Queenstown Today

[Semaj2357]

Oh please. Don't give credit to the PAP about my living overseas. I am back to Singapore because of work not because this is my home, home is in Bangkok period.

hanor, a house is not a home - and home is where the heart (and screws) are

 

[winnipegjets]

Singapore is always your home in your heart no matter what the PAP has done to chase you away...

I think only the sinkee food has a place in his heart. However, if Ho Ching invites him for dinner ...he could be persuaded to come back.

 

[Reddog]

Queenstown Bowl is no more (you can still see it intact on Google Maps street view, image taken on March 2009).

I can fondly remember a good Chinese restaurant at or near the Queenstown Cinema. When I was a kid (early 1990s), I went there with my parents to attend a wedding dinner. It had a BIG stage with a large projection screen that played karaoke songs. Guests could go up and sing in front of everyone. Many adults and kids sang Sally Yeh's 瀟灑走一回 as it was a very popular song then.

As of now, I have attended many wedding dinners, from the obscure restaurants at Boon Lay, Chinatown, Queenstown, Concourse etc to the more posh ones (Fullerton, Mariott, Copthorne, Sheraton, Mandarin). Only that particular restaurant at Queenstown still brings back fond memories after so many years. No other restaurant had guests singing karaoke as entertainment. Sometimes there would be a live band, or a hired celeb emcee, but that's it.

The only bowling alley nearest to Queenstown and outside of the city area is probably the one at West Coast Recreation Centre.

Laksaboy, your Chinese restaurant is called Golden Crown. Cantonese restaurant. Back in 1968, one table of 10 course with sharks fin, abalone, with steamed tiger grouper, etc costed only $70.

 

[Froggy]

I think only the sinkee food has a place in his heart. However, if Ho Ching invites him for dinner ...he could be persuaded to come back.

Well I’ll tell her go fuck spider

 

[Froggy]

Laksaboy, your Chinese restaurant is called Golden Crown. Cantonese restaurant. Back in 1968, one table of 10 course with sharks fin, abalone, with steamed tiger grouper, etc costed only $70.

Check this out http://myqueenstown.blogspot.com/2010/04/tah-chung-emporium.html?m=1

 

[Reddog]

Forfar Square was known as 7 floor whereas Commonwealth Crescent was known as 16 floor, Tanglin Halt was known as 10 floor. There used to have a fountain near Tanglin Halt road junction. The Queenstown/Queensway cinema had KFC on the 2nd floor.

Forfar House was 16 storey high. My home for 15 months.

 

[Froggy]

Forfar House was 16 storey high. My home for 15 months.

Forfar House is popularly known as Chap-Si-Lau because its 14-storey. Its so popular that all taxi drivers know the name Chap-Si-Lau even till today.

 

[Froggy]

Lunch at Redhill Market

The famous curry rice stall

Curry rice with 3 items - pork chop, cabbage, minced pork ball

The stall where Singapore's prime minister was spotted queuing for deep fried chicken wings

Prices and opening hours

Stall

Lunch

 

[Semaj2357]

Laksaboy, your Chinese restaurant is called Golden Crown. Cantonese restaurant. Back in 1968, one table of 10 course with sharks fin, abalone, with steamed tiger grouper, etc costed only $70.

yes, the last manager was called william and though gayish, he sang well to entertain the diners when they had a karaoke in the main hall, before moving to safra bukit merah. the 2nd floor of the margaret drive food centre used to have a western resto and changed hands to a indon food resto.
there was the popular dessert stall on the ground floor manned by a young fat girl always in shorts, mannish in behavior with short hair and a manly voice to boot

 

[Froggy]

Dinner at East Ocean Restaurant inNgee Ann City 5th floor

Starters - roast pork

Wine of course

Teochew braised duck

Bean curd

Main course - Grouper steamed with soya sauce

Tender beef

Vege

Sweet and sour prawns

Noodles

Dessert - 雪蛤

雪蛤 in English is hasma, this dessert is cooked in almond milk. For those of you who don't know what this is it is actually a dried fatty tissue found near the fallopian tubes of frogs typically Asiatic Grass Frog. Western pharmaceutical term is Oviductus Ranae.

 

[mahjongking]

dear froggy,
maybe u can tell us the total bill so we can see if its expensive or not for all these nice food....just a suggestion

 

[Froggy]

dear froggy,
maybe u can tell us the total bill so we can see if its expensive or not for all these nice food....just a suggestion

Thank you for your suggestion. It is politically incorrect to post food price because there are sore asses here and will accuse not just me anyone who post prices or bills as howlian so forget it. If you want can PM. Anyway I just PM you the bill. Cheers

 

[AhMeng]

Thank you for your suggestion. It is politically incorrect to post food price because there are sore asses here and will accuse not just me anyone who post prices or bills as howlian so forget it. If you want can PM. Anyway I just PM you the bill. Cheers

It's OK lah. Though I cannot afford it, I no jealous type hokay.

 

[Froggy]

Breakfast at market

Pork noodles

 

[Froggy]

Lunch went to Bukit Merah View blk 116 coffeeshop for curry rice

The stall

Coffeeshop

Stall

The spread

Special, curry fish head, boiling hot

Delicious

Traditional Hainanese pork chop

Cabbage chap-chai

Lor bak

Radish omelette

Great lunch

 

[Froggy]

Tanglin Halt estate dearly known to residents here as chap-lau or Tanglin Halt 10-storey will be transformed in 2 years when 30+ blocks will be demolished after residents move out to newer flats nearby.

Took a walk around this almost 60years old estate this morning, took some photos to remember it by

Taking off soon off phone post more photos later

 

[shittypore]

He gets all the screws, Sinkies here being screwed. Got to get out of this pl, if its the last thing we ever do, E Burton.

 

[Froggy]

More photos to remember Tanglin Halt

 

[Froggy]

 

[winnipegjets]

Dinner at East Ocean Restaurant inNgee Ann City 5th floor

Starters - roast pork

Wine of course

Teochew braised duck

Bean curd

Main course - Grouper steamed with soya sauce

Tender beef

Vege

Sweet and sour prawns

Noodles

Dessert - 雪蛤

雪蛤 in English is hasma, this dessert is cooked in almond milk. For those of you who don't know what this is it is actually a dried fatty tissue found near the fallopian tubes of frogs typically Asiatic Grass Frog. Western pharmaceutical term is Oviductus Ranae.

Wah, you come to sinkapore every weekend for makan? When are you going to fly your own private jet back?