On 6 September 2015...

Hello again!

When I said I was going to blog more frequently, I really meant what I said, here's another blogpost: ) I'll try to make it less lengthy unlike my previous post.

Today, Briana and I became explorers!!! Right after church we headed to Nicoll Highway and walked over to North Bridge Road area where we ate at Zam Zam, an Indian eatery which is pretty well-known for their Nasi Briyani. Since Briana told me a few weeks back that she can't seem to find good Briyani except for the one sold in school, we decided to give this place a try.

Zam Zam 

We both ordered the Chicken Briyani ($6.50), the portion was HUGE and it also came with a plate of mutton curry which we didn't touch because..meh. It was kind of pricey, $6.50 for a plate of briyani..I guess it's because the place is rather commercialised so many tourists go there and we all know that tourist attractions are just places you get major rip offs. Nevertheless, the amount of chicken they gave us was astounding! I had a whole chicken thigh and I think Bree half a chicken?!!?

Address: 

697 North Bridge Road

Singapore 697699

After that we walked to Bali lane which was just a few lanes down across the road in search for an ice cream place I saw on Instagram called Honey Comb to beat the scorching heat but we found out that they closed down. We were so disappointed and had no clue on what to do next but that's when I remembered a soft serve place nearby which I again saw on Instagram called Brother Bird.

Brother Bird

We ordered the cookie butter soft serve and IT WAS SO GOOD. The moment both of us tried it we confirmed that we were definitely going back again.

 As usual, pre-eating routine^

After that we walked around aimlessly, exploring new places and taking many photos: )

 This was the only photo taken today of both of us because it's so hard to ask strangers to take a photo for us without being judged for our weird location choices. This photo for example, the man asked us why don't we face the other side so the mosque would be the background, but we already had how we wanted the picture to look like in mind so we declined and he and his friends laughed: (

 Really happy I finally bought some dried lavender!!! Smells so good!!!

Here are some awkward shots of me taken by Bree: )

We ended the day at Suntec City (yes we walked all the way there), where we got a drink, edited photos and enjoyed the air conditioner and free wifi, somehow our outings are always filled with walking and ends with us editing photos. I had a splendid day, time spent with Briana is always so enjoyable: )

Thanks for stopping by!

On 26 August 2015...

Hey: )

WARNING: THIS IS A VERY LENGTHY BLOGPOST, SORRY!!!!

Since it's the start of the September holidays, I'll give myself a break from studying and blog! So last Wednesday I went for my doctor's appointment which I absolutely dread going to because all they do is tell me the exact same thing that they told me the previous appointment and just like that we have to pay $60 for practically listening to the annoying doctor's nagging. I really hope my condition gets better so such daylight robberies will stop occurring: (

On the bright side, such appointments often result in scrumptious meals with mom. (aka my queen)
We both knew what was coming up after the appointment so we had light lunch and thus had plenty of space for 3 cafes worth of food. (we are extremely big eaters when it comes to our favourite food hehe)

Wilder 

 First up we went to Wilder, a pretty new cafe along North Bridge Road that I found stalking well-known foodies on Instagram. The place was quite small so thankfully we went early when there was no crowd. It was however beautifully decorated with dried flowers on every table and I loved the rustic theme of the cafe.

Here's our food, I ordered the Smoked Salmon Spicy Tomato Cream Pasta to satisfy my newly-found love for smoked salmon and my mom ordered Wilder's Beef Burger.

The portions were quite small which was good beacause then we could try other places on my places-to-go-b4-i-die list (yes the list really do exist on my phone). The juicy beef burger served with potato taters was great! The soft homemade bun (made to a limited number per day) was the highlight of it. Never knew the burger bun could make so much difference to a burger!!

Here's my Smoked Salmon Tomato Cream Pasta: )

Super pretty place!!!

Overall, Wilder is definitely a place worth visiting with great food and friendly staff, I wouldn't mind at all going back for a second visit!

Address:
749 North Bridge Road
Singapore 198717

We knew that the North Bridge Road area was densely packed with hidden treasures so we decided to walk along the shophouses to explore and see what treasures we would find. We stepped out of Wilder and before long, guess what? We found Twenty Grammes! A waffle place found on my list of places to go before I die!!

Twenty Grammes

We ordered their SG50 special (only for a limited time only), charcoal waffles with salted egg yolk sauce along with a scoop of earl grey flavoured ice cream and famous amos cookies ice cream.

