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"I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door."

Just now Noona attended a lunch time zumba class and the instructor happened to play Maroon 5's She Will Be Loved for cooling down track. Maroon 5 used to be Noona's most beloved band and she often (shamelessly) sings their songs in KTV with some friends. Nowadays we don't really sing a lot of Maroon 5's songs anymore because we think their old albums are way better than the newer ones. Aigoo, now Noona feels like going to KTV. Time to plan for a session soon. Hahaha.

Oink Noona: Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei, Tanjong Pagar

While we were humming on This Love, we have reached our Saturdate venue, Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei. Yep, we have joined the snaking queue to try the pretty new beef hamburg restaurant from Japan which located at Peck Seah Street in Tanjong Pagar area. We have reached the restaurant slightly after 5.30PM and the queue was already pretty long. Noona hopes that means this restaurant is really that good.

Free flow salad at Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei, Tanjong Pagar

The queue has become more and more gruelling after 30 minutes have passed because of the humid weather of this island of Singapore. Thankfully, the restaurant provides self-service iced Hojicha for patrons who are about to faint from thirst. Noona herself has taken and gulped down three cups of iced hojicha because it was so damn hot and humid. Arghh.

Salad bar at Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei, Tanjong Pagar

She was so excited when the waitress finally let her and her friend in. The set meal at Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei comes with free flow salad. Diners will be given salad bowl and you can fill up the bowl with basically what your heart desires from the salad bar. The salad bar is pretty extensive and it does not only provide vegetables like cucumber, tomato, corn, carrot, etc. It also has a variety of pasta and potato salad. Fruits are also available toward the end of the salad bar.

This bowl of salad/ pasta is actually enough to fill in Noona's stomach without having even started on the main hamburg steak. Everything which comes with the term "free-flow" is basically a blow to all kind of self-control required for a good diet. Hahaha.

Salad bowl from Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei, Tanjong Pagar

After waiting for roughly around 20 minutes or so, our Beef Hamburg set meal has finally arrived. The set meal consists of a bowl of rice, a bowl of miso soup, a shrimp tempura, two pieces of tofu, several sprouts, tartar sauce for the tempura and of course, the beef hamburg. You can choose the sauce for the hamburg. If Noona is not wrong, some of the choices for the sauce are BBQ, yakiniku, etc.

Cheese beef hamburg steak from Keisuke at Tanjong Pagar

The plate is hot so be careful not to accidentally touch the place with your bare fingers.

Beef hamburg steak set from Keisuke Bettei at Tanjong Pagar

This is basically what happened after you cut the beef hamburg open, cheese filling oozing out asking to be eaten. Taste wise, the beef hamburg is not bad at all. Noona got very very full after finishing her hamburg though up to the point she was kinda reluctant to move. #foodcoma

Cheese oozing beef hamburg steak from Keisuke Bettei

Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Keisuke Bettei is located at:

72 Peak Seah Street

Tanjong Pagar

Opening hours:

Daily 11.30AM - 2.30PM, 5.30PM - 10PM

"I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend."

Anyeong! Happy Saturday everybody. Noona has just reached home after an "oh-no-I-ate-a-lot-again" kind of Saturdate. But it's hard not to eat while you are out with your best pal and talking about a lot of stuff under the sun. Noona does not have a lot of friends but she has been blessed with a few awesome buddies which she can discuss about basically anything in life from work, current crush, world, celebrities, travel, and the list goes on and on and on. We decided to chat over plates of gyoza tonight at Gyozaya.

There are two branches of Gyozaya in Singapore and both branches are located at Orchard area. One is located at ION Orchard while the other is located at Robinsons Orchard. If you prefer to dine in the quieter place, you should go for the branch at Robinsons Orchard. Just like its name, Gyozaya is famous for its gyoza (re: Japanese pan-fried dumplings). Gyozaya serves a variety of gyoza with different toppings that you probably have never tried before like cheese, chicken curry and even mentaiko (the Japs really love to put mentaiko on almost everything).

