Thursday
My girl-friends finally met up my man (after 1 year) on Thursday. Such a joyful day that happened on this week. So planning was made two weeks ago to discuss on where to have our dinner. Suddenly my craving for thai food was so bad that I requested for Thai food. And also, I know that our neighbourhood has this famous thai cuisine. The one that everyone talks about. So fret not, im heading Nakhon Kitchen to give it a try!
You get what I mean when I say that it is famous? Too over-whelming. So what's so good about Nakhon that makes it worth queueing for? 1.Food 2.Service 3.Price. Even though the queue can snake down the corridor, the wait isn't that unpleasant. One takes time to pour over the pretty extensive menu of standard Thai dishes and your order is taken prior to being seated. Within moments of resting your feet, the food will be served. How awesome is that for hungry souls?
The Pineapple Fried Rice (S$6)
is a standard dish that i would order here. The sweetness of the pork floss goes perfectly with the slightly curried Thai rice which is slightly fluffy and chewy. I like that it is not too dry. The rice is fried with shrimps, cashew nuts and raisins and best eaten with Green curry! Almost every table had an order of this. Nakhon used to serve this in a pineapple but i guess it was too troublesome for them.
Stir fried Kang Kong Belachan (S$6)
was salty for me. This isn't like our usual Sambal Kang Kong, being the more spicy version. I thought this was a little high on the sodium content though. Not a bad dish though. Perhaps you could ask for less salt? I'm sure they would accommodate.
So we ordered two different kind of tom yum soup. One with clear broth, the other with milk ($6)
Green curry chicken ($8)
A consecutive hit of surprises after the incredibly spicy dish, the green curry color was another out of expectation. It's green was way off artificial in its lime color with aplenty of essential ingredients like brinja and peppers adequately added to its flavour. Chicken slices were tender but for not-so coconut milk lover like me, I find that the dish was kind of overdose with coconut milk.
The Stir-fried mince pork ($6)
is very spicy combined with fragrant basil leaves, this dish really open up your appetite. The saltiness of the dish is just right with a little tingling of sweetness, entice you to keep scooping for more even though the chilli is numbing your tongue.
Phad Thai - $6
Major love! It was flavorful and the nuts that accompanied this dish made it taste even better! The chili powder was not too spicy so this got a major thumbs up from me.
Service here is friendly, efficient and no fuss. Your first dish will normally be serve within 10 minutes after they take your order. If you just want to order take away, you just need to approach the service staff. Decoration is minimum and please be considerate of the other people waiting for your seat :)
Overall, for those who never been to Nakhon Kitchen, consider this as a hidden find. One of the cheapest and most authentic Thai food you can find in Singapore.
Nakhon Kitchen
Location: 212 Hougang Street 21,
#01-341,
Singapore 530212
After dinner, we walked down along the allay and found another hidden gem for our dessert. And yes, ICE EDGE CAFE! They used to open one at Upper thomson but I heard it had closed down or maybe going through renovation.
But oh well, so near to my hometown hidden this precious gem. A sweet-tooth person like me will never say no to dessert
Preferitto ($16.80)
The three girls ordered this and the cream puff pastry felt so hard like a rock. We kinda regretted ordering this. However, we chose mango passionfruit/ Hershey/ Nutty chocolate as our ice cream. Right choices we made.
Waffle and Ice-Cream ($10.80)
Ice Edge offers a decent variety of flavours like Lychee Martini, Salted egg yolk, Tiramisu, Rum & Raisins, Belgium Chocolate, Baileys, Champagne Vanilla, Pistachio, Snickers, but my favourite? It’s their Rocher and Mao Shan Wang Durian. So to top up with the waffle, Ching chose Mao Shan Wan ice cream.
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Preferitto ($16.80)
The three girls ordered this and the cream puff pastry felt so hard like a rock. We kinda regretted ordering this. However, we chose mango passionfruit/ Hershey/ Nutty chocolate as our ice cream. Right choices we made.
Waffle and Ice-Cream ($10.80)
Ice Edge offers a decent variety of flavours like Lychee Martini, Salted egg yolk, Tiramisu, Rum & Raisins, Belgium Chocolate, Baileys, Champagne Vanilla, Pistachio, Snickers, but my favourite? It’s their Rocher and Mao Shan Wang Durian. So to top up with the waffle, Ching chose Mao Shan Wan ice cream.
Brownie with ice cream ($8.90)
My boy ordered his brownies with ice cream and also chose Mao shan wan as his flavour. To those who appreciate durian, this is a must to order. For a non durian lover for the girls, we wanted to stay away as far as we could from the guys.
In all, my man chatted well with them though I thought it would be awkward. But the awkwardness didn't even get started because all of us simply have lots of things to talk about. The disturb, the inner jokes and two guys got really bonded of their NS topic (like always!) HAHA.
So thanks to Natasha, Meijun, Ching hao (Meijun's boyfriend) and my man for this dinner. Im pretty sure there will be lot more gathering (:
Till then
