Tex Mex @ Chili's

Chili's has a Sunday drink promotion of 141 premium margaritas. Very good for Jian. Check out his first nice, big margarita:

His initial comment was 'nice & strong' & I had a sip. It WAS indeed very strong. There was plenty of ice in the drink, so I would guess they probably mixed in the normal amount of alcohol, & the amount of ice was to keep the drink chilled, for people who sip margaritas like pussies. His was the Patron Margarita or something or the other. It's not in the online menu. (Jian says: It should be the Grand Patron Margarita.)

The drink, compared to his size!

We ordered only from the starters, as the portions are huge here. This here is the Triple Play, consisting of Southwestern Egg Rolls, Boneless Buffalo Wings & Chicken Crispers. This starter is not so impressive. The Buffalo Wings are not really 'wings'. They are more like buffalo NUGGETS (on account they are boneless I suppose :P). The taste is ok. I had one & Jian had the rest. The Chicken Crispers are battered cuts of chicken breast. Pretty dry on the inside, but the whole thing goes well with the yellow sauce. I think they purposely put the sauce that goes with the item, closest to the item. Makes sense. The Egg Rolls weren't what I really expected. I expected the skin to literally be made of EGG, but it seems more like a dough skin, deep fried. The taste was pretty good though, so I guess we can let it slide. It seemed like it would be soft & egg-like, according to the picture on the menu, but crispy is good too.


The Beef Quesadillas. You can choose chicken of beef, & I don't think they charge any extra for beef. Guacamole passes the taste test but there is so little of it, considering we are guacamole freaks (me more than Jian). You pay an additional $2.90 for the dollop of guacamole.


The rice & refried beans that came with the quesadillas. Beans were nice, rice had an interesting flavour that I cannot put my finger on.

We were super full by the end of it & had no space for dessert. Better to come here with 4 or more eaters. That way you can order a more extensve variety of food to share. We were tempted by the 4 mini burgers, but opted for the Triple Play instead, so we could taste more things.

The staff who served us (we were at the Tanglin Mall branch) were all friendly & smiley (I did spot a few black faces amongst the servers, but they didn't serve us).

Our bill came up to $67+ (can't remember the cents) for 2 starters & 2 margaritas (but don't forget it was 141 premium margarita day).

There is no service charge, only GST, but if you find the service up to par, do leave a tip. It makes everyone happy after all.

Margarita's @ Faber Drive

Forgive this post, as for some reason, we didn't take very clear shots that night. Anyhow, the jist of it:

Chips with Guacamole. NOW... I don't want to be tooting my own horn here, but I can make better guacamole. The reason why I think mine is better is because this guacamole has a bitter taste to it, which I think might be because they did not remove the seeds of the lemon before they blended the guacamole into paste. I was quite disappointed, as i just LOVE guacamole. The chips looked abit over-fried, but perhaps that is the way it is done. Gotta love the cactus margarita glasses though. Waahaahaa. We ordered on-the-rocks as Jian said ice-blended is kind of wasteful as most of it is left stuck in the blender... Suits me, as I was drinking orange juice, which happened to be the only freshly squeezed juice from the menu....

Portabello Mushroom starter with balsamic & garlic dressing. This bigass portabello mushroom was a treat! I didn't touch the garlic & funny brown paste though.

Kitchen sink burrito. It's got Everything but this kitchen sink in it! Meaning, chicken, beef, beans & I forgot what else. Topped with guacamole, salsa & sour cream.

Fajitas with mixed meat (chicken & beef). I picked on a bit of the beef on it's own. Nice.

The skins & condiments to make your own fajitas! The salsa had that bitter didn't-remove-the-lemon-seeds taste as well... Sigh.

Well, the food was good, but the didn't-remove-the-lemon-seeds taste made me feel like we should have gone to Cafe Iguana or Cha Cha Cha instead. I remember the guacamole at Cafe Iguana was heavenly heavenly heavenly! The fajita's were excellent too.... I didn't mention El Patio cos we haven't been there.... YET...

We spent almost $200 for 4 diners for that meal, which included a jug of margarita & a glass of orange juice, but we were stuffed to the gills as the portions were huge.

Cancun - All Inclusive

The benefits of an All Inclusive Cancun is that you don't actually have to worry about food. The hotels have at least 3 restaurants you can go to, with probably one of them constantly serving a buffet. You never go hungry! Oh and you also never go thirsty!!! Free flow of beer, wine, champagne, mixed drinks ... anything you can think of.

The only bummer that I ran into in Cancun is that 1) there was no real chinese food (so someone should think of going to start one) and 2) I was extremely disappointed by the fact that these people have no idea how to cook a lobster.

Ah firstly, I will show you pics of the horrible airplane food that I had on United Airlines when I took my International Flight from Singapore to Newark. To add to that, UA is so cheap now a days, that they don't feed you on certain flights, they make you buy your food.... at least the refreshments are still free! Take SQ instead man!


