Dim Sum

Yesterday, we had dim sum at Crystal Jade Steamboat Kitchen in Plaza Singapura. We love the dim sum at most of the Crystal Jade Restaurants all over Singapore. My youngest son simply love the "har gow" dim sum here.

Century Egg Congee (Pei Tan Chok) - rice porridge cooked with lean meat and century egg and garnished with spring onions and 'you tiao' (fried dough stick).

Fried Wantan

Crispy beancurd skin roll with fillings

Soya Sauce Chicken

Chee Cheong Fun or Rice Noodle Roll made from rice flour and water. The chee cheong fun come with ingredients (shrimps or char siew) and had to be eaten with the sweet soya sauce pour over it. These are commonly served in restaurants while those sold in coffee shop/kopi tiam are not as tasty and do not have any ingredients in them.

Oh, this is my youngest son favourite. Each time we had dim sum, he would order three baskets of har gow or shrimp dumplings (each basket consists of 4 har gow) means son can eat about 10 or more of these.....lol. They come steaming hot and had to be eaten while hot otherwise it does not taste good. The skin of each har gow is made from wheat flour and potato starch and there is a huge shrimp in it.

This is a very chinese bun called Pau or Bao . The fillings can be meat or red bean, etc. The above photo is "char siu pau". Char Siu means BBQ pork.

"Siew Mai" or shaomai is traditional chinese dumpling.

Gluntinous rice wrapped in Lotus leaf.

Green Curry Chicken Set

I had this Green Curry Chicken Rice Set for lunch at the food court. But I dont really like it cause it is not spicy enough for me despite of me adding more chilli. I think I prefer the Red Curry Chicken.

BBQ on Christmas Eve

This post is specially for JF. Thank you JF for the BBQ invite. We enjoyed so much. But sorry I enjoyed the food so much that I forgot to take photos of the curry vegetables, kueh pie tee (top hat), fried rice, fried mee hoon.....lol.I think it is a wonderful idea to order from BBQ wholesale , their BBQ food are at reasonable price and the food are tasty and they delivered to the chalets, saving us all the hard work. The next time I have a BBQ, I would do same but I will cook the curry myself...hahaha and sis can fried meehoon and cooked glutinous rice.This gathering bring back memories of our childhood and thank you for being a wonderful part of my childhood. We grew up together as playmates and remember those times we played at the beach, catching, hide and seek, it was enjoyable even without computers during those times.And also remember the times our parents took us on long bus trips to West Malaysia. Maybe when we reached our golden age, we can take long bus trips to West Malaysia again with our families and you can still put those snakes over your shoulders at snake temple in Penang....lol

Nyonya and Baba Restaurant at Vivo City

Peranakan are descendants of the very early Chinese immigrants who adopted the Malay customs partially.I love peranakan cuisine which are a mixture of chinese, malay and others influences. Their food are not spicy at all. There is this nyonya restaurant called Nyonya and Baba at Vivo City which has some nice nyonya food.

Photo taken from restaurant wall. A typical baba nyonya wedding.

One of the popular nyonya dish is the chap chye.

This is one of the restaurant's signature dish, Ayam Buah Keluak. Buah Keluak is mixed with shrimp to induce a tinge of sweetness while reducing its bitter taste. Ayam means chicken and Buah Keluak is the black kind of nut. You need to dig into the nut to eat the meat just like you eat snails.

Otak Otak - is not spicy and tasted very nice.

Curry fish head - not spicy while those sold in Indian Restaurants are more spicy. I prefer it to be more spicy but is suitable for those who do not like spicy food.

The Ngor Hiang were fried to a golden-brown with spiced pork and water chestnuts. I like this dish it is crunchy and tasty.