Random updates on food

Hello Humans,

Here's a random updates on food:

Lady M 

@ Marina Square

Vanilla Mille Crepes with 20 layers- New and interesting

Green Tea Mousse Cake-Light and spongy, the green tea taste isn't those dominating kind

Strawberry Mille Feuille- Ok ok only

A pot of Tea

Costs around $32.

Yomenya Goemon

@ Star Vista

Generous portion but it's slightly oily. Though it's not really to my liking, I took damn long to finish it.

Gelare

@ Star Vista

50% off on Tuesday is still on! Waffle smells damn great when we haven't step into the shop but when it's served, I couldn't really smell any waffle fragrance. Nothing special about the ice-cream (Macadamia Nut and Honey something) and waffle ):

Around $10 (ate it on Tuesday!)

Lerk Thai 

(i think it's Lerk Thai, can't really remember X:)

@Chinatown Point

Satisfied my craving for thai food!

Green Curry Chicken with Rice- Serving of Green Curry just nice for 1 bowl of rice!  Pretty not bad.

Pandan Leaf Chicken- I can't remember the taste...

Soft Shell Crab Rice Vermicelli- Crispy Crab with slightly moist Rice Vermicelli. Very yummy esp when it's served hot!

 Peach Blossom

@Marina Mandarin

Lots of food that took damn long to be served. But they taste nice, though it's rather expensive and the portion can be quite small....

 Paradise Dynasty

@Causeway Point

Lots of yummy food, meet up with Bay!

生煎包- Not really crispy for the pan fried part

小笼包- 8 flavours original, foie gras, garlic, crab, cheese, black truffle, szechuan and ginseng (pretty interesting huh)

Braised Pork Belly Ramen- Braised pork belly is nice (:

李白酒鸡- standard

It was around $20 per pax after 20 % off for student  :) So do remember to bring along your student card if you have one. And the outlets in Causeway Point and Lot 1 are having promotion for 小笼包 (:

Everything With Fries

@Holland Village

Grill Pork Chop + Curry Shoestring Fries ($17.90)- Tender and juicy meat that's easy to cut. I like the taste too! Curry powder plus curry leaves makes the fries yummy yummy.

Ham & Cheese Sandwich + Garlic & Herb Straightcut Fries ($13.90)- ZY loves it.

Nutella Tart with Ice Cream ($9.90)- Pretty nice and sweet. Good to share if not you'll get sicked of it. Nutella taste is pretty special cos doesn't really taste like nutella to me...

I wanted to try their Salmon hence I was super surprised when one of the first thing I was told was that there's not Salmon that day. Never mind, I'll visit it again one fine day.

 

Okay enough, I don't want you to hate me.

Loves,
Bean

Crystal Jade Xiao Long Bao Buffet (Holland Village)

Hello Humans,

Shan and I- do we look alike? Most people say no, haha. Anyway we were making our way to Holland Village to meet Adele for our XLB Hotpot Buffet! I was kinda excited cos I've always heard how great it was- free flow of XLB and locating at Holland V sounds kinda good too-I don't know why. 

Our only group photo of the day! HAHA, I was so happy that we got this seat in the sense that there's a huge mirror next to me and I can take a group photo even though I don't really look good here. LOL. So this was taken right at the start of our feasting. We were too busy eating and some photos were taken randomly thereafter. 

So our feasting started! Not sure if I should say we ordered a lot or not. But we've ordered quite a lot of mushroom and veggi. To be honest, I was quite sad that don't have fish, prawn, scallop and chicken slices (their's come in pieces). So for meat wise since I don't eat beef (not sure if there's beef though, I didn't even look much at the menu) and mutton, I ate mostly pork, and those meatball thingy. The Szechuan soup base was spicy, and hence I didn't have much of that. 

What's Xiao Long Bao buffet without XLB right?! I was kinda a little disappointed cos I prefer Din Tai Fung's XLB. Perhaps I didn't eat it asap while it's hot... Oh well...

Char Siew Bao

Gui Hua Gao and Red Bean Jelly

We weren't very hungry to begin with though we didn't really have much for our lunch. We were basically stuffing ourselves with the food we ordered and I was super full! Well, I seldom eat steamboat (at least that's what I think) and this pretty okay in the sense that the ingredients are pretty standard like like tofu, veggi, mushroom and meat. But I'm quite sad that they don't offer seafood choices like fish, prawn (we were given 3 each FOC but that's of course not enough) and scallop. Yes I know I've said that but I'm just trying reinforce how sad I am for that. HAHA. Drinks can be only refilled when you finish them, so it's too bad if you wanna change your option (they have coke, barley and Chinese tea). 

