23 August 2024

Big Bowl Noodles 大碗公猪肉粉 (Eco Botanic)

The restaurant specialises in pork noodles, serves the noodles dry or with soup bases and ingredients such as meat slices, pork intestine, minced meat, meat balls and pork liver.
Choose from the soup bases (herbal pumpkin, herbal pork bone, beauty tomato), type of noodles (kuey teow, yellow noodles, bee hoon, cintan noodles) or rice and sauces (white, black, tomato and mala sauces) for the dry noodles.
Milk Tea
How to get there?
Address: No 6 Jalan Eko Botani 3/6 Taman Eko Botani, 79100 Iskandar Puteri Johor
Phone: +60 7585 9588

Opens daily from 10am to 8.45pm

01 August 2024

Cat In The Hat

A humble bakery stall located at Golden Mile Food Centre, offers affordable French patisseries.

Brown butter spiced banana cake ($2), Lemon Meringue Tart ($3) & Chocolate Ganache Tart ($2.50)
Mini Caneles ($8), Black Sesame Yuzu Madeleines ($3), Classic Financier ($2.50), Madeleines ($1.50)
How to get there?
Address: 505 Beach Road #01-106, Golden Mile Food Centre, Singapore 199583

Opens from Wed to Sun: 10am to 1.30pm
Closed on Mon and Tues

06 July 2024

D'life Signature 蔬品軒

Located at Chinatown Point, D'life Signature serves a variety of delectable vegetarian dishes.

Crystal prawn dumpling
Emerald dumpling
Siew Mai 👍
Lava bun (流沙包)
Savoury lotus root (干香莲藕) 👍
Thai style green curry (泰式青咖喱)
Fragrant claypot tofu
Red bean pancake (红豆饼)
How to get there?
Address: 133 New Bridge Road #02-37 Chinatown Point, Singapore 059413
Phone: 6980 8138
Opens daily from 11am to 9.30pm

Nearest MRT: Chinatown (Exit E)

19 June 2024

Blossom 喜悦 (MBS)

Located in the lobby of Marina Bay Sands hotel, Blossom serves finest Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine, including delectable dim sum. And along with the dim sum, we had their premium tea, Long Jing Tea (明前西湖龙井) which is charged by per person ($8).

BBQ meat trio combination platter (烧味三拼)
(BBQ pork char siew, roast duck & crispy pork belly)
Chicken and glutinous rice steamed in lotus leaf (荷叶珍珠鸡)
Steamed vegetarian dumpling with truffle (水晶松露饺)
Steamed pork and prawn dumpling with shrimp roe siew mai (蟹子酱烧卖)
Steamed lava salted egg yolk bun (特色流沙包)
Pan fried turnip cake in XO sauce (XO酱煎萝卜糕)
How to get there?
Address: 2 Bayfront Avenue #01-05/05A, Marina Bay Sands Hotel Lobby Tower 2 Singapore 018972
Phone: +65 66887799

Opening hours
Mon to Thurs: 11.30am to 4.30pm (Last order at 3.45pm), 6pm to 11pm (Last order at 9.45pm)
Fri to Sun & PH: 11am to 4.30pm (Last order at 3.45pm), 5.30pm to 11pm (Last order at 9.45pm)

Nearest MRT: Bayfront (Exit C & D)

09 June 2024

Ke Ren Lai 客人来

We had our lunch at Ke Ren Lai which serves authentic Hakka cuisine consisting of handmade yam abacus (算盘子), Leicha (擂茶), Mui choy pork belly set (梅菜扣肉套餐), Drunken chicken set (手酿黄酒鸡套餐), etc.
Lotus root nourishing with dried scallop soup set (莲藕干贝养胃汤套餐)
Vinegar stewed pork belly (陈醋焖花肉) +
Spicy pork belly with bone broth noodles (四川花肉豚骨汤) +
Korean yuzu ice tea (暴打韩式柚子冰)
Herbal pudding with peach gum (龙眼桃胶龟苓膏)
How to get there?
Address: Lot TM-030, Third Mezzanine Floor, The Mall Mid Valley Southkey, Persiaran Southkey 1, 80150 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Phone: +60 127136177

Opens daily from 10am to 10pm

06 May 2024

Fit My Bowl (Eco Botanic)

A short drive from Tuas Checkpoint to Eco Botanic, Fit My Bowl provides healthy meal choices. They have Korean Bibimbap, Sambal Smoked Duck Pasta, Nanyang Mala Tofu, etc.
You can choose your own poke bowl.
Unagi Kabayaki Pokebowl
Smoked Duck Nasi Lemak Pokebowl
How to get there?
Address: No. 16 Jalan Eko Botani 3/6 Taman Eko Botani, Gelang Patah, Malaysia
Phone: +60 16885 9778

Opens daily from 10am to 9pm

10 March 2024

Giok Hong Tian Temple 玉皇殿

Established in 1887, the temple is dedicated to Jade Emperor (玉皇大帝). The temple houses other deities including Wang Tian Jun (王天君), Zhu Sheng Niang Niang (注生娘娘) and Tai Yang Jun (太阳君). 
On the 9th day of first lunar month (正月初九) is Jade Emperor's birthday (天公诞) and devotees will make their way to the temple early to offer their prayers to the Jade Emperor. The temple offers joss sticks and a small packet of tea leaves at S$2 (cash only). Devotees may bring fruits such as apples and oranges for praying. 

How to get there?
Address: 495 Havelock Road, Singapore 169635
Phone: +65 67335727
Nearest MRT: Havelock (Exit 3)

Opens daily from 7am to 3pm

16 February 2024

Chi-Gui Mala Hot Pot 赤鬼麻辣火锅 (Mid Valley Southkey)

Chi-Gui Mala Hot Pot serves a variety of soup bases such as the green mala spicy soup, mala with milk soup, red mala spicy soup, fresh tomato soup, tonkotsu soup, etc.
We had the quarter pot to enjoy 4 different soup bases which consist of Chinese herbal chicken, pepper pork herbal, fresh mushroom and tonkotsu soups. 
Ordered the pork belly and kurobuta collar slices, ham meat balls, pork liver, seafood tofu, fried bean curd sheets, fried luncheon meat, dry noodles and enoki mushroom.
They have the scallop pork meat paste, shrimp paste, etc.
Sauce bar and dessert is at RM6 per pax, comes with free flow of ice cream and fruits.
Matcha ice cream is recommended!
Also recommend to order the brown sugar ice jelly (RM8)
Jasmine flossy cream tea (RM11.90)
How to get there?
Address: Mid Valley Southkey, No. 1 Persiaran Southkey 1, Southkey, 80150, Johor Bahru, Johor Malaysia (Level G-058, near North Entrance)
Phone: +6017 665 3899 / +607 276 3668

Make reservation to avoid waiting during peak hours.

Opens daily from 10am to 10pm.

Driving to Mid Valley Southkey, one can use the Touch 'n Go card for carpark entry.