K ki ケーキ

Cosy.Cafe.Cakes.

I walked past the shop several times but

it was always in the night so no matter what

there is no way that I can visit this little piece 

of heaven since it is closes at 7pm daily unless

I make an effort to be at Ann Siang in the noon

which i finally did a few months back.

It is a pretty known fact that japanese confections

are usually light and airy, but one thing that I really

admired is the simple and classy look of their cakes.

Japan is a place that I would love to pursue my dream

just not France or anywhere else.

A very humble cafe with clean and white interior perfect

for a lazy afternoon tea. I went there for their Mont 

Blanc and unfortunately it was long sold out, but I

was told that I could have called to make a reservation 

merely for a slice of cake. This is weird, nevertheless I 

will heed her advice if I'm ever coming back again;)

 I heart this red letter box with the potted plants hanging, great idea! :)

 We ordered a pot of Osmanthus Sencha since I 
appreciate tea more than coffee, the sencha is aromatic and 
has a very slight sweet after taste

read up many reviews about this Kinabaru (S$8.00) and 
there were nothing but praises so far. this is basically 
coconut mousse with passionfruit centre and crunchy chocolate 
base, to be honest the combination does not appear to be appealing
 in my context. and i was wrong, utterly wrong, it is so tropical and 
refreshing! This is definitely something worth a mention

pretty Red Riding Hood (S$8.50)with gleamy chocolate 
coated on the outside but the chocolate mousse cake is plain 
ordinary, nothing impressive so to me its neither yay nor meh :/

If I happen to be here again, I will not want to miss

the Mont Blanc and Noisette! =]

Ambience: 3.8/5

Food: 3.8/5

Money:2.9/5

Final Verdict: I'LL CONSIDER!

Address: 7 Ann Siang Hill

#01-00 (Singapore)

Operating Hours: Tues to Sat -12pm to 7pm

Sun- 1pm to 7pm

(Closed on Mondays)

Tel (No.): +65 6225 6650

*burped at 3.26am~♥

Tiong Bahru Bakery

Here is my new found love.

Tiong Bahru is now the place where you can

find small and quaint cafes just everywhere.

With the recent hype on the area there is certainly 

no reason for you to not know about the Tiong

Bahru Cafe, such a simplistic name but there's

so much more to it.

The layout of the cafe is pretty usual, 30-40 seaters

with long counters on the right where they display

varieties of bread, pastries and tarts and many other 

treats. I have to say I was spoiled for choices, if only

I can order one of everything!

 this is an excellent example of how the chinese meet the western, 

if you tell me this is a place where they sell "pau" instead of bread I 

seriously won't doubt hahahah

range of savoury items and how do people make their choice when 

everything here looks so good

 muffins brownies and tarts they are all waving at me!

we had the ham and mozarella foccacia with rocket leaves 

and cherry tomatoes (S$8.00), the texture of the foccacia was 

quite a let down as i expected more fragrance and crisp but it turned out 

rather hard and chewy instead. The saltiness of the ham was 
overwhelming thus I will suggust to have it with the rockets as they complement.

the all time crowd-pleaser, chocolate croissant(S$3.20). 

We were comtemplating between the plain and chocolate 
as many mentioned in their reviews that the plain croissant 
is something to rave about! But the chocolate ones were freshly out 
from the oven so we went ahead with the latter and I thought we 
made a good decision. The exterior is flaky and crispy whereas it 
is so soft and airy inside with the slightly warm melted chocolate. 

On the overall, the croissant is not too greasy and I am glad that its 
buttery flavour is not over powering too.

A place worth visting and I am awfully jealous of the heartlanders 

in Tiong Bahru. Hooray for the second branch is now open at the 

basement of Raffles City Shopping Centre ;)

Ambience: 3.5/5

Food: 3.9/5

Money: 3.9/5

Final Verdict: I'LL BE BACK!

Address: 56 Eng Hoon Street

#01-70 (Singapore)

Operating Hours: 8am to 8pm 

(Closed on Tuesdays)

Tel (No.): +65 6220 3430

*burped at 6.04pm~♥

Riders Cafe

Holla! This time round, a good breakie place for

a sunny weekend's morning, the riders cafe!

As secluded as the marmalade's pantry, you'll

probably need a car to get there. 

Please do get your reservation done before heading

down cos you may have to wait for hours if you do

walk-in as the cafe is well-liked by many, to play

safe it's better if you can reserve your seats one to 

two weeks before the actual day you're going especially

if it's a Saturday or Sunday. 

