Ice Lab

Ice Lab is opened by a Korean comedian and has offering such as bingsu, toast and churros.

Mango Bingsu ($15.90). Milky shaved ice, banana slices, mango syrup, mango cubes and mango ice cream. I like the ice, it was really milky and fine and went well with the toppings. It's a good dessert to eat in Singapore's weather but it is a little pricy so do share with your friends.

Rate:
Mango Bingsu: 7.5/10 ☺

Nanta BBQ

Went with Ger and Ky to Nanta BBQ for dinner before going for our movie.

Side dishes. So here are the side dishes they gave- Beansprouts, cabbage, cucumber, green beans (?), leafy vegetable and another vegetable.

They also gave a salad with a dressing that taste like thousand island except in a different colour.

Don-tok-bokki [+pork cutlet] ($18). Well deep fried crispy pork cutlet with chewy rice cake, fish cake, hard boiled egg and a slighty spicy, sweet and umami gochujang sauce.

Cheese Deng-galbi A-set [Cheese pork spare rib] ($55). There are 3 different spicy levels- Mild, Spicy or Hot Spicy. We were not sure how spicy their spicy was so we chose the middle one- Spicy. The dish came and the service staff place it on the stove to let the cheese melt.

The cheese finally melted and we began eating. The cheese was so yummy and super stretchy. The mushroom was good as well. Now on to the sauce, it was really quite spicy much more than the one for the Don-tok-bokki. I would say if you can't handle spicy just get the mild one unless you like the stingy lingering pain then I suggest the Spicy or even Hot Spicy. For the meat, it wasn't as tender as expected. Not as tender as the ones you get in your Bak Ku Teh, kinda dissapointed considering the price of the dish. The saving grace of the dish was the cheese.

Overall just these 2 dishes were more than enough for the 3 of us.

Rate:
Don-tok-bokki: 7/10 ☺
Cheese Deng-galbi A-set: 7/10 ☺

Masige Dak (Holland Village)

Went with Ger and ky to Masige Dak for dinner. Masige Dak is a venture by Hansang Korean, That's why the two businesses are located in the same shop which I find quite redundant since they are both selling korean food.

We made a reservation and when we arrived there it was quite empty- not many customers, only one table of 4.

Chicken Cheese Ddukbokki ($25). Crispy deep fried chicken with chewy rice cake, cheese and sweet red chili sauce. This was a favourite among the three of us.

Yangyeum chilli

Original

Half/ half ($35)- Original and Yangyeum chilli. The chicken was crispy. Tasted a little like KFC except maybe slightly fresher.  

Chicken Balls M ($9). There were S and M size available. The sauce tasted like the ones used for takoyaki. Chicken ball was chewy and tasted like processed food. 

Cheese Ddukbokki ($9.80). Ky and I really like cheese Tteokbokki from our experienced with Koko Rooloo so we ordered this. It was good. Melty gooey cheese with chewy rice cake, vegetables and a sweet chilli sauce is a combination that cant go wrong.

The food was not too bad but the service was really bad. This place was the worst I have been to. After waiting for around 15 minutes our food was still not on our table so Ger asked the waiter at which he replied '1 min m'am your food will be here'. The waiter walked to the kitchen and came out almost immediately which made me wonder if our food was just sitting in the kitchen. So okay, the waiter came with two of the dishes we had ordered. After we were done eating, our two other dishes were still no where to be seen. By this time, it had been an hour after we had ordered. We call the waiter again and asked about our other two dishes to which he said he would need around 5 more minutes. He walked into the kitchen and I think he went to get our food cooked. He was in there for a long time, I suspect he was frying the chicken ball or something like that. I was really pissed. I mean there was only a total of three table including mine! How long could it take to deep fry or cook and just placed it on our table after we had ordered. No wonder that place only had 3 tables during dinner time. Well, the three of us are NEVER EVER going back again. 

