World Class Dining at Marina Bay Sands Singapore Preview: Food Tasting session with Santi Santamaria, Guy Savoy, Tetsuya Wakuda, Daniel Boulud and Justin Quek

This could be one of the rarest occasions in the culinary world. Six world class celebrity chefs: Santi Santamaria, Guy Savoy, Tetsuya Wakuda, Daniel Boulud and Justin Quek were altogether at Marina Bay Sands Singapore.

I walked slowly into the event hall as the chefs were chatting with each other. Approx. 300 media representatives around the world, awaits the 6 world class chefs for the Q & A session.  The one hour media session was filled with laughter and joy. Hosted by the founders of AFC, the Asian Food Channel, the chefs were having fun answering questions from the press and media.

As the media conference concluded, everyone fled to the food tasting session hall where the real feast began. I must admit that never in my life, I’ve tasted any of the 6 world class chef’s food. Never would I think that I could have tasted all of their food at one time, at this event. The experience was extraordinary.

A short conversation with other foreign media agreed that such rare occasion was a memorable experience indeed.

With unlimited champagne from Piper-HiedSieck, I could not keep track the amazing food I had.

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Fusion Buffet Lunch at Rise, Marina Bay Sands Singapore

During my visit to the Marina Bay Sands Singapore, the other media representatives and I were given a taste of one of their exclusive restaurant, Rise. Located at the heart of the hotel lobby, the view from the restaurant was stunning.

The buffet lunch was a blend of western and Asian cuisine. As much as I loved their Chinese “kung po” style chicken to the Thai style deep fried fish fillet, the variety of the food were simply amazing.

Local specialties such as glass noodle, fried noodle and even Tandoori chicken, Rise aimed to give its customers a taste of Singapore food.

The ribs and the grilled beef were the favourites of the day. I loved how they prepared the grilled beef though I find it “too rare” for Asian likings. With the range of the food available, my lunch at Rise with the outstanding view will be one to remember.

About Marina Bay Sands

Marina Bay Sands will be the leading business, leisure and entertainment destination in Asia. It will feature large and flexible convention and exhibition facilities, 2,560 hotel rooms and suites, the rooftop Sands SkyPark, a museum, the best shopping mall in Asia, world-class celebrity chef restaurants, a casino, Paiza Club for premium players, an outdoor event plaza and theaters debuting with “The Lion King.”  For more information, please visit www.marinabaysands.com

Daniel Boulud, Wolfgang Puck, Santi Santamaria, Guy Savoy and Tetsuya Wakuda Coming Soon at Marina Bay Sands Singapore

Celebrity Chef Tetsuya Wakuda – Marina Bay Sands Singapore

It will be one of the most anticipated culinary haven experience awaits the food lovers and the foodies of the region. Well, I’m talking about celebrity chefs like Daniel Boulud, Wolfgang Puck, Santi Santamaria, Guy Savoy and Tetsuya Wakuda. Some of them are world top 50 best chefs and some are Michelin Guide ranked chefs owned restaurants. Altogether, it is like a dream team of celebrity chefs.

Celebrity Chef Santi Santamaria – Marina Bay Sands Singapore

Marina Bay Sands Singapore is not just a gaming destination but it will be a culinary haven. A food lover like me would love to travel down in the future once the restaurants are fully opened. It will be a great chance to taste the world class cuisine operated by world class chefs. How often are we able to travel to places like Spain, Australia and United States for restaurants like this?

Now, it’s all under one roof in Marina Bay Sands Singapore. This is one not to be missed!

Sometimes good food is just around the corner. I kid you not.

My stay in Riverview Hotel Singapore was a pleasant experience. Yet, within the hotel, there’s a very good Japanese restaurant. Its called Irodori Japanese Restaurant. Since my clients recommended me the place, we decided to have my dinner there.

There’s a lot of Japanese buffet restaurant but ala carte japanese buffet was the first time for me. Ala carte japanese buffet means they only cook when you order. The food will taste better definitely. When we reached the restaurant, we were greeted by the friendly waitresses there. We waited no more and started to order our dinner.

Fresh sashimi was pretty good. The fish were very fresh indeed. We ordered quite a few plates for the night.

Ebi Tempura or Tempura Prawn. Lovely.

The complimentary Grilled Prawns. This was pretty good. Too bad its complimentary, if not we would order more.

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This was an unexpected interesting find. I was at Singapore for a short working trip in March. I was staying at Riverview Hotel and they didn’t provide my breakfast for my hotel rates, so I had to go out to search for breakfast.

After asking around and walked for 20 min, I reached at this place called Tiong Bahru Market. I was told that they have a food court.

Looking for good food is always easy. Look for the stall that the most people queue up should be fine.

After looking around, I saw this stall with a huge long queue so then I checked it out. Apparently, it was a Lor Mee Stall. There were lots of newspaper write ups posted on the stall. I read a few of it and then I started to queue up. In minutes, I got myself the famous Lor Mee.

Excitedly and I took my spoon and tasted the paste. It was rather starchy but the taste was good. There’s no lack of flavours. Interesting enough, they put garlic in the Lor Mee. With that, I mixed it all together. The noodle blends very well with the thick paste. There were also no lack of ingredients. It comes with various dumplings, meat and egg. From a mere $3.00, this Lor Mee was a steal. I could never imagine I could get such pricing in Kuala Lumpur (KL).

