Terra Red Bliss@Dogma's Crib

Demona: Dogma himself can't help being a "Si Lai" (housewife aunty material), when he stumbled upon "Only SGD 3.25 from 22-25 April!" for all Terra chips flavours in Cold Storage. The "kiasu-ism" in him just popped out instantaneously and in no time, he was happily strolling back home with 4 packs of Terra chips.

Our routine "chipping" session usually starts from 10 pm onwards. Shows how much of TLC which we have for our little cute folding flabbies. This time, we opened the potato chips with olive oil, sun dried tomatoes and balsamic vinegar flavour.



Demona: I gotta' admit, Terra chips do kick potato's butt! This Terra chip flavour spells thumbs up! I could taste the sweet sourish tomato flavour on the tip of my tongue itself, and small tiny orange reddish tomato flakes were seen on the chips' surface. Mild smell and taste of vinegar was also detected as well. I was glad that they weren't as pungent as Dogma's "old socks" vinegar drink.

The Terra manufacturer is very distinct and precise on their flavours. You can really differentiate the flavours as written on the packaging itself. Amazing job with the potato chips, you guys!

Piluna Primitivo 2006 (zinfandel)

Castello Monaci PILUNA Primitivo Salento Puglia 2006 (

Attached are the review from Wine Advocate on this wine:
The 2006 Primitivo Piluna is a wine of uncommon beauty. This vibrant, pure red shimmers on the palate with layers of dark cherries, sweet herbs, licorice and tobacco. It offers outstanding length and terrific balance. Readers who haven?t discovered Primitivo owe it to themselves to do so. This is a great starting point.
90 POINTS - WINE ADVOCATE

Dogma's Take
Well, Primitivo has similar DNA to Zinfandel, and i got this bottle at 29sgd after reading the reviews. On the nose there are dark ripe fruits, and pronounced sweetness with licorice. The tobacco/leather only come up after 2-3 hours but sweetness on the nose dominates. However, i find it lacking in structure on the palate and it kinda disintegrated after a few hours. Length was not outstanding.
The verdict: A good effort wine but not something to rejoice about. I find it challenging to finish the bottle with Demona.

San Pellegrino Shootout

Demona and me has been a fan of sparkling water for some time. Some may ask why and we will tell you the reason.

Post dinner , demona/dogma craving for some chilled beer or a nice red wine..
as thrifty as ever, both switch on their mental calculator and started picit picit.
Demona: 1 beer = 3-5SGD + getting fatty with many calories. 1 wine = 30SGD -120SGD Plus get lobstery (flushed face)
Dogma: 1 beer = fatty + many calories. 1 wine = 50sgd to 150sgd ( the difference in cost coz dogma always reveal the imaginary lower end of the wine price to demona) plus bad liver.

Demona + Dogma: 1 sparkling water = 3SGD = refreshing taste + cleansing feeling + no calories..YEY!!!

We both enjoyed the Saint Perrier Sparkling water with Lemon zest very much and today we went further by trying some flavoured sparkling water from San Pellegrino.

They are quite natural in taste but did not really set a deep impression on us.
Limonita: Sparkling water with 12% of pure Lemon juice. Well Demona find it very similar to Orangina ( but hey, one is Orange the other is Lemon?) and i tend to agree with her. Packing a good punch of lemon zest in it with some bitter ending. Ok la, but its kinda too sweet for my liking. I very much prefer a super sour lemon juice..
Chinotto: This is damn funky. Made from Chinotto fruit and some herbs, the juice is outright medicinal and weird. Tasted like some sweetened root of some plant, bordering on Sarsi. Demona took a sip and left me the rest. Ok la, yamseng, i drink it all up. I doubt this will be popular among the consumers

Arancita: We did not took picture of this but it tasted like an Orange peel juice (or some rather say, the white orange skin). A more dense bitterness compared to limonita with zesty orange juice. Not too bad but not great either. Still a tad too sweet..

Devi's Corner x 2@TTDI

Demona: Dogma chose this location for his business/friend appointment cum last local Indian meal before heading back to Merlion Land. I left the food ordering selections to the hungry, sweaty, Indian food craver a.k.a Dogma.



