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Birthday lunch for Pooh Bear

Polar — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:24:04 +0000

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We celebrated Pooh Bear’s birthday by going to Hatched, a restaurant which served her favorite food – eggs. In preparation for this event, Pooh Bear had been a very good girl and had abstained from consuming eggs for the whole week. Hatched had cute egg-related decorations in the restuarant and overall felt nice and cheery. I thought it would be a good place for a weekend breakfast or brunch. Apparently a lot of people agreed with me because Blue Avatar said the place was crowded on the weekends.

Si Hamil and I each ordered the Sir Benedict ($12) which was a poached egg, ham and bacon on top of half a muffin. It came with mashed potatoes and salad. It looked really tasty but at the same time it also looked small and not filling at all. The egg was perfectly poached and the yolk ran down the moment I cut into it. I liked the muffin which was an English muffin. There was a double portion had two of the egg benedict and cost $18. I didn’t order that because two eggs was a bit too much. Unlike Pooh Bear, I did not abstain from eggs.

Mao Mao’s and Pooh Bear’s Burly Benedict arrived at the table. Si Hamil and I thought ours looked pretty good until we saw theirs. The Burly Benedict was a poached egg and corned beef on top of half a muffin. It also came with salad and some potatoes. Mao Mao loved the corned beef very much and even wanted to order some more as a side dish. We all knew she loved the corned beef because she said “The corned beef is very nice” at least five times.

Mao Mao and Pooh Bear then shared an Oozy Baked Egg. It contained eggs, cream, bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and a piece of cheese at the top. They said it was like creamy chawanmushi. It was quite nice but it was too rich to be eaten alone.

I ordered a cafe latte and Mao Mao said that I had a cafe latte obsession. It was quite nice. Nicer than Coffee Bean but not as nice as Forty Hands. It cost same price ($5) as the cafe latte at Forty Hands.

Mao Mao had a glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice. It was really fresh. Mao Mao liked it too but not as much as the corned beef because she said “The grapefruit juice is very nice” only three times.

Hatched ( Website | Facebook | Twitter )
26 Evans Road #01-06 Evans Lodge Singapore 259367
Tel: +65 67350012 / 67350013

Lunch @ The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Polar — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:15:11 +0000

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Pooh Bear and I went for lunch at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Pooh Bear wanted to buy refills for the CBTL machine so we might as well have lunch there.

Both of us had the set lunch which came with a drink. I had a cafe latte while Pooh Bear had an ice-blended mocha. I felt the cafe latte was pretty weak and seemed a bit diluted.

I had a spicy tuna linguine which was nice but pretty spicy. Luckily I shared half the plate with Pooh Bear because it would be difficult for me to finish the whole plate by myself.

Pooh Bear had the rosemary chicken sandwich which was juicy and thankfully non-spicy.

An afternoon with Sayang

Polar — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:06:59 +0000

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Sayang was back for a short while to attend a wedding. I knew that she would be busy meeting up with relatives and friends so if I was going to see any sight of her, I would have to take leave and meet her on a weekday. Even so, her schedule was so packed that she had to keep changing the date and it was not confirmed until one or two days before. So I took a full day because I’m not hardworking enough to want to go to work in the morning. I told Sayang that I made a very big sacrifice because I gave up a day of earning money just to accompany her, ha ha. Sayang immediately said, “Rubbish!”

Sayang wanted to try out a dim sum buffet. We did not make any reservations, thinking that it’s a weekday and there should be enough tables. But when Sayang went at 12 noon, she found it fully booked. So we went to Cedele @ Wheelock Place for lunch. I was feeling hungry so I ordered a Beef Onion Portobello Burger with pumpkin bread ($14.80). Too bad Cedele did not have chocolate chip pancakes anymore or I would have ordered that for dessert.

Sayang brought me to Canele Patisserie @ Shaw Centre for dessert. I had passed by it before but I had not tried their desserts.

I had a triple chocolate cheesecake (around $8). It was nice and did not feel overly rich as the portions of cheese and chocolate were just right.

Sayang had the strawberry shortcake (around $6.50) which was light and fluffy. There were a lot of strawberries in the cake.

Having eaten a full meal, Sayang dragged me to Mango first, then Zara. She wanted to buy some new clothes because according to her, she had a new haircut and none of her clothes matched it. Excuses only. I’m not interested in shopping for clothes so I just followed Sayang around the shop. Sayang kept urging me to pick up some clothes so we could go and try them together. I rolled my eyes and ignored her.

When we finally stepped out of Zara, it was pouring heavily. Both of us had umbrellas but the rain was so heavy that my shoes and jeans still got wet. We hurried to Wheelock Place and then walked through the underpass to the MRT station. If it wasn’t raining so heavily we might have walked to Somerset but it was, so we took the train instead.

After Sayang did more shopping, I brought her to Jewels Artisan Chocolate @ Orchard Central. The shop was an open area next to the escalator but because there wasn’t heavy traffic so it still felt pretty peaceful and isolated.