Rate:
Chicken Cheese Ddukbokki: 7/10 ☺
Half/ half: 6/10 ☺
Chicken Balls: 5/10 ☺
Cheese Ddukbokki: 7/10 ☺

Nene Chicken (Hougang Mall)

Went to eat at Nene Chicken with Kart since it is Halal.

We were quite excited since it was our first time trying it out. We placed our orders and waited for a looooooong time before the buzzer lighted up. Most probably because there was only 1 person in the kitchen.

I had the Swicy Tenders meal($9.90) with Coleslaw, Nenepop(+$1.90) and Mineral Water.

Swicy Tenders- Sweet and Spicy. Best of both worlds! Sadly it wasn't as spicy as what I had expected. More towards the sweet side. Sauce was quite thick as well. Tenders were slightly tough but that was expected.
Coleslaw- Cabbage, capsicums, corn and crabstick tossed to perfection. Kart didn't like it at all. It was so so.
Nenepop- Tasty bite sized chicken drizzled with swicy sauce coupled with your favourite drink. So cheeky. Tender, crispy fried popcorn chicken. Wished there was more sauce. This was the best part of the meal.

Rate:
Swicy Tenders meal: 5.5/10 ☺

The Cup

The Cup focus on simplicity, style and a healthier korean food culture. Came here for lunch with gf.

The interior. White and Green - Clean and Fresh. 

Bibimbap ($9.90)-Classic Korean stir fried Bulgogi with fresh oyster mushroom, assorted seasoned vegetables over infuse premium Korean rice. Garnished with egg yolk. This is a dish you see at most korean places so we deicided to get one. There was an option of either chicken or beef. We got the beef. Onion, carrot, minced beef, beansprout, vegetable, egg yolk, flying fish roe, sesame seed and the usual sauce in bibimbap on a bed of yellow colored, short grain rice. It tasted nutty and sweet. 

The mixing process...

Spicy Seafood Rice ($7.90)- Assorted ocean fresh seafood & fresh vegetables served over infused premium Korean rice. I think they use frozen seafood from the taste of it. Overall taste super spicy but shiok! Their Korean rice is some short grain rice that is yellow in color.

Each of the rice came with a soup. Salty soup with seaweed in it.

Injeolmi Cup Bingsu ($7.90). My favourite bingsu flavor. Korean rice cake with steamed powdered dried beans. The bingsu was well balanced. Sweetness from the red bean, slight nuttiness from the bean powder and milkiness from the milk podwer. However it gets a little to sweet at the bottom cause of the condensed milk(?) at the bottom of the cup. 

Rate:
Bibimbap: 7/10 ☺
Spicy Seafood Rice: 7/10 ☺
Injeolmi Cup Bingsu: 8/10 ☺

Kokomama

Went to Kokomama for some more bingsu adventure. At there they sells a variety of cuisines: French- pastries like croissant, Japanese- rice bowls, local- eg kopi and waffle, Asian fusion- eg Tom yum pasta and also Korean- bingsu.

We ordered two bingsu in total. Mango Bingsu ($12.90)- Fine, shaved, slightly milky ice with sweet mango cubes, flavored mochi and a scoop of creamy and sweet mango ice cream. Nice and refreshing. 

Matcha Bingsu ($12.90)- Fine, shaved, slightly milky ice with bitter matcha powder, mochi, nuts, sweet red bean paste and a scoop of matcha ice cream that tasted really really weird. Quite bitter for my taste buds but if you like bitter matcha then it's perfect for you.

Rate:
Mango Bingsu: 6.5/10 ☺
Matcha Bingsu: 5/10 ☺

O'ma Spoon Korean Dessert Cafe (313@somerset)

After having my first bingsu at Bing Go Jung, I want to try more of this yummy dessert. Went to O'ma Spoon with zq, sy and jy.

