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Next Station, Tan Kah Kee
My name is Rainer, and welcome to a brand new episode of Next Station
Where I bring you around Singapore to find the best things to do, eat and see, right in the vicinity
But before that, let me introduce my new co-host...
Hello Rai Rai!
Yay Adria!
So I called upon you to be in this episode because I heard you know this place very very well
Fun fact is that I used to study around here
Wo hun zhe bian de (This is my neighbourhood), okay?
Okay, so since you know a lot about this place right
Where is the places we are going to check out today?
Today we are going to check out Tan Kah Kee, Botanic Gardens and Stevens
Okay, so I’m very excited and very hungry right now so let’s just go to the first station
Let’s go!
Okayc so we’re at Atlas Coffeehouse now and this is actually near Tan Kah Kee station
This is actually a very pretty, very aesthetic cafe
Ya, it’s damn aesthetic eh
It’s like you see the angles, and the white, and the blue
Just like you eh
Actually, I’ve been here twice. I really like the food here
Okay, I’m very excited to see if Adria’s recommendation is top notch
Okay, so right now we have the two dishes over here, they are the main dishes
So this is like a Salmon Soba Noodles. It’s like egg yolk goals eh
Like you poke then the ‘zhup’ will come out
Like some volcano - ‘zhup’ volcano
Let’s try
I agree with you, this is very nice
I think it tastes very light and very clean
What I like about this dish right is that it has this like fusion taste
Largely it’s actually a very Japanese tasting dish right
But at the same time there’s this like yoghurt dressing for it
Okay, so the next dish is a Creamy mushroom on sourdough with the scrambled eggs, so let's dig in
Cheers
To me right, breakfast is not just the most important, but my favourite
This is my ideal breakfast, because like everything is here
Like the eggs, and the mushroom, and sourdough is actually very very different from normal bread
It's like a little bit sour, hence the name
Sourdough, it's not like normal dough
This is sweet though
I think the eggs are pretty fluffy, then the mushroom right there's a lot a lot of taste to it
Because they also melt it under a whole layer of parmesan cheese, which makes it like a whole plate of like melted goodness
Right now we are going to try the dessert. It's the Atlas Butterscotch Banana Pancake
You know what, let's just cut the talking and try it first
Oh My God, look at the thickness of the pancake
This is a pan-cake, you know what I mean
There's this like crunchy thing to it
It's damn nice
Wait, have you tried this before?
No, no, you try with the ice cream, oh my god
I'm not even exagerrating
No, this is definitely not vanilla
It's not. Producer, what is it?
Honeycomb ice cream
It's honeycomb ice cream?! Oh my god
It's also special, cause it's not like they give you a few layers
They give you one whole big cake eh. Which is very interesting, I've never seen this before
I'm actually not a very big fan of pancakes. Wa, but this one though
You would eat this everyday
I would eh. I'm not even joking eh
From all the Next Station episodes I think is my favourite
Really or not?
I think this is my favourite dessert.
I would give this 5 upon 5. For reals
Like I said just now, this is my favourite one out of all the episodes so far
It's 8 duo peng (opposite)
Get it?
Infinityyyy
Come on lah. Just come lah ah, just come
So right now we are at LeWu cafe, and we are literally 20 steps away from Atlas Coffeehouse I'm a bit mind blown right now because
I'm a bit mindblown right now, becaue for 4 years that I've been in Secondary School right
This place is on the way from my secondary school to my house, but I've never turned my head and saw the LeWu was here
Actually I've realized right, that a lot of students coming over here to LeWu Cafe because of their very good student meal deals
And the cool thing about this place is right - It's owned by our friend's mum
And she's really - she's really a thai eh
So enough talking, let's get to the food
We have the phad thai. The portion is huge eh
I can finish this very easy
No wonder you...
Let's eat! Let's eat!
Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up
Yeah. Oh, lime bae
I just realized right, this dish remind me of kway teow eh, just missing the 'hum'
The noodles are quite thin, so not very hard to chew
So it's not like very thick, very jelak (sickening) that kind of thing
I think we made a mistake of mixing some of the chili flakes in this area
It's quite spicy
So we also got this to try, it's actually the clear tom yum soup
And this is recommended by our good friend, Xenia
Ya, she says that is was actually very, very authentic eh
And actually this has like seafood inside
Like I
There's prawns, there's fish, there's mushroom, there's like squid?
Actually this would taste damn nice right if it's raining,
And then you emo, emo a bit, then the soup damn hot. Then you just like -
At the same time right, it's not that spicy you know.
Sometimes some tom yum soup right, really deters people from eating eh,
Because it's like too spicy.
You drink one time then you just like kenna whack in the throat t
Alright, so we're in Adam Food Centre, and we're here to try the very famous nasi lemak
Over there
Our colleague was telling us right, that this nasi lemak is so popular and so nice right,
Whenever the Sultan of Brunei comes to Singapore, he will dabao (takeaway) a lot of packets.
Really meh? Ya
I don't know how good it is, or how trustable our friend is, but I think we should try it for ourselves
You think we eat already hor, we will feel like royalty?
Royalty? You wanna be Brunian princess ah?
You wish.
Alright, so we ordered the Royal Rumble from the nasi lemak stall over there.
There are quite a lot of things eh. Like the fish, then the otah, then the chicken wing, then the egg.
Let's dig in.
