Friday, January 17, 2014 - [The little SG food post ]
Yooohoooooo, I think I'm almost fully recovered yay. Arm's not hurting anymore ! Stomach upsets and vomit-feels are gone too ! ^-^ Today's post is gonna feature some special things and special food items found in Singapore and probably other parts of the world but I don't really see them in Brizzy, maybe I'm a bit blind or I haven't searched extensively enough :3 If you're feeling hungry I advise you not to look now :p
Before we get to the foods, I just want to mention to my future self who will be reading this one day - Sometime in the week I had gone to AMK and I was somewhat harrassed by a random male guy. I honestly thought he was someone I knew 'cause he tapped me on the back and said hello! and waved and grinned wifely. I had no idea he was a crazy or... maybe just unstable. So me and Dinnie were having lunch at ToastBox and he just came and plonked his bag and files and phone on our table, which was a tiny table for two and started talking like he's known me forever.
I was still thinking really hard "Do I know you from somehwere?" I even apologized saying "I really can't remember, can you tell me where I know you from?" and he suddenly asked if I was Korean? And what phone I was using? and blah and then this kinda oba-chan came to sit beside me and he immediately backed off asking "Is that your grandmother?" Dinnie quickly said "Yes! She is!" and he left the table. O_O . Then we walked about 5metres away from our table and started singing to the entire mall. Oh gosh . Why do these things happen to me?
Anyways I want a cute bottle umbrella. I've seen this for years and years and actually I know how shitty they are, they're small and don't fold up nicely and break easily but I want one so I don't have to carry stupid wet umbrellas in plastic bags around. ._. Can't pick one. Who everstill likes Angry Birds oh gadd .
Mmm.. they're all so cute. Okay. It's food time. First the world's favourite :x MacDonalds.
MacDonalds in Singapore have a service station at each outlet, in this one there were two because it was a huge huge MacDonalds. I've actually never seen this anywhere else, not in HK, China, Switz, India, Japan, Korea, Australia etc. I guess only Singapore chains love their customers enough to provide unlimited sauce and straws and tissues and pepper and salt.
Makes life so much easier you know? Why isn't the rest of the world following us? Isn't it annoying to queue up to ask for serviettes or sauces? Maybe it's just a first world problem XD.
Okay another thing is fastfood in Australia is always served in take-away bags. Why? Here and the rest of the world MacDonalds have huge huge eating spaces and food is served on trays. Imagine the amount of paper bags that could be saved. Also it's so much neater to serve food on trays IMO because people here actually clear their food themselves and return the trays to service stations.
It's the Lunar New Year! Twisted Fries !! (So sad it's not a permanent item) and the McSpicy burger is such a strange item because it's not available anywhere except SG and Malaysia I believe. It tastes 20x better than the one in Australia, because it's peppery instead of sweet chilli sauce. Ughhh, how I wish I could let every one in the world just take a bite of this and see how heavenly it is. Even Dengyin who struggles to eat spicey food braves her tears and running nose and sweat and possibly stomach upsets to eat this deeeeeliiiishhhhhiious chicken.
So here are some pictures of MacDonalds outlets in Singapore and also the McCafes. (Just taken from the internet, they're usually packed with people!)
"2009 Streetdirectory" jeezus, even back then the outlets were so spacious and pretty already, MacDonalds is like the one fastfood chain in SG that constantly renovates it's cafes. It's actually one of those places you can see groups of school kids sitting and hanging out after school or people study in these cafes because libraries (oh my lawdy, when you see how beautiful libraries in SG and how many there are.... I never ever appreciated things like this until I lived overseas) and Starbucks are always full .
This is probably the newest outlet in SG at the moment, at East Coast Park. Not sure if completed yet or just Artist's Impression. See main counter on the left and cafe counter on the right. So well organized. Simple things like this are what make me happy to come home. Step it up Australia! You have so much freakin' space and potential !
Also during last week I had the chance to meet SinYean! My dear colleague from SPH who played Battleships with me and we got in trouble and my dear penpal in Melbourne (: He had heard of a dessert place named "Wimbly Lu" near both our homes and decided to check it out. For my readers and friends who are interested in this place, it's about 100metres away from my old and glorious Jalan Lateh House.
