Cafe de Nicole’s flower

Happened to chance upon this cafe while bringing my dog to the vet and what a gem in a hole it was!

It’s a pet friendly and v instagramable cafe.

Currently they are having this Xmas theme decorations.

Guess Poochi also likes this place too. He kept flashing his 5 stars smile the whole time.

Lucky we are able to get a corner seat so it’s easier with a dog. 

The food they served are all so instagramable! Well, they taste pretty good as well. The waffles are soft and chewy. We ordered the charcoal waffles with chocolate ice cream. I saved some blueberries and strawberries for Poochi....haha...

We also ordered the matcha soufflé pancake. It’s so jigglery and tastewise, it’s definitely comparable to places like Tamago-en or fluff stacks which I tried before. Price wise it’s also pretty reasonable at $16.90. 

To round it off, we ordered this pink lady drink which was lychee and rose. It’s made of lychee purée with some dried rose petals on top. Taste mainly lychee with a light rose aftertaste. Nice drink, not too sweet.

Overall, would definitely come again next time to try some other dishes.

Omakase Burger & Tarte by Cheryl Koh

Omakase Burger recently opened a new joint at level 4 of Orchard Central. U can order food from both Omakase Burger menu and Super Greek menu since they are both under the same company.

I ordered the off peak special, express cheeseburger set since it’s only available during the weekday and top up extra for garlic fries and a soft drink. 

Ta-da~! I was expecting garlic powder on my fries but instead they came with real fried pieces of garlic. I chose well done for my beef patty and it was juicy and tender. The beef patty was v flavorful, maybe slightly on the salty side but I quite like it.

Hubby ordered something from Super Greek, lamb gyro which is basically a lamb kebab but sliced pieces of lamb, it was a minced lamb patty.

The pita bread was chewy and crispy and the white sourish yogurt dressing just made it taste more appetizing and yummy.

There was someone going around offering $15 off your total bill by installing this app from NTUC income called snacks. It’s quite troublesome but heck, it’s $15 off so that’s quite worth the effort. In the end, we only pay $20+ for our meals.

I have heard from Tarte by Cheryl Koh but had never tried it. So, we went to Shaw Center to check out the place. Located on the second floor in an obscure corner of Shaw Center, it was a cozy little cafe where u can sit down and enjoy a drink. Tried the melon and rose cold brew tea. It was so good! It did not have those artificial melon taste, instead it had a light mellow taste of melon followed by the rose taste. It simply taste and smell so natural, the only cons is it’s so little and expensive. 

Anyway, we bought 3 tarts to try:

Starting from the left- dark chocolate $8, Korean shine muscat $13 and blackberry $13.

Conclusion: the dark chocolate tart was normal. The Korean shine muscat grapes was sweet and juicy. The blackberries imported from France was normal, not as sweet as I expected. Overall, I think their tarts are not bad, except the prices are on the steep side. Currently they only have a few variety of tarts for sale, they did not have lemon meringue tart which is my fave. Maybe it’s seasonal? Would I get it again? Hmmm....I’m not sure since I can get much cheaper and equally delicious tarts elsewhere...but I would love to get that melon and rose cold brew drink again...haha...

US Presidential Election 2020 🇺🇸

This year seems to the year where almost every countries are having some elections and the most anticipated one is the US Presidential election. 

Frankly speaking, I don’t like that Trump coz he talks like the most blatantly shameless person ever. I’m surprise to see so many Americans supported him despite that, maybe becoz they thought he is a man of action who can get things done unlike politicians who only talks but do nothing? Ya, I do agree that actions speak louder than words but for the President of the United States, your word speaks louder than action. His words alone is powerful enough to stir unrest, chaos and influence many ppl in this world. He is always mocking, taunting or bragging....makes me cringe whenever he opens his mouth to talk. Totally zero substance zero inspiration, so unlike past US presidents, eg Obama. 

Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for winning the election and may the world be heading towards a better direction under their leadership. 

Rilakkuma Cafe at Orchard Central

Decided to pop by Rilakkuma Cafe located at Orchard Central level 4. It was previously Pompom Purim cafe. 

There was hardly much crowd at the cafe so I was hesitant to try out until now. So happen that I was going orchard on Sat to collect something so might as well pop by.

There was no queue on a Saturday lunchtime and we just walked in. Not a good sign for weekend....

We were seated at this side table with 2 cute plushies on it. Ooh...so cute but I tried not to touch it coz who knows how many grubby hands had touched them already.

The menu were accessible thru a QR code which u scanned on your phone. 

Sad looking bear sitting at a corner....

I ordered the chirpy kiiroitori beef stew rice. Hmm....the chicken looks bit distorted but never mind, maybe it taste better than it looks? I was wrong....it tasted worse than it looked....🤢

The carrots were raw and dry looking and the beef was as tough as leather....seriously I don’t think I have ever eaten beef as tough and chewy as the ones here. How did they even make it so tough?! In the end, I gave up after chewing one piece of beef. It was so bad 😖

Hubby ordered the kawaii rilakkuma salmon rice. It was edible, unlike mine. 

The last dish I ordered was this rilakkuma dango baos with sweet matcha. The baos were dry and the sweet matcha fillings inside just taste like green coloured tao sa to me, nothing matcha at all. 

Overall, the rilakkuma cafe in Singapore was a disappointment. Do not go for the mains. I noticed many ppl only ordered desserts or drinks. Maybe they will taste better, I mean it’s harder to screw up on sweets and drinks compare to mains. I wish they can improve on their food if they still wana be around coz it’s going to be bye bye soon for them if the food still don’t improve.

Demon Slayer Movie Fan Screening

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie-Mugen Train is finally here in Singapore after more than a year wait for it!!! 😍😍

I had been waiting for it since it’s sneak preview after the end of first season which ended in Oct last year. It was supposed to air somewhere in Jan this year but was postphoned due to covid. It was finally aired in Japan’s cinemas on 16th Oct 2020 and broken box office records in Japan as the first film to rake in over $10 billlions within 10 days of its opening! 

The first day of its screening in Singapore was on 7 Nov. Tickets were snapped up as soon as it was released online a few weeks ago and I did not manage to get GV max in vivo...😓...the next earlier timeslot is at 3.25pm at Plaza Sing. The fan screening ticket was $54 each and it came with a goodie bag containing a tee shirt, A4 file holder, badges and posters.

There were 2 designs for the tee shirts and we can chose which one we want. Of course, Hubby chosed Tanjiro and mine was Nezuko....haha...the quality of the tee-shirt material was quite good and there were several sizes to choose from. This was a great improvement from the fan screening of Boku no hero academia where the only sizes of the tee shirts left were XL coz many ppl came and claimed their goodie bags way before the show started. Think Odex learnt their lesson and controlled the distribution coz now u can only collect the goodie bags 1 hr before ur movie screening. 

The large movie poster card-out at GV plaza sing. 
The crowd was significantly lesser for such a fan screening as compared to before, due to covid measures. Seats were well spaced apart with nobody sitting 2 seats next to, behind and in front of you. Actually, I quite like it coz I can put my bags on the seats next to me, and nobody will be kicking my seat from behind or blocking my view in front. Yeah....

Spoilers alert- Rengoku looks damn cool in his final stance before releasing his ultimate move. Although he eventually died, I did not feel sad or cry as I feel he died a v honorably death and did such a great job protecting 200 over lives in the train and kick the upper 3rd demon’s ass so badly he had to flee. However, I do feel it’s such a shame that he died...

The movie was action packed from beginning to the end with no recap in the beginning. There was an additional scene not from the manga where the leader of the demon slayer Corps was walking thru the cemetery. Other than that, it followed v closely to the manga. Can wait for season 2 to start next year!