Oishii Halal Restaurant -CLOSED-

Went to Oishii Halal Restaurant for a steamboat buffet. We bought an online voucher which cost $12 with the original price being $23.90. However, when we went there we noticed that the original price was only $12.99 for the day we went.

Oishii Halal Restaurant was actually called Yureka Teppanyaki Restaurant and on their facebook page you can see that it has not changed. At the restaurant you can also see a board hung on the wall with the words yureka teppanyaki.

We arrived, had a seat and was given 3 choices for our soup- Tom Yum, Chicken and Ramen. However if we wanted the Ramen we had to wait 20 minutes so we decided on tom yum and chicken soup instead.

The ingredients are all on the conveyor belt and you help yourself to whatever items you want. At first we could see some empty plate and some with broken egg shells on it but that was because there was no other place to dispose of your plate. Thus people would put it back at the conveyor belt which the people inside the kitchen would remove.

The food available was sliced beef, sliced chicken, prawns, squids, mussels, sliced fish, tofu, nori(which we only saw once), shiitake mushroom, enokitake mushroom, oyster mushroom, carrots, fishball, crab claw, crabstick and sausage. At the side you could get rice, cabbage, kang kong, condiments, egg, glass noodles, instant noodles, grape syrup drink, ice and plain water.

At the side of the table is the induction control- on/off and strength control (1,2 and 3). After a while even though the induction was at 1, the heat was still very strong. Strong enough for the soup to bubble and jump on to Hazel 's hand a few time (which wasn't pleasant for her). The Tom Yum soup was a little on the sweet side but there was slightly acidic as well. The Chicken soup was on the saltier side but flavorful.

At the front of the restaurant there were 3 types of noodles available-Instant, egg and glass noodles. Condiments- sweet red chili, green chili in soy sauce, wasabi etc.. Rice available too!

At $12 for this buffet I think it's good enough to fill my stomach and the plus side is that it's halal.

Rate:

Food: 5/10 ☺
Service: 6/10 ☺
Value: 5.5/10 ☺

Krispy Kreme (Great World City) -CLOSED-

Today is boxing Day but I did not get doughnuts today. I had Krispy Kreme donuts on Christmas eve!

Kripy Kreme is a doughnut company that started out in America in 1937. Many years later, Krispy Kreme came to Singapore with it's first outlet in Tangs Orchard on October 2013. Kripy Kreme has since opened 3 more outlets. I went to it's newest outlet at Great World City.

Gf and I bought a dozen assorted flavor ($2.50) for our colleagues- New York Cheesecake, Green Tea Cake, Salted Caramel, Caramel Cheesecake, Cookie Crunch and Red Velvet.

New York Cheesecake on the inside there was cream cheese filling and it's topped with some sort of biscuit for some crunch.
Green Tea Cake had a different texture, more towards a cake then doughnut (which I didn't like). The green tea flavor was prominent and good. DL really liked the green tea flavor of it.
Salted Caramel my favorite flavor! They use sea salt flakes. Very salty, very sweet but very good. Salted Caramel lovers will definitely love it!
Caramel Cheesecake is a lot sweeter than the New York cheesecake. I think it's really too sweet.
Cookie Crunch uses Oreo so instead of the golden brown doughnut, it's dark brown. Had a slight chocolaty flavor. Gf like this the most as she likes Oreo.
Red Velvet had a very crumbly texture. Fell apart quite easily. It had a chocolaty taste but there was an artificial taste to it.

I also got a free Original Glazed doughnut from the line app. Slightly chewy and quite sweet but good. YS likes the original one.

In the end everyone was happy with the doughnut although it was sweeter than what we would prefer. I especially love the Salted Caramel which I would gladly buy a box of if it weren't for the calories.

Rate:
New York Cheesecake: 7/10 ☺
Green Tea Cake: 7/10 ☺
Salted Caramel: 10/10 ☺
Caramel Cheesecake: 6.5/10 ☺
Cookie Crunch: 7/10 ☺
Red Velvet: 5/10 ☺
Original Glazed: 7.5/10 ☺

Koko Rooloo

Saw on WX's instagram about this place. Messaged him and a few weeks later we are here for dinner.

 

Koko Rooloo is a small restaurant run by Koreans, located at Tanjong Pagar that sells..... Korean food!

