I was quite an eventful week for me last week as I was chasing to take photos of the fireworks and YOG 2010. I also went to one of my favourite Japanese Ramen restaurant at Parco Marina Bay.

The ramen shop is called Nantsuttei.

Their ramen is served in creamy pork bone soup. Frankly, their variety is pretty limited, there are only 6 types of ramens. However, their speciality is the floating black garlic oil on the surface of the soup base, making it irresistable.

I ordered Negi Ramen with a generous topping of fresh white shredded green onions and chopped thin green onions.

I decided to try some food photography with my 105mm len.The photo on top is the close up view of the green onions on top of the creamy black oily soup, with an egg at the background.

The next page show some photos that I took with different angle. I like to ask for a favour if you are reading here. Please leave me a comment to let me know which angle looks the best to bring out the taste of the food.

]]> http://www.kokpinlab.com/eat/nantsuttei-ramen/feed/ 0 http://www.kokpinlab.com/play/asia-auto-saloon-race-queens/ http://www.kokpinlab.com/play/asia-auto-saloon-race-queens/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:55:36 +0000 KP Yang http://www.kokpinlab.com/?p=607 I am not a car fans, car is simply a mode of transport to me. I went to a car show 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately, my intention was not the cars, but just to take photos of the race queens as they are free models to try portrait shooting.

It was not very crowded luckily. Occasionally, I saw some crowd gathering around certain booth. Looking at the photo below, my observation tells me that 8 our 10 people there are actually busy taking photos of the girls… seldom have people looking at the cars.

Everyone focuses on the girls... not cars...

Race Queens at Asia Auto Saloon

Once I see a crowd, of course, I will join in the action as well, squeezed closer to the booth and all the race queens were always ready to pose for you to snap. I took close to 300+ photos there, unfortunately, I could not find many that I like in this photography trip.

Nonetheless, I still tried to select a few to show the Race Queens…. ;-)

Japanese Pasta

Do you like pasta? Have you tried Japanese Pasta?

Well, I went to try the Shokudo Japanese pasta at City Link last week. We tried 4 dishes, pasta, pizza, salad and a soup.

Overall, I like the pasta and pizza, it has its own unique taste compare to the Ang Mo pasta. The pasta was cooked in a cream sause with bacon. There is a half boil egg on top that make the dish very attractive and appetizing.

However, i found the bacon is a bit too salty and the milk favour of the cream sause is too strong for me. As I do not take milk, but I think people who like milk will love it.

The pizza sits on a wooden plate and the thin crust is very crispy. What a coincident that I order a pizza with bacon on top, making it a bit salty like the pasta. Overall, the pizza is very seducing and I will love to try another favor during my next visit.

The salad has a good mix of different vege with different colors. It also contains some raw salmon sashimi, octupus and crab meat making look very Japansese… ;-)

Soup taste nice too, with crab meat on top. Again, it tastes a bit too milky to me only.

If you have not try Shokudo, go try it and I am sure you will fall in love to the unique Japanese presentation of the dish.