Review: MEET

OMG. The last food review I written was in 2015. I need to write more food reviews. Let's start with somewhere near my house.

MEET
180 Kitchener Road
#02-37/38 City Square Mall
Singapore 208539

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A newly-opened dining place that just opened on 13 January 2017 Yes, that new! at City Square Mall. X and I were anticipating their opening for so so long. Mainly because X loves beef and I am just excited that there is a new food place opening at City Square Mall. According to their description, they are a french-japanese fusion kind of resturant. Yeah! food food food. 

 

 

Their menu are placed on chopping board! Very interesting. Please note that on Saturdays & Sundays, they are serving all-day brunch menu! I LIKE LOVE IT. 

Video taken on Boomerang and make into gif using gif maker. 

Teehee... Really addicted to Boomerang

First up, Pan Seared Prawn with Garlic & Jarmon Serrao. It is under the Warm Tapas portion. X love the Jamón Serran, he finished everything and left me with nothing. ... But it is okay, I ate most of the prawns. :p The prawns are super fresh and QQ texture quoted from X, however it is not very hot. It is warm on the outside and cold on the inside. 

Next, Crisp Blacken Baby Squid in Squid Ink served with Garlic Mayonnaise and Lemon Wedges under Warm Tapas. A lot of legs... I mean tentacles... Not sure they are baby squid or not. I feel that the batter is a little too thick for me, but X loves it! He said it is crispy and just right for him.

 

Classis Poached Eggs on Crispy Potato Rosti with Spinach, Sauteed Mushrooms in Hollandaise Sauce under All Day Brunch. They have 3 of my favorite food in one dish, I will rate it 4.5/5!  Their eggs are perfect just look at the images below ↓! X was worried that the eggs will be hard boiled, but the eggs here are P-E-R-F-E-C-T. X feel that the dish is quite plain, would be better with sausage or smoked salmon. For me, I feel that the rosti can be more crispy and it is not plain, I like it... a lot.  But I don't like veggie so if can change to meat will be a plus point.

 

Super bouncy~ ♡

Super watery~ ♡

 

Lastly, Salmon Fricassee in a Bag with Yuzu, Dashi, Kombu, Clams & Scallops under All Day Brunch. One word, B-R-A-V-O. I love love love love love it. Especially the salmon, it is pretty big and best part is it is fresh, no fishy taste at all! b^.^d The clams is fresh, scallops also fresh and they have Dashi stock in the soup.  I am a fan of any food with Dashi in it. Just write Dashi and I will order you unless you are full of veggie. X said it would be better if they add seafood stock aiyo... he got a lot of comment la. 

"It's alive!"

We will definitely be back again. A lot of dishes on their menu looks so interesting like their Honey Spiced Roasted Chicken and Oven-baked Seafood in Puff Pastry. Yumm! 

Side Note:
Please note that comment and feedback are X and my personal point of views. Even the two of us that are dating for the past 7 years have different point of views, do share your point of view with us :) If you have any food that you want us to try, you can email us too :)
And all photos in this post are taken using Samsung S7 Edge.

Review: The Butchers Club Singapore

Roaming around Clarke Quay with X on a relaxing Friday night, and while walking towards Liang Court, we are attracted to this store.

The Butchers Club
3A River Valley Road
#01-01B Clarke Quay
Singapore 179020

not sure what filter is this on Camera360, but make this photo looks very pretty!

According to their waitress, they are serving dry-aged beef patties burger... So what is dry-aged beef?

Dry-aged beef is beef that has been hung or placed on a rack to dry for several weeks. After the animal is slaughtered and cleaned, either the entire or half will be hung. - Wikipedia

Sounds interesting enough to try them out, right?! And just look at their menu ↓

 

 Their menu already screaming eat me! Eyeing on their RED-EYE REDUCTION!  

BACON, EGG, HASHBROWN. All my favourites!

 

X already started eating before I can take photo of the food. :x

The Red-eye Reduction is sold out! T.T So we tried Double Happiness ($38). 

Ignoring the fact that despite its name is Double Happiness, there is a knife stabbed in it. O.O I can totally imagine the burger saying, "Awww... are you on diet? But this burger is so nice, so just prepared for your death! FAT DIE YOU! evil laughter" 

Okay, but to the burger. It comes with double patty with double cheese and all the fixins between these two grilled cheese buns or what they called sammys. To X, the patty wasn't seasoned enough to his liking, but we both agreed that they cooked the patty very well with a light pink in the middle. The cheese and fixins are nice, I am secretly addicted to their bacon, it taste kinda sweet~

Their Duck Fat Fries ($8) is an add-on order, not a set meal kind. Wondering why is it called Duck Fat Fries? No, it is not just a random name. All this thick fries are cooked in DUCK FAT... To be exact, triple fried in duck fat! But sadly, it is not my cup of tea fries..

