Kopi o? Kopi c? Kopi o kosong? Kopi siew dai? Not sure which one to order? Look at the guide below and be 'enlightened'! 

Ordering a coffee can be fun, if you understand how all the terms go. If you think you are an expert, challenge yourself with the following facts, see how much you know!

Picuture taken from Fun Toast

Now, you can order a cup of coffee in Singapore, in a truly Singaporean way!

My yuan yang (coffee + tea), from Fun Toast.

Location

CityLink Mall,

1 Raffles Link

#B1-04 S039393

What is the best to have during a cold and rainy day? 

For me, this one, a bowl of slightly spicy and piping hot Kimchi soup! Guarantee to make me sweat after eating it. I tend to order this dish everytime I visited Ming Jia, be it a hot day or a cold day. The taste of this soup was just right, sour enough for me, but a tad salty. On some days, it was saltier than usual. 

Just like the economy rice stall, they also offer cooked dishes for diners to choose. This set came with a complementary seaweed soup. I like their omelette roll, very colorful and attractive looking. Not only my taste buds, my eyes were also enjoying it. 

Was it just me or anyone else find kimchi pancake ($9) expensive? Just Kimchi and pancake mix right? Now I am staring at the ingredients and thinking of making it myself.

The fail-safe ramyon ($5.5), something that can't go wrong no matter where you order it. Especially that they added ingredients like kimchi and egg, to make it more nutritious, and less 'instant'.

They have their menu pasted all over the front stall. Days by days, I can see the pictures increasing in numbers. Can you still spot the aunties behind preparing food?

We had been visiting them since they first opened. They used to be this small. I still remember myself squeezing at the corner enjoying a bowl of hot kimchi soup.

And they have expanded, more seatings here, just right in front of the original shop. They even provide high chairs for those with little ones. 

Location
#B1-07, Bukit Timah Plaza,

1 Jalan Anak Bukit

Sometimes, we called the service staff 'xiao er', just to see if they respond to us. 

So, the 'xiao er' told us that ducklings are their specialties. They offered 3 different flavors - Angelica herbs, ten wonder herbs, and wild ginseng. 

Duck roasted with Angelica herbs ($25.3)

Among the 3 flavors, this is the one we like most and kept coming back for. As far as I know, cheap Angelica can be very bitter; those sweeter type, which usually being used in the confinement food, are expensive. I wasn't sure which type of Angelica they used, but the herbs tasted strong without being bitter, which is why we adore it so much. Those crispy skin, yum yum...

Homemade wheatgrass tofu ($12.6)

This green color tofu got the color from wheatgrass extract. If you don't like the taste of wheatgrass, don't worry, the wheatgrass doesn't taste very strong. The tofu was silky soft and goes well with the seafood.

Chinese spinach in superior stock ($12.6)

With the conpoy, ikan bilis and wolf berries, the stock tasted superb yet healthy. Greens are good for your health!

Fried rice with seafood and xo sauce ($11.3)

We ordered a small portion for sharing. The fried rice was mildly spicy, had enough wok hei and it tasted fragrant. I spotted some tauge too. Who wants a bowl of it?

Location
21 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4,
#B1-32/33, Lot One,
Singapore 689812

It had been a while since I last set foot in Orchard, I had been busy staying at home, experimenting on cakes, dessert, until my weighing scale started to shout for mercy...

I like Gindaco, they are famous for their tako yaki, with the skin was so crispy yet the inside part remain soft and kind of, creamy. Gindaco used to have a branch in Jurong Point, but they didn't seems to do well there, so the tako yaki was left sitting there, waiting for the customer while slowly losing its crispiness. That's it, once it lost its crispiness, there is nothing special about it. Eventually, that branch closed down. However, the other branch in ION Orchard seems to flourish well. Now they even provide seating for their customers.

I love watching how the tako yaki being made. You can tell very easily how experience are the staff by watching how they turn the tako yaki.

Last time, they used to hire more staff, four or five of them standing in a row busy turning the tako yaki, in a very familiar and fast motion. This time, only two person was making the tako yaki, I guess they were rather new.

It was a long wait...

I was quite worried about how the tako yaki will turn out. However, it was a relief, the tako yaki still taste pretty much the same. Mom who only wanted a bite ends up having one whole!

There isn't many farms in Singapore, not to mention animal farm. So, when we saw some interesting pictures taken at Farmart featuring animal feeding session and farm touring session, we got really excited and decided to make our way there during one of the weekends.

It was a rainy day, the smell of the food made us feel really hungry, so we decided to settle our stomachs first at Cheng's Seafood Village, located right inside the Farmart.



Sambal Mussels ($10/$15)
They ran out of mussels, so this was actually sambal lala, at the same price. Actually, I have tried sambal lala that was much better than this. The presentation of this one was ok, but the taste somehow lack the kick.

 

Signature Deep fried beancurd ($10/$15)
Although I am not sure if this was freshly made or taken from frozen package but it doesn't really matter... because it was so addictive! The beancurd were fried evenly without being too hard or oily, while the inside part still soft to the bite. It was the best dish I had for this lunch. They got wiped out within minutes.

Seaweed soup ($5/$8)
The soup was decent, the typical taste of seaweed soup but with a lot of seafood inside. I almost mistaken it as seafood soup instead.

Cuttlefish rojak
This seems to be a popular dish here as I saw many people ordering it. I was really excited to see slices of cuttlefish lying on top of the rojak! Not the conventional rojak you found in the coffeeshop, right? There were even fresh cuttlefish hiding beneath the dried one. The cuttlefish lover at the table couldn't stop eating it, the sauce was licked clean.

Homemade lime juice ($2) and homemade barley ($1.5)
Our creative juice came out and we took a third cup, to make lemon barley drink by mixing these two! Of course, we were no expert in this and made a mess on the table, haha!