Sotong King of Route 12

By the time I completed my meeting at Waterloo Street, It was already 4.30pm and I hadn't had my lunch yet. As I was driving out of city area, I was thinking and pondering what and where to find that long lost lunch. Then I was reminded of the Sotong King located at 13 Pahang Street.

And the nearest was Route 12.

I've patronized Route 12 before but at that time, the Sotong King was out of stock, so I had to settle for a rather unique hot dog meal. This was a picture of the meal that I had on my first lunch in at Route12;

It's a meal of a hotdog with fries, but the hotdog uses crispy chicken cutlet rather than normal bread, so the added protein makes it an even more filling meal.

Was it good? It definitely was but not a good replacement for sotong king.

So on the next visit, since I was nearby, I decided to drop by.

So this was what I had..

It's nasi lemak pandan (coconut rice cooked with blended pandan leaves), crunchy ground nuts with ikan bilis, egg with sambal. One a separate plate is a large crispy giant squid with a large pair of scissors for the purpose of cutting that giant down to bite sized pieces!

Was it good? It's definitely good with a capital G! The sambal makes everything even more mouthwatering. The sambal is so good that the owner had to charge for an extra small container of sambal! I bought one home and it was good.


Will I Be Back Again?

As soon as it reopens, Definitely!

Where Is It Located? 
Route12 has closed since 17th March 2018. The owner, who was my secondary school classmate, had to travel extensively for work. Since he could not be around to keep an eye on the business, he had to shut it down.

We will be updating you once again, once Route 12 commences its operations or you may like the following page https://www.facebook.com/fazwesternstation/ and to get the earliest updates.

Delicious Homemade Japanese Food From The East

I love Japanese food. I love homemade food too. So when I come across a brand that combines the two things I love, it is like a wish come true. lolz.

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and my wife told me collect some japanese food that she ordered. I said, cool. Looks like we're going japan for the night.

My wife has a friend who gave a thumbs up on this homemade japanese food by the name of Inariku. Inari is a Japanese word that is used to describe 'carrying rice' and you can see this a lot on a typical japanese menu.

Ku is short form of the Malay word 'aku'. So Inariku literally means 'my inari' Nice huh?

A Decent Yet Fulfilling Meal At The Chicken Rice Shop

In this post, I would like to share my makanperience at one of the most available restaurant in Singapore, The Chicken Rice Shop.

The first time I came across The Chicken Rice Shop was in Malaysia. My first time entering The Chicken Rice Shop in Singapore was at Vivocity more than 5 years ago. For the list of outlets, you can find it at the end of this post.

www.thechickenriceshop.com

I went to the outlet at Causeway Point. There weren't that many people there so it was quite a good place for a family with 2 young girls and a pram.

Delicious Duck At Dapur Penyet

On every Eid, I always look forward to eat my aunt's lontong and rendang. Her rendang is no ordinary rendang. It's duck rendang.

I remembered the first time I had a taste of duck meat was more than ten years ago. I was passing this stall at Mackenzie and decided to give its duck rice a try. It was terrible.

A few years later, I tried another duck rice from another restaurant. It was not to my liking. After a series of disappointments, I concluded that maybe duck was not my thing. Maybe, it was just my taste buds way of saying no to duck meat.

And I also concluded that maybe the spices used in my aunt's duck rendang is more my kind of thing.

One fine afternoon, my wife and I went over to Centrepoint Metro as there was a sale there and my wife wanted to buy some 'high tech machine' for her baking. Centrepoint was under some major renovation at that time and the number of eateries was rather limited, especially the halal eateries.

There were 2 restaurants opened for business on that day. One was Desa Kartika and the other was Dapur Penyet.

I've tried Desa Kartika and you will get to read about it on a different post. At that time, I think there was a wedding reservation at Desa Kartika and so we decided to try the other restaurant, Dapur Penyet.

The GreaThai Restaurant - The Thai Styled Steamed Fish Specialist

These days, we have so many restaurants selling Thai food. One of the common dishes of a thai cuisine is non-other than Tom Yum. I have eaten tom yum on many occassions but it was only recently I learnt that there are two types of tom yum...

I went to the GreaThai restaurant for lunch and I realised that there are two types of tom yum soup; red and white. I asked the waitress and according to the waitress, the red variety contains coconut milk and both are just as spicy.

Kookie Krumbz - Freshly Baked Cookies That Is Simply Worth The Wait!!

I love cookies, especially if it fresh from the oven. I love the sweet aroma that is lingering in the air once that oven is opened. It really teases the tastebuds. One of the common place we get cookies from is Famous Amos. Recently, I have found another cookie bakery that, to me, serves better cookies.

Seafood By The Sea Revisited - Rasa Istimewa Woodlands Waterfront Restaurant

In Singapore, we are really blessed with tonnes of good food. Having a small local market did not seem to stop budding foodpreneurs from whipping their specialty to the market. However, one of the main issues that bug customers big time is drop in standard; service standard, quality of food, taste and the list goes one.

So it is important that food bloggers make a return visit just to see where the standards lie.

This week, my wife and I decided to dine at Rasa Istimewa Woodlands Waterfront Restaurant. While we were walking on the jetty, my eldest daughter said she wanted to eat Chilli Crab. Since there were so few of us, we decided to drop the steamed fish (which my wife wanted) and go for chilli crab instead.

So we ordered the following;
1. Fried rice with seafood and salted fish
2. Sweet and Sour Fish slices
3. Chilli Crab.