TCC

My friend visited us and we went to Clarke Quay for dinner and drink, at the same time enjoying the river view. We requested to have outdoor seat as we felt that is the best seating. The 2 dishes below from my friends's comments were, they are ok, not very fanciful. The black sesame cheesecake tasted average.

**Apologize for the poor pictures quality.

TCC Clarke Quay

Address: #01-01, Clarke Quay, 3E River Valley Road 

Tel: 63361121 

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We visited TCC before one of the meeting to get together to know each other in the team. The reason why the boss chose here was because of her 50% birthday treat as a TCC member, I at least will visit TCC once a year mostly on my birthday too for my member benefits. The cuisines here are not bad, the crayfish salad is the usual that I ordered as I like the way it presented. The pumpkin soup was exclusively for Christmas season and so as some of the Christmas themed desserts.

TCC Beach Road

Address: #01-01/02, Beach Centre, 15 Beach Road 

Tel: 68831055 

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Shoebox Canteen

Rental isn’t cheap in Singapore, the new concept for surviving is sharing the space. There are some eatery places that started to have 2 faces, Day and Night. Shoebox Canteen joined the same concept but not due to the rental reason as they just want to have different concept. BY DAY: Shoebox Canteen, a 30-seater diner with a Western-style menu that changes monthly and open for lunch from Mon- Fri. BY NIGHT: Bitters and Love, a bespoke cocktail bar that stirs to life only after dark

I attended this meetup by Coffee & Cravings and thanks to the organizers, they arranged with Shoebox Canteen to serve us lunch on a Saturday. Shoebox Canteen said they don't charge GST or service charge and they tell us they use "premium ingredients, no msg ,no preservatives used, all home-made food at a very affordable price Sounds good right so below is what they offered us. A 4 course set meal  with $25 nett with the selection of the starter, drink and dessert fixed, but you are allow to choose your own main course from the below 3 listed.

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MUSHROOM SOUP

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YOUR CHOICE OF MAINS: RANCH BEEF BURGER(HOMEMADE BEEF PATTY, CARAMELISED ONIONS, STREAKY BACON, HAND-CUT CHIPS)

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SPAGHETTINI PRAWNS (TIGER PRAWNS, CHILI, GARLIC, OLIVE OIL, PRAWN STOCK BASE)

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CATCH OF THE DAYPAN FRIED SNAPPER (CURRY EMULSION, BLUE-SHELL MUSSELS, CREAMY MASH)

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HOMEMADE APPLE TART WITH VANILLA BEAN ICE-CREAM

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HOMEMADE LEMONADE ( INFUSED WITH THYME)

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Mushroom soup tasted average, up to standard but not the best I tried. The snapper I did not get to taste, but I think it depends on individual as I received comment said it is so great and there are other said this is not their liking version.

The burger I had, I love the patty, bacon and caramelized onion. The bread will be better if they toasted more, not the best I had and it has to be go with the burger, sometime I like to try the bread by itself but tasted really normal for bread. The fries is hand cut, that doesn't increase its flavour but it is fresher and crunchiness is different from those you get in supermarket.

I did not have this but looks at what its presentation, I have the thinking like, it should be tasted standard. Talked to the diner, his comment is..like that lor..I think it meant it is normal.

For those who would like to make reservations for Shoebox Canteen or Bitters & Love, please contact Fiona(the pretty lady below) at 6438 1836.

Shoebox Canteen
Address: 36 North Canal Road , Singapore, Singapore 059292
Tel: 6438 1836
Operating Hour: Weekday Lunch 11:45 am - 2:30 pm
**Shoebox Canteen will be rolling out dinner time, stay tunned on the FB update
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShoeboxCanteen

Little House of Dreams

I attended a company rec club Cupcake Baking and Decorating at Little House of Dreams. It is actually very simple doing cupcake but the decorating need some times if you are going to have complicated design. The decorations that I learned is very simple.

Flowers Decoration:-
1. Using marshmallows. 
Cut the marshmallows diagonally. This will forms the petal for your flower. You will find the cut area will be a bit sticky. Then tab it onto the crystal sugar or chocolate chips or colorful pop or others items that you like. Put aside to use later.

2. Using sugar fondue.
It is advised that if we buy the fondue, we buy the white colour and later mix it with the coloring you like to form the other colour. This is saver compare you buy the colour tub one by one.
The sugar fondue has to be kept inside the tighten container so that it will not dry and harden easily.
Using the ready mould cutter to cut the flower.  You will get 2D type. To make it 3D, put the flower on your palm, use tool to push the middle down gently so that you not push through a hole and place it at the holder.
Get another colour to make a round fondue and place it in the middle of the flower. You can use very limited water if they do not stick.

