cebu-queen of the south

just got back from cebu philippines. 

 

an amazing trip, with great food, and even greater company. it was more of an eating/chillax/casino-visiting trip. but all the eating has given me a severe sore throat. i mean ice cream everyday-sometimes even twice a day, grilled bbq food, brownies 3 times in 5 days, deepfried food everyday, yes that does things to you. and by that, i don't mean just a sore throat. hopefully i'll be healthy enough to workout tomorrow. i need a good workout. after an entire week of slack.

crossfit is back

we destroyed todays workout. 

10 bear complex

20 pushups

30 burpees

40 rows

50 deadlifts

60 pushups

70 box jumpes

80 kb swings

90 squat jumps

100 double unders

 it'was a very good workout. its been quite some time since i last crossfit. i can feel that the aches will come tomorrow. off i am to pack.

fit-so

it has been said that 7 minutes of exercise a day is what it takes to make everyone happy-go-lucky and a little less stressed. 

so remember, just 7 minutes a day. do a short hiit circuit. or some bodyweight workouts. here's one you can try for one of the days.

45 seconds of squat jumps
45 seconds burpees
45 seconds of skaters
45 seconds mountain climbers.

3 rounds, 30 seconds rest in btw each round. 

=]
 

gold chilli @ ss15

 gold chilli yo. one of my fav places to dine. 

gold chilli is famous for their butter chicken. the other must order is the mongolian chicken. thing is, this is one sinful meal. the angster would not approve. he is into the more refine kind of food. this is too crude for him. so i just, go with other people. so it was the 3 of us. and i might have over-ordered, as usual lah, i always over-order damn. 

not a fan of white rice, i ordered a plate of sambal fried rice for myself. the other 2 had a plate of white rice each. the sambal fried rice was downright yumzers. the portion was huge. for 6 bucks, it was super worth wad u were paying for. sambal had its kick, sufficiently spicy and the fishcakes and meat proportion was not overly disproportionate. the portion, i have to emphasize, was huge. it was doouble the amount of a plate pf white rice. sufficient to share for 2 must say. 

we ordered a plate of kangkung, and also a plate of mongolian sotong in addition to the butter chicken. mongolian style is the other style gold chilli is quite known for. its the other style considered the 2nd most ordered after butter style. we chose chicken breast boneless for our butter style, and, sotong for mongolian style. 

it is really really good. but really really sinful at the same time. the sauce is really rich. you really feel like they use a whole block of butter and a whole packet of buttermilk. thats y people order white rice. to mix the sauce with the rice, to finish up the sauce. to soak up the sauce.

i'm going to phillipines in a few days for my next food-venture. i already have my research done and a whole long list of foods to eat. i'm going to come back a few pounds heavier but for the fact i intentionally chose a hotel with a gym and a pool. morning exercise is going to be a norm for me over there. sometimes, i think im healthier when i travel. i tend to make sure i have my daily dose of exercise, to allow me to eat more whilst abroad. stay tuned guys. there's going to be brownie cups-the best brownies in town apparently. 

gold chilli
no 7, jalan ss17/8b
47500 subang jaya
selangor
closed on sundays.

artisan roast @ bangsar village

so my cheesecake quest so far, has had its ups and downs. thsi was definitely an up. so far, the best cheesecake i've had. loved the soft texture, the crumbly digestive base. i thought it was amazing. the dark chocolate cake however, not so. it was too dry for me. 

this nw tops my best cheesecake list. 

really short post. because there are really no words to describe the greatness of this cheesecake. 

i kid u not.

artisan roast / link
ug bangsar village 2, 
2 jalan telawi 1
bangsar baru
59100 kl

sciccors cut rice @ jalan besar singapore

so, after ramen, after dessert, we were still very gungho. well to be fair, yen didn't have dinner nor dessert. i was the only one who whacked my ramen, and still went for dessert, and still decided we should all go fr supper. bobo fared well too. she almost finished her ramen. she had dessert. and she was up for supper. hehe. she really made a good foodie partner. 

anyways, we tried out this place, which is called sciccors cut rice. basically eveything was cut using sciccors, hence the name. we ordered chicken wings, curried, some pork stew, some deepfried pork cutlet, stew cabbage, and a plate of rice drencehd in curry sauce mixed with lobak sauce. the mixture of sauces made the rice sticky. apparently its a hainanese dish but i was like i'm hainanese and my grandmother hasn't cooked that before. haha. 

