84. Our Food Diary Oct2020 & Exploring Telok Blangah Crescent Market

Our Food Diary OCT 2020

ah... what we ate in October 2020

so far the star pic is...

 

List of what i ate in Oct 2020
- home made prawn & fish balls
- sardines with capers and black olives & garlic bread

- sausages - bbq, beef & chicken, cheese, etc 

- sausage stew (like korvstroganoff)
- all sorts of food from telok blangah crescent food centre

- salmon with salt, white pepper and lime

- salmon with japanese gravy - with recipe

- steamboat (trying haidilao tomato soup & herbal soup)

- home made sukiyaki

- home made steamed chicken rice with lap cheong

- home made beef soup with noodles (used shin beef) - with recipe

- home made prawn noodles (recipe in sep food diary?)

- zhi char from amk chang kee and casaurina ban leong

- indian & malay food, swedish muslim restaurant at arab street

- homemade fish curry & frozen prata

- chicken chop

- steak & beef thai salad

- braised dried mushroom, chicken feet, soya sauce chicken with mee pok or mee suah

- plain boiled chicken (kampong chicken is best!)

- chicken rice from bugis area - bugis street chuen chuen chicken rice

- (MBS) gourmet sandwiches & ice cream
- (MBS) noodles & dumplings

- (MBS) yardbird fried chicken and bbq ribs

31 Oct 2020

Chicken rice!

jannah, aidan and daddy like it. 

mummy and i thought it was kinda ordinary.

a messy plate - dumped tabao chicken on the plate Lol

toufu with sweet chye poh

beef with ginger and spring onions

31 Oct 2020

breakfast before checkout

early riser - ham, scrambled eggs, cheese and brioche bread

30 Oct 2020

dinner at MBS - pastrami sandwich!

ate only half... quite filling!

MBS Origins & Bloom

Ole Faithful $12

Pastrami, Coleslaw, Gruyere Cheese,

Russian Dressing, Sourdough bread

wow, i think this is a reuben sandwich!

30 Oct 2020

lunch - indian food from tekka market 

(opposite the tandoori stall i always buy from)

masala chicken + 2 veggies $5.50

there was a long queue at this stall... 

and since many indians are queueing up, i should try it... again.

i've tried this stall before, months ago when it first opened but wasn't too impressed.

still, the food is good and i remembered that i did enjoy it then.

nonetheless, here i go again... 

yup. not outstanding but a VERY good indian meal!

29 Oct 2020

christen's 18th birthday!

went MBS & had dinner at yardbird

mac & cheese, ribs, fried chicken with waffles & watermelon

28 Oct 2020

simple dinner at home

indian food

- fish curry, sotong, mutton cubes, 

- fried chicken, tandoori chicken,

zhi char 

- chinese mee goreng & hor fun

10 flavour cheesecake from cats and the fiddle $59 (no pic LOL)

27 Oct 2020 mon

lunch and dinner

thu 22 Oct 2020

Chicken chop

23 Oct 2020

Breakfast at Tampines 

(not good but ate them all up anyway Lol)

Fri 22 Oct 2020 Lunch

herb & cheese sauce + tomato, basil and garlic sauce 

+ garlic cheese sausages + canned mushrooms 

+ fresh rosemary & thyme + pasta 

looks gross but tastes really good! 

it's just too much for me tho Lol

24 Oct 2020 Sat 8am-9.45am

NTUC - my cart - notice there are hardly veggies because i bought loads of veggies on fri.

bought rice, detergent, eggs, salmon fish, sea bass, sting ray, fishballs, fish paste, fish cake,

shabu shabu beef & pork, frozen chicken wings, frozen chicken boneless legs, frozen prata,

4 chickens - 2 small ones (800g each), 1 kampong chicken, 1 large farm chicken

 

28 Oct 2020

mee pok dry done by an elderly uncle, $2.50!! 

next to Aziz family malay rice at telok blangah crescent market

the noodle was done just right but the seasoning is simple and old school.

uncle gave 2 fishballs, lean pork, fish cakes, lard 

and 1 fish dumpling with veggies & beansprouts

you gotta appreciate it even if the taste doesn't really stand out...

and it's $2.50.

thu 22 Oct 2020

breakfast at telok blangah crescent market

Aziz family malay rice stall - nasi padang $3.80

sambal goreng, bergadel, bendi (lady's fingers), fried egg,

sambal blachan & kuah assam pedas

29 Oct 2020 thu

ate this nasi padang again $3

sambal goreng, bergadel, fried egg,

sambal blachan & kuah assam pedas

Tues & Wed

20 & 21 Oct 2020

Buah Keluak

Tues 20 Oct 2020

Breakfast $2 malay nasi lemak with a view

below 2 pics from the same nasi lemak stall

pics taken on 8 july 2022

tues 20 Oct 2020

dinner - tunghoon in sukiyaki sauce, kunyit and lime batang pan fry, mixed veggies

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Prawn noodles with pork ribs

Sun 18 Oct 2020

making prawn stock!

