Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Friday, 21 November 2014

Food adventures

Everything with Fries
Love their french fries!




The Daily Scoop Ice Cream Cafe
I can never get sick of ice cream no matter what. And with this Mao Shan Wang flavor, I can't wait to go back and get one more scoop of this yummy stuff.




Starbucks
Immersing ourselves with the xmas mood in town with two of the Starbucks Xmas drinks.



Itacho Sushi



Dessert Bowl
Finally got to try these desserts after reading the reviews online. The durian mousse is really damn good! Worth the try!







Taking a short break from mugging for my finals which is going to start from tomorrow onwards :(

Can't believe how time flies man. In the blink of an eye, this semester is coming to an end. Don't know if it's due to the final year syndrome or what, I kind of started appreciating my NUS life and have mixed feelings whenever I think of graduation. Also, I truly enjoyed what I had in this semester, except for my Mondays' schedule (Monday became my most hated day of the week because I had 6 hours of Economics classes back to back from 9-3pm). Or probably because of that one major change in my life that reduces my worries and unhappiness to almost nothing, and that I have learnt to be grateful of those that existed in, or newly became part of, my life whom boost the happiness level in me. I just can't wait to go on to my final semester because I know it would be the least stressful semester in my entire 4 years in NUS and I will be enjoying the last bit of my undergraduate life.

But for now, I can't wait for 2 dec to come!
Can't wait to eat more good food, settle few personal matters and hopefully exercise soon! :)

♥

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

The Sushi Bar

Heard about the craves of The Sushi Bar sometime back and since I was craving for sushi during my mid-terms week, I decided to try them out. Situated at the third level of Far East Plaza, it is accessible and easy to find. Ladies could even stop by to have a bite or two during their shopping break ^^

Went down with Eug during the evening and we were early to avoid the dinner crowd. Greeted by friendly staff (waitress) but was told that the main chef (which I supposed is the boss - Eugene) wasn't around at that time and we couldn't order anything related to sashimi. So well, we decided to wait for the chef to return and was enquiring the usual stuff like the time etc. But this SUPER RUDE kitchen staff said smth so loudly as though we couldn't hear it. He had that arrogant tone and was telling his colleagues (who were attending to us then) to ask us to leave if we were not interested in ordering. RUDE TTM. I think The Sushi Bar needs to educate their staff, especially that rude guy. Like seriously.

The food is SUPER YUMMY :D We went along with the good reviews and ordered the following:

Salmon Aburi Roll ($13.90)

Chirashi Don ($24.90)

Super yums! The sushi melts in your mouth and the salmon, tuna etc are thick and succulent. Looking at these pictures make me drool now ~ Craving for it againnnnnn :(

It was not enough for us even though we were already burping. Hehe so we ordered another plate of salmon, at $4.90.


Look at how thick these slices are. Fat and juicy. Yumyum.


Do try them out! It's really worth the money :) But do check their facebook page for more updates on their opening hours etc (Sometimes they don't even open for business).

The Sushi Bar
14 Scotts Road, Far East Plaza
#03-89
Singapore 228213

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesushibar.sg

♥

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Food, food and more food

Who doesn't like food right? :) As we grow older, we learn to appreciate good quality food and would go on a food-hunt for good food around Singapore and often, overseas, just like how ladyironchef does.

I'm definitely not a foodie (at least for now) but this post will consist of short reviews of the places I've went in March...

Let's start with a bad review, alright?
I like to keep the best till the last hehe.


Shabu Sushi
Heard of Shabu Sushi that is located at Serangoon Nex?
It caters Japanese steamboat and sushi buffet.
Sounds good huh? Platters of sushi and free flow of steamboat food for big-eaters (not me).
But let me tell you, this place isn't as wonderful as what you perceive it to be...
And I would choose to be at somewhere else, like any steamboat restaurants in Bugis than at this particular one.
But because my boyfriend bought this groupon coupon and thus, we went to try it.

When we first stepped into the place, the staff would take their own sweet time to serve us when it's just simple guidance to a table. They do not even need to take any orders from us and there were like only less than 10 customers, with so many staff then, but there were just taking their own sweet time. 

Food didn't look appetizing. Sushi choices were little. Of course, I didn't expect sashimi etc from them but they could do much better than that. As for steamboat, it is a MIRACLE if you see meat or seafood on the belt. 90% of the time, I see fish balls, meat balls or flour-related food. Soup contains A LOT of MSG too. 