anyways, this supper, was so worth it. my favourite out of the bunch was the stewed cabbage. the sauce which was the same as on the rice, just blended with the cabbage so well. just for the plate of cabbage, i'd come back. so sinful, yet so good. b was saying that she wanted to gym the next day, but she ended up waking up at 11. she even missed our brunch the next day haha. 

maybe next time, not fur supper, but lunch or dinner instead. i'm not young anymore. can't be having suppers like this for much longer with my slowing metabolism rate.

anyways, meet b. on the left. my food buddy. and my best friend. i'd like to thank her for bringing me out on so many foood ventures in singapore. i enjoyed everything thoroughly.

sciccors cut rice

229 jalan besar

singapore 208905

tel: 62923593

opening times: 11am-330pm 

wild honey @ scotts square singapore

having read of this place from ladyironchef, we picked this as our brunch place. so there are 2 outlets, one in mandarin gallery and another in scotts square. according to b, a friend of mine, the outlet in scotts sq does reservations. but me n yen, just walked in. we didn't mind a bar table because we were starving. and goodie, because yen was obsessed with dining with katy perry, ahem. 

yen ordered a chocolate mocha drink whereas i ordered a citrus fruit juice to kickstart my eatin fro the day. i settled for the norwegian, whereas yen ordered st michaels or something-named-like-that. i was contemplating between eggs atlantic-my usual, but settled on the norwegian. basically mine was cooked salmon, on a bed of potato rosti, with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, topped with some sauce. yen's was prosciutto, a fried poached egg, cheese souffle on french toast, and cherry tomatoes.

 the cherry tomatoes were super juicy. i love them more because they were on the vine. asparagus were perfection. much better than the ones in mr and ms cafe in malaysia. i am not a fan of corriander so i felt the dish could do without it and cracked black pepper would have served as a better garnish. the salmon was well cooked. the downside of the dish was the potato rosti. it wasn't really rosti. it was shredded potato. deepfried. it was super oily, too oily for my liking. although i did finish most of it, it was because i was super hungry. and to tell that it was really bad when i'm super hungry, means it must have been real bad. 26 sgd for the dish. 

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 yen had these. brioche french toast if my knowledge of bread is accurate. she liked her dish. and the fried egg, was really impressive. it was poached and fried, yet, the yolk was still perfect. neither undercook, nor overcook. i liked the cheese souffle, but yen didn't like it. so i helped her whack it. she said she didn't taste the cheese flavour, but i found it mild yet not overpowering, allowing me to finish that in addition to my own plate of brunch. she loved her dish except ther cheese souffle. she is not one of a big eater, so she didn't finish her prosciutto, but i think it wasn't because of its lack of flavour, but just that she does not eat much. 26 sgd as well.

 meet my brunch date for they day. yen. although she will say her date was katy perry and not mel.

all in all, i thought it was pretty pricey for brunch. then again, i'm converting it back to myr. but maybe for sgd its pretty normal? i don't know. because antipodean here is also 20 something, so dollar for dollar it might be normal for singaporeans. i guess the next time i'm in town, i'd very much rather try other brunch places.

i must say, in addition to their menu, they had pastries, which i was really tempted to order. maybe next time for the pastries? 

wild honey / link 
6 scotts square
#03-01
scotts road
singapore
 

durain fiesta @ good wood park hotel singapore

i just read my cny post about dieting, and am laughing to myself about it. i can't believe i actually thought that was going to happen. my run went awesome, but yea the dieting part didn't happen. the eating monster continued eating away haha. i know i've been on quite a hiatus, but trust me, that isn't due to the lack of eating. anyways, i'm going to kickstart my blogs revival with an overseas post. 

i just got back from a short singapore trip. during my trip, i stayed at the goodwood park hotel. and yes, its the place, 'the place', for durian lovers. during my last trip, i stayed here too, but i was unfortunate to miss their durian season, so but of course, this time, i had. just look at the display, from durian donughts to durian strudels to durian puffs to durian crepes to durian gula melaka swissroll, to durian cake. i was in love. 

 i loved the durian elephant as well. haha. i thought it was way too cute, unfortunately it was not for sale.

 so, for tea, yes, this was tea time, not a meal, we ordered, 1 durian mousse cake, one durain strudel, 6 durian puffs, and 2 durian crepes. it was really funny, becuz the lady asked us how many forks, and we said, 4. she was shocked. she was like erm, i'll give you more. haha. we are some monsters.