Prawn Stock

- prawn shells

- garlic (whole) 

- green chilli

- chilli powder

- fish sauce

- sugar, salt

- fried shallots

- chicken skin/fat (optional)

Sat 17 Oct 2020

Steamboat for Aidan. 

tomato soup (lunch) & herbal soup (dinner)

Sun 18 Oct 2020

Sukiyaki Beef - with leftovers from steamboat Lol

Recipe

Sukiyaki Sauce

- light soya sauce

- mirin

- sugar

- shaoxing chinese wine

- fried garlic & garlic oil

Sun 18 Oct 2020

Fish curry with batang fish - yes, better! 

the batang fish is firm and moist. so yummy!

12 Oct 2020

home made fish curry - ikan kurau (too soft for curries)

Recipe - Fish Curry

- fish curry powder (alagapal fish curry powder)

- onions

- green chilli

- ginger

- garlic

- curry leaves

- mixed seeds/spices for fish curry

- coriander

- cardamons

- cloves

- cumin

- fennel seeds

- assam water, salt to taste

10 Oct & 11 Oct 2020
Homemade beef shin soup with tendon -
$10 shin beef and about $3 tendon

Recipe - Beef Soup - basic

- beef & tendon

- shallots x10 - whole

- garlic x2-3 cloves - whole

- tang gui x2-3 pieces

- red dates x10-15 (remove seeds)

- fish sauce, salt & pepper (white/black pepper), sugar

chilli - chicken rice chilli actually works well Lol

 

Recipe - Beef Soup with Tendon

shin beef is kinda tough. so we soaked it in water and baking soda for about 1hr before we rinse the beef to slow cook in a crockpot. 

shin beef soup with tendon

- salt, white pepper, black pepper

- light soya sauce, fish sauce

- 8 red shallots, 1 garlic clove

- tang gui x2-3 pcs

- 10 red dates

- rock sugar - about 1 tbsp

beef to season with fried garlic oil and light soya sauce

eat with kuay teow, bean sprouts, kiam chye

topped with chicken rice chilli sauce

and salmon

Recipe - Salmon with Yakitori Sauce

Sauce

- light soya sauce

- sugar/honey

- mirin

- shaoxing wine

- cornstarch & water

1. fry salmon in little oil, skin down

2. add sauce and coat fish in gravy, cook in gravy

3. transfer fish & gravy to over to finish cooking

9 Oct 2020

Dinner with Friends! a bit pai sae (embarrassed) to take pics

9 Oct 2020

Prawn ball with fish paste

homemade prawn ball with fish paste

- fresh prawns - chopped (not too fine)

- fresh fish paste

- coriander & spring onions - chopped

- salt, white pepper

- light soya sauce, fish sauce

- cornstarch

- fried garlic

thu 8 Oct 2020

well, i had the white bee hoon again!

it actually is quite nice. not fantastic. just ok. 

the chilli sauce can be better but i guess the white pepper makes up for it...

tues 6 Oct 2020

white bee hoon at telok blangah market for breakfast.

this lot with veggies and fish cake is $2.80

this is the stall next to the fishball noodles with long long queue on 2nd row of market.

6 Oct 2020 lunch - steamed rice with chicken & lap cheong 

- homemade except for the lap cheong Lol

5 Oct 2020
garlic bread, sardines with onions, capers, chillis, black olives, lime juice;
fried eggs and sausages and some cucumber and tomatoes

very blur sausages haha

4 & 5 Oct 2020
lunch - thai beef salad &
breakfast - mee suah with black mushroom & chicken stew

4 Oct 2020 lunch - 
fresh salmon with homemade teriyaki sauce
the fish costs $3.09 per 100gm.
the 2 pcs here costs $23 (we cut the fish i bought into 2 pcs)

both pcs fit within a 25 inch metal plate

below: teriyaki sauce on top of the fish. i should have baked more sauce to make it sticky Lol

kampong chicken boiled with salt, white pepper,
tang gui x3 pcs, 3 red shallots and 1 garlic

bean sprouts with salted fish, fried/baked salmon with homemade teriyaki sauce,
chinese spinach, kiam chye fried with tomatoes (so good!)

3 Oct 2020 dinner - steak & garlic bread

3 oct 2020 - breakfast

slow cook dried mushrooms with chicken feet

season with salt, white pepper, black sauce, light soya sauce, shaoxing wine, sesame oil, water

we didn't thicken the gravy but that's ok too. 

it doesn't look as yummy but the taste is still the same

3 Oct 2020 - vegetarian mee pok (breakfast)
with chicken feet and mushroom stew

1-2 Oct 2020

mama woodlands cooked these for christen...

below: devil curry (mama woodlands)

 

below: beef rendang (mama woodlands)

below: 2-3 oct 2020 - steamed chicken with rice. 

why is this so yummy? Lol