Teochew Porridge Buffet at Joaquim Buffet Restaurant, Suntec City

We had Teochew Porridge Buffet at Joaquim Buffet Restaurant, Suntec City. Although it is teochew porridge buffet, they do have hainanese, cantonese and taiwanese specialities too. It costs us $9.90 nett during weekdays and it is slightly more pricer for weekend. There are more food, but I just share some photos of the food we eat.

There are many such stalls in the restaurants. They are part of the display sets for buffets.

Sweet potato porridge - this is good if you dont feel like eating rice. Sometimes, when I dont feel well, I will eat this porridge, it is not oily and dont have much ingredients.

Yam rice

Soya Sauce Chicken

Thailand fish cake

Very soft peanuts, goes well with porridge.

"Chai Poh" Omelette. Chai Poh means preserved vegetables. It is on the salty side. Also goes well with porridge.

Fried Chicken Wings

Kiam Chye - Very salty preserved vegetables.

Assorted braised food - beancurd, beancurdstick, pork belly.

Achar - this is our local pickle with sweet and sour taste..yummy.
Hae Bee Hiam - Dried shrimp chillied, my favourite.

Mapo tofu - this is a taiwanese specialities, it is also known as spicy bean curd. Actually this dish is so named because legend had it that there was this widow who has a pock marked face and her bean curd dish is so delicious and so people named it after her. Ma means disfigured face with pock marks and Po meant old woman. Sometimes it is nice and interesting to know the story of your food.

This is braised chicken feet. Hmmm...I never like chicken feet but I dont mind frog legs...hahaha

For dessert, this is one of my favourite. Bulot Hitam or Black Porridge.Joaquim Buffet Restaurant
Level 1 Suntec Singapore (Convention Centre), Singapore
Mon – Fri
11am - 3pmSat, Sun & Public Holidays11am - 4pm

Nian Gao

It is the time of the year that this bakery shop comes alive. This bakery shop is known as Da Zhong Guo. The only time you can see long queues at this bakery shop is before Chinese New Year (popular for their Nian Gao) and before Moon Cake Festival (popular for their moon cakes).

For those who believed in the Kitchen God, it is a must to offer Nian Gao to the Kitchen God one week before the Chinese New Year. As the Nian Gao is make of glutinous rice and tasted very sweet, so that the Kitchen God after consuming the cake will report sweet things to heaven. That is the time when the Kitchen God will report to the Jade Emperor in Heaven about the characters of every household. (It is something like he is making a list of who is good or who is bad). To know more about the story of the kitchen god:click here

Jack's Place Set Lunch

Jack's Place set lunch never fail me. I simply love going there for a nice meal. Their garlic bread are forever nice and when dip into the creamy soup it is gorgeous. Yummy. Their price are very reasonable and the food good. That is why Jack's Place has been around for a long time since the sixties.Their set lunch comes with garlic bread, soup, main course, dessert and coffee or tea. It costs only $8 and you can change the main course to executive course it costs $10.50.

Garlic Bread

Creamy Seafood Soup - piping hot and creamy.......delicious

Half done steak

Dory Fillet with baked potato.

Indian Rojak

One of the dish we had at the food court in Singapore Botanic Garden is Indian Rojak. It is a Muslim-Indian dish of various vegetables and seafood deep fried in batter and they come with some sweet sauce and chilli sauce.