Din Tai Fung @ Raffles City

A very warm welcome to those who went to the Food blogging discussion at the Arts House today. It was great seeing you all there.

If you wish, you can join me in my online 'food diary' daily. :-)

-------

After the talk, sis and I went over to Raffles City to meet a 'workaholic' friend for dinner. This guy with a PhD in economics goes in to work everyday! Errr....

Anyway, wanted something Chinese for dinner, we ended up at Din Tai Fung. Hey, if you go early, there's no queue! Wait was only 2 minute for them to set up the table.




We always like this appetizer dish. It's some vegetarian thingy, but it smells so good and taste yummy too. (I think we like the smell of sesame oil haha...)



Zha Jiang Mian. No, not the korean ones though.



Sweet and Sour Soup. (Suan La Tang)
If you want it sour, I think you got to add more of your own vinegar in.



Dumplings in Red Vinegar and Chilli. We like this.



Dou Miao and Prawns as the Veg dish. There's very few veg this in this place.



What is Din Tai Fung famous for? Xiao Long Bao.
Our dear friend had the soup squirted on his shirt while trying to eat it.
So, we had to like tell him the proper way of eating it. :-)



Hope you all had a good weekend!

Patara Fine Thai Cuisine @ Raffles City (Part 2)

We tried 2 different kinds of rice as well. Crabmeat Rice and also the Black Olive Rice.
We like the Black Olive Rice better. Maybe its because it has those fragrant pieces of meat. :-)



For the veg, we ordered the Aubergine. It's Aubergine stir-fried with shrimp paste, chilli and basil. Sis is tasked to cook eggplant until it taste like this. haha... I like basil fried like this.



Green Curry is ordered when our uncle joins us. He likes green curry, so do all of us!
Chicken green curry with aubergine and sweet basil. Ingredients almost similar to the top one! But it taste so different.



If you are like us, want to try it all, you will order the Mix Grilled Platter.
It has the grilled Australian Sirloin and grilled Pork Neck, with Essan style glutinous rice. I don't know what Essan means, but its the thing wrapped up in the green leaves.



We have the option to pay an extra $7 for the desserts buffet, but we could not eat anymore. Maybe another time. Wonder if they have only dessert buffet without the mains. hehe..

How much? Not posting the receipt as they still print the full credit card number on it. (err time to update system and print only the last 4 digits please...) $215.40 Quite all right for 5 and provided excellent service and food.

Patara Fine Thai Cuisine @ Raffles City

Sunday afternoon, we thought of trying Thai food at Patara. My guest blogger did post it once and said the food was good.


So came here because we had a $40 voucher. Err. come to think of it, that voucher is enough to off set the Service charge and GST only! haha...

We truly enjoyed the food there. Fine table cloth and nice plates. They changed plates after our starters too. Realised they are particular on how the plates are laid in front of us. The patterns are placed correctly.




5 of us were there. Tried the Ice Lemongrass Tea. 3 of us took this, 1 hot lemongrass tea and at the back of the picture, 1 watermelon juice for the kid.



We ordered stuff that has a recommendation mark on the menu.
This is wraps that we ate. It's called Miang Kam. It has betelnut leaves wrapped over minced chicken salad, peanuts, chilli, lime, onion and ginger.



This is Porpia Pak Ar, Thai tacos served with stir-fried minced chicken, prawns, tofu and beansprouts. We liked this very much.



The soup on the menu looks tempting, so we ordered 2 of them.
This is the Fish Maw Soup. Sis and Aunt loves fish maw, so they enjoyed it lots. It comes with quail eggs in it.



We also had a Seafood Tom Yum Soup. Photos came out too too blur, so it's not appearing here. hehe.

What else did we have? See tomorrow's post.