2013-08-20

2 dinner events in September 2012

2/9/2012 Late dinner at Pies & Coffee @ Rochester Mall

It was a very impromptu dinner gathering after a hard day with studying at NUS as only HL and PG bought the discount vouchers for this newly open cafe at this quiet Rochester Mall.

It's a cafe selling mainly pies and I have to say they are not too bad, a bit ex tho. Spent $9.60. Perhaps I'm not a big fan of pies so I don't know how to judge them. But a consolation prize was the cookies stored in a jar at the retriving counter are FOC, which I took almost the whole jar of cookies - they were nice!

好貴的派!

好吃的餅乾,加上免費供應 = 讚!

As the cafe wasn't crowded on the cooling Sunday evening, we spent a bit of time chit-chatting before the dreading week started again.

29/9/2012 닭갈비 at Big Mama @ Tiong Bahru

Big Mama! 新韓國料理好去處

It was PG's effort who found this restaurant on Saturday evening. Without any second thought, I said let's visit this restaurant. We took a bus there and it wasn't really difficult to be located. Just some 5-10 mins walk from Tiong Bahru MRT only!

The restaurant looked rather new and modern without any traditional Korean feel to it. The owner is a ethic Korean 아줌마 who was previously a teacher in Korea and the biggest selling point of this restaurant is that she moves around the restaurant helping diners to stir-fry its famous dish - 닭갈비! Though she didn't help us lo. Sad sad :( lol But, on the other hand, she offered us handmade Korean mooncakes, which looked and tasted very much like mochi, instead of Chinese mooncakes.

닭갈비 (Dakgalbi) is a famous Korean dish with chicken meat, Korean rice cakes, vegetables, often with potato strips, topped with Korean chilli sauce and stir-fried together. It's so nice that it has now become one of the my top favourite Korean dishes, with the other one as 자장면.

6樣無限量供應的韓國小菜(반찬)
 
炒之前先把材料準備好
 
 開始炒咯!

 完成品!

根據老闆娘,這是韓式月餅
但閣下怎麼看,比較像麻糬多一點

吃剩約10-20%的닭갈비可以配飯再炒
變成炒飯咯!
這樣吃法真的很讚!

As much as I could remember, I was really looking forward savouring this dish ($15, no GST and service charge) coz it looks really attractive on photos. Both of us fell in love with this famous Korean dish after taking our first bite! It's spicy, literally hot, chicken, perfect for my tastebuds! Another good idea is that one could order additional rice ($1.50 or $3, can't remember), seaweed and stir-fry with some remaining 닭갈비 to become fried rice! Tasted nice as well.

Ahh, as I type this blog, begin to feel hungry liao :(

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