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Artscience Museum Singapore (12 years ago)

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Woah Woah Woah....! I was looking through the photos I took when I got my DSLR, I found this!  A picture of the Artscience Museum Singapore 12 years ago!   Amazing~~  Didn't realized it was such a long time ago.  Time flies!

Foodie Times: Yong Tau Foo (Food to try in Singapore)

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One of the food to recommend and commonly found in almost every food court/hawker centre would be Yong Tau Foo. Have it for a heavy breakfast or lunch or dinner, it's a "any time can eat" choice. There is a wide variety of ingredients from fried to non fried, vegetables, beancurd stuffed with fish/seafood fillings, ngoh hiang, fishball, tofu, hotdog, etc etc Basically the stall will have the food laid nicely at their front counter/rack. With a bowl and a tong, just grab the ingredients (usually I stopped at their minimum number of pieces needed to ordered). I always ordered it with yellow noodle without any soup or gravy and add on a lot of sweet sauce. But at times when I craved for hot and spicy, I will go for curry/laksa base.  Previously, the stalls I visited would scald the ingredients in hot water. The fried items turned soggy after that. But nowadays, the fried items are separated from the non-fried ones. And some stalls actually re-fried those fried ite...

Foodie Times: Non Entrée Desserts

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Taste:  5 out of 5.  -  Chocolate Avalanche : Presentation was so beautiful and cute. When I cut a portion of the cake, a smooth running  chocolate started to ooze into the glass ball below. Quickly took a snapshot, I pushed the cake and biscuit down into the glass ball to eat it together with the ice cream. The chocolate was warm and  concentrated with  a well-balance sweetness and goes very well with the orange  tangy ice cream. The biscuit that remained crispy even when soaked in the chocolate and ice cream. The only thing I need to complain is... It's NOT ENOUGH for me! It's just so nice to eat. Service: -    Friendly and fast. Didn't take long for the dessert to be served. Waitress was very detail. For every dessert, she personally gave the instructions from how we can get a better photo to the steps for eating the dessert. Location : Located at the Rangoon road, it is still a distance from Farrer Park MRT. Look up for t...

Foodie Review: Tea Time @ TWG Tea Salon & Boutique - The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands

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Taste : 5 out of 5. -> Tea: I had the usual Earl Grey while my partner went for the 1837 Black Tea. Both tea fragrance smelled great. The tea was smooth and served at the perfect temperature that doesn't burn our tongue. -> Muffins: I am not a muffin lover but we went for the muffins. The chocolate muffin was towards a brownie texture where the chocolate melts in my mouth. The sweetness is well-balanced. I liked it a lot!! The muffins are served with a small servings of their tea jelly and a whipped cream. I finished off the butter/vanilla muffin with the tea jelly. I would HIGHLY recommend their tea jelly! I liked it so much that I immediately purchased a bottle after my high tea. But it is indeed a pricey item (SGD $19 for a bottle) Service : 4.5 out of 5. There is only one person who does the ushering. When seated, the waiters were very efficient. Location : Take the Circle Line and alight at Promenade and head to the basement 2 of The Shoppes at Marina Bay...

Foodie Times: Korean Dessert Bingsu Bingsu Bingsu

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Location : Refer to the description below the pictures   Mango Bingu -  Chicken Up  @ Jurong East MRT Taste: 5 out of 5. Served with whipped cream, it doesn't look like what is shown in their picture. BUT, the finely shaved ice is great. Melts in the mouth and no lumpy ice. A pity it was mango with whipped cream, mango chunks and mango syrup. But for the price, what's more can I ask for. Service: 4.5 out of 5.   For this Bingsu, it was fast unlike my subsequent visit at Chicken Up.  Location : Located at the 1st floor of Jurong East MRT station. Cost : $3.50 @ Qoo10 discount   Mango Bingu -  JIJIM @ Westgate Basement Taste: 4 out of 5. Wanted to impress someone with the fine shaved ice. Had my expectation up since I tried the bingsu @ Chicken Up. However, it wasn't as good. There were still small lumps of ice and it was a bit too sweet. Apart from the shaved ice, there were a scoop of mango ice cream and a lot of m...

Foodie Times Tsujiri @ Tanjong Pagar 100AM

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Continued my eating spree in the lunch hours. The hot weather forced us to seek shelter in the airconditioned shopping mall @ 100AM. Came to this store  Tsujiri  which take prides in bringing the best quality green tea (matccha). Majority of their items are beverages but the roll cake caught my attention.  Hojicha Roll Cake Ever since I tried Hojicha, everything related to Hojicha will immediately get my attention. If I remembered correctly, there was a label saying this roll cake is a limited quantity item. I bought it almost immediately.  A plus factor for the roll cake, it came with (I assumed) matccha whip cream and red bean. It helped to "up" the roll cake's value. Cake texture is compact. The red bean added sweetness to it. The whip cream is light on taste but it turned watery. The presence of Hojicha is minimal.   Cost : Approx.  $5+  (Can't remember the exact cost) Quantity : Good Visual:...

Foodie Times Tendon Ginza Itsuki@ Tanjong Pagar

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Went to Tendon Ginza Itsuki  on a weekday and joined the queue at 11.20am. Afternoon operation starts at 11.30am till 2.30pm. The staff/chef came out to take order at around 11.25am. Had to decide on the spot between the 2 set as they need to prepare. With a price difference of $1, I opted for the Special set which had prawn, chicken on top of the pumpkin, baby corn, etc etc which I remembered from the internet menu it was priced at $13.90. We were given a seat at the corner table and ordered green tea. With no menu found anywhere, I just assumed green tea would be the least pricey drink.  This bowl of cabbage was the free flow side served in Tendon Ginza Itsuki. Seemed pretty similar to normal cabbage, not spicy or sour just mild sweet and crunchy at room temperature or slightly cold and mixed with other vegetables. I had a small serving of this and stopped to save space for the main dish later. After waiting for roughly 10-15 mins, our ...

Foodie Times Boomerang @ Robertson Quay

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Brunch time! The very first brunch visit with my friends. A search from the web display this place as one of the brunch location but I am not recommending to this place to those who do not have big appetite. The presentation of the food looks excellent. 3 Eggs (comes with 4 triangle slices of thick toast) (The fillings: Shaved Leg Ham, Mushrooms, Tomato) (SGD $14)  You can choose 3 fillings from the list below (any additional filling is an addition of $1)   • shaved leg ham • smoked salmon • spicy Italian sausage• salami • baby spinach • Spanish onion• tomato • mushroom • cheddar • jalapeño • capers • Kalamata olives • The egg omelete was well cooked.  But personal preference would be towards the type of egg omelete texture, something similar to McDonald's Big Breakfast. For those who dislike buttered toast, rest assure as the toast they served doesn't do so. They provided the butter for you to decide how much butter you want, or if y...