The Daily Scoop

The Daily Scoop is now officially in my list of favourite ice-cream cafe/stores. I love their cones! They do not just have the usual waffle cones, but quite a great variety such as chocolate-coated cone, "Wonder Women" which is chocolate coated with rainbow sprinkled and chocolate coated with nuts, if I'm not wrong.

Strangely, when I walked into the cafe, the sweet-smelling aromas and all the colourful tubs of ice-cream right before my eyes made me smile happily to myself like a 7 year-old girl. Told you, I couldn't resist these sweet pretty little things.

We saw a little boy with the "Wonder Women" ice cream and my friend said he was holding on to the ice-cream so tightly as if the sky would fall down too if the ice-cream dropped. I wouldn't mind going back to the times when ice-cream was my everything, my world. Now, ice-cream could only chase away the blues for a moment.

Sesame scoop with chocolate-coated cone

Double scoop- Macadamia and Mao Shan Wang

But nevertheless, ICE CREAM IS LOVE.

P.S. Thanks to my best friend for introducing this place to me and giving me a treat!


43 Jalan Merah Saga
Chip Bee Garden #01-78
Singapore 278115
http://www.thedailyscoop.com.sg/

Hatched

Two greatest regrets made at Hatched. 

First, it was the timing we went. Was it brunch time or lunch break? The place was so crowded but lucky us, we did manage to get the last empty seats available even though it was so close to the table next to us. Another thing I do not like about crowded eateries is because it makes me feel sheepish to take out my camera and snap pictures of the food. I know a professional food blogger should not mind the looks from others and would be snapping photos of all the food on the table before he starts eating. But I feel that people would be giving me all the weird stares, thinking why-on-earth-are-you-taking-photos-of-the-food-instead-of-eating-it-while-it-is-hot-and-whatsnot. Thus, due to my fear of being judge by people as a weirdo, below is the one and only presentable photo that I hurriedly took it with a handphone trying not to attract too much attention. 

Sir Benedict ($12 for one)

The second regret was ordering only one benedict instead of two. I would have easily gobble down the second one. Yes, because the combination of muffin, bacon and poached egg was just too satisfying. Now, that's what you called a scrumptious breakfast. The egg white was a little tasteless though. Now that I come to think of it, I have forgotten to add the pepper and salt. Aww.. that makes another regret. Ohwell. And I think that the mashed potatoes tasted a little weird. Well, perhaps KFC's mashed potatoes left too deep an impression in my tastebud that I have set the standard for mashed potatoes to be like KFC's in order for it to be called good.

Anyway, I should definitely make another trip down to Hatched, but at a better timing though.


267 Holland Avenue
Singapore 278989
https://www.hatched.sg/
https://www.facebook.com/HatchedHV
https://www.facebook.com/pages/HATCHED/

Grin Affair

Grin affair is a cosy little cafe hidden in a quiet corner of Everton Park. You would never have imagined that a cafe is secretly functioning in this seemingly out-of-place location - an old HDB estate. When walking at the dark void deck with low ceiling, you feel like you are in another part of Singapore, especially when my generation has been surrounded by mostly shopping malls and renovated HDB flats. But nevertheless, I love this idea of mismatch concept. 

I got to know about this cafe after looking at some food bloggers' reviews. And you know what, 

I was mesmerized by those photos of cake in a jar, beautifully decorated. I fell in love with them almost instantly. In my head, thinking only of making a trip there as soon as possible, I dragged my friend down with me, forgotten the facts that she doesn't eat cake. 

The drinks menu hand-drawn by the owner giving a personal touch

Drinks - Passion fruit and mango cubes ($2.80), Grapefruit with lychee

Durian ($5.50)

All the flavours just sounded so good that I didn't know what to choose from but in the end I chose my all-time-favourite durian.  It did not disappoint me. The cake was really soft and the experience of eating in a jar make it special. Well, it was just heavenly delicious.

Another special thing about this cafe is the recycling of the jars. For every jar you bought for takeaway, it comes with a ticket. And during your next visit, when you return these jars, you get another ticket for it. Collect 20 tickets and in return you will get a jar of cranberry!

