Crystal Jade Kitchen @ Holland Village

Today just before lunch, a colleague happily hop into our office and said, today's lunch is on me. Let's go to Holland Village.

Wah... what happened? He told us, he passed his most difficult exam ever. He passed the ITIL exams. He said he was already planning to retake because the passing rate is very low and he did not think he could make it. Since he passed the exam, the $ he allocated for the super expensive exam fee, a portion of it can be used to treat us. Of course we gladly accepted his invite.

It was a super cold and rainy day, so wondering where to eat, we decided we would like hot chinese food. We ended up at Crystal Jade Kitchen. We all ordered porridge. 5 different kinds of them. It was a cold day and the warm porridge was what was needed to warm us up!

This is my duck and chicken porridge. (The meat's all hidden below the porridge haha...)



This is the century egg and lean pork porridge.
(Ya, all the porridge looks similar right? The gems are all hidden inside)



This is the something river porridge. It has peanuts over it.



The pig inards porridge. This photo colleague stirred it so you can see the liver.



The other bowl of porridge was too far away, so you visit them and try it out lah.
I even forgot what porridge it was. :-p

We had the 3 eggs with veg dish to share too. We love this dish.



Plus 5-6 kinds of dim sum as well. The siew mai, har gow, bean curd skin fish cake, chee cheong fun, steamed pork ribs, etc...

You could guess it, we ordered 3 steamers of chicken feet. yeah...



Thanks for the lunch, Wire.

Now that our colleague is ITIL certified, the rest of us have to be inducted into ITIL practices too. The next week, we will all be attending ITIL brain washing courses.

Crystal Jade Kitchen
2 Lorong Mambong
Holland Village
Singapore 277671

Tel: 6469 0300
Hours: Mon - Thurs: 7am - 3am, Fri - Sun & PH: 7am - 4am

Sushi Tei @ Holland Village

From yesterday's diary post, you can guess where was dinner. So here it is...

I ordered a Spicy Kimchi Pot to share with a Beef Salad. Then we realise that our friend "G" is one of those that needs to have rice. haha... (just like my dad, he needs to have rice if possible for dinner, even if it's just one mouthful.)

The spicy hot pot as it arrived on the table.



Stirring it a bit to reveal what's inside. Kimchi, pork slices, different kind of mushrooms, tofu and cabbages.



I was told to take photo of it boiling, so here it is... haha..
Can't really see it boiling eh?



The Beef and Onion salad.



I forgot what dressing this is, but pouring this over the beef makes it quite tasty.






The inari that supplied the 'rice' for "G". Momo saw this and was tempted, and ate one.



I realise I have never ever ordered or eaten corn sushi! Nope, I did not have it.
I think corn and I have no mutual attraction. haha..




Sushi Tei
20 Lorong Mambong,
Holland Village,
Singapore 277679

Telephone +65 6463 2310
Facsimile +65 6463 2316

Opening Hours
11.30am to 10.00pm daily
(last order 9.30pm)

Cold Rock @ Holland Village

Met our friend 'gorilla' for dinner on Friday and we had to wait for Momo to arrive from CBD at Holland V too. So we picked a place that has a long queue, because we know Momo might take some time.

It seems Sushi Tei has a long queue during peak hour, and so we were glad. (LOL.. are we mad?) Now comes the dilemma, it's so hot outside and we know the wait's going to be 30 minutes, where can we find a place that's nearby and has air-con? Cold Rock.


So both 'gorilla' and I had a Junior ice cream each.



The 'mixing' of the ice cream... (which makes our ice cream melts very quickly)



I had white chocolate and dark chocolate mixed with boyensberry.



'Gorilla' had banana with butterscotch with boyensberry (I think)



It was $4.95 + $1 topping. We saw that UOB card has a 10% off if you spend $10 or more.

Cold Rock
24A Lorong Mambong
Holland Village
Singapore 277683

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Holland Village

We celebrated our youngest colleague's birthday today during lunch time. We found out he is so young! Usually you do not ask people about their age for no reason, but since we are celebrating his birthday, we get to ask! (hehe...)

We wanted to have Laksa Steamboat initially. We saw from their website that there's a nearer branch at Holland Village, so we went there. We were dissapointed when we found out they have closed this branch! (Arrgh.. don't believe their website!).

We had a choice to either stay in Holland Village or drive to Telok Blangah. Everyone unanimously decided we shall eat in Holland Village. So we walk over to Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao.



The starters were pickles. Chai Por chunks. Delicious! Everyone was happily eating until a colleague mentioned that eating too much of these causes pre-mature balding. Suddenly you see a few chopsticks back on the table. haha...



What we ate, in order of their appearance.
La Mian in Hot and Sour Soup. Like the tangy taste of it. You can choose the different thickness of noodles if you want.



This is the choking fiery La Mian. Be careful on your first mouth!
It was quite nice, but just be careful. :-p



Since we had like 9 of us, we had double portions of Jelly Fish. It's always a favourite.



This is delicious for those who like pork slices. I love the pungeant garlic on top of it. Wrapped inside the pork, cucumbers and carrots.



This is one plate of super tender beef.



We had two portions of this deep fried eel too.



When you are in a xiao long bao shop, you just got to order it! 3 steamers of it.



