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Best Salted Caramel Lava Cake in Singapore

7/4/2015

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Baked Fresh upon your order at Offshore Club (YES! I came back again, for the third time....the food is great, the service is wonderful, and Leona constantly surprises with new food on the menu!) This salted caramel lava cake is so delicious and eggy that I couldn't get enough! Warm and buttery, served with a fabulous french vanilla ice cream, the pairing is perfect and the secret ingredient added by the Chef takes the cake literally! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this, and I'm so glad that Offshore Club in Loyang is putting this on their menu!
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I really like their steak! Juicy and marinated overnight, I ate up everything except the dish. Yes, including the thick fat, telling myself that it's collagen.
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I had to get another angle so you can see how thick it is!
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My medium rare steak, done the way I like it! I also loved the potato salad, which has apple in it too! Makes me feel healthy and loved.
Despite showing dessert first, I had a memorable main course of medium rare steak with garden vegetables that was nicely blanched with a serving of the chef's potato and apple salad. Perfect!
The Salad Buffet is my favourite as it is included in the main course. Before you get your perfectly done main course, you get to go and have as much salad as you like, included with any main course order.
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The choice of three dressings change daily, and on the day I went down, there was honey mustard (FAV!), Italian and thousand island. Fruit like mandarin oranges, peaches and lychees make it a stellar salad bar.
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My freshly baked Salted Caramel Lava Cake with French Vanilla Ice Cream
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Love at first bite...look at it oooooooze
best salted caramel lava cake in Singapore
I can't get enough of it, the taste lingers in your mouth and this has to be the best salted caramel lava cake in Singapore!
It's un-un-un-unbelievable, but I still had room for Coffee! With the FREE WIFI at the Offshore Club in Loyang, I was bunkering down to do serious work that day, and the Wifi speed was fast enough for my massive uploads of videos!
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That's Leona behind the bar! She makes the most seriously delicious alcocoffee I have ever tasted, and also the strongest, with 42.3% Galliano Liqueur. One entire pack, enough for anyone to get happy in the middle of the day! Their spanking new coffee machine makes seriously good coffee even without the alcohol.
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Loyang Offshore Supply Base. 
25 Loyang Crescent, Blk 103A 
TOPS Avenue 1, #09-01, Singapore 508988
Look for the TOLL Neon Sign from the road!


If you want to order what I did, 
Ribeye Steak $21.50 ( Salad Bar FREE)
Salted Caramel Lava Cake $8.90
Italian Coffee $12

REVISITED! 
Check out my first visit here:
http://www.chanchop.com/food-porn/offshore-club-luxury-food-at-cafe-prices

My Second Visit with the full menu available:
http://www.chanchop.com/food-porn/best-burger-in-loyang-offshore-club
Offshore Club
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Possibly the Best Mookata in Singapore - Moojaa

8/21/2013

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Battle of the Moo Ka Ta in Singapore

Over the weekend I set out on a MooKata adventure, eating MooKata with my friends from Thailand everyday till we find one that we like. In Thailand, MooKata is very much the social thing, and friends would gather and sit around the pot, talking and having beer. It's one of the more entertaining highlights of eating out in Thailand, and now, it has gotten popular in Singapore as well, with MooKata joints popping up all over. So which is the best I've been to? MooJaa at Keong Saik Rd, due to the service, ambiance, food quality, soup base (with no MSG!) and choice of ingredients. MooJaa is a clear winner, so it wins my full review! What's even better, they close only at 6am, so you can eat there anytime you want, from 11am onwards.
MooJaa at 25 Keong Saik Road, Singapore 089132
Call 6536 4780 for reservations or click here.
(Third place I tried and now it is my favourite!)
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MooJaa in Keong Saik Road was a clear winner with the fantastic service - here you see our server placing the food in the pan for us. 

MooJaa has two sauces available, one great for seafood and the other for meat. I also enjoyed the amazing soup (Made from Chicken and Pork) and the really tasty Thai Tea and lemongrass drink. 

One set is $45 but you have the option to get the buffet at just $32 + $5 for free flow of drinks of your choice per person. 

Waiting for the charcoal to arrive felt short, as we had the fish skin and the delicious pork balls with cheese oozing out as a starter. It took about 15 - 20mins for the charcoal to be hot enough for them to bring out the pot of coal and the pan.

Air conditioned, you get to eat in comfort.
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Golden Mile Level 1
( First place I tried, No.2 on my list of favourite Moo Ka Ta places )
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My thai friends raved about this place in Golden Mile and took me out for dinner. The food was good, and if I didn't try MooJaa, I would think it is probably the best in Singapore. 

The thai tea that they have as well as the flexibility to order thai dishes from the neighbouring stalls were a plus point too. 

Their dipping sauce is spicy with peanuts mashed in, delicious! Service is better if you speak thai, but one set that comprises pork, chicken, seafood, liver and vegetables go for $39 and the portions were really small. 

Reordering pork or liver sets you back by $10 per plate, and the portions are small, so be forewarned. 

Air conditioned but you will sweat while eating.
Geylang Lorong 8
( Second place place I tried and if I return, it would only be for the Fish Head Curry )
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We went to look for durian in Geylang and chanced upon the Mookata at Geyland Lorong 8. We waited so long that we ordered their Fish Head curry (FANTASTIC) and were overwhelmed by the HUGE portion of meat thrown haphazardly on top of a mountain of cabbage. 