In the end, my friend who only got herself the Grapefruit drink bought some jars of cakes for takeaway too, for her family. Tell me, which girl could resist such lovely sweet treats?

Jody is the owner of Grin Affair, she is a very friendly young lady. We had a little chat with her and found out that she actually gave up pursuing her degree in law and took up a few jobs here and there in order to open this, which I believed, is her dream cafe. I really admire her courage and of course, her innovativeness.

Check out Grin Affair's facebook status updates if you do not wish to make a wasted trip, these lovely jars are selling out fast almost everyday. Or you can simply text the owner to make a reservation of the jars!


3 Everton Park #01-77A
Singapore 080003
http://www.grinaffair.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/grin-affair/

Cupcake Engineer

Another planned trip down to Cupcake Engineer at Cluny Court sometimes in May with a friend of mine to satisfy our cravings for cupcakes. It is not difficult to find this cafe located in between the shophouses. Get down at Botanic Garden MRT Station, walk down Cluny Court and from the glass window, a shop with beautiful displays of cupcakes will catch your eyes before you know it. There you are, at the entrance of Cupcake Engineer. 

We tried the Horlicks and Bandung flavours and they were indeed true blue as their names suggest. What makes each flavour distinctive was the cream. For those people, especially girls, who are afraid of cream that are so milky-creamy, I am sure you will like this! However, I find the cake a little too moist. The cafe is rather small, enough for around 3 to 5 people only, if i remembered correctly. 

Horlicks and Bandung flavours (from left to right) ($4 each)

One of the flavours which I find it rather interesting is Hot Chocolate. The owner told me it is chocolate  infused with chilli, to create a tinge of spicy taste. It's is even topped with a chilli padi! I would definitely try this on my next visit!


501 Bukit Timah Road, Cluny Court
#01-03A
Singapore 259760
https://www.facebook.com/cupcakeengineer

Vanilla Bar & Cafe

 A visit to Vanilla Bar & Cafe situated somewhere along the junction of Amoy Street and Boon Tat Street. My friend and I had quite a hard time trying to find the place since we were walking all the way from Raffles Place MRT Station and the only thing we had was a GPS that wasn't that reliable. But all the walking and trying-to-make-out-where-we-were from the GPS was definitely worth it. The moment we stepped into the cafe, the simple furnishings of wooden chairs and tables gave us a soothing and peaceful feeling. Another plus point was, it was not crowded which is what I personally like. (Though I'm not that sure whether the cafe would get crowded during lunch hours.)

So we settled for these two for our dinner. I love how the smoked salmon is cooked with the right level of saltiness and the salmon does not taste raw, which is to my liking. Though i would have to admit that since this is a creamy sauce, one does get quite sick of it at the end. I tried my friend's curry don and it tasted good too.

Smoked salmon linguine ($11.90)

Japanese curry katsu don ($10.90)

Finally, what's better than having desserts after a meal? So these were what we ordered for our desserts. Yes, you're not seeing the wrong things, that's a flower pot. It is an oreo ice-cream cake served in a flower pot! The oreo crumble as the mud and gummy worms as earthworms. How creative! Actually it tasted somewhere in between cake and ice-cream, not exactly like a cake and not really like ice cream, so i just called it ice-cream cake. Nevertheless, I love it since I have a sweet tooth and I have never tried eating anything in a flower pot before haha! 

My friend ordered sticky toffee pudding. And she actually had to ask for the waitress to confirm again if this is really a pudding because it does not turn out to be what we have thought it should be. But true enough, this is sticky toffee pudding and it tasted like some of the malay cakes, if you get what I mean. (After doing some googling and reading food blogger's blog, I realised sticky pudding is a steamed sponge cake and not the jelly-like pudding.) 

Vanilla dirt cake ($8.90)

Sticky toffee pudding ($7.90)

Overall, I think this is a good place to chill out. Food is a little expensive but sometimes, it is worth it to spend for the ambience and with the people you love.


3 Boon Tat Street #01-01
Singapore 069612
http://www.vanillacafe.com.sg/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vanilla-Bar-Café/