Kimbap ($6)- Korean equivalent of sushi. But instead of seasoning the rice with vinegar, kimbap rice is seasoned with salt and sesame oil. They also sprinkled sesame seeds on the seaweed. Inside the kimbap there were pickled vegetable, carrots, smoked sausage, chives and egg omelette. It was good but I still prefer my sushi which is served colder.

Cheese Rice Cake ($12)- soft rice cake, fishcake, sweet red chilli sauce and cheese. The best rice cake I have eaten so far! Chewy and not too soft rice cake with a well balanced sauce that is not too spicy nor sour. The cheese added an extra yummy and chewy factor too. Glad we got this instead of the normal rice cake.

Beef Soup ($12)- hearty flavorful soup that was outshone by the cheese rice cake and pork kimchi. You could taste the rich flavors of beef together with the seasoning and many other ingredients that were inside the soup. Accompanied with the soup were plain rice and a fried egg.

Pork Kimchi ($22)- Pork with salty, spicy, slightly sweet but well balanced kimchi goes so well together. A perfect match. The kimchi acts like a seasoning to the pork which helps give the pork a more complex flavor. My complaint is that there's more fat than meat.

Lemon Soju ($22)- Tasted like bitter lemon except that it  has alcohol content and tastes less sweeter.

Complementary snack with a glass of beer for the three of us to share. A nice different way to end our meal.

Will definitely come back again for their rice cake and maybe I'll try to find someone who is adventurous enough to try blood sausage and silkworm with me.

Rate:

Kimbap: 6.5/10 ☺
Cheese Rice Cake: 9.5/10 ☺
Beef Soup: 7/10 ☺
Pork Kimchi: 7.5/10 ☺
Lemon Soju: 6/10 ☺

Address:
#01-36 Tanjong Pajar Plaza

Contact:
62237505/ 82336000

Eighteen Chef (Ang Mo Kio)

Wanted to try Eighteen Chef for a long time but couldn't get my friends to come with me. But since I'm dinning here means that I finally managed to drag them with me.

Eighteen Chef is run by Benny Se Teo who has been to prison and is now trying to help ex-convicts and delinquents reintegrate back into society through his restaurant.

We looked at the menu and decided to get the student meal ($6.40)- Pasta or Cheese Baked Rice + Ice Lemon Tea + Ice Cream. I went to the counter to place everyone's orders and we waited for our food to arrive.

I ordered Cheese-Baked Rice with Mushrooms and Spicy Garlic sauce. I thought the spicy garlic sauce would be flavorful but in the end it tasted a little like mui fan except with fried rice flavor. PY had the Japanese curry sauce which she liked as it tasted nice and it wasn't too spicy for her.

Lemon Tea. Love the cup used. The drink had a strong tea taste with a mild lemon taste. I prefer to have mine with a strong lemon taste.

Blueberries & Vanilla Ice Cream Waffles (+$4). For additional $4 with the student meal you can choose any waffle from the waffles menu. I shared with PY and we placed our free scoop of chocolate ice cream on the waffle as well. They were good. Warm waffles, tangy blueberry sauce and cold creamy ice cream.

Rate:
Cheese-Baked Rice with Mushrooms and Spicy Garlic sauce: 5/10 ☺
Lemon Tea: 5/10 ☺
Blueberries & Vanilla Ice Cream Waffles: 7/10 ☺

TWG Tea (Orchard)

TWG actually stands for The Wellbeing Group. TWG tea offers more than 1,000 types of tea blends, pastries and tea-infuse delicacies. 

Seb, GF and I walked in and waited a while before getting a table. We looked through the tea selection and were pretty much overwhelmed. There were just so many types of teas to choose from.

I decided to ask the waitress for recommendation and she recommended me to have the Silver Moon Tea which I ordered. GF ordered Chocolate Tea and Seb ordered French Earl Tea. The teas we ordered were $11 each.

Front to Back: Silver Moon Tea, French Earl Grey and Chocolate Tea

The tea that I ordered tasted the best out of the three. It's green tea accented with grand berry and vanilla bouquet plus a hint of spice. Tasted like green tea with hints of strawberries. The Chocolate Tea only had the aroma like chocolate but taste wise, it tasted like black tea with a barely detectable chocolate taste. French Earl Grey was flowery but not to my liking.

