Posts Tagged restaurants
Reward thyself
Posted by mella in Eating Out on November 7, 2008
Yesterday i had no breakfast, no lunch. Work was toxic as usual. I was so tired and hungry. I knew right then and there that I MUST and I WILL have to reward myself with a sumptuous DINNER no matter what happen. I was already starving at 4pm but I resisted eating small snacks because it would ruin my appetite (bad, i know). And because I didn’t want to eat dinner alone I waited for Leng until 7:30 pm.
To save money without sacrificing our love for food, we have this unwritten rule to “not to eat in an expensive restaurant twice in a week. When I say expensive, i mean the is bill more than 10sgd. So most of the time you can find us in eating in KOPITIAM or Food Hawkers. But last night eventhough we’ve already had our expensive dinner last Wednesday, I was able to convinced Leng to eat again in Hot Tomato Express. How? I just told him that I would foot the bill.
Hot Tomato Express, is a small American Italian restaurant in Plaza Singapura. It’s also one of our favorite place to eat aside from Hongkon Cafe. I have not tasted all their specials but so far i liked everything I had-American Beef Stew, Spring Chicken and my new favorite Sirloin Steak which was what I had last night (with rice of course!).
Yummy Steak
Roasted Chicken, I kid you not it’s only 7.50 Sgd
Our dessert. my reward
I can’t live without RICE! and bow…
Toast Box
Posted by mella in Eating Out on September 21, 2008
If Starbucks is THE coffee shop in America, then I would say Toast Box is THE coffe shop here in Singapore (setting aside TCC that is). Whenever I’m on the A.M. shift, my breakfast composes of either orange marmalade toast, kaya toast or peanut butter toast with Teh and sometimes Kopi from toast box. It makes my morning lightly full and goddamn awake! The kick of their teh and kopi i must say comes with a punch. So if you need a major caffeine intake in the morning, go to toast box. Everything is relatively cheap compared to TCC and STB.
If you’re planning to go there, below definition of drinks (applies to all coffee shops here in SG) might come in handy (Singaporeans, pls feel free to correct me if im wrong):
kopi – dark coffee with condensed milk and sugar
teh – tea with condensed milk and sugar (cold/hot)
teh c – tea with evaporated milk and sugar (cold/hot)
teh o – just tea with no nothing
kopi o – just dark coffee with no nothing
Where i learned all these? From local colleagues of course. Meanwhile here’s a picture of their huge mountain of butter!
There are some terms that you need to used if you want your teh and kopi to have more or less sugar or less water but they are all in Mandarin so my reliable memory can’t remember them anymore. Can anyone help?