Little House of Dreams

Address: 6 Eu Tong Sen Street The Central #B1-27E Singapore 059817

Phone: (65) 6222 2972

Website: http://www.littlehouseofdreams.com/

Mulligan's

Met a friend at Clarke Quay and we had no idea what to eat, so we went by feeling. My friend chose this, guess because it is Irish Pub.

We ordered calamari as appertiser. That is always my favourite option and it won't go wrong normally.

The waiter there recommended us the traditional Irish Mutton Stew but I by pass that as I am not a fan of mutton. I chose the pork ribs. Portion is big but not the ribs. It was not tender and consider too hard for me. The ribs tasted like not well marinated as the great taste did not go to every part of the dishes.

My friends ordered some beer since this is pub. There have life band after 9pm. Not for the food, you may come here to enjoy the hangout and drinks. It is still a good choice of you love the band.

Mulligan's

Block C Clarke Quay

River Valley Road

#01-10

Singapore 179022

Telephone No. : +65 6305 6726

Email Address : info@mulligans.sg

Mr Curry

I always a Japanese cuisines supporter. We went for Mr curry to try out their curry. As you all know, Japanese's curry is not spicy overall. I was quite please with the food served. The fried rice just nice and fragrant  The omelette rice with curry are my like. Egg and curry combination, I love both. The ton I did taste a bit, similar with other Japanese Restaurant. The last one I forgot what is that but I remembered no complain on the food, so it should be average.

Overall, the food served here are quite good.

Mr Curry
Address: 6 Eu Tong Sen Street, #03-84 The Central, Singapore
Tel: +65 6221 8860
URL:http://www.waraku.com.sg/

Chiso Zanmai Japanese Buffet

I went there to celebrate a friend's birthday. Saw this in the i-weekly's food review and it attracted me with the different cold toufu they have and the green tea item. I am green tea lover so I would like to try anything with green tea. Their buffet price slightly cheaper than some other Japanese buffet restaurant. We choose to go during weekend lunch session as it is cheaper. The only different between lunch & dinner session is dinner you will get to enjoy sashimi unlimited. My friend is not cold dish lover, so we decided to go for lunch session.

This is their entrance, white and black theme. Simple, clean design, it sometimes the best.

We saw the dessert corner first when we went in. Too bad that the soft ice-cream machine is spoil, so we did not get to enjoy that. There have assorted green tea dessert, variety cakes and fruits.

Next, I saw the ramen station. dun expect too much for the ramen in this buffet session. It is just ok. If you are the real ramen lover, it is still worth to go to the ramen restaurant. The soup taste better.

 Sushi..I would love to have sushi but we did not have too much space for these. So control!

This is one of the dishes published in i-weekly magazine that attracted me, the toufu. It tasted more like a pudding rather than toufu, great taste and if I wish I can have more.

Tempura and some fried stuff corner. Standard food and the Ebi is so popular that I need to come a few rounds to grab it.

Then, we walked to the appetizer and side dishes corner, lots of selection. Hmm..what to choose? We chose those we never try before, the common one will be only after we finished the rest then only see whether we can have more.

See what we had on our table? Food..food..and still many of food. The good thing of having buffet is, it will be good to have more people, so that you can try as many as you wish. Dun look down these small side dishes, it will make you quite full if you had all of them.

Instant DIY for a small birthday cake for my friend. They dun provide the candle, this candle i bring my own and they dun have lighter. So what did I used to light this cute candle? I saw they is this big fire starter which they use to light up the hot pot, so I borrowed it as my lighter. Haha..and the rest of the customer saw this and greet me Happy Birthday as they thought it was my birthday. :)

This is special. The paste I think is some yam paste. It is sticky and served with the tuna(the very least sahsimi that I saw during lunch buffet). It tasted quite nice.

 I like this green tea panna cotta and I had lots of it..should try to find out how to make it my own.

I am very full when I had this Japanese curry rice but still wanted to try as I want to know is there any different with what I made for myself using the Japanese curry paste cube. The answer is no much different, now I know how to make a normal standard Japanese curry rice as restaurant myself. The secret will be the curry cube that I used.

Chiso Zanmai Japanese Buffet
Address: The Central (6 Eu Tong Sen Street) #02-17

Tel : 6221 3177
Facebook : facebook.com/chiso.zanmai.singapore

Operating Hours:

Lunch – 12pm to 3pm
Dinner – 6pm to 10pm


Price List:

Lunch
Monday to Friday	Adult: $14.90++	Child : $9.90++	Senior : $12.90++
Saturday, Sunday & PH	Adult: $19.90++	Child : $9.90++	Senior : $17.90++
Dinner
Monday to Friday	Adult: $24.90++	Child : $14.90++	Senior : $22.90++
Saturday, Sunday & PH	Adult: $29.90++	Child : $14.90++	Senior : $27.90++