Little Vietnam Restaurant & Cafe

My girl friend recommended the restaurant.  She said this is really nice and she like it. The restaurant looks small but cosy especially the outdoor seat. The problem with the outdoor seat will be it might rain and people can smoke outside. However if it is windy, that is the best seating area.

Little Vietnam restaurant has an extensive menu at affordable prices. There is No GST or service charge. It is also recommended as one of the 5 best Vietnam Restaurant in Singapore. You can view the details HERE.

We ordered some side dishes to share. Fried spring roll, fried chicken and vietnamese famous rice roll. I still like the rice roll the most. My friend ordered the salad and I feel that is nice too.

As usual I got the pho Tai Bo Vien(Sliced Beef and Beef Balls), I always like to try out the pho at any vietnamese restaurant that I went. Reason being I like the clear soup base with full taste. The version here is good.

Homemade Cocunut Jelly - I just fall in love with this, refreshing by using the fresh coconut juice and flesh. Really good.

Little Vietnam Restaurant & Cafe

Address: 511 Guillemard Rd, Singapore 399849

Tel:6547 8587

Operating hours: Daily 4pm – 1.30am(Closed on Mon)

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Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf

We got a Xmas log cake from coffee bean because the cafe is halal certified. We were lucky to have this as we did not make advance reservation for it. The log cake tasted quite good, rich with the chocolate taste.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

I visited Coffee Bean quite often, one of our favourite meet up point if we want to have coffee or cake and is very convenient as it has many branches island-wide.

They had been introduced the breakfast, lunch and dinner for quite sometime. You can now find the Beanstro - the all day dining bistro concept. The menu looks interested to me when one day I suddenly browse through that. I got Salmon Brioche Egg Benedict Set($12.5) for lunch. All the set come with a cup of daily brewed coffee or tea. You can top up $2 for the latte. I felt the smoked salmon have quite fishy taste. I like the brioche and feel good to go with egg. Quite disappointed with the poached egg because it was over cooked. The egg yolk was almost done. The hollandaise sauce was great so that fixed my need.

My friend had Tomato Herb Fusilli Set ($11.90). 

We added a Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake ($6.30) for after meal dessert. I had tried this before and like the raspberry fiiling although it is a bit too sweet for me.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Address: 10 Eunos Road

#01-01 Singapore Post Centre

Singapore 408600

Tel: 6748 4441

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Arnold's Fried Chicken

Tucked in the corner on the 2nd floor is this Fried Chicken Restaurant, I had been to this restaurant once(not sure how many years ago), it looks new and clean now. It had been renovated and looks brighter compare to the old time. I wasn't sure is it because of Ramandan so that day I saw the long queue, but my friend said it used to have quite good business, the waiting time is around 30mins. So we decided to shop in this plaza since there are a lot of wholesale clothing here.

They serve both chicken pieces and spring chicken here and the best thing about the chicken is that it is served piping hot and it is fresh(it don't have the bloody taste). It's crispy on the outside(a bit oily for the one piece I have) and juicy on the inside. I feel it is better than KFC in Singapore. I got the 2 pieces set for $6+ and added a rootbeer float for $3+. If I go for normal drink, the set meal will be almost the same as KFC and other fried chicken. I like the Coleslaw too, it would be great if they give more. I saw a lot of people getting the fried bun too, if you are the bun lover, you may try that.

Arnold's Fried Chicken

Address: City Plaza #02-99/101, 810 Geylang Road, Singapore 409286

Tel: 67462372

Website: http://www.arnoldsfriedchicken.com/

Han's Cafe

One of our lunch place near the office, not working distance, but it is 5-8 mins drive from the office. Most of the time, we will get their all day set menu which come with soup, garlic bread, a drink, main course and dessert. The price range from $9.80 to $15.80.

The food here consider cheap for a cafe standard and tasted quite average. Not very fantastic but not too bad.

Seafood Horfun($7.80)

Chicken Chop with mushroom sauce($11.80)

Chicken Chop with black pepper sauce($11.80)

Fish N Chip($9.80) - I feel like more coating that fish. It is a bit hard too.

