Taipei trip-rilakkuma cafe

Stayed at Cesar park hotel opposite Taipei train station during my stay in Taipei. The room was surprisingly big and spacious. 

The bathroom was also v big with a standing shower area and a separate bath tub. 

The first destination was to visit rilakkuma cafe! 

We alight at zhongxiao dunhua station exit 3 and walk a few minutes before turning right into an alley. 

Entrance of the cafe. We arrived around 12pm and there are nobody in the queue.

Yummy....the cakes inside looks so cute and appealing.

Ordered the crispy pork cutlet curry rice to share, 2 desserts and drinks.

The food was quite good for a character theme cafe. 

The curry was nice and thick and you can ask for top up of curry also. 

There was even a photo taking area at the back.

Even the rest room was cute and rilakkuma theme.

Would go there again since the food was nice and the atmosphere was cozy and cute!

Taipei trip Nov 2018

Took a short trip to Taipei after hubby came back from his 3 weeks work trip in France. This time, I finally get the chance to take the hello kitty Sanrio Eva plane. 

The check in counter and the air ticket was so cute. The plane we are taking is called Shiny star as it’s the little twin star theme. Yippee!

Interior of the plane. Haha...I took the cushion back home as souvenir.



Looking at the menu makes you happy...haha...

And as expected, I took the cutlery back home as souvenir....hehee...Was sort of disappointed that the food was not Sanrio theme but just normal airplane food.

Lunchtime at Chijmes

Had lunch at the newly opened konjiki Hototogisu -Michelin bib gourmand ramen. It’s famous for their clam and truffle soup. I ordered the shoyu hamaguri soup ramen with onsen egg. The soup was clear with a strong taste of clams and a light taste of truffle. Overall, it has a distinct rich taste that is different from the normal typical ramen soup. It was pleasantly nice at first but can get a bit salty towards the end. The onsen egg at $2 was not flavored at all.

After that, I showed my mom to this place called Hvala at chjimes that serves nice matcha latte as she loves matcha latte v much. 

I ordered the matcha latte hot and matcha hojicha latte hot for myself. My mom quite like the matcha latte as it was not v sweet and had a slight bitter matcha taste. The matcha hojicha latte is a blend of both matcha and hojicha as shown in the pic above. It looked just like matcha latte but with a oolong taste...or hojicha taste. 

Anyway, the place itself was pretty nice and zen looking. Good place to chitchat and relax. Not much of a crowd during lunchtime. But it was v packed when I was there on Friday during 3-4pm. Guess it’s not a place for lunch but more a place for afternoon tea.

Poochi’s Germany jersey

Ordered a Germany sport jersey for Poochi on Q10 for only $3.90 including shipping. Dirt cheap! Turned out it’s a bit tight fitting but still able to fit in...haha

Now he can join hubby together watching World Cup and support Germany.

Lunchtime date at elemen harbourfront

Met hubby for lunch yesterday to eat elemen at harbourfront. We had tried the same restaurant at Millenia walk before and it was not bad. Reservations are required as it’s fully booked almost all the time. 

We took the 5 course meal.

For starter, there is only 1 choice-the elemen starter which consists of eating the mushroom first, followed by the thing in the middle and lastly by the tomato. The tomato was super sweet and juicy. 

I chose the soup instead of salad. For soup, I decided on the mushroom cream soup with truffle oil. The truffle taste was not v strong and overpowering and the overall taste was v good. 

For the mains, I picked the Japanese curry with udon. Taste normal to me as the udon was not the thick chewy type which I preferred. 

For the drinks, the lychee green tea was refreshing and cooling. 


The dessert, it’s the snow chrysanthemum with grass jelly. Yummy! 

However, do make reservation when u come otherwise u will end up sitting under the hot sun like me without any shade....coz all the good seats were reserved....

A fun day at Singapore Art Museum SAM

The Singapore Art Museum is now having the Imaginarium exhibition now and I was interested to go and take a look at it. It’s my first time at the museum and it’s free entry for Singaporeans. 

On the first level of the entrance area is this room covered with an illustration of Singapore portraying distinct landmarks and food. 

Couldn’t get the whole picture in as it took up three full walls. I like the illustration as it’s cute and feel like looking for Wally in Singapore game...haha....

Next we went upstairs to watch a series of animations in a large and comfy dark theatre. Think we spent most of the time there and my favorite show is the little bird and the caterpillar. 

Next is this room with a large of jars.

There is a camera at the side where u can record ur face and try to find it among all the jars. V fun and interactive exhibit.

Besides the jar room is this room with blue fiber optics.U can brush ur hand along the optics and play with it. 

Each staircase had a full wall illustration. My favorite is this.

Next is this room with an interactive display of the 4 seasons. Above is spring.

Above is autumn.

Above is summer. Think this is a water scene.

Above is winter. Our faces were portrayed onto the snow man. 

Haha...that was fun. We had the whole room to ourselves. 

The good thing about this whole experience was that it’s not crowded at all and I was able to enjoy myself without squeezing with others.

Uya hitsumabishi at Wheelock Place

Finally got the chance to try out the other famous unagi dish beside from ManMan.  Compared to Man man unagi, this place allowed reservations to be made. I find the unagi here to be of the same quality as man man. It’s crispy and slightly char texture is just to my liking and the amount of unagi given seem to be more. Oh dear, think Man Man have some serious competition coming....