Service sucks. Staff were making a lot of noises and talking out loud. Yes, it is alright to talk when they were less busy but well, at least not so loud? My bf and I could hear every single word they said, especially when they were gossiping about customers that they served earlier on. Tsk tsk, making a fool out of themselves. One of the female staff has ultra bad attitude as well. While we were there, something went wrong with the food-belt near my table and plates of food were just dropping off from the belt. I informed that female staff about the incident and at the same time, tried to 'save' those food from dropping. Instead of thanking me for my help, she sort of accused me for being the cause of the faulty food-belt. Like wth? Accusing people without any concrete evidence.

Overall, my experience there sucks and if you google online (which I regret not doing that before I visited the place), you would see many bad reviews about them.


Now with GOOD reviews :)


Wimbly Lu
Desserts, one of the must-have-food in whatever course you are having, has became real popular in the recent years.
And Wimbly Lu is one good place for desserts and chocolate-lovers like me! :)

I went there twice and I'm amazed with their range of desserts. Some are really unique like the Root Beer Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream (picture below)

If you follow me on Instagram, you would see these dessert pictures before.
Tried 4 different desserts on 2 different days with 2 different group of people :)
Pictures are based from my favorite to the least favorite:

Molten Lava Cake
Thick chocolate flowing out from this cake when you pressed on it lightly.
Do be careful not to put it into your mouth immediately.
This dessert is served hot!

Root Beer Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream
It really captured the root beer taste! And together with the ice cream, it gives an overall smooth texture :)
But sadly, my bf doesn't like it hahaha.

Tiramisu
I have a love-hate relationship with Tiramisu though.
The texture is just nice and you can't stop eating it once you had your first scoop.
It's simply addictive but the combination of alcohol and cocoa makes me feel sick after that.
Maybe it's just me haha.

Iced Chocolate Drink
Neh, I won't recommend this. Somehow it tastes weird.
Diluted? I don't know.
Definitely not within my expectation.


It is located within the premises of the landed properties at Jalan Riang, near Serangoon/Lorong Chuan.
Go try if you are a chocolate-lover like me :)
They have waffles and other cake desserts that I've yet to try them.
But if they are really nice, you can also let me know so that next time I would know what new desserts to try out from them!


Izakaya Nijumaru
Another Japanese restaurant but with good reviews this time round.
It is located at Cuppage Plaza.

They offered delicious food but one bad thing about the store is the menu is filled with Japanese words and I couldn't understand anything :/
My friends used Google translation but of course, the fastest way is to ask their staff.
I wonder why they don't print menu with a more commonly used language in SG instead.

Other than that, it's really worth going! It's not too expensive too. The Katsu Curry Rice costs $10 only and it is pretty filling for a girl. Okay, maybe it's just me.



After dinner, we don't just say goodbye to our friends right?
We would go somewhere else to chill, chit-chat, gossip etc.
And this was where I went after that yummy Japanese meal shown in the picture above ^


Five Tapas Bar @ Cuppage Terrace
Love their open area where you could enjoy their live band, watch soccer while drinking wine, beer or any other alcoholic/non-alcoholic drinks. Hahaha.



The end of my food adventure in March.
Till then,

♥
Cheryl

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Pancakes

Cravings = A powerful desire for something.
As for me, my cravings usually revolve around food.

And my most recent crave is pancakes.

It all started from the night before CNY eve when I was in my boyfriend's car, listening to this radio DJ interviewing the owners of a local pancake store and the next morning, I woke up with a crave for pancakes. I thought of just getting Mcdonald's hotcakes to satisfy the crave but I figured out that i would missed the chance of getting it (It was nearing 12pm and I was still in bed then). But thanks to my laziness, it earned me the opportunity to visit the pancake store that was broadcasted the night before. My boyfriend decided to bring me there for lunch :D

We headed over to Little Pancakes, at Upper Thomson Road.
A small little, cozy store, with cute little paintings of that two characters below as their wall decorations.



Ordered the following:

Going Nutella For You


Gimme S'more Oreos!

Looks good isn't it? Small little pancakes that are just perfect for dessert, though I was full after eating my share for lunch. Hahaha. 

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And so, my crave didn't end after that meal. I was still craving for more and my bf & I decided to make homemade pancakes by ourselves a week ago.


First attempt and I have to say we are pretty good not to make those pancakes burnt! Definitely will try again to get a nicer pancake colour and size.

Pancakes would be too dry to eat without maple syrup, butter or ice cream. For me, ice cream would be the best option and ta-da, salted caramel ice cream with pancakes. 


Can't wait to start making pancakes again! But all these have to wait till my mid-term tests and deadlines are over :( Hais, back to my essays and books...

Till then,
♥
Cheryl