Chocolate is not just about taste -- Max Brenner

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Chocolate soufflé

who dares to deny that chocolate makes you happy and your heart healthy?

Ham & Egg

Two things I should always have in my fridge: eggs and ham. Okay even though nowadays honestly, i dont stock up as much and as often as i used to anymore because well, i'm not supposed to eat eggs that much for cholesterol reason (I still can't believe how hard it was for my mom to beg me to eat eggs when i was a kid!) and secondly processed meat, I heard, is very unhealthy =P.

Let's see how easy it is to make this:

Ingredients:

• Eggs
• Ham
  
• Salt
• Frying oil/margarine
• Pepper

How to make it:

• Heat oil in frying pan for 30 seconds. Arrange the ham nicely.
• Break the eggs on top
• Cover it with pan cover for 30 secs
• Open it and take a pinch of salt and spread it
• Pepper it.
  
• Cover for 15 secs and done.

Sweet Sins

Thai Chendol from Central Thai @ Orchard Central

Thai Chendol has always been one of my favorite desserts, the one I have grown up eating in the past 5 years is certainly Coca's Thai Chendol. This one tasted pretty good with Vanilla ice-cream on top.

Praline flavor, YUMMY!!

the freshest ice-cream on earth
by
MARBLE SLAB CREAMERY

Seriously tempted by the wordings "the freshest ice-cream on earth", which means you definitely have to try, or like a friend said, die die must try =P.. the concept is similar to Cold Rock, which I will probably blog about soon

Peanut butter flavor, even more YUMMY!

don't tell me you've never eaten Skippy peanut butter from its bottle?

surely we all have, yes! this is almost as heavenish

"Once your desired flavor has been selected, the magic begins. We scoop the ice cream onto a frozen marble slab, where your choice of fruits, nuts and candies, known as Marble Slab Creamery "mixins," will be skillfully blended in with the ice cream, then finally piled high on the delectable waffle cone of your choosing. The result is your very own, one-of-a-kind dessert. From there, repeat as desired, which will probably be often." quoted from Marble Slab Creamery

1 for 1 Fizz at only $5.50 @ AC2 Cafe, Far East Plaza

Pretty much have been indulging myself with sweet things, which of course, was a real sin because they're usually cold (and I have the tendency to easily catch cough afterward) and fattening =(.

Olionized !!

My piece - Seafood Aglio Olio Pasta

Garlic is definitely a must!

• Spaghetti Pasta
• Garlic (chopped and a lot)
• Olive oil
• Seafood (clam meat/prawns/squids/mussels)
• Salt
• Chilli padi
• Capsicum
• Italian herbs
  
• Sugar (if desired and in small amount)

Just toss them!

Fyi, I've got praises for this dish! =)

Hua Li Xuan Restaurant [Iluma @ Bugis]

I've yet to try their other menus because I went there just for "fun" yesterday night, was a light supper to be exact. Attracted by the friendly staff and the mini-burger display which was pretty cute, we decided to give it a try. The price of the burgers is considered very cheap. Here's the deal, buy one normal-size burger at about $4.00 or choose 3 different types of mini burgers at about $4.80. You may like to upsize it to a set meal with choices of drinks and side dishes.

Creamy Chicken Soup

Black Pepper Beef Burger with Onion Rings

Initially I thought the burgers were just there to attract people. But turned out, they are actually considered the restaurant's specialty as they use mantou or Chinese bun instead of the normal bread. You can choose to have your burgers with fried or steamed mantou indeed! We ordered the Beef Black Pepper Burger with fried mantou (a little bit oily in my opinion, but its semi-crispiness was great), upsized it with Onion Rings and Root Beer. The creamy soup-of -the-day was normal but the garlic breads (more like garlic biscuits) tasted really good.

Mango dessert with sago and pomelo

Towards the end of our meal, a lady came over to ask us if everything was okay, if the food was good enough and introduced us their popular mango dessert. In my opinion, it wasn't really fantastic because I like the Hong Kong type mango dessert, which I usually ate at Liang Seah Street (I've yet to blog about this dessert house). This one tasted more like milky mango syrup with some mango cubes, sago and pomelo added. Tasted like the usual mango pudding before being solidified, if you get what i mean.

Overall, it's pretty okay, I will go back for second try.