Monday, August 08, 2016

Dim Sum at the Red Star

Red Star Dim Sum Restaurant


An old school feel of an old Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant near Chinatown Singapore, showcases dim sum on pushcart and the old ladies pushing them around the busy and noisy restaurant survives till today.


The Main Entrance of Red Star


Old Lady severing the "Chee Cheong Fun" on her mobile pushcart
 

People of ages coming to eat the old school dim sum



The last few dim sum before she push them to refill



Has lost quite a bit of crowds even though it's a Sunday lunchtime


The next series of picture will be in colors to show the food in the original state, all photos are sooc (Straight Out Of the Camera)



Carrot Cake (3pics per serving)



Fried Glutinous Rice, very old school taste



Dumpling Soup



Preserve Egg with lean meat porridge



Har Gow (4pics per serving)



Chee Cheong Fun with prawns Hong Kong Style



Char Siew Sou (3 pics per serving)



Hong Kong Style Egg Tart (3pics per serving)



Hong Kong Style Siew Mai



The Chicken Feet, My favorite



Char Siew Bao, the soul of the Dim Sum


Char Siew Bao, Har Gow and Siew Mai are the soul of the Dim Sum, if they are not nice and not up to standard, they are not fit sell.

The Char Siew Bao is good, the bao itself is soft and fluffy, first bite into it, the char siew and the bao dough mix it well and not "dry" when swallowing it.

The Har Gow and Siew Mai are so so only, the standard did drop alot after the old chef are no longer there to produce the finest when they are in peak during the 80s and 90s. Red Star opened in 1974 (The year which I was born) had been around for 40+ years and survives till now. For the old school feel, should come for a visit and feel the back to the past in the 70s



Full of Dim Sums on the pushcart trolley


The Aftermath

One Words, still good and the taste is nostalgia. Cannot go wrong with the feel here.




Monday, August 01, 2016

Olympus macro converter MCON-P02

Got myself a cheap "Marco Lens" solution. What I did was bought from Amazon Olympus macro converter MCON-P02, converts your normal Lens to "Marco" capable. It is a little adapter, literally take up no visible space in my bag, can transform any of my 3 tiny holy trinity into "Marco" Lens anytime, anywhere.

The "Marco" converter

With the step up/down ring


It can support 37mm and 46mm, because it comes with a step up/down ring, the converter itself is 46mm, the ring convert its to 37mm.
 

The front element

I own the Olympus 45mm f1.8 lens, It is great for portraits and even general photography. It's minimum focus distance is 50cm. That doesn't let you get close enough to an insect to take a good photo. Add the converter and you can get much closer, about 24cm. The converter makes the 45mm lens even more versatile.

Here are some sample shots I took with my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark 2 with Olympus 45mm f1.8 with the Olympus macro converter MCON-P02.


Olympus 45mm f1.8 with Olympus Macro Converter MCON-P02 focus on Made in Japan

Olympus 45mm f1.8 without Olympus Macro Converter MCON-P02 focus on Made in Japan


Olympus 45mm f1.8 with Olympus Macro Converter MCON-P02 focus on PRO1-D


Olympus 45mm f1.8 without Olympus Macro Converter MCON-P02 focus on PRO1-D


Olympus 45mm f1.8 with Olympus Macro Converter MCON-P02 focus on Lumix


Olympus 45mm f1.8 without Olympus Macro Converter MCON-P02 focus on Lumix


MCONs are fun to have, but it is not for serious Macro Photography, it is for those on budget and hardly take Macro photos.


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