[Food review] Bai Mi Fen @ Sembawang

Food review

I bet I have got many friends who reside along the North-South line (Red line) of Sg! I stay in Jurong and have always been deprived of the awesome food in the other areas of Singapore. Would love to take part in the next food hunt organized by NUS next year! Anyway, a few weeks ago, the Reelity Showdown girls met up for dinner and KTV and Amanda recommended that we try this foodie place called 白米粉, Bai Mi Fen (Translated as White Beehoon) located at Sembawang. Of course I was elated because it's such a rare opportunity to come across famous, cheap and tasty food in a coffee shop setting. Omnomnommmm.. :3

How to get there: 

Take a shuttle bus from Yishun MRT station to Sembawang Shopping Centre. Cross the road at the traffic light. Turn right and walk into the lane called Jalan Tampang. Head straight ahead and you'll see a huge signboard that says Bai Mi Fen on the right side of the road! :)

The girls and I reached the eatery at about 8-9pm for late dinner. With the warning given in advance by Amanda, we expected and encountered a queue which we waited in for about 20min. In fact, the queue was just right beside the dining tables where the already seated down diners enjoyed their meals while we stared at their satisfied faces and food, drooling. Well, it wasn't so bad actually, cos we utilized that waiting time to decide for ourselves what we should order. 

So first up, we got the Iced Jelly Lime juice for our drinks. There's a fusion of sweet and sour taste amidst the chilled jelly. Initially, I thought it's a dessert which should be served last after the meal, but no, you can actually enjoy the refreshing mocktail-like drink together with your main course. ONLY $2! :) Quite worth it for a homemade dessert-drink.

This is the legendary BAI MI FEN with a generous serving of seafood (cuttlefish, squid, prawns), eggs and vegetable!!! You got to finish this dish while it's still warm before all the savoury gravy gets all absorbed up by the beehoon. In our opinion, the beehoon tastes just slightly above average upon our first mouthful. But, it gets more and more yummy the more you feed yourself. The texture of it is very springy and even though the dish is flooded with gravy, the beehoon itself doesn't taste too soggy or disgusting for consumption. The gravy simply acted as the seasoning for the beehoon and doesn't get all sticky on them. Of course, if your preference is inclined towards watery beehoon, you can always scoop the gravy up and eat it with the beehoon on a spoon. How awesome is that! 

Omelette with sausage - 

Slightly oily and sinful but I LOVE IT cos it was freshly served and slightly crispy to the perfect extent. :3

Lala -  

Spicy dish which I didn't really take a lot but I could tell that the clams were quite fresh. :)

Kangkong -

Morning glory is like the universal all-time favourite vegetable dish. All of us agreed in unison that we should order it as our veg course. We felt that the stalks were just slightly a little bit too tough because coincidentally all of us are more used to having the veg cooked to perfect sogginess. 

Chicken wings - 

Crispy of course!!

Best part of it all! Less than $10 per person for a very filling and sumptuous meal! :D

Besides all the abovementioned which we ordered, other recommended dishes are the prawn fritters, ngo hiang and calamari. If you've gone there before and have better recommendation, don't mind leave me a comment and let me know which are your favourite dishes? I'd love to bring my bf there one day. :)

Just some happy pictures to make your day and mine! ^^

22 Jalan Lampang,

Singapore 758966

(Opposite Sembawang Shopping Centre)

Tel: 98434699

Opening hours: Daily (except Wed) 11.30am to 10.30pm 

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[Food review] Sapore Italiano @ NUS Utown

Food review

Just a quick review on Sapore Italiano  (@ NUS Utown).

I have no idea what came over me ytd that I spent $19.70 on so much food in school. -.-
Leo and I reached school at around 8+pm for late night mugging/project-rushing ytd, on a Sunday night cos we were both lazy pigs as we took afternoon nap. Ok, i have a valid reason alright. Was down with a nasty flu, which i'm still suffering from since 3 days ago. -.- Really hate being sick. My weekend was totally burnt.

Anyway, the restaurant serves beer, cocktail, mocktail, Italian pastas, lasagna, ice cream, desserts and more. The lighting in the dining area is quite dim, but it contributes to the ambience of the restaurant, unlike Bruce cafe and Hwang, which are more of lunch places, as they are brightly lit.

Photos are not edited. 

Mushroom soup - $6++

Recommended by the waitress.

Its presentation looks pretty impressive and it's interesting that the soup is served on a plate instead of a bowl, which also means that the serving is quite small. The bread was tasteless and hard. 

The soup has very tiny bits of mushrooms and is very thick and rich. 

But personally, I prefer the creamy type. And not so pricey type. 

Iced Mocha - $4.90++ 

It first came really bitter, even after I added a packet of sugar. 

I immediately feedbacked to them and asked for more creamer to justify the money spent which I could have bought Starbucks coffee with. The waitress was kind enough to bring it back to the kitchen to sweeten it up with extra milk. Quite a big glass of mocha. But I'd say, go for Starbucks if you want coffee.

Should have ordered Ice Chocolate. But, to give it some credit, I did project till 1am in school. so yea, it did its job to keep the sick girl awake for work.

Leonard's Carbonara - $7.90++

Huge serving and very filling. Carbo-loaded. Value for money? Maybe.

The cream sauce was too thick and could afford to be more watery though. 

Overall, it tasted a little too dry, but Leo tried to defend them, saying that it's cos of the crowd ytd night that they had to rush and compromise on the food. -.-"' They were a little stingy on the bacon bits actually. 

Carbonara Di Mare - $8.90++

My dinner was served with a generous portion of  5-7 juicy shrimps and quite a few fresh chewy squid rings, 

topped with a mussel which makes the dish overall satisfactory. 

Apparently, the difference of $1++ makes a huge difference between Leo's carbonara and my seafood carbonara. The problem with it is that the cream base is too thick and dry. But I would highly recommend this if you want to dine there. :) Just that it's carbo-heavy. #fats

With the kim-morh bf, specky and nude-faced, all ready to mug!

NUS Utown Town Plaza

Sapore Italiano

11am-11pm daily

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Short "getaway" to Geylang :p

Alright. Let's hope this is a short post cos I'm really sleepy. 

Whenever i blog, i'm always hoping it's a short post cos I'm well aware of my longwindednessssssssss.

As promised in my prev-prev post, this post is on my short trip made to Geylang with Leo and CK. 

Nothing scandalous as the title may sound. Haha. 

Was at a certain music company to interview for an event singer position before heading to Geylang for dinner, supper and exploration.

Singing job audition 

Auditioned 2 songs, Jar of Hearts and Grenade. 

Woman judged and told me my nasal voice is too much an issue, unlike Stefanie Sun who has melodious and soothing nasal vocals. And guess what. 

After wasting 1.5 hours of ours doing stage live singing and studio recording,

she tactfully told me I am FULL of potential but to unleash it, 

she recommended me to PAY $2.2k for a 9-month crash course to qualify myself and my abilities as an event singer. Go and die. Tyvm. I said NO straightaway, politely.

I'm aware of my nasal-sounding vocals, and I'd been really troubled over this issue during the pre-Emerge. 

Yet, I find this freaking cunning technique to enroll students into your music event company in hope of sucking their money too disappointing for me to even consider. Do it more ethically and less obvious please. 

It just shows people how desperate your music company is. 

Those interested to know the name of this music company, approach me to find out.

I won't hesitate to tell you about it. Waste my travelling effort and time and hope. Kns max. 

Another lesson learnt: The music industry is definitely not this cheap.

Geylang food

New waterproof Lomo cameras Leo and I bought from Outlet.sg

I love my hearts design and Leo is cute max! Spongebob! :3

Dinner time! Shared 3 huge dishes among ourselves at a random coffeeshop

after failed attempts to look out for renowned Geylang food places.

Nvm, will head back there again! :D

Singaporeans' all-time-favourite local delights! 

<3 Important favourite people

Shall post some camwhore pics b4 i head on for area-exploration. :D

Oh, got addicted to 豆浆油条 on this very fateful day.

Hugeass 油条 there. Yums. 

This tauhuey food stall is mega spacious and brightly lid. 

I forgot which lane it belongs to, but it's super huge and prominent.

So, you can probably spot it along Lor 20(smth) Geylang. :D

The youtiaos were served crispy and warm while the doujiang tasted really fresh. 

Area exploration

Dunno why but Geylang a whole lot of wang ba. Hehe.

I wonder if they deliberately picked this term to represent internet cafe in Chinese. 

For joke arh??
 

Finally, the red light district. 

Spotted at least 6-7 rows of terraces built for legal prostitution businesses.

Seriously, too many of such terraces. This industry is highly competitive too.

Didn't know Geylang has become so organized. 

We got a lil disappointed while roaming around the red light district 

cos my very knowledgeable bro told me that the ladies are not allowed to tout outdoors. 

Have to guaiguai stay indoors and wait for fishes to get hooked. Well.

We saw at least 5-6 Hotel 81s. 

I think underground business is still thriving. 

If i don't recall wrongly, the number of hotels has increased 

since the last time i went Geylang area for erhu lessons.