I felt heart-broken walking past my old gigantic house with a million memories of parties and slumber parties and halloween nights and etc. The home which housed most of my tears when I was going through hard times and also the happiest place for me when friends were over and the amount of times I sneaked in and out of this house and and and... a certain Spiderman even broke into my house and climbed three stories into my room from the back once as a surprise and I almost had a heart-attack.
I hope you're serving your new owners well. I would have sold you away. Just FYI, we bought this beauty at 1.8million and it was sold at 4million but someone once upon a time offered up to 6million for it when we weren't planning to move. Our current Surin Villa was bought at 2.6million but its gone up to 4million + now. I hear plans of moving away.. either to the East Coast or Bukit Timah. Hopefully the new place will be as gorgeous as Jalan Lateh was ♥ Love you 5eva home ~
OKAY! I just took a while and dug up my very old blogposts and found a House Tour of Jalan Lateh post, but its pretty outdated because our house did change quite alot because Alisha was just 2years old in that post so her room and the living room area changed as she grew up. And my room had been repainted red and all the posters gone and I probably got 20 more soft toys on my bed over the years. But not bad not bad, just scrolll down until you see the BRING MORE WOMEN ! because it has some silly stuff about school .
I can cry .. .. not just at the amount I miss that house and my table setup and whiteboard and .. crying at the way I wrote that post XD
So the star is where the old house is and the Green Arrow points towards Nex and towards my new home about 3bus-stops away. Yes we used to live directly in front of a church and it was great! Because it had a huge space for badminton and basketball and teaching Alisha to cycle.
I haven't read any reviews of Wimbly Lu so I had no idea what it was like. I think it would do so much more business in a better location. I didn't really like the place because it was narrow and cramped and the tables were very tiny and hard to eat on.
I just had a Waffle with Salted Caramel icecream woooop (: The waffle was nice and crunchy. Not sure about anything else on the menu. I think this is the most famous thing here. Honestly I wouldn't come here again because every thing else on the menu can be found elsewhere in a nicer environment and cheaper too. Sadly I can't recommend this place to people but if you really like waffles and you want to dine on a tiny table with inconsistent plates and cutlery, you can go there.
I also got to go to Bukit Timah Food Centre because Andrew and Dengyin lovingly drove me there just to eat Char Kway Teow. But it's changed sooooo much, all the food isn't good anymore.
This my friends of Australia, is REAL Char Kway Teow. It does not exist in ANY chinese restaurants in Australia. Believe me, IT'S ALL A LIE. Real charkwayteow is cooked with two types of noodles, the egg ones and the flat noodles which is called "Guo Tiao" in Chinese. CKT also traditionally is cooked with lard and cockles which Singaporeans call "Hum" and most of the time they have pork in it. However, I specially asked for this one to have no Pork or Lard (: and asked for veges ~ also it usually comes with beansprouts and chilli but you can say no.
Trust me even tho it might look similar, I have never ever ever ever tasted anything close to authentic Char Kway Teow in any part of the world. Not even Asian countries. Anyway this traditional food is dying along with many delicious Singapore food so .. hopefully you guys travel to SG because China and India completely take over this country and everything good is gone. Also just saying, The "Chow Mein" you guys order in Asian places tastes nothing like the real "Chao Mian"
Sorry :P But it's probably because the spices vary between the countries and they're trying their best. Or I hope they are. Not to be biased, but probably the best place to go for SG and Malaysian food is the restaurant I worked at "Satay Ria" at Cannonhill. I don't work there any more for personal reasons but you may go and enjoy the food there (:
Final section of this post is about going to the Supermarket, everything I bought today was with my darlinggguuuuuu in mind. XD
We both love this insanely expensive chocolate square wafers which only comes in like 100g packets in Brizz, meanwhile 250g packets cheaper than the Australian 100g packets, so since Daddy's paying... 5 small boxes? :p because the packet kind will get so crushed.
