Pasarbella

 

Singapore's own farmer's market - Pasarbella. Those who've not been there, you guys are suckers and missing out. Those who've been, I understand your disappointment of it being SO SMALL.

 

The first thing that greets you when you enter is a spiraling staircase telling you there are seats, and I guess that's when you should know how Pasarbella works. You browse around, buy whatever you want to eat, bring to a table & feast!

 

The florist at the side of the entrance is just magical and enchanting, spent a good 20 mins bugging Gerard to buy me something (anything!) from them because they're all so pretty!

 

The first shop we saw was Huber's Butchery serving gourmet hotdogs but we skipped that because we thought "Nah, so normal... HOTDOGS pft!"

 

Headed straight for the ribs as the glistening slabs of caramelized pork were literally singing our names. These go by weight, so our half slab was around $17 - pricey and not that fabulous. 

 

Thinking that Huber's gourmet hotdogs were normal was our first mistake. Bypassing them for the ribs was our second. Because good golly were they marvelous! 

 

 

This is how marvelous they were - that I forgot to snap a picture before eating BUT that my friends, is a joy; to not have to resist food because I have to take a photo #woesofasingaporean

We ordered the spicy pork to share! It came with bacon bits, sauerkraut and lemon butter (???) and was a joy in my mouth. 

 

 

After the hearty meal, we walked around some more before the case of colourful macarons caught my eye. Bonheur Patisserie is helmed by 1 lady and her 2 helpers, and every thing is hand-baked to perfection! Her shells were crisp yet chewy, and the fillings were exotic flavours like Gula Melaka which weren't toothachingly sweet.

We tried Nutella, Thai Milk Tea & Dark Chocolate first before heading back to buy an entire box of all the flavours cus they were AMAZING. So amazing that I spoke to the owner and waxed lyrical over her bakes hehe ^_^ 

 

Got a drink from this stall but the lady didn't look too happy because we were only buying a drink -_- BOO YOU $4.50 IS STILL MONEY.

 

Walked past a space selling organic produce and the fruits just look very fake as compared to non-organic... And they're so expensive it's okay I'll have non-organic and die a quick death than spend $5.50 on 3 apples that look like plastic hehehe.

 

 

Finally ended our trip at the seafood area that looks like a market and ordered the prawns! You choose your raw produce and they'll cook and serve you ^_^ 

The prawns were served with garlic butter and black pepper sauce but we skipped the black pepper entirely because the garlic butter was totally mindblowing ~~~ Freakishly fragrant and light, we couldn't stop dipping our prawns into it!

 

The seafood area also served sushi, and I ordered the tuna belly ($2.50) - yes just one because Gerard is a no-go for anything raw and japanese. 

While the sushi was memorable, I wasn't exactly crazy over it... but it's worth a try as the seafood are all fresh! 

Ended our feast-day-out with a plum sake and you have no idea just how fucking full we were even if we shared everything. I loved the ambience of Pasarbella, but it was just too small and the variety didn't satiate our palates. It's a great place to come with friends though because you can try more things, and I think a trip back is due soon with the girls! Mmmm macarons, I'm coming for you!!!!

Pasarbella

200 Turf Club Rd

Singapore 287994

欢乐-ing

 

Since my title is 欢乐, I started with a very 欢乐-looking photo of Sharon, Ben and I! ^_^ Have been treating the school semester with nonchalance because obviously I've been having tea-time/beer-time and shopping trips... 

This was taken when I went to study though! So I do still care about my grades, but I am practising a lot of work-play balance. Anyway, the reward system is meant to work; finish 2 chapters and we'll have beer!

 

Me, trying to show off my only true talent: FITTING MY FIST INTO MY MOUTH.

 

And they all (attempted to) try but I am the clear winner as you can see HAHA

Sucha a ball face SIGH.