 yen didn't eat much, so it was up to us 3, me, bobo n yh to finish up the durian stuffs. i must say we did well. we kept saying to yen, she was bringing down the team haha. the durain was good. really good. the filling was so rich in durian flavour and so real. not artificial at all. the durian strudel pastry was perfection. i guess that was my favourite. the cake was good. the crepe as well. i liked everything, but the filling was similar for everything. i guess people don't usually order that much to notice that everything is quite similar haha. 

next time i'm going to go back for the ice cream. 

stay tuned for more foodie updates. i'm going to flood my blog. its been revived. 

 goodwoodpark hotel / link
22 scotts road
singapore 228221

happy chinese new year

the foodie will like to wish all the chinese a very happy horse year ahead. gong hey fatt choy=] hope ur cny was as eventful as mine. 

too full though. i've been eating non-stop from morning till night. all the cookies, too drink, to 31 per cent of baskins, to magnum almond ice cream (which is the best), to curry lamb, to cheesecakes, to curry chicken, to yeesang, one word-wow. 

anyways, i have exactly 8 days starting tomorow, to get fit and run 22km. u know wad, diet starts tomorrow, and i mean it. i am not an advocate of dieting because, i'm such a foodie, but i'm a runner, which sometimes, for the sake of my run, i need to sacrifice a little. i mean hopefully 8 days will make a difference.

Ori-Udon @ the gardens

 having saw a picture of this on instagram, decided to try out this place. its the simple meal kind. i ordered the seaweed udon and i think i added an egg. everything was simple. i can imagine it being very satisfying on a cold day-like a porridge kind of thing. i guess i would say its good and cheap. less than 10 bucks for a meal. its not spectacular. because eveything was just so simple. but i think its the simpliicity that makes this a good dish. its not something id rave about, but if i want something simple, i'd be back.

ori-udon / link
lg-k01 lower ground floor
midvalley/the gardens
lingkaran syed putra
59200 kuala lumpur

garage 51 @ sunway (volume 2)

 it does seem like garage 51 is my new hangout place right. i've been here 3 times in less than 2 weeks already. but its cuz i really like the mochatella and its the nearest coffeee place, to my place tht is-subang. 

mochatella-needs no introduction. this is like my default drink whenever i come here. click here to read about my raving mochatella review. i came back twice for it already. the taste, and everything iss just perfection. and im not even a mocha fan. but this-caught me off guard.

 previously, during the weekend, i ordered the garage awesome bfast as well, and i loved it. but this time, i still liked it but i thought the food was cold. it should have came warm, like the last time. so this time for me, the food was slightly disappointing. flavour was there, but the potato would have been perfect served hot.

i am on a quest to find the best cheesecake in town. so i ordered a slice of  new york cheesecake. intially wanted to try the marble cheese but they were out. the cake, was not good. the cheese was too strong, signifying that the cream cheese was not whipped long enouhg. the cake was too hard to be a cheese cake. it was more like-just cheese with a biscuit layer. the biscuit layer was quite good though. all in all, not something i would order again. my food buddy for the day was mukhris. he ordered a toramissu which he thought was pretty decent. 

garage 51 / link
51 jalan pjs11/9
bandar sunway
46510 kuala lumpur

mr and ms cafe @ oasis damansara

 as we all know by now, i'm a huge sucker for english bfasts/brunches. we hit mr and ms cafe that day. it was such a food day. gosh. i was deciding between eggs atlantic-my norm or the breakfast set which consists of mini pancakes, granola, and a fruit salad. but yen made a point, saying i wont taste their cooking, which sway me in the eggs atlantic direction. 

the special thing about their eggs atlantic was that they had asparagus. the wholemeal bread was different than the others with plenty of butter. but for some reason, i just thought it was okay. the asparagus was too old hence very fibrous .eggs however were perfectly poached. and smoked salmon was okay too. but just okay, for me.

yenny ordered the baked eggs, with chicken sausages. she said it was like a mountain of sausages, with cheese, and eggs. personally, i liked it alot. yen couldn't finish it, so i wiped it clean for her. smiles. 

all in all, better than the good batch, but nowhere near antipodean. downside, is also that, they dont open at night. im a breakfast for dinner person too. 

was such a fat food day that day. we went for crepes and ice cream after. but reviews for that, later. got to run. 

mr and ms cafe / link 
b-g-3a block b, 
oasis square, 
jalan pju 1a/7a,
ara damansara,
47301 petaling jaya 
 
 

porridge time/feng yi zhuk sek @ sunway pyramid

i'm a sucker for good porridge. was in sunway the other day and was quite indesicive as to what to eat for lunch, so settled for a some porridge. well more of because we were standing right in front of the shop, rather than anything else. i've always been a sucker for claypots. for some reason, i think that anything served out of a claypot just tastes better. i think its more of a visual satisfaction though. so i guess i quite like the whole claypot concept. 