That's all ! I really put in effort to type this post today hope you guys liked it! ^-^
Before we get to the foods, I just want to mention to my future self who will be reading this one day - Sometime in the week I had gone to AMK and I was somewhat harrassed by a random male guy. I honestly thought he was someone I knew 'cause he tapped me on the back and said hello! and waved and grinned wifely. I had no idea he was a crazy or... maybe just unstable. So me and Dinnie were having lunch at ToastBox and he just came and plonked his bag and files and phone on our table, which was a tiny table for two and started talking like he's known me forever.
I was still thinking really hard "Do I know you from somehwere?" I even apologized saying "I really can't remember, can you tell me where I know you from?" and he suddenly asked if I was Korean? And what phone I was using? and blah and then this kinda oba-chan came to sit beside me and he immediately backed off asking "Is that your grandmother?" Dinnie quickly said "Yes! She is!" and he left the table. O_O . Then we walked about 5metres away from our table and started singing to the entire mall. Oh gosh . Why do these things happen to me?
Anyways I want a cute bottle umbrella. I've seen this for years and years and actually I know how shitty they are, they're small and don't fold up nicely and break easily but I want one so I don't have to carry stupid wet umbrellas in plastic bags around. ._. Can't pick one. Who ever
Mmm.. they're all so cute. Okay. It's food time. First the world's favourite :x MacDonalds.
MacDonalds in Singapore have a service station at each outlet, in this one there were two because it was a huge huge MacDonalds. I've actually never seen this anywhere else, not in HK, China, Switz, India, Japan, Korea, Australia etc. I guess only Singapore chains love their customers enough to provide unlimited sauce and straws and tissues and pepper and salt.
Makes life so much easier you know? Why isn't the rest of the world following us? Isn't it annoying to queue up to ask for serviettes or sauces? Maybe it's just a first world problem XD.
Okay another thing is fastfood in Australia is always served in take-away bags. Why? Here and the rest of the world MacDonalds have huge huge eating spaces and food is served on trays. Imagine the amount of paper bags that could be saved. Also it's so much neater to serve food on trays IMO because people here actually clear their food themselves and return the trays to service stations.
It's the Lunar New Year! Twisted Fries !! (So sad it's not a permanent item) and the McSpicy burger is such a strange item because it's not available anywhere except SG and Malaysia I believe. It tastes 20x better than the one in Australia, because it's peppery instead of sweet chilli sauce. Ughhh, how I wish I could let every one in the world just take a bite of this and see how heavenly it is. Even Dengyin who struggles to eat spicey food braves her tears and running nose and sweat and possibly stomach upsets to eat this deeeeeliiiishhhhhiious chicken.
So here are some pictures of MacDonalds outlets in Singapore and also the McCafes. (Just taken from the internet, they're usually packed with people!)
"2009 Streetdirectory" jeezus, even back then the outlets were so spacious and pretty already, MacDonalds is like the one fastfood chain in SG that constantly renovates it's cafes. It's actually one of those places you can see groups of school kids sitting and hanging out after school or people study in these cafes because libraries (oh my lawdy, when you see how beautiful libraries in SG and how many there are.... I never ever appreciated things like this until I lived overseas) and Starbucks are always full .
This is probably the newest outlet in SG at the moment, at East Coast Park. Not sure if completed yet or just Artist's Impression. See main counter on the left and cafe counter on the right. So well organized. Simple things like this are what make me happy to come home. Step it up Australia! You have so much freakin' space and potential !
Also during last week I had the chance to meet SinYean! My dear colleague from SPH who played Battleships with me and we got in trouble and my dear penpal in Melbourne (: He had heard of a dessert place named "Wimbly Lu" near both our homes and decided to check it out. For my readers and friends who are interested in this place, it's about 100metres away from my old and glorious Jalan Lateh House.
I felt heart-broken walking past my old gigantic house with a million memories of parties and slumber parties and halloween nights and etc. The home which housed most of my tears when I was going through hard times and also the happiest place for me when friends were over and the amount of times I sneaked in and out of this house and and and... a certain Spiderman even broke into my house and climbed three stories into my room from the back once as a surprise and I almost had a heart-attack.