Injeolmi and Green Tea Petit Bingsu ($4.80 each). The milk shaved ice was melt-in-your-mouth fine and plain. You could see they did some layering of ice and toppings so that it won't be bland as you dig deeper. The bingsu was not bad but since it is in a small cup they don't provide condensed milk.

Rate:
Injeolmi Petit Bingsu: 6.5/10 ☺
Green Tea Petit Bingsu: 6/10 ☺

One Ice Cafe

Discover One Ice Cafe while I was walking around JCube.

Every table has their menu. After ordering they give a device to let you know when to collect your food.

Patbingsu ($6.80)- Shaved Milk Ice, Azuki Beans, Almond, Cornflakes, Rice Cake, Jelly, Vanilla Ice Cream. Ice were very fine and very slight milky yet sweet. Beans were sweet but wished they were softer. Dind't find any almond in it. Cornflakes is a good add on, provided lots of crunch. For the rice cake, they made it themselves. I think they made it using the muah chee recipe. It was chewy. (Actually I ordered this flavor as it had rice cake in it) Jelly was plain so I think it was there to add texture. Vanilla ice cream was sweet but after a while I wasn't sure which was sweeter. The ice cream or the shaved ice.

Rate:
Patbingsu: 6.5/10 ☺

Cafe Insadong

Came to Cafe Insadong with gf. This cafe is quite unique as it is not only offers dessert but art and elegani as well.

Injeolmi Toast with Ice Cream ($6). After my first encounter with injeolmi I began to fall in love with it. So when I saw that they had injeolmi toast I knew I had to order it. For ice cream there were a few selection- vanilla, chocolate, matcha(+$0.50), salted caramel(+$0.50) and a few others that I can't recall. Being a salted caramel lover it was no hassle picking my ice cream flavor. Two pieces of toast with gooey rice cake in the middle, dusted with soy powder, topped with salted caramel ice cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce and almond flakes. To be honest, it was a little disappointing. The salted caramel did not taste salted nor caramel-like. It was a little sticky in texture and maybe tasted a little like butterscotch? The toast with the rice cake was too chewy for me as well.

Red bean and Sweet Potato Patbingsu ($9). The shaved ice was really fine. Much more then the one I had at Bing Go Jung which were like the ones you get in your usual Ice Kachang. Somehow I didn't really like the sweet potato which felt quite heavy maybe because its a starch.I think this bingsu was a little sweet for me and gf. What I like here was the mochi.

Overall, I really like the presentation of the food. The service staff was also quite friendly when we asked for recommendation.

Rate:
Injeolmi Toast with Ice Cream: 5/10 ☺
Red bean and Sweet Potato Patbingsu: 5/10 ☺

Bing Go Jung Dessert House (Bukit Timah Plaza)

Bing Go Jung is run by actual koreans. Ed and I discovered it when we were at Bukit Timah Plaza.

They offer a good variety of item in their menu.

We ordered the Injeolmi BingSu ($11)- shaved ice, condensed milk, sliced almond, soy bean powder and injeolmi(Korean rice cake that is coated in roasted soy bean powder) served in a heavy gold bowl. I love it a lot! This is my first time trying it out. It's like a Korean version of Ice Kachang but is has just the right amount of sweetness. It's cool which is perfect for Singapore's all year round summer weather.

Here you can see that the BingSu is layered so that every bite till the end has all the component. My favourtie is the chewy rice cake that resembles mochi! It does feel a little like a Ice Kachang version of Muah Chee.

Both Ed and I love this place and would not mind coming back again even though it's really far from where we stay.

Rate:
Injeolmi BingSu: 9.5/10 ☺

J K Don (Shaw Tower)

J K Don offers a combination of Japanese and Korean food because of the founder's love for both cuisine.

It was a Tuesday when I was there and I ordered their daily special.- Unagi Don.

Unagi Don ($9.90) All unagi never failed to dissapoint me and this was no exception. It was well cooked with a good amount of sauce. Rice was plain but lcukily there was the unagi sauce. 

