Loewen Garden Markets

Do you know Singapore have a Garden Market? Yes, Singapore has it. It called Loewen Garden Markets.

This market sells fresh produce, cake, chocolates, burger and many more.

Seller at this market uses a table to displays/sells their goods. Some of them provide a free samples for the customer to taste. All the goods and foods over there are not just a common goods that can be easily find in Singapore. Some of the goods are come from French and Himalayan.

Some of them make their own country famous dishes/cakes. We tried some of the samples.

All I can say is the foods are unique, fresh and quite nice.

 

Chocolate Mint Ganache Tart and Snickers Tart

 

Traditional Baklava (Almond/Walnut/Pistachio)

 

Dark Chocolate & Flaked Almond Baklava

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found some special jams. There are Rhododendron jam, ginger jam and Himalayan Honey jam. All the jams are from Himalayan.

Rhododendron jam is an uncommon. The colour is red like strawberry jam.

Ginger jam is use the real ginger. The ginger taste is very strong. This jam also can become tea if you pour the hot water. It's good to make your body warm.

Himalayan Honey jam is also nice. The honey taste is a slightly different with common honey.

 

I also found some nice fresh vegetables from Himalayan, such as Yacon and Bean. Yacon is like ‘bangkuang or Yam Bean’. Yacon and the bean are crunchy. Although is a raw, but it's very nice.

Yacon

 

Seedless Tomatoes and Bean

The meat in burger has the perfect smoky flavour and quite tender.

Over there, I bought Maqui raw organic chocolate from SuperFood and banana pudding from Petit Pudding.

Maqui is made from Australia. Can you imagine how the raw chocolate taste does? The taste is very uniquely awkward. I never taste this kind of things before. It’s a lot bitter compare than dark chocolate, but it's nice.

Maqui raw organic chocolate 

 

The Banana pudding is also nice. Do you know why I bought it? Because I Love banana!!! Any cakes/dessert/dishes made with banana as the ingredient, is a must-try-foods for me. 

This pudding has 3 layers. First layer is cookies, second layer is banana and the first layer is pudding. As expected, it’s YUMMY.

Banana pudding

 

 

Carré pain d'épices is a French version of Gingerbread. No sugar added in this cake. They only add real raw honey.

 

Carré pain d'épices

 

 

 

Details



Loewen Gardens Market located at 75 Loewen Road, off Harding Road, Tanglin Village cluster. This market opens every first and third Saturday of the month from 9:00AM - 2:00PM.

How to go there? It will be a lot easier to drive or take a cab. The nearest MRT is Orchard MRT. I spent around S$7 for the cab fee from Orchard MRT.

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Ocean Restaurant

Happy Tuesday, folks!! How’s your day today? Today I want to share with you one “so-called” high end restaurant which is located at the S.E.A. Aquarium.

Heard this restaurant from the news.

The owner of Ocean Restaurant is Cat Cora. If you watched Master Chef, you would probably know her. On one of the episode, she became the guest judge over there. She is also an Iron Chef America.

Enough about the “owner”, let me share with you my experience dining at the Ocean Restaurant.

To reach there, they provide a buggy service to fetch their customer in between Casino and the restaurant.

When I reached there, I was surprised with the restaurant ambience. One thing straight away took my attention is the huge large aquarium inside. One side of the wall is show case so many type of sea creatures swimming around.

The restaurant is not that big, but not squeezes either. Luckily we still get a place although we never do any reservation earlier. Fuih!!

All the diner were busy captured the images of them self, the fishes and of course them self together with the fishes =P

Over there, we ordered Boston Lobster, Coq Au Vin Asia, Singapore Sling and Lychee Cooler.

The “waiting to be served” time is a bit slow.  

Boston Lobster is a Sauté Boston Lobster with Chef Cora`s special Mac and Melted Cheese. The shell-less crab is fresh enough. The taste wise is not bad.

Coq Au Vin Asia contains Lemongrass-Sake braised spring Chicken with Roasted Ginger, Thai Chili and Young Bok Choy.

Frankly speaking, the chicken dish is similar with a home cooked dish. It comes with a not so big portion of boneless chicken and a bowl of rice. It just a decent dish, there is nothing special though.

The Singapore sling over there is refreshingly nice. But I personally still prefer the original version of it at Raffles Hotel.

Lychee Cooler consists lychee syrup, pineapple juice and lime juice.

This Lychee Cooler is a combination between sweet, sour and a bit bitter altogether. 

Will I dine over there again? Ehm, I don’t think so. Lovely place for a special occasion, but honestly it’s not that lovely for my stomach (the portion is a bit small) and wallet =) 

Coq Au Vin Asia S$35.00

 Boston Lobster S$52.00

 

Lychee Cooler S$10.00

Singapore Sling S$15.00 

Ocean Restaurant Interior

Buggy Service

Details
Name: Ocean Restaurant
Address: 8 Sentosa Gateway. Admission to Ocean Restaurant is via West Zone Carpark, B1M. Diners can park their car near Equarius Hotel.
Nearest MRT: Harbour Front MRT

Opening Hours
Daily: 11:00AM - 10:30PM

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Gulali

Do you have any special type of candy that can bring back your childhood memory? I DO!! Since last year I am hoping to get this candy, but I couldn’t get it anywhere I go.

