Clues are,

It’s complete edible.

It’s considered vegetarian.

It’s being considered a “processed” food but in an all healthy way.

Well all loved it, well, @ least i do.

So what is it ?

The person who guess-ed correctly ~~~~~well….might not win any prizes…..but what about a digital kiss from me ??? Aye ???

Nah….probably not…well…have a guess if you like…otherwise just treat it as a post where i once again…..was too caught up with work and that my mind is sort of like in an empty mode~~~~~~ i know, you may call it  ~~~~ AGAIN.

p.s. i will post an update with a short explanatory of what the above is, and how do you make it into such perfect and yummy stage where all you need to do is open the container and pop them into your mouth! Stay tuned!

When a girl is about to have her period/PMS, normally she will feel extraordinary tired and hungry. In this case, I’m really feeling my hunger right now.  If i were to have a serving of  Chicken Rice from Chatterbox in Meritus Mandarin Singapore now, that will be a taste from Heaven i think.

Chatterbox is located on 38th floor of Meritus Mandarin Orchard, Singapore. It used to be on the ground floor, but because of the recent revamped of the hotel, they shifted their Chatterbox to the 38th floor, where the rotating bar/cafe used to be. 

I remembered when i was young, parents brought me here. During that time the rotating cafe/bar is really ROTATING!! and i vomited like crazy!!! hehehe…..Ok shouldn’t be talking about this, especially when I’m about to show you some delicious heavenly food.

Chuck that aside.

So everytime when i visit S’pore, I’m bound to drop by Chatterbox to have their famously heavenly Chicken Rice!!

YUM? the serving is really huge!! I always have a hard time finishing it!! But with my PMS just around the corner, i think i have no problem clearing up the food!!

The tender juicy chicken breast!!! Oh yum!

And the chicken rice always comes with 3 variety of sauces. They all go really well with the chicken & rice!!!

Oh, that didn’t help with my cravings!!!! I’m super duperly hungry right now!!! Urggghhh !!

Many years back when i was still in my final year of my “fantastic” Interior Design 4 years course, i was cracking my head and stressed like hell as to what project should i be doing for my final year project presentation. And then an idea strike me. Since my sister was working part time in Novotel Sydney during that time, might as well request to get their floor plans!!! Finally i managed to get their “precious” floor plans. And after rounds and rounds of head cracking ( again) to finally figure out what i would like to do, i finally came up with an idea of having an input of the concept of  “Food Street” into their already existing coffee house. 

Don’t ask me to show you my presentation, because i don’t know where I’ve chucked them. Hehehe

Anyway, they have a huge area for their coffee house, covering almost the whole of ground floor! Ain’t i lucky? And so i worked my butt off and came up with this fantastic idea of having a food street filled with small little individual stalls, each with their own unique design matching into the overall theme, serving international food. And guess what? Non of the judges showed interest in my idea! Can you believe it ? They said they didn’t understand what i was trying to do, what’s the point of having so many stalls when you can fit them all onto a buffet counter…..bla bla bla. As i do respect them, i decided not to start with any F word on them. Despite them hating the idea so much, i also need to thank them for not failing me!!

So anyway, soon after my fantastic idea was thrown out of the window, i decided i will never think about it anymore, maybe for the rest of my life?

And guess what? Many years later, you can see “food street” concepts in almost any big shopping malls in Singapore….WTF?

Try going to any food republic outlet in either Singapore or the Pavilion KL and you will know what i mean. Food Republic is basically a restaurant with a heavily embedded ” Themed Food Street” concept. Out of the many outlets they have in Singapore, each of them carries a different concept. The 1st Food Republic photo above is situated in Wisma Atria, Orchard Singapore. Their concept for this particular outlet, is more towards the old Penang market street concept. Signage with huge Chinese calligraphies are hanging everywhere, and you can find mostly local food like Kaya& Toast, Malay food, Chinese noodle shops, shops that sell brewed soups, stuffs like that.

The next set of Food Republic photos with a more goth theme is situated in Suntec City, Singapore. I love this particular outlet so much!! Did i tell you i couldn’t resist places with a heavily themed fairytale concept? Even though this is not exactly a fairytale concept, but i love the dark mystical feel of the place, and the over-sized bookshelves. And i think i can stay in this place for hours without getting sick of it. 

And talking about this trend, recently there’s a new food street outlet opening @ Tampinies 1 Singapore, called Wanpuku, a Japanese Gourmet street concept! And i was thrilled by it!! During my recent trip to Singapore, I was glad to have a meal there with my sis. As much as i would like to take a few pictures around the area, people there seems to be a bit hostile. So, only managed to take a few photos around where i sat. Despite the let down, i managed to find some pics of the restaurant on google image!!

This is the entrance to the restaurant!! Vibrant with colours doesn’t it ? Manpuku in Chinese character is  萬富, i think… hehe..

Individual stalls selling different types of Japanese food. As the poster on the left is showing something like a Ramen stall.

I really love this cherry blossom sitting area!! I was there to meet my sister the other day, so before my sister arrived, i walked around to look for a place to sit. To my surprise, almost every good spot was being taken !!! These people really kiasu one i tell you! In the end me and my sis has got no choice but to sit @ a table tucked away in a corner!!! Sigh~~

Another view of the cherry blossom seating area.