Website: http://www.hans.com.sg/

Nihon Mura Japanese Restaurant

I had been to this place quite often for lunch as office near by and we always have their lunch special. It is quite worth the price of $9.99++, you can choose each item from Menu A, B & C and it serve with drinks. A is the main course and I normally go for Salmon don or other don, I just love it. B is the side dish, sashimi or tempura prawn. C is dessert or appertizer, i normally get chawanmushi or ice-cream.

If this is not enough for you, they have sushi on the belt and other ala-carte order for you to choose. Sushi's price depends on the colour of the plate and it starts from $1.19++.

Nihon Mura Japanese Restaurant
Address: 10 Eunos Road 8 Singapore Post Centre #B1-08 Singapore 408600
Tel:+65 67468192 , +65 62621155 (Hotline)
Website:www.sukigroup.com.sg
Operating Hours:
Weekdays: 12.00noon to 10.00pm (Including eve of public holiday(Last order 9.30pm))
Weekends: 11.30am to 10.00pm (Including public holiday(last order 9.30pm))

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nihonmura

Gong Cha

One of the famous bubbles milk tea in Singapore from Taiwan. 1st time I saw it at Novena, still not that famous, then suddenly found it all over Singapore. Tried their milk tea, not bad and I prefer original one. Their signature is the Gong Cha Milk Tea, that is better than the normal milk tea and it is not blended when serve. You will see 2 layers with top is the milk and bottom is the tea.

You can choose your sugar level, type of jelly or even you can request them to reduce the ice if you feel like not having too cold.

I tried their Toffee Milk Tea and quite disappointed with it, as it tasted..a bit strange to me.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GongCha.Singapore

Poh Guan Bakery 宝源

My client company has the breakfast session every month, where they will get the bakery or cake house to sell cake, pastries & buns during the breakfast time at discounted price. Not much discount but it will be slightly cheaper than you buy outside bakery.

This week, they have Poh Guan Bakery, it is the branch of Poh Guan Cake House 宝源饼家, a traditional chinese confectionery, specializes in making traditional biscuits, cakes, Teochew kuehs & snacks in Chinatown. It located at MacPherson Road.

I tried the salted egg yolk custard bun. It is nice and I like it, but it is slightly oily. There has more variety to choose from.

Poh Guan Bakery
Address: 169 MacPherson Rd


Poh Guan Cake House 宝源饼家
Address:
Blk 531Upper Cross Street #01-57
Hong Lim Complex
Singapore 050531
(in front of Hong Lim Hawker Centre)
Tel: 6534 0136

Old Street Bak Kut Teh 老街肉骨茶

I heard from my colleague regards this place and everyday on bus ride to the office, I will see the big sign below.  On one Friday, we feel like going further to have our lunch and thinking of Bak kut teh, that's why it brought us here.

Surprisingly I found the dry Bak Kut Teh which I normally found in Malaysia. This is the 1st time I had it in Singapore. We ordered some dry and soup Bak Kut teh, some side dishes and shared among 4 of us.

The dry one added with lady finger and dried squid. It tasted quite nice but compare to the one I had normally in KL, KL one tasted better. KL version normally come with dried salted fish.

The pork ribs soup is good, suite to my taste. I like it. Strong pepper flavour but it will be better if less salty. Tau Kee & Preserved Vegetables are great to go with rice.

Dry Bak Kut Teh($8.50)

You Tiao($1 each), Pork Ribs Soup($5.50)

Top: Tau Kee($3.50)

Botton: Preserved Vegetables($2.50)

Pig's stomach Soup($5)

Barley & Sour Plum Drink

Old Street Bak Kut Teh 老街肉骨茶
Address: 129 Upper Paya Lebar Road, Singapore
Nearest MRT:  Tai Seng Station

Opening Hours
Daily: 7am – 1am

Tai Seng Fish Soup

My colleagues introduced this fish soup to me and they seems like love it quite a lot as almost every week they will come to this stall. From our work place, we need to walk almost 10-15 mins to the kopitiam. When you reach here, you will sure see a long queue. 

I got myself double fishes soup, the fresh and the fried. I like both fishes, normally some other stall their fresh fish has fishy or sand smell which I dun like. Tai seng does not have this problem so it is just nice for me.

It is one of the good choice for raining day but prepare for the tissues if you have it on a hot and sunny day.

Tai Seng Fish Soup
Block 3024 Ubi Road 3
#01-99 Singapore 408652