No Signboard @ Vivo City

No Signboard! Finally we have scheduled our visit to “No Signboard Restaurant” at Vivo City after some brainstorming ideas on where to go for our usually weekend gathering. Since most of the members in our family group loves to eat “Chilli Crab” we decided to choose this restaurant due to their good feedback on their White Pepper Crab and Chilli Crab dish.

According to those who frequent this restaurant, reservation booking is always recommended to avoid the crowds or waiting time. As we are pretty late for lunch after church service around 2pm, they are barely any large crowds in it. Upon stepping into the Vivo City branch, we are captured by it beautiful interior design with crystals lighting, full-length windows, paintings, dragon statues coiling the pillars and etc. And you can also notice from the photo, even their restaurant name “无招牌” is uniquely engraved on the chopstick as well.

In total we ordered about 6 dishes, the first to be served is this "Steamed Japanese Beancurd with Diced Seafood". Each beancurd is stuffed with fresh seafood like prawn, squid, fish and some mushroom. It is served together on top of the steam egg custard with some green vegetables. The texture of the egg is so smooth and silky that makes it goes very well with the seafood beancurd.

Garlic Steam Bamboo Clam served shortly after the above seafood beancurd. Personally I don't really like this dish as I find that the amount of garlic used is too much and it actually mask the taste of the Bamboo Clam itself.

Other than the usual “Oatmeal Prawns” we decided to try out their “Deep-fried Butter Prawns” instead of “Deep-fried Butter Crayfish”. The prawns served are relatively big and most important they are fresh to taste. Each bite of it is so firm and crunchy…… and the butter crumps make it so fragrant and tasty to go with the prawns.

Yes! This is "Yee Fu Noodles" which is one of our favourite noodle dish that we usually order during any eat out. The Yee Fu Noodles here are fried with chives and buttom straw mushroom.

These are the two crab dishes that we have which is the "White Pepper Crab", the flesh of the white pepper crab was succulent, firm and well-infused with their special concocted white pepper powder seasoning and spring onion which makes it finger licking good. This dish will taste rather a bit spicy for those who can't take spicy food.

The Chilli Crab was fantastic at least it didn’t have the distinct tomato ketchup taste and it is served with the fried mantou. The fresh Sri Lanka crab is cooked in their signature robust chilli sauce flavour with prawn paste, garlic and other ingredients. Everyone loves to dip the deep-fried mantou with the egg sauce which make the taste even better. Since I am not really a crab love and it find it too time consuming eating each parts of it, I rather go for a few deep-fried mantou in the egg gravy.

No Signboard Seafood Restaurant
#03-02, 1 HarbourFront Centre Walk
Vivo City
Singapore 098585
Tel: 6376 9959
Website: http://www.nosignboardseafood.com/

Sakae @ Wheelock Place

This is our 1st time dining at Wheelock Place Sakae Branch that is located at a corner of level 2. The setup of the place look bright with some full-length windows facing the road that shows certain view of the ION building across the road. The last round when we dine at Wheelock Place was during last year December where we went over to eat pasta at "The Pasta Shop" by Sakae too.

As we are planning to have some small meals in between our shopping trip around Orchard area we decided to grab a few colour plates on their sushi belt. I am not sure what is the name of this sushi, but it seems like some diced shittake mushroom with sauce and topped with spring onion. Taste rather refreshing if you love mushroom.

Recently it seems that Sakae has replaced their usually "Red" pickled ginger to this normal "yellowish" type. Em... wonder what is the reason behind it :)

Soft Shell Crab Roll is the second item of our list which we find it rather normal.

This new Ebi and Salmon Mango Roll is one of my top choice because it consists 3 of my favourite ingredients into 1 dish. Imagine when you put into your mouth, the combination of the crispy fried ebi wrapped with rice and topped with salmon and mango. Em.... the sweetness and mango fragrant….really makes you crave for more.

Mum prefers this Prawn & Avocado slice because she doesn’t really fancy raw salmon as I do most. Overall we find the sushi served at this outlet is very fresh due to its colour and taste but on the other hand, we think they should really improved their customer services as it is quite disorganized when they took more than 10 minutes to serve the drinks and forget the items that I requested for at least thrice.

