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Takeaway Review: Liang Sandwich Bar, Vivo City

The making of egg sandwich at Liang Sandwich Bar

Sandwich from Liang Sandwich Bar Vivo City

Chicken, egg and cheese sandwich from Liang Sandwich Bar

I thought tomorrow is Friday but turns out there’s Thursday in between us. Oh well, no fret because anyway I would need Thursday to be able to meet my due tasks this week. But in order to spice thing up after work, it’s time for another takeaway review post. Today I went all the way to Vivo City (okay, 2 stops away but changing at Outram Park feels like a very long walk...) to get the egg sandwich from one of the new additions in the basement level, Liang Sandwich Bar.

If you are familiar with Taiwanese breakfast named dan bing (or scallion sandwich in English), you will see the uncanny resemblance between the sandwich offered at Liang Sandwich Bar and those dan bing sold in Taiwan. If you know about Taiwan entertainment, you will also spot familiar face endorsing the brand, Jay Chou. Oh wait, he also starred in Hollywood movie before so I suppose everyone should know him.

The basic scallion sandwich costs SGD 2.50 while the rest of the menu is priced depending on what toppings you wish to put inside your scallion sandwich. While it kinda looks like prata in a glance, I find the scallion sandwich to be more flaky in texture. Oh right for my first try, I ordered chicken, egg and cheese scallion sandwich (SGD 3.90). I usually go for egg and cheese scallion sandwich when I buy scallion pancake from my favourite dan bing stall at Yong Kang street in Taipei and oh boy, I wish I can buy that everyday here in Singapore.

So can this scallion sandwich endorsed by Taiwanese idol beat the original scallion sandwich sold in Taiwan? The answer is unfortunately no. While the texture is not bad, Liang Sandwich Bar’s scallion pancake lack in flavors. I wish they can be more generous with the sauce because it gets pretty bland when I bite a portion which have no sauce. The chicken in the chicken, egg and cheese sandwich is actually chicken ham and not real chicken meat, fyi. And I suspect they may have used less eggs compared to the ones that the Taiwanese aunties use at Yong Kang street because the sandwich was not that thick.

Oh gosh, I think my standard for scallion pancake is quite high thanks to that Yong Kang street stall. Great, now I feel like buying a ticket to Taipei. Maybe it’s time to check out flight deal, if any.

Takeaway Review: Hokkaido Cream Polo, Kazo

Crispy puff and kazu kazu from Kazo Chinatown Point

July is soon coming to an end and my contract in Tanjong Pagar is ticking out. I figure this is the time to implement “try new food as much as you can” while you are still working in town. The thing is I realise that I did try to tighten my wallet when I was not working and looking back at those freedom (and yet, penniless) days, I did not feel like trying out a lot of new food especially that need special effort from me to (a) travel for quite a distance from my house and (b) costs a lot.

Although to be honest, having a job does not mean you shall splurge either. I have decided to live moderately (and even frugally at times). So with that being said, Tuesday menu for dinner is obviously another takeaway food because eating in front of tv (or in my case, an ipad) rocks! I went to Chinatown at lunch time to buy hazelnut milk tea from woobbee actually and that’s when I passed by Kazo.

This is not the first time I pass by Kazo but today is the day I finally decide to give it a try. In addition, it’s very tiring to think about what to eat for dinner after a zumba class so I figure I might find something which is good enough to be eaten as dinner. That’s when I saw the huge polo puffs. Compared to Beard Papa, I don’t think the price difference is that huge and the filling of those polo puffs are so interesting. Well, maybe except chocolate. I mean chocolate is good but it’s so normie, there’s no way you will be surprised by chocolate.

So I chose Hokkaido cream because anything that have the word “Hokkaido” should at least taste good. The funny thing though Kazo is actually set up in Taiwan. Well, some netizen say that Kazo is the direct competitor of Zaku Zaku or something in Japan. So maybe their taste is close enough? I don’t know if Zaku Zaku sells polo puff though. Oh maybe it’s more similar to Hattendo at Tanjong Pagar Centre.

There is an instruction to keep the puff in the fridge if you don’t consume it within 3 hours after purchase. But, putting food in office’s shared fridge is uhh...undesirable for me because there’s this stone-faced pantry lady who seem to guard the fridge like a hawk. I don’t even feel like coming to the pantry sometimes. Why can’t she be more friendly? Oh well, some people simply can’t get along with certain people. So my puff is left on my table as it is and even withstood the gym locker until it’s time for the puff to be consumed...8 hours later.

Thankfully, the Hokkaido Cream puff (SGD 3) that I bought still looks okay in terms of texture. For a safe measure, I did put it in the fridge for a good 10 minutes before consumption and it tastes so good. I was kinda worried the cream will not be a lot since the puff looks pretty huge but I was wrong. It was moderately filled and the Hokkaido cream taste is pretty good (albeit sweet). I’m so gonna try the golden lava puff for my second trip to Kazo. Yumz.

Takeaway Review: Onigiri and Potato Salad, Don Don Donki

Takomeshi and potato salad from Don Don Donki

Aigoo we are back to the dreadful Monday but I suppose today is not so bad. It’s just world cup has just ended the night before and it is kinda empty not to have a football match to watch after work. But human must be adaptable to life and when one entertainment is gone, one must find another source of entertainment. Since I had nothing else planned tonight, I went to Don Don Donki at 100AM after work to check what kind of food I could buy for takeaway.

I was only looking at the small food items because my calorie counter app seemed to suggest that I only have 200 kcal left for today. Oh my gawd, what am I supposed to eat? Air? But anyway, I have a lot of determination to lose weight so I’m just gonna stick with onigiri. To my amazement, Don Don Donki have a quite interesting selection of onigiri and the price tag for these onigiris are somewhat friendly. Mostly are below 3SGD (which is the normal price for onigiri sold at Samurice).

I have never seen takomeshi onigiri before so I quickly got my hand on one of this octopus rice ball. I suppose it will be something like the filling of takoyaki but it’s inside rice ball? Well, basically that’s how it looks like although interestingly the rice used for takomeshi is brown, not the usual white rice. I wonder how did they season the rice. Maybe with tea? Hahaha. Anyway, it tastes pretty good and I could find few bits of octopus meat inside the rice ball.

Being easily lured by fried stuff, I nearly bought fried chicken to be honest with you. But I put myself under restraining order and opted for potato salad instead. The portion of the potato salad is not big but it costs SGD 1.90 so I guess I could not really complain. Obviously while my ideal plan of dinner consists of these two items only, I ended up entering starvation mode and devoured some guavas, grapes and nearly a bag of potato chips. What? Please don’t tell me they are not real potatoes. Lalala~

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