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Mae Noi Thai food + teo heng KTV

Last Friday, the girls brought me to this thai food located at Bugis street. Mae Noi Thai Food is a decent hawker stall which offers a nice and authentic Tom Yum Soup. 



The stall is helmed by the owner herself who came from Thailand and brought her skills of a home-cooked Thai dishes into Singapore. In order to cook a nice Thai food, the ingredients are imported from Thailand regularly in order to sustain the origin taste of Thai cuisine. 

I wouldn't expect the price to be so affordable given the taste that they have. However, there weren't many choices to choose from the menu. Given that there are Phad thai, Green curry and Tom Yum soup, this menu is fairly good enough for me.


Chicken wings- $1.50 per piece

As crispy as it can be seen, those chicken wings lover could give this meat a try. It is not the best chicken wings that I have eaten so far but it can be suitable for a start up dish. At least this chicken wings go hand in hand with the main.


Sambal Fried rice- $3.50

This was not found in the Thai menu as my friend ordered from their neighbour shop. If you don't have any crave on thai food on that day, you might want to try their "stir wok" from this chinese shop.


Green curry rice- $4.50

Combined with soft chicken meat and well marinated brinjals, i couldn't taste the coconut from the curry. It was rather bland! I could see there are more brinjals than meat on this plate of rice.


Phad Thai- $4

 Pad Thai was definitely the first Thai dish I ever experienced, and I fell absolutely in love with it. Whenever I ate at a Thai restaurant, I always told myself, order something different this time, but inevitably, I end up getting the Pad Thai. I’m sure a lot of people can relate.

The noodles are soaked in sauces and oils as the heat and steam cooks the noodles quickly.Tofu, baby shrimp, leeks, bean sprouts, and other ingredients per recipe, are all tossed into the mixture. 


Tom Yum noodle soup- $5

Some people like it thick, whereas others prefer it thin. Personally, I like the thicker one - and the Tom Yam soup at Mae Noi is simply perfect. I am usually quite picky whenever it comes to tom yam soup as I have encountered many disappointing ones. They are generous with the prawns and my friend tried scooping the soup and found many small shrimps on the spoon.


Good food are meant to be shared even though it is not from cafe or high end resturant. This thai food is worth passing by after shopping for a long day at Bugis street. Oh yes, the prices are cheap too! Within the range of $3 to $5. Similar to those of hawker centers.

3 New Bugis Street #03-38, Singapore, 
Singapore 188 867




The girls finally executed our KTV plan and impromptu, we rung up Teo heng to check on the availability of room. We were so lucky to secure a room at Katong which simply took us 20 mins to reach there by bus. Given the time that we have, we had to rush down in order to secure our room but thankfully we reached on time.






We had a 2 hours of singing session and as usual, we have to pay $7 per person. This price is the cheapest in all KTV in Singapore. Although you do not get to sit on the most comfortable sofa ( our still have a cockroach on it!), the audio and recording system is loud enough to sing out loud without people bothering. They even have a good sound proof to ensure a peaceful environment for others to sing.




Having so much fun with the girls (; time pass when i am with them.

Till then.

TGIT with colleagues// Ali babar// Teo Heng

On last Tuesday, my colleague and I travelled far fom AMK knowing that we do not have to work on the following day. We headed to Katong to look for Priscilla as our plan went by singing K at Katong Teo Heng. Just before our K session, we decided to grab our dinner at the nearby place and we were glad to see this "Coffeeshop" along our way,




When is a hawker centre not a hawker centre? Apparently when it is a “Coffeeshop by day and hawker bar by night”. That’s hardly the best joke in the world, but it is how Ali Babar in Katong describes itself. 

Located on the corner of East Coast Road and Joo Chiat Road and directly opposite Katong I12 mall, this little corner food court with just 5 stalls could easily be ignored or dismissed. To do so however would be to ignore one of the most innovative kopitiams in Singapore today. Only one of the 5 stalls serves the usual staples of Hokkien Mee and Prawn Noodles (which it does very well), instead its neighbours include a bar selling beers from all over the world, a Japanese stall, a gourmet burger shack, and a French restaurant! 



While the three of us had Burger bar for our choice. Priscilla being the special one ordered their Japanese ramen. Many of the reviewer would have opted for their Hokkien Mee which cost $5 per plate but me being the Äng Moh person aiming for their western cuisine. 




Each of us ordered different type of meat that was filled inside the burger. I had my streaky bacon cheese burger ($9.40) which includes one beef patty, a small slice of cheese and a slice of fatty bacon. While geraldine had her lamb burger which includes a lamb patty, tzatziki amd red pepper ( $12.90). And lastly, Ying wei had her gigantic tiger prawns with beef patty and caramelized onion ($14.10) which probably could serve a pax of 2.

What's great would be all burger set comes with 2 side dishes ( Fries + coleslaw) with no GST and service charge given (:




Alibabar - Hawker Bar
Add: 125 East Coast Road
Tel: 6440 6147
Hours: 7.30am-11pm daily



Next up, the girls were craving for desserts so we continued to walk down the lane and spotted this wonderfully old-school styled facade of the eatery! It was so unexpected that this old retro turned out to be a cafe which I once saw it from instagram which they sell their Ice Kachang ball.

Sinpopo Brand, a concept cafe by the people of Awfully Chocolate, has undergone a re-branding. 
I love the logo, it was tastefully and thoughtfully designed to reminisce the old and yet looked so refreshingly new and different!



Cosy and homely, Sinpopo does bring one back to the 70s and 80s. The feel, the music, the furniture, etc all contribute to its down-to-earth vibe. You will find record covers of 70s singers, an old television set and even old-school posters.



Even the menu give out such a retro feel. I really fell in love with this seemingly humble looking restaurant, yet actually was pretty much painstakingly decorated, even before I tried out their food. 


The main dishes on the menu were good but our aim was to have our desserts so these are the cakes that were sold that night, I was eyeing for their Ice kachang but the assistant told me that they have removed this item from the list. WHY!!! It was so popular back then.


So unwillingly, we got ourselves a Jackfruit pound cake and Gula Melaka cake which wasn't a bad choice uh. We thought that the Gula Melaka cake would come out VERY sweet but no, just a mild of caramelised palm sugar with a light smooth texture. It taste like honey though. The jackfruit was the winner. It was a sweet-smelling fruits that nobody could expect it to taste good too. I mean people don't actually go for Jackfruit cake if given by a choice.




Generally, Sinpopo Brand can easily be treated as a simple dining place for the elders, where they can recollect some old memories of their childhood. Of course, you need not be "that" old to enjoy the ambiance there, but certainly there are some desserts not easily found in other places, which you enjoy popping into your mouth.

Sinpopo Brand
458 Joo Chiat Road
Singapore 427671

Telephone: +65 6345 5034

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/sinpoposg


Finally to our Sing K session that ended off our night! Some songs reviewed for you but please don't judge! We were just enjoying ourselves to the max, screaming and shouting in the room.





Till then.