Luckily, this year I FOUND it during my CNY holiday!! HUAHAHAHA, Yes, I FOUND IT!!!

It called Gulali (Taffy). It was the most creative candy arts which super famous among the Elementary student during my childhood (in Jakarta - Indonesia).

It was famous because the Gulali seller can make any of simple shape based on every student request, such as Flower, Chicken, Butterfly and many more.

Most of the students’ favourites were animal shapes. Some of the shape (bird shape), can produced a sound when you blew it.

I truly admire the creativity of the Gulali’ maker, even though this sweet is not that healthy.

The idea is just brilliant. I believed, it's not that easy to make the shape from the Gulali. It requires patient, skills and hard works.

Gulali

Pacifier Shape

Flower Shape

Love Shape

Butterfly Shape 

Turtle Shape

Dragonfly Shape

Dolphin Shape

Bird Shape

Flower Shape

Chicken Shape

Flower Shape

Flower Shape

Star Shape

Lollipop Shape

Star Shape

 

Gulali Seller 

 

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Mei Heong Yuen Dessert

Hello Guys!!

For a country with hot weather like Singapore, enjoy Snow Ice in the weekend afternoon is such a blast. Introduce one super nice dessert shop in China Town Singapore. It called Mei Heong Yuen Dessert.

Last Friday (public holiday), I together with my sister and Serene went there to try their dessert. 

See from the quantity of the customer (it was quite crowded over there, but we no need to queue to get our sit though) and the price of each snow ice dessert, I am not that surprise that they could have three shops altogether at Temple Street =P

They also have branch at Ion Orchard and Chinatown Point (newly open).

Anyway, over there we ordered Banana Choc Snow Ice, Durian Snow Ice, Chendol Snow Ice, Glutinous Chicken Rice, 3 Colour Cakes (Pumpkin cake, carrot cake and yam cake), Chee Cheong Fun and Mango Roll.

Between those three snow ice desserts, I love the Banana Choc Snow Ice most. Not because it was my choice of dessert, but it just taste the best. The banana taste is so strong and the chocolate flavour makes the whole dessert even greater. 

My second favourite is the Chendol Snow Ice (浆罗雪花冰). It just tastes like a normal chendol. However it still tastes refreshingly sweet.

My less favourite is the Durian Snow Ice (榴莲雪花冰). Quite disappointed with this dessert. It really lacks the durian taste. If they more generous in giving the durian sauce/syrup topping, it will be a lot better.

Glutinous Chicken rice (糯米鸡) is deliciously juicy. The chicken and the gravy are simply nice.

3 colours cake dessert contains of Carrot Cake (萝卜糕), Pumpkin Cake (南瓜糕) and Yam cake (芋头糕). I personally only like the Carrot Cake, but my sister and Serene like all the flavours.

Chee Cheong Fun (猪肠粉) tastes really normal. The best things in ordering this dish is you will feel quite full after eating it =) 

One dessert that you can’t forget to try over there is the Mango roll (芒果卷). The mango is smooth, fresh and sweet. You will never enough eat this one.

Banana Choc Snow Ice S$6.00

Durian Snow Ice S$5.00

 

Chendol Snow Ice S$6.00

Glutinous Rice (Chicken) S$2.50

3 Colour Cakes S$2.50

Mango Roll S$3.00

Chee Cheong Fun S$2.00

 

Mei Heong Yuen Dessert 



 

 

Details

Name: Mei Heong Yuen Dessert

Address: 63-67 Temple Street (China Town)

Nearest MRT: China Town MRT

 

Opening Hours

Daily: 10:30AM - 10:00PM

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The Market and Pizza Mania at LEGOLAND Malaysia

Last December, I got any invitation to review LEGOLAND Malaysia. You might want to read it over here. 

PS: Thanks for Serene to companying me throughout the journey.  

So, today, I want to share with you some restaurants over there.

They have total of 7 restaurants at LEGOLAND Malaysia. At the beginning, we planned to try at least 3/4 restaurants. Too bad we can't make it. So, we only had 2 rounds of lunch over there.

For the first round, we tried 1/2 Roasted Chicken Set and Chicken Rice Combo Meal at The Market restaurant.

FYI, The Market is the most crowded restaurant at LEGOLAND. So, got chance you will quite difficult to get a seat over there.

Their set/combo meal comes with soup or fruit and soda. Of course, different combination comes with different price.

Actually, there is nothing special with their food’s taste. It taste normal, nothing so great about the foods. But, because we were super hungry, we enjoyed the dishes so much =P

And for the second round, we tried Aloha Chicken & Pineapple Pizza at the Pizza Mania. We ordered 1 big size of pizza. The pizza is crunchy and hot - fresh from the oven.

Perhaps we will try other restaurants if we visit LEGOLAND again in the future :)

1/2 Roasted Chicken Set RM24.00

Chicken Rice Combo Meal RM21.00

 

The Market

 

Aloha Chicken & Pineapple Pizza

Pizza Mania

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