Old Town coffee

Went for Old Town coffee at ECP after a light dinner with Mister Fat Fingers.
We were deciding between old town, Killiney, and Wang Cafe.
In the end we chose Old Town because we dont know where is the nearest Wang Cafe, and we had Killiney not long ago.
But it proves to be a bad decision.


This is part of a set, a cup of teh tarik and fried fish fingers, approx $5. Superbly overpriced.
Teh was not bad, nice and milky. Tea fragrance wasn't too strong and it was soothing to the throat with no bitter after taste.


The super overpriced fish fingers were small and pathetic. When it was served we were both taken aback. Fries were overly salted. Fish fingers were oily and batter was so thick we hardly tasted any fish.

They claimed to serve Eggs that is omega rich. At more than a dollar each, i can buy a whole tray in supermarkets. Nothing special. Mr Fat finger's eggs were overcooked and not runny.

Auntie note: Too overpriced, bad service (under staff, grumpy aunties), and below average food. I will not go to old town again.

Ah Loy Thai

The girly outings again! This time in search of cheap thai food! ]
Miss Loong and i all excited to eat! But..... the queue was quite long so we decided to take more more more pictures!


Just a sneak peek at the dishes! They were all good and thus empty plates left!

First up: Tom Yam Soup.

The soup is not the clear broth but the milky kind. The milky soup minimised the sour taste which is the specialty of tomyam soup. I always prefer the clear broth kind but this is equally good because it was spicy and the milk neutralised it a little, makes it easier to drink as it slides down your throat. The ingredients as well was in abundance. Huge sotong, prawns and mushrooms. Just this pot alone was enough to feed the 3 hungry girls.

We ordered some greens to have a healthier meal. The rest of the vegetables aren't very common so we decided to order Kangkong. If you are think of sambal Kangkong this will be a healthier version. The KangKong is fried with chilli and garlic instead. My mom does it this way as well but theirs were better. Crispier, slightly sweet and very moist.

The fish is worth ordering too! It was of considerable size for the price we paid. It is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. I am not boasting. It truely was soft till we had quite a hard time picking up the pieces. Speaking from experience, most likely the fish was first steamed, then quickly deep fried in oil for a few seconds before it was served with the special chilli sauce. The chilli sauce is not the usual thai sweet chilli, its not sweet at all and tasted a great deal of lemon grass and some ginger. I'm not a fan for lemon grass but felt this was still acceptable.

This is the favourite dish for the day. Fried calamari in Butter sauce. The calamari was coated with a thin layer of batter and it soaked up the fragrance of the butter making it soft smooth and chewy yet not losing its crispiness. The butter was lightly salted and had a tinge of salted egg aroma.

Phad thai was ok, more on the sweet side. The noodles were al dente, very QQ and smooth. However, it was quite oily when we were finishing it. The prawns were huge though. They put in the extra effort to provide us with peanut powder and a small slice of lime. Good Job!

Pandan chicken was great! I always had the impression that pandan chicken is dry and quite tasteless. AhLoy Thai did a great job by serving flavourful, tender, juicy chicken that is well marinated. Together with the chilli sauce provided it was a match made in heaven!

The chilli on the left is the best chilli! Hot spicy to the max!

They even provided other sauces to let customers have the best for their taste buds!

We had the superb thai iced tea! I super love Thai iced tea because it had a weaker tea leaves taste and the milk is much richer than the normal big breakfast. I'm such a 挑 person.


The interior is slightly dark, but it is a good place for a great catch up. Many groups of OLs came for that night. Girl watching guys.

Reasonable pricing and good service (without service charge). It will be on my top must eat list.

Auntie note: Try to come early as the last order is at 8pm and there is a constant never ending queue. The aunties may look grumpy but they are nice ppl.

Ah Loy Thai

100 Beach Road #01-39/40 Shaw Tower Singapore

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

Taiwan Tea

With the recent bubble tea craze here in Singapore, I am once again hooked up.

But its always good if you can get it 24/7 and in the comforts of your own home right?

I got this from cold storage at $3.50 for 6 packets.

Rather expensive but i thought i shall give it a try.



The instructions easy to understand. I did the hot version.



This is unlike the normal 3 in 1 tea, its packaged it a tea bag and you drop it in your cup. This way you feel less cheated because you can see that tea leaves are used!

Miraculously, the tea turns out milky, i guess they added creamer in the tea bags!

Final judging: Tea is smooth, not very sweet. Not thick enough for my liking. But i guess light enough to allow 2 cups a day. The soft aroma of the tea lingers in your mouth a while. What i can't get used to is the colour of the tea, its simple too "white" for you to get the feeling that you are drinking black tea. (Yes, tea like lipton is called black tea)

Worth trying only if you like less sweet, not so thick tea.

Snacking time again.

Was out with Missy Loong to do our hair. We had lunch at Ximen before heading down. This is the first time i took a photo of the signboard. Notice the two words 人民 as a watermark, i tried to search for the website so that can enlighten me but i can't find.

Basically these small taiwan eateries offer good mee sua and chicken chop. Xi men offers a few variation for the mee sua, so for those who dislike "orh" meaning oysters, you can choose to add 鲍贝or crab meat. I am fine with oysters but ximen's are so huge, i dont really dare to eat them.

I had baby clams instead. The mee sua is taiwan mee sua so they are not like those we cook at home. It doesn't become too soft and mushy but maintain at a certain texture. The soup is thick and smooth. I particularly like them cos it taste like shark's fin soup when you add in vinegar and chilli. Plus the chicken shreds were added generously that makes it even better.

After about 4 hours of hair-ing, the hungry girls go and search for food again. Located at compass point, Pie Kia is a good choice. We had 1 pie each, mine was mexican blah blah pie(i dont rmb) and missy loong had chicken mushroom. Was $1 each. The pie was pipping hot and had generous fillings that was savoury and rich. The ingredients weren't mashed up and you can taste the goodness of the chicken pieces.

Pie plus tea? Perfect match. Ya kun was just beside so we sat down and took our afternoon tea.

Outing with the girls

Was out with the girls for lunch date. So decided to bring them to my lovely hidden find in town.

The pasta served here is superb. Even though this small eatery don't look posh they serve food with pride.

We had the set lunch that is $9.90nett inclusive of a soup, drink and a pasta main.

Soup of the day was cream of cauliflower. Can be slightly thicker but still it was good. smooth and not too salty. I had other better soups here though. Their home made garlic bread may look so-so but its flavour filled. The garlic and butter made it a perfect combi. The bread used was just normal bread so those with braces, good for us.


This was my main seafood marinara. It was a tough choice between this and vongole arrabiata. I think i prefer arrabiata(spicy tomato) but i prefer seafood to just clams alone!

Pasta today was slightly hard, had some problems with chewing recently. Sauce was thick and rich, had some onion pieces in it.

This is how much liao there is in my pasta.

2 prawns, 2 small scallop, 1 mussel, abt 5 sotong, and some loose piece of salmon here and there.


Mel had this, italian sausage fusilli. Same sauce as mine so i didn't try.

Hui's order, chicken meatballs. there were about 6 meat balls.

We all chose tea as our drink. Nice brew of english breakfast over some gossips and chat. Love catching up.

Auntie note: No service charge, no GST. Can ask for refills for tea bags. Order the diet coke and be served a can rather than other drinks only in a cup.

Creation Cafe

100 Beach Road#01-43 Shaw Leisure Gallery

Mon–Thu12noon – 2.30pm, 6pm – 9pm Fri12noon – 2.30pm, 6pm – 9.30pm Sat1pm – 3pm, 6pm – 9.30pm (Closed on Sundays