Bari Uma Ramen

Even though this is my third time here, I still feel that this ramen shop is so underrated. This was discovered by a friend of mine, Jass, who actually also stumble upon this shop on accident. Firstly, in order to reach this place its quite a distance from Orchard Mrt thus by the time people reach here, they would most probably have chosen something else to eat in the hundreds of restaurants available nearby. Secondly it is not in any of the shopping mall but kinda under it instead.

Nothing fancy about the interior however since I went to Japan once before, it is actually very much like those Ramen shop in Japanese. Small and cosy yet you can see the chef cooking.

I tried their Nori-Uma ($15.50) which is ramen in Pork Flavored Shoyu Soup with Thick-Cut Flamed Chashu and Dry Seaweed. I added Ajitama which is the egg for $1.50 and reduce my ramen portion (-$2.00) because my stomach was already half filled so I wanted to eat without overeating. Total for my order was $15.00.

This is their Signature Dish which is Ajitama-Uma ($15.00) which consist of Pork Flavored Shoyu Soup, Ajitama which is the egg and Thick-cut Flamed Chashu. The egg here however was a little overcook but still, it taste good.

Other then Ramen they serve rice served in a hot stone bowl. This is the Ishiyaki-Chaofan Salmon ($12.00). I find this pretty good but if its compared to the Ramen, I think that the Ramen taste better. However if you want to go for rice, I would suggest the Ishiyaki-Chaofan Chashu ($9.50) instead.

The average pricing for a bowl is about $15.00 which I think its very affordable for this type of quality Ramen. Their Ramen noodles are homemade right in the house which are really tasty. Its chewy yet smooth and it goes really well with the soup which is very addictive. Their Chashu even though its pork belly which means you can literally see the layer of fats and meat, tasted like its slow cooked till all the flavored is absorb into the meat and its so tender that it kinda melts in your mouth. Double thumbs up! The really flavorful soup might be a little salty to some people liking.

Address:
#B1-01
Tanglin Shopping Centre
19 Tanglin Road

Spaghetti Bake w Tomato base sauce

Recipe #1 Simple and Yummy

This recipe is so easy because its just putting in whatever you want in your spaghetti into a baking dish, topped it up with cheese and bake away! Nothing greasy or crazy to clean up afterwards either. Plus point.

Main ingredient is
A pack of Spaghetti or any pasta preferred (I used about 2/3 of a 500g package)
2 cans of Tomato Sauce (I used traditional but any flavor is fine too)
Shredded Cheese (I used pre-shredded Mozzarella)  

Toppings - This is where you can have whatever you want to be added in.
A can of Kidney Beans
2 pieces of Frozen White Fish Fillet

Approximately
Prep time : 20 minutes
Cooking time : 20 minutes

First, fill up a pot with water, add a dash of salt and bring it to a boil. When its boiling, put in the Spaghetti and use a chopstick to mix it around a little to prevent it from sticking to each other. Following the instruction on the package on how long to cook it would be the best but for me, when the water reaches a boil again, I will taste it and give it approximately another minute if its not done.

While the Spaghetti is boiling, empty the 2 cans of sauce into the baking dish. I added the can of Kidney Beans, some dried parsley, ground pepper and salt to enhance the flavor. Fill up the empty tomato sauce can to about 1/4 of water and add it in. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degree Celsius. 

Cut up the White Fish Fillet into about 2 inch pieces. Since I am using frozen fish, I season it with soya sauce and cooking wine. By then the Spaghetti should be cooked. Drain, rinse it with running tap water and in it goes into the baking dish.

The oven that is pre-heating should be almost up to temperature. Arrange the pieces with its seasoning on a baking tray and put it in the oven. Mine was in there for about 10 minutes. It is not entirely cooked on the inside.

Meanwhile, try to coat the pasta with the sauce evenly. Put a thin layer of shredded cheese on top. At this stage, you can also load up the cheese and put it into the oven if preferred.

When the fish is almost cooked, layer just the fish in a single file on top of the thin layer of cheese and discard the remaining sauce on the aluminium foil away. 

Last stage.

More cheese. If you want extra cheese, this is the time you want to go crazy. Not too much though, gotta watch the calories. In it goes into the oven. After 15-20 minutes it should be done or when the cheese have golden brown patches, its done!!

So simple! Get out those plates and this is a meal done for a family of 5. Leftovers? No worries just pop it into the fridge and microwave it before eating, it will still taste as good! 

The combination of Mushroom instead of Kidney Beans is good also. Just slices it up and put it in with the sauce. Sometimes I will add some broccoli. Chunk up the broccoli and blanch it in hot water before adding it into the sauce.

Make sure that when everything is in the baking dish there is a one inch gap free because overfilling might cause the sauce to bubble out and onto the oven base during the baking. That is a super duper crazy clean up process.

Ambush @ JEM

"Experience the many tastes of Europe, all at Ambush" Quoted from the menu. This is a causal restaurant. This outlet is kinda a open kitchen concept where you can see the chef cooking. 

The menu is quite special. Its almost like reading a newspaper.

There is a Top of $5.50 to every main course ordered to get the Soup Of The Day & a Drink ( Coke, Sprite, Frizzy Peach, Ice lemon Tea. The soup is Cream Of Cauliflower. Really creamy with hint of cauliflower flavor.

