Bugis Junction Food Trail 2013: Everything with Fries

Located at Level 4 of Bugis Junction. If it wasn't for this event, then I wouldn't have known that there is this outlet, near the cinema.

entrance

Recommended drinks are the milkshakes (nutella, butterscotch), home brewed lemonade and iced-lemon tea.  Got myself a fizzy orange instead. (yeah, imma rebel in this way) Just remember to stir before drinking.

Fizzy Orange (soda water and orange juice)

someone else's strawberry milkshake

For starters, we got to try the One Egg Soup and Skinny Wings.

The One Egg Soup

Skinny Wings

The One Egg Soup was rather mild and creamy with a hint of sweetness. The deep fried egg soaks up the soup and gave a good mouthfeel when eaten. Liked the well marinated Skinny Wings, where its insides were still moist.

It was hard to photograph the mains, because each and every one of it looked so good that one can't resist the temptation to start eating.

Grilled Char Siew, served with garlic and chives fries

well-cooked char siew

The grilled char siew has a good ratio of lean and fats. Meaty to the bite and not too salty. Goes well with the garlic sauce.

Wild NZ King Salmon

look at the pink flesh, as tender as it looks!

Am always apprehensive about having cooked salmon. Liked 'em best when it is raw, in sashimi form. However, the Wild NZ King Salmon dish here managed to sway the opinion. Flavourful crispy crust coated the tender and almost melt-in-your-mouth soft flesh. Good.

Char-grilled Beef Karubi

boneless, fork tender meat

The boneless beef shortrib was nicely tender, adequately seasoned but wished its flavours could be stronger. Perhaps, had taken a tad too long to photograph and did not get to enjoy the dish when it was still warm.

Chicken Sandwich

Grilled Pork Chop, served with shoe-string curry fries

Liked the Pork Chop, especially nearing the bones where it's more fatty. Strong flavours, oily to chew but that's what made it so good. Yums.

The dish that made the most visual impact (imho), was the Steak with Tulang (bone marrow), a seasonal dish. It is a plate of char-grilled ribeye steak (a whopping 280gms!), two small halves of grilled bone marrow and served with sauteed mushrooms, and thick cut fries with truffle oil.

Steak with Tulang (@$25.90++)

Was grinning wide, as I was cutting the steak. From the meat's resistance to the knife, one can roughly guess whether the meat would be tender or tough to chew. Liked the ribeye, tender with some bite and juicy. Nice. This is something that I would love to order again when the craving for a ribeye comes-a-calling!

Everything with Fries

Location: #04-05, Bugis Junction
Website: http://www.everythingwithfries.com/
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Bugis Junction Food Trail 2013

Bugis Junction. Located at 200 Victoria Street, and above the Bugis MRT. Easily accessible, just that I haven't been visiting often since I no longer work around that area any more. Old office used to be at North Bridge Road. Nowadays, I think of it more as a mall for youngsters? Keke.

Opportunity to get re-acquainted, presented itself in the form of Bugis Junction Food Trail, organized by omy.sg and Bugis Junction. wOOohOOo!

Ten places of non-stop eating and feasting. Satiated. *pats tummy*

Bugis Junction Food Trail 2013

This event was held on 13 April 2013, and we chomped off starting from Everything With Fries, Platypus Kitchen, Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant, Siam Kitchen, Kazokutei, nydc, Fish & Co., Honguo, Yummy Bites and Maggie Moo's. We lasted six hours and slightly more.

Trail stop #1: Everything With Fries, located at Level 4, right next to the cinema!

All main courses here are served with fries, hence the name. Not just regular fries, but one may get flavoured fries like truffle-oil, garlic, or curry paired with the mains.

Steak with Tulang (Seasonal Menu)

Trail stop #2: Platypus Kitchen, located at Level 3.

Always wanted to experience gourmet-style dining, but not quite willing to bust a big hole in the wallet? Well, look no further as Platypus Kitchen aims to bring 'Affordable Gourmet' closer to us, the masses.

Spicy 'Diablo' Crab & Prawn (handmade egg tagliolini)

Trail stop #3: Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant （南翔饅頭店）, located at Level 2.

