First and foremost, I would like to thank 1-Caramel and OpenRice Singapore, for inviting me down for the Open Rice Tasty Union (ORTU) event, making new friends, networking and catching up too, with the accompaniment of nice and delicious food, followed by the a wide variety of sweet desserts and cakes. It was a nice place, great ambience and cosy, excellent for relaxing and enjoying desserts, cakes and drinks.

Before we had desserts and cakes, a nice big plate of different appetisers were served followed by pizzas. All of us being bloggers, began taking photos of the different food spread on the tables first, followed by the tasty and delicious eating and enjoyment, chatting and eating, taking it slow and easy, having a great time with all around.

The highlight of the ORTU at 1-Caramel arrived with the arrival of different cakes and desserts on the table, all of us were big and wide open, glued to the different cakes and desserts on hand. The action immediately kick started with photography of course, all of us bloggers wanted to get nice beautiful photographs to share with their family, loved ones and friends ! Once that is completed, we all started to tuck in and enjoy the various cakes and desserts !!

Some of the desserts and cakes we had were :

- Passion Fruit Souffle

- Warm Apple Crumble

- Strawberry Short Cake

- Chocolate Praline Cake

- Banana Cream Cake

- Maltesers Cheese Cake

Where can you find such beautiful and delicious cakes and desserts ? At 1-Caramel of course !!

Here are the details of 1-Caramel -

The Luxe, 6 Handy Road, #01-01A Singapore 229234

T: 6338 3282   F:6338 3283

W: www.1-caramel.com E: info@1-caramel.com

Opening Hours :

Sun – Thur : 11am – 11pm

Fri – Sat : 11am – 1am

Do not underestimate the power of your sweet tooth calling out for you ….. to go and try those cakes and desserts out, resistance is futile against amazingly sweet desserts and cakes … Go try them out at 1-Caramel !

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They are located at People’s Park Complex Food Centre and their Wanton Mee is pretty tasty, they didn’t rush their noodles and had a bit of a wait, not too long though. They used black soy sauce, different from the tomato or chili sauce that you would usually find in other Wanton Noodles. In their bowl, they also shredded chicken slices and it was nicely cooked. Their soup is nice too and their dumplings make it a bit more different with prawn pieces mixed along with their minced meat, you don’t usually find the Wanton (dumplings) to be filled with prawns slices.

Gabriel ordered the paper wrapped chicken too as a side dish and it’s been a long time since I tasted it, overall, I liked it. If you like to try them out, here are their details

Qun’s Noodles

People’s Park Complex Food Centre

#01-1102

Do drop by and Try them !

Photo Source : Lomography Lubitel Microsite

Learning photography is always on-going, very excited to start from scratch learning another field of photography, excited in the prospects of mastering the TLR and bringing it out for my personal photography project that I would be sharing shortly, another area that I would be exploring and taking photographs would be portraits/people photography using medium format on my Lubitel 166B, bought from E-Bay at a price that I was comfortable with.

Lomography has a dedicated microsite on the Lubitel 166+, with excellent information, history and photographs taken using Lubitel 166+, a newer ( and more modern) cousin of my Lubitel 166B. Checking Flickr groups on Lomography, TLR and Medium Format have been inspiring and I am looking forward to capturing photographs with my Lubitel 166B, sharing with all my readers here and on Flickr.

Looking forward, I would love to share my TLR and b&w Medium Format photojournalistic adventures with you all … What is my personal photography project all about ? It’s about Old Places …

The gravy is thick and delicious, nice amount of ingredients inside the bowl of Lor Mee, whenever I have it, the thick gravy would be finished up by me, leaving not much “evidence” behind Oh yes, do not forget to add sliced chilli, pepper and vinegar to be mixed inside and along with the other delicious belly pork inside !

Yuan Chun Famous Lor Mee

Amoy Street Food Centre

#02-79/80

Closed on Mondays and Tuesday

Do remember to drop by and have a taste of the Amoy Food Centre Famous Lor Mee if you have the chance !

While walking down Liang Seah Street towards Shaw Towers, a pretty young lady handed us a pamphlet, an Opening Special of $3 dessert combo and it was for their official launch, it looked really tasty and interesting and all of us decided to go up and try it out. Ok, before I proceed further, the name of the shop is Dessert Factory and here are its details

101 Beach Road, The 101 Building

#02-01

Tel : 6336-7336

URL : www.desserts.com.sg

It was a pretty cosy place, for that evening itself, I tried their chocolate banana cupcake along with their famous Taiwan Milk Tea, overall, I personally liked it a lot, would be planning to go back and try out other varieties of cupcakes as well as other desserts too.

We all had a fun time, chatting away and our topic is mainly about photography, food and travel experiences, lots of sharing and fun time shooting photos of the food and cameras. Nice to meet Noel for the first time too and great to catch up with the rest again.

What makes it different from the rest of the other stalls ? The ingredients are very similar across different stalls in Singapore, however, their cooking style is “more wet”, whereby you feel less of the cooking oil, yet the fragrance is still rich and strong inside the Char Kway Teow. That is why the Marine Parade Central stall has big spoons for their customers in case they prefer to use the spoon over the chopsticks !

Who they are and where can you find them ?

Apollo Fresh Cockle Fried Kway Teow

Blk 84 Marine Parade Central
#01-174 Marine Parade Central Market and Food Centre S440084

On 18th August 2010, I was very honoured and happy to be selected by OpenRice Singapore, for their OpenRice Tasty Union (ORTU) at Kazbar. I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to Kazbar for the invitation, the very delicious food, introduction and sharing their expertise on Middle East cuisine and their warmest hospitality.