Both of us ordered the blood orange sorbet ($3.80) which was sweet and tangy. I had a Grand Cru hot chocolate ($6.80) with mashmallow toppings while Sayang had cafe latte. I loved the hot chocolate which was thick, creamy and milky. I supposed that’s the way I like it. We stayed there for a while and chitchat.

It stopped raining after a while and we were able to walk to Dhoby Ghaut. I said goodbye to Sayang who went off to meet another group of people for dinner.

Buttercake N Cream

Polar — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:26:28 +0000

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MMC gave us a promo treat at Buttercake N Cream. It was a nice little place that wasn’t crowded at lunchtime.

All of us tried the Wild Mushroom Soup ($4.50) which was very nice. The portion was generous and it was so filling that I was already filling a little full after drinking it.

For main course, I had the Grilled Chicken Burger ($12.90) which was tasty. The burger was full of flavor although some people might not like big chunks of raw onions. I love onions so it was no problem for me, just that I felt I had onion breath for the rest of the afternoon. The chicken was juicy and tender. The burger came with grilled mushrooms and steakhouse fries. The mushrooms were nice but I felt the fries were a little bland, not enough salt I think.

The Chocolate Pot ($5.50) was a rich chocolate mousse on top of almond crumble.

The Warm Chocolate Pudding ($11) deserved its place as the restaurant’s specialty. It was big enough for two people. It was rich and fluffy and had the bitterness of dark chocolate. I really like this.

Buttercake N Cream
Blk 106 Clementi St 12 (Sunset Way), #01-52 Singapore 120106
Tel: +65 67773477

Harry’s jazz burger

Cedele at Takashimaya

Polar — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:16:00 +0000

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Bell and I went the Cedele All-Day Dining Restaurant at Takashimaya for lunch. It was a small outlet and felt rather cramped with the tables placed close together.

I ordered a ABC (apple, beetroot, carrot) juice and Bell ordered a mango lassi. My drink was still okay but Bell’s mango lassi had no mango taste. So Bell asked a waitress about it. The waitress took a look a said that it’s the correct lassi as plain lassi would be white in color. But both Bell and I tried it and there’s really no mango taste.

I had the beef bacon burger with focaccia bread. The burger was pretty tasty although everything seemed to be falling apart. There was a pile of vegetables at the side. I’m not sure if they were meant to be the salad or it was part of the burger but fell out. At first I thought it was the salad but there’s no salad dressing, not even olive and balsamic vinegar. So it was just plain dry vegetables, which wasn’t very nice to eat so I didn’t finish them.

We didn’t eat desserts as none of them looked tempting. We wanted the chocolate chip pancake but it seemed that Cedele had removed it from the menu. Sad

Bell felt that the food and service at the Wheelock Place outlet was better. She also remembered that they had salad dressing with the vegetables. We agreed to avoid the Takashimaya outlet next time.

Cedele All-Day Dining Restaurant
391 Orchard Road #B1-37 Takashimaya Shopping Centre
Tel: 62352380

Harry’s jazz burger

Polar — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:46:05 +0000

At the end of a particularly trying week, Bell and I went to Harry’s for dinner and drinks. I had the jazz burger ($17) which was supposed to be their specialty and Bell had lamp chops ($13). As you can see in the photo, the burger is small. As if to make up for the size of the burger, and I suspect to make sure that customers are full, there was a mountain of fries. I felt a bit cheated. I mean, come on, this is one of the recommended dishes and looks just like this? Fries are not that expensive, you know. I’m not asking for a gigantic burger but I definitely don’t feel that such a small burger is worth $17. Especially when I compare it to the lamb chops which has more generous portions and are cheaper.

Anyway, I was so angry about what happened at work that I drank two glasses of mojito.

Charly T’s

Polar — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:30:21 +0000

Redhead, Mao Mao and I went for lunch. It was hard to meet up with her and we kept changing the time and venue. By the fourth or fifth time, I was telling myself that if we had to change in time or venue again, I will see Redhead the next round she is back.

Because Plaza Singapura was so crowded, we decided to walk to The Cathay. Along the way, we stopped at the first restaurant we saw. I was feeling very hungry because I did not have breakfast. There wasn’t many people in the restaurant and we easily got a table. The staff at the restaurant were nice and polite.

We shared a whole rotisserie chicken ($37) which came with four side dishes and four sauces. The chicken looked rather small at first and I expressed my doubts whether it would be enough for the three of us. On hindsight, it was probably my hungry stomach talking. By the end of the meal, I was full. The chicken was cut into four quarters so we took one quarter each. In the end, I ate the last quarter of the chicken too. The chicken was tender and moist on the inside while the skin was slightly crispy and flavorful because of the marinate. Redhead commented that the chicken was tasty enough to eat without any sauces.

These are the sauces but I’m not sure what that their names.

For the four sides, we had macaroni and cheese, german potato salad, coleslaw and fresh vegetables. I only ate two out of four of the sides.

Keropi joined us in the middle of our meal. Since she already had lunch, she bought a iced latter ($5) and a slice of cake ($7). I felt the cake was quite expensive as it looked like ordinary marble cake. It didn’t taste that great either.

Charly T’s
20 Handy Road Level 1 NOMU Building Singapore
Tel: 63367789