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.

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.