Marche

Was out with the friends at Vivo, so naturally the rosti craving will come floating......

Its like the best thing they have at Marche and its a "MUST ORDER" thing.

A plain rosti is $5.50 but with the sausage it instantly becomes $12.90.

Rosti is well done as usual, not overly burnt. Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. The potato was so fragrant after soaking up all the oil. The shreds of potato was well cut and each had evenly been pan seared till it glittered in golden brown.

Sausage was ok, well spiced. Not too rubbery. The meat was tender and juicy. The texture is unlike bratswurt, its all minced like normal hotdog. The charred skin looked delicious but it was ripped off from the sausage itself.

Towards the end you will see the oil that sank onto the plate and begin to feel guilty for ordering it. Your throat gets a bit dry because it is so fried. Shakes your head but the next time you come to Marche you'll order it again.



Marché RestaurantVivoCity1 Harbourfront Walk#03-14 Singapore 098585(65) 6376 8226www.marche-restaurants.com

Missy Loong's Bday

Miss YuYing's Birthday simply means free meals one after another.

Saizeriya is local japanese food cafe that is in the very "jappy" mall- Liang Court.

They serve western food and some italian fusion as well.

We ordered almost all the sides they have because the girls were hungry.

1) Cheese baked scallop

Basically, the cafe has got this special baking dish that has pitholes in it for the chef to place the scallops and cover them up with cheese then put into the oven. I personally feel that this is quite a good invention because the final product looks very presentable, the scallop's juice are well contained in the depressions, and the cheese on top is evenly baked.

But it was to my disappointment that the scallop was small, not very QQ, the sauce also lacked flavour.

2) Spicy sausage

Juicy, served on a hot plate and sizzling. The sausage is not too hot to numb your tastebuds and is flavour filled. Accompanied by some potato wedges (real potato, not those mashed up and deep fried) it is definitely scoring!

3) Honey drumlets

I have to give special critique to these drumlets. Well marinated, soft tender, juicy and easily off the bones. They taste similar to those selling in pizza hut, but less sweet. The wings make the best dish of the day.

4) Garlic Mussles.

Served on the hot plate sizzling, the garlic sauce is great, similar to vongole. The mussles used were fresh and chewy. The garlic pieces are of considerable sizes to add on to the texture.

5) Clam chowder

The soup served is of the right thickness. Other ingredients were added like carrots and potato, clams were generously added too. Not too salty also.

My first experience with the snail

Yes, Escargot..... With fragrant garlic sauce it was fine and well chewed before i swallowed this particular animal. I have to say it was ok for a beginner. Just a tad salty. I thought it would be rather chewy like other shells, but it wasn't. Slightly mushy. Plus the colour looked a bit "dirty"

Miss lim's main: Braised pork western style?

I forgot the exact name, just that the taste resembles chinese braised pork.

My main: Seafood gratin

The creamy gratin is too creamy. Mr Dennis says that the left over cream sauce is enough to bake a new seafood gratin. I have to say the combination of the sauce and the cheese is good. But if eaten without the cheese it gets a bit sick and gelard. But something worth applauding will be the big huge size of the seafood. The scallops here are larger than the side dish.

The most original Hawaiian pizza for Ms Quek

Welll done i should say, the crust not the thin kind but is soft and fluffy, the ingredients on top well sufficient plus the cheese used not too salty and artificial.


Seafood Risotti for Mr Dennis

This reminds me of cooking mama. The dish is similar to pasta, just adding sauce to the rice. As a first timer i think i prefer the pasta version. The rice soaked up the sauce and thus makes you sick of the taste faster. The sauce also got a "虾米" taste that i felt was rather odd.

Miss Loong's main was beef hamburg which i didn't taste but looks good.

The day was well spent with the group of 老朋友. The rings below are made by Miss Yee Chuan and they look so superlicious. Those who are interested can visit her website

http://scoopies-doc.blogspot.com/ She does many other interesting designs and also do customisation. What will be a better gift for a foodie friend?

Last but not last, Happy Birthday Woman.....

Auntie note:

Drink your afternoon away.....

This place is great for treats as the food is well affordable.

Something interesting on the menu that i didn't get to try....

177 River Valley Road#02-22 Liang Court Shopping Centre
Tel: +65 6337 9001

10am – 10pm

Swiss Baeckerei and Killiney Kopitiam

Boy suggested we have breakfast. So being 2 lazy people a place selling breakfast all day will be the ideal solution.

Ok, i decided to have an ang moh breakfast to make me feel like a tai tai. To drink english breakfast and do people watching is a luxury right? So here comes the english breakfast.

