Singaporeans' Favorite Breakfast! - 45 Sims Dr

Yes, in Sheng Hui Coffee Shop, Blk 45 Sims Dr you'll find all of Singaporeans' favorite breakfast, and they are all good! The Sims Vista Market and Food Centre is just next door, but this kopitiam is drawing in the crowd? 

When we had their Geylang Laksa and Prawn noodle and old-styled Chinese pancake, the kopitiam was clearly being demarcated by this long queue for some regular fried vermicelli!! Omg. Sure not? (Cos we had encountered several long queue stalls serving out mediocre fare.)    

Steamed Chee Cheong Fun with Yam Cake, Rice Dumpling and Fried Bee Hoon Noodle (total $4.40)

Pretty sure! This is probably my BEST plate of fried bee hoon noodle, ever. I detest noodle, but i like the ones here. The mouth is watering as i penned this... oh, just go get it! Its taste is screaming old-school!

Not forgetting some decent handmade Dim Sum from the stall behind the Pancake man; and the morning is complete!

Fried Vermicelli with Fish Fritters

Hokkien Rice Dumpling

Char Siew Bao ($0.60), Siu Mai ($0.50)

Traditional Pancake Stall (Peanuts, Red beans at $0.60! )

Singapore Heritage Fest 2015 - Jiving Through the Ages!

Run for the Evening:

The Esquires with Andy Young

I want to break free

I feel good

My way

Diana

Mean woman blues

Terry, Robyn and friends

The Boxer

Crazy little thing called love

Unchained Melody

World without love

You've got it

The Trailers with Winston Koh

Shadoogie

Move it

The Young Ones

Lessons in Love

Jerry Fernandez & the Neu Faces

Runaway

Wooly Bully/ Mony Mony

Shakin all over

Play that Funky Music

La Bamba

After days of warm air, it finally rained. The evening was cool and breezy for us outside the Cathay Cineplexes, here to catch the last weekend concert organised by Singapore Heritage Fest, a month long fiesta that was held annually.

Jiving to the music? Singaporeans are just too shy; making sure we stood riveted. Hahaha. Nodding heads, tapping feet and swaying our bodies to the beats and rhythm we did. By the end of the night, we were singing along spontaneously. It was enjoyable.

Terry, Robyn & Friends romance us with their soulful singing, accurate tempo and catchy tunes. It turns our mood around. When The Trailers went up next and gave everybody's favorite 'Young Ones', the crowd responded with rounds of cheers and encores!

Leaving you with 2 video clips of the night; of the lovely time...!

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You Got It - Terry, Robyn & Friends (original by Roy Orbison)

  
Young Ones - Winston Koh & The Trailers (original by Cliff Richard)

1 Market by Chef Wan - A return after 2 years.

My first and last visit here was 2 years ago. Today, we were riding on Groupon promotion at $37.50 for 2 pax lunch buffet, and were glad things remain fantastically so. The restaurant is fully booked.

Stayed faithful to sweet tasting seafood of fresh 'Gong Gong', prawns and crabs, and have my seconds; similarly for the Sashimi. Followed by some flavorsome roasted beef and chicken satay before proceeding to the long cooked food table! By now, queue had formed for the popular black pepper seafood platter - it had to be rationed and served by the chef :)

Before i rolled over with a bloated tummy, we stuffed up with eclairs, puffs, cakes and ice-cream on warm waffles! This is my lunch and dinner, altogether.  

Seafood on ice

Sashimi on iced bamboo mats 

Roasted Beef and Chicken

BBQ Beef and Chicken Satay

Black Pepper Seafood Platter 

Chocolate eclairs, Tarts, Cheese Cakes, Shot Glass Desserts, Cream Puffs and Carrot Cake!