Take note that there's a slight difference between the brunch 
and lunch menu, the weekend brunch items will be only be 
available from 8am to 3pm

That few girls insist to photobomb:(

 evidence of being close to the nature!

  this may sound silly but I really wanted to be there to see the horses!!

 ordered a summer citrus fizz to cool my day but sadly its abit too sour for my liking

 pumpkin soup with roasted almond flakes which is very creamy and smooth and

you can somewhat taste the natural sweetness in it

blackstone eggs benedict with bacons and tomatoes on sourdough, 
was disappointed with the poached eggs as we were expecting 
runny yolk but it was over done

 the usual breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs (you can actually 

make your own choice of eggs), streaks of smoked bacon, breakfast banger and 

sauteed mushrooms, this combination can hardly go wrong

the daily special; eggs benedict with chunks of crab meat and prawn

drizzled with hollandaise sauce! I'll say this is my favourite of all, at 

least the poached eggs were cooked well and they are pretty generous 

with the seafood.

Since you had already made your way here, do drop by the marmalade pantry

for something sweet to end your day! Make your trip there worthwhile ;)

Ambience: 4/5

Food: 3.8/5

Money: 3.8/5

Final Verdict: WILL CONSIDER COMING BACK AGAIN (MAYBE AFTER A LONG TIME)

Address: 51 Fairways Drive

Bukit Timah Saddle Club (Singapore)

Operating Hours: 8am to 10pm

(Closed on Mondays)

Tel (No.): +65 6466 9819

*burped at 3.09pm~♥

The Marmalade Pantry (Fairways Drive)

Time to introduce a place for sweet treats!:)

I knew there is another outlet at ION orchard

which is much more convenient and accessible 

but I was determined to hold back my temptation 

till I visit the one at Fairways Drive. And if you 

ask me why? I would say it's mainly because Im

a very "ambience" kinda person which means I'll

prefer to spend the same amount of money to

laze around in a nice and green outdoor environment 

instead of "people watching" in a shopping mall

Before hopping over to Marmalade Pantry, I had

a wonderful brunch with my friends at the Rider's

Cafe situated just next door and I'll cover that in

another entry soon;)

surrounded by the nature and greens! I love the laid back feel.

the first thing that caught my eyes is the array of pretty and 

sweet cupcakes! Something that girls may appreciate more and I 

wished I can try every single one:(

chose the plain jane Elvis (S$4.50), that is banana cupcake with peanut 

butter spread. The base is moist and light tastes like the typical 

banana walnut cake and the peanut butter gave the rich and flavourful 

taste to it.

not like the common red velvet we had at twelve cupcakes or anywhere else. 

You can see shredded coconut above the thin layer of cream cheese frosting, 

I actually favour this version more (S$4.50).

this is crazily sinful! Sea salt caramel cheesecake (S$8.00), practically felt like 

we were eating a block of cheese. Honestly I hate caramel but surprisingly 

Im pretty in love with this. A tad jelat so I will suggest to share a 

serving among a few.

a giant slice of classic marmalade carrot cake (S$7.00) with visible chunks of walnuts and 

finely shredded carrot, it wins hands down. 

By the way they also serve a good variation of mains and pasta

just that the price is too steep for a pauper like me, so wait till I 

have a deeper pocket then.

Ambience: 4.3/5

Food: 4/5

$$$: 3.5/5

Final Verdict: IM COMING BACK AGAIN (Provided I have transport there haha)

Address: 55 Fairways Drive (Singapore)

Operating Hours: Tues-Fri 3pm to 11pm 

Sat-Sun 10am to 11pm 

(Closed on Mondays)

*burped at 10.47pm~♥

Swee Choon Tim Sum Restaurant

Not a beautiful cafe or an atas restaurant.

Just an ordinary eatery that serves good dimsums

at reasonable price! In usual cases, we will have

dim sums in the morning as breakfast or maybe

lunch/hi-tea but here's a lobang for everyone to have

it during dinner time or even supper, awesome or not! ;P

Im finally here after hearing about this place umpteen

times, was there around half past seven and it's 

considerably crowded there was even a queue and 

people were busy grabbing the menu ticking the items 

they want while waiting. This scene reminded me of 

the well-known Tim Ho Wan in HongKong which we

queued for one and a half hours. Lucky us got ourselves

a seat at Swee Choon after a mere five minutes wait.

 Enough said, time for photo bombing!

 what is Dim Sum without har gaos and siew mais! 

Hmm but this is just err..ordinary hahaha

 I love chee cheong fun with light soy sauce and sesame 

oil rather than the sweet sauce (S$1.80)

 if I never remember wrongly this should be one of their 

signature dishes, Mee Sua Kueh! I am not a mee sua lover 

but i really like this cos it is so crispy on the outside and 

you can see and taste strands of mee sua which is super shiok

 Guo Tie (Pan fried dumplings) with cabbage and minced meat, 

the photo tells it all. I cannot resist guo tieeee man

their Liu Sha Bao (Salted egg yolk custard Bun, S$3.30 for 3) 

is something you can die for! I have tried many others and I

can easily rank this in my list as TOP 3

great balance between saltiness from the salted egg yolk and 

sweetness from the custard, beware that you may be in a mess as 

the filling ooze out without warning! so heavenly and sinful of course

 pan fried carrot cake with little bits of preserved sausages 

and shredded raddish

 banana and prawn fritters! since when banana and 
prawns are best friends??!

 something sweet to end the day, red bean pancakes ;) 
it could have been better if they can be more generous 
with the red bean paste

Regardless if you're a hungry clubber, 

OR you're a starving employee who knocked off late from work 

OR you're simply a dim sum lover, this the

just right place for you!

ps: my bad again, i don't recall the pricing of each

items but the total bill came up to S$30.00  ;P

Ambience: 3/5

Food: 4/5

$$$: 3.5/5

Final Verdict: IM COMING BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Address: 185/187/189/191 

Jalan Besar(Singapore)

Operating Hours: 6pm to 6am 

(Closed on Tuesdays)

*burped at 5.34pm~♥

Paris Baguette Cafe Part II

The day after I posted an entry on Paris Baguette,

I went back again on the next day, unintentionally.

Good news is, i get to share more food for your

reference:)

 very tempted by the eccentric white choco, maybe i'll try 
this the next time!

 the bread is pretty dry and tasteless  in my opinion but i guess the best 
part lies in the top layer of caramelised walnuts (S$6.50)

 Pain Au Chocolat (S$2.90)  it tastes similar to the chocolate croissant
 from Tiong Bahru's Bakery, bittersweet chocolate as filling and the pastry is still 
crispy despite leaving it aside for more than half an hour

 dark chocolate brioche (S$2.50), the brown layer is crispy and sweet 
whereas its fluffy in the inside, possibly a good match with a cup of coffee

 here comes the ice flakes with red bean and the yellow cubes are 
actually mochi! I was fascinated by the price cos Im wondering who will 
pay S$9.00 for this but my friends gave good reviews on it so I decided to 
give this a try. The ice flakes are so fine along with the generous scoop of red 
bean on top and hidden in the centre of the bowl of ice I must say they 
are a perfect match. 

The ratings and address are stated in the previous entry:)

Leave me a comment if you tried something better here!

*burped at 4.12pm~♥

Paris Baguette Cafe.

Hello!!

THIS IS SO HEARTENING

my food blog my food blog my food blog

welcome to my space fellow foodie ;)

The first cafe that will be featured on this post will

be the new french cafe at Wisma! I heard so much

about this, not sure of its origin and all but I know

many of  my friends knew about it through their holiday

trips in Korea, Seoul.

Ambience of the cafe is pretty nice, spacious and i noticed

there are a number of korean patrons there as well anyway

try to be there during the non peak hours if you can afford

to so that you can grab their comfortable cushioned seats :P

something that bothers me greatly is the ridiculously priced

beverages, I simply don't get why. Other than that, I thought

the breads and pastries are rather reasonable.

Ahhh anyway i shall cut the crap here's the pictures

milk puddings in 3 flavours, original mango and strawberry if I'm not wrong

lovelies!

We mistakenly ordered the "Flying UFO" but it came

as a pleasant surprise! Light and crispy skirting and

the filling tastes like custard but I can't really figure

even till now hahaha as for the mushroom focaccia

everyone can just give that a miss that's not even worth

to be mentioned. Anyway my bad for i forgot about the

price of both but it is between $2.00 to $3.00~ for each

Ambience: 3.5/5

Food: 3.5/5

$$$: 3/5

Final Verdict: IM COMING BACK AGAIN.

Address: 435 Orchard Road, 

#02-48/53

Wisma Atria (Singapore)

Singapore 238877

Tel: +65 6836 2010

Operating hours:

10:00am - 10:00pm

*burped at 7.42pm~ ♥