March 2021 - Paulin's Munchies - My food discoveries.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Magic Kitchen at Ang Mo Kio Ave 10

Magic Kitchen is a family friendly little cafe located at Ang Mo Kio housing estate. This cosy family runned cafe is well liked and so popular among the residents here. It is actually a stone's throw away from the all popular Pine Garden bakery.

Orders are to be taken first at the cashier and an alphabet will be assigned to the customer while waiting for table to be arranged. This cafe opens from 8am to 2pm daily except on Tuesday where it is closed. Magic Kitchen offers a wide variety of thick toast, ranging from their all popular honey butter toast to savoury flavours like egg mayo and cheese tuna. Besides toast, the cafe also offer local delights like bee hoon, Soon kuehs, chee cheong fun and desserts and drinks. We were there after lunch hour and thus there weren't much crowd. Here's our order for today:

1. Fried beehoon ($2) - the beehoon was so fragrantly fried and very homely. Simply love the homely old school taste. A must try!! Rating: 4.5/5

2. Soon kueh ($0.70) - priced at only 70cents per pc, it was so soft and delicious. The turnip filling was just enough and all goes so well with the chilli and sweet sauce. Rating: 4.2/5

3. Green bean soup ($1.80) - a bowl of delicious green bean soup so cooling and just right for the hot weather. Rating: 4/5

4. Tuna cheese thick toast ($2.60) - 1 of their must try flavors other than their egg mayo. The tuna tasted a little like sardine. The toast was so soft on the centre and the crust toasted to perfection. Awesome thick toast to try!! Rating: 4.3/5

5. Coffee - $1 for normal kopi and $1.80 for Irish creme coffee. Decent drinks.

We really enjoyed this value-for-money meal. So homely and we loved every single dish of theirs. We will definitely be back for more!!

A summary of what we had:

Fried beehoon

Soon kueh

Green bean soup

Tuna cheese thick toast

Coffee

My overall ratings:

Food: 4.4/5

Price: 4.5/5

Service: 4.2/5

Ambience: 3.8/5

You can locate them here:

Magic Kitchen

529 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, Singapore 560529

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Saturday, March 6, 2021

Shang Social at Jewel Changi

Shang Social is a dining restaurant of the Shangri-la Hotel group. Situated at level 1 of Jewel Changi, the restaurant offers modern Chinese cuisine, ranging from fine dining Chinese cuisine to casual eating Chinese cuisine. The casual range was introduced after the Post Circuit Breaker whereby food like char siew wanton noodles, dim sum are available.

The ambience was beautiful, with a touch of Oriental deco. Fortunately we were there early for dinner else queues will start after 6.15pm. We ordered most of their chef's recommended dishes as below:

1. Bamboo noodle in pork prawn broth ($15.80) - awesome tasting noodle dish. The soup was rich and delicious, with thinly sliced pork char siew that simply melt your mouth. A noodles do not have any ghee taste as well. Rating: 4.2/5

2. Kurobuta pork & truffle xiao long bao ($8.80) - 3 pcs of wonderfully done xiao long bao for truffle lovers. The soup was delicious with perfect skin thickness. Rating: 4.2/5

3. Suzhou minced pork bun ($3.50) - a very interesting dish that tasted like baked xiao long bao. Rating: 3.9/5

4. Season vegetables with oyster sauce ($10.80) - a simple dish with blanched vegetable in oyster sauce. Nothing special to shout abt. Rating: 3.5/5

5. Soya sauce chicken ($17) - the chicken was really tender and sauce was awesome. However, price a little steep for the dish size. Rating: 4/5

6. Sichuan spicy dumplings ($10.80) - 4pcs of succulent and full dumpling drenched in spicy Sichuan chilli oil and vinegar. Not as fragrant as the ones from Canton Paradise but love the juiciness of the dumplings. Rating: 4/5