Mookata was ok, but not as good as their fish head curry. The set here is $39 and the prawns, though big, were not really fresh. It could also be due to the fact that they brought the raw food out of the fridge and set them on our table while waiting for approximately 20mins for the black charcoal to be hot enough.

The staff only speak Mandarin, so if you speak English or Thai, you will probably have to gesture.

Outdoors and set next to the road.

The MooJaa Reveal Review

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I went on a "bbq steamboat", "Le Yang" or "Mookata" binge from Sunday to Monday, but it was the very last Mookata Place I went to that really stood out from the rest. MooJaa, pronounced as "Mu Jaaaaaaa", explained in the menu to mean, my "Lovely Pig", a common pet name for couples in love. 

" Moo Ka Ta, for the uninitiated, literally means "Pork Skillet" in Thai and refers to the special cooking apparatus created to enjoy both barbecue and hot pot at the same time. A trough of soup sits on a crock of charcoal, and a dome shaped grill is placed on the trough. This allows the smoke from the charcoal to waft up to the grill, perfuming the meats with some seriously fragrant "wok hei" (wok's breath)."  Written by MooJaa, this accurately sums up what Moo Ka Ta is all about, and at the same time, gives you a little insight into the little details that help set MooJaa apart from the rest of the Moo Ka Ta places in Singapore.
Before walking into MooJaa, I brought my friends on a tour of Chinatown and we walked up the historical Keong Saik Rd  which was really nostalgic especially for me, as I remember coming to one of the houses when they were still houses, as a child of 3 or 4 years old. They were gorgeous and big, but only had one toilet and washing area for the 6 or 8 families living in that huge house in which everyone had one room. The old lady I visited lived in one of the rooms, and I remember her bed was made of wood, with no mattress. While the houses have since been converted to offices, shops and restaurants, the largeness or rather, the depths of the houses remained the same. Keong Saik Road also used to be the "red light district", way before Geylang became popular. I remember as a child, I sat at the entrance of the house marveling at all the pretty "aunties" and "jie jies" that walked in and out of houses marked by red lights or lanterns. Of course, it has radically changed and no semblance of that history is left here.
The place looked classy and when I stepped in, I was wondering how much the meal would cost. I was immediately put at ease after looking at their menu. Both their servers were simply wonderful - they took the time to explain each set, the buffet and then their ala carte dishes. I can't help but wonder if they had a properly scripted explanation, as both described everything systematically and clearly. What is even better, you can log on to their wi-fi network for FREE and order online by keying in menumoo.com on your internet browser. By ordering online, you get a free drink as well! If you would like to check out their menu before heading down, here it is. Click "Like" on their facebook page and get a FREE Cha Yen ( Thai Iced Tea). Coupon instructions appear after clicking Like. Talking about the Cha Yen, it's super tasty with the lovely perfume of black tea sweetened with milk. This has to be the best Facebook page for a restaurant, peppered with special promotions and FREE stuff.
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Feng Shui Inn and Dumplings!

6/12/2013

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Happy Duan Wu Jie! It's dumpling eating day, 5th day of the 5th lunar month, which is today, 12th June 2013! 

I had seen Feng Shui Inn's advertisement for their dumplings, and thought it would be fun to have dumplings there today.

Was I disappointed? Yes I was... with such beautiful photos and good food the last time I visited Feng Shui Inn, I expected the pork in the dumpling to be tender - it was incredibly hard, and it is difficult to believe that they were using Kurobuta pork. Also, for $32++ for one dumpling, I would have expected it to be tastier with more ingredients. More on that later, but here's the dumpling I ordered. 

Kurobuta Pig Trotters Rice Dumpling served with Premium Soy Sauce Dip $32++ per piece
Ingredients: German “Kurobuta” Pig’s Trotter, Japanese Flower Mushroom, Thailand Glutinous Rice and American Yellow Bean


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Ocean by Cat Cora - Lunch

5/26/2013

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Ocean by Cat Cora Revisited after a month

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As mentioned in the earlier review, I was going to revisit Ocean after a month to see if service and experience has improved and I was pleasantly surprised.

They DID AWAY with the Buttons! What a relief! The buttons were the worst part of my entire first experience, and when I arrived at Ocean, I was actually dreading to see them, but they were gone. Friendly staff greeted me instead, and I must say, it was an amazing difference that was very welcoming.

Instead of showing you the food first, you must take a look at the amazing view that will keep you company throughout your entire meal. This is the very best part of the entire experience at Ocean. Pure bliss, almost meditative if the restaurant wasn't filled with so many guests. The children who were at Ocean that day were enraptured by the glass panels filled with so much life, and many of them were sitting at the panels, mesmerized. I would sit there too, if I wasn't so hungry.

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Ocean by Cat Cora

3/29/2013

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Ocean by Cat Cora at 
S.E.A Aquarium Resorts World

This is the entrance that will greet you if you are going through the entrance which does not require entry into the Aquarium, and after a bumpy and fun ride on the buggy provided by Resorts World ( Ocean does not have their own dedicated buggy ) you would arrive at this beautiful entrance. Nothing outside will prepare you for the view inside though.

When you step into the restaurant, the first thing that hits you is the sense of being underwater. A huge, unobstructed view of the ocean - underwater, gives you a immense feel of how small we all really are. Beautiful rays swim across while you eat, if you are able to get the table nearest the viewing panel, which is said to be the largest in the world. The view is just awe-inspiring.

Then Reality bit.

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