Meal @ New Green Pasture Cafe 新绿园有机养生料理坊

Today I am free. So I decided to try my auntie's recommendation. She told me this cafe inside the Fortune Centre level 4 selling organic meal. According to her, it is good. So, I set off to Bugis to try it out. After reaching there, I have no difficulty in finding the place. Since there is only one eatery on the level 4. There are many eatery selling vegetarian food in the same place. Not sure is because it is near the temple.

When I reached the shop, I step into the place and take a look at the menu. Today specials are pumpkin rice, penang laksa etc. Mind you, this is organic vegetarian cafe. Very quickly I made up my mind on the pumpkin rice set which cost $9.5.

The auntie told me to drink the soup, available to customer who purchase the meal. It is old cumcuber soup(老黄瓜汤). Inside the soup, there are plenty of cucumber, carrot etc. It taste good.

Very quickly my rice is ready. Here it is


Looks nice right? I was pleasantly surprised by the presentation.

Salad - Mix of red carrot, mang kuang, beet root, sprout, dou miao(豆苗). It is sweet and tasty.
Yellow stuff - Serious I don't really know what it is, but it taste alright
Mix vege - Mu er(木耳), corn, broccoli, carrot, shan yao(山药). Also taste good
Rice - Rice is cooked with chestnut, mushroom, pumpkin. So it is sweet and fragrant.

Beside the nice presentation, the whole meal is full of nutrition! The final verdict is of course a VERY GOOD.

If you are the vege person and don't mind paying a little bit more for premium stuff. This is definitely recommended.

Food for thought 2 - Golden shoe and Albert temp hawker centre

There is this famous Nasi Lemak at Golden shoe hawker centre. I went there during dinner time, around 7pm, they are still open.


I think this cost around 2 dollars only. It is simple and no frill. But taste good lah. What can you ask for?

Recently, the Albert hawker centre close down for renovation. I happen to pass by that day and stop to have some food. After going through the stalls twice, I settle on the following.


This bowl of curry mee cost $3. I think this is only one of the branch, I should have seen or eaten before some where else. It is good. The curry is fragrant and the white chicken is so tender, you would go back for more.


I went to the Zhen Jie dessert stall to order this Mango Sago. It looks good on the stall picture and also on the camera. Taste alright, but the problem is I don't see the sago! Quite funny right?

Food for thought 1 - Botak Jones, Nihon Mura

I looked at my phone camera photos just now, realised that there are quite a number of unposted pictures.

I went back to Botak Jones with different group of friends. These are what I had.


The signature Botak Burger. The portion is big and the ingredient is fresh(I supposed). It tasted good.


A close out on the Botak Burger. Looks tempting right?


This is what I had when I went there another time. The sausage is huge and I had difficulty to finish the whole set off. Don't try to order any side dish, in case you want to order set meal.

I just went with colleague last Friday, to have the fish burger. The fillet is special, so it taste good. But they scale down the portion already, maybe because of the recent cost escalation. However, don't worry, unless you have very big appetite. Otherwise, you would still feel very full.

On another occasion, I went to Nihon Mura. Since the sushi there is a big no no for me, I tried other dish.


Think this is one of the BBQ dish. Associated BBQ sticks with rice. There are chicken, prawn and mushroom sticks. Quite nice.

New Serangoon Central mall

It was in the news today. Serangoon is going to get a huge mall which is bigger than AMK Hub and Junction 8 combined. Following are the features:

24 hours retail and food outlet
10 screen cineplex
games arcade
pet lovers' enclave
big foodcourt
hypermarket
departmental store

The whole project is worth 1.3 billion.

Although I do not live there, but the news itself is interesting to draw my attention. Because where do you see a neighbourhood shopping centre which is this large? If you look at Lot 1 or old Northpoint, the floor area is actually very small. Maybe they think there is not many customer at the HDB.

I went to my friend's house at Kovan Melody. To my surprise, the Kovan mall has a huge crowd, although the mall itself is very very small. That might explain why are they building a big mall in Serangoon. Because there are many residents there? and the surrounding Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Hougang would supply customer also?

Anyway, I think it would be a huge success when it is completed. By the time, financial crissis might already end and everybody is ready to spend again!

Do you go SITEX this year?

SITEX is coming very soon. Next Thu it would start at Singapore Expo. There are four shows all year round in Singapore. 3 months one show. Amazingly people have endless appetite for IT products.