Apt name for a hotel located at Geylang. 

*Typing this while the wiggling song rings in the head. LOL*

Random: Fat puss sitting by the drain.

Its fur is too beautifully pastel for us to miss snapping a pic of it. 

It does look distressed here encountering camwhores. Lol.

We did see a considerable number of scantily dressed girls loitering/sitting or standing in suggestive postures at relatively secluded lanes deeper in from the main road. Some even gave CK gentle seductive stares. Professional? Maybe. Hmm. Why didn't the government ban prostitution ar? Hmm hmm hmm. Lazy to research now. Ok sleep!

Next post on "Express" dinner with my gals and my SUPER eventful 47th monthniversary.
1 more month to 48th, 4th anniversary! <3 It's a pity that it falls on the final exam period.

Nights love!

Hearts,
Ziwei

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*Scape fleamarket sales

Firstly, I wanna thank Baohui and Rach from T5 for helping out + sharing rental cost for my 2nd fleamarket sales organized by Flock to shop.

Bad location with not-good-enough crowd today even though the area our booth was situated at was air-conditioned.

Sold a few items and wasted the entire day setting up/helping out for R & B's the shift/doing sales and getting distracted by the pretty gals and clothes from the next booth.

Nonetheless, had a super exhausting but fruitful time being a salesgirl once again. This time, instead of selling clothes for my ex-boss at Holland V, I was helping myself, my partners and other "stakeholders" promote our items. It's an entirely different kinda experience cos I'm earning for MY own booth, working towards an overall target I personally set for the shop. In addition, I was the main organizer for this flea, so i kinda learnt more about time management, partners negotiation/communication, logistics, admin, splitting of work, contacting of "sponsors"/other girlfriends who wish to deposit their items at the booth at a reasonably cheap rate, recording of sales.

I didn't accomplish everything by myself though. I want to thank bee for helping me with all the manly manpower he provided me with to and back from *Scape. Thanks Baohui for being so punctual and the "price tags". Thank you Rach for the table cloth and rushing back down from Changi to help pack up the booth. Thank you Kelly, Lianne, Yawen and Nadya for being shareholders for the booth even though the crowd traffic was quite disappointing,

ONE REGRET. I WAS SO SUPER BZ THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME/CHANCE/MENTAL CAPACITY/PHYSICAL STRENGTH TO TAKE PHOTOS. WTFWTF. T.T

Nevertheless, congrats to The-Hodgepodge on their decently good sale at the Sky terrace today!

I'd like to give a short review on my organizer, Flock to Shop.

I think alot alot more could be done on publicity. Most of my customers didn't know there was another bazaar on the 2nd and 4th level, which explains for the lack of good crowd. About 3-4 tables at the air-conditioned area (Level 2, outside Sakae Sushi/Kbox) were not occupied - another proof that even publicity to vendors wasn't adequate. When Leo, Baohui and I went upstairs to look for the organizer to register for our booth, she was nowhere to be found. In the end, she did not even take attendance for my booth. The entire 4th floor was disorganized and messy as vendors were free to shift their tables and chairs to whichever part of the Sky terrace that they liked. Worst thing is that the crowd that we have was 1/10 that of the open-air bazaar organized by ScapeBazaar. Despite the risk of a downpour, I think it's still more worth it to set up a booth in the open area outside Scape.

Anw, after the flea, Mr Mah, Leo's dad brought us to TGIF @ Heeren and treated us to dinner. As usual i didn't have much.

Mushroom soup shared between Leo and I.
Rich and creamy, but 8.90++ :/

Stuff mushrooms.
Yummy but small serving. 7.90++

This is the main dish. One pint all to myself. 13.90++

Had an enjoyable time chatting w Mr Mah about sho many things - his crazy biking days, getting drunk at the bus stops outside Butter factory and waking up to the Monday clusters of office ladies/men staring at the 17-yo delinquents - like father like son. Tsk. 2 hours of chitchat session (at the expense of my already insufficient midterms revision time) to find out that his dad is really knowledgeable, hilarious and young-at-heart. :) Bee also claimed that his dad is one true opponent at pool that he enjoys playing against. ;) Like father like son, part 2.

Alright time to sleep and get enough rest for the tuition marathon + adole psych mugging marathon tmr.

Nights. :)

Hearts.

P/s: I won a pair of movie tickets to GALA PREMIERE of John Carter this coming Monday, the day before my 25% midterms!! :x AND my date is none other than the spicy hot SIA stewardess-to-be...

Kelly. <3 See ya dear!

P/p/s: Happy 46th Monthniversary Bee!! <3

P/p/p/s: Lianne, I miss you (and travelling with you)!!

