Singapore Food: Mun Kee Honeymoon Dessert

Like the name, i feel sweet like honeymoon-ing, trying so many types of special dessert.
It took us very long to order, there were so many different types of dessert listed on both the pages!



Can't wait for the dessert! Although it took us half an hour for the long queue, it's worth!
Let me introduce our order, but wait, there were so many choices that i can't remember all the exact name!

Vanila ice-cream with herbal jelly, trust me, it's not that sweet!


Fruits with vanila ice-cream and frog-egg,


This is the must-order, my favourite! Black glutinous rice with mango and vanila,


Special Beancurb with Pomelo vanila juice and mango,



Beancurd filled with mixed fruits,


Red bean soup with vanila ice-cream, a simple one, but still nice!


Tong-Bat-Lat. Glutinous rice mixed with peanut and sugar,


All these look nice, but they are just displayed food and not edible. But i think they look quite tempting!



I highly recommend this shop, as they serve fresh and standard tong sui. Most importantly, all the tong sui tasted just nice, not too sweet, and it's definitely better for your health compared to the sweet one.

Location: Mun Kee Honeymoon Dessert, #01-93 Vivocity
Types of cuisine: Dessert/ Tong Sui
Website link: http://www.honeymoon-dessert.com

Singapore Food: Dian Xiao Er Roasted Duck

Dian Xiao Er, i don't understand what it exactly means, but i know they serve special roasted duck sauce!



This is their attraction, readily roasted duck in front of the shop. The Xiao-er-ge will chop the duck when you make any order. (Xiao-er: That was how my friend addressed the waiter and he answered him!)



We ordered a set of few dishes, which came with a small bowl of soup and rice for everyone and of course, consisted of the special roasted duck.



And this is the main character- Dian Xiao Er Roasted Duck!



At the side of the roasted duck, that is the special sauce: Ten wonder herbal sauce! We also tried on the Ginseng herbal Sauce. Both are marvelous! I was thinking, i should have brought the sauce home so that my mother can start to experiment on how to make it!



I think i should love the roasted duck, not the sauce, but i still love the special sauce! Thanks to my cousin for the treat, specially arranged to welcome me. I will surely miss it when i am back to Malaysia.

Location: Dian Xiao Er, #02-137/8 Vivocity
Type of cusine: Chinese cuisine, specialized in roasted duck
Their website link: http://dianxiaoer.net

Singapore Food: Jollibean

I had Jollibean drink at Changi Airport. I found from their website that they have lots of kiosk in Singapore, i didn't count how many, but it's surely more than 20 branches. They have normal plain soymilk, but their special soymilk attracted me.
They have
- Ice-fruit soya blended
- J-nutty soya blended: peanut, black sesame, almond
- J-freeze series: dark chocolate, coffee, french vanila, mocha
- Others: Ginger soymilk, soy latte, Grass Jelly, Chocolate soymilk, etc!
Everything with combination of Soymilk. How can i resist the temptation?







In their Ice-fruit soya blended, there are watermelon, banana, papaya, honeydew flavour. Can you imagine a papaya ice-blended with soya? I can't! Hence i decided to try on banana. It tasted special, original and healthy as they use fresh banana. For me, it's a nice combination: Banana+ soya.



This is their J-special! Japanese Azuki Red Bean over Matcha Soymilk! What a nice name ya! This even tasted better! I love this!


Besides special soymilk, they also have lots of pancake choices, which looked quite nice. But the drink attracted me more.



Swiss roll pancake?


Hot pancake made on the spot,



Location: Jollibean Singapore Changi Airport T3
Famous for: Food and Beverage made from Soya bean
Their website link: http://www.jollibean.com

Singapore Food: Chilli Crab

Voted as number 35th of the World's 50 Most Delicious Food, we must give it a try.
Chilli Crab is described as the local bestseller, beating all his fellow friend- salted egg york crab, cheese baked, black pepper crab etc. It's spicy, sloppy, meaty delicacy you must try.
~~source: http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/eat ~~

When we first arrived at the one of the flats in Ang Mo Kio, we were so surprised to see the long queue. This must be super duper delicious! This picture shows only part of the long queue! It was about 6pm and they must have to wait longer for the nice crab. I was very lucky that i skipped the long queue as my relative was there before 5.30pm.



Abundant of choices for different type of cooking crab,


Dang dang dang~~ Here come our long-awaited Chilli Crab! We don't waste the gravy, dipping all with fried bun- mantau.



The salted egg crab,



Made-in-Singapore Herbal tea called Jia Jia,


This restaurant is of course, highly recommended by a lot of local artists.




The artists even put signature on the crab's shell for displaying on the wall.



I love the crab so much. The size is more than 1kg per piece in average. They are imported from Sri Lanka. It's very filling that i was full even i only took 1 side of the claws. Their 8-walking legs have meat too, which we normally can't find in small crab. Thanks to my cousin and in-law for the nice treat!