Do you go SITEX this year? My thought is go only if you have things to buy. IT product get outdated so fast, it is pointless of chasing it. Better focus on need rather than want.

3 Scenarios

1. You want to buy something. Go there to shop around, should be able to get a great bargain.

2. You have nothing to buy but just want to window shop there. Most probably you bought something you don't really need but is cheap. Later, you just throw it aside.

3. You have nothing to buy and just wonder around for a whole afternoon. Then, what is the point going there? As a pass time?

So, the answer is quite simple.

Crocs sales at Expo, don't know what you want to call it

I saw the news on the web, Crocs is having their sales at Expo with a big discount. I never own a pair of Crocs and I am just curious why so many people like it. So, I went to check it out and possibly buy a pair to try it out.

When I reached Expo, I met a friend. He queued for 1 hour to get into the hall and 3 hours to pay for it!!



This is the main entrance, people are queuing to go into the hall. You might want to start queue up, but not until you see the next picture.



The queue went before the toilet and go into another hall.

After looking at this, I decided not to go in at all. No point, wasting my time queue for few hours to save 10 dollars only.

I think they really underestimate the response. There are simply not enough cashier to clear the backlog. Another interesting point is why so many people like it?

Ishi Mura at North point

Today was another fine Sunday. I picked up the Sunday Times to read. In the food section, there is a report about the new retail food concept. The interesting part is about a new japan themed food court in North point, Ishi Mura. So I decided to check it out.

I reach the place at 3pm, in order to avoid the crowd, but still there were many people. Of course, I have no problem finding my seat.



Look at the front door, it looks much like a restaurant than a food court. No wonder many people have doubts when going into it. But there are so many individual stall inside the shop selling all sort of Japanese cuisine. First you are spoilt of choice and second the price is really affordable. The only downside is the place is rather cramp.



After I went through one round, I decided to eat this Okonomiyaki. The chinese name should be 大阪烧， but the stall keeper call it 菜饼. No matter what, I ordered the seafood Okonomiyaki. If you need to know the mean of this dish, go and do a search. Some also call it Japanese pancake. It only cost 5.9 and it looks really good right?



I also ordered a drink, green tea at 1.5. Now, this looks like a complete meal set.

The pancake has lots of cabbage/lettuce, corn, egg, mayonnaise and seafood. It taste really nice, crunchy, juicy and full of taste. I think they are really spot on in opening this shop!

First use of stumble upon

Recently I have installed a service called stumble upon. It is like a user voting system on website. You would install a toolbar and select the topic that interested you. Whenever you click the stumble button, it would take you through a random website. You can choose like it or don't. The more you choose, the more accurate it gets.

It is interesting initially. But after a while, still get a little bit boring. Because the website is truly random and you are depending on other people's suggestion to discover new site. Might need to try it out more to decide whether to keep it.

Travel through park connector

Yesterday I decided to go cycling. There is a shop at Sun plaza park renting bicycle for $5 for 2 hours. I heard the lady say this is promotion. Buy 1 free 1. It is cheap. But, if it revert back to $5 for 1 hour, then it become expensive.

The parks at east side are all linked. I decided to see the pasir ris park first. Hence, I travel the following path:

Sunplaza park -> Pasir ris town park -> Pasir ris park

The journey is short, about 15min to reach the town park. But I cycle around to see the place. It has been a long time since I cycled for this long hour - 1.5 hours.

The Pasir risk town park is interesting. There are few fishing or prawning pond for people to fish. Inside the same park, there are restaurant also.

When I reach the pasir ris park, the path pass through the Downtown East area. I just realised that they are actually quite close. The pasir ris park is not so popular as east coast park. Some BBQ pits are empty. I think the no of ship also more than east coast park. However, it is still quite nice to go there and enjoy the holiday atmostphere and looking at people BBQ.

There is another part of the connector which would lead me to the Changi Beach. Given the limited time, it is left to next trip.

Keep adding the RSS feed

Had been quite busy recently, today still went to office in the morning. But, in the afternoon, managed to watch one movie and read other news.

Today, just installed the stumble upon toolbar. Quite an interesting website to discover new website. After that, I went to omy to browse other people's blog. Accidentally hit this chinese blog which talk about food. It is very good. From there, I linked to other blog competition website and managed to add in many blog feed into my rss reader.

Looks like my rss reading daily is going to increase a lot. Now, I already read about 300 post per day. Of course, for those heading I am not interested, then I just skip them. A bit information overloaded.