Definitely going back to try out their Red-Eye Reduction and maybe giving their fries another try?. The fries wasn't that nice during our last visit. Hope that our next visit the fries will be nice and like crispy. 

Review: Pince & Pints Restaurant & Bar

Cafe-hunter, X and Nana on a mission to find food at Tanjong Pager area 

after 6pm!

I felt that there is a need to write about this place that we visited during the long weekend in August. Yes, it is that long ago!. X and I decided to explore around Tanjong Pagar. We reached there at around 6.30pm, but most of the cafes are either closed during the long weekend or at 6pm.

We were really hungry when we were there hope it explain why I use the cub picture! At first, we intend to have Korean BBQ since Tanjong Pager have a wide variety of it. But we  really want to try something new, so we walked to Duxton Road randomly shhh... stomach stop shouting!. We came across..

Pince & Pints
32-33 Duxton Road
Singapore 089497

A simple looking restaurant that gives off a very old english wine stall feel  feeling ah. And... there is no queue when we walked past it. But after we were seated down, the crowd start to keep coming in non-stop. Most of the customers regardless of ladies or guys are dressed to impress, except for X and I are in comfy clothes which are tee and shorts. Okay back to the restaurant... Firstly, the staffs are very observant. When we drank finish the plain water, they filled it up immediately thumbs up!.

When I saw the menu, my first reaction "Wah, only 3 mains only?". Okay... 4 main courses if you count the Grilled or Steamed live whole lobster as 2 different dishes. And they only serve lobster leh!

Some random facts about Lobsters! 

Chilli Lobster ($58++)
"Uncle, more mantou please. Thank you.", this is the first thought when I saw this dish. They are very generous with the sauce or gravy whatever you called it, so scared that we don't have enough mantou to eat with the sauce. The sauce is sweet, not like the usual spicy kind we had with Chilli Crab. I actually prefer this sauce, X don't really like it la. But both of us agreed that the mantou and lobster are good! Mantou is so crispy on the outside, and fluffy on the inside. So sedap good!


Grilled Live Whole Lobster ($58++)
This is served with very-atas-looking Salad, Straight Cut Thick Fries and Herbed Butter Sauce. The lobster meat really deserves my 2 thumbs up! Even though the lobster is grilled, the meat is not dry at all. What sorcery is this? It is sweet and so juicy. I love their thick straight cut fries! X love everything about this dish from the salad to sauce. 

They are not joking when they said they will serve the whole lobster! Just look at the photos, very very 满足 satisfied. Like finally there is a store that serve a whole JUICY lobster, not those skinny-meat-little kind. The lobster taste a little sweet and more to the sea water kind of taste X said the sea water part. This is the face I give when they serve us the main courses.

Review: Banana Tree SG

Banana Tree is one of the must-go café for me in Seoul, South Korea. Sadly, I don't have a chance to visit them the last time I was there two years ago. When they open an outlet along Keong Siak Road, I know I must visit this place at least once!

Finally, managed to drag X with me last Sunday evening to try this super photogenic place.

Banana Tree Singapore
26 Keong Saik Road
Singapore 089133

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Thanks to the korean lady who decided to bring the brand over to Singapore!

  

 

Red Bean Pot Bing Soo ($8.50 -Mini)
I thought that they offer some choices for the 'soil' like you can choose either crushed Oreo cookies or red bean. When I saw the photos on instagram, I just assume they are all red bean lovers. But when I saw their menu, they only have red bean for bing soo. It is a major turn off for me la because my stomach is really weak towards beans especially red bean and nuts. But at the same time, I really want to try it.

Dilemmmmmma~  

Fake flowers, malt ice-cream, almonds, red beans, soy bean powder and shaved ice. Just look at the picture above, I would give them 100/100 for presentation because it is super chio pretty! X feel that the shaved ice can be smoother but to me, I like it. Those ice flakes ↓ is like those we had in ice kachang. Atas version of Ice Kachang.

Hmmm.. Before I start writing this post, I went to search more pictures online and I notice they changed the ingredients in their 'pot'. Some photos I saw is using fruits and some is using nuts or almond like ours. Personally, I would prefer it with fruits, but adding almonds also add some crunch to it.

Oreo Bomb ($12)
All Oreo lovers out there, this is good! X and I love it so much Me mad love~. It is a simple dish but my god, it is pure genius! You can replicate this dish  at home. Just crush some Oreos, heated it up and toss in two balls of ice-cream. Viola! Your very own Oreo Bomb. When they are mashed together, it is like handmade cookie and cream ice-cream!

How to get there
Located walking distance away from 3 MRT station Tanjong Pager MRT, Chinatown MRT and Outram Park MRT. It really depends on how you want to get there, I will attached the direction from Outram Park MRT.

