, we decided to have lunch at Xinghua Lou inside Food Junction at Nex. We used to come here, they have their own sitting area and the food is good.
Putian Lor Mee
Fried Henghua Mee Hoon
Putien stir fried yam
Stir fried long bean with XO sauce
Started the new year 2020 with lunch at Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant. We had the course lunch since they were having a promotion. It was worth it and the food is good but the promotion will end 9th Janaury 2020.
Sliced lobster with salad
Braised Shark Fin's Soup with seafood
The bun goes together with the shark fin's soup.
Shredded scallops with fish and egg white
Deep fried Garoupa with salt and pepper
Peking Duck
Braised whole abalone with mushroom and broccoli
Sauteed longevity noodle with shredded peking duck meat and pepper
Steamed Shanghai Dumpling (Xiao Long Bao)
Honey Dew Sago
The revolving restaurant had a nice view of Sentosa, the restaurant can revolve 360 degrees so we could see the view of the surrounding areas near the restaurant. Very beautiful.
Recently had lunch at Tsui Wah at The Heeren. It's a double storey restaurant and can choose to sit indoor (air con) or outdoor (no air con). It is connected to Robinson at The Heeren. But firstly, we need to get a queue number. We dont have to stand and queue. Just get our queue number via the queue machine and when there's a table they will call us on our handphone. It is so popular that we need to wait for almost 45 minutes. We can choose to dine indoor or outdoor, the number of people and whether to share table or not. We choose not to share table so there's a longer wait for two of us. When I was in Shenzhen, we also dine in Tsui Wah, it was bigger and no queue but the food is almost the same.
I choose the western set and get to have soup of the day (either pumpkin soup or beef soup) and toast bread and drink.
Hubby had Japanese Curry with pork cutlet and we ordered another dish of sweet and sour pork. But think we ordered too much haha.