Sakae Sushi @ Wheelock Place
Orchard MRT Station
501 Orchard Road
#02-18 Singapore 238880
Telephone: 6737 6281

Opening Hours:
11:30am - 10:00pm (Mon - Thu & PHs)
11:30am - 10:30pm (Fri - Sat & PH Eve)

SKY Dining @ Singapore Flyer

I am sure most of you have heard about Singapore Flyer or even being on board at least once ever since it opened to public on 1st March 2008. Towering at 165 metres tall, Singapore Flyer is the world’s largest Giant Observation Wheel with unique day-to-night panorama of Singapore city and parts of Malaysia and Indonesia at every turn of the wheel.

On Wednesday evening, I was honor to be selected as one of the 5 winners from the OpenRice Singapore TweetUp contest at their facebook and twitter list on #ORTU. From their facebook page(here), you can participate in their weekly contest to be one of the winners to join the team to an exclusive meal with other fellow foodie in Singapore.

While waiting to board the flyer, Fulvia, the host from Singapore Flyer brought us up to the VIP Lounge via the private access lift to a plush atmosphere whereby there is a mini bar and house pour beverages.

We were in the fully setup private dining capsule at around 7.30pm and everyone of us are very excited to begin our dining journey on the Singapore Flyer with the OpenRice Singapore, Editorial team where they actually doing this event Live at the Ustream TV (click HERE).

After seated, we were being served a glass of “Fresh Summer Berries In Ginger Ale” as our Welcome Drink. I love this beverage, which taste light and refreshing which goes well with the starter.

For starter, “Marinated Tuna Seaweed Furuke” will be served. The Ahi tuna in Japanese spices was laced with kumquat pommery dressing and accompanied with olive honey tomato and daikon cress. The honey tomato and daikon cress was very appealing for both sight and taste. Overall, this is a great starter, which is also served together with some baguettes of two different toppings.

After the 1st round of rotation which is about 30 minutes, the capsule will stop at the starting point for the In-flight attendant to prepare serving the main course and getting ready for the 2nd rotation. While waiting for the main course to get ready, most of the participates are eagerly taking the opportunity to snap some photo shots of the food and etc.

The complimentary wine that is served during the meal is known as “Misha's Vineyard - High Note” from The Local Nose Wine company.(click HERE).

Sarah from “The Local Nose” was sharing with us some of the knowledge on select different kinds of wine to go with each type of main course. She also shared with the some notes of the Wine from Misha’s Vineyard.

There are 3 different type of Main Course available for the guest to select from either salmon, chicken or lamb. And my choice of for the Main Course is “Arctic Char Salmon Escalopes”. It consists of two pieces of salmon steak stacked on top of the mashed potatoes patty, asparagus and etc. Beside it, there is a shooter glass with some ginger soya gravy to accompany the dish. Overall the dish taste quite good except I find that the salmon seems to be a bit too try if you don’t dipped it in the ginger soya gravy.

According to the Singapore Flyer Host, Fulvia, not any single one of us has ordered for their “Slow Cooked Spring Chicken Coq Au Vin”. And to our surprised, we have the same number of person choosing Salmon and Lamb dish that makes it a perfect 10.

“Stewed Lamb Shank Vindaloo” is simmered with scented Asian spices and served with chef accompaniment. Although it might look spicy due to its presentation but during the meal, those who had this dish don’t seems to have any complaint over it.

An hour or so after the two rotations, every one of us has enjoyed the wonderful night with great food and wine and after which we proceed to the VIP Lounge for our after meal dessert as well as coffee/tea.

The dessert for June/July menu is “Sticky Toffee Pudding” that is with dual sauce such as caramel and crème anglaise. For a dessert lover and baker like me, this is indeed a wonderful treat which is just well balance in taste which is neither too sweet nor too blend. I am sure having this with a cup of coffee/tea together with some great friends is indeed something memorable.

Thank you OpenRice Singapore for organizing this wonderful event, Singapore Flyer for their great food and excellent services as well The Local Nose for their complimentary of “Misha’s Vineyard - High Note” wine tasting. For information of the Singapore Flyer Full Butler Sky Dining can be found HERE.




P/s: More photos @ Cuisine Paradise Facebook Fan Page (Here)

SuperSunday @ SuperNature

Yeah! It's Sunday again. Although the weather was kind of gloomy in the morning with little bit of drizzling now and then, it still did not put off our enthusiasm to today’s SuperSunday event that we have being looking forward too.

We arrived at the venue around 10.40am after our usual Sunday service, and was surprised to be greeted with a cute “walking carrot” that is so adorable, and as well as irresistible by most of the kids at the event.

I was there just in time to caught sight of how the chefs from One-Ninety's restaurant of Four Seasons Hotel serving their “Organic Roast Lamb” which is one of the item available at their Sunday Champagne Brunch.