Rainbow Cake! & Pudding

Nonya kuehs, Cream Puffs, Red Velvet Cake and Strawberry Cake

Cartier Classics (Jewellers since 1847)

Ballon Bleu de Cartier, 42mm steel (bottom). Pasha C de Cartier, 35mm steel (top)

If Tiffany & Co. has its little blue box, then Cartier has its red. To own a piece of classic accessories, you have to include one of Cartier's. We, each own one of these beauties.

His large convex sapphire floats on his wrist, resembling the curves of a balloon! While trying to be funky, a classy blue sapphire dons the turning crown. Together with antiquated Roman numerals on a guilloche dial, the watch repossesses its elegance.

My polished white-faced enchants with its sharp satin-finished bracelet; reflecting light modestly yet smartly! Big date mechanism was hot on my pursuit. The screw-down crown cap, attached to the case by a small chain shares my illusion of being a pretty mariner! There is never a dull moment with the Pasha.

Both were attached with blued steel hands, a noble color created by heating the steel to the highest possible temperature for a certain period of time. Love Cartier, for often toying with the rules of elegance.

Long House Boneless Braised Duck, 顺记

Whole Teochew Braised Duck ($40), 4x Braised Duck Gizzards, 鸭胗 ($4), 4x Braised Eggs ($2.50)

This remains the island's best Teochew braised duck since 20 years ago, here, near the Jalan Besar Stadium. And that was during our early paktor-ing days. I had placed its name 'Soon Kee' after "Long House" because that's where the stall relocated later and reaches its height of the trade.

From the Long House Food Centre at Upper Thomson, they had now shifted back to the Jalan Besar Stadium, 100 Tyrwhitt Road.

Over the years, we savored few excellent braised duck stall but the taste and memories of 'Long House Braised Duck' lingers. It is unwavering - the neatly de-boned poultry, absolutely succulent and sweet on its own. The thick luscious gravy that famously doused over the entire plate made it even more enticing! Today, we relished on what we missed for a long time; the palates awaken by its most familiar and endearing friend.

Laneige, Korea - Washing, Melting, Peeling!

1. Laneige Pore Clear Wash Off Pack, 120ml ($40),  2. Laneige Strawberry Yogurt Peeling Gel, 150ml ($45),

3. Laneige Blackhead Melting Gel, 20ml ($37.95)

Classic Laneige product in old packaging still proves to be fairly effective. You gotten try these 2. Except for the blackhead melting gel (not in pic); at post time, i don't see my blackheads diminishing in anyway...


1. Both Ric and myself love the pore clear wash-off pack. It is foam-less, in white clay state. It doesn't dry your skins after washing off, in fact the skin feels clean, yet tender and slightly moisten. I like this. The product is most effective on Ric's large pores - after just 1 wash, we both noticed his skin brightening up! Because as his pores tighten, we see less of the blackish spots! And he learns to enjoy the obvious smoothness of his skin. Being one who refuses skin product profusely, the guy now advocates this.


2. I have absolutely no dependence on exfoliating gel or sea scrub, believing that particles that got kneaded off was actually from the gel content itself. I trusted only bath gloves and body mitt, faithfully exfoliating myself on a weekly basis. Then came a crisis - wrongfully applied some body lotion for an extended period, and developed patches of coarse skin on my arms! Working on them for 4 months with my weekly scrub couldn't remove them.

That morning when i decided to use the peeling gel on my arms, i was redeemed. No kidding. I was thankfully relieved when the smoothness on my arms was restored! And i felt certain that those rubbery particles produced from scrubbing weren't from the gel, they were really the dead skins removed; because subsequent scrub produces nothing!

Applying the gel on the face, i discovered my nasty areas to be my nose, mouth and chin, the T-zone. The other zones drew blank. The skin feels absolutely silky to touch! Also don't worry; this peeling gel is gentle and calming to the facial skin.


3. The blackhead treatment gel is one product that many are condemning. Contrary to claim, it is ineffective - from several applications. The nose reddens slightly from the abrasion of the silicon brush that dispenses the liquid gel, and a warm sensation follows. That was all about it.

Washing the transparent liquid off, had me staring blank at my blackheads.