Tim Ho Wan - 添好運

Finally I get to visit this well known dim sum restaurant that might need to queue for a few hours just to get a table and seat. Lucky me, I got a seat upon arrive as my lovely colleague arrive earlier and line up the queue. 

We visit on a weekend morning and colleagues reach around 9am and I reached at 9.30am. So the waiting time (Q for table and seat) is about 30 minute.

 

Seriously the variety of the food not many compare to the other dim sum restaurant. And all the item is not cheap, quite pricey to me but honestly I would said the service is good. One of the aunty waitress is so friendly and sociable. We are so lucky to be serve in a room like a VIP and there is a air-con where we can adjust the temperature our self.

Baked Bun with BBQ pork (S$4.50 )

This is the first time I ate a bake cha siew bun. I like the filling (cha siew) is not too sweet and the outer layer is very thin and crisp.  

Glutinous Rice Dumpling (S$5)

Vermicelli Roll with BBQ Pork (S$5.50)

Nothing special about the glutinous rice, too mash. Vermicelli roll is silky and able to see though the filling. Thump up for this. 

Beancurd skin roll with Shrimp (S$5.50)

Pan Fried Carrot Cake (S$4.50)

The carrot cake is really soft and there are radish strip in every pieces. This is what a carrot cake should be. Yummy. 

Chicken Feet with Black Bean Sauce (S$4) / Steamed Egg Cake (S$3.80)

I have seen 马来糕 (steamed egg cake) selling in supermarket but I have never bought and try before. I curious how the taste was like so I requested to order one. That piece of cake is pretty small but the texture is fluffy and soft.

Prawn Dumpling 4pcs (S$5.50)

Pork Dumpling with Shrimp (S$5)

The siew mai are simply crunchy and juicy. I love every bite of the combination, pork and shrimp.

Tim Ho Wan

68 Orchard Road 

Plaza Singapura #01-29A

Tel: 6251 2000

Operating Hours:

Mondays to Fridays: 10am - 10pm

Weekends: 9am - 10pm

Tonkatsu Ma Maison

I always walk pass Mandarin Gallery building when I go to town but I seldom go inside the mall. So one of the weekend while I was shopping at town so I decided to discover this mall. Well inside the mall has more branded shop and is not really crowded at all. I like the cozy and peaceful surrounding in this mall.

Walking around and I found a few restaurant which I want to give it a try. The first choice is this Ma Maison because the main highlight of the food is PORK. I love eating pork especially tonkatsu. I like the crispy texture and chewy thick meat. But not all Japanese restaurant serve good tonkatsu.

I was surprise that all the server are Japanese, how I knew it because of their essence when they talk. Appetizer was serve after the drink and is a grinded radish. I don't really like the raw radish taste even after I pour some soya sauce on it still didn't like it.

Upon arrive, on the table there are some seasoning sauce. Sesame salad sauce, spicy and sweet sauce. The spicy sauce is not spicy at all and I find it quite salty, I prefer more on the sweet sauce drip on my tonkatsu.

Jumbo Hire Katsu (S$29.80) come with a set of rice, soup and a dessert.

Tokusen Kurobuta Rosu (Black Pig) (S$31.80) come with a set of rice, soup and a dessert.

 

My friend suggest we shall order a hire katsu (fillet) and a black pig katsu (Loin) so we can taste the different. That's a good idea. The hire katsu is more tender, bigger (portion) and less fat. The rosu katsu (Loin) is more tough, it contain more fat and of course more juicy.

 

After all we prefer the hire katsu (fillet) because of the tender meat. Actually we should order both fillet (one hire and one black pig) so we can compare the tenderness of the meat but we realize that after we finish our meal.

 

Tonkatsu Ma Maison

333A Orchard Road

Mandarin Gallery
#02-35/36
Tel: 6733 4541
 

Operating Hours:

Mondays to Fridays: 11am – 3pm, 5pm – 10pm
Saturdays, Sunday & P.H.: 11am – 10pm



SUN with MOON Japanese Dining & Cafe

I went online and search for a restaurant in orchard which I haven't try before. So I found this with good recommendation from the diner comment in blog and some other website all about food. We went on a weekend Saturday to this restaurant for dinner with my bff. I made a reservation a few days before I visit and I glad Sun with Moon allow reservation.

 

 

I like the ambient in that restaurant. The seat they gave us is roomy even though there are only 2 of us (see the pic above). The sofa seat come with pillows. I place the pillow behind my back and when I lead back I feel so cosy and relax. Shiok..

 

 

The service is pretty good, there is a waiter stand in that particular place to serve that area of diner. This is the first time I saw such service, normally in any restaurant the server need to attend to the entire diner in that restaurant. However when the food serve to us is not that incharge waiter, is another waiter serve the food to us. 

 



Different kind of utensil already place on the table so up to your choice of using traditional chopstick with clay spoon or fork and spoon.

Upon the food was serve to us by this nice and friendly waiter ask if we are first time dine in here and yes we are. So he told us how it goes, this mini glass hour placed on top of the bowl with the lid cover on, just wait for the sand to flow down until the top bulb is empty (about 1 minute) and the food is ready for consume. Isn't interesting? Hee hee perhaps to me.


Saba Salmon KM + Soup $22.80 & Salmon Tori KM + Soup S$19.80

The centre of the jar is actually filled with the soup but the soup is rather too little. It will be good if the soup can be refill. There are two ways of enjoying this food. First mix up all the ingredient with the rice and than you can either eat it just it is (dry version) or you can pour the soup into the mixed rice (soup version) according to the waiter explanation.

Overall the food is delicious. I like the rice is very fragrant and is not just white rice. I think they added some ingredient and cook together. Definitely will come back again for Japanese cuisine.

SUN with MOON Japanese Dining & Cafe @ Wheelock
501 Orchard Road
#03-15
Singapore 238880

Operating Hours:
Sun - Thu: 12:00 - 23:00
PH: 12:00 - 23:00
Fri - Sat: 12:00 - 23:30
Eve of PH: 12:00 - 23:30