Lim Hai Sheng - Fried Carrot Cake

As part of this year Singapore Food Festival (SFF) 2010 outreach to the blogging community, there is an interesting new event known as "Food In Translation", where local well-known food bloggers are invited to sample and blog about some of these popular Singapore Chinese Dialect dishes that will be featured during the SFF on the 16 - 25 July 2010.

I was so excited and honor to be invited as one of the bloggers to cover this event by "Word Of Mouth Communications Pte Ltd". At this Food In Translation event, we can choose to visit either one or 5 of the mentioned restaurants/eateries in the list. On this event, I took up 3 places to venture on and I will keep you people updated on the fabulous dishes before the Official Opening of the Singapore Food Festival on 16 July 2010.

First Stop on my list is “Lim Hai Sheng Cooked Food - 林海盛熟食” which is located at Block 724, Ang Mo Kio Ave 6. I am sure those who stays around Ang Mo Kio area would have either tried or heard about this stall that is always pack with queues.

Accordingly to the stall owner, Jenny, they have being operating this stall for more than 30 years starting from her father’s generation. And they only focus on selling the "White" Fried Carrot Cake instead of black and white like some other stalls.

The texture of the carrot cake is soft and fragrant with generous amount of beaten egg and salted turnip (cai po - 菜脯) that lift up the overall taste of this simple dish. Accordingly to some of my readers who frequent this stall, they suggested that next round when I pop-by this stall again, I can actually request them to fried the Carrot Cake longer in order to achieve nore crispy outer layer. So if you prefer more crispy texture, you must send in your request while making your order.

For those who are more health conscious, Jenny told me that she actually used vegetable oil to fried the carrot cake instead of follow the traditional method of using “pork lard - 豬油”. And they also have a very special homemade chilli paste to go with the fried carrot cake if you prefer something more spicy too.

I was there around 11:00am on Sunday morning and from the time I arrive till I left at around 12:00pm their queue was very consistent and Jenny has to rush in and out of the stall to cook and at the same time answer some of my interview questions. According to Jenny during weekdays, she is alone to cook, pack and serve the customers all by herself.

Jenny works only on the morning shift from 8:30am till the carrot cake sold out at about roughly 1:00pm or so, if you are interested to try their delicious Teochew Fried Carrot Cake, remember to drop by earlier to avoid disappointment. Or you can visit their stall at the Clarke Quay Food Street on 16 - 25 July 2010 Singapore Food Festive.

Lim Hai Sheng Cooked Food - 林海盛熟食
Block 724, Ang Mo Kio Ave 5
#01-09
Singapore 560151
In-Charge: Jenny Lim

Opearting Hours:
Mon - Fri: 8.30am - 2:00pm, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sat/Sun/PH: 7:00am - 8:00pm


Hai Sheng Carrot Cake - 海盛菜頭粿
(Bedok Branch: Run by Jenny's Husband)
Block 216, Bedok North Street 1
#01-49

Operating Hours:
6:00am - 1:00pm

Flavour Fiesta @ AMK Hub

For those who stay around Ang Mo Kio area or frequent passes-by of AMK Hub via the Bus Interchange I am sure you will have notice this “Flavour Fiesta @ AMK Hub” which starts from 05 July – 18 July 2010 at the basement 1, Exhibition Hall.

This Flavour Fiesta Food Fair enables you to enjoy various dialect delights from the participating stalls and at the same time catch up with some experienced chefs from Society of Chinese Cuisine Chefs (Singapore) in action. These chefs will also demonstrate various dialect cuisine right in front of your sight and you are also given a chance to try the end products before trying them out at home with the recipes.

Yesterday, I was happened to be around that area to another Food Festival event and I am glad to be able to catch up some cooking tips with Chef James Aw Ah Lee (Executive Chef, National University of Singapore Society) who is whipping up these delicious Cantonese Cuisines. The two dishes that Chef James shared were "Tenderloin Beef Cubes with Black Pepper Sauce" and "Crispy Stuffed Chempulak with Scallop". I will be trying out the above dishes thought the given recipe soon and will share it on my recipe blog too. So stay till for it if you are interested to know more....

Event Highlands For Singapore Food Festival 2010

A 10 days Singapore Food Festival (SFF) 2010 kick off from 16 - 25 July 2010 at the Clarke Quay Food Street - 美食街 at Read Bridge, will bring the entire length of the bridge to be transformed into a food haven offering sumptuous Chinese delicacies from more than 30 food stalls from various famous restaurants.

The Singapore Food Festival 2010 core events includes:-

1. Singapore Chinese Dialect Tingkat Cruise where the public is able to learn about the various Singapore Dialect food culture and their heritage while relaxing on bum boat ride along Singapore River. Every participant will also gets a tingkat (tiffin carrier) with some Singapore Chinese dialect food to partake during the 45 minutes ride. Booking and Detail HERE.

2. Singapore Chinese Dialect Street Snacks where you can take a walk down memory lane on the re-create old Singapore Rive bustling with activity.

3. Singapore Chinese Dialect Heritage Feast where you can prepare your taste buds for a gastronomic adventure as there are five buffet lines full of sumptuous delights from five different Singapore Chinese Dialect groups.

4. Makansutra SFF Culinary Master Classes give you an insight into the culinary culture and at the same time discover interesting cooking tips from choosing the right ingredients to whip up a delectable Singapore Dialect dish. Booking and Details HERE.

5. Singapore River Market is in conjunction to the SFF with savvy shoppers and a large contingent of food enthusiasts to jazz up the event. Kids may treat themselves to exciting weekend of face painting, balloon sculpturing and street jugglers.

Other than all the fabulous events and great feast mentioned above. For the very first time, Singapore Food Festival (SFF) goes digital with a fun Cooking Game known as "Grandma's Kitchen - 奶奶的家常菜", to educate food lovers to choose and whip up their own Chinese dialect dishes, such as "Bak Kut Teh or Hokkien Mee.

Through the process, they will learn the use of different ingredients and at the end of the game, player will receive the full recipe of the chosen dish.

Upon completion of the entire game, the player will unlock a secret "diary of recipes" where they can obtain the full recipes to cook the dishes for real. You can either play this exciting game on the official website HERE, or download it as an iPhone Application and play during your leisure of travailing time.

Note:
~ Before you can proceed with the game, you might need to install the "Unity Web Player" for the game site.
~ You also stand a chance to participate in the SFF Lucky Draw to win fantastic prizes when you completed all the dishes in the game.


This is an unique recipe post card book with collectible stamps when you spend a minimum of S$50.00 for Standard Chartered Card members and S$80.00 when you pay with other modes.

This recipe post card books consists of 12 different recipes from the 5 Chinese Dialect groups featuring some of the mouth watering dishes such as:- Teochew Fried Carrot Cake, Fried Hokkien Noodles, Hainanese Fried Sesame Ball and etc.

You will be able to find 3 Singapore Stamps featuring some local cuisines at the last page of the recipe book. To redeem this recipe book, you can go to Singapore Visitor Center @ Orchard Road, Singapore Visitor Centre @ Arrival halls of Terminal 1, 2 & 3 and SFF Food Street @ Clarke Quay.

There are still many interesting events such as:- Singapore's Largest Kueh Lapis, Cooking Class at Singapore Zoo, SFF Events @ Hawker Centres and etc. For more information of these fabulous events of this year Singapore Food Festival 2010, do visit their official website at: www.singaporefoodfestival.com to find out more.