Sunday, September 27, 2020

Reverse Sear Temperature

1) oven - temperature & time based on doneness, e.g. medium = 52 degree, 30-35min

2) sear in hot skillet, 1.5 min total






Monday, September 21, 2020

Sun Halo


Typically occurs when there are thin clouds so high in the sky that they are made of ice crystals rather than water droplets.












Saturday, September 19, 2020

Avenue 87 @ Amoy Street

Aveneue 87
47 Amoy Street

Tel: 9838 8401 / 6970 5491

11.30am to 2.30pm (Mon-Fri)
5.30pm to 10pm (Mon-Sat)

Note
- THY review on 17 Sept
- booked for 19 Sept on 18 Sept via Quandoo
- just opened the previous week and process needs tweaking as round 2 customers came at 8pm and table was not ready.  Was lead to lounge on 2F with a wait of an hour before table was ready at 9.30pm

$98 6-course menu

Snack 1 - Chicken Skin - Fried chicken breast cracker with caramelised onion

Snack 2 - Assam pedas with eggplant, okra, cherry, tomatoes


Salmon - dill oil, sour cream, soya wasabi granita, ponzu pickled wakame seaweed, diced pear, viet rice chips

AHK Seabass - Ah Hua Seabass, compressed bitter gourd, semi-dried tomato, topped with fried egg floss, ginger & milk in spoon, anchovy & fish bone stock separately poured in

AHK Seabass

Octopus - Grilled octopus with house made sambal, confit egg yolk and veg

Octopus

Baby lamb rack - Viet style lamb chop with grilled egg plant, honey & coriander sauce


Basmati rice - choice 1 of carb

Potatoes - choice 2 of carbs


Pre dessert - House made granola, red dragon fruit, light greek yoghurt

Coconut - Pound cake crumbs with papaya, caramelised pineapple & coconut ice cream

Pisang no goreng - deep fried coconut custard, salted gula malaka & banana ice cream




Sunday, September 13, 2020

Ruma Baba Fred @ Changi Rd

Ruma Baba Fred
161 Changi Road
VIS Changi

Sat and Sun only from 11.30am to 2.30pm

Pre-orders available for dine-in and takeaway via
- Facebook messanger "rumababafred"
- Whatsapp 9109 9898

Lunch menu is more extensive with rice and dishes
Sunday menu is primarily one-dish meals, e.g. mee siam, mee rebus, nasi lemak


Note
- pre-ordered and prepaid via FB messanger for sat lunch
- small eatery with 4 inside tables and 3 outside tables
- paying for quality, rather than quantity as servings are relatively small for the price but rebus comes with mutton, pulut hitam comes with longan
- $30 for 2 pax lunch - mee siam, mee rebus, nasi lemak, otah and pulut hitam



Nasi lemak $6.50

Mee rebus (mutton) $6.50

Mee siam (prawn) $6.50

Otah $7

Pulut hitam (longan) $3.50






Thursday, September 10, 2020

Saturday, September 5, 2020

AJ Delights (muffins) @ Alexandra Village

Note
- weekend walk-in sale starts at 1.30pm
- Saturday walk-in sale starts at ??
- WhatApp order available but tried with no reply

- went on saturday at about 12pm and there was a queue of about 10 people
- with serving time/pax of at least 5 minutes (a long wait)
- muffins with streusel are recommended





Apple Streusel $2.10


Blueberry Streusel $2.50


Raspberry Streusel $2.50


Chocolate Streusel $2.10