 

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Exploring Kallang Wave Mall

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Kallang Wave Mall opened back in October 2014, situated within the Singapore Sports Hub itself and just next to Singapore Indoor Stadium & National Stadium is the place that have all activities for lifestyle, makan dining and entertainment!

While waiting for Big Bang's soundcheck to start, we X and I decided to lepak here! To be honest, we are impressed by the size of the FairPrice there. It is huge, I believe it is even bigger than the ones at Ang Mo Kio & Serangoon. According to FairPrice's facebook, this is the 1st “sports-themed” hypermarket in Singapore that sells bicycles, sports equipment and sportswear.
 
Oh ya, they have a indoor climbing wall, beach volleyball court and library within this mall! 

Anyway, the highlight of this post is of course, the food we had. Seriously, there are so many food choices available making it hard for us to choose. Thanks to the girl giving out the discount coupon, we decided to have Japanese!

1-for-1 unagi & salmon!

Issho Izakaya

 Located at the back and outside of the mall, it truly is a hidden gem!

 

From left → clockwise :

1) Daigaku Imo 2) Golden fried soft shell crab 3) Saba Shio Yaki 

4) Kawahagi Yaki 5) Unagi Kushi Yaki 6) Salmon Sashimi

The sweet potato dish looks so simple but taste so good! Soft on the inside and a bit chaota burnt on the outside! Soft shell crab, Saba and Salmon are so scrumptious~ and their Unagi, I regretted I didn't order more. Kawahagi is not as crispy as we expected, this is our only complain.

We really enjoyed our meal here. Their staff is really friendly. We witness one of them try to strike up a conversation with the customer by asking who is their bias in Big Bang. To be honest, the food here are kind of pricey but for the food and service it is totally worth it! We will come back definitely!

Psst.. They have a lot of promotion for us to enjoy more at a cheaper price. Do visit their facebook & website for more information.

Sogurt

 

 

“Frozen Yogurt Machine on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All?

Plain, Lychee, Grapefruit or Chocolate?"

 

Aloe Vera, Cashew Nuts, Dark Chocolate Chips, Mandarin Popping Boba, Lychee Popping Boba, Gummy Bears, Nata De Coco, Flower Marshmallows, Rainbow Sprinkles, Apple Ring Gummies, Chocolate Sprinkles, Digestive Biscuit Crumble and the list goes on...

 
Lychee Yogurt, Kiwi, Strawberry with Gula Melaka Syrup 

Love it because of the sauce/syrup. To X, the kiwi is slightly sour but I don't feel so. As for the Lychee flavoured yogurt, I love it but to X feels it is kinda of bland. We are so different!

Psst.. They offered discount on weekdays, so do visit their facebook or website for more information.

I am going to end this post with one of Singapore most iconic thing that I am sure all of us have done before!

Review: FATCAT Ice Cream Bar

Cafe-hunter, X and Nana on a mission to find Salted-Egg-Yolk-Sauce waffle. 

... ... Just joking. I went Bedok to run some errand and we decided to go cafe-hunting there. Also, this will be our last cafe-hunting session together before he fly off to Europe for school+leisure. Yes, he is going with his classmates alone without me.

Okay, but to the cafe that interests us!

FATCAT Ice Cream Bar

416 Bedok North Avenue 2

#01-25

Singapore 460416

They are a neighborhood café that just opened at the start of the year, but there are so many bloggers and media singing praises of it. This is the best example, just look at the instagram feed ↓ . Everything look so photogenic! No need to position the food, just snap and viola super instagram-able photossss!

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 Even the sign placing outside of the door also photogenic ↓!

Blackforest Sphere

This one-mouth dessert cost $4.50. The display of this dish feels very atas feel. Sorry, I am not the kind of the girl that is into fine dining. So, it just looks like round agar agar, but more watery kind. So how does it taste? According to X, it taste like brandy and agar agar. By the way, this dish is under 'Plated Desserts'.

Gourmet Charcoal Waffle

Salted caramel sauce. Sprinkles of dried lavender. And everything nice. Powerpuff girls! It is a BLACK CHARCOAL waffle! To be honest, it is a bit tasteless. I guess that's why you must put the ice cream on top of it. duh! But why risking it getting soggy?! The salted egg yolk sauce aka liusha ↓ taste like those mid-autumn egg yolk mooncake grainy texture not like those liu sha bun bao kind of sweet taste smooth texture. By the way, the salted egg yolk sauce (+ $1) is not include when you ordered the waffle ($6).

Ice-cream
We had Vanilla and Yoghurt Sorbet. Not too bad. They have a lot of other flavours like watermelon soju sorbet,  hay & honey, thai milk tea and etc. Do try them out.