Rate:
Unagi Don: 6/10 ☺

Ajumma

Came here for lunch with ky and wx for wx's birthday. Ajumma is a causal Korean dinning restaurant located at The Cathay.

Canned drinks ($1.50 ea). Wx and I had the peach while ky had the grape. Both were nice but majority of us preferred the grape juice which had a few real grapes in it! (that surprised us)

Each set comes with 4 side dishes- Kimchi, Yellow Pickled Radish (danmuji), Korean Seaweed and Corn. Kimchi was slightly spicy and sour with a good bite to it. Radish was crunchy. Seaweed had a very strong sea taste.

I ordered the Bibimbap Hot Stone Set (Dolsot) ($10.90)-Yellow bean sprouts, spinach, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, cucumbers, egg and choice of beef, pork or chicken in a hot stone bowl. I chose beef. Once you get your dish you had better start stirring, if not the bottom will get burnt. The main flavour of this dish is the chili paste (Gochujang) which isn't very spicy and has a unique taste which I don't really like.

Ky had the Chicken Bulgogi Set ($7.90). Bulgogi in direct translation means fire beef but it can refer to any marinated meat. Ky said the chicken was normal and cooked just nice.
Wx had the Signature Beef Kalbi Set ($13.90)- certified USA Prime beef ribs. Wx complaint that there were too many fats in the beef. Taste wise it was okay.

Hoddeok Pancake ($3.90 for 2 pieces). My first time trying this. It tasted like deep fried mantou. Slight crisp exterior and soft on the inside. The filling was honey and cinnamon but I could hardly taste the cinnamon. Also, the pancake gets a little oily when it cools down.

Rate:
Bibimbap Hot Stone Set (Dolsot): 6.5/10 ☺

Hoddeok Pancake: 7/10 ☺

Koko Rooloo

Saw on WX's instagram about this place. Messaged him and a few weeks later we are here for dinner.

 

Koko Rooloo is a small restaurant run by Koreans, located at Tanjong Pagar that sells..... Korean food!

Kimbap ($6)- Korean equivalent of sushi. But instead of seasoning the rice with vinegar, kimbap rice is seasoned with salt and sesame oil. They also sprinkled sesame seeds on the seaweed. Inside the kimbap there were pickled vegetable, carrots, smoked sausage, chives and egg omelette. It was good but I still prefer my sushi which is served colder.

Cheese Rice Cake ($12)- soft rice cake, fishcake, sweet red chilli sauce and cheese. The best rice cake I have eaten so far! Chewy and not too soft rice cake with a well balanced sauce that is not too spicy nor sour. The cheese added an extra yummy and chewy factor too. Glad we got this instead of the normal rice cake.

Beef Soup ($12)- hearty flavorful soup that was outshone by the cheese rice cake and pork kimchi. You could taste the rich flavors of beef together with the seasoning and many other ingredients that were inside the soup. Accompanied with the soup were plain rice and a fried egg.

Pork Kimchi ($22)- Pork with salty, spicy, slightly sweet but well balanced kimchi goes so well together. A perfect match. The kimchi acts like a seasoning to the pork which helps give the pork a more complex flavor. My complaint is that there's more fat than meat.

Lemon Soju ($22)- Tasted like bitter lemon except that it  has alcohol content and tastes less sweeter.

Complementary snack with a glass of beer for the three of us to share. A nice different way to end our meal.

Will definitely come back again for their rice cake and maybe I'll try to find someone who is adventurous enough to try blood sausage and silkworm with me.

Rate:

Kimbap: 6.5/10 ☺
Cheese Rice Cake: 9.5/10 ☺
Beef Soup: 7/10 ☺
Pork Kimchi: 7.5/10 ☺
Lemon Soju: 6/10 ☺

Address:
#01-36 Tanjong Pajar Plaza

Contact:
62237505/ 82336000