I hope you're serving your new owners well. I would have sold you away. Just FYI, we bought this beauty at 1.8million and it was sold at 4million but someone once upon a time offered up to 6million for it when we weren't planning to move. Our current Surin Villa was bought at 2.6million but its gone up to 4million + now. I hear plans of moving away.. either to the East Coast or Bukit Timah. Hopefully the new place will be as gorgeous as Jalan Lateh was ♥ Love you 5eva home ~
OKAY! I just took a while and dug up my very old blogposts and found a House Tour of Jalan Lateh post, but its pretty outdated because our house did change quite alot because Alisha was just 2years old in that post so her room and the living room area changed as she grew up. And my room had been repainted red and all the posters gone and I probably got 20 more soft toys on my bed over the years. But not bad not bad, just scrolll down until you see the BRING MORE WOMEN ! because it has some silly stuff about school .
I can cry .. .. not just at the amount I miss that house and my table setup and whiteboard and .. crying at the way I wrote that post XD
So the star is where the old house is and the Green Arrow points towards Nex and towards my new home about 3bus-stops away. Yes we used to live directly in front of a church and it was great! Because it had a huge space for badminton and basketball and teaching Alisha to cycle.
I haven't read any reviews of Wimbly Lu so I had no idea what it was like. I think it would do so much more business in a better location. I didn't really like the place because it was narrow and cramped and the tables were very tiny and hard to eat on.
I just had a Waffle with Salted Caramel icecream woooop (: The waffle was nice and crunchy. Not sure about anything else on the menu. I think this is the most famous thing here. Honestly I wouldn't come here again because every thing else on the menu can be found elsewhere in a nicer environment and cheaper too. Sadly I can't recommend this place to people but if you really like waffles and you want to dine on a tiny table with inconsistent plates and cutlery, you can go there.
I also got to go to Bukit Timah Food Centre because Andrew and Dengyin lovingly drove me there just to eat Char Kway Teow. But it's changed sooooo much, all the food isn't good anymore.
This my friends of Australia, is REAL Char Kway Teow. It does not exist in ANY chinese restaurants in Australia. Believe me, IT'S ALL A LIE. Real charkwayteow is cooked with two types of noodles, the egg ones and the flat noodles which is called "Guo Tiao" in Chinese. CKT also traditionally is cooked with lard and cockles which Singaporeans call "Hum" and most of the time they have pork in it. However, I specially asked for this one to have no Pork or Lard (: and asked for veges ~ also it usually comes with beansprouts and chilli but you can say no.
Trust me even tho it might look similar, I have never ever ever ever tasted anything close to authentic Char Kway Teow in any part of the world. Not even Asian countries. Anyway this traditional food is dying along with many delicious Singapore food so .. hopefully you guys travel to SG because China and India completely take over this country and everything good is gone. Also just saying, The "Chow Mein" you guys order in Asian places tastes nothing like the real "Chao Mian"
Sorry :P But it's probably because the spices vary between the countries and they're trying their best. Or I hope they are. Not to be biased, but probably the best place to go for SG and Malaysian food is the restaurant I worked at "Satay Ria" at Cannonhill. I don't work there any more for personal reasons but you may go and enjoy the food there (:
Final section of this post is about going to the Supermarket, everything I bought today was with my darlinggguuuuuu in mind. XD
We both love this insanely expensive chocolate square wafers which only comes in like 100g packets in Brizz, meanwhile 250g packets cheaper than the Australian 100g packets, so
HONEY STARS! Because honey loves to eat cereal and there is no Honey Stars in Australia ):
This is Koko Crunch! It's just called Milo Cereal in Australia I think, and there's no Koala on it ): Why ? Australia y u no put your own animal on the box?
We don't eat bread for breakfast, but that's going to change because GRAPE PEANUT BUTTER WOMBO COMBO :D
Da best kind of potato chips, sadly no more Cheddar Cheese flavour for Ruffles. :3
This the pomelo fruit! I remember mentioning this to Zac's family. Hey Jo and Kate! If you're reading this I'll show you more pictures when my Dad cuts it open! It's a really sweet fruit but very rarely in season.
Okay finally, first time eva I've seen the Giant 10-pack box of Milk Hello Panda :DD it always used to only be available in Chocolate and Strawberry :3 hurrraaayyyyy ~
That's all ! I really put in effort to type this post today hope you guys liked it! ^-^
Labels: ang mo kio, authentic, bottle umbrella, char kway teow, food, harrassed, hawker, honey stars, jalan lateh, koko krunch, pomelo, recovery, singaporean, supermarket, toastbox, wimbly lu
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4:10 PM.
