Jalan Kayu For Prata's!

This Saturday we found ourselves standing in the sweltering weather at Jalan Kayu.

These bikes must be roasting in the heat!

And here we arrive at Thasevi Food stall. It was already packed to the brim in the AM.

Made opened 24 hour for the convenience of residence, so that they can have a good prata feast whenever they feel like it.

Farid and Fahrul checking out the menu.... and the prices.

The indian rojak selection.

And we decided to dine elsewhere because the price was not right with our pockets. So we wandered down the road in search of a better stall with the better price..

After walking for a bit, we found a place and settle down happily. We were perspiring from the weather and how nice it was when we discover this stall offered shade under the big lush green tent.

We wasted no time and made our orders.

Six of us and we ordered alot of prata's and nann's.

Here's afiq's nann

Fahrul and Farid, they had the banana, mushroom, bomb prata's.

Here's a laugh. Cas asked "What's a bomb prata? When you eat then got BOMB is it?"

Afiq looks interested in Farid prata's, greedy much!

End of prata eating session. Stuffed, satisfied and just wanting to get out of that horrible weather!

Till next time! Au revoir!

Hunting For Food On A Rainy Saturday Morning

Last Saturday, we saw ourselves gathered at Toa Payoh Mrt at 11 am in the morning. It begun to rain just as we started setting out to find a bak kut teh stall at blk 177. After wondering through the maze for perhaps an eternity, we found out that the store had moved.

Lucky for us, Farid had done his research and so we proceeded to look for this famous dry ban mian stall located at (address). Braving through the bad weather we eventually found the stall...

There was a lot of customers and the place was packed. Looking around it was quite obvious what the customers came here for.

A bit of information on what we are having today. Ban Mian or 手工板面 actually means handmade noodles but here hawkers use hand-operated machine in the stall which forms noodles from the dough. The dish is usually served in soup,  with pieces of minced chicken or minced pork, ikan bilis, vegetables, and an egg, and also commonly comes with sliced mushrooms.

Anyhow, we found a place - lucky us - and went to order our food. I couldn't wait to eat. This was not halal so our team members, Afiq, Farid and Fahrul couldn't eat it.

Casandra ordered the Mee hoon kuey tang/soup and me Mee hoon kuey gan/dry.

Here's Casandra having here bowl of noodles!

Here's me, can't wait to dig in, it smelled so nice. When I took my first bite I thought this was really good. And it stayed the same way till the last bite. The noodles weren't too soggy or dried out. The noodles weren't too hard or too soft. Excellent dish and about SG $3. Affordable and tasty.

Here's a picture of the noodles, The dried noodles came with soup too.

Look at the noodles, I am craving for it just looking at the image!


Darius decided to order this plate of Popiah.
Really nice too. The skin wasn't too soggy, ingredients were fresh and the chili sauce packed a real fiery kick.

The interior of a popiah consist's basically of : vegetables, meat and thinly shredded omelet

Yes, here's Darius with his mouth full and eyes closed. Picturing heaven perhaps?

 We were in Toa Payoh, yes the weather had cleared. You can see the wet floors from the rain.

 Next stop on the way to the famous rojak at TPY HDB Hub's basement food court.

Just look at the queue!!!

Here's a picture of Farid queuing up! No wait no food!

While Farid was queuing, we looked to the side of the stall and saw all this articles of celebrities promoting this stall. Awesome stuff.

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WE HAVE ROJAK!

And after less than 5 minutes ...........

Culprit, Farid. Guilty of finishing all the rojak without sharing.

And that was pretty much all the hunting we did last Saturday! 

Stay tuned for more!

letsgomakan singaporebites part 1

Hope you enjoy our interview! 

letsgomakan singaporebites part 2

Our Interview with these friendly folks that came all the way down from Malaysia just to dine at Zam Zam's!

Let's Meet Where You See Loads Of Pigeons

Our first step into this project and we found ourselves lost. It was such a funny story.. and a really hot day!

Here's a photo of us by Darius will we were walking.

And here we are, at our first stall: Zam Zam

When we arrived, we were all really exhausted from the heat and walking so it was perfect when we walked into Zam Zam's because the second floor of this establishment is air-conditioned!

As the sign proudly announces established 1908. It's been in business for 102 years... one century old and still around! Only says how well the people of  Zam Zam's been serving good food for decades!

So we oohed and ahhed at all the signs we saw as we were proceeding to the second level..

That's alot of reviews.

A photograph of two men of the business.

So we went to the second level and proceed to order.

First up, Murtubak.

Lovely big piece. Tastes divinely.

Teh O's up! Farid drinking it up!

NOM! Farid woofing down the food.

Looks like the guy behind Farid wants some!

That was great!

Next we had Nasi Briyani. My personal all time favorite.

Here's a shot of the food, albeit abit blur.

It tasted awesome. Rice was not dry, we ordered the mutton choice instead of the chicken and the mutton.. how do I even describe it? It just melts in your mouth. Yes, its that good. The sauce completes the dish and I died and went to heaven after I vacuumed off every single grain of rice on that plate.

Bickering over something. Here's evidence that I cleaned out that plate of briyani. I love me some briyani! 

Cas writing down the interview questions.

And we managed to interview these sporting customers! They came all the way down from malaysia just to dine here!

Process of interviewing commences.. 

And that's a rap! But before we move on..

Here's Cas with the man behind the scenes!

What a sporting fellow!

Now we travel to lavender, to have chicken rice!

Now this chicken rice stall was featured in the top 10 chicken rice stalls in Singapore and came in at number 8! 

Here's the page..

And there it is!

We arrive at the stall and we see so many chicken heads hanging. As heard from Cas, this is actually done to show people how well is the business of the stall.. And as we can see from here, it's VERY well.

Boneless chicken rice.

We ordered and our food arrives!

Tender chicken.

A picture of the owner slicing the chicken.

Preparing our meal.. 

And here we are enjoying it! Great chicken, the rice was fragrant and the chili sauce was awesome. Sadly it was not halal and so Farid, Afiq and Fahrul were left out. But we all had sugarcane drink though!

Never the less, it was a fruitful day.

Group photo!

And that's the end of all that I have to bring to you! Stay tune for more!