Location: Mellben Seafood Pte Ltd (龙海鲜螃蟹王)
Block 232 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 (St 22)
Type of cuisine: Local Chinese, specialized in crab.

Singapore Food: NYDC, New York Dessert Cafe

There are a few NYDC branches in Singapore, including: Holland village, Wheelock Place, Velocity, Tampines 1, Bedok Point, and the one i visited is at Bugis Junction.
It's not the brand that attracts me to dine in NYDC New York Dessert Cafe, but the cake displayed outside! They are awesomely tempting!

Mushroom pizza (forgotten the exact name of it),


I have forgotten the name of this too, but i remembered the fresh juicy mushroom taste very well!


My Favourite cheesecake: Goldmine cheesecake,

It's described as New York Cheesecake with chocolate chunks, slathered with irresistible chocolate fudge topping and the Oreo cookie crust! yummy!


I am looking forward to the next visit, especially the Pecan pie, or The Big "O" Cheesecake, or even Goldmine Cheesecake again..!

Location: NYDC New York Dessert Cafe, Bugis Junction, Singapore
Type of cuisine: Western and variety of cakes
Their website link: http://www.nydc.com.sg/

China Trip: Shangrila

Shangrila is one of places that I wanted to go so so much. It is described as nearly heaven by James Hilton in his book "Shangrila". A happy and isolated place from the outside world, with friendly citizen, that is Shangrila. I imagined it as a green wonderland with colourful flowers and cows everywhere. However it was totally different from my imagination! That is just because of different season. It's just beginning of summer in mid of March. Hence there is no greenland and flowers, but dull chocolate color field everywhere, and snowing most of the time.




The popular spot in Shangrila is Pu-Da-Cuo National Park. 普达措国家公园.
The area is huge that we need to travel by their environmental-friendly car.
The average altitude at Pu-Da-Cuo National Park is around 3500m in height. Hence all movement should be slow, (despite the frozen toe due to super cold weather).
Although huge, all the places look the same for me as it was snowing everywhere.



Pu-Da-Cuo National Park is China's first national park.

While the region comprises only 0.7 percent of China's land area, it contains more than 20 percent of the country’s plant species, about one-third of its mammal and bird species and almost 100 endangered species.
~~ sources from http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/asiaandthepacific/china/placesweprotect/pudacuo-national-park.xml~~







It should be a worth place to visit. However i suggest that it should be visited during spring or autumn, and not when the place is freezing cold in winter or early summer.

China Trip: Li Jiang Yu Long Snow Mountain

Location: (Mandarin)玉龙雪山
(English) Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Jade Dragon snow mountain is located at Li Jiang. The peak is called Shanzidou (扇子陡), with a altitude of 5,596m.

This is the first time i see snow, and the first time i see snow mountain just right in front of both my eyes, while standing in the middle of strong wind. We took a small van from Li Jiang Shu He old town, and the driver was so careful that he drived slowly so that we can suit our body to the altitude changes. It's a bit hard to breath, as the place is more than 3km in height.
On that morning, it's started to snow, and hence along the way, we can only see half of the snow mountain.




Visitors can choose to hike to the next station or take the cable car. This is the cable car to take tourist up to more than 4km station. Unfortunately, it's hard to see anything on top as it's started to snow. But it's snowing romantically.








There are also two beautiful tourist spots named Blue Moon Valley and White Water Terraces.

蓝月谷
Blue Moon Valley





白水河
White river water terraces





And we were so excited to see this hairy animal! It's called 牦牛, Yaks. I guess this must be a very old yak (look at the hair!)..We can find lots of product sold in Li Jiang town made from yaks, such as dried yaks meat, Chopstick, Comb, keychain, etc.



During the trip, we were advised to take more chocolate and sips of long breath from air in small oxygen tank bought from the shops nearby. I personally think chocolate did help, but not the oxygen tank. Although tiring due to the high altitude, this trip to Jade Dragon snow mountain is definitely worth it.

China Trip: Kun Ming Stone Forest

Location: (Mandarin) 昆明市石林风景区
(English) Shilin National Scenic Area

In Shilin National Scenic Area, you can visit Greater & Lesser Stone Forest (大石林、小石林) and Naigu Stone Forest (乃古石林). The Greater and Lesser Stone Forest are so huge that it took us at least a few hours visiting only stone in the jungle. Luckily we hire a tour-guide or else we must have got lost in the jungle. The stone forest and a village called Suogeyi have been listed as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Hence, they are away from industrial area.















Girl in Kun Ming is called as "A-shi-ma" in their language. The stone looked like a girl is believed to have its own fairy tales, a girl who is waiting for her "A-hei-ge".
The details of the story can be read from this link (in mandarin):






We used up lots of energy walking in the huge area of stone forest especially under the hot sun. But this is really a worth and highly recommended place to visit in Kun Ming, Yunnan.