iLight 2017,

Hello,

Took a trip down to Bayfront on last Saturday for iLight 2017 with my group of friends. Compared to last year where I visited iLight 2016 with Mr. Z, my group of friends and I only explored half of the exhibition due to some reasons. Sigh. I'd definitely hope to go back again for the remaining half of it though. I even made Mr. Z in agreeing with me for every year's iLight! Hahah!

Anyway, we went for dinner at O Comptoir for Sylvia's birthday before making our way down to Bayfront for iLight 2017. O Comptoir is a restaurant that serves French cuisines. Their signature dishes, I supposed, are crepes. The restaurant is located at 79 Circular Road and its nearest station is Clarke Quay. The walking distance stated on Google Map was 4 minutes but trust me, it took us longer than that! I think any normal person would take about 7 mins to reach too!!

Being situated in the CBD area, it also means that their food are mostly priced at and average to expensive ranges. So, be prepared to either bring more cash or debit card with you. I love how the restaurant was designed! Their dangling bulbs and the ambience fit a dinner with your date! I'd bring Mr. Z to this restaurant one day after he's back for sure (for a dish)! Ah, not only is the ambience nice, their staffs are really friendly and warm too! The waiter who attended to us is really entertaining while the two waitresses are really accommodating to our requests.

 As their signature dishes, and recommendations from other sites, are mostly crepes, 3 of us decided to order crepes while the birthday girl ordered a burger meal. We also ordered side dishes of chicken wings and salad. Healthy much, eh?

Duck It! was one of the chef's recommendations. It contains duck confit, caramelised onions, potatoes and thyme. The thyme made Duck It! cuter as it's standing in the middle of the crepe. It looks so much like it's the only surviving tree in a desert!

And it's a no-wonder that Duck It! was one of the recommended crepes because it was really good! Anyone who loves duck confit would definitely love this crepe! I love duck confit because they aren't the roughest meat to eat! I detest breast meat but any other parts are considered good for me! The other 3 girls agreed about it too. Told Mr. Z about it and as mentioned above, this is the dish that I'll be recommending him to!

Duck It! SGD18

Next, it's my Scallop'in that I placed. It comes with 4 small scallops, leek, onion, spinach and cheese. Personally, I do not like onions at all. But because I took a long time in deciding what to eat, and that the girls alrdy chosen Duck It! as one of their choices, I was left with no choice but to order Scallop'in because there's spinach as well. Healthy choice, lol!

Tbh, their scallops aren't the tastiest that I've had. They were really small as shown below but the ingredients in the crepe made it up to it. I finished the crepe but not the stuff inside because there's too much cheese there. It makes me feel a bit sick of it after some time.

Scallop'in SGD24

The last crepe we had was I Did It My Way. Literally. It has goat cheese, walnut, pear and honey. We thought it might be an interesting crepe but we took our words back after trying it. People who don't eat goat cheese wouldn't like it because it tasted weird. Really weird. Perhaps we are just not used to eating goat cheese. I believe that there are people who love goat cheese a lot.

I Did It My Way SGD19

The birthday girl ordered burger set which was also a chef's recommendation. If my memory didn't fail me, the burger contains steak, egg and cheese with truffle fries as sides. It was good to the extent that Ms. Neo and Ms. Ng shared their food with each other. The truffle fries was good too. I would have ordered one plate of truffle fries if I wasn't full at that time!

Bacon ft Egg Burger with Truffle Fries SGD23

Lastly, the chicken wings which I gave it a miss because firstly, I was lazy to use my fingers and secondly, I was really full from my food. Thankfully for the first reason, Ms. C sliced the meat using her utensils for me. So much love! Not the best wings that I have eaten till date!

Chicken Wings SGD10

We took a cab down to Bayfront where we alighted at the place near the funfair. Yep, we started our journey there which tbh was a wrong decision. But no worries! Still enjoyed very much because it's a whole new experience!

Singapore never fails to amaze me with its beautiful skyline, especially this area! Dream location to work in? I shall continue dreaming.

Sea urchins

Gatro Beats

The girls were very excited upon seeing a stall that sells kane mochi. Bought a few flavours to share. Not a fan of mochi though so I shan't comment much about it. But be sure to eat it once you receive it because it melts easily in this hot climate. I was taking photos of the mochi and the girls were like faster, the mochi is melting. Oops!

Already looking forward to iLight 2018 and hoping that there'd be more exciting displays next year. Goodbye! 

Dean & Deluca,

Met up with Joy 2 months back for a catch-up sesh. I haven't seen this dear girl of mine for quite some time and we finally met after I was back from my Korea trip. We hopped over to Dean & Deluca at Orchard Central this time for our lunch date.

The ambience is rlly good there but for the cost wise, it's slightly costly (but what can you expect when it's in town area with such a good ambience to catch-up with your friends, right?). Rlly love my stay there.

After deciding for quite some time, these were what we ordered:

The New Yorker 

Truffle fries

Egg benedicts with salmon (?!?!! I forgot!!) 

Belgian stack with ice cream

I love their waffles BUT I hate fries with the word "berries". The waffles were all contaminated with the smell of berries T_T Hahah, I used the word "contaminated" because I rlly dislike berries, not because it is not nice at all. I still finished my portion of waffle despite the smell of berries because it's rlly crispy on the sides and fluffy on the inside. /slurps!