Front to Back, Left to Right: Napoleon Tea & Caramel, Earl Grey & Chocolate, Vanilla Bourbon & Kaya and Moroccan Mint Tea.

We also ordered macarons ($2/each) which are infused with their signature teas. Napoleon Tea & Caramel was my favorite (cause I love caramel) followed by Vanilla Bourbon Tea & Kaya (which tasted like sweet milk), Earl Grey & Chocolate (floral chocolatey taste), and Moroccan Mint (had the cooling mint taste). The macarons have a hard shell but when you bite it, it's actually pretty soft and then it becomes a little chewy with the filling.

TWG is a place where you can be to look classy and spend your afternoon away by sipping on teas, eating desserts and chatting with your friends.

Rate:
Overall: 7/10 ☺

Quarter to Three

Quarter to Three is a cafe at Tanjong Pagar which sells your usual selections- cakes, sandwiches, coffee etc...

WX, KY and I went there after dinner for dessert! Actually I wanted to try Drury Lane (which is a few blocks away) but after contemplating we decided on Quarter to Three.

 Saw that they had a new item which sounded delicious so we ordered it.

Brownie Waffle with Ice Cream ($10.90). It was good. Warm cake-like chocolate brownie/waffle with the coldness of the vanilla ice cream was so yummy. Strawberries were more on the acidic side than sweet, but the ice cream and chocolate sauce helped balance it. Overall we liked it but we think that the items they sell are a little on the pricey side .

Rate:
Brownie Waffle with Ice Cream : 7/10 ☺

Bread and Hearth

Went with zq to Bread and Hearth cause she won a free meal. 

Bread & Hearth specializes in handcrafted artisan bread. All their bread and pastry are baked using the traditional European methods which they sell at an affordable price like Le Croissant ($2.80), Brioche ($2.80) and Blueberry Danish ($3.80).

Le croissant - made with Normandy butter. It was flaky with lots of layers and quite buttery.

Mocha. Wasn't expecting any coffee art so I was pleasantly surprise. The warm cup of mocha had a good balance of  coffee and chocolate.

Bread & Hearth is a nice little place to hang out with friends and enjoy yummy affordable breads.

Rate:
Le Croissant : 7/10 ☺
Mocha: 7.5/10 ☺

Hifumi (Plaza Singapura)

For KY's birthday, we went to Hifumi to celebrate. 

Order a main dish and get free flow of appetizers! Add $1.99 for free flow of drinks.

Wedges. When is wedges never nice? Okay, that was a rhetorical question. The wedges were good, warm and we were all gobbling it up from a single plate. Especially JX and Ger.

Sweet potato sticks. Not bad. They weren't hard. Firm on the outside but tender on the inside. It was nice but the wedges outshone it.

Tofu Donuts. Little ball of deep fried goodness. All of us love it! We kept on taking it when more came out. It tasted somewhat like regular donuts but with a more dense cake-y texture.

Cha Soba with Soy Milk Miso Dipping Sauce. The sauce was kind of weird, not what I'm used to. It was also spicy so PY couldn't eat it. The soba were a little on the soft side which I do not like. Luckily we have Marcus to help us finish this portion that we didn't want.

Coleslaw with Japanese Pickles. It was creamy, crunchy and refreshing at the same time. Really good.
I also tried the Chawamushi which I did not take a picture of. There were clam, mushroom and crabmeat. Cy and I had 2 portions of it.

Main dish. (I forgot the name) It took quite a while for our main dishes to come but it was fine by us as we could continue to munch on the appetizers. For my dish, all the ingredients were cold from the vegetables to the egg. The only thing that was hot was the soup and meat which was well seasoned and quite tasty. Wished they heated up the cold ingredients then it would be better.

Hifumi is a great place to bring your friends to try more kinds Japanese food since there's the appetizer bar and you will never leave the place hungry.

Rate:
Wedges: 7/10 ☺
Sweet potato sticks: 6.5/10 ☺
Tofu Donuts: 8/10 ☺
Cha Soba with Soy Milk Miso Dipping Sauce: 6/10 ☺
Coleslaw with Japanese Pickles: 7/10 ☺
Chawamushi: 7/10 ☺
Main dish: 6/10 ☺