Sin Ming Prata

my mum wanted to go sin ming to check out her van in the garage, and we were deciding where to go for lunch. my aunt suggested this prata place in sin ming. so we went. it's at sin ming drive, a very nondescript coffeeshop. to be honest, it looked so old and dirty tt i half wanted to suggest going somewhere else to eat. but we perservered.

the 4 of us ordered 2 plains, 2 paper prata, 1 cheese and 1 egg prata, plus 1 side order of fried chicken and 1 marsala chicken. all for only 13.50!
look at all the food we ordered! the marsala chicken (in the foreground) was very good.

my all-time fave: tissue/paper prata!

ok i love tissue prata, when done right, it's thin, crispy, and coated with a thin layer of sugar. a pity lots of places don't do it right, i even had one version where the whole prata tasted like it was deep fried in oil! yucks. i rate prata stalls by their tissue prata. cos it takes alot of skill to make it right. you must make the dough super thin, fry it on the skillet, pour sugar, then make it into the cone shape in super quick time.

i used to think tt the best tissue prata in s'pore was in simpang bedok. it's good, but the standards vary sometimes. so well. when i tasted sin ming's tissue prata... i was in heaven. it really was paper thin, super crispy, coated with the right amount of sugar, and totally didn't taste oily. my mum, aunt and sis loved it too! and i hereby declare the best tissue prata (tt i've tasted) to be sin ming's version. yumyum!

the rest of their prata are good too. the plain is nice and crispy, the cheese has just the right amount of cheese and dough and the egg is nice and chewy. best of all, all their prata doesn't taste like they're doused with oil. love love love the prata here! pity it closes at 8pm most nites, so i can't have it as midnite snack. darn. prata tastes damn good at nite.

HK feasting Part 1

it seems like such a waste not to introduce these wonderful culinary works of art here.

so right from the heart of hk, may i present you with the following...

Yung Kee Restaurant (Central, in front of Lam Kwai Fong)

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yung kee is famous for its roast goose, and yes it was really good. it came with small beans at the bottom, braised in a sweet sauce. but i thot the skin wasn't as crispy as the one at imperial treasure in taka.but still, the meat was pretty tender and juicy. for the more adventurous, the pi dan is so good! the outside is sweet, the yolk is still slightly runny, which makes it creamy and oh so good! calamari is also popular in hk, as a snack, this one was really nice cos it was simply fried and coated with salt and pepper. not too tough, not too sinful (not tat i wanna believe anyway). i guess the look of satisfaction says muchmuch more than the words i type.


Macau Cafe

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ok, hk is pretty near macau, so there are tons of such restaurants ard. this one is in causeway bay. pretty packed place, with diff set meals for diff no of ppl. we have the 2 person set, which came with a drink, a main (we had the pork neck) and another side (chose roasted pigeon). these were pretty standard fare, but so yummy! pigeon was crispy, even tho it didnt have meat, watever bit was really tender. i abslutely loved the pork neck, i swear its the best cut of pork! oh there was also fried rice. amazing thing abt the fried rice here is that every grain of rice is nicely cooked and still in one piece. plus it came with char siew, veg n slics of pork belly. beats any fried rice in singapore i've had! for the price we paid, this was easily the best meal ever in hk. *misses hk food already*

Wiener Kaffeehaus

as part of the FEG (Friday Evening Gang) tradition, we went out searching for good food again! thanks to del, who always comes up with these off-the-beaten-track food places... wiener kaffeehaus is situated at 148 Neil Road, near cantonment park. when you enter the place, you smell this delicious coffee smell, no surprise, after it calls itself a viennese coffeehouse. love the decor, and the little area where there's huge bags of coffeebeans and a coffee roasting place. i mean i don't drink coffee, but these look way too cool.

so yes, we begin to order.
Coffee. I didn't drink this, so can't tell you how it went.

Viennese Salad, which basically is a mix of a few different types of traditional salad, there's the boiled potato, nicely seasoned and soft, some sliced cucumber with dressing, and the rest were green veggies. we didn't really like tt the cucumber tasted a tad bitter, but yah, it was just abt the only green veggies we got tt nite

Meatloaf sandwich $7.50. This is good! Delicious bread, the hard kinds tt germans love, and in it is meatloaf, which is like a thick slice of ham, topped with german mustard, and green veggies.


Camembert Fritters $6.50?. Camembert cheese is a french cheese i think, with a distinct flavour, i think it's made of goat's milk or something. servced on a bed of salad, and great tartar sauce. so yes, they deep-fried the cheese, and the combination of crispy skin, melted cheese, tartar sauce and salad... yumyum...


presenting the Oktoberfest platter! $33.50, supposed to serve 2 ppl, but we were shocked when we saw it. lots of sausage, one roast pork knuckle, some roast pork meat, one bread and potato dumpling each, some of the boiled potato salad, and sauerkraut! this is definitely for you if you're a meat lover. and it probably feeds 2 meat-loving germans, meaning tt it can be shared btwn 4 ladies. this is just great! and yah, it's an oktoberfest promo, so you better head down fast to try this platter!


Sachertorte. ($4+ per slice) when we read the website this sounded heavenly. i mean it's the best known viennese gateaux. but when it came, it seemed abit too dry for our liking. we prefer our chocolate cake to be moist, etc. but yeah this wasn't too bad, but will prob not order it again.


Viennese Apple Strudel $3.90. Slightly different from the strudels tt we're used to, this comes simply wrapped in some thin pastry. the highlight is the fresh apple slices, it's not syrupy, overly sweetened, or overly-dosed with cinnamon. the freshness of the tart apple slices shine through. yum!


This is a soft drink, Almdudler $3.50 per can. It's supposed to be lemonade, but you can't really taste the lemon, it looks like zapple, tastes of a few different fruits, pretty refreshing, like a non-cloying version of zapple... but $3.50 is abit ex for can drink, so if anyone can tell me if they sell this in any supermarkets in s'pore, i'll be grateful. goes well mixed with beer too!

love this place, they serve pretty good viennese cuisine, which is very similar to german food but with slight modifications. hearty, meaty and yummy. menu prices are like $15 for a main course. try the platter if you're there in october, very worth it. best of all, there's no service charge or GST or cess! and we saw a couple of germans there, which mean the food must be authentic. go try!