singapore part 3 - bloggers tour

2 November 2009, 22:55

Oh hai! Yeah a little warning there’ll be alot of pics me coming up hoho ready? After a night celebrating the awards, Helen and I woke up bright and early for a bloggers tour but first some sustenance: coffee IN A BAG (SG$0.80) and kaya toast (SG$0.60) from Hong Kong Jin Tian Kopitiam. i don’t normally buy hot drinks if i know it’s gonna come in a bag usually my drink of choice would be sugar cane. Or Soy bean. Or Cendol. But it was early and we needed coffee. And the kaya toast was so full of win- each slice of bread had been sliced in the middle and stuffed full of kaya and slabs of butter. Kaya is a coconuty eggy pandan flavoured jam and is so very tasty


We head to the Mint Museum of Toys (26 Seah St, Singapore) where Popeye greets us clutching a mug of spinach. 60-year-old Chang Ya Fa’s collection is pretty impressive, the building has 5 whole floors of toys and its only displaying 10% of his collection at one time. And oh boy how i wanted to play with the toys.


Astroboy!


The cafe upstairs turns into a bar by night and check out these oldschool signs


Robots


Tintin!


Feeling peckish we wandered next door and this is what happens when you travel with a group of foodbloggers…


And then after checking out the Chinatown Heritage Museum Helen and i got distracted by the smell of bbq meat. We arrived at Bee Cheng Hiang to find these guys cutting out heart shapes in the bbq pork. BY HAND.


Dude grilling the hearts. The smell of grilled meats is incredible i tells ya!


i choo choo choooose you :D


Lunch time and we troop to Maxwell Food Centre aka Helen’s happy place. You should have seen her face when we arrived hehe Food! More food! So many stalls!


To cut a long post short im just posting the table shot of our food. We had ordered pohpiah which sadly didn’t have any fried pork fat bits, an oyster omelet that was super generous with the oysters, rojak, stuffed fish balls, black radish cake, and a random oyster fritter that anthony bourdain praised but which i found quite disappointing.


Dave is happy with his ice kachang. He then goes and buys 20 banana fritters. Just because.


The Merlion!


And off to Bugis St where the crazy heat means we head for the nearest icecream cart and score an icecream sandwich. LOVE the crazy pink swirlys on the bread!


On the Singapore Flyer (image from Number 18 Qing ) with the Aussies.


After a nap we head out to dinner with the eat show & tell crew at Sin Hoi Fai for crab. Mmm salted egg crab had sooo much roe! Hello cholesterol!


Black pepper crab


Oatmeal prawns. ZOMG SOOOO GOOOD! Couldn’t stop eating this! Would have loved to eat a whole plate of these prawnys all by myself mmm and stay tuned for part 4!

1. Haha, yes Maxwell Food Centre is my happy place! I want more ice cream, and ice kacang and oatmeal prawns!

   — Helen (grabyourfork)    Nov 3, 12:43 AM    #
   
   

2. The ice cream is so cheap, yet so tasty. To make something similar at home would cost me heaps more~

   — Howard    Nov 3, 01:37 AM    #
   
   

3. I don’t know why but drinks in a plastic bag with a plastic string taste so much better! I want it all!

   — Steph    Nov 3, 10:17 AM    #
   
   

4. Ice cream sandwich + chendol x bee cheng hiang = win. Man I wish you could still bring back the bakwa into Australia…

   — The Ninja    Nov 3, 10:34 AM    #
   
   

5. I see the ninja! :P Oatmeal prawns eh? Only if “so and so” know how to appreciate it. ;) Sigh….

   — billy@ATFT    Nov 3, 12:10 PM    #
   
   

6. I loved the picture with all the eager food bloggers shooting at the same thing. Crossfire much?

   — Arnold aka Mr.Gadget    Nov 3, 02:54 PM    #
   
   

7. Ohmygosh. I want the icecream sandwich right now! It’s so hot!

   — Belle    Nov 3, 04:01 PM    #
   
   

8. wow so much yummy foods! I really wanna try those oatmeal prawns.