Demona: He walked back from the food display area on our left, with this tiny bowl filled with I-have-no-idea-what.

Demona: Psst.. what's this?
Dogma : Don't know.
Demona: Don't know, and you took it? Didn't ask the waiter?
Dogma : *shook head* Took it because it looked interesting ma.

Thankfully, it did not taste strange or awful. It had a savoury touch, full of spiciness, with finely minced leafy greens giving it the autumn colour. It mostly ended up as a gravy for my thosai.



Demona: Sugar coated hungry man knew how to press Demona's right buttons. Easily conned by good food, and great desserts. He walked towards the food display and came back with a bowl of coarsely chopped brinjal sambal. This dish actually tasted quite nice, with powerful spicy flavours locked in it. This could be better if the oil content was reduced.

With a bit more improvement on the sambal flavour and the dish presentation, this can easily be fooled as one of the expensive brinjal dishes which you find in the upper market restaurants.



Demona: My usual (yawns) egg thosai. The QC consistency is weak in Devi's Corner. The thosai was lousy this time. It wasn't fluffy, with a bland taste. The gravies helped big time.



Demona: The tandoori chicken, was not too bad. You could smell the burnt grilled fragrance, and taste powerful spices and crunchy burnt edges on the meat. The portion was generous for 1 person. Needless to say, Dogma grabbed any bones left on my plate to be further chewed and cleaned, leaving sparkling shiny spotless, Oooopss.. I mean meatless bones.



Demona: The nescafe ice was average. Thankfully, not diabetically sweet.

Verdict: Foodwise.... I think it was slightly above average, but due to its location, I know every now and then I will still make trips back here, for lunch or a yamcha session. Will post on Devi's at TTDI again, once I try any food which I haven't blogged on TGVG yet.

Wan Tan Mee@Ho Weng Kee, SS2 PJ

Demona: Dogma and I were in my Little Blue, driving aimlessly around on a late Saturday afternoon, and we ended up in SS2. I suggested to Dogma about Ho Weng Kee's wantan noodles as our lunch meal. The last I came here was with J, many many years ago. I could not recall how they tasted like, but I did vaguely remember that this place was famous for their wantan noodles.

We found an empty parking lot right in front of the shop itself, without circling around the busy streets of SS2.

"Must be the aura telling us to eat at this shop today"



Demona: We shared a plate of wantan noodles, with char siew meat, drizzled over with curry sauce.

The noodles were smooth, and the egg taste was quite strong. The blend of sauces and condiments were quite different, I would say, and I might be wrong, but I thought I tasted sesame oil in it too. It was a bit strange when mixed along with the curry sauce. Dogma also agreed that the noodles might have tasted better without the curry and sauce combination.

The noodles were a bit too agglutinated to each other, and the addition of the sticky sauce actually made the noodles even more gluey, at times we had to really slow down on the eating pace to prevent choking.

Dogma enjoyed the char siew very much, commenting on its fragrant smell and tender juiciness of the meat (not to mention the super duper chunky fatty layer on the CS)



Demona: The wantans tasted quite fresh, the meat was tangy, flavourful, served along in hot peppery broth with spring onions garnishing.



Demona: The waitress promoted the Sui Kaus, or dumplings, to us, thus we decided to give it a try. There were 5 SKs in the bowl, filled with the same peppery broth, same spring onions garnishing as the one which came with the wantans.

The shape of the SK, deviated from the conventional triangular ones. It was more rectangular, I would say. The taste, however, was seemingly similar to the wantans, but slightly bigger in size. We both thought that RM 1 for each SK was a little too steep, almost the price of a hotel's chinese restaurant.

Verdict: I could not remember exactly how much the noodles cost, but the total bill came up to around RM 16, including 1 drink. We were caught by surprise when we got the bill, as our expectation on the price was lower.

We both personally felt that the Sg. Besi's Wan Tan Mee is still leading in this race. After viewing several other great local food blogs, I realised that we missed out on another speciality from Ho Weng Kee. Their beef brisket wan tan noodles. Maybe we shall come back here again someday to try this out. Maybe then, the race will change its leading runner.