Group Dinner at Long Beach at East Coast Seafood Centre

Another seafood dinner can only mean that I had another work meal.... 

This time it is Long beach at the East Coast Seafood Centre. We had one of the set menus as one of the VPs present wanted crab and we got him 2 types! It isn't a cheap meal (I think the menu comes out at about 450$ per table of 10) but when you have visitors from Europe, they really like going to the East Coast and eating all the famous Singaporean seafood dishes. 

All the poor animals in tanks:

Some kind of deep fried fish covered partially in batter with sesame seeds. As you can imagine, I didn't have it (I don't generally eat much at these events). But the rest of the table seemed to like it enough, not mad about it but liked it enough. Don't think it was finished though.

These were more successful with the group, deep fried prawns with garlic. These were finished.

A whole deep fried fish! Scared me but everyone else liked it!

The eye hole really freaked me out, like a ghost looking at me!

The fish deconstructed (the staff take it away and cut it up after it was done freaking me out). You don't have the destroy it yourself. 

Artichoke Cafe and Bar - yes, again! But dinner this time! Tuesday Tasting Menu

I know, I know, I have been to Artichoke twice already, and blogged about it both times. But they were both brunches! And once we were alone the two of us, and once with one other couple, so everyone has heard us rave about Artichoke but most haven't been! So we decided to go on a Tuesday as a friend said that they do a tasting menu which changes each week based on whatever they fancy cooking that day. Sounded awesome so of course we were in, as were quite a few of our friends. In the end, 8 of us were at dinner on Tuesday. 

The whole gang, besides me, went for the tasting menu. I went a la carte as there wasn't enough I would eat on the tasting menu to justify me taking it. The tasting menu had 9 different things on it for $45 and I ordered 3 or 4 side dishes from the a la carte to complete a table full of food. 

Another visit to local indian hawker

You know, sometimes you don't want to go to work dos, so when you aren't invited, you might actually be happy :) Instead of polite conversation, 3 of us went to our local Indian hawker place across from City Square Mall on Kitchener road, near Serangoon.

Cheap good Indian food and cheap Tiger Beer. What else could you need on a Monday night?

So what did we have?

Well, we had the usuals and since we had someone new with us, they picked out a few new options.

So, I was craving my usual, the thing I love the most ie. dosai. Masala dosai, with the usual dal, coconut chutney and the reddish pinkish orangey one I love. And a few vadai for all of us, lovely dipped in the various sauces. $1.50 for the dosai.

And our usual chicken tikka with green stuff and veggies. $1 a piece

And with a random curry sauce. All goes wonderfully together, the depth of the curry sauce with the crisp minty chutney and crunchy veggies, with the smoky spicy chicken.

Whampoa Drive Makan Place revisited

Another Saturday, another trip to Whampoa with our friends and their kids. And yet again, a lovely evening with great food. 

Kicked off with sugar cane juice (not me, obviously!). G and E got them, but they ended up being stolen by the boys :)

Next stop = satay. 20 chicken satay for $10. I wanted tofu too but they were out. 

Here is the auntie who cooks the satay to order. We were warned it would be 20 minutes but fresh food is worth the wait.

Gokul Vegetarian Restaurant - Upper Dickson Road

It has taken me for ever to get around to writing this post, I went there on 1May, the day off a couple of weeks ago. It is a mixture of having been rather busy recently but also just the sheer size of the menu at Gokul I think! But then again, I have a load more posts pending from even further back! I need a good sit down session to catch up on my blog posts. Cos I will let you in on a little secret, I don't write a post a day :) No chance of me ever having that kind of time free! Work can be so busy, plus I need to actually have time to go do things that are worth (well, I think are worth, you can feel free to disagree, I know I am frivolous) writing about! So what I do is collect all the pictures (my iphone uploads them automatically), and create a draft post with them and then hope I even remember what we did and ate by the time I get around to writing it all up, usually a load in one go, one evening or on the weekend. Then I post one every day or two until the next time I manage to find time to write a load :) This is partly why I take pictures of the menu to remind myself what was in the dishes I had.

Any way, enough of my ramblings. This is a recommendation from Hungry Ang Mo, a vegan expat who explores the island writing about vegetarian and vegan food in Singapore and does help me with ideas! I follow him on Twitter and asked him what he would recommend for Indian food (he is about as obsessed with it as I am!) and he said Gokul. So next time I had the day off, I got in touch with my Kiwi friends from Expat Kiwis and we wandered through Little India most of the day, including lunch at Gokul which is on Upper Dickson Road.

The menu is humongous! It took us forever to order but we were all very happy when we finally did get our food :) Everything is vegetarian so great for me, but I do always find it odd to see chicken rice and mutton etc on a veggie menu :)