   — julie    Nov 3, 09:09 PM    #
   
   

9. Dude, I can’t stop staring at those prawns man, mmmm, er…it doesn’t taste like oatmeal does it?

   — Baz    Nov 3, 09:21 PM    #
   
   

10. popiah and coffee in a packet!

    if only they are available here ;)

    — jean    Nov 3, 11:16 PM    #
    
    

11. Singarpore looks so fun! I’m drooling over the crabs and the prawns- they look so yummy!

    — Von    Nov 4, 12:14 AM    #
    
    

12. Do the heart-cutters get to eat all of those scraps? They would be awesommmee

    — FFichiban    Nov 4, 01:31 AM    #
    
    

13. daang those oatmeal prawns look like awesome butter prawns injected with more awesomeness – must.. obtain.. recipe..

    — Lex    Nov 4, 03:05 AM    #
    
    

14. hey susan! it was nice meeting you in SG :) haha I actually tried to buy Bee Cheng Hiang back to Melbourne but they don’t let :(

    — pinky    Nov 4, 05:27 AM    #
    
    

15. nomnomnom. Those prawnssssss… oh! and the crab…. I could eat some now!

    — Teresa    Nov 4, 09:26 AM    #
    
    

16. You guys seemed to have done nothing but EAT!! LOL. :)

    — aptronym    Nov 4, 01:24 PM    #
    
    

17. Mate you should have given me a buzz when you were here.. I could have taken you guys to better hawker centers to get your fix of local food. Looks like you had a blast none the less!

    — Sidney    Nov 4, 01:51 PM    #
    
    

18. Oh boy your posts of Singapore brings back good memories! I’d be a lot braver now to try more of the stuff

    — Brenda    Nov 4, 05:22 PM    #
    
    

19. I choo choochooooose you! hahaha

    — Kruppy    Nov 4, 05:44 PM    #
    
    

20. helen: we must go back! soon! and to malaysia!
    howard: haha yeah it wouldnt be the same would it and lol where would you find the crazy swirly bread?
    steph: totally! i love holding it its like a handbag but so much more tastier!
    the ninja: actually i made it past customs without my luggage being checked haha too bad i only had candy :D
    billy: LOL true true only people with good taste will appreciate it :P
    arnold: haha i love those shots it makes me lol
    belle: yeah whats with the crazy weather! feels hot one day and then cold the next!
    julie: hehe not enough foods! shouldve tried to squish in more hehe
    baz: nah not really taste oatmeal it just tastes like butter… and deep fried! mmm soooo goooood
    jean: hehe mention it to a local malaysian restaurant and see if they steal the idea!
    von: singapore was awesome! so much tasty eats! hey i tried leaving a comment on ur blog but the comment frame gets stuck?
    ffichiban: lol would that be your dream job if they could?
    lex: it truly is awesome. heh if you make if for us ill be your best friend :D
    pinky: HIHI! great to meet ya dude! and lol they definitely wouldnt have let the bch into oz haha
    teresa: we also had singapore chilli crab on the last day oh man soooo goood lets go back!
    aptronym: hehe thats kinda true.. we did see some landmarks and stuff.. but heh it was all about the food :D
    sidney: aw! next time dude! we want to go back and eat and eat and eat hehe
    brenda: hehe everything so cheap i guess we just pointed and ate and if we didnt like go and buy something else lol
    kruppy: hehe i love ralph! hes my fav on simpsons!

    — chocolatesuze    Nov 4, 06:45 PM    #
    
    

21. My god the oatmeal prawns looked so good!!

    Was the bread for the ice cream sandwich actually like bread? Looks a lot like a sponge cake, which I imagine would be just as yummy to sandwich ice cream between :)

    Cool shot with the fish eye lens. BTW, what’s with the Number 18 references?

    — Simon    Nov 5, 03:15 AM    #
    
    

22. i want that icecream sanga! it looks like soft pandan sponge cake wedged with vanilla icecreame.

    This is one cool trip.

    — Leona    Nov 10, 03:37 PM    #