Lunch with their uncle Moses
The kids' favourite uncle Moses brought us out for lunch today.

I tell you, when you are out of town, you are really out of touch. The other day, at the bookshop, I was asking the assistant if they have other outlets and I was told that they have one at 313. Huh? What is 313? Where is 313? When I was at Orchard, imagine, a true-blue Singaporean has to ask a passer-by where is 313. Ok, now I know, it is the former Specialist Centre!

Thankfully, I found the place. When Uncle Moses told us, we will be having lunch there, we thought we knew our way. When we were there, we had to look for this restaurant by the name of Brotzeit. We didn't realise that 313 is that big, there is also the outdoor dinning area. Anyway, our nomadic instinct brought us to the restaurant...


A monstrous meat platter - veal sausages, bbq pork ribs, roasted pork knuckle (with crackling skin) and pork-beef cheese sausages.
All these served with sauerkraut and a unique potato salad. Enough to feed three adults and two kids!


Close-up. Great meat! This meal was most suitable for Kai, the meat-eater

Not too far away, I saw a very interesting cafe...

My childhood favourite cartoon characters, Charlie Brown and gang



Nice pretty little cafe



Yes, my two little bookworms. Oh what joy, eating ice-cream and reading at the same time. By the way, if you happen to be in Japan and see their pictures, that is because a Japanese magazine reporter snapped them!

Food paradise again
I really have to work out really hard when I get home. So much food....

This morning the family decided to head home, Holland Village where we used to stay...

I have seen the up and down and up, up, up of Holland Village. I have spent a huge time of my life here...since I was eight years old. Yes, that long!

Not only dh and I miss our local food, even Kai and Ann also miss the local dishes...

The black and white fried carrot cake

Although it is called carrot cake, it is actually made of radish and rice flour mixed together, steamed, cooled and fried with eggs. The black ones are fried with dark soy sauce and the white ones are fried without the dark sauce. I personally prefer the black carrot cake. Sadly, most stalls nowadays buy the factory-produced carrot cake and fry them. Very few hand-made their carrot cake because it involved a lot of work.


Wanton (meat dumplings) noodles. This is the Potian wanton noodles. The noodles are perfectly cooked, springy (al dente), sauce, chillies are mixed to perfection. The wantons are small but full of wanton flavour! Aiya, you must eat to know what I mean. I find the stall at Holland Village hawker center is the best. Each time I eat them, it just gives me  wonderful memories of my childhood days, eating wanton mee sold by this elderly couple who used to sell them at the Tanglin Halt food market. Delicious! Just writing about it is already making me drool...

My other love...

ah...the other love which I miss dearly, The Straits Times. It is always a joy to have it greet me first thing in the morning!

What a joy...
The food is great, the company is greater!

It was a great time, meeting, eating and chatting with good old friends. Some of these friendships dated all the way back to the 80s...

The sun is out...
When the sun is out, what do you do?

You have a good, old fashion ice-cream. Yum...mo!

Singapore, the food paradise
Each time when we are home, we must eat our local food. You will never understand the craving for home food until you are out of home!

Pork Congee with raw fish. It was superb! In fact, the best in town

Char Kway Teow (Fried rice noodles). If you are keen to know more, check out this site char kway teow



O-chian (Oyster omelette) The dish consists of an omelette with small oysters. Edible starch is mixed into the egg batter, fry together. A little spicy and sour chilli dip makes the dish speechlessly good

There were alot more to eat but... the mouth is willing but the tummy is weak!

Soaking in Chinatown
Chinese New Year is never complete without a visit to Chinatown!




Literally soaking in the festivities. Chinatown was soaking wet due to the very wet weather!