Roasted Pork Knuckle (Half) $18.00 this comes with Mashed Potato, Sauerkraut and Light Brown Sauce. The light brown sauce really remind me of the sauce served with meatballs purchase from Ikea. The Pork Knuckle was really good, its outer skin is crispy and the meat is tender. I think that one person to finish all of this might be a little too much and a little sick cause thats a whole lot of meat. So I think sharing this dish would be a good idea.

Baby Scallop & Flying Fish Roe - Squid Ink Sauce $14.80. Might not be shown in the above pictures but they were pretty generous with the scallop. This is very well season and worth a try if you are eating with someone you are comfortable with cause its gonna get a tad bit messy. We can choose our choice of pasta when we order the Italian Pasta dishes. There is Spaghetti, Linguine, Penne, Fusilli or add $2.80 for Fresh Tortllni with Three Cheese. This is a plus point because not everybody prefer the same type of pasta in the same type of sauce so this give us more freedom of choices. 

This is somewhat unique. Its the Norwegian Salmon Fillet - Thai Basil Sauce $13.20. The sauce really whet the appetite up. Somewhat like Thai Tom Yum which always gives a kick. Thai lover should give this a go!

This Oktoberfest Platter $17.80 is good for people that wants to try the Pork Knuckle as well as the Sausage. This platter includes Pork Knuckle Cutlets with Smoked Bratwurst & Bockwurst sausages served with Sauerkraut & Mashed Potato. Bratwurst is coarse smoked pork sausage with natural spices while the Bockwurst is finely ground pork sausage with crunchy natural casing. Salad on the side is tossed with Balsamic vinegar. 

Sausage lover can try the Swissgerman Sausage Platter $17.20. It has pan grilled Cheese Knacker, Bockwurst & French Chicken Garlic served with Sauerkraut & Choice of Starch which is Rosti, Mashes Potato, Fries & Pasta. We got Rosti. French Chicken Garlic is chicken sausage with minced garlic & mixed herbs while Cheese Knacker is ground chicken sausage with cheese bits.

Prices are not inclusive of GST and service charge but I think that the price range is not too expensive. Apparently they are quite famous for their mussels and paella. I wouldn't mind checking this place out again to try those. It was quite crowded during dinner time so maybe to avoid queue, its better to head there a bit earlier.

Address :
#04-13/14, Jem
50 Jurong Gateway Road

Krispy Kreme @ Tangs Orchard

Since the opening of Krispy Kreme, it has been the talk of many people. Its a love-hate relationship. Some people are willing to queue for hours just for donuts while others think its plain stupidity to be in the craze for Krispy Kreme donut and its not really that good, its just the "in thing" now.

So... 

I am one of them that went to queue. Hahaha I was lucky on that day because the queue was not very long. I reach there about 5pm and there were just about 20-30 people in front of me.

I must say Krispy Kreme was definitely well prepared for the crowd because they have people stationed at different parts of the queue line giving out brochure so that while waiting we can decide what we would like to have. When we reach, they took our orders and ask for an initial then we walk pass this food porn moment of where all the donuts flavor are displayed.

After the donuts display section, it is payment and collection time. Basically the donuts are split into two pricing. The Original Glazed ($2.60) and the Assorted Varieties ($2.95). They have express line for people that want to get dozen of Original Glazed ($23.40) and dozen of Assorted Varieties ($26.50). It is cheaper in dozen however for the Assorted Varieties, the flavors are already pre-packed.

Glazed Vanilla Cake to be honest it still has a donut texture. Soft but not as moist as how a cake should usually be. I would rather get the Original Glazed instead of this cause it taste pretty similar.

Out of the four I purchase and the flavors I have tried before, I love this! It is the Cappuccino Franco. The filling remind me so much of Roti Boy that coffee flavored bun. Creamy and sweet coffee filling in a donut = Best combination! Coffee lover, give this a go!

Due to many blessed occasion, I get to try Krispy Kreme before it arrive in Singapore. I have tried almost more than half of the flavors that are offered however I wanted to try Red Velvet and New York Cheesecake the most. Above is Red Velvet and the bottom is New York Cheesecake. Not the best I was expecting. 

To me a Red Velvet is only called a Red Velvet if it has cream cheese icing if not its just a pastry that is tinted red. Yes, the white icing on top of it is not cream cheese. However when I compare this to the Glazed Vanilla Cake, its a tad bit more bitter so I think there might be cocoa powder in it which is another component of a Red Velvet. Plus point.  

New York Cheesecake was disappointing. If I were to be blind folded and given this, I will never guess that the filing is New York Cheesecake or even any cheesecake. This filling is sour and I couldn't taste any cheesecake cheese taste. Oh mannn I was sure having great hopes for this.

Personally Original Glazed is still the top 1 for me, followed by Cinnamon Apple Filled and Cappuccino Franco. The filling for Cinnamon Apple Filled is like the gooey filling found in apple pies. Can't go wrong. Yum! I am not a donut person but I love the donuts by Krispy Kreme. I still remember the time I first tried it, I never look at donuts the same way again. However I must admit that $2.60 for one is too expensive but that is just how the standard of living in here is like. Time to time I will still buy it, hopefully the queue get shorter.

Address :
310 Orchard Road
Singapore 238864