YY Ka Fei Dian, Beach Road

I think this place was called YY Ka Fei Dian. That's what it said on the signboard. They were one of the Hainanese chicken rice coffeeshops ($3.50 a plate here) in the locale; located at the junction where Purvis Street meets Beach Road which makes it a minute's walk away from Yet Con and Chin Chin Eating House. There was one thing that differentiated them from other chicken rice stalls in the vicinity. I was also told that they sold good donuts. I've seen people buy them by the bag loads so it might be true. Strange pairings indeed.

I've lunched here on a few occasions. Even though this coffee shop serves cze char, I've never gotten interested enough to try them. The chicken rice here was pretty decent. The chilli and the dark soy sauce helped with the rice. The condiments weren't too bad.



The colour of the rice was a little more yellowed than usual. It tasted a bit more heavy too. At $3.50 a plate, it was also a little costlier than the usual ranges between $2.50 to $3.00 in the most coffee shops. Then again, one gets non flattened chicken meat and the portions were anything but stingy.


There's Hainanese pork chop to be had here but it was sadly mediocre. Would recommend to avoid. Unless overly greasy over fried breaded pork is your kind of thing. $6 felt a little expensive for the portions. No? I was thinking that since this was a Hainanese coffeeshop, the pork chops might have been something that were good at. That was just not true. If you're looking for Hainanese chicken rice and pork chop together in the vicinity, stick to Chin Chin. Nicer pork chops there.

Lunch @ Paulaners

Paulaners Bräuhaus at Millenia Walk has lunch at $18++ that comes with a appetizer, a main course and a drink. At an optional top up of another $8, you get 2 mugs of 0.3l of their beer instead of the regular soft drink. A good deal since it costs about $11 normally. Since it was close to where I work, I'll came by to try the lunch.- which by the way is a different thing from their other speedy lunch that is being offered down at the bar. I had the option with the beer.

Avoiding the boring salads, I picked the Bavarian Cheese Soup with sliced Bratwurst and fresh majoram.


Nothing special from what I expected out of something that was called cheese soup. It was more like onion soup with melted shreds of cheese. Would've done better with more of the cheese since it was suppose to be a cheese soup? Portions of the bratwurst were pathetic as well. Why wasn't bread served with this? Are you guys from Paulaners reading this?


That's the grilled Gammon ham steak with onion sauce and cheese spätzle. Spatzle kinda like mac and cheese. Sadly, none of the cheese was browned. Ham steak wasn't bad but the onion sauce was really bland.

Awesome maw-some at myyyy.....McDonalds!

Nope, this is not the Big Mac indeed! This is ze quadruple cheese burger, special order without pickles and ketchup that ruins (IMO) the beefy cheesy flavour which cheeseburgers should just taste of. And no, it's not on the menu. One can simply order 2 double cheese burgers and request for all the meat to be in one bread and there you go, $4 worth of gut satisfaction that'll put a smile on your face ten mile wide.

Out of the Fox River into the Gap

After a meticulously planned breakout of Lincoln Burrows and himself from Fox River Penitentiary and eluding authorities on a nationwide manhunt, Michael Scofield ends up modeling for Gap. Lol. I took this at Vivocity.

The fried rice from Pasta Mania

I got this packed for lunch just out of curiosity. I'm not picking on a low cost pasta place and  then complaining excessively because I prefer the original dish, but this was definitely fried rice. I don't know how I could have been convinced that it wasn't, unless in the context of Pasta Mania, Riso = fried rice. The name attempts to suggest risotto, but this doesn't look or taste remotely like it. For fried rice, it's actually not too bad. Lol. There's a fair bit of mixed mushrooms and wow, even pine nuts. And the rice tasted garlicky enough. If it had been a tad less oily with fluffier rice, Crystal Jade should watch out.

More from Brussels Sprouts...

I have been down dinnering and drinking at this place for a couple of consecutive evenings. I know I mentioned repeated visits previously. But these were totally unplanned and I'm digging this place more than I expected. I swear it's the excellent selection of Belgian beer, Hoegaarden and Leffe Blond on tap and it gives me the excuse to try their other mains and mussels. Not the waitresses. For one, this is probably one of the drinking places that does at least passable food instead of the regular overpriced and overfried pub grub or what is passed off as drinking snacks.

Vin Blanc ( onion, parsley, celery, butter & white wine)

Cream (onion, parsley, celery, cream & white wine)

Gratinee (gratinated with breadcrumbs, butter, nutmeg & cheese)

The mussels pretty much taste the same since it doesn't really absorb the broth in the pot. You need to be scooping up the broth to eat with the mussels to really appreciate any differences. I end up drinking it after I'm done with the mussels mostly. With the exception of the Gratinee, I think it would be true for most of the broth varieties. And I'm getting the hang out of scraping out the nice chewy flesh that glues the rest of the meat to the shells. Cheese lovers ought to try the Gratinee....it's cheesy enough and with the butter, it's really quite mouth watering.

Braised Meatballs with dark beer, onions and mustard

These meatballs are larger than the usual variety expected and are more lumpy than ball like. Meat's hearty as minced ones get, but there's really nothing much to the sauce. The menu omits the mentioning of mushrooms there.

Braised beef cheek infused in Belgian beer with Pommes croquettes

un-crepe like crepe stuffed with wild mushrooms, ham and cheese

Leffe Blond

the Grand Cru

The Forbidden Fruit