Showing posts with label Jolly Rosa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jolly Rosa. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

Durian Snow Skin Mooncake

Its the time of the month again, the mooncake festival month. Last year, Jolly Rosa introduced the mooncakes and also played with lanterns. You can see the previous mooncake festival post here:


This year, Jolly Rosa is having Durian snow skin mooncake from Shangrila!

 Here's a look at the delicious shangrila durian snow skin mooncake.

The Shangrila Durian Snow Skin mooncake came in a very unique purple box.

It has flower embroidery on the box, making it look posh and classy.

Shangrila durian snow skin mooncakes are freshly made, hence it must be consumed within 3 days and kept refrigerated always.

Upon opening the cover, you can find 8 nicely packed little boxes.

Each box contains the mini durian snow skin mooncake in a classy plastic container.

Jolly Rosa cannot wait to get her hands on the durian snow skin mooncake.

As widely known, Goodwood Park's durian snow skin mooncakes are legendary.

However we have decided to go for the Shangrila durian snow skin, so we got the double egg yolk lotus paste mooncakes from Goodwood Park.

The double yolk lotus paste mooncake from Goodwood Park is not worth trying though.

The Shangrila Durian snow skin mooncake on the other hand, highly recommended!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mid-Autumn Festival 2012 (Lantern edition)

Earlier it was Mid-Autumn Festival. Also called Mooncake Festival or Lantern Festival. Jolly Rosa can't wait to play with the lanterns this year. We have all that is ready - lantern, candles, holder (wooden stick) and a lighter.

Jolly Rosa looks upon eagerly as we light up the candle!

First you have to fold up the brackets at the center of the lantern. Either burn the button of the candle to produce wax for sticking onto the lantern or..

drip the wax onto the brackets of the candle holder in the lantern. Both way works as long as the candle sticks on.

The candle lights up nicely on the lantern. Jolly Rosa is so excited!

The lantern is fully setup! Rosa can't wait to go downstairs!

Big fat Jolly Rosa being transported downstairs in a mooncake paper bag (^_^)

Rosa found a very nice spot!

We lit up the big lantern with Rosa.

How about one more lantern? :D

2 is not enough, Jolly Rosa has 3 lanterns!

It was a great night of fun, Rosa gets to play with lantern downstairs during this Mid-Autumn Festival.

What's coming next?! H-a-l-l-o-w-e-e-n
*BOO*

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Mid-Autumn Festival 2012 (Mooncake edition)

Today is Mid-Autumn Festival 2012! Also called the Mooncake Festival, this year we are filled with mooncakes and Jolly Rosa is very excited to check out what we have!

Mooncakes always come in uniquely designed boxes, each with their own special design to stand out from the crowd. This is a double storey mooncake box from Ritz Carlton.

Next, Jolly Rosa checks out a long mooncake box, something different from the usual square box.

The box opens at both sides and on top. These mooncakes are from Continental Catering.

White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Egg Yolks mooncakes from Li Bai Cantonese Restaurant (of Sheraton Towers)

Double Yolk mooncakes from Tien Court.

Jolly Rosa spots something slight different, from Teochew City Seafood Restaurant..

 Its Teochew yam paste mooncakes with single egg yolk.

 Jolly Rosa! How can you finish all 5 boxes of mooncakes? Let's cut the mooncakes into small pieces and share with everyone!

Jolly Rosa wishing everyone Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2012! Enjoy your mooncakes!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Fish n Chips at Fish and Co

One beautiful evening Hugo Wolf dated Jolly Rosa to eat Fish n Chips at Fish and Co. We are at The Glass House outlet at Park Mall. This is the most unique Fish and Co outlet in Singapore, we'll show you why.


Meantime, where's Rosa? Hugo Wolf waited, pondered and waited, and waited...
in front of the glass house until sun set but still no sign of Rosa


A familiar voice closes in and a dejavu strong pat on Hugo Wolf's shoulder would only mean..Jolly Rosa: Come Hugo, let's go in and have our Fish n Chips!

Our nici couple is very excited to be going out on a date for the first time. Jolly Rosa and Hugo Wolf is gonna order the New York Fish n Chips and the Best Fish n Chips in town.

One of the most distinguishing furnishing at The Glass House Fish and Co is the brightly lit rows of colorful glass bottles behind the counter.


The most unique architectural feature of The Glass House Fish and Co is the building covered with huge glass panels from the top to the sides.

Picture on the left shows a small stage with music equipments but we never seen live bands performing here before.



Seafood in a pan is Fish and Co's tagline. Yes, they actually do serve their fish n chips in the real pan but its not the same pan that they use to cook your seafood. Everything here is deep fried in a huge electric deep fryer and then served on the pan.

Jolly Rosa exclaims to Hugo Wolf: Hey did you see that? There's a skeleton fish on our table! Hugo blatantly replied: Fish and Co killed the fish to make our fish n chips and left the remains on our table! After our nici couple's nonsense talk, their drink is here..

They ordered the Tropical Punch, which is 1 for 1 at $3.90 so its perfect for our nici toy couple. This is the usual style of drinks at Fish and Co with the syrup at the bottom and the soda on top. You have to mix them well before drinking.

While they continued to wait for their fish n chips to come, Hugo wolf wanna show you the ceiling of The Glass House Fish and Co building. Its...made of glass! 

On our right is the semi spiral staircase leading to the 2nd floor but its usually not opened unless for some special occasion.



     After about 15 minutes, their fish n chips arrived!!
Jolly Rosa ordered the New York Fish n Chips at $15.95 and as what Fish n Co promised - Seafood in a pan served to you.

On the outside, it looks exactly the same as your normal fish n chips, so they put an american flag to differentiate between the normal fish n chips and this New York fish n chips.

On the inside of the New York fish n chips, it is stuffed filled with mozzarella cheese. But its not the kind of cheese that will drip out like cheese sausages, its rather dry making the fish n chips fish fillet dry too.

Upon closer inspection you can see the mozzarella cheese is punched right in the middle of your fish fillet meat. This is a chef recommended dish at Fish n Co but we personally do not recommend unless you are really dying to have cheese.

Hugo Wolf on the other hand ordered the standard fish n chips. The signature dish at Fish and Co which they self proclaimed it The Best Fish n Chips in Town.

The signature fish n chips at Fish and Co comes with a deep fried dory fish fillet, french fries, a slice of lemon and most importantly of all - the tartar sauce! There are some condiments missing this time at Fish and Co..no more diced garlic and chilli sauce.

Not sure why these two condiments were omitted from Fish and Co, but the diced garlic was a pretty nice addition, it goes really well with the fish n chips and french fries. 

Good thing the tartar sauce is still available and they did not attempt to charge extra for the copious amount of tartar sauce Hugo requested.

Tartar sauce has some lemon in it, so it does a really good job of neutralizing the deep fried fish n chips and french fries that goes charging relentlessly through your throat.

Jolly Rosa had just noticed the cute rubber coaster in fish and co which they use to put our drinks on.

The Glass House is the flagship Fish and Co outlet in Singapore and it is rumored that they serve the best Fish and Co Fish n Chips in town. Not entirely true on the most tasty Fish n Chips part but we enjoy eating dinner in this beautiful entourage.

Best time to go is in the evening where you get to see the view of the glass house in the diminishing daylight and the night view after you finish eating the fish n chips and the lights turn on.

Fish and Co (The Glass House)
9 Penang Road, #01-24 Park Mall, Singapore
Opposite Plaza Singapura shopping mall
Tel: +65 6334 1858
Opening hours: 11:30am to 10pm
Recommended food to order: Best Fish n Chips in Town