i ordered a bowl of lin chi kang-iced. and my food buddy ordered a ginger sweet potato-hot. the lin chi kang, was really bad on so many levels. i would not advise to order this-ever. the sweet potato on the other hand, was really good. i personally liked it alot. i almost ended up finishing my buddy's drink. the ginger, the hotness, the sweetness was good. 

i ordered a fish porridge. with a you tiao. the porride was okay. so-so. i added slated egg. the consistency of the porridge is of the thick kind-so its the kind that i like. there was fish. but i mean its good porridge but not great porridge. the plus side is that you can ask for extra ginger and spring onions, and they'll give you a huge plate. nothing impressive.

the buddy had the oyster peanut porridge. this porridge was more fragrant than my fish porridge. i ended up having a bowl of this in addition to my fish porridge and i wiped this claypot clean. it was fragrant and good.

but this place, still does not top my best porridge list. i still love the porridge in usj 16's weng soon jaya. its a kopitiam and u need to wait quite a bit for the aunty to cook up your porridge, but its good. real good. still my fav porridge place, after trying out quite a few. 

but i guess if you are in a shopping mall, craving porrridge, this place will do. i mean its half the price as canton-i and does the same job honestly. 

feng yi zhuk sek /  link
first floor
asian avenue
sunway pyramid 
bandar sunway

the good batch @ damnasara uptown

  one of my best friends came down from malacca. he has never had brunch before, so i decided to bring him to the good batch. i've been wanting to try this place as well because of the cool names and good things ive heard about it. they call their food, the norwegian, or the malaysian and things like that. i had trouble deciding between the norwegian which is basically like eggs atlantic but with capsicum and onion jam or the portobello road which is basically eggs benndict but in place of bacon, a deep fried portobello mushroom. 

in the end, we decided on, ordering both to share. for the drink i had their signature iced tea, which was something like lemon grass with tea and passionfruit. i wanted something really refreshing because i had a really heavy breakfast. i had too much. for bfast. i regretted it though because, i was gong to have an early lunch. hence i opted for something more refreshing rather than trying out their coffee. 

 this was their deepfried portobello eggs. perfectly poached eggs seated on portobello mushrooms, deepfried to perfection. with a huge slice of tomatoes. i didn't like this though. i liked the mushrooms. but i didn't like the huge slice of tomatoes. it was too thick. the mushroom and eggs were good but the whole combination wasn't very good.

the norwegian, or more commonly known as the atlantic. smoked salmon was good. but the bread was not toasted. i didn't like that.

ihonestly i was disappointed. because i'm a subang girl, and rarely go to damansara, i'd much rather go to village nasi lemak if i were to venture off so far. by far my brunch rankings are still antipodean, followed by garage 51. then, red bean bag. maybe nutmeg, and lastly this place. 

not a fan. 

the good batch / link 
53 ss21/1a
47400 petaling jaya
malaysia
 

ikea restaurant @ ikea

so there was this period of time, when i was super-duper busy with revamping my room. i needed to get some storage stuffs do i hit ikea, second time in less than 48 hours, i kid you not. 

i've never tried ikea's food before, despite all the big hoo-hah about their meatballs, their cakes and all. but yeps, never. the angster brought me to ikea, and thought we should try the food there. 

thing is, i don't eat beef. i'm no beef-eater. so i couldn't try their legendary meatballs. the angster ordered 5 meatballs and mash potato. he didn't like the mash potato and he thought that the cranberry jam was too sweet. but he hates sweet things. and fat things. so his opinion counts little. if you can sell something as healthy, he'd praise it. if not, yea it will suck. any unhealthy element, like fat in minced meat, or sugar in chocolates, he will say they suck. 

i ordered the salmon, with 2 potato patties. the poached salmon was overcooked. i think once you've had the amazing salmon of fresco, the bar is set so high that any other just fades in comparison. the potato was cold. but i was so hungry i managed to finish one. 

personally, i thought that the food wasn't that good and with the que, i don't think its somewhere i'll visit often. id much rather walk over to the curve or ikano. big name, but disappointing food. 