And another thing that I'll probably comment is the dining duration. It's only around 2 hours for you to enjoy the buffet and to catch up with friend/family. HOW IS THAT ENOUGH?!): Personally it wasn't enough for me cos I eat pretty slow. The place is slightly crowded and noisy so I could barely hear NPM when we were doing some catch up.

So would I go there again? Well, probably not anytime soon. If I've a craving for XLB, I'll probably head down to Din Tai Fung. Oh ya, Mayim (in WestMall) serve pretty nice XLB too. If I've a craving for steamboat, Xian De Lai is much of a good choice. I've tried it in August and they serve scallop, fish and prawn if I didn't remember wrongly. And they do not rush you off! Maybe it wasn't crowded that's why we could take our own sweet time..

So anyway, Thanks NPM for treating the Ho sisters! It's expensive, especially on a Weekend! Lots of love from us to you! HEEEEHEEE.

So after our buffet, we grabbed some bread for next day's breakfast and headed down to D' good Cafe for MED flea! We just wanted to take a look and see if there's anything for grab. The queue was super ultra long before we head for buffet and the queue was pretty short after our buffet. And guess what, we met XQ at the stairs! HAHA. I got myself a pretty green top, whereas XQ and Adele got themselves a dress each. 

Took photo with the pretty swing in the cafe before we parted:

Shan and NPM

The Ho Sisters. 

Pardon the big fat legs.

:D

Group photo: thanks to the free photoshoot booth at the flea! Reminds me of neoprints.. HAHA.

Loves,
Bean

VROOOOM~ F1 with XQ

Hello Humans,

(I always looks like a giant besides her!)

Vroom Vroom!!~ ~~~ 

Okay I know my post is kinda late, F1 heat is probably gone. But hey it’s still in my mind okay.

First I gonna thank my laopo for remembering me! HEE. Got to go to F1 for the first time thanks to her and SC (her bf) :D It was quite exciting even though I’m not F1 fans BUT knowing that I’ll be involved as a viewer/audience is definitely something that made me to look forward to it.

Meet up for dinner at Parco at Millennia Walk. It took us quite a while to locate the restaurant but fortunately we did in the end. It was a quiet place and we ordered tom yam bee hoon and yam bee hoon to share cos the two of us were sort of thinking between the two dishes! How cute we were to arrange dinner there cos we thought it would be somewhere near our F1 seats but unfortunately we had to take train and walk quite a distance before we reach the place.

Us finally here!

The noise was really loud and we could barely hear each other. XQ was thinking of getting ear-plug and I told her perhaps ear-piece will do. HEE I’M SO CUTE RIGHT?! Heng that XQ reminded me of that and I got mine free from Qatar Airline last year when we fly with them! They have a small pouch that consists of socks, toothbrush, toothpaste, earplug and what’s not. The socks damn comfortable and lasted me through my nights in Troyes (France). Back to topic, so we got earplugs and took some photos before reaching our seats. 

We bought snacks from Parco which really helped us through the night. I mean it’s better to snack on something and watch the race right? :P And add on a bit of chitchat sessions that’s interrupted by the vroooom noise.

So this is our view! I actually zoomed in a lot. We were sitting right at the back, second last row I think. But our seats are actually not bad cos it's at a turn so cars gonna slow down at the turn and we can see the cars more clearly than for them to speed pass! Read from newspaper just a day before the day I headed down to F1 that their usual speed for straight road can goes up to 400km/hr and they have to quickly slow down below 100km/hr at turns. How amazing huh?! It's like super ultra fast, like so damn dangerous!

So anyway, as we talk and didn't pay much attention to the race, we could still get hold of what's major things happening cos people would stand when something happened. For instance a car crashed at the turn and everyone got up and two of us just got up too. HAHA. Poor car.

We left before the race ended to get on time for the concert! Here's us with pretty background! 

Result was released when we were stationed at Padang. Check out the pretty fireworks that lasted for quite awhile!

And not forgetting the air and noise pollution caused by the fireworks.

