CoCo ICHIBANYA

Cream mushroom omelette ($13)

Pork cutlet curry ($14)

Been to the newly open Bugis+ (formerly known as Illuma), there are quite a number of eateries on the first level and the bad thing about this is, you cannot really decide what to eat. In the end, we decided to settle for CoCo ICHIBANYA as my friend tried before and was satisfied with it. Something interesting about this curry house is that, you could choose the level of spiciness you want for the curry and even the portion of rice (which I felt is quite thoughtful since most girls couldn't always finish the rice). However, for the creamed mushroom omelette which I have ordered, everything is fixed.

For the omelette, the curry sauce is not spicy at all, it is quite thick and a little sweet. But, I felt that as you kept eating, it was getting quite boring as there were only the egg and mushroom to complement the rice and curry. Personally, I just felt that it is not that worth it to pay $13 for curry sauce, eggs and mushroom only. Furthermore, soggy rice just reminds me of something which I shall not say here. 

On the other hand, I think my friend loves japanese curry rice. There wasn't even a single grain of rice left on her plate. So I guess, it just varies with different people.   

Bugis+, #01-10

http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/english/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/CoCoICHIBANYAsingapore

Awfully Chocolate

Call me outdated or what, but this is the first time that I tried the popular home-grown chocolate cake chain, Awfully Chocolate. 

Yes, I have ordered a size 6" All Chocolate cake online for my dearest mummy's birthday and collected it at Raffles City outlet. 

All Chocolate 6" ($25.80)

The dark chocolate flavour was not the bitter kind but with a hint of sweetness. I found this level of sweetness to be just right for dark chocolate. Layers of chocolate fudge were in between the cake. The cake was moist but dense. Overall, I was satisfied with the product and service.

Indeed, Awfully Chocolate lives up to its name.


http://www.awfullychocolate.com/

Buffet Town

This is the first time that I could not stop myself from eating before taking photos of the food. So below are the photos which I have taken, at least, after a quarter full; when my stomach was slightly satisfied and allowed my hands to dig into my bag and take out the camera. The reason being, there were just too many choices and I could not wait to try them out! 

Oh and I have been too excitedly typing out this that I have forgotten to mention that this was a weekend dinner buffet at $39.80 ++ (adult). At this price, you are paying for a wide spread of fresh seafood; prawns, clams, mussels, oysters, crayfish, scallops, chilli crab and pepper crab. I love the chilli crab's sauce, it was quite spicy but manageable. With the small little bread dipped into the sauce, the pair was extremely compatible, if this is the correct word to describe it. The bread was sort of fried before, crispy on the outside but soft inside. 

Of course, other than seafood, there are many other selections, just to name a few, Japanese sushi, Italian pizzas and pastas; for the pastas, you could even choose your own ingredients before passing it to the chef to cook in the way you want such as aglio olio, tomato or cream based and our local delights- laksa, chicken rice etc. 

I am not exactly a beef lover but I love to try out new things. And this is the first time that I tried meat as raw as this. Look at the picture above, it is still red! Is this what they called, medium rare? But anyway, it was so difficult to cut it with a knife too, so in the end I only get to eat the brown part.

Sadly, I felt that the cakes were not of the finest quality. They were just average cakes that could be found at the neighbourhood pastry shops. Fortunately, the chocolate-dipped marshmallows were able to appease me as my dessert for that night as they have always been my favourite.

I should have taken more photos but I have been busily tucking into all the delicious dishes. And after almost 3 hours of feast, I think I even had some difficulties of standing up and walking. But it was all worth it, I would only have to wait for the food to digest before I venture on my next food journey. 

Raffles City #B1-44E

http://www.buffettown.com.sg/

Sweet Sweet Tooth

This is what happened when your digital camera run out of battery. I have to resort to using my low-quality phone camera. So I would say these photos do no justice. It is a pity, but I guess it is more important that the food taste better than having nicely taken photos of food that does not taste as good. 

Before we went to Sweet Sweet Tooth, my friend highly recommended passion fruits and grapes snow ice. Telling me how great it was the last time she had it and she assured me that I would surely fall in love with it too. Thinking that she might had exaggerated a little bit, I was skeptical about it. 

However, the first spoonful I had, when the ice melted in my mouth, my facial expression gave me away. I know at that moment that she did not exaggerate at all. It was true. It was sweet but not the type that would make you sick of it but instead, make you want more. There were many different types of real fruits on it such as kiwi, strawberry, grape and mango. I think this is really one of the best choices for dessert especially in the humid weather of Singapore these days. 

Passion fruits and grapes snow ice ($6+) 

Custard eggs (The exact name was in french) ($7+) 

Tried one bite of my friend's dessert too. It tasted something like the custard on egg tarts but this was warm, I think they pre-heat before they served. But my friend said, the passion fruit and grapes snow ice is still the best. 

Marina Square #B1-04
6 Raffles Boulevard
Singapore 039594
https://www.facebook.com/sweetsweettooth 

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/