Privé Café – Rise & Shine

Posted on September 4, 2012 by K

Keppel Island – This always remind me of a scene in HK drama 珠光寶氣 for the rich and famous. 🙂 I fell in love with this sexy, private island the first time T brought me here for dinner in the Privé Restaurant (The now Privé Grill) some years back.

 The eateries at Keppel are getting overcrowded recently – the girls and I decided to beat the crowd by going for breakfast at 9am on a Saturday.

Privé Ultimate – A very hearty plate of breakfast goodness! What can go wrong with eggs|sausage|bacon|mushrooms|hashbrown|toast|rockets? Best to share – we were so stuffed at the end that we gave the sweets a miss. 😦


[LEFT] Eggs Benedict with an additional side of sautéed mushrooms – One of the better eggs benny in town! Perfectly poached eggs drenched in the artery clogging hollandaise sauce.
[RIGHT] Latte – Love. Enough said.

Overall – Breakfast at Prive is happiness! It certainly brightens up our entire weekend.

Privé Café
Tel: +65 6776 0777
Opening Hours: 9am – 12midnight, Daily
Add: 2 Keppel Bay Vista, Singapore 098382
Spent: $32 per pax

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Wilton Decorating Basics #1

Posted on September 3, 2012 by K

I started my first Wilton decorating lesson at BIY and it’s a whole lot of fun! Cake decorating is like doing art and craft (one of my fave subjects in school). The lesson was conducted in a very structured and interesting way – ideal for decorating beginners like myself.

I’m awed by some of the “life changing” baker’s tools introduced in the lesson –
Cake leveler – No more worrying about slicing an uneven cake.
Cake icer tip – 3 times faster vs. icing a cake with the good old spatula.
Coupler – Zero mess when you change the piping tips!

Starry Starry Afternoon – we practiced piping stars many times in lesson 1.

We also learnt how to make a good, thick buttercream that we will use as the decorating medium throughout the course.  I bought all the necessary ingredients and an electric mixer to make a kickass buttercream (our homework this week) for lesson 2 next week. 🙂

P.S. I got interested in cake decorating after my weak attempt for Twice’s first anniversary cake – That was done in the icing room. I’m sure Twice will have a better decorated cake next year!

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Dean & Deluca – Bye

Posted on August 31, 2012 by K

I am very disappointed with my “attempted” visit to Dean last weekend.

HORROR 1- A VERY dead line

I tried calling Dean & Deluca for more than 10 times over 3 different days to make reservations but no one picks up the phone. Can someone tell me what is the number in the website for?

Despite the bad call experience, we were still determined to visit this upmarket café and grocery – See what good marketing does to you. 🙂

HORROR 2 – No proper queue

I was fully prepared to queue when I reached Dean @ 4pm on a Sunday. The whole place was fully occupied and I could not see a proper queue. The waitress informed me that it’s free seating – So basically you have to hover around the tables and once someone is ready to leave, you need to “accelerate” and “chop” the table immediately.

This is seriously not my idea of a leisure tea in an upmarket café. I certainly do not want people hovering around when we are having our girls talk.

Needless to say, we took our business elsewhere.

Bye, Dean. All the best. 🙂

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[LCB] With a Song in My Heart

Posted on August 21, 2012 by P

More often than not, I find myself finishing cuisine classes on an emotional high – unexplainable, indescribable…but certainly very real.

And today, I finally came to the realization that the main difference between kitchen life VS corporate life (for me) is: the highs are much higher and lows are much lower for the former – how enlightening this is!

Above is a picture of my SPINACH RAVIOLI with GOAT’S CURD & LEMON THYME DRESSING prepared in class today. Very satisfied with how the texture of the ravioli skin turned out and pleased to know that Chef felt the same.

Quite a  big day tmr…Chef De Partie for Mains in Restaurant Class. Workflow prepared, dish visualized – all prepared and ready to step into Restaurant Class with a song in my heart…

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Tipping Point

Posted on August 17, 2012 by P

I’ve always known that being a chef is no easy pea – even if I didn’t, I have so many loved-ones who cared to tell me so.

Long hours of standing in a hot, humid, greasy, male-dominated & harsh environment – all these are things which I didn’t mind. But, what I wasn’t quite ready for was the amount of pain associated to bodily injuries sustained in the kitchen.

It was an overly eventful in the kitchen 2 weeks back – besides the normal cuts, I sustained bad burns (from caramel) on 4 of my fingers. My left index finger suffered the most damage – with a $1 coin-sized blister. The pain gets so intense at times I find myself awoken in the middle of the night. It also doesn’t help that I can see the pain my parents feel when they see me in such a state – NOT GOOD. And despite being crippled, I have to push on for my 6-day school week – allowing no healing time at all.

I know, this is part of the risk associated to this passion and it is something every chef has to go through at one point (or multiple points) in their career. I am not complaining….but I must admit that on nights when I lay awake due to the pain – I start asking myself if it is all worthwhile.

Proverbs 3:5

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