Eng's Wanton Noodles

This is where you can get the famous Eng's Wanton Noodles. 

Eng won the SPH Hawker Masters awards for Wanton Noodles last year. 

Address:  287 Tanjong Katong Road. 

Opening Hours: Daily from 11am to 9pm. 

Previously, it was at Dunman Road Food Centre. 

A bowl of Wanton Noodles cost $4 for a small portion or $5 for a big portion. 

It is slightly expensive as compared to a other Wanton Noodles. 

But, what made it so unique are:

1. Ultra spicy chilli sauce - Simply put, if you cannot eat chilli padi on its own, then this amount (shown in picture below) is considered too much. If you are cannot take too spicy food, then a tiny weenie drop should work wonders for you. 
2. Generous serving of charsiew and wanton
3. Handmade noodles - It's thicker and springy

Fried and Boiled Wanton - $4 for medium portion

Country Manna

Country Manna was one of the restaurants that I go to during my secondary school days.

I still remembered going to the branch at Century Square and feeling so excited as they have the Puff Pastry soup and it has this Player Piano that plays without a pianist.

Ever since they closed the outlet at Century Square and Suntec City, I have never seen a branch for several years. So I was so excited when I saw a Country Manna outlet at Suntec City.

The outlet at Suntec City was quite small.

We ordered the Set Lunch, which consists of their famous puff pastry soup, a main course, dessert, and a choice of coffee or tea.

Antoinette

After hearing so many reviews about the food and ambience, I just have to give it a try. 

Antoinette is a quintessential Parisian patisserie, serving delicious pastries and desserts.
Antoinette is part of the Sugar Daddy Group, which is owned by Chef Pang, who was the ex-pastry chef of Canele.
There are 4 branches in Singapore - Penhas Road, Mandarin Gallery, Scarlet Hotel and Palais Renaissance.

My friend I chose the Mandarin Gallery branch as our girls' night out.
The plush and comfy chairs makes the place very cosy. 

As there are limited space, do go earlier as they do not accept reservations.

As we wanted to try several of their popular dishes, we ordered both savoury and sweet crepes to try.

Ordered the French Apple Tart tea

Would prefer a black tea instead to pair with the sweet crepe.

Florentine - This is the lighter version, i.e. crepes with serrano ham, sunny side up and hollandaise sauce.

Pavlova - This dish consists of flambed caramalized banana, chocolate sauce, passionfruit banana sorbet, French meringue and vanilla creme Chantilly. 

Food Tasting - IKYU

I was  invited to try out a new Japanese restaurant at Yong Siak Street called IKYU (pronounced as E-Q). It is a short walk away from Tiong Bahru station. Yong Siak is a quite a old estate. Found some quaint and modern shops along the stretch, i.e. a shop that sells penguin books. They also have many up and coming cafes located here, such as Forty Hands. Through this food tasting session, I had the opportunity to try out several items which I have always been wanting to try - whale meat, blow fish and the ultra expensive melon from Japan.  

The restaurant has a very zen feeling, which makes the experience very comfortable. 

We started off with a pear sake. This is a very easy to drink sake as it is sweet and when it is paired with the appetizer below, it enhances the different nuances of flavour of the appetizer.

 

Cream Cheese with Snapper Stomach - The saltiness of the cream cheese became sweet when you take this together with the fish stomach. This is the dish that makes the aftertaste so heavenly. This is not found in the menu

Century Egg Traditional Potato Salad  SGD 8.50

Grilled Edamame flavoured in Truffle  SGD 8.50

Wafu Marinated Salmon Carpaccio SGD 16.50

Deep Fried Sakura Prawns SGD 8.50

Breaded Oyster from Hiroshima SGD 12.50

Assorted Vegetables wrapped in pork SGD 15.50 

Smoked Whale Salad - Not in menu

Blow fish Tatsuta age with Sansyo

SGD 16.50

Skin of the blowfish

- Not in menu

Grilled pair Quail Legs SGD 5.50 each

Kagoshima Wagyu Beef Sirloin SGD 58.50 for 100gram

Anago Tempura with Vegetables SGD 16.50

Hirame SGD 10.50 for 2 pieces

Blue Fin Tuna O-Toro SGD 35.50 for 2 pieces

Seasonal Fruits - Rock Melon, Grapes and Persimmon SGD 15

All the dishes are prepared by Executive Chef, Takuma Seki.
Chef Seki is formerly the chef-de-Cuisine of Hide Yamamoto at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands.
Do opt for the counter seats as it is an enjoyable experience to listen to Chef Seki 's jokes.

At the end of the event, we had a nice USB souvenir in a wooden box. Really complements the Zen feeling very well