Infuzi

Finally I remembered to take pictures at Infuzi, however, they came out ugly looking.. will try to ask my cousin to pass me the pictures another night.

You can actually ask for a special menu created for you at a higher price if you are particular in what you want to eat ... This picture of the fresh lobster is from another night where I requested to have a boston lobster steamed in a butter sauce ... yum delicious ... perfectly tender and the butter was nicely rich!

For the dinner I had with my cousin, I had a very nice steak ... I didn't order the Pan-Seared AustralianWagyu Rib-eye (Marbling 8+) with Red Wine sauce because when I had it previously, it wasn't what I expected ... when I ate it ... I was thinking ... I can go buy a piece of waygu at mediya and cook it myself ... perhaps the piece of meat was a bit thin for me .. hahahahah

I had the Grilled U.S Angus Rib-eye with Pearl Onion Sauce & Parsley Butter and my cousin had Duo of Kurobuta Pork;Pan-Roasted Rack with Sautéed Cherry Tomatoes with Chorizo, Braised Belly with Mirin & Rice Vinegar Reduction . My cousin greatly enjoyed the dish... I will try to get you a picture of that ... my pictures came out awfully dark and it just looks like a few blocks on a plate.

On a separate occasion, I went and had the set meal ... the newest addition to one of their set meals is a nice prawn pasta in curry sauce; I honestly think that they should include this on their menu as a standard entree.

Carpaccio of Yellow-fin Tunawith Arugula Salad,Anchovy Mayonnaise & Lime
Dressing
Caviar Pan-Fried Duck Liverwith Duck Sausage Confit,Onion Compote & Mesclun Salad
Prawn Pasta tossed inLight Curried Cream & Aged Parmesan
Sorbet
Grilled U.S Angus Tenderloin of Beef with Mushroom & Bacon Sauce
Slow-Baked Chocolate withPeanut Mousse & Berries' Puree
Coffee or Tea

Infuzi has a few good dishes ... the Maine Lobster Pasta with Lobster Oil & Japanese Seaweed, the Seared Hokkaido Scallops, Pan-Roasted Mud Crab Cake, Pan-Fried Duck Liver with Port Reduction

I think Satellite has some photos from Infuzi also ... but I don't think she will ever upload them ...

Tuck Shop - Tanjong Pagar Road

21 Tanjong Pagar Road #01-05
Tel: 6534-9287

A great place for a couple of beers and some bar food ... I must say, it's been awhile since I had a nice steak sandwich in Singapore ... and really if you are craving a nice delicious steak sandwich (only $12.90), Tuck Shop is the place to go!

Actually Lynx was the one who told me about it... she said Draco you gotta go ... you'll like the steak sandwich ... but remember it's not exactly your philly cheese steak ok ... so I went and tried ...

By the way, they have a reasonable happy hour deal, although it ends early!


If you are looking for fine dining ... go some place else cause you are not going to find it here... oh yeah one more thing... the CAESAR SALAD is decent, they don't use that bottled stuff ... I think they actually make it from scratch!!!!!!!!! Lynx also thought so ...


And guess what Lynx had ... she had the fried chicken ... what else ... FRIED FRIED FRIED ... everything FRIED!

The Olive @ Genting Hotel

Ok ok ... maybe I am too picky ... but although the restaurant is good ... I wouldn't say it was fantastic, seeing that it is a signature award-winning restaurant!


The better looking image is from Jules eating guide! See the difference in photography!

Mind the pictures ... back then I was really trying to figure out how to use this phone ... but now I am just pure lazy to switch the settings around. My cousin says I should go for photography class! Hurhur ... what I really want is a professional digital camera ... anyone wanna buy for me ... the one I want ah ... is like a couple thousand dollars .... muahahahahahhahaha ... I'm waiting!!!!!

The only things I found good were, 1 the antipasto plate, 2 the mushroom soup, 3 the steaks (unfortunately, they forgot to give me good grade olive oil and balsamic to dip my t-bone steak in, although it didn't need it)

The rest liked the portobello mushrooms ... but I found the serving a bit pathetic!

I think Vikki ordered the pasta with clams ... she found it a bit on the tangy side cause they used a lemon tomato sauce type base ... but of course sometimes I feel it doesn't make a difference because Vik loves to use Tobasco sauce!

Miss Fang Tai had the Squid ink pasta, she found the pasta a bit over cooked ... but the sauce was yummy on the jalat side of things.

Daniel's Ribeye steak was nice also!

To be fair, I got to admit, by the time the pizza came, I was a bit too full and couldn't really taste the pizza ... if I had not pigged out so quickly, I think I would still be able to give a fair review of the pizza.... hahahaha

Saso Rosso Italian Restaurant

When I was up in Kuala Lumpur for my roadshow, I took my client to Saso Rosso Italian Restaurant which was recommended by the concierge at the Hotel Imperial - the old Sheraton.

As usual I was super hungry and over ordered again!

9 Lorong Yap Kwan Seng50450 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603 21 666 428Fax: 603 21 666 429

Tuna Carpaccio

Clams soup in white wine and garlic bread

Sri Lanka live crab penne with olive oil, garlic, fresh basil leaves and prawns bisque

600gr of imported T-bone steak, fiorentina style- with 15 years Modena balsamic vinegar

Mash Potatoes and sautéed spinach

The Tuna Carpaccio was surprising ... as both my client and I thought that the Tuna had become salmon... on top of that, I wasn't impressed with it cause it wasn't the traditional carpaccio I am used to as it was a smoked tuna. It also came with these big tomatoes. Oh yah, and the smoked tuna was way too salty.

The Clam Soup was delicious ... especially when we dipped the nice thin bread that they provide in their bread basket!

Yes, and yet again, I forgot to take pics because of my hunger!

Crab penne wasn't impressive at all ... the prawn bisque completely killed the taste of the crab and it seemed as though many spices were missing from the pasta itself... a bit bland for our taste. We obviously didn't finish the pasta. At least the penne was al dente!

Florentine was delicious and big. We finished it!

For the side dish of spinach, we found it strange that they would use local spinach, furthermore it was way too salty.

Apparently the owner heard me complaining about the spinach came over and spoke to me for a bit then offered us his own personal stash of lemoncello! That was delicious! Ha ha ha I'm such an alcoholic. But I actually told him his crab penne was a failure to my taste buds.

The ambience of the place is nice and romantic though! Would I go back? Probably just to see if there are any improvements.

Pietrasanta - The Italian Restaurant

5B Portsdown Road, #01-03 Wessex Estate, Singapore

Came upon this place by chance as Satellite and I were getting hungry before going to work. The food was decent but there seemed to be a lack of flavoring for most of the stuff we ate. Don't recall everything we ate, but I think we had a pasta which I forgot to take a picture of and definitely had the Beef Florentine which was a gigantic T-bone steak ... yummy and succulent... I really enjoyed that.

Perhaps Satellite remembers the entire list of dishes we tried there.

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/