Dish #9 - Fried mee tai bak

Ah yes, I finally revived this blog. This is harder than I thought. Looks like 52 dishes is not possible this year eh? I barely have 10 and it's mid year already! :(

Anyway, whipped this up about 2 weeks ago I think.. pretty similar to most of the stuff I did before.

Think I'm finally getting the hang of frying stuff. Now.. I wanna try a little bit of Italian soon. Hopefully.

Nandos! Very peri-peri

Ok I know, I SUCK. Sorry I haven't been updating much. Goes to show what's happening to my new year's res.. but hey, how many of you have already broke urs? :P

Anyhow, Nandos recently opened its first outlet in Singapore. I had no idea what the big hype was all about, cos everyone seemed excited that there's finally gonna be one here. So the 7ners + 1 + other halves went there for Nad's bday dinner.

We were all hungry when we met up, and since Nandos didn't take reservations, the only way we could get in was to queue like everyone else. The queue was disheartening. Then again we didn't have much choice cos we didn't make reservations anywhere else and it was a Friday night. We finally got in after an hour and a half of queuing!! Starvation.

Well, the staff were pretty friendly despite grouchy customers and I must say, the food didn't disappoint me at all. The sauce was, as they say, 'very peri-peri'! I had the 1/4 chicken with 2 sides, and I chose the 2nd spiciest sauce, but being the chilli queen it still wasn't enough for me. I added the spiciest sauce and it was good! The kind of spiciness that doesn't burn your tongue and kill your senses, but yet gives you the kick you seek. The kind you feel a bit dizzy after eating.. haha. I loved it!

So if you're willing to queue, then please go try Nandos! Else, maybe you could wait till the excitement dies down or smth. :)

My recipe book~!

 

Somehow people keep giving me notebooks over the years.. this is courtesy of Grace 2 Christmases ago!~ :D

Dish #8 - Fried Rice version 1.0

Mum gave me the free reigns today. So I really made this without any assistance. :D

 

I'll definitely add more ingredients next time. I was actually quite worried that it might not turn out right, as with the po piah incident the last time round... I think I did what all beginner cooks do - the jump-out-of-the-splattering-oil's-way dance... hhaha. But hey, it turned out alright! Mum gave a 7 out of 10. Good enough for me!

My sunny side ups however, were a total disaster. :( I can never seem to flip them properly! boo hoo.

Charly T's

Ok I meant to do this but I kept forgetting.. I need to start doing more reviews on the places I've dined at so that I can keep track of where I've been! I mean, don't you find it a problem thinking of where to go everytime? I do.

So the 7ners celebrated my birthday 2 weeks ago at Charly T's. It's a really nice place... although the aircon wasn't really well that day haha. The staff were really nice though! You can actually request which part of the chicken you want. At first our mac and cheese didn't have enough cheese, so during the meal when the waitress came to check on us and we feedback to her, she took our mac and cheeses back to add more cheese! :D Soff was pretty miffed cos she had already finished hers by then.. HAHAHA...

Basically the place is pretty much like Kenny Rogers.. sans the corn muffin. I had the quarter chicken!

 

Pardon the lousy photography, it was taken with my phone cam which tends to overexpose a lot. Sigh.

Anyway, I think the special thing about this place was that they had many different sauces to go with the chicken. Since most of us (or was it all of us?) ordered the chicken, we could all sample one another's sauces.. haha! I think the BBQ sauce was pretty good.. there was another sauce that was good too, but I 4got what it was! :( This is what happens when you don't do a review immediately. Oh well.

Overall,

Food: 3.5/5

Ambience: 3.5/5

Service: 4/5

Charly T's is at the building next to The Cathay ( I think it's Mount Sophia?). If you walk from the back entrance of Plaza Sing to the Cathay you'll pass it.

And I promise to do my food reviews immediately next time.

Dish #7 - Chicken rice... but not made yet.

And... I'm 4 dishes behind now. ARGH!!!

I observed Mummy cooking chicken rice today.. I didn't participate cos I thought it looked difficult.. turns out the only difficult part is deboning and decapitating the chicken! :P Will try it out next time though.. still have yet to master peeling ginger properly.. sigh.

On another note, I think I'll organize a dinner party for my jie meis soon to try out my dishes.. heh.

Dish #6 - Sambal Kang kong

Sorry for the lack of updates. I know, I'm waaaaayyyy behind schedule! This is what happens to new year's resolution eh? You keep it for the first few weeks and then subsequently life catches up with you (excuses!) and then you forget about it. Actually, I was busy the past few weeks because of CNY and my grandma, so my mum was busy too and hardly had time to teach me. =/

Well, I'll work hard to catch up! I'm three dishes behind, but I'll try and catch up.. next week's term break, so I'll do my best! I've finished one module too, so I only need to go to school for 2 days, which means more time to myself. Looks like my dream of a 5-day weekend and a 2-day week has come true! :P

I digress.

Today's dish is pretty simple. It's the Sambal Kang Kong, my all-time absolute vegetable dish. I've always like leafy veggies, and kang kong's one of the best! Not to mention the spice.. love love..

I've actually tried this dish quite sometime ago before I started this blog, so this is actually my second attempt.

Hee~! :D

Mum actually wanted to teach me a fish and a soup dish, but she prepped all the ingredients waaaayyy before, so I didn't have the chance to go through the whole process, so I guess that'll be some other time. :)

On another note, my sch lappy crashed on me earlier this week, but the guy managed to fix it for me.. and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because he fixed my bluetooth too! That means I can upload pics from my hp more easily.. yay!