We were surrounded by foreigners, either from Europe or USA and THEY. ARE. FREAKING. TALL... It felt so suffocating and I kind of disliked being surrounded by all tall human creature, WHERE IS MY FRESH AIR?! HAHA. Even though we were standing at maybe quite central, we could hardly see the stage and Rihanna cos these tall humans blocked our view.

Rihanna can really sing, even though most of songs that she sang were unknown to me. X: I thought I'm the only one but I'm not! Cos it was after don't know how many songs then someone at the back said "finally something we know!" HAHA. And... they were really high. They sang along and danced, really danceeeeee.

We left the crowd and joined SC outside Padang cos he was unable to get in and even if he could get in, it seems almost impossible to find us. So we stayed around till 12plus and left when the concert ends. I got slightly panicky by the large crowd getting home and since I've never been a late owl, I was quite worry about getting on the train. But phew, I managed to take the Green line and transferred to Red line without trouble! Heng I didn't take the Red line cos it's gonna take forever!

Thank you XQ and SC once again for the F1 pass! 

Lots of Love,

Bean

D' Good Cafe with 117

Hello Humans,

Meet up with 117 is always venue-changing! We always set Food for Thought at Botanical Garden as the initial place but we always end up somewhere else. This time we changed to D’ Good Café at Holland Village. (: So here we are, walking along the stretch of familiar streets that we walked past for our Hatched trip. The café wasn’t hard to find. It’s just a minute walk from HV MRT Exit B, walking pass a lot of ATM machines and Hatched and slightly further down.

Don’t step into the wrong place, cos you gonna walk up the stairs to get into the café. If not, you can get through a glass door and get up using their cute elevator! It was really interesting for the both of us and we couldn’t resist but to take it. It goes super slow and its maximum capacity is 4 pax at 400 kg. This reminds me of those small elevator in hostels/hotels in Europe! And being in all white, I can’t help it but think of secret agents reporting whether their missions are completed or not! So yeah, we played with the elevator.

It took us quite a while to search for their menu and it was after minutes that we checked with the staff and realize they are on the ordering counter. The staff was kinda rude when both of us took a menu each and he said we could only take one with us, in a very impolite tone. BAD IMPRESSION.

117 ordered Homemade English Breakfast ($16.50), which she find below average and the best thing on her plate is the toast with jam.

YQ and her Breakfast for Dinner. :D

My Fresh prawn Aglio Olio ($16) was pretty standard, so I don’t have much comment. At least it wasn’t petty and comes with 6 prawns. However, I think TCC Aglio Olio is much nicer than this. 

And here's me with my food! ;)

Bad toilet they have. It wasn't the clean toilet like other cafes, at least those that I’ve visited so far, and the stupid door was so difficult to close and I was like a retard figuring how to close it. I’m never good at those kind of door, reminding how I got stuck in an airplane toilet when I was 12 years old. The basin was poorly designed cos you can’t rinse your month cos there’s something that’s blocking your way. The water is bad cos the front part of my skirt got wet. Yes, I’ve a lot to complaint, just for the toilet. X: Because you know right, most of the cafe toilets I've been to are very well-maintained and very comfortable. SO.... Hmmm.

But we spotted a pretty spot at the café, the open area at the third floor! 几romantic一下! The pretty night scene coupled with the pretty lighting, it seems like a good place to date! HAHA, but it was quite hot and there’s no wind so we chose an indoor seat.

I do admit that I’ve quite a few bad impression of the café (and we didn’t get to play the swing! L ) and the food is so-so only or below standard, it’s probably I wouldn’t be visiting it anytime soon. But it’s only 2 food out of the menu so it can be quite biased. And one bonus is probably no GST & Service charge! You can save quite a bit from that 17% okay. But first impression always counts. Maybe, maybe I’ll be back one day for their food, cakes or drinks maybe? 

So yeah after our dinner, we walked around Holland Village. 117 was surprised when I told her it’s probably my third time coming HV and my first proper night here that day. Actually I myself find it unbelievable too. HAHA. But yeah, I’m not really into night life. 8pm onwards seems to be home-time, where I should be at home eating dinner and probably catching nice/funny/meaningful programmes or drama.  I am certainly a home-girl. HAHA. Back to HV, the rows of restaurants, cafes and food along that stretch of food are damn attractive. I AM SO GONNA TRY THEM, one fine day! A chalkboard grabbed 117’s attention and cute 117 thought that …. HAHA, I’m not sure whether I should say it here cos it will reveal how cute she is. Maybe I shan’t. 

So anyway we headed into NYDC and had our round 2! Dessert time with cake and icecream! (: HAHA. I tell you it was damn funny cos we were very indecisive, we walked to the counter with cakes and tried to look at the inside of the cakes but too bad we couldn’t see from our view. We were tempted to ask the staff to turn it for us to see but we were too paiseh to make such a request. After seeing how ugly the Ugly Cake is, we decided on Boo Boo the cake. And guess what, not long after we sat down (we were sitting right in front of the counter) someone requested the staff to turn the cake -.- Nice ambience cos we got comfy sofa seats that’s so spacious for the two of us and the place is so bright that I’m not that sleepy! Icecream was not bad, and it's $2 for one icecream cone. The Boo Boo Cake was okay for me cos I'm fine with dessert/cake (not all but spongy.mousy I also okay!), but YQ prefer more spongy kind. 117 footed the dessert bill, thanks huh! :D She even say she’s gonna treat me TWG macaroon next time! WAHAHHA, thanks huh, I will remember and I hope you will too! Okay, greedy piggy bean mode on.

So yeah, thanks 117 for the dessert and accompanying me to explore HV at night! Hope you wouldn’t have to OT too much! Till we meet again, by the end of 2013 for a successful Botanical Garden trip! :)

Loves,

bean

Two-Faced Pizza with Laopos

Hello Humans, 

Finally a meet up with my laopos weeks ago and we visited Two-Faced Pizza at Tiong Bahru!

Well, according to one of my laopos, it was named as two-faced pizza cos the coffee shop runs like a normal coffee shop in the morning, with stalls selling different stuff, but at night it turns to a café-like place that sells pizza. It wasn't too hard to locate the place if you know the way to Tiong Bahru Bakery or The Orange Thimble cos they are all along the same stretch! Just walk further down and you’ll see it. Oh yes, according to Bay, there’s a very famous stall selling yong tau foo. It must be really famous cos she repeated it N times. So do try it when if you’re a yong tau foo lover or around the area. HEE.

We wanted to have the table that’s nearer to the road, cos you know, like more feel. But too bad it’s reserved and we got ourselves an indoor seat. Ordered 2 pizzas and a pasta to share. I can’t help it but making the same statement throughout my dining session- it’s quite hard and dry. I think I repeated at least 5 times in the shop itself. The pizza tastes pretty… eh not bad? But the crust was really dry and it turned hard very fast, at least to me. Well, cos to Bay it wasn't that hard and dry. But we realized why it was so for Bay near the end of the dinner! Cos she ate lesser than me and ZY! HAHAHAHHAHA. Okay I’m kidding. Seriously Bay I’m kidding so please don’t be angry!

Oh, we also ordered truffle fries, which is a disappointment to me cos the fries turned soggy very fast, especially those at the bottom of the bowl. ): Bay played a huge part eating the fries so I have to give her credit, and maybe XQ cos it’s nearer to them. LOL. As for ZY, what a poor thing to have sore throat when we planned to have pizza that’s so dry X:

The lights in the coffee shop were very dim, and I was sleepy while eating despite having chats. X: Despite not-so-good food and the dim sleepy lights to make the place to have more feel, it’s great to spend time with my girls though it was a short meet up since all of us have things to busy the next day.

Bay said that her friend commented that we look alike here. Yes/No/don't know?

Anyway, can’t wait for our next meet-up that we have yet to plan. But we’ll definitely meet again (: 

Just a random reminder, it was rather hot during our visit. Partly because there’s no aircon and secondly I’m wearing a thick long sleeve knit top. LOL, it was raining super ultra-heavy in the morning and it was really cold! I guess I wouldn't be visiting it anytime soon cos the pizza didn't leave a good impression, so did the truffle fries.

Loves,

Bean

Cafe hopping with xq [Letoile Cafe and Wimbly Lu Chocolate]

Hello Humans,

This post is gonna be on yummy food again! Yes I've been eating all the sinful sweet food, especially on this cafe-hopping day with XQ since most of the stuff we ate were starchy and desserts. FATTENING SINFUL FOOOODDDD, I think I'm gaining weight again ):

Cafe-hopping buddy of the day!

We have a list of cafes but we decided on Letoile Cafe and Wimbly Lu Chocolate as they are along the purple line. Cos since we'll be having the whole day for two cafes, it will be better for us to go cafes that are further from where we stay. We did think of exploring other parts of the purple line, such as walking around Puggol Park or something cos it's really somewhere that seems not bad to explore! But we'll save that to other days cos it was raining quite bad and XQ had something on that day.

As I've mentioned, it was raining on our date so it got a bit troublesome for us to nagivate our way. ): Meet up the girl at Farrer Park and we spent more than 30 minutes finding Letoile Cafe though it supposed to be like a 7 minutes walk. I was hoping that Goggle did not lie to me again and make us walk one big round. It didn't really lie to ask but somehow we just got lost. Our poor feets were all soaked in water when we finally reached the place. But anyway, the cafe is really quite easy to find and nice the MRT if you didn't get out at the wrong Exit.

Though we were quite sianjipua with our wet shoes and feet, I got to admit that I'm quite happy with the cafe! It's kinda like a peaceful and quiet place standing on a random Owen Road.

We didn't order much since we just wanna try some of their food and to look around and nuah around. So here's Banana Nutella Toast and Carrot Cake. We shared the food so we could try more but sad to say that XQ didn't eat much of the Carrot Cake cos it was too sweet for her. But as for me, I think the sweetness was still okay! HAHA, so I ate most of it :X We also order a pot of tea at $5.90 to share and it can be refilled! 2 food plus tea, we just lazed around and chat on random things despite us getting sleepy from our lunch and rain.

And it is a pretty cafe with pretty stuff, as can be seen from the photo above! Tables, sofa and all the stuffs make the place so nice to nuah. A place where you can really just laze around, along or with your friends to chit chat and munch on affordable food. Cakes looks not bad and the price seems acceptable but I've yet to try them. But I believe I'll be visiting them again so no hurry! HEE. Anyway the total bill was around $20.

My POV: I think I don't have to say much. Personally I love the place. Price range is sort of standard for cafe but some prices still acceptable eg tea. I also love where it is located, standing along a random street with less crowd on a weekday, sipping tea into your mouth, reading a book on hands or catching up with friends.

Operation hour: Mon-Fri 11am-10pm / Sat-Sun 9am -10pm (YES it's open on Monday!)
Nearest Station: Farrer Park, Exit D

P.S. I went there another time after a few days with my sister! HAHA, so did XQ with her friend. LOL. Will blog about it in another post! HEE.

So after hours of lazing around and got cheated that we could get cheap Golden Village tickets at City Square, we set off to Wimbly Lu Chocolate which is near Serangoon MRT. We gonna walk a bit from the station to the cafe but it was much easier cos the rain has stopped and somehow we got some directions already and hence didn't get lost. HEE.

We ordered Vegetarian Baked Rice and Larva Chocolate Cake since we had too much sweet treats and it's time for some savoury food! HAHA, and we have to try their chocolate since their name has "Chocolate" too! Okay that's what I'm saying only, we actually were thinking between chocolate tofu cake or something and larva chocolate and end up ordering the latter. Vegetarian Baked Rice was nice. It looks quite simple and plain but it's nice! You know some baked rice you eat and eat until don't really wanna eat cos it's too oily or 腻? It's totally not the case for this. I'm not sure what kind of cheese they use but we kind of like it. The rice, its ingredients and cheese were like good combination for something starchy, nice and simple yet nice. I think I'm repeating myself. So anyway, the larva chocolate cake was yummy too, but it's kinda small too! Inside was really soft. I guess inside was almost all liquid state of chocolate but I couldn't really remember.



Here's us with the background of the cafe! Pretty nice and we got ourselves a corner table which is kinda peaceful in the noisy cafe. HAHA. What's above us was a glass/transparent roof where you can check out what's happening outside! We also talked about it whether it's good to have one at home, HAHA. Didn't stay that long in the cafe, we were really tired and sleepy but decided to make a move before any rain comes. By the way the bill for two was $20.

MY POV: This cafe is located among those landed property, pretty interesting. The location wasn't difficult to find, if you never get lost. The food here are not bad. As for atmosphere wise, it's pretty not bad though it can be uite crowded and noisy. Seats are pretty limited too.

So all in all, we spent $20 each for cafe-hopping that day! Awesome date with XQ while she was having holiday! I have been eating nice food and visiting cafes cos people around me (e.g. sis and friend) wanna try out some cafes and so do I! But I realized my wallet/bank is getting from thin to thinner and me myself getting from fat to fatter so I guess I need to control a little bit already. HAIX.

But anyway, food is loved. How to resist you tell me?!

Loves,

Bean