Digging Swiss

I love the  Swiss Club in Singapore. Not only that it has super awesome recreational and relaxation facilities, it too prides itself for excellent cuisine with a number of exclusive restaurants serving the members. So happy, my Swiss girlfriend who is presently based in SG took me ( and my brother) there and I was able to indulge on my favorite Swiss dishes.

This was at the Arbenz, one of the restaurants inside the club. It serves ala carte menu of international cuisines particularly Swiss favorites.



I notice most  food blogs gave a big fuss over the complimentary breads. They usually paid huge praises over the freshness and excellence of the breads. Hmmm, they all taste the same to me, even quite similar to our breads at home ( I'm actually keen on procuring quality breads for my family ). It must be that bloggers organically are sweet creatures and that's the way they show gratitude. In this respect, please include me in the group, haha.



On the table : my brother's plate of lamb kebab. Yes, this resto serves Turkish cuisine too. Sorry, I forgot to taste it. I was busy with my own plate.

gf's hubby while cooking for us at home
I was so excited with my plate. I was secretly wishing that my girlfriend's husband  would cook for us again at  their  home. But during the duration of our most recent ( a month ago) SG visit, the husband was always out of SG attending his business commitments.

No, this is not from this resto. This was my plate full of girlfriend's husband homecooked dishes which I love.. .




. . and missed, so I ordered a plate with some similar elements like the creamy spinach. The square thingy in my plate is not a slice of bread as it looks like right there. It was a sausage or was it a ham? haha. I'm not sure. On top of it was an egg and beneath it beside the green spinach was mashed potato. Calorie packed! luveth!!

While I was digging Swiss dishes, my girlfriend had too much of  them serving daily  right  inside her home and was happy to indulge in Asian cuisine. She had a big plate of szechuan chicken which I helped myself with some pieces and really quite delicious. Perfectly sweet and spicy. Want this noooow!!!

The little misses ( my gf's daughters) had their favorites. Same grilled ham/sausage as mine, only her side dish was pasta. The sauce she was pouring here was unknown to me.



The youngest miss had her forever fave buffalo wings. I had a piece of this and found out it wasn't actually the usual spicy wings. It was less spicy but very tasty.



gf's hubby's rendition of chicken in red wine? haha, not sure what's the name
For me, gf's hubby's homecooked Swiss dishes are still the most delish.

Durian Mpire

Stumbled upon an outlet of Durian Mpire at T3 of Changi Airport. Over and over again, I shout - "I am a duarianholic!!!" For the record, this would be my fourth post on durian. All of which ( here , here and here ) show my addiction to the king of fruit and how often I crave for it but life is unfair_ it's a rare fruit in my city, I hardly get a chance to indulge on it

But in Singapore, everything is available 24/7 in every corner. Lucky citizens!
 Durian, durian. .ohh how I love thee. . let me count the ways. .



I love durian as it is_ raw and simply fruit, but I can't deny the fact that I do enjoy it in its so many forms (pastries, ice cream, candy, etc) especially when  I found out more variations of it when I visited the province where it hails in my country_ Davao. I thought I've seen enough of durian's revolution. But here at Durian Mpire _wow! Look - crepe, puff, mousse, mochi , and the cakes !



I could go on the whole day tasting each of them.. but instead, I was happy to have tried  their signature durian cake. Heaven!

Xin Wang Hongkong Cafe

I've seen lots of Hongkong cafes in Singapore. During my recent visit to this lion city, we ate again at Xin Wang Hongkong Cafe in Bukit Timah Road which was the branch nearest to the place I stayed in. It was actually located right outside the gate of the village where my friend resides. By its name you would think that it is serving strictly Chinese cuisine, actually the menu is a fusion of Asian and Western cuisines.



My carnivore brother had this beef slices sunk in a steamy sauce and partially covered with pork floss.

My friend had this boring plate of rice and porkchops.

I missed noodles being served from this side of Asia, so I had meat and noodles. .

with sweet & sour dip on the side which made this dish so tasty.

All dishes were served  with pudding _ which none of us liked. Pudding here was too bland for our sweet teeth.



Longan juice was the best thu'. I always envy how big longans are in other country. At home, longans available are only half the size of their longans here.



