Burger & Lobster @ Raffles Hotel

New eatery from the recently updated Raffles Hotel, I haven't been there since renovations started in 2016. Burger & Lobster has a branch in Jewel Changi Airport that has loads of reviews online. Ordering home delivery @ full price for everything plus delivery charges and taxes!

I ordered California Lobster Roll that I am hoping is like california sushi roll. The other options are samurai lobster roll, classic lemon butter lobster roll, surf & turf version that is half beef burger. I also ordered the Mayfair burger that is a signature classic, multigrain bun + local achar pickles.

Lobster Thermidor! not just steamed or grilled or even laksa. It's supposed to come with salad, garlic bread and mushrooms. Really good creamy baked lobster that goes even better on the garlic bread. Some complaints I have are garlic is bitter when burnt, mushrooms are missing and salad dressing is yogurt. 

Separate orders for truffle chips and salted egg yolk fries. Pretty sure the California lobster roll comes with fries and salad but that's also missing.

 The house special cheesecake for dessert, its like a really good cheese muffin with fruity berry coulis. 

Amazon.sg Fresh

Delivery within 2 hours, in real life its more like next day. Most of the items here can be $5 food gifts and I plan to make 2 dishes from the rest of the ingredients. Vietnamese rice paper rolls and Dango flour to make Korean Cheese Balls with the cheese I already purchased from Redmart.

Snacks of Cheetos in 3 flavors of hot, jalepeno & paws. Ruffles flaming hot and Cheezels. More Ceres juice, Full Moon Harvest is actually salted fruit drink that is great when I have stomachaches. Whispers of Summer has passionfruit in it, cannot wait to try it out.

HP steak sauce and S&B salt & pepper seasoning for all the beef I recently purchased. Khong Guan brand mushroom truffle buns that actually look like brown mushrooms, it does taste like a mushroom when you bite into it, you would think fresh mushrooms taste like that but it doesn't.

Jumbo squid 15" in bbq or spicy sichuan sauce. I have been looking for these big fat squids for a while and here it is on Amazon. It's quite tough and there is elastic skin that you have to cut off before eating or the sauce splashes everywhere. The sauce is Indian spiced bbq, different but still tasty.

Boiled the rice noodles with the prawns, washed the fresh herbs (mint,basil,scallion), mixed the dipping sauce. The fresh herbs are cheap but taste bitter and have a funny perfume smell, I had to wash, boil, peel before it can be eaten.

Mix the dango flour into dough to wrap the candy cheese in. I tried deep frying that caused volcanic explosions so I went with baking it in the oven instead. Looks like sotong balls, its actually like pani puri shells hollow inside waiting to be stuffed with more food.

Amazon.sg Grocery Orders

Not trying out Amazon Fresh yet as the discount codes do not work, why bother advertising when there is actually nothing. This one purchase is broken up into 3 parts of Amazon local delivery, US delivery and Prime international delivery. There is 30 day free trial of Prime delivery for first timers like myself.

Prime delivery on Tapped Birch Water from Finland, its actually birch tree sap and comes plain or flavored. I ordered a dozen for myself and to give away. It's supposed to be like maple syrup but lighter.

US delivery of Combos snacks buffalo blue cheese pretzel (tastes fermented, super salty) and pepperoni pizza (sour tomato acidic, no pepperoni or pizza taste). John West soft cod roes that is not available here, I like this brand so far for its canned seafood, I had to order a pack of 10 cans for delivery.

Tortuga Mexican rum cake as well as Caribbean rum cake around S$25 each, the last time I bought it from Candy Empire around S$35 each, retail price is $25USD each. I also saw the coffee S$80 for a bag of freshly ground coffee beans under 1kg.

Local delivery on Glico Pretz Chili Crab & Chicken Rice flavors, Oishi brand Panchos or nacho flavored chips, Barbie brand strawberry biscuits, tamarind paste and Yeo's salted fish with black bean that is very Indonesian and not easily available here, so I ordered 12 cans. Cartoon biscuits are also not common so I ordered the max limit 31 packets.

Sakuru Mart & Chinese Commodity City

Trying out two new fresh foods suppliers on Qoo10, Sakuru Mart & Chinese Commodity City. I am ordering mostly meats but these two suppliers have bottled goods, canned goods, herbs and fresh vegetables.  

Chinese style pickled veges, my fave mei cai and the coriander root that everyone is promoting lately. Beyond the salt and chili its a bit hard to tell. Beef is cheap or the cheapest meat available here, so I ordered 1kg beef balls $10 and 1kg ribeye steak $20.

Its also about the fresh abalone that I cannot find anywhere, its cheaper than the canned versions I always get. 1kg small individual portion size and 1kg bigger size that we always see in restaurants, $60 a packet. 

I always buy bbq unagi when I find it coz its difficult to cook, I got it last time for $10 each, this one is $12.90. 4 packets of daifuku in sesame cream, green tea cream, strawberry cream, blueberry cream, $15 each packet. 

Frozen prepared foods, 4x duck breast $12.90 same price as cold storage deli section. 1.5kg salmon fillet $20, I am addicted to this you know my last salmon order was 3kg. 6 piping bags of shrimp paste to make deep fried shrimp toast $11.90, I got this coz its the same price as fresh shrimp for now. 

Frozen kakiage tempura $14.90 for 10 individual portion size. If you are serious about staying home to eat you can just order everything from here and have a Japanese izakaya at home. I am still looking for fresh uni and reasonably priced ikura.

Time for Thai

It's Good Friday, public holiday.

Authentic Thai food from this eatery, I was looking for other types of Thai food and came across this place that has all my favorites and more. S$122 for 3 people including drinks and dessert, there are 4 mains and 4 side dishes. 

Drinks are iced lychee or longan (I've seen this in the Vietnam youtube videos), iced cream green tea with gula melaka (very Korean) and iced nom yen (its the pink red ruby dessert without the ruby). Desserts available for home delivery are mango with sticky rice and tapioca with milk.

Steamed squid in spicy lemon sauce also available in fish, the sauce is like vietnamese nuoc cham. Fried seabass in tamarind sauce that is 2 dishes in 1, egg fuyong and fried fish with most of the bones being edible. The tamarind sauce has a slightly bitter herbal taste.

Stir-fry basil pork with not much basil, cockles with thai dipping sauce that is a real rarity these days. Side dishes are clear tom yum soup sour & spicy like nuoc cham, stuffed boneless chicken wings that turned out to be the best dish, pandan chicken is always very flavorful, spicy beef salad also available in seafood.