DIY Pedicure

Bought this Juicy Cocktail Polish from Etude House quite some time ago. Love the orange glittery feel. However, I had only used it once during the Chinese New Year. I can't really paint well with my left hand, thus, I can only do Pedicure on my own. 

Juicy Cocktail from Etude House

Here we go, here's my newly painted nails. By right, we should be painting Bottle 1 on the whole nail, followed by Bottle 2 on the upper half and lastly Bottle 3 on the upper quarter of the nails. But I decided to follow suit only for the big toe. For the rest of the toes, I did a random polishing. Can't really see it clearly from the photo though. 

Nonetheless, I love my toe nails now!

Covet London Nail Colours

Free express manicure - Covet London Nail Colours - at Tangs. 

New colour to welcome the weekend. I think this colour goes well with short nails. I love free manicure as my manicure always does not last for more than 3 days. I need to be more lady-like, I guess!

TCC, once again!

Three months in a row and I'm back at TCC for lunch again. This time round, I went to the Wisma Outlet. The ambiance was quite good but the service crew was not very alert. I waited for five minutes before someone noticed me at the entrance.

I had Pasta in August, Main Course in September and thus, for the month of October, I am going to try the Sandwiches. But just bread for lunch, not that. I ordered the New England Clam Chowder to start off the lunch. S$10 for the soup, not worth but with the 50% discount, I found the price reasonable. The soup was not very creamy or thick but it tasted good. There were not many clams served, many around five. The garlic bread was nice but I wished it was served warm. The soup was overall flavourful with the clams, potato cubes and chicken ham. 

New England Clam Chowder

Next up was the Cheeso Portobello Sandwich served with greens and potato chips. The problem I always have with sandwich or burger is that I need to 'dismantle' them in order to cut and eat them. Same goes to today's snadwich. The pan-fried portobello steak with cheddar and parmesan cheese was flavorful. I liked it. The turkish bread was cripsy and it went well with the portobello. The Teriyaki glaze and Japanese mayo was a bit too much for the dish. It was the first time I had sandwich at TCC, a good choice, I must say. The greens was there to make the dish more healthy but with the potato chips, my friends said otherwise. But lighted salted chips won't do much harm, don't you agree?

Cheeso Portobello Sandwich

To end off the meal, we had coffee instead of desserts. Well, I'm out with the small eaters so no choice. A decent hazelnut latte with caramel and chocolate bits. Love it. But actually, I quite missed their Osmanthus latte (I hope I mentioned the right drink at the right place).

Caramel Hazelnut Latte 

That's all for TCC. I hope I won't step into TCC till Year 2014! 

Lok Lok - Malaysian Local Delights @ Tanjong Katong

Three years ago, I was in Malacca and I heard about this Satay Celup. I had wanted to try it but I read about them reusing the pot gravy - that is for the whole night, they will just replenish the gravy instead of changing a new pot for the new customers. Oh man, my friend backed out on this food trail and till now, I have not tried this yet.

Sometime back this year, my friend, Cutie Wc whatsapp-ed me a picture showing "Malaysian Local Delights" with many satay sticks. I thought she went Malaysia for a food trail but to my surprise, she was having loklok in Singapore!!! But I wasn't in the mood for food back then and this shop slowly faded away. until recently, I decided to find some unique food to bring cuzzie around and this shop suddenly reappeared and off we went. Pretty excited  for the both of us as it is something different from the usual steamboat that we have.

When we reached around 1pm for lunch on a Friday, to my horror, there was no one in the shop eating the steamboat. We were quite upset that we travelled all the way just to find it closed. So I decided to ask about the opening hours for dinner such that we can come back later. Pretty surprised that the person at the counter says the steamboat buffet is on and led us to a table. We were the ONLY customers in the shop. As cool as it could be, it was quite boring as food is supposedly to be shared by many people. But well, it was a Friday afternoon and people had to work, unlike us. 