Ofcourse, I never missed their famous snow ice which was sooo huge!!!
Nah, I didn't finish it all by myself, I had to ask my brother to help me finish it. It was so yummy thu'.

My Bf's Husband Cooks

I went to visit my friend in Singapore (again. . ) . Unlike our friends who are based in U.S. and Europe, this SG based mom is luckier cos she gets to enjoy Asian style stay-at-home- momhood  _ she still get to enjoy a house maid/help.



What's even better _ his Swiss- German husband is a kitchen expert. Yep, this Filipina wife knows nothing in the kitchen (haha, I could hear my friend saying _ I'm too much,haha). It's the expat husband who manages the kitchen. My friend is so very lucky!!In short. . totally  senorita! haha.
Imagine this  GM (general manager_ covering the whole Asia) husband still take time to do homecooking  for the family. That's so sweet. He even managed to prepare a dinner for us, one weekend when he was at home. Everything was labor of love, with home made pasta he himself prepared from the scratch. That's so awesome!



I took a snap of his kitchen. See those condiments and spices, he even has a lot more in the other side.So that night, he prepared two home cooked pasta :

spinach  pasta

cheezy pasta

buttered baby carrots

creamy spinach

chicken in white/red wine

This was my first serving. They were all good!!! I swear! I helped myself up to 3 servings. I actually forgot how the dishes called. I just named them by obvious ingredients.

One day I will try his recipe at home. My friend is one lucky girl. Cooking husband is a rare find and very kind indeed.

Nyonya's Sweets

They look so familiar, right? Like our local delicacies - kutsinta, sapin-sapin, empanada, puto, butchi, lumpia, etc. .


Found this cart of desserts by Nyonya Cafe House in one of the malls at Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

For 1Rm each (not bad, around less than P15, forex as of my visit last month 2011), I tried some just to know if they tasted exactly as they looked as our own desserts. Well, sorry to us but those 5 pieces that I tried with my friends_ were better, creamier and got more character.

I went out of the mall and saw these generic sweets in the street of JB. I didn't try them cos I had enough of sugar from those Nyonya's.

Upon my return in Singapore the next day. . .

. . found more sweets in the outskirts of Little India which looks were quite similar to those desserts in the prev photos in JB. Only this time, it was x2 in price cos an Sg$ is like x2 of a Malaysian Ringgit.


I tried some and well they were a lot distinctive in taste when compare to the Nyonya desserts. Little India's desserts were overly sweet and it was very hard to finish a bar without battling to gulp water in every bite. Too sugary. .even to my high level of sweet tooth-nessy.haha.

Well, if you thought you could beat me on sugar war, here are more sweets I had in my 2009 visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : click this and this.

Thumbler Coffee

For a moment I got confused on what breakfast drink would I have (- last month while having a random breakfast at my friend's house in SG ). On the table were cartons of juices, milk, soya and choco drink. Coffee was to serve. Hooommh. . so many choices. . at home we only have 2 - juice or choco. I usually have water. I'm not a coffee drinker. None of my family is. So we don't actually have a coffee maker or coffee granules/ powder at home.

But seeing these cute coffee tumblers in different variants like jamaican, swiss, etc. gave me a joy to have coffee that morning (and the breakfasts that followed in that house).

Look how pretty!!!

They were prepared with this coffee machine. How? I didn't know. haha.

Coffee was served to me already cupped.


After a cup of an awesome coffee I was ready to rise and shine tour around the awesome city of Singapore.

SG: Chinatown Food Street

One of the cleanest street food strip I've ever seen was in Singapore's Chinatown.

wow! Chairman Mao's origin

It looked early but actually it was around 7pm already, dinner time for us.



People started to flock the eateries but center street tables weren't occupied yet at this sun- still- up- time.



This particular resto which specialized in seafood, esp. the famous chili crab, was a favorite among the whites.
We checked the prices and . . .



found out that few steps away there's this stall served cheaper but quite tasty version of chili crabs. We figured, since this place was full of local tourist. we would have our crabs here.



So we ordered the black pepper crab with some sidings, had a photo here while waiting and when the foods were served, I found out my batteries died on me. haha. Sorry no photos of the food . And had to do an abrupt ending here. I couldn't remember what we had there. Pardon my memory growing everyday- gap, haha, but we've eaten like millions of dishes over our short stay there, can't name them without guide. That's why photos are important to remind me of things.