Dinner at the ryokan

The ryokan or Japanese Inn stay comes with 2 meals, mainly dinner and breakfast. The guests are not allowed to take photos of the hot spring bath due to privacy concern.
One day stay is about $300 to $500 per guest in a twin sharing room. It is expensive but worth every penny. The food is superb and the service is excellent. Besides, the room and hot bath is clean and refreshing.

Ryokan,Onsen at Beppu

Vacation in Southern Japan (Beppu, Oita, Japan)

Flying on SQ to Fukuoka, Japan for a short winter vacation. The destination is Beppu Onsen in Oita where a ryokan has been booked.
On approaching FUK Airport for the landing, the captain alerted the passengers to the cold weather, possibly with some snow. Temperature was 1C.
Boarded a train and off to the resort city of Beppu for a hot spring bath and a lovely meal.

Duck Master, once is enough

Today, we had the above roasted duck from Duck Master for lunch. It was quite cheap and is the latest craze. However, I found the duck not up to my expectation. The skin was crispy, meat quite tender but salty. More overall, the duck was small and do not have much meat.
Duck Master opened its fifth outlet at Seletar Mall a few weeks ago.

This ba-chor-mee was from 473 Sengkang coffee shop. It was quite good but expensive as it cost $3.80 when the average is $3.30. Don't think I will ever order it again. It did not have mushrooms at all although compensated by fish/meat balls.

I had Hainanese chicken rice at Simei MRT station coffee shop. It was quite good. After eating the chicken rice, I ordered the above mushroom minced noodles (bar-cho-mee). I can't be wrong because there was a fairly long queue for the noodles. It turned that I was right because the bar-cho-mee was quite exceptional. For $3.50 there was an abundant of liver, meat balls, mushrooms etc.

In the evening, we went to Seletar Mall and bought Ah Mah's cake (original $8). Yesterday, we had the one with cheese ($11) and it was sapid. It is worthwhile trying as it is not very sweet. We kept in the fridge and will have it for our breakfast.

LiHO cheese bubble tea and Ah Mah's cake

There is some excitement in Seletar Mall as some new stalls have replaced the old and unpopular ones.
The one above  (4 pics) selling bubble tea with cheese flavour by LiHO the famous home grown brand has opened another outlet in Seletar Mall. I ordered the one with cheese and it tasted really good. I paid the promotion price of $2.50 (U.P is $3.00). This outlet will give the nearby Koi, also another popular bubble tea stall a run for the money.
The last 2 bottom pictures are that of Ah Mah cake. The queue is usually long and I got the one with cheese which is $11 (we have eaten about a quarter of it before taking the photo). The original one w/o cheese is $8. Overall, the cake was fantastic!

Chai Kee Prawn Noodle

I was recommended to eat prawn noodles from a stall called Chai Kee at Kovan hawker center this afternoon. At first, I wanted to try (I've eaten at Ah Hui before) Ah Hui's prawn noodles which is also at the same hawker center but my friends discouraged me from doing so. Instead they recommended Chai Kee's and it turned out to be better. The above is $5 (small bowl cost $4) and it came with a nice prawn flavoured soup. The address is #01-66, Hougang Kovan Food Center. The operating hours is from 7am till 2pm.

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