For years now, mummy has been making authentic tasting Singaporean food with the help of Prima Taste products, the only cure for home-cooked hawker food when I'm in Sydney, Australia.

That is why, when I stepped into 7-11 this morning and saw the all new Singapore Laksa La Mian by Prima Taste, I knew I just HAD to try!

























After 40mins of eating/surfing the web/uploading photos/blogging, the La Mian noodles are still QQ and NOT at all soggy! The intense flavour of the gravy is amazing and the lemak is just right! This Singapore Laksa La Mian definitely beats all other Laksas I've ever tasted, be it instant, hawker-cooked and even hotels!


A little background about Prima Food

Prima Taste, is managed by Prima Food Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prima Limited. Prima Food's main business areas are food manufacturing and F&B franchising. Prima Food was established in 1992 and has since built a strong reputation for premium quality value-added food products. The company also manages PrimaDeli, Singapore's first home-grown award-winning bakery franchise and the longest running Singapore food franchise.

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One thing amazes me each time Pasta Mania delivers food and that is how conscientious they are when packing the food!




The pasta is always separated from the sauce to prevent the pasta from getting overcooked and soggy, while the sauce is always cling-wrapped to prevent spillage.



The egg is always separated from the Caesar's Salad. Don't you just hate it when the yolk breaks up and just messes up the salad?!! OK, maybe it's just me... I HATE broken up egg yolk 'polluting' my food.




Well, I had Spaghetti with Beef Meatballs & Caesar Salad for dinner today.

The Beef Meatballs taste nice but exactly like some mass-production meatballs. The sauce seemed abit watery for my liking but the flavours compliment the meatballs well.

The Caesar Salad has always been yummy! I would prefer to have a bigger helping of veggies though. It's only veggies, rite? How expensive could it be?

All in all, thumbs up for Pasta Mania :D

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This year's Hong Kong - Australia Business Association (HKABA) 10th Business of the Year Award's dinner was held at Shangri-La Hotel's Grand Ballroom.

CMC Markets were 1 of the 3 major sponsors this year and mummy was 1 of the judges!













And now.... this is wad U all have been waiting for!

Foodie pics!








Coffee and dancing ended a good evening!

Below is the video footage of mummy's speech :)




(Video footage was taken with my newest baby ~ N95 8GB! I LOVE MY BABY!)

Mummy & Chikky stayed over for the night and had a room on the 27th floor! So... we went up to look at the fabulouslyabsolutelybreathtakingview!



That's the Sydney Opera House lighted up in the dark... see the moon??? CHIO right?

My Panasonic camera FIT lor! muahahahahah!

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Day 2 in Melbourne and we went to Chinatown for yum cha at Shark Fin House.

Shark Fin House may look like any other run-down 4 storey building BUT the food was impeccable!
























After all that eating, we decided to walk it off and of cos, look for the 'Singaporean' restaurant, TomTom...

We window shopped a few streets before coming across an eatery "Claypot King"! WOW! The pics do look good! So we decided that we would have dinner there that night :) Yup, this was just after yum cha! I Love Holidays!

We pretty much walked all around Chinatown by now when mummy finally proclaimed...

mummy: there it is! CHOM CHOM!
me: u said TOMTOM!
mummy: same lah! i remember got OM OM!
me: -_- same meh?

So yea... Chom Chom we went! OMG LAR! There got mee hoon kueh, got chwee kueh got alot of stuff la! OMG -__-"

We decided that we would ta-bao some for supper :) So walkies again we went!

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Singaporean food was featured in last week's Food Safari on SBS and one of the dishes that caught Hunny's eyes were Hainanese Chicken Rice! *drools!*

Well, Hunny was so taken by the 'ease' of making the dish, he set out to accomplish his own challenge!

Doesnt it look yummy?!! :)







Hunny had fun cooking and it turned out amazing for a non-native on his 1st try! It's even much better than most of the chicken rice available in Sydney! YUP! I've got really high standards u know!

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Today marks the LAST day of Hunny's job! GOOD RIDDANCE!!