Sunday, December 08, 2013 - [lansmash ! ]
Herrow there! (I took like 10years to type this post today x_x, I hope you enjoy it!)
Yesterday I went to attend a LanSmash tourney with Zac for the first time! I've missed a few of them over the year because of uni and being away and etc. Yay I finally made it to one!(After I completed Atelier Rorona in the afternoon and I felt so lost and empty I had Zac come home to bring me there hehehe)
I've never been to a tournament like this before so I was tres excited.
Entered the stadium at Mount Gravatt and was greeted by this :o ! waaaaaa first, I went to meet Zeeek's friends ^^ but I only knew two of them D: ..
There's Toki in a Pikachu hoodie and Nick-broccoli-san in red
I got to know some others like Gerard and Rob but it felt very awkward to go take photos randomly of people I'm not that familiar with XD. But I kno, I kno these two photos are horribly taken.
OKAY!
So Zac took part in the tourney for a game called Super Smash Brothers Melee! There were people playing other games like StreetFighter, King of Fighters, Marvel vs Capcom, Injustice, Dota 2, Starcraft and Halo :3
Zac isn't caring to tell me the difference between Melee and Brawl right now, but I've heard Brawl is easier and has more characters and I've only played Melee with him and steph, carlisle, lachlan, kasper and I suck shit at the game.
So as the name suggests, you pick a character and smash away at the enemy. I don't understand why this picture doesn't have the characters Roy, Marth or Mewtwo in it. But the idea of the game is to smash enemies off a platform. Each character has its own attack moves and recovery moves to fly back onto the stage or teleport a short distance. It's quite a tough fighting game D:
Okie so that's Marth up there, the only character I know how to use at the moment, besides screaming away when I get hit, I know how to jump, double jump, smash, recover, shield and grab, very poorly tho. I suppose this game can appeal to girls as well because it has cute characters like Peach, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Yoshi and such. Marth seems to be one of the easier characters to learn tho. ^^
Okay I have a good reason for picking up this game so slowly, I understand the commands and I can now see some sort of combos and the distance the combo travels but I can't execute them becauseeeee, all my childhood life I only ever used a Playstation controller like this
So this is the only picture I can find of the commands in Smash, the picture quality is awful I'm sorry ):
My biggest obstacle is using the Jumps, the two grey buttons above the green one, because usually on a sony controller I press O to jump and [] to throw items (in Bomberman) and X to attack. But in the gamecube controller there's three attack buttons A and B and there's the yellow C-stick to SMASH and two jump buttons.
Too many buttons...
AHHHHH ... It's just .. just... too hard ! D:
Yes it's rather difficult for me get used to this controller layout.
Kay moving on to the actual gameplay.
So each player at the lan has their own controller and plug it to the Gamecube here :3 and BEGIN!
So this is Zac's (Syke) first Singles match, and he is raping his opponent, despite playing a horribly weak character called Roy on the right vs Mewtwo on the left, also very weak. At the bottom on the screen there's the number of lives and Roy has 4 (max) and Mewtwo has 1 left.
The more you attack each player the higher their percentage goes, so when you're at 100% and above (max 999%) there's a higher chance of you getting knocked or smashed off the stage and unable to recover. So the Fox at 60% will fly off the stage further than Kirby at 17% if they both got hit by an enemy at the same time.
Ideally in this game you have to avoid attacks and shield and still damage your enemy to get them at a high percentage then blast them with a smash attack off the stage where they can't recover (dash across the screen) back to the stage. There's also platforms and multiple kinds of stages in the game that make it challenging.
watching some Streetfighter
and looking at people's HOOOGE computers
Yesterday I went to attend a LanSmash tourney with Zac for the first time! I've missed a few of them over the year because of uni and being away and etc. Yay I finally made it to one!(After I completed Atelier Rorona in the afternoon and I felt so lost and empty I had Zac come home to bring me there hehehe)
I've never been to a tournament like this before so I was tres excited.
Entered the stadium at Mount Gravatt and was greeted by this :o ! waaaaaa first, I went to meet Zeeek's friends ^^ but I only knew two of them D: ..