Breakfast on UA ... Horrible tasteless omlette with some mushrooms around ...


Mid flight snack consisting of a yucky sandwhich. Followed by an actually decent chicken meal with some noodles.

Ok I shall not bore you any longer with pictures of airplane food! Ha ha ha here are some pics from Cancun. Oh yah, I went down to The Shrimp Bucket which had pretty good food. Definitely check out Crab House for a nice meal of lots and lots of crabs, and finally you gotta go to Margarittaville ... everyone goes there!

My first meal in Cancun ... Yes I had pizza with sausages ... but the sausages were spiced very nicely ... yummy ... ah yah Mexico has lots of prawns, you'll go crazy eating prawns!!!


After that quick lunch, we went over to Margarittaville for some drinks! Yah yah, I couldn't resist and had to order the Pineapple man!


The scary part was that this was basically only a couple hours after each other, so after Margaritaville, we walked back to the hotel Club House to get ourselves some snacks ... sorry forgot to take pictures of that. I think we all made our own way for dinner that day ... not really sure.

We had a nice fancy dinner with my parents at the western restaurant there. I had my favorite French Onion Soup and a nice Tenderloin Steak!


Next morning, my favorite type of breakfast, buffet all you can eat breakfast, check out the spread man!



Lunch at the shrimp bucket! Delicious Caviche by the way! Yes yes and that's a caesar salad. And they serve you some complimentary prawn broth! Check out the beautiful view too.







Our Crab House Meal ... I didn't take much pictures cause everyone wanted to dig in! We had crabs of course, then some of the meals came with a spaghetti and creamed spinach. Three different types of butter dips, and my caesar salad. This you got to get cause they do it the authentic way, with presentation and all!



Folks, feast your eyes on the in room bar where you can drink all you want and you don't get charged!

Stay at THE ROYAL CANCUN, if you have kids, you can stay at their sister hotel which is just next door, NEW GRAN CARIBE REAL. Really, you shouldn't miss out on this, it's really great and you feel pampered all day; be careful though, you'll definitely gain weight if you're not into water sports and you like to veg out. http://www.realresorts.com.mx/The_Royal_Cancun/

Cha Cha Cha at Holland V

Ok, becos we were greedily reading dis blog sum time ago, we went to Cha Cha Cha to eat meskin (mexican la) food! Jian lyks dese kinda fings.

Free chips! Jus lyk eatbma mentiond!

Close-up of d Jalepeno Peppers. FURRY fattenin!!! Cheesey & deep-fried! D oil was OOZING out lyk nobody's biznezz!!

So sinful! Luckily (or mebe unluckily) we had 2 each....

My main dish.... Lewk... Dis meal was eaten such a long time ago, I can't rememba d name of d dish... All I know (& rememba) Is dat I ate everyfing, & dat dis meal was one of d most fattening meals I've had in my entire life! I fink d rice is calld derty rice, but i cood be wrong... Brown stuff is beans.... Green stuff is guacamole (duh). D guacamole is FURRY smooth n yummi!! Dere was alot of cheese, as yew can well see.... Oozing out all ova d place one... Mebe dere were mushrooms inside asso... Can't rememba.... Jian shooda orderd dis... He lyks 2 eat fattening fings.

Dis is Jian's. No loss by nowt ordering my dish... I FEENK dis dish is calld d 'Beef Enchilada'. I cood b wrong, tho.... See d amount of oil!!! He is abit huffy, cos it was quite a small serving.... He finishd his food much fasta dan me!

Overall, I fink d food was pretty yummi & furry, furry filling.... But it'll be a long time before we go dere again. Both of us are growin... sideways... Jian remembas Cafe Iguana to be less fattening... We mite go dere fer our next meskin meal....

Mario's Pizza Bar and Restaurant

So one friday Satellite and I decided to try out Mario's Pizza Bar and Restaurant at Faber Drive over in Clementi!

Although the place was pretty much empty unlike it's neighbour the ever so popular Mexican restaurant Margarita's, the food was pretty much decent in size, actually it was huge!


I can say, the Caesar salad actually tasted better than the one at Mezza9 over at the Hyatt Hotel, because the bacon was crispy!

But as usual I am rarely all praises, so I found their Minestrone Soup lacking... it was the soup of the day! And their Ice Tea was sweet but tasted a bit funny. It's like a Sketche's type of deal, you pay for one Ice Tea and you get free flow.

The lasagna portion was exceptionally big, and was nice and cheesy, the sauce was good ... pretty much I would recommend this lasagna to anyone that has a hearty appetite.

As for Satellite's pasta, she enjoyed it, but I can't quite remember what type of pasta it was! But it seems to be an Aglio Olio from the looks of it.

I think we'd pretty much recommend this place. The cost of dinner there was $50, so it's average price for a restaurant I guess, but the portions are well worth it. Prices for beer are pretty reasonable, I think it's like $8 per beer or something.