Wah Kee Cooked Food - Cuttlefish Kangkong at Bedok South

The husband and I decided to go to Bedok South Food Centre one evening after work to eat char kuey teow, but unfortunately were too naive to realise that the Hill St Char Kuey Teow would have sold out long before I even shut down my computer. We decided to have dinner there anyway. While walking around, we spotted a super long queue at a very generically named Wah Kee Cooked Food stall. After taking a peek, we decided that it had to be good, since they only appeared to be selling one dish - ju hee eng chye.

It turned out to be very interesting - instead of the sauce being extremely sweet, it had a bit of a tang to it, and it wasn't as thick as those at most other places. It had thin strips of cucumber as well as tau pok.

It's at Bedok South Food Centre at Block 16 opposite Temasek Junior College, and at stall 193 near the Hill St char kuey teow stall.

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Miscellanous food and travel shots from Brussels/London

Some last shots from the trip:

Cherry blossoms outside Southwark Cathedral, London

The Grand Place on a lovely sunny morning
Looking like a good lunch deal

La Cure Gourmande - we found this shop in Ile de la Cite in Paris in June last year, and again in Porto airport in Sept last year. So excited to see it in Brussels! Lovely biscuits and chocolates, bringing us back to the days when were were literally kids in a candy store.

The shop decor makes you want to buy everything

Happy bird cos no pigs around

Lovely decor in the shop window of a chocolate shop. All decked out for easter.

Easter eggs everywhere

Giant macaron from Paul

Window displays that call out to you to enter the shop and buy - anything

Random pain au chocolat from a random supermarket. Simply good.

Mussels in a tomato concasse from Chez Leon

Belgian waffle from Leon - decent but not terribly exciting

Waffles on display in the tourist area - this shop was really good. The husband went back twice.

Galleries St Hubert

xxx beer bottles hanging on the wall
Art deco facades

Congress column in Brussels at sunset

Over and out from Brussels!

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

I was going a bit crazy with so many days in Brussels - it's a rather homogenous city, and there's only so much Grand Place and 16th century churches and artwork that I can handle. So one day I decided to venture out north to Rotterdam, which was a 2hr train ride from Brussels. Unfortunately there also happened to be a strike going on, which meant that my train ride got delayed by about 2 hours, which didn't leave me very much time in Rotterdam.


The first buildings visible after getting out of the train station. Instantly we're not in Kansas anymore.

I knew I only had about 2 hours and a bit more in Rotterdam because I had to be back in Brussels by 7, and headed straight to the waterfront. I loved how the city was regenerating itself, with really interesting new built forms just next to the water on former industrial sites.

It's very interesting how they profile the different waterfront spaces - this was further inland, and slightly lower key in nature.

This space, in front of heritage residences, was like a local park. There were many retirees sitting on the benches enjoying the sunny afternoon.

Looking back at the city from the Erasmus Bridge. I was very fascinated by the building in the foreground (it's a hotel) with a large overhanging top floor. And I was really hungry by then, and so decided to grab a bite at the cafe in the foreground.
Had a lovely roast beef sandwich for 8 Euros.
After about another hour, I had to rush back to the train station to catch the once-hourly train back to Brussels. It was rush hour even in the Belgian/Dutch airspace.

Brugges, Belgium

I have to restart blogging at breakneck speed to catch up with all the yummy meals I've had over the past 2 months, and am blaming the elections for holding up my progress. The husband and I were watching all the rallies online almost every night - some after coming back from rallies as well, which has made it very difficult to blog. Finishing up Brussels soon, and then will move on to some really good meals that we've had in Singapore.

During our trip, the husband and I managed to visit Brugges, which is a small Disneyland-like town about 45 mins from Brussels by train. Our tickets cost slightly under 20 Euros each and it was an easy train ride. The town was very walkable, and we had a great time exploring it. Brugges is such a pretty town the view sometimes appears unbelievable, with the streets lined with heritage buildings and canals.


They have a lovely market square, which is similar to the Grand Place in Brussels albeit on just a slightly smaller scale. We were most happy that it turned out to be Market Day that Wednesday! The square was also full of locals doing their grocery shopping - finally a bit of realism amidst all the surreal prettiness of the town.

We weren't too sure about the restaurants around the square, which we felt were rather touristy. So we decided to buy some roast meats from the rotisserie and sit on the steps of a building to have our own lunch. We wanted to get bread as well, but by the time we managed to get the meat the baker had packed up and driven off!

Sausage shop still open for business - I was tempted, but it would have been foolhardy without any cutlery.

The roast chicken was too messy to photograph, but the roast pork tasted as good as it looked.

I bought a punnet of huge strawberries - each was around 5cm long - from a fruit seller. This cost me 3 Euros since he was packing up too. They were extremely sweet : )

After lunch, we walked to the far end of the town to have a look at the windmills. It was a lovely day!