So today, I decided to go out again after maybe 1 or 1.5 weeks and get something I missed eating! The Nasi Goreng Istimewa! Used to eat this so often before CB! The Mrs wanted to have the laksa, it has 2 prawns and hum too! The laksa gravy is separated. So no soggy noodles. The my also daily special $6 meals! Today’s daily special is the kid’s fav Spaghetti Bolognese. Yes, very tasty that the kid finished the whole portion. She’s a pasta girl! They have delivery service or you can pick up from the Kent Ridge Guild House, Suntec City Guild House or Mandalay Guild House. (Drive thru pick up, so you don’t need to get down the car, Suntec pick up is at Tower 5 taxi stand). Only for members only, coz you’ll be billed together with your monthly subs.

I ordered 3 family sized 🥧 for 3 households! Baked in this wood fired oven at @FireBakeSG, East Coast Road. Took the first 3 photos of the oven, and the Chef @kblokbergen way back in 2017 (so they are grainy coz was using iPhone 7 then). The last photo of the pie is ‘picked’ from their social media pages.

They are 1kg Woodfired Family size Beef (or Chicken) Pie. Their description sounds so tasty, I’ll just repeat (paraphrased) it here: chunks of beef, carrots, celery, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, star anise and cinnamon. Enriched with tomato paste, veal stock and red wine. Pie is then topped with cheddar cheese and enrobed in short crust pastry then off it goes into the woodfired oven. They also recommend mash potatoes to go with it, but I preordered their mushroom soup instead coz it’s so good (and I know the 3 mothers I am sending them too are mushroom soup fans). For prices etc, you can check their IG / FB. You have to be quite patient when you Whatapp them. Like any F&B now, they have super lean staff strength. So be patient like me. Haha.... (oh yes, the pies are only available from 8 - 10 May, limited bakes daily, I chope 3 already).

Wifey just want some coffee shop style dim sum, and we can actually find them on GrabFood! So fast too! Less than 15 mins and it arrived from TradeHub! Faster than us walking to a coffee shop! Zhi Bao Ji is quite nice. So is the Bak Kwa Bao!

We have a rule, anyone goes out of the house, come back must shower. This is less hassle! Lol!

So we have veg with egg (with clams) and pumpkin and pork soup. This soup is so good. The dried oysters, ginkgo etc in the soup made it so lovely!

We were surprised that the Mrs served the veg in this ceramic plate. She spotted it while housekeeping. She can’t believe the kitchen stuff that I used to buy before we got married.

It’s actually an induction friendly ceramic pan! Magic isn’t it? Normally if you want to use ceramic stuff, you can’t use it on an induction cooker. This one can because it has a metal plate embedded inside the ceramic pan. I bought it at @tottstore long ago, you can check them out to see if they still have it.

Supposedly helps you count. I have to eat this coz I’ve lost count of how many days since CB started!

Thanks to my Aunt who made this for us! So yumz! Had it with the pickles cucumber!

I think Japanese cucumber taste better than Lebanese cucumber. This time let it pickle longer by an extra day. The last few times, we are it up within 24 hours! 6-7 cucumbers shrank to only barely 1 bottle. Split to 3 portions. 2 portions given to neighbours as food exchange! Hope they like it! Need to order more cucumbers!

Coz the wife thinks that finally it’s time for the kid to try Mackerel. (I think lots of parents don’t let their kids eat fish that’s high in mercury too.) She actually likes it!

Except the use of plastic which is not green. (Maybe if we reuse the containers at least 2 times before throwing it away?)

CB is a time to clean up pantry. So it got transform to a very tasty Flourless Chocolate Chestnut Cake. I like it when it’s chilled! Goes well with my @starbuckssg Iced Matcha Latte. I think I have come up with a ratio that I love to make the matcha latte. Still not ice blending it coz I don’t want to clean the blender.

Was supposed to have it for tea time then I think the heavy rain started right after I click order. So my order that was supposed to come between 3:30-4:30 got changed to 5:00-6:00 on the website. It then arrived at 5 pm. We had it for dinner instead.

Wife has been wanting to eat the fried chicken the whole week, but been getting not delivering to our area in Grab when she wants to eat it.

Got to know that from today, you can order directly at @shihlinsnacks website itself and islandwide delivery for $4.99. But there’s a min delivery of $30. Then realised there’s a free BBT when you order $35. So why not right? Hahahahaha. We ordered directly with them, but it arrived by foodpanda.

3 diff variation of Mee Suah. One with no chicken. One without vinegar (for kid). One with chilli. The BBT we had: 1983 Boba Milk Tea, Brown Sugar Milk Tea, Lemon Aiyu Jelly with honey. I think the Brown sugar milk tea not bad. I think the milk tea not sweet enough. Lol!! Oh yes, we stir fried a mix veg to go with it. That turned it into a more wholesome meal. 😂

I saw the cucumber pickles and experiment with it. They are so addictive!

The daikon pickles was left on our door by our downstair neighbour. Hang already, she goes home then text please see the surprise at the door! Neighbour used Maangchi’s recipe.

It’s super easy. Cut cucumbers 🥒 in a shape that is bite size like. (I can’t find the fancy knife that will cut things like crinkle cut chips, I asked sis she said your buying habit has every fancy tool or gadget, but I think the fancy knife is not in our home, it’s in mum’s home!) So I used an apple corer instead, gives it a nice shape. Don’t laugh, it’s a Wilton apple corer! Hahahahaha.

Put the ingredients in a bottle, I used 2 Jap cucumber, add like 1 teaspoon of salt, shake shake. Then add in one clove of mince garlic. 1 chilli padi. A tiny squeeze of honey and juice of 1 big lime (or half a lemon). Shake shake shake. Then wait for 3-4 hours. Before serving, drizzle 1/2 teaspoon of sesame oil over it.

Out of curiosity, I bought all different kinds!

My side of the family, mum cooks Bee Hoon using the finest bee hoon. There are super super fine one (think Heng Hwa Bee Hoon kind). Then I discovered that the wife’s side of the family, they always cook using the thickest bee hoon!

So when sis prepared this Bee Hoon using the ‘laksa’ thickness bee hoon, the wife really like it. She said it’s her childhood food. For me, sis uses kunyit (turmeric) in the bee hoon, so it’s familiar to me. Only in CB times, we start cooking food with flavours we used to eat!

This brand of bee hoon, I think everyone also likes. It’s always sold out! Arghh. We should have bought more (2 packs) instead of 1 pack of each thickness every time.

Are you the fine (you xiu) or the thick (chor lor) kind of bee hoon person? 😂😂😂