Special gyoza menu from Gyozaya at Robinsons Orchard

Since both Noona and her pal are big eater, they know for sure that they would not be filled with gyoza alone unless they order maybe more than 5 plates of gyoza so they decided to order some carbs to go with their gyoza. Noona ordered a bowl of Garlic Fried Rice which tastes so damn good (nothing can go wrong with fried rice, really!).

Garlic fried rice from Gyozaya at Robinsons Orchard

While Noona's pal went for Japanese rendition Jya-Jya Men (which Noona thinks is the counterpart of Korean jajjangmyeon). There is an instruction available on the leaflet provided on every table how to mix the black bean sauce and the condiments on the table. So, any customer who orders Jya-Jya Men will be able to enjoy the noodle after mixing them in the right way. Noona still prefers the Korean rendition of black bean noodle though.

Jya Jya Men from Gyozaya at Robinsons Orchard

The two hungry girls opted for three type of gyoza: Mentaiko Miso, Normal and Cheese flavoured gyoza.

Assorted gyoza from Gyozaya at Robinsons Orchard

Noona loves mentaiko taste so she enjoys Gyozaya's rendition of Mentaiko Miso Gyoza. It gives a different kick to otherwise a normal savoury gyoza.

Pan fried dumpling with mentaiko miso from Gyozaya

However, if you don't like your gyoza to be fanciful, you should really stick to the original flavour because it's "cleaner" in a way. Don't forget to use the special gyoza sauce to dip your dumpling into.

Pan-fried dumpling with pork from Gyozaya at Robinsons Orchard

The cheese gyoza turns out to be quite heavy on Noona's palette after a few bites of eating this gyoza with the garlic fried rice. Pouring chili powder on it kinda helps to fight the "too much" taste though. Spicy taste is the solution to make any food taste better for any Indonesian living in this world. Hahahaha.

Pan-fried dumpling with cheese from Gyozaya at Robinsons Orchard

Gyozaya is located at:

260 Orchard Road, #B1-02A

Robinsons Heeren

Operating hours:

Daily 11.30AM - 10PM

"I came along. I wrote a song for you. And all the things you do, it was called yellow."

Noona just found that someone uploaded the latest string of A Head Full of Dream Tour by Coldplay (either in Singapore or Bangkok because only those two countries the Coldplay has visited in 2017 so far) and oh boy, there is no way she's gonna moving on from this best band in the world. Despite the fact that she has just watched and danced to their songs last Saturday.

Back to corporate world, Noona's colleagues have been saying that Noona loves Chinatown so much that she often goes there for lunch. Well to be honest who can afford lunching at Downtown so often since (1) the choice of food is rather limited and (2) not budget friendly. In addition, Noona often has lunches with her friends from outside office and yes, Chinatown seems to be a good meeting point in any case. So here we are at Chinatown again at Genki Sushi.

Oink Noona: Genki Sushi, Chinatown Point

Genki Sushi is a quite fun sushi joint to hang out. It was famous when it first opened in Singapore because of the moving train/ car which will carry your sushi plates to your table upon ordering via Ipad. One train/ car can carry 3 plates of sushi at one time so you can immediately send your order to the kitchen once you have selected 3 type of sushi. Noona did not know what happened that day but she and her friend were very very hungry and so easily tempted by the display of the menu in Genki Sushi's Ipad. We ordered mentaiko tamago sushi, aburi squid sushi, mentaiko aburi salmon sushi, salted aburi salmon sushi, chicken karage mayo sushi and jumbo cheese kani sushi.

Yummy sushis from Genki Sushi at Chinatown Point

In addition, Genki Sushi was having a promotion for three different type of salmon (which looks the same to Noona's eyes) on one plate. The salmon comes from Scotland, Norway and Canada. Noona could not really differentiate the taste either.