I love AZABU SABO Hokkaido Ice-cream @ Singapore

There are 3 Azabu Sabo outlets located at Marina Square, Takashimaya, and The Central in Singapore.

I fell in love with Azabu Sabo Hokkaido ice-cream ever since the 1st time I tasted it. Each ice-cream cone cost around SGD 4.50 but no regrets after trying them. Absolutely love it! They also have a wide range of unusual flavours too like Wasabi, Sweet Potato with Mango and Milk Tea. Their best sellers has to be Green Tea.

This pic is taken during my very 1st Azabu Sabo encounter at Marina Square. I ordered the Green Tea with Red Bean flavour and my friend Yeo ordered the Chocolate flavour ice-cream.



I like the tall sculture of the ice cream and the triangle ice-cream cone.

On a separate occasion, I accidentally bump into Azabu Sabo again at Takashimaya. According to the girls, it is a new branch and they are giving out 20% discount on ice-creams. I highly recommended Azabu Sabo to my family and we each chose a flavour.

Mom and hubby ordered Green Tea, Dad took Black Sesame, and Sis had Wasabi.

My parents enjoyed watching the girls sculturing our ice-creams.

I was the last to order. I was having trouble deciding between Milk Tea and Passion fruit and at last ended up ordering Passion Fruit.

See the big satisfaction on my face... Can't wait to start my 1st bite on them... yummy!

Famous Chan Sow Lin, Steamed Fish Head

On a hot sunny afternoon, me and my colleagues decided to try out the famous Chan Sow Lin Steamed Fish Head. So we escaped from office at 12pm sharp. We arrived at the restaurant at 1pm. We got a little lost as we took a big U turn just to turn into Jalan Lima. This restaurant is located under a big tree shade next to some workshop. Sorry guys... totally forgot to take down names.

We were told the famous restaurant that serves excellent steamed fish head has shifted from Jalan Tiga to Jalan Lima. So when we arrived at Jalan Lima, we stopped at a wrong restaurant but was told that the famous fish head is further up the road. People only stop by this restaurant because they can't wait.

Anyway, knowing we stop at the wrong restaurant, that didn bother us. Cos the food didn taste bad and to be honest it was really good and so cheap! We ordered steamed tofu, 2 steamed fish head (1 with ginger paste and 1 with taucu sauce paste), and spinach with century eggs in chicken broth.

We started our meal with a FOC soup of the day which is Vege soup. Then comes our steamed tofu along with our 2 main dishes which is the fish heads and lastly our spinach.



To be honest, I do not like eating fish head. But was surprised that fish head actually comes along with half the body. So I was really happy. I think I prefer the ginger paste more than the taucu paste fish cos you can really taste the freshness of the fish. But my colleagues love the taucu paste more which brings a little kick of saltiness, sweetness and spiciness to the fish.

-Steamed Ginger Paste Fish Head-

-Steamed Taucu Paste Fish Head-

-Our steamed tofu-

Our meal only cost us RM52 for 5 pax (inclusive of our Chinese Tea). SO SO CHEAP!

This lunch escape from office in PJ with the endless wrong turnings, traffic jams and going back office 1 hour late was definately worth it! Btw, if you can't stand the heat under a zinc rooftop and unhygiene food preparation, this is not the place for you. We had to share our food shewing off the flies while sitting next to a big drain and went out the place sweaty.

Vicks VapoRub

I came across this article yesterday from a forwarded mail my friend send me. Not sure if anyone of you frequent use Vicks VapoRub (a product of Procter and Gamble) whenever down with nose blockage. I bet most of you may have come across or has applied the ointment before as it has been in the market for the pass 10 years.

Dunno about you guys, but I am not a big supporter of this ointment as it gives me rash whenever i apply it. I have probably applied once or twice during my childhood. My hubby till date still frequent use this ointment whenever he is down with cough, flu or sore throat.

In this article, it says that it is harmful to apply Vicks on a child below age of 2. Especially when it is applied directly under a child's nose. This is because a child's airway is narrower than adults, and after application of Vicks, there may be increase of mucus which may cause narrowing of a child's airways. It is also said that the ointment slows the action of the hair-like cilia in the throat that can carry mucus away.

In Singapore, doctors do not advise patients to use Vicks as it is not clinically proven to be effective. They said it may offer relief but do not reduce resistance in the nasal airway.

Whatever it is, if you love using Vapo Rub, be it adult or child, avoid applying direct under nasal airways. Procter and Gamble also mentioned that the correct way to apply this ointment is on body which means chest or probably neck area.

Warn your friends and family if they frequent this ointment.