Well, after filling up my tummy, I felt lucky because I had a good lor mee.

Its very much recommended!

Address:
Tiong Bahru Food Court (look for the queue)
Tiong Bahru Market

My first experience with MOS Burger was around 1998 when they opened their first outlet at KLCC. I was working part time with Versace Boutique at that time. I loved visiting MOS Burger even though its more expensive than the usual fast food outlets. However, it didn’t sustain long and eventually closed their operations in Malaysia.

My last visit to Singapore gave me the chance of having MOS Burger again.

Burger time!
A common view of MOS Burger set in a small plastic bucket…
Teriyaki Chicken Burger… my fav…
Lovely little burger. The meat was tender and it was so good…
Their infamous rice burger. We order Unagi Rice Burger. Eating rice burger will be a bit tough as the rice is soft. It needs unique “supa” handling technique to eat this rice burger (I’m just joking ok).

I wished there’s MOS Burger here.

Din Tai Fung was ranked as one of the world’s top 10 restaurants in 1993 by The New York Times. If a restaurant is rated so highly, I think I would pay to get the top 10 in the world. The Taiwanese restaurant is famous for its pork dumpling or Xiao Long Bau.

This was the first I patronized Din Tai Fung, in Wisma Atria, Orchard Road, Singapore. After peeking at their menus at the entrance, I find that the menu are reasonable priced (after conversion and so on) . Since a while I met Anne a friend in Singapore, so me, Rachel and Anne had a brunch in Din Tai Fung. We started with Braised Sichuan Sliced Beef (cold plate dish)[S$6]. The thinned sliced beef was a great starter! Then, we ordered a Steamed Yam Paste Bun [S$2.50]. The yam bun was ok, yam paste was okay.

We also ordered Noodle Soup With Shrimp Pork Wanton[S$8.80]. The noodle was good, soup was tasty, wanton was nice. We then ordered 6 lovely Shrimp and Pork Siew Mai [S$9.30] and their infamous Steam Pork Dumplings [S$6.50 for 6 dumplings]. Overall the food was good, but not the magically top 10 taste. Its still a good place to visit.

Address:
#02-48/53 Wisma Atria
435 Orchard Road,
Tel: 6732 1383

Prawn noodle fried Hokkien style? The first one I had was in Tangkak in 2008, it was horrible. Well, since recommended by a friend, I ordered a fried hokkien prawn noodle and fried oyster omellete.
The prawn mee is quite different from the one I had. This one was not too bad. Something really ‘uniquely’ different than what we have in Malaysia. They didn’t use black sauce to fry it? Fried oyster omellete is ok ok only.

We also ordered beef noodle dry and soup. Both are pretty decent.

I like the Food Republic’s concept of gathering all the best stalls in Singapore into a food court. I felt that its quite easy to know which stall is good in Food Republic. Follow the queue.

Price per pax usually is less than $10. Mostly operates as self service. Most stalls are well-known stalls in Singapore, you be the judge.

Address:
#03-01 VivoCity
1 Harbourfront Walk
098585

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The recent short trip to Singapore did not hamper me of going to Max Brenner again. I tried 2 of their drinks last time around… so this time, I went back for more…

The place didn’t much change since I was there last year…

Their chocolates…

The place…

Venezuela Milk Choco…

Coockieshake…

We were very happy indulging our lovely drinks…

Venezuela Milk Choco is definitely for hot choco lovers. Not so dark or sweet, just nice with thick choco taste with hints of caramel, vanilla and hazelnuts.

Coockieshake is a cold drink of blended white choco cream, Oreo coockies, caramelized pecan… This drink is like an ice blended choco dreamland shake. Its really lovely…

Service was pretty good. The girl was pretty helpful explaining the drinks. Price was reasonable as well… S5.90 for the hot one, S8.90 for the cold “dreamland” shake…

I find it hard to stay in Singapore as I would go to this place often. The temptation will be always there.

Another funny thing is I never actually tried any choco cafe in Malaysia yet. I heard there’s a few quite “interesting” choco cafe in town. Will go there soon maybe…

Address:
8 Raffles Avenue, #01-06/08 Esplanade Mall, Singapore 039802
Phone number: +65 62359556
Opening Hours:
Sun-Thurs – 11:00am to 11:00pm
Fri-Sat – 11:00am to 12:00 (Midnight)

I never been to any chocolate restaurant or cafe before. I was introduced to this place by a friend residing in Singapore. The interesting part is the restaurant is in the “durian” building, The Esplanade.
The interiors…
Suckao that’s what its called…

I thought its just a normal choco drink, but I was wrong. I ordered Suckao or “sucker” or what ever it pronounced. This drink itself is very complex. They will put a small candle in the jar, heat the top portion so I have to put the choco chips to melt with milk and I had to suck it with the metal rod straw….I paid less than 10 SGD for the “sucker” drink and its worth it. Too bad Max Brenner never consider opening a branch in Malaysia if not I can go there often.

Address:
8 Raffles Avenue, #01-06/08 Esplanade Mall, Singapore 039802
Phone number: +65 62359556
Opening Hours:
Sun-Thurs – 11:00am to 11:00pm
Fri-Sat – 11:00am to 12:00 (Midnight)