The other carbo we had for the carbo cravers. Delicious noodles with veg and meat.
(Forgot the name. hehe..)



This is roast chicken with onions. Those are onion bits on top. I like the onion topping more than the chicken.



For those with cholestorol problem, eat more 'black fungus'. The black fungus goes well with Kai Lan.



Last carbo for the meal, seafood fried rice.



As if it is tradition, we went over to Coffee Club for our muddy mudpies.

Happy Birthday Mr Y!

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao
241/241A Holland Avenue
Singapore 278976

Tel: 6463 0968

Sushi Tei @ Holland Village

One place for September babies who holds the Sushi Tei card must go is Sushi Tei. Birthday babies get 20% the total bill. I am a sucker for such stuff.

So what did we have at Sushi Tei? Chawanmushi..



Prawn Sushi Roll, with meat floss coating it. Quite nice ;-)



We had 6 of us, and those who have big appetite order something to fill their tummy. Others just share stuff. My cousin can just survive on this. Salmon sashimi on rice.



We had a voucher that entitled us to have a sashimi salad. So we ordered it. It's quite refreshing esp with the tangy dressing.



Sis and I shared the cold noodles. This is the one with the sesame seed paste dressing. Delicious.



Bro is a big eater. He had the tempura rice set.



Every few months, we realise they have some promotion. This time, they have Pork Kimchi. It was good. Kimchi always gives you a bigger appetite after eating.



For the rest of us, we all shared the big bowl dish again. We always enjoy having a hot pot on a portable burner on the table top. We also love the spicy soup. Very satisfying. (and salty too)




Oh yes, we also had the scallop too. But it seems the price and the quantity has changed. LOL. It used to be 4 per serving. It is now only 2.



Sushi Tei
20 Lorong Mambong,
Holland Village,
Singapore 277679

Telephone +65 6463 2310
Facsimile +65 6463 2316

Opening Hours
11.30am to 10.00pm daily
(last order 9.30pm)

Coffee Club @ Holland Village

This was our supper that a few friends and I had just the other day. It was the night that we had food from Curry Favor (posted here a few days ago). We were meeting another friend, and we thought why not ask him to meet us in Holland Village instead.



While walking to Coffee Club in Holland Village, we bumped into my sis and her colleagues. What a coincidence. They were wanting to eat some ice cream. They joined us instead at Coffee Club.

We initially wanted only desserts to sweeten up our mouths, but end up having the following...

Wasabi Prawn Salad. Wasabi's not potent enough, other than that, it was ok.



Sis and her colleauges had wedges with salsa and sour cream. It seems this is quite popular with people here. We saw quite a few tables ordering this too.



Goodness. More food was ordered and we even had chicken wings!



OK, back to our desserts. This was Mille-feuille (translated as thousand layers)



Wanna know why it's called thousand layers in French? Here's why.
yummy!!!!!!



Another desserts, the chocolate mousse that's gloriously rich in chocolate.



Did not take photos of drinks. They always look similar that I have given up taking photos of them. ;-p

It was such a funny night. We were chatting and laughing and eating.
So glad that I joined them instead of thinking of going home to finish up unfinished work from office.

Coffee Club
Holland Village
48A Lorong Mambong
Singapore 277686

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Holland Village

This was Saturday's lunch. We brought youngest sis and future BIL to have La Mian. We were deciding which chinese food to try and sis decided on la mian.

For starter, we had white pork wrapped in cucumber and carrots. We thought it was suppose to be a cold dish, but it was hot. Hmm. Anyway, it taste quite OK.



We had the Peking Duck as well. These things are expensive in UK. So, here's a treat for them.

We were amazed at the lady sliced the skin off with a cleaver and at the same time. This is before the duck got 'skinned'.



After being 'skinned', it was wrapped for us.



We had quite a lot of pieces to eat. I am kinda addicted to the sweetish paste. You can see that I spread it on the outside too.



We also ordered the Xiao Long Bao. (This restaurant is called XLB right? )
While we were having this, the next table with a 3 English Ladies sat down and ordered this as well. Sorry to eavesdrop, but the younger of the 3 ladies were speaking quite loudly, playing host to 2 other ladies in their 60s. She must be quite excited to introduce the food to her visitors. She told them, you should try this dumplings and the noodles.

When their XLB came, oh goodness, the younger lady was teaching the two other older ones how to eat. Guess how it was eaten? They took the XLB to their plate and break the skin of the XLB. After that, they drained the soup inside and ate it without the soup. Oh no! Wasting the soup in the XLB. We were like shocked. We wanted to tell the 3 ladies that you are suppose to put the XLB in your spoon, pricked it, drink the soup and then eat the XLB. But we could not bare to embarrass the lady and her guest.

It was quite funny though. She lady was 'wayang-ing' (acting) the whole time, pretending she was the expert. We were quite entertained.



We also ordered the 'red' version of XLB. It's XLB with chilli oil and vinegar. yum...



This is the rest of the Peking Duck. Sis wanted La Mian, so we had Fried La Mian.
While eating we were thinking, maybe we should have asked for the duck drum sticks and wings to be cut out for us earlier. The yummy skin on the drumsticks and wings, where did it go? LOL... Only duck meat stripes were in the noodles.



Have a nice long weekend ahead.