MOTHER'S DAY

Yes, I know it's kind of late to blog about Mother's Day celebration but it can't be helped. I super duper lazy to blog on all the happenings around me and there's tons of backlogs waiting for me to blog about. Sigh........okay, maybe I will try to start s l o w .........

 

This year celebration is rather unique as we settled for brunch celebration instead of the usual Chinese dinner at some posh restaurants. I went online to research for some good review brunch places around Bukit Timah area. Initially, I almost made reservations with Café Epicurious but thank god, no one picked up the phone. They seems to have good review on their brunch menu but I'm seriously turned off by their serving plates which looks kind of unglam to me and their food portion  seems unable to fill up my stomach to 85% full. I quickly went to search for another alternative and came across Choupinette. I've seen quite a number of good reviews on this brunch place as well. They are quite famous for poached eggs such as eggs benedict etc. As this is quite a last minute thingy, thankfully I managed to reserved a table for six at 1pm.

Although I arrived there 10 minutes earlier, no seats are available for us and we have to wait like 30 to 40 minutes until we get our table. ermmmmm but I made a reservation right?? I was even informed by the staff that they can only hold our table for 10 minutes and all six persons must be present if not, I will have to pay for the shortfall!







The wait begins...



Finally seated after a long wait...



Dad & Mum



    

Hubby, David





Xiaojia & I

My pretty sisters

Three sisters



I ordered the big breakkie set with fried egg as this is my all time favourite and I love sunny side-up. But the eggs didn't turn out well, it has a rubbery fishcake taste and the yolks are slightly cooked. A true spoiler.....what's a big breakkie with failed sunny side-up and no baked beans?!? My big breakkie cost around S$24++ which includes a free juice and a hot drink. While David ordered eggs benedict which can't really fill up his hungry stomach.

Big breakkie with fried eggs and chicken sausage



Eggs benedict with pork sausage

We ended the brunch with desserts. The strawberry tart was so so and I still feel Paul's strawberry tart is the best. The cream puff on the other hand was rather refreshing with a strong vanilla flavour. 

Cream puff and strawberry tart



 

The total bill came up to S$$180++ for six people. Overall, I quite like the ambience but I feel the food portion is too small to fill those hungry stomachs. The food is not that fantastic as well.  Customer service was so-so only and all the waiter and waitress are not locals. The waitress was quite attitude with a stuck up face. And the place is super small which can only accommodate up to ten small tables! This will be my first and last time to Choupinette. 





 

 

 

Choupinette

607 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269708, Tel: 6466 0613

 



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My blog post on dim sum was ''hijacked'' by broken controllers!!

I discovered it shortly after I published my post, where I did a search of my topic in  yahoo and google search engine. To my alarm, there is this webby "broken controllers" showing partial of my blog post and a link to my blog. I find it so weird and I did a search of this "broken controllers" and found that it actually 'steals your blog post' and redirect all the search engine hits to its webby and from there, it provides the link to your blog. There're many bloggers who faced this situation as well and what surprised me most was, BlogSpot seems to be their favourite place.

I managed to find this blog post and followed the instructions stated, requesting broken controllers to remove my link and post in their webby. Please email to: whadu@brokencontrollers.com. I practically copied the whole chuck of wordings from this blog. I actually emailed them twice before getting a response from them saying that my link has been removed from the webby. I did a check to ensure it has been removed by going to yahoo search engine(as this is where I found the link from broken controllers) and type in my post title. Going through the search results, you will see a link ''brokencontrollers.com/your blog name and post title". Click on it and it should direct you to the page where they took the post from your blog. If successfully removed by the admin, it will indicate "the post does not exist".  So if you were to encounter this and came across my blog, please follow exactly the same and your link and post will be removed from broken controllers.

DIM SUM IN THE WEST

Hi I'm back! I've been quite tied up with work and my personal stuff that I got no time to blog....okie I admit that partly it's due to my laziness as well. 

Since this is my first post in 2013, I will start off with a food entry which I feel it is one of the hidden gem in west Singapore! I've been to this restaurant for a couple of times with David and we were there for brunch yesterday. And here I shall present to you, Sun Lok Noodle House!




This is a Cantonese restaurant where it sells dim sums. Although they do not have a wide spread of dim sum available but they have the usual har kau, siew mai, fried dumplings, glutinous rice in lotus leaf, xiao long bao and so on. Other than dim sum, they do have noodles such as beef brisket noodles, congee, roasted pork or duck with rice and many more.

 

 

We ordered beef congee and century egg with pork congee. Their congee is superb, with a nice gluey texture. 





 Next on is the crispy fried beancurd skin with prawn and lean meat, followed by har kau(the prawns are very fresh).



 

 Not forgetting the all time favourite, glutinous rice wrap in lotus leaf. Unlike some places, their glutinous rice is well-cooked till soft. With that little piece of salted egg yolk, makes it perfect!

Last but not least, how can we not order the xiao long bao. Seriously, you must try their Xiao long bao. I'm not kidding you. Their xiao long bao's soup is different from other branded restaurants! Both of us agreed that their xiao long bao will not lose out to Ding Tai Feng's. Just look at that spoonful of soup slurp!!

 

 

No reservations required. And their dim sum is available even around 2pm hence you need not wake up early during weekends just to enjoy good dim sum!




Sun Lok Noodle House Pte Ltd
1 Yuan Ching Road, #01-05 Jurong Family Bowling Centre, S618640