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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Keng Eng Kee Seafood restaurant (KEK SEAFOOD)

Keng Eng Kee Seafood restaurant (KEK Seafood)

Address: Blk 124 Bukit Merah Lane 1, #01-136, Spore 150124
Opening hours: 12noon to 2.30pm, 5pm to 10pm daily.
Contact no: +65 6272 1038

For more info:
http://www.kek.com.sg/#!/home
and
https://www.facebook.com/kekseafood

Our Hong Kong friend, Tony Leung back to Sg for JJ's concert. But too bad it's Tony Leung Suet Ho, not Tony Leung Chiu Wai.... lol....

He requested to have chilli crab for dinner, as there's not much or could hardly find any chilli crab cuisine in HK.

Wanted to tryout the one at Jurong west, but as he needs to leave around 9pm to Kallang, we have decided to choose somewhere more centralized.

Googled a few zi char places, and found this, KEK seafood.
We did not go for Jumbo or No signboard as I think they are overpriced, tasted so so. The price you pay there, you can have much BIGGER PORTIONS at the zi char place. And some of the Zi char's chilli crab taste not bad too.

There's air-conditioned room and open space. Do make our reservation before heading down.
It was crowded when we reached there even though it was a Thursday night.

You may check out their menu online too.

KEK

Marmite Chicken (medium portion) $18

I have never tried marmite chicken, so decided to try. It was a little saltish for me.

But my friend super duper loves it. She even finished the little crumbs.

So I guess for Marmite lovers... you may wanna try this dish!

MingZhu roll (small portion) $9

Fried tau pok stuffed with salted egg yolk, prawn, ham, mushroom and parsley.

I find this a little overrated. Doesn't look as yummy as it looks.

But the fried tau pok was crispy though.

Golden pork ribs (small portion) $10

This is my favorite dish and I'll always order whenever I go to any zi char place

This was not bad, not too sweet, chewy. yums!

MoonLight Horfun (medium portion for 3-4pax) $8

Ordered this, as I saw bloggers posted this which looks awesome

Mixing the yolk with the noodles!

Guessed it made the noodle smoother and yummy!

Chinese Spinach with 3 eggs. (medium portion) $15

Rayne's fave veg dish. Need some veg, cos too many MEAT dishes!! wahahahah

Salted vegetable & beancurd soup (medium portion) $12

wasn't salty as I expected. quite generous with the ingredient. There's sotong inside too.

Salted egg sotong (medium portion) $28

Salted egg salted egg.... it just can't go wrong with anything...

I would love to have salted egg crab, salted egg pork... Anything with salted egg is just YUMS!

However, just taken my health check, cholesterol went up a little. So, decided to cut low on salted egg and seafood.

And this salted egg sotong is THUMBS UPS!

It's crispy outside and chewy inside. Pretty addictive.

But I only ate a few to control control!

Chilli Crab (1 crab)

Here comes the CHILLI CRAB!

Quite big portion. Cos, i'm cutting down on cholesterol. I only took the sauce.

My friend said it was alright, not too bad.

I find the sauce was so so, maybe not spicy enough. I have tasted better ones.

Wanted some mini fried mantou (buns), but they only have BIG steamed mantou.

A little weird combi though.

The amount of food for 7 of us!

Total bill was $168

That's our Hong Kong friend, Tony.... Super Hungry!

As usual, too much leftovers, and to not waste so much, we have the 终极密码 guessing number game!

And guess who's the loser again?!!

LIM LI JIA!

2 rounds of rice with chilli crab sauce!

And the loser who doesn't know how he got set up!

A mixture of friends gathering.

the air-conditioned room

Crowded with people.

The place was walking distance to IKEA, so we went to have 50cents ICE CREAM! haha

Back home with a big bulk of taobao stuffs from Rayne.

Big Thanks once again.

Bought this mickey headwear for Val, but it was too big for her la!

Overall, I think the food taste ok, but not as fantastic as I expected though. Price range reasonable, service wise, they are very prompt and helpful. Food were served quite fast even with the huge crowd.

I would give a rating of 3.5/5.
Still worth a try though :)

Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for more updates!

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Baby Valerie (5 to 6 months old)

Baby Valerie (5 to 6 months old)

So lil Valerie coping well at my Mama's place. But her weird sleeping pattern became a headache to us, when we brought her back during weekends. She slept too much in the daytime, and so its really tiring for us to make her sleep at night. And well, cos Amy needs to do housework and took care of my grandma back then. So, its easier for her if Val was asleep in the morning.

There's time where she only slept at 3 or 4plus am! We tried all sorts of ways to make her sleep, but she just doesn't want to. Sam was saying to just put her at the play yard and play herself until she tired then bring her to sleep. But, I just doesn't want her to sleep too late, so I just kept trying. However, the good thing was once she sleeps, she can sleep throughout the night.

At times, we found some good solution to make her sleep. But, normally its only useful for once. Example like using the rattle, carrying her in the carrier, singing song, using musical toys... etc.

But it's really so much better now, but still we realized there's differences when she's at my Mama's place and over at our place. Somehow we felt its easier to manage her at our place. Probably also, we know where we place our stuffs and all. And with a rocker and play yard at our place makes it easier to manage her too bah.

The frequency of her spitting milk is also getting lesser and also some of the milestones mentioned below. Really fun to play with her at this stage, starting to roll over, grab stuffs and blabber.

Some ppl might tell you that you may start to introduce solid food to your baby. But, I would still suggest to start only at the recommended age of 6mths. No hurry.

As for myself, I have slowly decreased my milk supply by lengthening the hours of expressing the milk and introducing milk powder to Valerie. Will elaborate more on the milk powder on the next entry.

Many ppl asked me why... Why you stop breastfeeding? Why? Why? Why?

Why? Cos the sky is so high and I wonder why.
Stop asking why. I'm the mother, I'm the one breastfeeding and pumping. I don't think I need to explain why I stop to everyone. Everybody have their own problems and difficulties. Frankly, I doesn't envy those who feed for 1 yr or so. As long as baby is eating well and healthy, all Good!

If you are able to feed for 1 year or more, congrats to you. You have saved a lot of $$$ on milk powder. But, that doesn't mean I have to follow your footstep right? Its all up to individual, some people can't understand why? Then, don't. You don't have to understand. Please also stop comparing between mothers, it's pretty irritating. Why compare with a mother who feed for one year? Why don't you compare me with a mother who doesn't breastfeed?
Right? Get my point? There isn't a need to compare. As long as the mother is happy, live is good for everyone.

Wahaahha, seems like I'm venting my frustration... Chill chillll, all good... wahahahahahahah

Milestones:
- can roll over
- reach out and grasp toys
- able to sit on your lap or floor with your help to position her
- able to hold her head well
- starts to blabber
- eye sight getting better, able to spot smaller objects
- recognize her name and respond to it
- able to make them laugh
- can play peekaboo with them
- putting fingers and objects into their mouths
- sleeping through the night

Things you should do and take note:
- Introduce toys (with music, pressing), to develop motor skills
- Make sure to clean the toys and no sharp edges or small parts, as they tend to put them in their mouths.
- Help baby sit, move their legs to form a V-shape, aids in balancing. Meanwhile, place some cushion around.
- Bring baby out for a walk, have some fresh air... although might not be that fresh.. haha... to also have more exposure to the outside environment.
- Smile and cuddle her often, call her name
- Having family time, bondings
- Try to establish routine for sleeping, feeding, playtime

Enjoy the pics and videos below!