Poached eggs at Group Therapy

Went for brunch at this quaint little place called Group Therapy at Duxton. It's very arty farty and is a hit with the breakfast crowd. We decided to go check it out. While the ambience was fun and retro, I kinda thought the food was pretty overpriced. I ordered Poached Eggs and I think it cost me $16 for a slice of thick toast, some salmon (very little), 2 small eggs and hollandaise sauce. Being an expert with eggs, I could tell that they used smaller eggs instead of the regular big ones. I mean, paying $16, I would expect the eggs to be bigger? Lol. 

But I guess our main gripe was that the service took a really long time. Like 20-30 mins before the food can be served. I wasn't exaggerating but it was really really slow. 

I guess the flavor was alright, I kinda liked the poached eggs but my friend's order of the sunny side up was returned because the parma ham tasted funny. I think we feedbacked to the owner and at least she was nice enough to change the order to a stack of pancakes and followed up by saying that she will check on her batch of the ham. 

My friends got really pissed and started to joke about how we need to go for Group Therapy after eating here. They really need to work on the pricing a little bit + service speed. 

Once is enough :)

Egg in bread

Decided to make an egg in toast breakfast today. 

Here's the technique:

1) Use a circular thing (or glass) to punch a hole in the middle of the bread. 

2) Heat up some butter, olive oil in a pan.

3) Put bread on top of it.

4) Crack an egg in the hole. 

5) Once egg is kinda cooked at the bottom, flip the toast over to cook the other side. 

(use a flat spatula and swift movement)

6) Cook for another 30 seconds and tada!

Fruit salad breakfast

And so I embarked on this new diet where I had to avoid all forms of carbohydrates during breakfast and instead incorporate carbs back into dinner. The recommended breakfast plan was to have a fruit platter for breakfast. This was what I had on the first day of my diet - 1 passion fruit, 1 chinese xiang li (pear) and 1 large slice of papaya. 

Unfortunately I couldn't keep up with this diet. What I noticed was that I felt extremely hungry after 2 hours and found myself looking for snacks. Not a sustainable diet for me. Ended up putting on a couple of grams of weight instead. Haha, so in any case, I have since reverted back to my previous diet. I hope I shed the extra weight!

Lao Ban Dou Hua

Brother was raving about lao ban soya beancurd and said that he would get a portion for me to try the next time he goes. He brought one back. Very interesting soya beancurd, it feels like some kind of soya custard as opposed to the standard beancurd. The custard is made alongside with the sugar syrup so the mixture is sweet in itself. It was kinda nice but I feel that it is too sweet for me and I felt kinda guilty chugging half of it down. 

Normally I would simply just eat the top portion of the beancurd and leave the sugar syrup at the bottom. That said, I was rather impressed by the texture as it was milky and soft. Would go for it again, but I will definitely need to share a portion with a dessert partner. 

Milo Cereal

I have a new craze that I recently discovered - Milo Cereal. I have never really eaten it until yesterday and the first bite made me fall in love. Yes that's a kitchen weighing scale in the background because I am currently on a strict diet and want to make sure that I don't overeat my allowed portions. My weightloss trick is really to control portion sizes and eat more frequently throughout the day. Eat everything, but in moderation. 

So back to why I love this Milo Cereal - tastes just like milo and the best part of it all, the milk starts to taste like ice cold milo after soaking the cereal in it. It's like I can get the best of both worlds, the milo crunch and the milo drink together. Absolutely heavenly. 

Calories aren't too bad either - 30g (1 portion of cereal) + 125ml of skim milk is only 160 calories in total. Great for breakfast and low calorie mid day snacks.

One pack that has about 6 portions goes for only $3.50 tops. ;) 

Yes, this is my latest craze.