 Here's my lovely mom: )

 She asked me to take a selfie so we would remember the moment hehe

Now here's my honest opinion, I didn't like the salted egg yolk sauce but my mom liked it so it's probably just an acquired taste that not everyone would like. The charcoal waffle looked cool but it tasted no different from any other buttermilk waffle, I liked the crispiness though. The ice cream on the other hand, was super flavor-full, I LOVED the earl grey flavored one, unlike others I've tried, the earl grey taste was very distinct and it wasn't very milky which is a plus point since I hate the taste of milk. I therefore wouldn't mind coming back for their ice cream, but as for their waffles, it isn't the worst, it's alright if you just want your simple waffle fix but there are definitely better ones I've tried.

Address: 

753 North Bridge Road

Singapore 198721

  

Nope this blogpost is still not coming to an end because Hannah and mom are such gluttons. I knew of a place that sold cakes from Maple & Market, a well-known cafe that sold cakes at their own shop and also to other vendors. their shop was only located 5 mins away from my house and I visited them very often. Unfortunately, they closed down early this year. I was devastated as I already planned to work there after my O's but now my dreams are shattered: ( So when I found out about this cafe that Maple & Market supplies cakes to, I rejoiced, told my mom and we rejoiced together!!!

The Pantry at Shop Wonderland

How did I find out that Maple & Market supplies them with cake? Well I've been to Maple & Market countless times before they closed down so I recognized their unique flavors like the Lemon Lavender cake and Gula Melaka cake with Kaya Cream Cheese and I missed eating them soooooo much so of course I was elated at the news of The Pantry carrying their cakes.

 Man I wished I had space left in my stomach to order all their cakes out on display that day. My love for cakes is unhealthy.

 Check out the beautiful interior!!! Another photogenic place with dried flowers hanging everywhere!!!

 They sold other things too such as cards, candles, soaps from overseas, etc.

 The place was located in a shop house along Haji Lane so we sat upstairs beside the huge window for obvious reasons (natural lighting) and this was our view^

 The staff was extremely friendly and she said she remembered us from that time we stumbled upon it while walking around aimlessly to digest our food. That was weeks ago, her memory is amazing!! 

 It was tough resisting the temptation to order 3 cakes but we fought it and in the end ordered 2 cakes, the Gula Melaka cake with Kaya Cream Cheese frosting (Maple & Market's!!!) and the Salted Caramel cake.

 Pre-eating routine: )

Super pretty!!!!!

I'm most definitely going back for more cakes, even though the pricing of their cakes are almost twice that of what Maple & Market's cakes used to be, I guess it's alright to indulge once in a while: )

Address:

37 Haji Lane

Singapore 189230

That's all for today folks!! Sorry for making you read so much!! I'll try to shorten my future blogposts, thanks for reading: )

Joe & Dough

Hello:)

I finally decided that it's time to start blogging more frequently if I want to become a famous food blogger (for free good food woohoo)(Clara Loh are you proud of me).

My parents had to rush down to the hospital to accompany my grandma who is down with dengue fever (pray for her!!) and that meant that our weekly friday dinner together had to be cancelled and I had to dine alone:( However, Thank God for Briana who was free and willing to have dinner with me:) Thanks Bree, much love for you!!

We went to Joe & Dough at Kallang Leisure Park, I've tried it once at the millenia walk branch and I loved it so I was more than delighted to visit it again especially now that they're having a special SG50 menu.

The place was perfect for taking pretty pictures as there were several HUGE windows, flooding the place with natural lighting, a photographer's paradise.

Food arrives!!!

I ordered the SG50 Soy Sauce Chicken and Achar Sandwich and Bree ordered the Mushroom and Bacon Melt, I savored every single bite of mine especially because I love achar. Sadly, this special menu will only be around till the end of August:( Hopefully I'll have time to go back to have this delectable sandwich once more!!

^LOOK AT HOW GOOD THE PICTURE TURNED OUT ALL THANKS TO NATURAL LIGHTING!!NO FILTER LEH!!

We ordered their carrot cake even though the service staff warned us that it might be a bit dry but carrot cake never goes wrong!! It was moist and tasted great!!

All in all, our experience at Joe & Dough was great especially with the friendly staff, the pleasant ambience and the free wifi from the neighboring Starbucks hehe

Banana In Bangkok

Hello friends!

