PrettyFoodie's Favourite Food & Food Haunts

While there is beauty profile, which is basically a list of holy grail skincare products and cosmetics that a beauty blogger reaches for everyday and would consider herself dead without them, a foodie profile similarly lists a food blogger's all-time favourites and food that he/she can't live without. Here's mine:

Staples: (without listing brands)
1. Mee (or what's more sophisticated-ly known as noodles), which means I'd rather eat permed hair instant noodles, spaghetti, mee kia (translated as thin noodles, i.e. in wanton mee) or sek mee (translated as thick noodles, a.k.a round noodles, yellow noodles or egg noodles).

2. Bread (give me bread anytime) - soft white, wholemeal, banana, chocolate chip, toasted, garlic, cinnamon honey, jian bao (translated as Chinese-style French baguette), donut/doughnut

3. Potatoes - no fries, just potatoes. Baked, boiled, cooked, BBQ, etc.

Yes, I hate rice. I just hate rice. I would only make exception for olive rice and onion rice. For some reason, my mum gave me fork, spoon and knife, not soup spoon and chopsticks. Perhaps this explains the twisted Western taste bud that many will frown upon.

Yes, I basically hate soup too. Noodles must be taken dry. I only make exceptions for Western style (familiarly recognized as Campbell-style) thick, creamy seafood or mushroom soups.

I don't know, mum never cooked much soups.

Type of Cuisine:
1. Japanese

2. Western

3. Shanghainese

Hated type of cuisine:
1. French (except their breads)

2. Beijing

3. Macau

4. Indonesian

5. Some Hong Kong

6. Some of Indian

7. Japanese Ramen (yes, in particular, because I don't like soups)

Favourites flavours:
1. Spicy

2. Sweet and spicy

3. Sour and spicy

4. Sweet and Sour

5. Sweet and salty

6. Salty

7. Bittersweet (i.e. dark chocolates and espresso)

8. Spicy (Tried and tested in Beijing, I can't live without this.)

Hated flavours:
1. Bitter

2. Salty till Bitter

3. Bitter till sour

4. Sour

Mouth-watering food:
- All sorts of bread
- All sorts of cakes
- All sorts of pastries
- All sorts of cheesecakes
- All dishes with salmon, especially raw
- All dishes with sauces, especially thick and dark
- All sorts of pies
- All dishes with chocolate
- Durians and all dishes with durian
- All ice creams (Western cream, Italian gelato, Japanese ice, Korean ice, Chinese potong)
- All sorts of eggs (sunny-side-up, hard boiled, and specifically McD scrambled)
- All dishes with egg

Yes, when I say all, I mean all.

Favourite Specific Food:
Chicken floss bun
Wanton Mee
Chicken Rice
Curry Chicken
Teriyaki Chicken Rice
Egg Mayo (sushi)
Salmon sashimi
Bak Kwa
Chicken Bao
Kong Bak Bao
Char Siew
Carbonara Pasta
Hawaiian Pizza
Cheesecake (New York, Strawberry, Walnut, Apple Crumble, Chocolate) (NO, I don't like Oreo and Blueberry, but Yes, I use Oreo as the benchmark)
Azuki Shiratama Matcha Ice Cream
Matcha Green Tea
Durian puffs, durian mochi
Grilled Mackerel
Roti Prata (Apple Cinnamon, Mushroom Cheese)

Strange that despite being the mall foodie and babelicious girl who often enough gets treated at restaurants, my favourite food is just simple bread, cheese, (cheesebread is the best), street side durian (I really don't care if it's D24, XO or Mao Shan or what, just love anything bittersweet), and wanton mee. I'd die without that char siew, black sauce and mee kia.

Perhaps the only indulgence I will not reject is salmon sashimi, teriyaki chicken, Haagen Dazs, fine chocolate and fine coffee.

Brands
Watami Singapore (Japanese Restaurant)
Itacho Sushi
Crystal Jade La Mian & Xiao Long Bao
Haagen Dazs (Rum & Raisin, Green Tea, Vanilla, Strawberry Cheesecake, Belgium Chocolate, Mascaporne, Coffee)

Other Brands that I like:
Manhatten Fish Market
Kim Gary
BB Chicken
Sakae Teppanyaki
Subway
Quiznos Sub
MacDonald's
Swensens
Billy Bombers

Instant Noodles
Maggi Extra Spicy Curry
Sintan Mee Goreng
CQYD Big Prawn, Laksa, and Tom Yum
Indofoods Mee Goreng
Nissin Cup Noodles

Vegetables
Spinach, Carrots, Tomatoes, Corn

Fruits
Mango, Durian, Banana, Kiwi, Grapes, Mangosteen, Honeydew, Pineapple

Drink
Marigold Strawberry Yoghurt

Yoghurt
Yo-plait 0-fat Strawberry
Meiji Coconut

Chocolate
Royce Signature Dark Chocolate
Ferror Rocher
Kinder Bueno
Crunche Caramel Honey Comb
Milo Nuggets
Meiji Dark Chocolate
Tudor Tiramisu Dark Chocolate Almond
Whittakes Almond, Fruit and Nut
Snickers
Mars bar
TimeOut
KitKat Champagne, Original
Andes mint
Cadbury Fruit & Nut, Honeycomb, 70% Dark chocolate, Old Gold Rum & Raisin (55%)
Marks & Spencer Chili Dark Chocolate

Cheesecakes (in no order of merit)
Cedele
Ippudo
Hilton Hotel
Bakerzin
McCafe
Ittacho

Durian Products (IN order of merit)
Durian Mochi by Durian Mpire
Durian Curry Puff by 1A Curry Puffs
Durian Mooncake by Goodwood Park Hotel
Durian Ice Cream by King's (tub from supermarket)
Durian Ice Cream by Bravissimo

(Unfortunately, hugely popular durian puffs by Emicakes and Puteri do not come close for my taste buds. Neither does durian pancakes from Four Seasons. I am so, so, so sorry about this. I know many people may be offended, but we have to respect each others' taste buds, and I only can post 5. I restrict my Tops Lists to 5 just so I don't get confused. Do post your own Top 5 list. I luuuuurrrrve reading lists! hahaha. I just love these lists.)

Curry Puffs
Honestly, I only have two on the list, and they are:
(the one that got caught for tax evasion in Ang Mo Kio),
and 1A.

I am so sorry again. There just isn't anything else that I know of, which is worth mentioning. I just want to say that Old Chang Kee is by account good, in my opinion. This belongs to the list of foods that I do not get the hype about.

Chicken Rice
Bedok Interchange

Porridge
Hainanese porridge at Bedok
(Used to be KFC breakfast)

Curry Chicken
Toast Box

Coffee
Old Town White Coffee
Japanese UCC
Nescafe Strong
Cafe Nova
Indocafe
McD ice latte
Starbucks Strawberry Fraupuccino, Orange Chocolate
Coffee Bean Bel Choc
Oriole Cafe & Bar Piccolo Latte

(I obviously am unable to appreciate less strong tastes like Blue Mountain.)