The World is My Oyster

To close my day I’m posting this short post on QQ Rice Ball! Boy I AM hungry right now, at this very second! Hence the post. It somehow soothes me to see pictures of food when I can’t have any.

On a side note, I’ve been extremely busy the past weeks or so. Moved house and all. So I have good reason :). Believe me, I’VE BEEN EATING. Wish I have all the time in the world to show all of them! Anyway, let’s just make do with whatever we have kay.

I knew about this place first time from Joice, who is a fan of food show on TV. I myself don’t really watch TV. But these pictures were taken the second time I went there to pick up Passion Run running pack with Waiming. Story about that another time. In short I ran 5km at East Coast and it wasn’t so bad, I should run more often.

When you try to find the place, keep in mind that the stall entrance is outside, not inside the building. The stall is very small, so most of the time you can only have take-outs. They did have 2 tiny tables with 2 tiny chairs for each table the last time I went there, and one of them was empty so we sat and ate, while praying that the chairs wouldn’t crumble into pieces in the middle of savoring our rice ball.

So this is how it works. You pick your choice of rice (out of 6: purple rice, brown rice, mixed grain rice, wheat germ brown rice, red rice, and ice lake wild rice) and 5 fillings (out of 46: a few types of floss, some types of meat, vegetables, etc), then they will put the fillings inside the rice and makes it into a rice ball (although it’s more of an oval than a ball or onigiri shape).

It’s all about the fillings! I had a good time choosing what I wanted! First time I went there there was quite a long queue, so everybody picked up a piece of paper that they provided at the entrance which has list of the fillings with tick boxes on the side. You can then (try to) make up your mind while waiting. Second time I went there, it was quite empty, so we could just point.

Before we go to the rice ball, there’s reason why I chose this place out of many on my to-show list.

Me with short hair! +D

My hair actually looks pretty fine here, hence the need to show it ;D. Other times it can look weird. It’s mighty comfortable, but I think I start to miss my long hair..

Nuff with the hair! Let’s go to the rice balls!

I tried the mixed grain rice first time (because they ran out of purple rice, the one I wanted!), and second (finally) the purple rice. I love the purple rice!

YUMMY! I don’t really remember what I chose for the fillings. I think it’s dried spicy shrimp, mushrooms, crispy yellow beans, omelet egg, and floss.

This one is Waiming’s piece.

According to them, it’s best to mix dry (e.g. crispy yellow beans, meat floss) and wet juicy fillings (e.g. emperor vegetables, minced chicken meat). If you can’t make up your mind, you can order the recommended package ones. Personally I think you’d lose all the fun that way.

SO HUNGRY!

The rice ball cost from S$3.20-S$3.90. Add $1 for a drink (purple rice drink, soya purple rice, milk purple rice, etc). Add 80c for pudding (purple rice or mixed grain pudding). Tried the soya purple rice drink and purple rice pudding. The soya purple rice drink was so-so. It wasn’t cold and they didn’t have the (plain) purple rice drink that I wanted *disappointed mode here*. Come on, they should really prepare enough stock for everything! First time they ran out of purple rice. Second time they didn’t have any other drinks apart from soya purple rice and it wasn’t even cold! Not enough effort to satisfy customers I’d say.

I didn’t have a good picture of the whole rice ball. I found good ones here by Camemberu. Really wish I can have the rice ball now…

QQ RICE BALL
10 Sinaran Drive
Novena Square 2 #01-06
Singapore
www.qq-rice.com

Plus: Yummy rice balls! Love it! Note that this depends on how you can mix and match the fillings…

Minus: They seemed to always run out of stock of something. First was the purple rice, second was ALL drinks except for one!