Aston’s Express

An outlet just opened at the Kopitiam near my house, so of course we had to give it a try! It was actually pretty good, for coffeeshop fare.

Prime tenderloin with fries and potato salad

Prime ribeye with mashed potato and coleslaw

Hickory BBQ chicken with house salad and pasta salad

Fried fish and beehoon soup

The noodles have to be SPRINGY. It’s so important!

Jin Hua Fish Head Beehoon at Maxwell Food Centre

Hong Kong Jin Tian roast duck

Their fabulous roast duck! I have it with lots of plum sauce

At Tiong Bahru — they have a stand-alone coffeeshop outlet, and a stall at Tiong Bahru Food Centre too. The chef is from Hong Kong.

Ikea

It’s like eating in a canteen

Swedish meatballs. You can buy their frozen meatballs and sauce to make the dish at home, but somehow it doesn’t quite taste the same…

Salmon with veggies & potatoes. Not the best shot, obviously!

Daim cake!!! It’s as good as the candy, if not better

a boring lunch

Fried soft shell baby crabs

Chicken cutlet

Warren Golf & Country Club. Definitely edible…and the prices are always very affordable!

Bak chor mee (minced pork noodles)

Tai Hwa bak chor mee. I don’t like minced meat noodles, but the rest of my family does, and they claim this is the best!

roast chicken rice

It looks better than it tastes

Amoy Street Food Centre, Tanjong Pagar

crispy noodles with sliced fish & chwee kueh

Crispy noodles with sliced fish (“sang mein”, or 生面). I eat this all the time when I have meals at coffeeshops/hawker centres (this is from Kong Wai tze char, which serves up pretty decent tze char dishes)

Chwee Kueh. I ‘ve been eating from this stall — Jian Bo Shui Kueh — since I was a kid. It’s the best in Singapore!

Both stalls are located at Tiong Bahru Food Centre

eating our way around Hong Kong

AMAZING roast goose at Shum Zeng

Sharks fin and chicken conpoy soup, also at Shum Zeng

High tea at the Intercontinental Hotel (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Typical cha chan teng breakfast — greasy and good

Breakfast

Fruit and coconut sago dessert at some cha chan teng

Seafood at Lei Yue Mun

More seafood

Siew Mai — we had dim sum at some restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui. I like the dim sum in Hong Kong because it’s more flavourful than the kind you get in Singapore.

Zha liong (wrapped dough fritters) — it’s really really good. I love having this when I’m in Hong Kong

Fried glutinous rice. So yummy and fragrant!

The obligatory mango desserts (from Xu Liu Shan) one has to have when in Hong Kong (although, admittedly, Xu Liu Shan is a popular chain of dessert cafes, so their desserts are probably not the best you can get in Hong Kong…)