Riciaz: Food Guide

2019

Did you say Salted Egg? Recommendations from my Indonesian friends

The salted egg crazy has been going for a period now but I never had the chance to taste it since I was in the UK for the past few years. Although the craze had hit many different countries, I can say that Indonesians are crazily OBSESSED with everything that is defined as "NGE HITS", which means in trend.

If 1 person likes it, the other 10 will like it too and then soon the whole country likes it too. That is how we roll.

The first thing that everyone said to me when I told my friends I was going to Singapore. "Pat, do you like salted egg?" "Pat, if you go to Singapore, try the salted egg at Sim Lim." "Pat, you have to get Irvins!" Yes I've heard all of you and I've take on this food tasting missions while I am still jobless.. sobz... SO SOMEBODY, if you are reading this and thinks I have potential in my design and writing skills, please hire me :)

Even to me who stayed here since young did not know about these restaurants, neither do my SG friends. So kudos to you all my Indonesian friends for surpassing me in the knowledge of SG.

First in the recommended list, Taste Good at Sim Lim Square!

Taste Good 好味小厨

Sim Lim Square #02-04

What can I say, a generous serving, I do like the taste of this Salted Egg Chicken Rice as it is more spicy and there wasn't too much sauce as compared to the one at Cui Xiang Yuan (next on the review list), which makes the individual flavour of the chicken stand out more.

If you want to get your stomach full fast, then this is a very good lunch deal for only $5.50, equivalent to around £3!! For £3 in London, it is just a cost of a sandwich at Pret A Manger.

Earlier this week, I had the same menu as well. This time, at a hawker at Cambridge Road, between Farrer Park and Novena.

You may find the restaurant here:

翠香园菜馆 Cui Xiang Yuan

Foodpark, Blk 43 Cambridge Road #01-09 S 210043

Cui Xiang Yuan (CXY) Restaurant a.k.a the Salted Egg Auntie as how people call it since she does delivery to homes with a minimum order amount. Since this was the first time trying the salted egg chicken rice, I thought this was okay~ It was not the kind that I will come back to eat again.

The sauce was poured over the rice and it turned out to be rather sweet. My friends had different preferences and commented that the one at Sim Lim was sweeter but after trying Taste Good, I find that this at CXY is much sweeter. Personally, I do like Taste Good better.

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Last of the salted egg posts is the ever so popular munchies - Irvins Salted Egg Potato Chips and Fish Skin.

They sell it from booths at 313 Somerset and also at the airport, and recently found out that there is another one at Vivo City after going there with my friend.

I was lucky enough to get into the queue at 313, with the last few packets of potato chips being sold. The first impression was like, it is pricey, $8 for a 105g pack but since many people rave about it so much I'm sure its pretty worth it.

I think when I opened it it was only half to 3/4 full and since I was still new to the taste, I felt that it tastes abit weird. I personally don't think this was worth to buy, and I might try some more salted egg chips from different brands to compare and why this brand became so successful.

That comes to the end of this post. I haven't been able to try that much salted egg places for me to write a very detailed review, and you can't expect me to eat the same flavour everyday right? I still crave my ban mian, prata and brunch food.

And to my fellow readers and if you are Indonesian and you are ever so adventurous to try and cook up a snack for yourself... I suggest cooking Emping Telur Asin/ Salted Egg Emping. I received a snack once but I don't know where the other party bought it from so if anyone is able to cook it for themselves, the combination is much more brilliant than with potato chips.

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, by Riciaz

2017

Pretty Places, Pretty meals @ Boufe Boutique Cafe

Hello readers!

I've finally come back to Singapore this past week and it has been a great time catching up with a few of my closest friends and relieving my craving taste buds for the clean and fresh local food here. Not to mention, I had an upset stomach after the street food in Jakarta just a few days before coming to Singapore.

Tucked away in a complex near Tanglin stands Boufe Boutique Cafe, a place I learnt from my junior Enabelle while asking about a location for my upcoming birthday ideas. To be very honest, I'm not quite sure that I will actually be celebrating it - the reason simply being as I don't have anyone to celebrate it with. All these years that have gone by without me here brought about many changes in friendships that I treasure deeply. People do change, and I can't stop them - I guess this is the start of adulthood where we just have to practice the habit of being by yourself and appreciate yourself even more.

It will be a much better idea if I had stayed in Jakarta all the way till my birthday is over, at least I'm able to celebrate it with my family but at the same time, the pressure of finding a job is haunting me. Sometimes I think about it day and night, even dawn when I saw a job listing and have not completed my application.

Anyways that is that for my personal life story, my food review starts here...

I went to the cafe together with my friend Elizabeth where she had the Triple B and I got my smoked salmon croissant. Just a brief side note, I was craving for smoked salmon like 2 or 3 weeks before in Jakarta but they only sell the frozen ones there, which will not taste as good if it was fresh. Just imagine how I savoured that croissant.

I will probably call this cafe a home for peculiar food because they do many unconventional cakes and drinks like what I had below, the Charcoal Lemonade, which does not taste like Lemonade but more of a mixture with what I believe was coconut water. After all, what matters is how appealing the colours make the food appear.

Lastly comes the highlight of the meal: The Cosmos Cake a.k.a paint your own galaxy, which I failed terribly - identified by the blue mousse cake at the very last picture in this post but saved it still with my composition skills ayeeeee :D

TIP* Pour the colour mixture unevenly and when you think the cake is beautiful enough, STAHHP. My cake became all blue because I thought I had to finish pouring the mixture.

Overall I think this is the most instagrammable food cafe I tried ever since I came back to Singapore and remember that they do give a free cake 3 days before or after your birthday. So if you are looking for a pretty cute and clean looking themed cafe and also have some fun in DIY cakes, you can find this at:

308 Tanglin Road,

Phoenix Park #01-01

Singapore 247974