Before beer, we had only the most fabulous salted egg pork ribs rice! Honestly love it so bad that I'm willing to tahan the spiciness of chilli padi *dedication* 

 

  

DROOLS PLEASE. Marinated with some fragrant wine, the ribs are tender and super more-ish, pretty upset that there's only enough pieces to fill 1/100 of my stomach space (because I am a monster). For $6, I am satisfied though! There's also bits of salted egg yolk that you can find in the sauce but it basically disintegrates when your fork touches it so... IRRELEVANT.

    
UGH SO HUNGRY JUST LOOKING AT IT, JESUS.

New Station Snack Bar
Far East Plaza
14 Scotts Road
 #05-95 


This was another day of studying, because I had a test coming up. But all study dates entailed sooooo much pigging out I am now a giant amalgamation of food in my tummy rolling around the island.

 

Introduced the froyo at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to XueQi which left us freezing in the frosty shop. Always a bad idea to have chilled foods when studying in air-conditioned areas. 

 

Then we had dinner at Hot Tomato @ The Star Vista. Never goes wrong because it's such comfort food, but you must know that you pay for what you get! C'mon la, it's only $13.50 don't expect anything amazing but it's decent. 

Hot Tomato

1 Vista Exchange Green

#01-21

Singapore 138617

 

ROLLING RICE!!!!!!!

I get so excited because I love this establishment so much that I must have their rolling rice when I'm working at Central! They have a lot of flavours and I always get the RollRoll set, where you can choose 2 flavours for only $7.80 *YUMS*

Rolling rice serves up Korean cuisine and offer lots of Topokki, kimbap, and other stuff that I never bothered trying because rolling rice is the BEST! The ones featured are the homemade pork cutlet (fucking amazing) and salmon & cheese, you can choose your dipping sauces but I recommend the mayonnaise that is apparently made with white mushrooms? No idea, but it's deliciuex SLURPS.

Rolling Rice

The Central

6 Eu Tong Sen Street

#B1-49

 

BEER (with Dodo & Sharon) TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THE TEST! We are survivors, 60 questions in an hour and I even managed a 30 minute nap after the paper! So so happy it's over because it was such a gloomy cloud over our heads just studying for it.

 

  

Becoming Tiger's ambassador...

 

Also had Churros! Omg I love warm sweets and churros are the ideal desserts for me, but honestly $3.20? This is straight-up robbery and I am a willing victim because I cannot resist this cup of sugary goodness.

 

You get a choice between Honey, Chocolate, Strawberry & Dulce de Leche for your free topping and the obvious choice is CHOCOLATE. Churrosity's chocolate sauce is something different; not as sweet as Hershey's with a thicker consistency = I LOVE IT. 

 

Buy me a cup and I promise to love you for life.

Churrosity

Holland Village

241 Holland Avenue

#01-02

See what I mean when I've been treating school with nonchalance? Too much fun these days I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, can't wait to graduate and start earning real money because DAYUM I wanna get married asap to spend all of G's money! Hee hee hee *.*

Domestic Goddess (Not)

 

Since the start of the year, I've realized that Gerard and I have been doing a lot more cooking rather than eating out. Kitchen Adventures is a segment I'll start on this platform to share with you guys the foods we (he) made because they're just damn bloody good?! If I could have meals like these all day I'll never have to eat out again hehe.

Disclaimer: I really only do 5% of cooking and 100% of the eating.

 

We were sick of eating out because I only really crave for breakfast at dinnertime I AM SO WEIRD I KNOW so we went shopping and got reeeeeeeally simple necessities for a hearty dinner! I am also aware of the ready meals pictured in the photo - that's me being domestic (in my definition of the word) HAHAHAHA.

Simple meal consisting of bullseye eggs, tomatoes, ham and a jazzed up version of tuna mayonnaise made me a very happy camper! ^_^ Contrary to popular belief, I am pretty easy to maintain ok. Gerard made tuna mayo so damn delish I think I can never eat tuna straight from the can anymore, this is the epitome of SPOIL MARKET you know you know?!?!

