Seafood at No Signboard

I always fancy seafood in No Signboard. Nothing beats crabbie dish with compact stuffing of roe in crab shells, like No Signboard. Their crabbie dishes, are must try selection that you shouldn't give it a miss.

This time, we decided to dine in one of their outlets in Vivo City. The decor in Vivo is much much grand and 'class'., with high ceiling, Chinese paintings, dragon carving on pillar and enchanting chandeliers. Outside the entrance, there are fish tanks filled with colorful ocean fishies. Lots of people, be it patrons or passers-by, will snap a picture or two of the fishies.

Hubby and me..while waiting for our orders.

Mum and son.

Appetizer...humongous raw oyster, bigger than my palmsize....I need to use a table knife to cut it into 3 sections before feeding them into my mouth  :)

Deep fried mango chicken....very appetizing as the chicken still retains its crispiness from deep frying.

Fried rice with egg...my kids love it plain.

Claypot beancurd with assorted seafood.

The signature dish...steamed crab. This time we had it steamed for a change. See the orangy colored roe. Blisss...;) Its so yummy eventhough the method of cooking was quite simple and plain, as the crab was heavenly fresh.

Seafood spread brought smile upon my tired face, on Friday night.

Deep fried butter lobsters...each and every piece of the lobster was flavourfully coated with creamy butter sauce.

My dear family

My mum with the kids.

Its advisable to make an advance reservation before dining. Below is address and the contact number:

No Signboard Seafood Restaurant
Vivo City
1 Harbourfront Walk
#03-02
Singapore 098595
Tel: 63769959

Nourishing Chicken Soup

To maintain oneself in a tip top well being, I rely on a healthy lifestyle with sufficient exercise included, as well as balanced diet. Normally my family will have tonic soup in weekly basis, to keep flu or minor sickness such as cough, fatigue at bay. I swear on tonic soups not only it gives extra goodness from delicious soup cooked for hours but most importantly boosts the immune system.

I prefer to have my soup boils slowly in a slow cooker. I find that slow cooker is ideal for making herbal soups. Not only does it have a earthern inner pot, it can control the cooking temperature and achieve a steady simmer without close supervision.

This recipe calls for (refer to above picture, clockwise from top):

Cnidium Root: Promotes circulation of qi and blood, expels wind, relieves pain, calms nerves, lower blood pressure

Wolfberries (gou ci zi): Improves eyesight, beneficial for the liver.

Red dates: It contains Vitamin B, C, E, P, phosphorus, calcium, iron and more. I helps to promote circulation of blood. Core the seed before consume.

Chinese yam (huai san): Enhance vigour, promote muscle growth and repair worn-out tissue, and alleviate bodily weakness after a long-term illness. Also use to counter diabetes, diarrhoea, kidney defects, coughing.
and dehydration.

Fish maw: Contains high level of collagen, multi-vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, zinc, iron, and selenium. Has effect of nourishing yin and kidneys, prevents fatigue, and speeding recovery after surgery.

Codonopsis root (dang shen): Promotes salivation and aid digestion, relieves diarrhoea and severe coughing, reduces nausea and weakness after severe bleeding, activates metabolism and improves blood circulation, stabilizes nervousness, counters extreme mental and physical fatigue
To use, cut pieces of the root into 3-cm length if they are too long and add to the pot.

American ginseng (center): Beneficial to internal organs, stimulates physical vigour, soothes temperament, promotes general well-being and longevity.

Other than above chinese herbs, you also need cordyceps (dong chong xia cao) (below picture).
Cordyceps is usually prescribed to people who have weak constitution. It serves a good reputation as an anti-aging ingredient and is popular among ladies. It also improves breathing functions, and kidney deficiency, reduces pain, strenghten waist, knee, immune system and helps to cure chronic cough.

 Close up picture of Cordyceps.

Dried fish maw, which I bought from Hong Kong. Need to boil in hot boiling water for few rounds before using for soup.

And of course you will need a black chicken. It is fairly small compared to a normal chicken. Research has discovered that the black chicken's level of protein, vitamin B, 18 amino acids and minerals are much higher than normal chicken while cholesterol and saturated fats are much lower.

Bring about 5 bowls of water to boil. Add all the chinese herbs and black chicken into slow cooker and boil for aproximate 5 hours with high setting on electric slow cooker.

Add a bit of salt to taste before serving.

Hopefully this nourishing tonic soup will boost your immune system, and vitality like I do. Bon appetit and enjoy your nutritious soup from today!

Fun in Snow City

This year, my company has organized its Family Day with theme 'World of Science' in Jurong Science Centre. Kids not only benefitted from the day spent, they had so much fun sliding down the slope and snow ball fighting in Snow City. Snow City is adjacent to Science Ctr, if any of you are wondering.

My kids woke up early compare to their normal weekends, around 7.30 morning. As we need to fuel up before the activity started, we had morning brekkie at McD. As usual, kids had fluffy hotcakes, mum had McGriddles set, while I munched on fish fillet burger.

Goodie bags were given out during the event, with free flow serving of popcorns and cotton candies. I shared my cotton candy with my daughter as I was not a sweet tooth type po person. It brought back fond childhood memories, where my parents will buy me cotton candy when there's fun fair in town while I was still a kid.

Memorable snapshot during the event, with Stitch. But this is a 'FAKE' one, it looked horrible and kind of scary..:(

Kids occupied themselves with photo frames decoration activity.

Those who attended were mused with performance by a professional magician. He was doing a stunt by swallowing and pulling out sharp razors from his mouth hanging on a string.

Our team won 2nd runner up in a game competition. Each members earned themselves a bronze medal, which meant I brought home 2 medals on that day.

After Science Centre, we proceeded to 1 hour fun in Snow City. Temperature here was around -5 degree celcius. It was really fun and full of excitement when sliding down the snow slope by sitting on a doughnut float.

Looks like kids were in Switzerland...lol

In Snow City, with polar bear. My girl and I was wearing same colour of red winter jackets, coz we both crazy for red and pink!

The polar looks so tiny...hahaaa 

We brought our own winter jackets, although Snow City provides their own. But for hygiene purpose, we rather went through all the troubles.

Getting a souvenir from Snow City.

We wandered around Science Centre after the event.

So much of thrill and knowledge gained from Science Centre.

The planets orbit thingy, circulating the solar system.

I am Mr Universe...hahaaaa

The bronze medals I was talking about earlier.

In Science Centre, the mirror illusion...anyone fruit platter? Lol...

Picture 1: Taken in Snow City

Picture 2: Taken in Snow City, when reaching the foot slope, with my messy hair which I had no time to handle when the photographer asked for a pose!

We went home around 3 mid noon, exhausted but contented!