Ow
The batter they use is amazing, because it's crispy eh
It's damn crispy. I don't know if you can hear this
Nice right? I like this eh, I'm a new fan of this man
Woah, this is some eggs bennedict shit man
Oh my god, I love this kind of egg eh
Individually they are okay, but together they really make the dish very, very worth it
If you guys know right, nasi lemak means 'fat rice', because 'nasi' means rice, and 'lemak' is fats.
I don't think this is fat enough eh
Okay, so right now, we are done with the nasi lemak over here
And we're gonna go to another location to try a different activity
Change of pace from all the eating that we've done today
What is it ah?
I'm not gonna tell you ah, it's a surpise
Some romance
I feel like I'm on a date eh
Eh, close eh. Very, very close
Zula First Dates
Zula First Dates what?
I'm sorry, Yoke Cheng
Okay, let's just go to the next place
Next station Botanic Gardens
Okay lah come
Okay, okay go back, go back
Okay, this is for reals. This is the spot.
Can I take off my blindfold?
Yes, you can take it out now.
1, 2, 3.
Oh my gosh. So pretty.
Nice right? Super nice eh.
So if your think that I did this right, actually no lah
Actually I also no confidence in myself
But basically, the people of Picneeds actually set this up for us
Picneeds is actually a company that does picnic setups for various occassions
So like can be proposals, can be wedding, can be like birthdays and stuff
So today, is for us lah
Very, very pretty
Yeah, let's go
Eh wait wait, let me take instastory first
This one like typical Singaporean, need to go and like instastory every single damn thing
As you can see over here right, there's a lot of food included in the package
So there's pastries and there's drinks as well
Actually right, they have 3 menus that you can choose from
Can I just say, oh my goodness, my favourite is scones
Oh my god, this is my favourite eh
Is it fate? We are friends for life
Actually this bottle never see before eh
Wild Strawberry and Scottish Raspberry with Cracked Black Pepper?
This just got exotic
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Actually I like this eh. I like this a lot. It's very sour, and fizzy
It's sweet to me.
I think our tastebud weird sia
This Lemon Meringue Tart, is the bomb. Like the inside right is super smooth.
Honestly, I think this is a pretty good idea of a date or if you're like hanging out with friends
You know I think that Singapore has actually a very pretty garden
We're in like this open space, next to a pond
Ya, with swans eh
Ya, with swans and like turtles
I think it's actually nice to slow down for a bit in Singapore
Next Station Stevens
Hey guys, we're here at FiSK Seafoodbar
So this place actually specializes in cold water seafood
And we have the seafood platter on ice over here.
Yes, on ice
And we have like the king crab and the blue mussels then we have this prawns from Greenland, right
And the last one Irish oysters, okay, so let's just dig in
You know you watch the Mr Bean movie right, got this episode where he like -
He slurp - I know -
Ya, he slurp the oyster.
Oyster cheers
Wa, fresh
Actually I wanna ask you sia, what is your favourite seafood?
Crab?
Salted egg yolk crab
Oh my god, salted egg yolk crab!
I always tell people in the office right, like if I can marry something right,
I always tell people in the office right, like if I can marry something right, I would marry the salted egg yolk chips from Irvins.
Instead of flower petals right, I want them to like throw the salted egg yolk chips on the bed
Then I'll just like -
One word eh, sweet
I feel like it doesn't even need like any kind of like sauce to it
On itself right, it's already so sweet and fresh
Very nice eh
I think because they're very, very fresh, it doesn't have like the fishy taste
It's very easy to consume
Last but not least, we're going to try...
The prawns!
Oh - Oh my god, look at this. There's the roe eh.
Can you see it?
When you take out the skin it's damn easy eh
And it just shows how fresh it is.
Actually I honestly don't like peeling prawns
But if it's that easy right, I can peel the whole thing for you
But he didn't
I cannot take how fresh the whole platter is eh
You know how you eat the Mentos then you like 'zwhump'.
Blow past your face right
And into your lungs
Okay, so right now we have the main dish over here
And it is, the Atlantic Cod with charred savoy cabbage and mussel emulsion
I'm trembling right now from all the excitement, let's just go
Wow
It's like when you put it in your mouth right, you don't even have to bite
Press it with your tongue and then it will disintegrate
For me, I think I like the mussel emulsion, it's really something I've never tasted before
The 'zhup' damn nice lah
Uni Ice Cream, with oat crackers, hawthorn berries and nori
Can we try it?
Wait, what is that ah?
Do you at least taste like a little hint of seafood?
Ya, it's just a very weird flavour, but very, very nice.
It's like a great dessert to end the day.
Ya, it's a great dessert to end the day.
What are thoughts about this place?
I really love seafood. So this place is like heaven to me.
This just topped it off lah, cause this is freaking Uni Ice Cream.
Would I come here agin? I would.
I would come here again for a special occassion, like my birthday.
But I need to earn a bit more money.
It's more of a special occassion kind of place lah.
Just a recap for this whole episode. What is your favorite for today Adria?
I would say, Botanic Gardens.
Why eh?
Because I really enjoyed the chill time we had today.
Like very chill right.
As Singaporeans we are very fast paced in our lives.
Like slow it down man. Take a chill pill.
And what's more right, Botanic Gardens is actually very beautiful.
Like I must say, it's really very nice.
So, how about you?
For me right, it's very biased because I love food.
So it has to go to Atlas Coffeehous, because of the legendary pancakes.
It's so fluffy, I could die.
Okay, so we've come to the end of this episode, and we hope you guys like it
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