 

Am also starting to develop an insatiable sweet tooth that only can be satisfied by warm desserts; THIS IS VERY VERY BAD. Desserts are the killers of all meals!!! Decided to let my cR3aTiV3 jUiC3s flow and came up with very uninspiring Nutella Toasties - yup, not very creative person here. 

I simply toasted some bread and cut them into strips to dip into Nutella............................................... 

It was so easy I got addicted to making them, and if I ever start my own cafe THIS IS MY SIGNATURE DISH.

  

This was our TexMex feast on another day after I got inspired by Chili's fajitas. AND I CAN PROUDLY SAY THAT I DID THE COOKING FOR THIS MEAL woop woop bragging rights are now mine!

Pam very enthusiastically stuck to our dinner menu and was in charge of beverages where she made the widest variety of Margaritas to go with the meal. Thumbs up for spontaneous people like that lor, typical Singaporeans are quite l4m3 and will just come for the food... 

 

MEH TO ALL YOU BORING GRAPES!!!!!! YOU HEAR ME!!! MEHHHHHHH!!!!

 

Trio Fajitas - Roasted Chicken, Grass Fed Ribeye & Cajun Shrimp on a bed of pan-fried bell peppers. So happy that everyone enjoyed it but we had so much condiments and meats that people were having fajitas that resembled burritos HAHA.

 

Also made a Scallop & Bacon Salad! Pretty proud of my sCaLL0p sKiLLz man, they were perfectly browned on both sides and moist + bouncy on the inside ~~~

 

Everyone should be clapping like this for me. 

 

Whaddup blurry picture of our condiments ~

We made homemade guac too and it was SO BLOODY LIGHT and moreish I wanted to die by drowning in a reservoir of it. 

Side note: Bottom right is a bowl of jalapenos. And I know this isn't related but it's pronounced as HA-LEY-PEN-YOS. My biggest pet peeve is mispronunciation and I've had so much displeasure for patrons of Subway who say it in the WORST SINGLISH MANNER ever known to mankind; you have no idea how much I want to take a footlong and slap the person's face to make them learn the right way of life.

 

AND THIS... THIS IS ONE SEXY MOTHERFUCKER OF ALL PASTAS I'VE EVER HAD. 

Gerard created this because he dreamt that he made some luscious, heavenly, god-worthy pasta dish with prawns in a puddle of light tomato broth - AND HE RECREATED IT FROM HIS MEMORY OF THE DREAM.

Like what the fuck is this talent why am I such a failure in life who does these things my boyfriend is like a prophet or something?!?!?!?!?!?!?

It was so good, I'm happy to leave the world now. 

 

This was just earlier today - Quail Tulips wrapped in Streaky Bacon & Seared Scallops. The onions on the quail were pickled and boy oh boy please can I be a pickled onion in my next life. The game was cooked to a perfect medium rare and retained a slight gamey taste which I was a little freaked out by, but nonetheless a joy in my mouth. 

Scallops were, as usual, everyone's favourite! What more to say right? Hello, scallops leh!

That's all I have but till the next adventure, I wish everyone a belly-full week ahead  n_n

PoTeaTo

 

Woke up at 5pm today nursing a hangover from last night's party with the best bunch and the Fathership decided to bring me out for a good oily meal to suppress my nauseating hunger! I was feeling like a sloth (what's new) and didn't want to travel far, so we kept our venue within the estate. 

Walked to Kim Tian because Daddy wanted to try Potbellies, only to find out they serve the same shizz as Hearts of House*... WHY EAT THE EXACT SAME NONSENSE AT A DIFFERENT JOINT RIGHT?!

*Hearts of House has closed down. They served a mix of different cuisines but all were mostly TexMex fare which we were not impressed with. They, however, had an extensive beer menu that was to the father's liking #alcoholicdad #alcoholicdaughter but too bad they're gone!