There's Toki in a Pikachu hoodie and Nick-broccoli-san in red
I got to know some others like Gerard and Rob but it felt very awkward to go take photos randomly of people I'm not that familiar with XD. But I kno, I kno these two photos are horribly taken.
OKAY!
So Zac took part in the tourney for a game called Super Smash Brothers Melee! There were people playing other games like StreetFighter, King of Fighters, Marvel vs Capcom, Injustice, Dota 2, Starcraft and Halo :3
Zac isn't caring to tell me the difference between Melee and Brawl right now, but I've heard Brawl is easier and has more characters and I've only played Melee with him and steph, carlisle, lachlan, kasper and I suck shit at the game.
So as the name suggests, you pick a character and smash away at the enemy. I don't understand why this picture doesn't have the characters Roy, Marth or Mewtwo in it. But the idea of the game is to smash enemies off a platform. Each character has its own attack moves and recovery moves to fly back onto the stage or teleport a short distance. It's quite a tough fighting game D:
Okie so that's Marth up there, the only character I know how to use at the moment, besides screaming away when I get hit, I know how to jump, double jump, smash, recover, shield and grab, very poorly tho. I suppose this game can appeal to girls as well because it has cute characters like Peach, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Yoshi and such. Marth seems to be one of the easier characters to learn tho. ^^
Okay I have a good reason for picking up this game so slowly, I understand the commands and I can now see some sort of combos and the distance the combo travels but I can't execute them becauseeeee, all my childhood life I only ever used a Playstation controller like this
Enter the Gamecube controller used to play Smash
WHUT! the buttons and layout are all completely different and to me the controller feels slightly bigger but to Zac they're all the same and I have infinite excuses.
My biggest obstacle is using the Jumps, the two grey buttons above the green one, because usually on a sony controller I press O to jump and [] to throw items (in Bomberman) and X to attack. But in the gamecube controller there's three attack buttons A and B and there's the yellow C-stick to SMASH and two jump buttons.
Too many buttons...
AHHHHH ... It's just .. just... too hard ! D:
Yes it's rather difficult for me get used to this controller layout.
Kay moving on to the actual gameplay.
So each player at the lan has their own controller and plug it to the Gamecube here :3 and BEGIN!
So this is Zac's (Syke) first Singles match, and he is raping his opponent, despite playing a horribly weak character called Roy on the right vs Mewtwo on the left, also very weak. At the bottom on the screen there's the number of lives and Roy has 4 (max) and Mewtwo has 1 left.
The more you attack each player the higher their percentage goes, so when you're at 100% and above (max 999%) there's a higher chance of you getting knocked or smashed off the stage and unable to recover. So the Fox at 60% will fly off the stage further than Kirby at 17% if they both got hit by an enemy at the same time.
Ideally in this game you have to avoid attacks and shield and still damage your enemy to get them at a high percentage then blast them with a smash attack off the stage where they can't recover (dash across the screen) back to the stage. There's also platforms and multiple kinds of stages in the game that make it challenging.
So the top left stage is one Zac was playing on and several stages are banned in tourneys but here are some various kinds of stages. So a good player would utilize the stage properties like some aerial attacks cannot work if there's platforms involved so players pick the stage wisely. For me I get very confused with the things on the stage because it looks too messy like Fountain of Dreams stage at the bottom left, it's just far too messy for me to see where my character is especially on 2v2 mode and I panic 'cause I can't see myself T_T and Zac will be like "YOU'RE RIGHT THERE!" or "woman.. why did you just walk off the stage?"
Well that's as in-depth as I can explain in layman terms, watch some videos to understand the game more (:
So while Zac was busy battling ..
(From left) Anthony, Gerard, Zac and Attila (Zac's 2v2 partner)
I was ..
amusing myself with a giant jenga almost as tall as me and very wobbly D:
watching some Streetfighter
and looking at people's HOOOGE computers
The End.
Oh yes, Zakido was the champion of both Singles and Doubles that day! YAYYYYYY !
Labels: attack, gamecube, gameplay, giant jenga, lansmash, melee, recovery, stages, super smash brothers, syke, tournament
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