And i took this photo myself!! Yay!! This stall is just right next to where we were sitting. As you can see, it serves Tamago rice ( Egg fried rice). But we didn’t order from them.

Another view of the Tamago rice stall!!

Love the street lamps!!

And this is what we ordered…….

Seafood pancake!!!

The taste?? Yummy yum!!!

Another view of the yummy seafood pancake!

We also ordered some sushi!!

But the taste? So so only…..

And so after having the seafood pancake and the sushi, we were actually quiet full, but then still cannot resist the deliciously looking dessert!!

So we ordered the grapefruit cake!!!

And it was YUMMY!!! Slurp slurp~~~

So, after experiencing the many food street concept dining….i was kinda glad to know this kinda dining experience does work and it’s actually working tremendously well!! A big  Boooo to all the old fashioned folks back then! Oh, for those that would like to experience the food street concept dining experience, without having to go all the way down to Singapore, you folks can try the food street @ ground floor Starhill, Kuala Lumpur. I would say that will be a more poshed up food street!! But well worth a visit!!!

So, are you ready for a food street dining experience?

Come to think of it, it has been almost 8 years since i last ate something my sister cooked. I remembered while i was still suffering from mild anorexia while studying overseas, cooking for me has never been so difficult. I remembered when my sister was about to cook something, i will stand next to her and see how much oil she pours into the cooking, and when the amount of oil is more than the size of a 20 cents coin, i will stop her immediately. And the most common sentence that will purk out of my sister’s mouth is — ” How to cook like that!”

Indeed, now thinking back, i sometimes wonder how did i survive with just living on eating tasteless biscuits, oil free cooking, drinking corn soups everyday, and eating lots and lots of hawthorn for no reasons. While having lunch with my uni friends, i felt stressed. Simply because i don’t want to let them know I’m anorexic and that i don’t eat. So while with them, i will pretend to eat something that i think is of less fat, for example, Jellies. I remembered there was once where all of them decided to go have buffet @ the Sydney casino, and i was thinking to myself — Buffet!! Are u kidding me??? Just when i thought how am i suppose to pretend I’m actually a healthy eater, i saw Jellies !!! And so i took a big whole plate of it, sat in front of my friends and they all got a shock of their life. ” Why are you eating so much Jellies? You seem like treating the jellies like fried rice!!” Well, indeed that’s what i was thinking.

Parents, grandparents were worried, friends saw me and they all ask me the same question… : ” are u anorexic?” But strangely though, i thought i was looking really good during that time!! Pale white face with bonnie figure, not nice meh? While back home having my Uni vacation back then, parents forced me to eat! And you know what i did?? I will either throw or pour away the food secretly! Junk food was horror! Never touch those things! Not even a candy occasionally, no ice creams, no meat, no fried food, basically i eat nothing!! Except for clear soups and some oil free stuff.

How long was i being an anorexic?? i guess about 5-6 years. And now, hohoho……i eat almost anything!! Don’t ask me what changes me, but i guess the “anorexity” is definitely still in me! If i were to stay alone now, i swear i will be going back to be an anorexic! Sometimes i think the reason I’m eating is to show people I’m a healthy eater?

Anyway, After all these years, it’s nice to have a home cooked meal by my sister with the normal amount of oil, and having to enjoy the not so healthy 3 minute Korean noodle!!!

Home cooked meal 1 — Fried Zucchini with dried Shrimp ( Yum Yum!)

Home cooked meal 2 — Fried egg with can corn, the tomato sauce gave it an extra zest!

Home cooked meal 3 — Korean packed instant noodle, with extra veges!

No doubt, it was just a simple home cooked lunch, but i have to say, after 8 years, my sister still can’t cook very well!!! Hahaha, just kidding!!! Oopsss!! My sister better not be reading this. 

If it were 8 years ago, i don’t think i will appreciate the effort and might not even eat any of the above!! Well, i have to say i really enjoy eating what my sister cooked and let’s just hope that i will always feel positive about eating healthy and stay healthy!! Yay!

Undoubtedly, Sarawak Laksa is one of the food that i can’t live without for too long.  Just because it’s such a tasty food, you will see in almost every “kopitiam” we have here…there’s bound to have a stall that sells Laksa. But having said that, there are ofcourse good laksa stalls, the not so good laksa stalls, and the lousy laksa stalls. Normally how do we differentiate?

Here’s an example,

This is a perfect looking bowl of laksa , especially the colour of the soup. This is actually from a laksa stall that sells good laksa.  But, something really bothers me here……Did you notice their prawns? Let’s count how many prawns they put in this bowl of laksa…..

How many?? 5 prawns right?? compare to my previous post here, do you find the prawn sort of  “shrink” a little bit? And do you know the reason?? They somehow did some “knife work” on the prawn, so if we look @ the elevation of the prawn….it looks like this…..

do you get it ?? no? here’s another view….

The prawn was being cut in half!! I mean what kinda mentality is this?? It’s true that by cutting the prawns in half will help save cost, but i don’t think this is a very good way to please your customers.  So by actually having 5 prawns , you are actualy eating only 2 complete prawns. So i’m asking you guys now, comparing my previous post on Laksa,  will  you go for a bowl of laksa that cost RM8, like this,

Or you would rather choose a laksa that cost RM3.50 but with only half of a prawn ?

Which will you choose??