Singapore Food Festival 2013

The Singapore Food Festival Village started on 12 July and will end today. It is very near my workplace near Marina Bay Sands, so my colleague DC and I checked it out last Friday. At first, we hesitated to go because we did not have a NETS FlashPay card but we discovered that they do sell it at the village. And the good thing is you can use the card in future and may get rebates for food purchases!

Was good to go  at lunch time on a weekday - smaller crowds, shorter queues :) Thought I will quickly post the pictures taken so that if you chance upon this post, you still have the next 10 hours to visit the village for your Singapore Favorite Food :)

 

 

  

What is your Singapore Favorite Food? :)

Popiah ~ Chinese wrap? :)

Come weekends, I try to stay home at least one day (usually Sundays) - to either 'work' personal stuff or just do nothing or anything I feel like doing :) After 5 days at the real work, it feels really good to have time for yourself and recharge!

And one of the weekends, we had home-cooked popiah! :)



Ingredients that go into the popiah... the good thing about home-cooked popiah is you can choose the ingredients you like :)

In the making. I love the peanut :)

Ready-to-eat popiah :)

And here's a video of my brother making the popiah - not really the way Singapore hawkers do it. But well, that's home-cooked style, right? :)

And I grabbed some videos from you-tube on how popiahs are wrapped, in case you are wondering :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZgI4UsHTvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZaEXyhPi5M

Now I'm reminded that I have blogged about what I tried to cook at home - check them out! :P
-Make your own Japanese Curry
-Baby potatoes with herbs and a Merry Christmas!
-Topokki Rice Cakes

Happy Sunday, everyone! Guess I'm just going to do nothing today - maybe blog. Haha.

Osaka Ohsho @ Raffles City 大阪王将

Last last Saturday was really eventful. I had a free facial trial with Body Contours at Hill Street at 1pm but I forgot to bring my identifications. They refused to give me a trial although I had my credit cards with me :( Anyway, was happy to be at the Hill Street again - it has changed a lot over time. I spot a cafe SOHO which I am looking forward to visiting soon :)

I decided to utilise my massage package at My Happy Feet near Bras Basah. Lucky for me, there was a slot available at 2.30pm. Since there was time, I decided to window shop at Raffles City. And viola! I spotted the Browhaus mobile shop where I finally had my long overdue brow threading at a promotional price of $8 - great bargain :)

Was hungry after the massage as I had an early lunch. Did not have the opportunity to try the fried rolls when I was Nam Nam Noodles Bar at Raffles City a few weeks back, so I decided to go for it (and the nice ice coffee again). But it was closed for dinner preparations till 5pm!

So I decided to try the gyoza at Osaka Ohsho a few restaurants away. Read good reviews about it and it did not disappoint. For the price I paid (about $6 for half a dozen of gyoza and ice tea), it was great!




Took a while to serve the gyoza - piping hot and delicious! :)

 

And juicy!



Tried it with vinegar and chili oil which elevated the tastiness of the gyoza...

Last one left. Should have ordered a dozen - so yummy I want more! :)

Go try, everyone! There are many other Japanese-Chinese dishes that look nice on the menu - will check them out soon :)

My top post is about Tomoya, another Japanese restaurant. Click here if you want to find out more about the udon they serve...