Eighteen Chefs - Quite a good makan place.

Heyhoz everybody!!! :) i am back with a post!

Look at the title of my posting, i am sure at least 50% of my readers have heard of the place before right??Well i googled for Eighteen Chefs and there have been quite a few people blogging about the place and the food there already. Here i am to add my piece :)

Yesterday after work i wanted to go home via number 9(i was at Simei because i got off the mrt at Simei station). The bus was too crowded and drove off so instead of waiting for the bus, i decided to look for some grub at Eastpoint. I remembered walking past Eighteen Chefs lots of times last week when i was at Eastpoint and so i decided to patronise the place.

First thing when i entered, the easy music that was on was instantaneously soothing and i quickly found a place to sit down. My hands went for the menu and wow there was quite a lot of stuff i would have loved to try out. Stuff such as baked rice(you can choose one sauce and your choice of ingredients for the dish, i am soooo gonna try scallops next time). In the end i chose the 3 cheese omelette that I had been eyeing since last week. I added another 4.90 i think for a soft drink,soup of the day,garlic bread and one scoop of ice cream!

I thoroughly enjoyed the food... soup was nice to drink(it was mushroom soup by the way), garlic bread was crunchy, omelette came with fries somemore and the cheese was. what can i say, cheesy? :)

One dish i noticed that I am definitely dragging my friends along to eat next time is the Cheese Baked Red Chilli Crab. The head chef cum owner Benny goes personally to buy the crabs every Wednesday morning - the dish has to be ordered in advance every Monday and Tuesday of the week and its only sold on Wednesdays haha which is today... guess i shall eat it next time.

I didn't take any pictures but go no further than Mr Leslie Tay's website, this post of his captures a very beautiful and yummy picture of one of Eighteen Chefs' dishes. His blog was one of the sites that i managed to google from the key words Eighteen Chefs. It looks great doesn't it?


Hmm songs songs songs, there hasn't really been any new songs that is on my mind right now so the lyrics of the day would be that of an old song... very old in fact. The song's name is Tian Ya Ge Nu 天涯歌女 and it was popularized and originally sung by famous singer/actress Zhou Xuan 周璇.

天涯歌女
编:ansen
天涯呀海角
觅呀觅知音
小妹妹唱歌郎奏琴
郎呀咱们俩是一条心
爱呀爱呀郎呀
咱们俩是一条心
家山呀北望
泪呀泪沾襟
小妹妹想郎直到今
郎呀患难之交恩爱深
爱呀爱呀郎呀
患难之交恩爱深
人生呀谁不异呀异表春
小妹妹似线郎似针
郎呀穿在一起不离分
爱呀爱呀郎呀
穿在一起不离分

And here's a Youtube clip which has original footage for this song!



And it turns out its quite creepy because apparently tomorrow on Sept 20th, it would be Zhou Xuan's 50th death anniversary and here i was suddenly having this song pop into my mind.

For the uninitiated, Ms Zhou Xuan was a famous singer/actress from China and she was most famous throughout the 1940s. Just imagine, her nickname was Golden Voice, so you can imagine how nice she sounds. Sadly though, she passed away at the considerably young age of 39 - and inside a mental asylum of all places :( . Her premature death reminds me of another great singer , Teresa Teng.

Random fact out from Wikipedia, Colin McRae of WRC fame, has passed away in a helicopter accident. May he rest in peace.

Ending on a light note though, here's a funny quote for you all.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'. -Homer Simpson

Seeya all soon :) Do take good care eh???

Chowz
Joshy