We went out for dinner to celebrate and decided to go Thai Recipe. Geez, we havent been out on a date for a freaking long time lor!

My usual order would have been the Spicy Noodles but it's been a very long time since we've actually gone there for dinner. Most of the time, it would be home delivery.











By the way, yes we were celebrating Hunny leaving his present job and yes, he's got a NEW job!

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Feb 16th - Went for Chinese New Year dinner at Palace Garden Restaurant @ Picadilly. This dinner was organised by the Temasek Club.

Mummy booked the whole table of 10 but there were only 7 of us! MORE FOOD!!! *drools* $500 for the whole table i think... well worth the $$$!

Mum, Peter and Andrew joined us for the dinner.

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Yusheng or yee sang (鱼生) is a Chinese-style raw fish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish (most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients.

Yusheng literally means "raw fish" but since "fish (鱼)" is commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance (余)", Yúshēng (鱼生) is interpreted as a homophone for Yúshēng (余升) meaning an increase in abundance. Therefore, yusheng is considered a symbol of abundance, prosperity and vigour.


"Fishermen along the coast of Guangzhou traditionally celebrated Renri, the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, by feasting on their catches. This practice may have started in Chaozhou and Shantou as far back as the Southern Song Dynasty.

In Malaya's colonial past, migrants imported this tradition; porridge stalls sold a raw fish dish which is believed to have originated in Jiangmen, Guangdong province that consisted of fish, turnip and carrot strips, which was served with condiments of oil, vinegar and sugar that were mixed in by customers.

The modern yusheng dish originated in Malaya in what is modern Singapore during Chinese New Year in 1964 in Lai Wah Restaurant and was invented by master chefs Than Mui Kai (Tham Yu Kai, co-head chef of Lai Wah restaurant).

The taste of the original raw fish dish was standardized with a special sauce using plum sauce, rice vinegar, kumquat paste and sesame oil, and the fish was served with carrots, chilli, turnips, limes, jellyfish, red pickled ginger, sun-dried oranges and other ingredients, turning this simple dish into an exquisite salad with 27 ingredients.

The original dish used raw mackerel, although in deference to the popular wishes of customers, salmon was later offered as an alternative.

Since then, yusheng has become a staple Chinese New Year dish in Singapore as well as in Chinese communities in Indonesia and Malaysia and is typically available only during this festive season. It is also popular in Hong Kong."

"Today, this dish is served as an appetizer to raise 'good luck' for the new year and is usually eaten on Renri, the seventh day of the Chinese New Year.

In a celebration known as "lo hei"(Cantonese 撈起 or 捞起), families and friends to gather around the table and, on cue, proceeding to toss the shredded ingredients into the air with chopsticks while saying 吉祥话 (Jíxiáng Huà, auspicious wishes) out loud to mark the start of a prosperous new year.

Typical ingredients include: fresh salmon, daikon (white radish), carrot, red pepper (capsicum), ginger, daun limau nipis (leaves from lime tree), Chinese parsley, chopped peanuts, toasted sesame seeds, Chinese shrimp crackers (or fried dried shrimp), five spice powder. The dressing is made primarily from plum sauce."

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Finally got to go to the temple at Smithfield, only to find out that it's a Vietnamese temple o.O??

Didnt matter much though =]










We debated between yum cha for lunch or Ratu Sari. Guess wad! Ratu Sari won! =]

"Ratu Sari is a slightly more up-market eating house in Kingsford's super cheap dining precinct, however it's still remarkably affordable. Care has been taken to make Ratu Sari an attractive, breezy space, popular with business lunchers and penny-pinching students alike."




We ordered entrees of soft shell crab, ngoh hiang and kueh pie ti.











After all that food, Hunny decided we needed a new fridge and washing machine so we headed off to Retrovision, Harvey Norman and The Good Guys.

The current fridge and washing machine we have was bought 2nd-hand like 3 years ago? So I'd say they were both ard 6years old ba. Stupid fridge condenses and water collects at the btm of the crisper tray zzzzz.

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