This Rhug Estate's award-winning lamb comes from a 1,050-hectare organic farm in Wales that marries careful husbandry practices with animal welfare, to ensure delicious, healthy and safe meat. The roast lamb was marinated overnight with fresh rosemary herbs, olive oil, garlic and etc. It was roasted for 4 hours in 65°C of heat to keep the fat well distributed within the lamb and to ensure a tender, juicy roast.

The chefs filled each of the freshly baked pitta bread with some slices of roasted lamb meat, salad green, tomato and sauce that make it into a great snack and finger food. One thing that I would like to mention is, this roast lamb dish has indeed being very well prepared that even my mum whose dislike lamb meat due to it’s strong odor can’t even tell that she is eat lamb meat until I reveal the truth to her. So for those who don’t take lamb meat due to its strong odor, I can assure you this roast lamb is fantastic. If you are interested in roasting some perhaps you can try out the recipe HERE by courtesy of One-Ninety.

Other than enjoying the “Organic Roast Lamb, there is also another counter whereby you can sample some organic juices from the fresh fruits & vegetables available in store. Out of the 4 types of juices available, I have tried their “Super Antiox” which is a mixture of Apple, Carrot, Beetroots and Ginger. This is the 1st time I have tired adding “ginger” in fruit juice and I must admit it taste really wonderful, and with each proportion of the items being well mixed together the overall taste is not over power by the strong fragrance/taste from the ginger.

Another juice that I have tried their “Kale & Apple”, when I heard the word “kale” I was kind of like errrrrr…… but when I take a sip, I knew I was wrong about my conception. Surprisingly, the fragrance and sweetness of the apple in it has totally covered the vegetable taste and I am sure this will be a great juice for kids who dislike vegetables.

At the same counter where we get to sample the fruit juices, they also give out free milk to visitor whereby you can get a FREE pack of 1 litre pack Clover Organic Fresh Milk while stock last. In store, they also sell a few Clover products such as Organic Cream, Cottage Cheese and Yoghurt, which you might like to check them out too.

These are some of the Organic vegetable from Australia and Taiwan. Mum was surprised to find her favourite “White Bitter Gourd” that is imported from Taiwan. She has loved this “White Bitter Gourd” juice a lot during our recent trip to Taiwan and now she has found it here which cost about S$6.00 for 300g size. And from the photo, you can also notice that the Organic Fresh Lily Bulbs are different from the China type which is available in our local supermarket.

There are a lot of fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs available for your pick and if you are lucky, you can also find some interested items that you might not find in the local supermarket too. As you can see, the organic rosemary shown in the above photo at the bottom right corner rather different from the common one that we have in the local supermarket as well.

By the look of it, do you know what is this? I was kind of puzzle when I first look at it because it seems to be like “Burdock - 牛蒡” that is commonly found in supermarket or wet market. But the colour and outer texture seems rather different. So after some clarification from the store assistance, they confirmed that these are organic Burdock from Taiwan. Burdock has been used for centuries as a blood purifier clearing the bloodstream of some toxins as well as helping the body to get rid of excess water by increasing urine output. It is also a topical remedy for skin problems such as acne, eczema, rosacea and psoriasis.

Chocolate! I believed most of us love to have a piece or two of this to cheer up our day. No matter which type of chocolate that ranges from Dark to Milk to Nuts I am sure there is one that captures your taste buds. At the SuperSunday event, I saw this very attractive Organic Dark 70% praline filled mini chocolate eggs from Green & Black that reminds me of the past Easter Sunday treat. And apart from the mini eggs there are also a lot of different varieties of chocolate bars and snacks that are available in the store too.

Thanks Patricia from Club21 for the goodies bag that consists of a bag of Organic Red Apple and a pack of Clover Fresh Milk. Do give their fresh fruit a try, you will find that it really taste different from the normal one that we get from the supermarket. It is definitely much more sweeter and tastier.

Furthermore during the event, customers are able to pick up some discount items such as Potatoes for S$2.00/kg pack or a bag of 10 Apples for S$5.00 which usual price is at S$16.00 a pack. So do stay till for the next Super Sunday event on 25 July 2010 for more discount items available.

SuperNature
21 Orchard Boulevard
#01-21/23 & 27 Park House
Singapore 248645
Tel:(65)6304 1338
Fax:(65)6735 0366
Email: sales@supernature.com.sg
Website: www.supernature.com.sg