NICI Jolly Mäh Clock?

What's this?? They look like Jolly Mäh

Another Jolly Mäh!

and another!

The real NICI Jolly Mäh appears! It's a Jolly Mäh clock!

The arms of Jolly Mäh clock is a pendulum, it sways left-right left-right left-right. Very adorable!

There's no NICI tag anywhere. It's not an original NICI product, some manufacturer blatantly copied Jolly Mäh's design.

Oh well, they are both from the same country. Seems like Jolly Mäh is quite popular in China for them to produce not only fake NICI plush but also fake NICI merchandises. Hugo Wolf still loves it nonetheless, the clock is too cute!

Jolly Svenja Photoshoot

Jolly Svenja from Scandinavia gets a solo photoshoot session today. She is NICI 2010 Jolly Winter series. Back to the traditional Jolly Mäh color fused with interesting winter gears like the super adorable earmuffs! But it's so tight that she can't really hear what you say, so everytime she goes: "huh?" :p

"Hey Rob, get your bushy tail out of the way"

Milo's Christmas Preparation

Christmas is just one more week away! Let's see what our NICI toys are doing to prepare for their favorite event of the year. Starring our very cute Milo Gorilla from NICI Wild Friends:

*drag* ... *drag* ... *drag* ...

"Milo, what are you doing?"

"Christmas is coming hohoho, I'm going to setup a Christmas tree in the house".

Jolly Mah:"Okie, I'll go get help!" :D

"Come Lis, let's go help Milo.."

Jolly Liselle : "ya?.."

Jolly Mah : "Just move it!" :D

"Ooo.. ugh.. push..."

The two white sheep plus one black gorilla trying to fix the stand..

"We need some decorations for the tree!"

"Opps..." hehe :p

Milo..as playful as always!

Jolly Mah :"We'll put some bells"

"SNOWMAN^^"

Jolly Liselle loves the snowman although it'll never snow here..

"I'll put the star on top of the Christmas tree and we're done!"

"No wait! We need some lightings too!"

Liselle :"Jolly Mah, these lights are beautiful"

Liselle : "By the way, what's that on your hair? I've been seeing it all day"

"Do I look like some movie poster without the rose petals?" *grins*

Sheep and gorilla, stop playing with the lights already! Let's get the Christmas tree done!

*Tada*

Our beautiful Christmas Tree with decorations!

NICI Milo Gorilla wishes everyone "Happy Holidays!"

Sungei Rd Laksa Review by Big El Lion

Sungei Road Laksa is a famous laksa stall in Singapore. It has been around for more than half a century and today Big El Lion is going to show you some pictures of this famous laksa stall near Kelantan Lane. Hop on!

Big El Lion quickly grabbed a nearest seat to the stall and asked his human to queue for the food. What a clever NICI Lion plush he is.

Sungei Road Laksa has been selling laksa more than 50 years ago in Singapore. The laksa is still cooked by the fore-founders as you can see, but they are no longer located at Sungei Road. They have changed their location a few times and Sungei Road laksa is now at Jalan Berseh, a little 1o mins walk away from Bugis mrt station.

Sungei Road Laksa won its fame in Singapore because they use charcoal to heat the pot of laksa gravy. Charcoal emits a very fragrant smell that will add to the taste of the laksa, thats why Sungei Road laksa taste differently from other laksa stalls in Singapore where no one else could reproduce.

Big El Lion proudly introduces one of the most famous hawker food in Singapore - Sungei Road Laksa

The laksa serving is small but it is only $2 a bowl. In Singapore, it is very hard to find such a cheap bowl of laksa anywhere else.

Sungei Road Laksa's best feature is the cockles! They are slightly parboiled, fresh and succulent. You can hardly get such a delicious cockles anywhere else unless you cook them yourself. Of course, the other famous feature of Sungei Road laksa is the gravy, it did not have the usual overwhelming coconut milk taste like many others, thus you can still taste the dried shrimp broth. Plus the unique fragrance that was inherited from the burning charcoal beneath the pot.

Big EL Lion is going to finish all two bowls of the Sungei Road Laksa by himself! If you are a guy, you should be able to easily finish eating two bowls, or else you should treat this as a tea break or snack as one $2 bowl of Sungei Road Laksa isn't really gonna fill your stomach.

Sungei Road laksa is one of the must try if you ever go to Singapore. Try it to feel the history and heritage the comes along with a simple bowl of laksa!

Big El Lion's Rating:

Sungei Rd Laksa

Bk 27 Jalan Berseh

#01-100 Jin Shui Kopitiam

Opening Hours: 9am –6pm

Closed on 1st & 3rd Wed of each month

Ippudo Ramen Review at Mandarin Gallery

Rob Raccoon tries out Ippudo Ramen at Mandarin Gallery, Orchard Road.

There was no queue but the shop was fully occupied during dinner time.

Raccoon orders daddy's favorite Sapporo beer!

Happy hour promotion - $5 for the Sapporo. Rob is grinning all over it :D

The $6 gyoza (dumplings) are extremely underwhelming.

$3 Pork Bun is quite a surprise! The braised pork has a unique shoyu flavor. The taste sneaks through the bun as you munch it slowly in your mouth.

"いただきます!"(Itadakimasu)

"Let's eat!"

The shop's signature dish - Shiromaru Motoaji. It's a shio (salt) based tonkotsu (pork bone) broth. They will ask you whether you want soft, medium or hard for the noodles. Their definition of medium is soft, so always order HARD.

The other signature dish - Akamaru Kasaneaji. The blob in the middle is their special blended miso paste and the black oil is garlic oil. The soup has stronger pork taste and saltier than the previous and the meat given is sliced pork belly instead of loin. Rob loves it! This soup base gives Santouka Shio at clarke quay a run for the money but the price to value ratio does not equate. For $15, the serving is quite small and there is only 1 slice of chashu meat given. Still, Rob Raccoon will be back to revisit this joint for the Sapporo beer and Kasaneaji ramen. So until next time...

Rob Raccoon's Rating: