Miss Ong's bday at orchard area

To celebrate Miss Yu fan's Bday, we had a small lunch at Somerset 313!



They are having a set lunch promotion now. Prices are over here. Each set is inclusive of a ceasar salad and coffee or tea.

The interior was fine. Woody woody de country homely style.

They served us complimentary food. Bread with some tomato dips. Was normal.

First up we had mushroom soup. A tad too salty. Mushroom bits were visible and it was fresh and creamy yet not too thick. The yellow trail is actually olive oil. Effort put in.

Ceasar salad was ok, fresh greens, crunchy and moist. Dressing was not too thick. But a pity that too much cheese was added. Slightly on the salty side.

The best we had for the meal was calamari. The calamari was similar to fish and co's. Well marinated with flavourful batter. Coated evenly and fried till crispy. Effort seen from the greens added to the calamari even though it had totally no business to be there.

I had tea definitely. Aromatic.

Another good dish, the garlic bread. Looks hard and burnt. But tasted great and soft! The herbs added blended well with the garlic. The butter was fragrant and well roasted till flowy.

We had this weird curry puff looking thing. It is another version of a pizza. The crust tasted like normal crust of a normal pizza.

Cut it open and loads of surprises.

Ham, Mushroom, Cheese and some chicken bits.

New and fresh way of eating but not much taste. like can taste the flavours of the individual ingredients seperately.

Miss Loong had Allo scoglio. Which is actually seafood spag with cherry tomato sauce. BUT! why only got sotong? Plus, do you see tomato sauce? We clarified with the staff and they confirmed with the kitchen that we had the right order.

The spag was al dente, the herbs was a good match to the seafood. Something puzzling is that the pasta is spicy. No mention of it being spicy on the menu at all.

Mine was the Maiale Linguine.

Pork chop was hard like rubber. Very difficult to cut.

Tomato sauce was salty and nothing delicious.

The meal was ok, nothing much to wow over.

Service was quite slow as it wasn't even half filled on a weekday afternoon. We had to ask for our plain water 3 times before it came. But staff was friendly and served us smiling.

Auntie note: If you want to try the food here can come during lunch time for their promotion. Other than that not worth your penny.

313 Orchard Road #01-16/17/18 http://www.hungrygowhere.com/search_results.php?f_name=313 Singapore

We proceeded to ION after that for some shopping and finally Ice cream!

Gusttimo at ION.

Rather expensive for an ice cream cafe. 3 flavours in a cup ranges from $6.60 to $7.20 depending on whether you order their premium or seasonal flavours.

We had on the left:

Vanilla cake: Sweet tasting vanilla with a tinge of alcohol after taste.

Tiramisu: coffee taste a bit strong to my liking.

Strawberry milk: tasted like strawberry milk. Smooth and silky with strawberry aroma floating through your nose.

Flavours on the right:

Dark chocolate: Very bitter

Green tea and red bean: Nice combi. Green tea was concentrated and brought out by the red bean's husky taste. They even added some choco chips in it

Panna cotta with macademia: Panna cotta perfect. Sweet and milky but i don like nuts inside my ice cream!!!!!

Yummy loves after a long walk.....

And lastly, the 3 of us.

Auntie note: We were happily chatting over ice cream when a drop of water fell from the air con and landed in our ice cream. I went to the counter to feed back and they gave me a new cup. (the manager wasn't very happy though)

Gusttimo di Roma ION Orchard

2 Orchard Road #01-17 ION Orchard

lunch with the sister

Had a quick lunch with the peeps and sis with her baby. Lovely wren was so happy to come out. We had thai express cos its like one of the more affordable food at tampines.
I was a bit sick, slight cough and flu so no tom yam for me. So i ordered olive rice instead....
Olive rice was ok. the only ingredients added were a few chicken pieces and egg. The olives were already fried inside the rice as we can see the purplish hue of the rice resembling brown rice.
Something that spoilt the dish is the extra tough chicken pieces that is almost tasteless. The sake of adding just because it is written in the menu.

Was served with this sauce. I thought it was simlar to thai pan's meat sauce but it wasn't. It is merely a salty super salty chilli.

Mango salad on the other hand was good. Even though not comparable to thailand's but it was ok. Mango was of the right sourness and some peanut was added to add to the fragrance. The salad was slightly spicy due to the chilli padi. More onions can be added to add more oomph to the salad.

Was quite skeptical to try this particular desert. Ye shi fu ordered this. Coconut ice cream with red bean paste. If this was sold in a jap restaurant and they name is azuki beans with coconut ice cream perhaps it will draw more customers. But! don't judge by its name because this is goodness! the coconut

Newly established

Even though it is tucked in a row of neighbourhood shops, Blic has done a tremendous good job in doing up the renovation to bring out a refreshing new look. The ice cream cafe landed in this heartland area and has attracted many young people to patronise the shop. I was there on a fri night and it was packed. We had to sit at the void deck instead. Even though the place serves ice cream, the famous specialty for the shop is durian ice cream. This is to warn people who dislike ice cream to keep away from Blic as you will not stand the aroma.

This was my order for the day. Ordered a pint which permits only 2 flavours and cost 9.50. Thats if you avoid the premiun flavours such as rum and raisin, baileys, or durian. A single scoop of premium will cost $4.50.

Texture of the ice cream was smooth and slides down your throat. The sea salt malt was a rather special flavour which you seldom see outside. It had a tinge of salty taste which brings out the sweet tasting malt. However, the malt taste is slightly mild. The milo dino was ok, tasted a bit chocolaty and not much of milo taste. i guess cocoa powder is still the main source for the taste and not milo powder.

Even though the two flavours were not really comparable to the famous brands, the location will still attract many of the teens as it is located near many schools. Keep going Blic. But do note the price a little as students are quite poor these days.

Auntie note: NO gst and svc charge. Carpark is quite full as mostly are season parking. Can go for a budget dinner at the coffee shop nearby as it serves quite good local dishes and come over for ice cream.

802 Tampines Ave 4#01-23
Tel: +65 6786 0860

Sun–Thu12pm – 11pm Fri–Sat12pm – 11.30pm

girls day out is jus snacking, one after another.... we had lunch den ice cream den deep fried chicken.... anyway, I love taimei is a small snack shop located at bugis street exit, the side facing the market.
we had the set called 蔡伊林. i nv write wrongly k, tis is the exact name for the set....


it is inclusive of the chicken cutlet, and a cup of milk tea. choice of chicken cutlet can be bbq or honey. chicken was well fried, not dry, juicy and taste sweet. the taste deviates from shilin and ximen as they do not use chilli powder and sour plum powder but they own special powder. plus, the sesame added is extra fragrant.



something not as delicious will be the bubble tea. bitter and not sweet enough, not cold enough, plus the cup so small not enough leh....... how to compare with KOI?

unglam me eating chickennnnnnnn.....

up next will be tom's palette..... home made goodnesss.....

this is not advertorial la, so u won see very pretty looking girls. hahaha.

This was YY's hazelnut and salted caramel cheesecake. in comparison, the hazelnut lost its appeal. the salted caramel cheesecake was fantastic, it tasted like the real thing. with the slightly salted flavour, it enhances the sweetness of the creamy ice cream and brings out the unique flavour. hazelnut on the other hand failed to produce the creamy flavour but this dry dry feeling like as thou u popped too many nuts without drinking water.

I had rum and raisin and apple pie. apple pie was good but lost to island creamery. it was fragrant but didn;t contain some pieces of crust but i found a rather hard piece of apple in it instead. rum and raisin was good, but a bit high on alcohol. other than that it was rich and addictive.

auntie note: good place to chill but only a few chair available. free flow of drinks, so drink up. can try the flavours before buying, so do try to be satisfied w ur purchase.

Tom's Palette

100 Beach Road level 1

Shaw Tower, Singapore 189702

chrismas carols in january

woosh.

guess its been long since i last posted. i got the 三分钟热度afterall. confirmed.

guess i will try to do it more often now since i'm back in sch hostel. days had been fun. with more girly outings and eat outs. perhaps a food blog survives well with more updats. and yes! guess the place of this location.

its not in the east where i reside.

look at the interiors and u will notice the christmas tree and guess when i've been there. oops!

this is island creamery.....

each time i patronise this small ice cream shop i'm spoilt for choice.

if i know how to estimate well there's more than 20 flavours to choose from.

spare me all those lousy flavours that u know like boring vanillla, plain rasberry, forever only 1 of a kind chocolate. the flavours made available will shock you!

my favourite will be teh tarik!

but sadly i don have a picture of it. boooooooooooo......

i once described the taste of teh tarik ice cream to my boy and he says i sounded like so incredible. whahahaahahah....

ok here it goes. i'm sure all of u tasted some different flavoured ice cream like fruits or rum.

some might even tried the legendary teh tarik i mentioned.

but u will not fail to forget the taste of the one at island creamery.

recall the time when the ice cream melts in your mouth, was it after a mouth or 2 that u start to doubt, think, hesitate before you confirme the flavour? yes, that will be when u had eaten lousy quality ice cream. in comparison, island creamery is able to produce ice cream that you won't have to question its flavour. before u even put it in ur mouth, the smell floats to your nose. when it melts in your mouth the flavours burst inside you and u the smell lingers for a while. every spoonful is fresh and 齿颊留香, the xiang refers to 茶香 if u know how to appreciate tea.

this was my proud order. apple pie and pulut hitam. both commendable. apple pie tasted great, there were even some crust in the ice cream for the biting sensation. its not the apple pie of macdonalds but those u get in oldern bakery that mummy buys from the neighbourhood shop. pulut hitam was special, a pity i aint a fan of the particular desert. yet i fell in love w this at once. to me it was the little shells of the glutinous that reminded me of the potong red bean ice cream that we all used to eat when we were young. those that stucked in the teeth. (btw, potong no longer taste as good) i guess the memory of eating ice cream is common among children of my age( note the use of the word children). :)

below are some of the other creations my friends ordered. shall not comment as i haven really tasted them. but some valuable feedback will be that the brownies there are delicious. give it a try.

auntie note: no gst, no service charge, young and cute looking girls, free flow plain water. not a bad place to slack on a friday night. a pity that it doesn't operate tiill late night. plus location isn;t very bus stop friendly.

10 Jalan Serene

#01-03 Serene Centre

Tel: +65 6468 8859

desert time ^^

this shop has got its own distinct form of identification.


smell


smell of durian.

tucked away in a small corner of serangoon garden. the interiors of this place attracted me.
its a very "hongkong like" concept to have shops on the second floor. even though u have to climb the stairs its still worth the effort.
the decorations are simple yet bring u back to the 1980s. with old recorders, hong kong movie posters and little decorations put up to teleport u back into the old teahouse. this place is 24/7 smelling fragrant. even the MTV is lee hom, idol. hehehe....

the picture above is a mix of strawberry, and mango with vanilla ice cream.
i should say satisfactory.
the sugar syrup used should be high quality brown sugar and its leaves the scent of sweetness we get just like when we eat ondeh ondeh. not too sweet. however, i felt that it lacked a bit of flavour as i expected more mango or fruity taste to it.
the fruits are fresh but i guess in singapore we can't get to eat sweet fruits as they are often plucked before they turn ripe.



next up, the jackfruit desert. unique.
not overpowering, and out of the 3 desert ordered i liked this the most.
there are real jackfruit flesh in it.
the sago in the desert is quite a match and gives it the "kou gan" or should we call it the bite.
however, i was hoping that the texture or should we say the density could have been thicker.




this is the source of the frangrance.
durian.
this is moist, with real durian flesh, is smooth and given the taste of coconut milk to enhance the flavour giving it a lift. the durian taste lingers in your mouth but manage to go down smoothly without leaving a stench. which will make u continue having more.
a real gem in the place and i will strongly encourage u to give it a try.
but, it is too much for 1 person to finish as the taste is really like eating durian cream. so pls try to share. but don't give it a miss k.






these are the other special desert that i am interested to try but is too full to order so many, the mango de creme gives me the impression of creme brulee^ which i love to the max. other more innovative desert include durian pancake which is rather pricey (4.90) for a slice if i remembered correctly.







this is a real find. will be back again probably with the gfs.
address 80A Serangoon Garden Way
on the second floor, a lan shop and a bar on the first floor.


auntie note: there is free flow self serve ice water. so keep drinking.
magazines are also available. so keep urself occupied at this place, read for free! jap magazines, hong kong magazines. plus free music. lady serving is very frendly but only speaks mandarin.