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Long post on my Ideal V'day with many :) pics! <3

Yoz. I should be muggin. But this V'day deserves to be blogged, so I'm gonna preserve its fuzzy-ness all here cos I'm so damn satisfied with bee's effort for this year's V'day.

Some of my friends find V'day overrated while I find it overly commercialized. Just let me describe briefly how NUS was like that day.

Prices of flowers and chocolates rocketed up and many fund-raising student groups capitalized on this festive atmosphere to sell V'day-related gifts like flowers, balloons, ice cream, candies, da da da da and so on. So many of such bench-shops around AS6 and central library in NUS on V'day. To add on to positive mood congruence, all student-populated corridors were decorated with hearts and balloons, inducing a more joyous mood which puts everyone in a stronger inclination to spend $$ on V'day goodies to maintain and prolong their happiness. (What I learnt on Emotions tutorial on V'day itself: Mood Maintenance Model) How coincidental. LOL.

So yes, Leo and I got swirled into this V'day frenzy and spent quite a bit of money on each other, especially Leo. (Thanks bee! <3) Let me just go into my Perfect Romantic Valentine's Day with bee with pictures.

Spent the night over at Leo's and this is our first pic taken at midnight of V'day. Guilty at the carbo intake. But I only let loose on my diet for 1 day, don't be so harsh on me ok tummy. :/

On the way to school together on V'day! <3

V'day isn't a public holiday but I'm glad I went to school cos this pic (taken on V'day) of all my chiobu Powerpsych girlfriends is sooooo pwetty! Our first pic with 5 of us tgt. CAP 5.0 PEOPLE! <3

Fully handmade jar of roses. Bee spent about 3 days to fold the 30++ small roses inside the heart-shaped jar + the handmade huge deco  flower. Really very touched by this present cos it's so beautiful despite Leo's claim that he's artistically-impaired. Bee, you're talented lor! The colour combo of the tiny roses and different shades of pink and red of the big rose go so compatibly together!

My 30min hand-drawn cartoon portrait of bee. Does it look like Leo? :D



I knew Leo's gonna get my flowers, but I didn't expect it to cost near to a 100bucks! Wts! Bee so generous, I'm so touched. <3

Leo's self-composed poem! Meaningful. <3

"Roses are red,

Violets are blue.

Our love remains fresh,

Like the morning dew."

The feeling is still as fresh as when we just started 4 years ago. :')

Blessed girl i am! :D

What made it more perfect is the fortunate chance of my cozycot V'day picture submission being handpicked by Jeraldine to win a 100$ takeaway at The Body Shop! Got ourselves 4 items - 2 perfumes (1 for Leo, 1 for myeslf) which costs about 40$ each, my favourite strawbie-scented shower gel and newly-launched Chocomania lipbalm. ALL FOR FREE!! THANK YOU COZYCOT! :D



Bee and his new perfume set with super fresh and atas fragrance. :)



My boy so cute with the bouquet! :3



The least unglam/fat-faced picture of me that day. :D



Simple dinner at TCC @ Ion Orchard since both of us couldn't tahan the hunger any longer. Awesome treat to ourselves (despite the carbo again) though. HazelChocz milk shake damn sinful but AWESOME! Seriously, double-assured me that i didn't choose my blog name wrongly! So yummeh! :3 Mussel clam soup as appetizer, Chicken wings as starters, Crispy Oyster with Sauteed Mushroom pasta as main course. Perfect satisfaction for a V'day meal.

I guess its quite a pity that we didn't get any e-coupon Valentine deal earlier but I guess it's still not too late to visit Deal.com.sg to get some cheap deals for post-vday retreat during the upcoming recess week.  ;) *VERY SUBTLE HINT HINT WINK WINK, LEONARD MA* :3

Oh yea before I forget, Leo and I took part in a V'day contest on Cozycot and I really want to win this 1 night stay at Boutique hotel, but I'm still 60+ votes short to get the highest number of votes. Please bang bang mang and click a fb like on my photo titled "To Leonard Ma" at this website http://www.cozycot.com/fest/photos. THANKS SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!!! All voters' 10 seconds of effort put in to vote in much appreciated! Thanks!!!!!!

Time to sleep. :D Good night cupcakes! :p Full-day mugging for the next 2 days. :/

Hearts.

P/s: I'd probably come up with another recording during the upcoming recess week amidst the midterms revision. Stay tuned. :D

P/p/s: Will be doing a product review for the newly-launched Loreal Youth Code skincare essence in an upcoming post too. The effects is evidently noticeable in less than 1 week! Cool right! :D

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