Kazbar at Church Street, has a great ambience, lovely crowds, cool place to chill out and awesome Middle East cuisine, well suited for your dinner date or even your corporate functions or alumni functions ! During the ORTU, I had a great time chatting with fellow OpenRicers and Michelle, a great host, with her warm hospitality and sharing.

The ORTU food tasting list was really really very delicious, along with Michelle’s patiently showing and explaining which dish was which, it made it very interesting and intriguing. A great eye opener for me was learning more about Middle Eastern cuisine, considering that I had traveled a fair bit and tasted different foods from different cultures and countries, during ORTU @ Kazbar, I learned a lot more about Middle Eastern cuisine !

What did we tasted at Kazbar during ORTU ? Here it goes …

Mixed Mezze Platter ~ combination of hummus, moutabel, babaghanoush, cheese borek and falafel

Mixed Grill Platter ~ lamb chops, shish taouk, shish kebab, and lamb kebab

Other wonderful dishes tasted : Tabbouleh, Prawn Kebab, Mousaka, Um Ali

Each dish that I tasted, simply delicious, especially the charcoal grilled mixed platter ! Oh yes, I must specially mention that we  tasted a year 2002 vintage red wine from Lebanon vineyards ! As much as my knowledge and understanding of wine, it was my very 1st experience with wine from Lebanon,something that I never heard before and I am glad to learn something new that night! My recommendation is to try it !!

If you would like to contact or know more about Kazbar, their details are as follows :

Address : 25 Church Street, #01-03 Capital Square

E-mail : info@kazbar.com

Website : www.kazbar.com

Facebook : Kazbar

Phone : +65 – 6438 2975

Fax : +65 – 6438 2971

Opening Hours:
Capital Square – 12noon to 12 midnight Monday to Friday, 17:00 to midnight on Saturdays
Cuppage Terrace – 16:00 to 23:00 Monday to Sunday

If you need an awesome location for your function or event, Kazbar would be a great recommendation !

Take a look at their Wanton Noodle, it’s not your “normal” Wanton Noodle. This wonderful dish comprises of Chicken Feet, Char Siew, Mushrooms and Fried Wanton ! What a great combination ! Their Wanton Noodle tastes delicious and their skill is superb with the noodles cooked really very yummy and just nice perfectly !!

Well, that’s not all, when you are there trying out the Wanton Noodle, you must eat more Chicken Feet with mushrooms covered with thick gravy, deep fragrance and wonderful taste, well cooked and simply delicious !! That’s not all, the Wanton soup, it’s a Must Try !! Wantons taste superb and the soup base is really well cooked, sweet and filled with stock fragrance …. What’s the fragrance, I leave it for you to go there and try it out ! Do check out famous Singapore Food Blogger ieatishootipost wrtie up on this Famous Wanton Noodle too !

大姐 Famous Wanton Noodle is located at 209 Jalan Besar (at corner of Sam Leong Road and Jalan Besar) , open only from 0700 hrs to 1400 hrs from Monday to Saturday. Ladies and Gentlemen, go for it ! Must Try Food !

Photo Courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Ltd

However, when I was invited by T3 Singapore Magazine on behalf of Sony Entertainment Hong Kong, to attend Sony Playstation Wave Launch Event as part of the Singapore Blogging Community. There wasn’t any hesitation from myself and RSVP that I am attending ! On Wednesday 11th August, at Se7en @ Iluma, I registered and entered as Media !!

Photo Courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Ltd

It was a very fun event, nice refreshments and lots of big Sony TV screens attracting us to start action, trying and playing with the new Sony Playstation Wave ! It was a grand event too, with key management executives from Sony, Mr. Tetsuhiko Yasuda, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Asia, Mr. Katsuhiko Murase, Deputy Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited, and Mr. Norihiro Nishimura, the director of game development for “Time Crisis Razing Storm”, who were here to grace this event and presented to us, the Sony Playstation Wave.

Photo Courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Ltd

With a big bang, the Sony Playstation Wave was launched and we were given the opportunities to try out the various Sony Playstation Wave games available, with pretty energetic Sony models demonstrating how to use and play with the Sony Playstation Wave (and of course, being my team player in some of the 2 player games )

Photo Courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Ltd

Check out my tech write up + quick gaming experiences of the Sony Playstation Motion Controller here on my personal blog too !

However, I decided that I would like to share my favourite eating places, food, dishes or cuisines (local food and my travels) with my local and international readers. Whenever I travel overseas, I would love to look out and try different local food of the host country. Today, for my very first Must Try Food, let me share with you a short story ….

I chased this stall when it was located at Shaw Towers food court, introduced by my colleagues 5 years ago and since my first taste, I never looked back. Whenever I visited Shaw Towers, I would always go for the stall and their trademark food, however, there was a time when they moved away and I was sad that they weren’t around. Later, I found out that they moved to Bras Basah Complex food court and I followed them to eat their trademark food again. Yet, they moved again ! This time, I didn’t have any idea where they moved to … Recently, I was chatting with my old friend on this food stall and he told me, they had their own retail shop outlet now!

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Supreme Pork Chop Rice, located at Middle Road, beside Great Eastern House, diagonally across Shaw Towers junction.

Chicken Cutlet Fried Rice

Pork Chop Rice !!

My testimonial : I chased from Shaw Towers to Bras Basah Food Court to Middle Road …. My all time favourite is Pork Chop Rice ! Must Try !