Fancy savouring some xiaolong mantou (or xiao long bao), from a brand that was established more than a hundred years ago? Of course, we'd love to!

hot, steaming xiao long baos (小笼包)

Trail stop #4: Siam Kitchen, located at Level 2.

Hankering for some halal Thai food? Siam Kitchen has it! Their version of tom yum talay, was really appetizing with its balanced sourish and spicy taste. Slurps.

Siam Siam Grill Combo Platter (from top, clockwise: squid, prawns, chicken and beef)

Trail stop #5: Kazokutei, at Level 2.

Hailing from Osaka, this place specializes in handmade udon. Liked the springiness and bounciness of the quality noodles. Simplest form of enjoyment.　ごちそうさまでした！

handmade udon

Trail stop #6: nydc (New York Dessert Cafe), located at Level 2.

Think nydc, think mudpies! And now, one could get a 3-some there...(eh eh, don't think astray! Naughty you) It's cold, it's sweeeeet~ and so satisfying. Licks lip.

3-some (strawberry mudpie)

Trail stop #7: Fish & Co., located at Level 1.

Has been quite awhile since I last visited Fish & Co. and am happy to see so many new items available in their glossy-magazine-like new menu! Impressed.

Seafood Galore (king prawns, butter curry clams, grilled white fish and chips)

Trail stop #8: Honguo, located at Basement 1.

Have you tried their speciality noodles, the 'Cross Bridge Vermicelli' (过桥米线)? Interesting dining concept with an equally interesting story behind. But if noodles is not your thing then probably seafood fried rice may tickle your tastebud.

Scholar Cross Bridge Vermicelli - 15 items
(状元过桥米线 - 15样)

Trail stop #9: Yummy Bites, located at Basement 1.

All things fried. Usually, I'd get fried bananas but nowadays, fried nian gao (年糕) sounds fine too. No, not that korean rice cake but the chinese type where its brown, sticky and sweet. For 'Snowball' or fried ice-cream, be prepared to wait as they'll only prepare it upon ordering.

Yummy Bites kiosk of deep fried goodies

Trail stop #10: MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery at Level 1, outer-side of the mall where the old box-office was.

Ice-creams, dizzying array of flavours, milkshakes and their promo of new flavours and sweet offers each month.

sweet treat

To know more about the individual restaurants and the food that we ate during this trail, do click on the hyperlink of each restaurant!

As usual, special thanks to the organisers and our various hosts for this Bugis Junction Food Trail. Thank you for the food, your time and the useful information! To fellow bloggers, pleased to meet you and till next time, take care!

Bugis Junction

Location: 200 Victoria Street, Singapore 188021
Operating Hours: 10am to 10pm daily
Website: http://www.bugisjunction-mall.com.sg

Bugis+ Food Trail 2013: Hawaiian Kitchen Aloha Ma Maison マ・メゾン

This place conjures up an image of beautiful hula dancers. That'll be nice, won't it? Hahaha. Instead, we'd settle for something equally delicious. Pancakes!

welcome

kitchen area

decorations on the wall

Tried the Homemade Mixed Fruits Pancake. One can choose between with or without whipped cream.

Handmade Mixed Fruits Pancake (@$13.80++)

Handmade Mixed Fruits Pancake with a tower of whipped cream (@$15.80++)

Pancake was light and so was the whipped cream. Airy and light with a hint of sweetness.

pancakes essentials (top to bottom): maple, guava and coconut syrup

Preferred the coconut syrup. Very fragrant especially if some of the grated coconut slipped out from the bottle. The essence!

With that, our Bugis+ Food Trail 2013 ended on a sweet note. Thank you omy.sg for organising and to the various hosts for having us!

Hawaiian Kitchen Aloha Ma Maison

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mamaisonsg

Bugis+ Food Trail 2013: Berrylite

There's always room for desserts. Furthermore, a healthy one! Yes, please!

Berrylite frozen yogurt with strawberry and blueberry toppings

can you see how yummy this is?

Why is it good for us?

10 billion live & active cultures?! No kidding.