the ikea restaurant / link
2 jalan pju7/2
mutiara damansara
47800 petaling jaya
selangor
malaysia
opening times: mon-thurs 9am-930pm, fri-sun 9am-1030pm

garage 51 @ sunway

there's a new coffee place in subang. by that i mean-the big coffee place we know-artisan roast, ministry of coffee, coffee stain, are all down town. for us subang-ians, its pretty far, and more so for someone like me who doesn't like driving far and getting stuck in jams. located in sunway, id say its a pretty good location for subang-ians. 

upon walking in, i was surprised by the amount of people. it was packed. i went for dinner about 645 ish. the only thing i didn't really like about the setup was that the tables were pretty close together. our next table had this real bitch, who couldn't stop eavesdropping, and talking about us-which we could hear because of the proximity of our table. i guess that is one bad thing. 

i wanted to order almost everything. but i settles for the garage awesome breakfast which was mushrooms, a huge potato hash, smoked salmon, a poached egg, topped with hollaindase sauce. i loved the potato hash, which was exactly like a potato rosti. it was a huge piece. this dish is not for the diet-conscious. deep-fried potato hash and hollandaise sauce makes this a very fat dish. but good. i absolutely loved the rosti. the texture was oh-so-good. i would definitely recommend this. the star of the day. this was 19 bucks. 

look at my beautiful mess. 

yennyy ordered the smoked salmon aglio olio, which was the other dish i was contemplating on ordering. i personally didn't like it as much because i felt like it didn't have sufficient spice to oomph it. it was a big portion, but, not to my liking. smoked salmon was plentiful, but the spaghetti itself was a tad bit too soft, no texture, and taste wise, i still prefer the aglio olio in upstairs cafe. 

 i ordered a hazelnut iced latte to go with my meal whereas yen ordered the long black. this really is very different-the coffee. but i still prefer the one i had at the lighthouse in penang. this was a tad bit too strong of coffee and not enough of hazelnut in it.

 we also tried this, mochatella, which was so so good. its basically, nutella, with coffee ice cubes and milk. i absolutely loved the bitter-sweet. and the aftertaste was so good. 14,90  and u get a sip of heaven. 

i would definitely visit this place again. one good place. 

garage 51 / link
51 jalan pjs 11/9
bandar sunway
46510 kuala lumpur 
opening times: 11am-11pm 

marutama ramen @ empire

i was previously on a burger craze, then came the chocolate craze, and then the popiah craze and my latest is the ramen craze. 

often people compare ippudo ramen and marutama, their both good, in different ways i guess. 

i ordered the bowl of chicken soup, with chicken meatball, and 7 groundnuts, spring onions, and mildly spicy. the soup was good, the noodles was good, but i personally liked ippudo more. i couldn't pin point on anything that was bad i guess ipudo had lots of chilli oil, making the soup very fragrant and the noodles texture was more to my liking. i absolutely loved the hard noodles texture.the chicken meatballs were super fatty. you could bite into pieces of hard fat. i guess i didn't like that. i prefer the fat blended well with the meat.  

but one thing i really liked is the abundance of spring onions and the fried garlic that you could add into the soup. the egg was also a plus point because it was really well-seasoned. 

all in all, although i prefer ippudo's noodles, i think that the soup in both places are different. they are both good in different ways although i prefer ippudo's kick. 

my food buddies that day, vivian and kc obviously enjoyed their meal. they even ordered additional noodles. but then again, it might be because they were just hungry. 

can't wait for my next ramen adventure. 

marutama ramen / link
lg-26 empire shopping mall
ss16/1
subang jaya

ippudo ramen @ gardens

hany has been telling me about this ramen shop one too many times. so i decided its time to broaden my food tasting horizon and give this a try. its about time anyways. no regrets here. 

they serve appetizers, buns, rice and ramens. but what they are well known for is their ramen. you can select how you want your noodles cooked-from hard, to soft to very soft. i like mine hard. and it was really good. i would definitely recommend you to go for hard. i went for the karaka-men tamago which is the ramen, with pork belly, ground pork, spicy miso paste which translates to chilli oil, and ground pork with cashew nuts. this was so good. i whacked the whole thing i kid you not. i had the ones with egg which was a soft boilt salted egg. i liked it. the noodles, the soup, everything. 

i personally like how it came with sesame and chilli powder which u could add to give it more kick. 

yen ordered the normal one-which is shiromaru tamago. i think i preferred the chilli one. 

this place has gotten me into ramen. am planning to tryout other ramen stores to compare. but for now, i like this one alot. this is the from ny. m planning to try the one from japan one soon. look at how i whacked everything. 

ippudo ramen / link
lot t-218
third floor 
the gardens mall
kuala lumpur
opening times: 10am,-10pm