Chabuton

Another try at Chabuton restaurant with a friend after the heavy rain in the evening. It is great to have a bowl of popping hot soup noodle. The service is quite fast during the dinner’s peak hours. I do not mean they do not have crowd during that time, just that they prepared the food pretty fast.

Unlike the first visit, where my friend and me ordered a table full of food. This round, we keep it simple and just ordered to feed our stomach.

Chabuton Tonkotsu Ramen
Still maintaining it previous quality where I like to have a lot of minced garlic, sesame and I add on with some fried onions. The ramen serves with a big piece of char siew (on top of the ramen).
Address: 10 Tampines Central 1 #02-09/10 Tampines 1 Singapore.

Restaurant Yat Mun

One of the Sunday afternoon, I travelled to Puchong to have lunch. I went to a Chinese restaurant which is located somewhere nearby Giant Puchong. This restaurant occupies the ground floor of 2 shoplots. There’s ample parking lots when we reached the restaurant.

There was not many people having lunch when we reached so it’s very easy to get place to sit down. Then, we quickly ordered our food because it’s already 1pm. Hungry… They have menu in both Chinese and English words and some pictures of the dishes.

They’ve some specialities such as Assam Fish which I saw the next table also ordered the same one. Quickly, our dishes were ready to eat.

Spinach
People used to say spinach is a cheap vegetable but when it comes with this gravy, it is different. The gravy is just like soup. Nice to drink too because it contains a lot of Kei Chi. This dish is quite nice to eat.

Engplant with long bean
Another vegetable that we ordered. It looked quite dry and quite small in portion but it tasted quite ok.

Next is Japanese beancurd with minced pork in gravy.
The gravy taste was nice.

Paper wrapped Chicken with herbs.
It was steamed chicken with alot of Chinese herbs. The chicken was big and has juicy and smooth meat. Its gravy was nice too although it was a bit oily. All the Chinese herbs were inside the gravy. It is good to eat the steamed chicken with the gravy.

We ordered the Char Siew and Siew Yok too. As for me, I feel it’s quite fat for both Siew Yok and Char Siew. Maybe it’s because we didn’t specify to have less fat. For other people, it’s just nice.

And, I smelled the Assam Fish… wow, the portion is very big. I liked the sauce very much. Just the same as the one I had in Malacca last time.

Last dish, Lam Yu Chu Sau (Pork Hand). It’s not my favourite dish and I seldom eat this too. I tried some of its meat. It was fried until the skin was so crispy to bite.

C-Jade

C-Jade restaurant is a Hong Kong style restaurant, used to be in Mid Valley. This year, 2011, it has closed shop, left the only branch at The Gardens. It is quite famous with its char siew (barbeque pork) and siew yok (roasted pork ribs). However, I’m neither a fan of both.

Char Siew and Steamed Chicken rice (Siong Peng)

Combination of both barbeque chicken and steamed chicken rice is called “Siong Peng”. You can order roasted chicken if you prefer. You can choose other type of combinations from the menu list.

Rice with soup

It looks pretty plain with a lot of vegetable. I did not try it, so I am not sure how it tasted. By looking at this picture, I guess the portion is pretty big ya.

In my later visits, they started to introduce the set lunches. Here are some of the set lunches that my colleagues or myself have tried before this.

The Porridge Set
It comes with a big pot of porridge of your choice, sea coconut dessert and chee cheung fun. I cannot remember what my colleague has chosen for this porridge but from the picture itself, we can see that the porridge is very smooth (mein).

The Chee Cheung Fun with white sesame and peanut sauce. Am I saying something wrongly? Peanut sauce? It does taste weird for me to have peanut sauce on the Chee Cheung Fun.

The dessert – hot sea coconut.

Char Siew Noodle

The Char Siew Noodle appears to be oily because of its soup base.

Cart Noodle
Hong Kong’s famous food, cheh chai mee or Cart Noodle. The ingredients of this noodle are of your choices and you can pick it from the menu list. You pay as per selected items. It has 3 different types of noodles to be chosen; thick noodle (as shown in the picture below), thin noodle and hor fun (keow teow). I prefer the thick noodle over the thin noodle because the thin noodle will become soft after a while. I have chosen the curry fish ball and vegetables for my first try.

Sze Chuan Minced Meat Noodle
The gravy of this noodle is thick and tasty with quite a lot of minced meat together with vegetable. The noodle is the thinner type. When you mix everything together, it looks a bit dry and oily for me. Besides that, it  comes with a bowl of soup (as shown below).

You can request for chili if you want some spicy feel.