Anyway, I had a hard time eating my New Yorker because it was huge! I made a mess on the table because the sesame kept dropping from the top of the burger. But it was good - the scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. What can I say? Salmon is one of my favourite food!

That's my pretty babe, Joy!

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I have been so caught up with my assignments, tests assignments and tests! Kidding, I had only one test so far. It's mainly about the bitchy assignments that made me breathless! Uni has been a very busy one so far (I'm only in uni for 2 odd months). Right now, I'm happy to say that I'm finally left with only one more assignment and 4 papers to take in end of October and that's it! I can't wait for my semester break to come!

Speaking of which, I can't wait for HHN4 and Illumi run in Oct and Nov respectively!!!!! Okay, I'm gna sleep soon because I have 830am lesson to catch tml.

NTS: never update blog with food photos at this timing!

G'night! :)

Forty Hands x Plain Vanilla Bakery,

Met up with this group of poly friends for brunch last Friday @ Forty Hands. I've been telling ze Boyf that I wna visit this cafe since a long time but we always didn't have the time to go until now. Just that it's me with my friends instead.

Forty Hands is located at Yong Siak Rd in Tiong Bahru area. It's actually very near where my relatives are staying! Not too late to know. Anyway, it was rlly crowded when we arrived (during lunchtime) but we managed to get a table fast. Also, the place is very small and has a very narrow walkway for the people to walk in.

Proceeded to the counter for our order and here's what we had:

Salmon Hash @ $18

The Big Bang - Pork @ $16

Eggs Cocotte @ $16

We felt a bit cheated esp the Twinny and Peiying who ordered The Big Bang, pork and beef respectively, because the portion wasn't big at all (according to the two girls). I didn't ask about the taste of their Big Bang though. Adrian ordered Egg Cocotte which is consists of 2 poached eggs and mushrooms (these are the 2 that I can rmb) and 2 slices of bread while I ordered Salmon Hash. For my case, I could count the number of salmon CUBES I had. Yeap, the salmons are cut into shapes of squares in the bowl. Despite the few cubes I had, the taste of the salmons were rlly nice. Just the type of cooked salmon that I like. Neither rough (for texture) nor hard (to chew). What's best is, mine has skinny fries!

I like my fries to be skinny instead of those thick fat ones. Reason being, skinny fries can be crispier than fat ones. I like it when it becomes just a lil soggy. So, I'll be munching away if the truffle fries we order as a side dish comes in skinny kind.

We left Forty Hands and proceeded to the shop opposite: Books Actually. It's a very cosy store that sells all kinds of books. From fictions to non-fictions, from history of Singapore to books that teach Singlish (if I'm not wrong), from tote bags to stationery. Basically, almost all that you can think of.

The below three photos are taken using my phone, hence the bad quality. 

Remember this?

Walked a lil further down the street and we saw Plain Vanilla Bakery! Another one from my list down!! But I will definitely go back agn bcos I didn't try their cupcakes (I was too full from my Salmon Hash).

The two girls with their cupcakes and drinks while Adrian and I ordered just drinks. My tea was tasteless, as what Twinny had guessed. According to Peiying, salted caramel cupcake is awesome! Plain Vanilla is rlly a nice place to chill, and not forgetting to snap some photos, because we stayed there for almost 2hrs (or more). Time flew too quickly. 

It was my first time out with Peiying and Adrian but definitely not the last time. I had a great time going out with the 3 of them!

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Quite sad that my 3 weeks of break will be ending in one week's time. School has been sucking my body battery. 1 month more to the submission of individual assignment and I'm not even 1/4 done with it yet. I can't wait for uni to be over!! 

The Plain,

26 May 2014:

Finally a trip down to The Plain after it being in my list for damn long. Visited this cafe w a girl name Joy. It was my 3rd or 4th consecutive trip down to Tj Pagar for the hidden cafes there. Yes, the very pretty and tall condominium is in the backgrnd of the first photo below. If I'm not wrong, it's called Pinnacle@Duxton.

The Plain doesn't have a menu on each table for their customers. The only menu they have is the super big one that is framed on the wall, like this:

Pretty cool

It's eco-friendly and cool but at the same time, it was a lil awkward bcos there was a couple sitting at the table in front of the menu when we were looking at the it. But anyway, we still made our orders. Some dishes come in small and regular portion, depending on how big your appetite is. As we're sharing, I ordered mine with a larger portion.

Smoked Salmon @ $12

Dean's Breakfast @ $13

Iced Chocolate @ $6.50

Yeah, salmon (agn!). In comparison w the prev cafe I visited, I think the salmon here tastes better. No, the salmon from the previous cafe was good. But this is even better IMO. The combination of thin sliced red apples and salmon made it even tastier. Ok, at first (before I had my first bite) I thought it was sliced garlic until I saw the menu agn. HAHAH!

Dean's Brkfast is good too. The combination of toast, poached eggs and melted cheese are rlly good! Maybe that's because I've nvr tried such a combination of food before. But I rlly love the melted cheese a lot. Gna visit this cafe agn, but not so soon.

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Speaking of melted cheese, I'm rlly interested in this the first time I saw it online -

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Alr, I'm off! :)