I'm sold. Are there more flavours or just the plain 'ol white frozen yogurt with various toppings? Of course! Not one, not two.. but 50 other flavours that they'll rotate every fortnightly.

caramel flavour

Wait...50 flavours, rotate fortnightly... does that mean I got to wait quite awhile for my favourite flavours to come back? Well, fortunately the customers can feedback (or petition) to the friendly staff so that their favourite flavours can be brought out again the soonest possible.

Cool. But what's the pricing is like? Here's a picture of that for you, my readers.

size and pricing

My tummy is lactose intolerant, and after eating the frozen yogurt, there wasn't any rumblings at all. Everything was sweet and cool. Plus, fat-free~!

You want more? Sure! In fact, we had a preview of a new product that they'll be introducing in April. Greek yogurt. We were informed that Greek yogurt has more protein as compared to regular yogurt. In terms of texture, it feels abit thicker/denser and just as yummy.

Greek Yogurt Parfait

Look out for it!

Berrylite

Location: 201 Victoria Street #05-03, Singapore 188067
Website: www.berrylite.com

Bugis+ Food Trail 2013: Ireland's Potato

Ireland's Potato is an intriguing name. Questions that ran through the mind, like "Did they import the potatoes from Ireland or is this a franchise that originated from there or...?"

There was a Great Famine between 1845 and 1852 in Ireland, and outside of Ireland this famine is known as the "Irish Potato Famine". This showed the dependancy on potatoes even then. After the famine, potato remained as Ireland's staple crop. Wiki info here.

According to Ireland's Potato website, it is this Irish passion and appreciative attitude towards the potato that inspired the brand. Wow.

potatoes and various dips and seasoning

honey mustard

cheesy baked potato skins, honey mustard

Verdict? It makes a good snack to share with. Tasty.

Ireland's Potato

Website: http://www.irelandspotato.com.sg/

Bugis+ Food Trail 2013: Ramen Champion

Located at Level 4 of Bugis+. Ramen Champion is a space that houses several stalls of famous Japanese ramen brands; Aoyama, Bario, Gantetsu, Ikkousha, Menya Iroha and Taishoken.

ramen champion entrance

Besides their specialty ramen, each of them have their own Singapore-inspired ramen. For this food trail, we got the chance to try these.

Aoyama's Special Tonkotsu Ramen (@$15+)

The Special Tonkotsu Ramen's broth was light and tasty with thin noodles.

Bario's Ajitama Ramen (@$14.50+)

thick, chewy noodles

Was told that Bario's pork bones soup broth has to be eaten hot, otherwise when it is cold, it can be quite 'jelak'. Characterized with what seemed like a portruding mountain in a bowl, it is in fact topped with huge mounds of beansprouts and cabbage. Have always thought of this as a man's ramen.

Next up, Gantetsu's ramen, which has a dollop of shredded ginger ontop. Its egg looked yummy too!

Gantetsu's King Chashu Ramen (@$15+)

Ikkousha was 2011 Ultimate Winner of Ramen Champion, hence, was anticipating its Spicy Takana Ramen (#2 in terms ramen popularity).

Ikkousha's Spicy Takana Ramen (@$15+)

It has the best broth! Mix the takana up, and the first two gulps almost made me choke because of its spiciness. But just can't stop slurping the 12-hours boiled pork bones broth! Only gripe was, why isn't there any ajitsuke tamago in this bowl?! There's just takana (spicy preserved vegetable), black fungus, spring onions and few slices of very thin chashiu.

lovely Hakata noodles

Liked Iroha's fatty chashiu lots! Almost melt-in-your-mouth kind. Its soup is chicken shoyu based.

Iroha's King's Ramen (@$18+)

Next, there was this bowl of fiery red looking ramen from Ikkousha. There's three spicy levels to it; normal, medium and dangerous. Normal is as far as I'd be willing to go!

Ikkousha's God Fire Ramen

After all the eating, and this being our 8th stop, I thought I could eat no more. That was when, Taishoken's Cold & Spicy Tsukemen was brought out. It tasted pretty refreshing and light, although it is still carbs!

Taishoken's Cold & Spicy Tsukemen (@$15+)

Ramen Champion is at Level 4. At the entrance, diner will be given an electronic tag. Pass this tag to the ramen stall, so that your orders are recorded into the tag. When about to leave, just pass the tag to the cashier at the exit and payment shall be collected then.