Tea wasn't served with milk. :( No creamer on the table. How come? Did the boss forget?





The name of this dish was savoury crepe. So we thought the main will be a crepe?

Was served with scrambled eggs that was moist and warm. not like artificially yellow eggs from macdonalds. The sausage was good. they didn't specify it will be served with a sausage thou. Not too salty or over spiced. but the skin was off the sausage, i think fire too big. The crepe in contrast didn't taste savoury as described by the menu, it was rather tasteless. But, the whole dish was still very much enjoyable, i guess serving was quite huge and boss wasn't stingy with eggs. Sausage was as large as the plate.







This is the rosti meal.

Even though in marche, you see the chef tossing the rosti in oil, it was still delicious. The rosti here manage to turn out crispy and good without tasting a tinge of oil. Rosti was thin and evenly cooked with the edges well done and not chao da. Salad had special dressing which was a mix of vinegarette and thousand island? Fusion is the new trend. Sausage served was succulent and had good 口感. not too hard. but the skin was slightly rubbery to cut thru. tasted quite full of spices.



Auntie note: Not a very cheap eat out. Tea was served at $3.50 per cup but you can ask for refills of hot water, so save the tea bags. Parking wise i think no need to pay, you can look out from the shop.



Being people with huge appetites, we headed to Siglap and continued our breakfast fix.

Killiney coffee shop for breakfast set.

Had french toast which was rather disappointing. Because it was quite tasteless, not sweet and no taste of eggs. Kaya served was ok, jus sweet.



And of course we had our half boiled eggs. best thing on earth. Expensive thou. if i'm not wrong $1.60 for 2.



Auntie note: A cheaper place to have tea as compared to the nearby cafe.



Swiss Baeckerei

97 Frankel Avenue Frankel Estate

Can recognise the place by looking at the huge bun model near the signboard.



Killiney Kopitiam (Upper East Coast Road)

11 Upper East Coast Road

Siglap loves

another siglap find.

werner's oven located at a rather deep location, amidst the other busy places. smacked right beside NTUC and some coffeeshop, werner's oven is not jus another eatery. the ambience of the place itself is quite ATAS. stepping into the shop you'll see some logos mounted, showing the specialties for the day, this is a rather typical way to attract customers i should say. and the beer logos shows that the place serves various imported beer. there are also some vintage pictures on the wall showing the boss and lady boss's photos. they used to be at Simpang Bedok in 1980s i think, and the boss is a real ang moh, i think most prob a German.

We order 2 main course, one of them being the all-time-favourite. Farmer's sausage. $21.50
served with soured cabbage and potato salad.

sausage was firm and juicy, not burnt. it was pipping hot when served.
the cabbages (German name: Sauerkraut) on the side isn't any simple preserved veg. its actually tradition soured cabbage that germans eat. The cabbages are fermented as it was believed that this can enhance the nutritional value of the cabbages.
Even thou this is suppose to be a healthy food, it wasn't to my liking as normally only spoilt vegetables taste sour. Not to offend anyone, but this jus isn't the ordinary vegetables we eat everyday. Perhaps for those who appreciate fermented vegetables, this will be perfect.

the pork sausage itself was spice loaded. With garlic, Parsley, and some chilli. the taste is very flavourful in each and every mouth. i don suggest biting it straight as it doesn't look very pleasant. the outer layers of the sausage is quite chewy but not at all difficult to swallow.

potato + Sauerkraut + sausage = Happy face

Boy's order was (German name: Grünkohl mit Rauchwurst und Kasslersmoked) sausage & smoked pork loin served with green kale & sauteed potatoes. $23.50 i should say this is a better choice than mine. the sides that comes along is stir fried potato and bacon together with "MEI CAI" (grren kale) you must be thinking why mei cai right. but ya, it is mei cai. perhaps germans do like some fermented veggies afterall. but something to note will be the delicious potato. fragrant and well blended with the bacon to give you many different textures.

Juicy sausage

Pork loin was rather dry but tasted good. boy came up w the idea that we should cut it into smaller pieces so that its easy to bite. this piece of loin came with some fat trimmings at the side which gave a good balance to the meat in adding some moisture. i like meat with some fats, its not as delicious if it was too lean. eating meat is not chewing gum.

Last but the best, this is apple spritzer. another version of zapple + sparkling juice. special as its an interesting flavour. and slightly sour to take away the meaty smell that lingers in your mouth.

Auntie note: its quite an expensive place, they do serve plain water if you are on a tighter budget. food wise 1 main is each filling enough

Werner's Oven

6 Upper East Coast Road #01-01/02/03 Singapore 455220

6442 3897