 I'm finally going to start blogging after procrastinating for like 183839273years yay!!

On the 18-23Nov last year, I went to Bangkok with my parents and elder brother, my other brother couldn't join us because he had to work. Let me just warn you that this blog is super draggy so sorry in advance!!!

As you can tell from this photo, I was super hyped up about the trip. That's because i had been planning for it since september and when I say plan, I really mean I planned which hotel to stay in, which airline to take, our itinerary, and THE FOOD WE ATE YAS (I LOVE THAI FOOD)(AND STREET FOOD), then got the approval from the mom.

yay krispy kreme!!!

our welcome drinks: ) 

We stayed at Centara Watergate, it was a relatively new hotel so it was very clean and comfortable. It was pretty convenient too, about an 8minutes walk to platinum fashion mall. 

our first meal at platinum mall's food court

Did I mention that 3/4 of this blog is probably about food because food makes me very happy:)

fresh pomegranate juice 

heavenly grilled pork

SUPER SWEET PINEAPPLE

crepes!!! I had the crispy banana&nutella crepe and mom had the soft strawberry crepe with ice cream!!!

 (sorry..I get very excited when I talk about food, hence the numerous exclamation marks)

the much talked about chocolate banana prata
(tbh I didn't really like it..I prefer prata with curry)

mango!!!

Day 1 was a blast, I'm currently salivating at all the food. 

 DAY 2

Our itinerary for day 2 was cafe hopping!!! (and of course shopping) I had a list of cafes that I wanted to visit, all of which I read from a few of my favourite bloggers. So we left our hotel in the morning and walked to Siam area. On the way there, there were endless rows of street food stalls. Everything looked so intriguing, I wished I could have tried everything but unfortunately I had to keep stomach space for the cafe hopping.

I have no idea what this street food was but it tasted great!!!

First stop was Petite Audrey at Siam Center.

super pretty place!!!

We ordered the tom yum kung pizza and tom yum kung pasta. They were recommended by a few food bloggers (yes I did my research) and both were really good!!  

 super photogenic place!!!

for dessert we had the thai milk tea crepe cake and the milo crepe cake. Both were also super yummy.

After that we headed over to Siam Paragon to Mr. Jones' Orphanage. The place was train-station themed and it was extremely cute with teddy bears everywhere.

We ordered an orange cake and a date cake.

orange cake

date cake 

 the cake display

That was pretty much all , after that we went to shop and went for thai massage at midnight.

DAY 3

We went to the well-known After You cafe at Central World in the morning.

We over-ordered so the whole day we felt really uncomfortable:/

What is Bangkok without a tuktuk ride!

That night my brother and father flew in to join us and my adventurous dad brought us to have some amazing street food !!!

salt grilled fish!!!

DAY 4

Day 4 was mostly shopping at Union mall so not much photos. We went to Somtam in Siam square because I heard many good reviews of it but I honestly felt there was nothing that special except the garlic fried chicken.

 Garlic fried chicken 

 hahahaha I love my dad

Cool ice cream thingy at Union mall 

ice cream mochi!!! These were everywhere in Bangkok and I totally regret not buying more when I was in Bangkok because it's so expensive in Singapore : (

DAY 5

We went to the floating river market in the morning.

 hehe cute old man squeezing through all the boats

 no idea what this was but it was good

 boat noodles!!!

 coconut pancake!!!

fried popiah!!!

After that we headed to Chatuchak market. Didnt take much photos though..

cute puppies for sale!!!

legendary coconut ice cream!!!

Since it was our last night in Bangkok, we decided to stay out as late as possible to explore!!!

 dad is seriously DABOMB.COM, he found this street food selling pad thai and fried oyster omelette and it was HEAVENLY.

After that we found this fruit stall and we decided to buy home some fruits because i love fruits ALOT. We bought so much because the lady spoke in teochew and my dad spoke to her in teochew so she favoured us and gave us alot of discounts.

But guess what? We forgot to bring home all the fruits and left it at the hotel. It seems like every holiday we've been on, we would leave something behind at the hotel, this needs to stop.

DAY 6

Last day: (

famous wanton mee (the portion seemed to have decreased)

 last meal in Bangkok at platinum mall

dessert!!!

at the airport: )

Sorry for the super long blog!!! Hope you enjoyed reading!!! 

Have a great day ahead: )