Yes I’ve been a bit behind in updating our blog but I finally had some time to catch up today.

07 June 2008 Weekend in Bali – Day 1

08 June 2008 Bali – Day 2

13 June 2008 Lan Zhou La Mian & Dessert

14 June 2008 Kung Fu Panda & BBQ

15 June Al-Hamra Lebanese & Middle Eastern Cuisine

Ron and I revisited Ju Shin Jung on West Coast Highway. Neither of us felt like cooking at home or cared for take-out or cared to go to Holland Village. Our experience this time was not as nice, not sure why… but when we walked in, they asked us how many persons then started walking toward one side of the room, then asked if we had a reservation, when we said no, they walked us to the back of the restaurant. It was a bit odd. The food was still good and they still provide good service by cooking the food for you but it seemed a bit overbearing today, the person cooking for us just stood by our table so you couldn’t have a proper conversation until that person was done. The last time I think they stood a bit farther away and only came in close to the table to turn the meat or cut it.

They served us a few different new appetizers. One was this potato salad with thousand island like dressing. A bit sweet.

Pickled radish.

We ordered the marinated chicken and pork.

Such cute heart shaped watermelon.

Cinnamon pine nut dessert… reminds me of Christmas flavors.

It’s been a very “meaty” few days.

We wanted something different for lunch today so we headed to Holland Village to try Al-Hamra. It ended up being quite an expensive lunch.

They serve a cold platter of pickled vegetables and olives. The olives were a breathe of fresh air, something I hadn’t had in a long time, but the vegetables were a bit too sour for me.

The hummus was nice and smooth. Although it’s not served with anything so you have to order bread separately. The hummus itself was $10.50

The bread we ordered had herbs and sesame seeds. The toasted sesame seeds made the bread really good. It’s called markouk bread on the receipt. It was $3

For the main we ordered Sheesh Taouk which is a chicken kabob of sorts. It’s amazing to us how moist the chicken meat still was.

It was served with garlic sauce, chili sauce, and BBQ sauce. The garlic sauce is a bit like mayo. The chili sauce is very sour. The BBQ sauce is a bit like thousand island dressing.

It was a filling meal but a bit expensive for lunch, $49 for 2 persons. Ron says they have lunch specials during the weekdays so that’d probably be more worth it.

It’s been hard to get back into work after having such a nice relaxing weekend. Lucky for us, the workload has been rather light most days this week. The biggest thing that I did this week was give another case presentation to the inpatient pharmacists, this time about “Methotrexate Pharmacokinetics”.

Thank goodness it’s Friday so that we could go enjoy a good dinner and sleep in tomorrow.

We decided to go to Chinatown to a restaurant called Lan Zhou La Mian on No. 19 Smith Street. Ron’s classmates said this is their favorite noodle place in Singapore so we figured we’d better try it out. Ron met up with Timo and Elina there but I was a bit late because of traffic, I never realized how packed Eu Tong Sen Rd could get at 7pm.

Anyways, lucky for me by the time I got there, they had already ordered.

There was a dish of pickled vegetables served with crushed peanuts. The peanuts gave it that something special, the dish was quite good.

We had the ja ja mian with their fresh made noodles, cucumbers, and bean sauce. I think the dish was too small for $8 but the noodles were really good, a bit chewy.

Pork and cabbage noodle soup. It was filled with white pepper. I enjoyed the dry noodles better.

Honeyed pork chops. Sweet and meaty, not full of fried flour like most places.

Xiao Long Bao. I agree with Ron, they were really good because the “juice” inside the buns were the right temperature so that when you bit into it, it didn’t burn your mouth.

Fried pot stickers.

Their special shrimp.

We walked the street market for a bit before stopping for dessert at Mei Heong Yuen Dessert on 65-67 Temple Street. The menu caught our eye because of the mango dessert and the special ice dessert.

Elina tried the mango pomelo tapioca dessert. It had quite a bit of ice and the pomelo was a bit sour but the mango was really good.

I ordered one of my favorite desserts, egg custard with ginger. It doesn’t look like much and isn’t anything really special but it’s something I enjoy.

Timo ordered the berry ice dessert. The ice didn’t have much flavor, tasted like frozen milk. With the syrup, it was pretty good though and stayed cold for a long time.

Ron ordered the mocha flavor. It was yummy. It’s so interesting though, it’s like very thin thin layers of creamy ice… it’s hard to describe… but it’s fun to eat!

Ah, a good night.