My friend Joyce has been really sick with a upper respiratory tract infection but she was feeling a bit better so wanted to join us to try some Korean ja jang mien. Ron’s classmate recommended this Korean – Chinese Restaurant on 76 Amoy Street. He took us there and we were lucky to have him there to order for us.

We tried two seafood dishes, a seafood soup with noodles, and the ja jang mien. The guys also tried some Chinese wine, they translated to me from Chinese to be “Confucius family’s wine”… it smelled really really strong and “burns” inside your mouth.

This is the ja jang mien. It was delicious.

We were thoroughly stuffed but they still served us with watermelon slices and candied yams. The restaurant closes at 10pm but we were there until almost 10:30… we felt a bit bad because we were still finishing our meal when they had already finished cleaning up outside and were ready to go home. Oops…

But I think it’s a good place o try, their hours are 11:30pm to 2:30pm for lunch and 5:30pm to 10pm for dinner. They speak Chinese and English also.

Although we were stuffed, we decided to go to Swensen’s. Yesterday night when we went to dinner there, I saw they serve chocolate fondue and I promised Joyce that if she felt better that we would go have chocolate fondue! Alex joined us too.

We tried the Swensen’s at Chinatown Point but it was already closing but there are three Swensen’s open 24 hours: Changi Airport, Holland Village, and Orchard Rd. Orchard was the closest so we grabbed a taxi to head over there.

This particular Swensen’s always has a line out front but the wait isn’t really long… there were maybe 3 or 4 parties in front of us and it only look us like 10 or 15 minutes to wait. The service was a bit slow though, we were able to order quickly enough but it took a while for the banana splits and fondue to come out.

But it was worth the wait… the chocolate fondue was served with five scoops of ice cream, maraschino cherries, bananas, strawberries, wafer cookies, marshmallows, and cream puffs. Very yummy.

To check out other pictures from the night, see here:

Chocolate and ice cream are the best remedies for a tiring week.

There are quite a few Swensen’s Restaurants in Singapore… compared to the only one Swensen’s ice cream parlor in San Francisco. In contrast, the restaurants here have a full menu including pasta, sandwiches, burgers, etc. But of course include the desserts of sundaes, banana splits, and fondue.

Ron just wanted to go out to eat so we headed to IMM to their Swensen’s. It was really good ol’ American cuisine. I ordered the Mega Burger which has a sunny side egg on top along with the hamburger, bacon, and grilled vegetables. Quite tasty and filling.

Ron ordered a not so tasty healthy choice pasta. I don’t even know how to describe the taste, it was so boring. Healthy food doesn’t have to be boring, dunno what they did to their pasta sauce.

One more day of work before Good Friday, yay! Good Friday is a public holiday here so we have the day off. Unfortunately Ron has class so we can’t go away for a long weekend.

I spent the afternoon studying, can you believe it? It was nice though to have a hot latte at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Holland Village and reviewing some material for Joyce’s tutorial this coming week. Sometimes I miss studying… as long as it’s not for an exam.

In the evening we decided to check out Geylang for some good eats. My co-worker recommended some specialties such as frog porridge, beef hor fun, soy bean (dao cheung) with peanut dumplings and fried dough stick (you tiao). She recommend Lorong 9 as a place with all the good stuff.

If you didn’t know, Geylang is known as the “Red Light District” of Singapore. But even though it is that, I heard the food is very very nice.

We tried the beef kuay teow (aka beef hor fun). It was tasty but greasy.

We didn’t have a chance to try the fish porridge so we’ll have to go back another time. We wandered around for a while trying to find dessert but with no luck so I’ll have to ask my co-worker the specific stall for next time.

With all the wandering, we got to see some interesting things… there are many different types of women, lots of different betting games going on, bootleg DVDs being sold, and a lot of people just wandering around… It was a bit weird to see all this in Singapore… but it’s here. I think it’s one of Singapore’s well-known best-kept secrets (if that makes sense…).

But I do look forward to going back there to eat again…