So apparently, there are two prices - S$24.80 for Monday-Thursday and S$26.80 for Friday-Sunday. The person explained that there is a 10% discount at this timing as the food range is limited. Well, there are more choices for dinner crowd, I guess.  

For around $24 per pax, I won't say it is cheap but the idea is refreshing enough for us to go try it! We were counting that if 1 stick of food is worth 50 cents, we would have to eat at least 50 sticks to make the money worth. By the way, the price includes free-flow drinks. 

For the sauce, we chose the satay sauce and the penang prawn soup base. The Penang Prawn soup is slightly spicy and the satay sauce tasted great.

The soup base

The food are all placed in the fridge and you can just take them from it. It is slightly different from the normal buffet places where the food are placed in open air. But it was tiring to open the door just to grab some food. I guess you can take a lot at one good - helps to save the environment.

Raw Food in the Fridge

I did not take many photos of the food, was busy eating instead of snapping. Here are some of the food I took - Pork Slice, Small intestine, Meat balls etc. There are also beef, vegetables and those yong tau food ingredients. By the way, the boss told us to cook the raw food using the soup base instead of the satay sauce. This is because the satay sauce is only lukewarm and could not really cook the food. Thus, we put the food into the penang prawn soup base, cooked them and dipped them into the satay sauce.

The Raw Food

Okay, have you tried Prawns in Satay sauce before? This is cool. Nice innovation to cook the prawns. And the prawns are fresh and we can easily peel off the shell. Not much of a hassle to eat prawns. But I guess we can first cooked the prawns, shell it before dipping into the satay sauce. In this way, our hands will not have satay sauce. I loved the prawns and I had quite a couple of them.

Prawns

Here's some of the other food I ate. My cuzzie was saying that they all looked the same once we dipped them into the satay sauce. I was wondering why I did not try the original flavour before dipping them into satay sauce.

Some other cooked food

Here's my achievement at the end of the feast - 63 sticks of food. VERY FULL!

My achievements

For the innovative idea of satay steamboat, I definitely recommend this place. But would I come again? Maybe not in near future!

Malaysian Local Delights
224 Tanjong Katong Road

Hainanese Curry Rice @ Beo Crescent

After watching Eric Khoo's new film about Dementia and Hainanese Curry Ric - Recipe (回味) on Sunday night, I had a craving for Hainanese Curry Rice. I always hear people raved about the curry rice that is situated in the neighbourhood of Beo Crescent. It is relative near to my place but with no direct bus, I seldom travel near there.

But with the craving and that the place is near, I decided to 'walk out of my comfort zone' to visit the place. For about 20 minutes walk or so, I finally reached Beo Crescent and trust me, you can easily spot the curry rice shop by looking out for a long queue forming outside a coffee shop. The old school stall has no sign board and everyone calls it the Beo Crescent Curry rice. It is a really small coffee shop with tables and chairs outside the shop. Strangely, I guess due to its own structure, there is no seat inside the coffee shop. 

I queued for almost 30 minutes before I placed my order. I might be stupid to be queuing with the lunch crowd. As I was alone and I could not see any available table, I decided to takeaway the food. (better than looking lost with the plate of food and searching for a table)

Their famous pork chops are on the must-try item and the person in front of me ordered S$5 for eat in and another S$5 for takeaway. Anyway, I ordered their pork chop, with the cabbage and a fried egg. I reckoned that being alone, we can never try many dishes. I better gathered my family again for good food soon. 

I thought with me packing my food, the Pork Chop will lose the crispiness as it will be dipped in the curry gravy curry for long. But to my surprise, the thin sliced pork chops were still crispy when I had them. It was like eating Keropok. The curry gravy was nice and complemented the Pork Chop very well. Love it! Here's a picture of my food, I'm sorry that this picture did not bring justice to the good food. 

Crispy Pork Chop

No Name Hainanese Curry Rice
Blk 40 Beo Crescent