So we ventured further and decided on PoTeaTo since 1) who hasn't tried Forty Hands and 2) we are sick of SocialHaus. Dinner options were pretty limited because we didn't want to have the same foods, and we practically remember all the items on both Forty Hands' & SocialHaus' menus. 
 

Ordered the sausage platter, classic chicken wings & Louisiana ribs to share! There was a 1-for-1 promotion for Kronenbourg and Lindelmann beers, and it's ALL DAY so daddy got his beers while I opted for a Peach Lychee iced tea.

 

The sausage platter wasn't much but consisted of a pork chorizo and cheesy chicken; it looked pretty sad when served but packed a punch when we tried it! Honest, quality gourmet sausages never go wrong. The chorizo was slightly spicy for that added kick while the cheesy chicken had cheese oozing out like liquid gold. 

Pleasantly surprised with this one. 

 

The classic chicken wings were... classic. Nothing fantastic in my opinion, except for the fact that it was fried till a shattering crisp but the innards were moist and fragrant. There was a hint of ginger in its flavour which I thought was quite comforting for some reason. 

 

 

Star of the night was the ribs! SO BIG THAT I COULDN'T FIT THE ENTIRE PLATE INTO A FRAME. The meat was tender, and portion was generous for an $18 price tag. Though they could've grilled it to a more charred exterior, the ribs were flavorful and fell off the bones like silk mmm I'm getting hungry again. 

It came with wedges and a side salad in balsamic vinegar and oil (YAY gimme some of dat dressing all day errday!), with a saucer of mustard-coloured sauce that I couldn't figure out if it were cheese or mayonnaise. BUT IT WAS GOOD. 

I'd be back for more small bites rather than their dinner menu because it was very minimal. Looking forward to try their chips and fries because I went to Google and everyone has been raving about them! 

PoTeaTo

78 Yong Siak St

S163078

6221 2488

www.poteato.sg

Cherryqqeats

My entire life has always revolved around food; I grew up in an F&B environment and was always exposed to the industry because of my family business and my Dad's love for eating (almost anything).

My family sells food served on a hotplate. We've had it since I was very little, perhaps when I was around 7 or 8. Today, I am 22 so we've been operating for 14 YEARS! I grew up with the shop - moving from Merchant Sq to Le Meridien till where we are now and it hasn't been a smooth journey, especially so when you have a crazy mother and a psychotic father working together, but I'd say it was bittersweet.

Growing up was an amalgamation of trying out different cafes, new restaurants on the block, discussing business ideas and experimenting with my father. His immense love and passion for food allowed me to do a myriad of things connected to the food industry. Not only that, he taught at Raffles International because he enjoyed sharing his culinary experience with the younger generation.

My interest in food grew, but obviously not for cooking due to my apparent lack of domestic skills.

Yup, that would be me in the kitchen...

And most of you would know that Gerard is also a chef, AND HAVING A CHEF BOYFRIEND REALLY MAKES YOU FAT. But that is besides the point. The point is, he is also teaching me so much and I've learned several cooking techniques (in theory only of course, never practical for me) so I sound very smart when describing food HAHA!

With much persuasion from Pamela (G's sister), I decided that yeah I should do a food blog because that's what I do - I eat with everyone! I also enjoy writing so it's perfect! Plus, I have my dad and Gerard to give me tips on how to explain and describe certain things to make my posts a little more informative so I thought why not? 

The OCD freak in me is going nuts because I'm not gna start a new one, but just continue here on this space. Want to work on changing the layout and realized that my header is already so perfect because I am being a greedy pig eating no less than beehoon... so Singaporean. 

Yup! So that was the point of this post! I'll tag the food posts under #cherryqqeats so it'll be neater and easier for those who just want to read about the food only. 

And do leave comments (if there's even anybody reading it...) on where I should try next if you have a place that simply cannot be kept to yourself and is so darn good you gotta spread da luRv3 ~~~