Cherangsty: December 2013

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Met up with the JC girls on Friday for cafe hopping. Yaaaay, I finally visit some cafes that I wanted to go. Level 1- Tiong Bahru. Hahaha forever late when meeting them oops.

Okay so anyway, we stopped at Forty Hands for the first stop.

Lemon Ricotta cake for $5, Piccolo Latte for $4.70, Cappuccino for $5.

I think the food was only average. I think the coffee beans weren't awesome and I was like quite disappointed. Isn't forty hands famous for coffee :( :( Like the coffee didn't taste really bitter. Or maybe I don't know how to judge coffee. But I thought Cappuccino supposed to have this kind of bitter taste?

Sidenote, I think one of the best coffee I ever drank is from Huggs! Go try it (telling this to non-existent number of people reading this)

Left Forty Hands in a short time cause the person cleared our plates. So sad. Walked around Forty Hands and saw Books Actually and this shop called Woods in the books. Bookshops are cool ^^ Love the old school things that Books Actually sold. The polaroid... reminds me of the SH2 days when I really wanted one, thanks to tumblr hahaha.

Walked around further and then we spotted PS Cafe! Wow, actually it's called PS Cafe Petit that specialises in take-away. I think it seems to be serving wine more than it serves food actually. Is it weird if I say... I think the place damn quiet and suitable for reading... Awkward hahaha.

Blood Orange Minted Sorbet, Chocolate Blackout Cake and Tipsy Rum & Raisin triple scoop.

Triple scoop for $9 (I think)

The rum taste was the strongest I ever taste. Not alcoholic but I love rum & raisin ice cream hehe. My favourite flavour at Salted Caramel. The chocolate ice cream was really good because it doesn't taste as sweet as normal chocolate icecream.

And I think PS cafe has really good ambience!! :)

Come, look at my new cellar. Not bad right. Like real hahaha.

Well, cafe hopping is really damn fun but expensive hobby. How do people do it so frequently?! I think Tiong Bahru is really a good place for cafe hopping. Haven't even go to places like Tiong Bahru bakery, Orange Thimble. Anyway there were many other places like Open Door policy etc which we didn't go.

I want to head to Robertson Quay for my next cafe hopping trip in Singapore. Smitten coffee!!! Supposed to have really awesome coffee.

Okay shall blog about Saturday surprise another time. :) Good night.

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Oh well, I haven't really managed to stay at home for this whole week. I know people may not believe it, but I am really an introvert who feels this immense need to get away from people after spending too much outside.

So anyway, I managed to caught The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. Need to confess that I have never touched the books cause... I am just not someone who likes books that require some form of imagination. I mean, the books that I usually loved are about family/love/death/illness, things that are extremely real. But who knows, maybe when I am free I will read the books cause I find the movies not bad. A little draggy but the effects and scenery at New Zealand make up for it ^^ Too many countries that I want to go, why is traveling such an expensive thing? I really hope I have some nice exam timetable, managed to settle PA and then get to travel to Japan at least. Kyoto and Osaka looks really good!!! ALL MY SASHIMI TOO. But gonna miss Tokyo bananas.

Then on Thursday, met the uni clique for dinner at Tim Ho Wan. Yesss, I finally tried Tim Ho Wan. We were at the Plaza Sing outlet. Actually secretly wanted it to be at Westgate or Toa Payoh SIGHHHH. Hate traveling to town cause of the MRTs. But I was still the earliest!!! The things I do for food.

The queue wasn't that long actually. Like I think a group of four should be able to get in the shop within half an hour if they start queuing at 6plus? And the service in the shop was really quick because customers are supposed to fill up order form while waiting. Oh and the service was quick cause they want everyone to clear the place asap cause of limited seats.

So obviously, everyone goes to Tim Ho Wan for the char siew bao. I don't even like char siew baos usually (in fact dislike it ever since all the food scare/some HK horror/thriller movie with human meat in char siew bao argh) but I still ate the char siew bao hahaha.

Okay so the first dish that arrived was the char siew bao. Everyone started taking photos of these buns. So here's my photo.

Baked pork bun

3 for $4.50

I think there's a restriction on the number of buns one can order, but I am not too sure about the limit haha.

(Argh, friend whatsapped me to show off that the buns in HK were selling for $1 #okcan)

Here's the interior of the char siew bao. I think the draw of the buns is actually the skin of the bun leh. Like unique cause it's baked and normal char siew bao is erm steamed. The first bite was really good. Like the buns were pipping hot and the skin was really soft.

Beancurd roll with prawns

3 for $5

HAHA was busy eating and someone started eating before I managed to take the photo sighhh. Anyway this was really average only.

Fried carrot cake

3 for $4.50

This is one of the four famous dishes in Tim Ho Wan, so we ordered it. Tasted really normal only. Oily. Arghhhh thank goodness for tea.

Steamed egg cake

$3.80

Another one of the four famous dishes. Well, we ordered all the famous dishes except for the rolls with pork liver cause I don't like pork liver haha. Anyway, this steamed cake is good. Like fluffy and soft.

Har kow

4 for $5.50

This was not bad. Like I think the prawn taste really fresh.

Siew Mai and Vermicelli Roll with Char Siew

4 for $5 and $5.50 for the roll (I think)

I like the siew mai! I think the roll (chee cheong fun) was normal only? I prefer the chee cheong fun skin to be really thin.

Fish maw with chicken

$5.50

Well, I think we just fall for some marketing strategy again. See the words "monthly special" and then decide to order this to give it a try. It tasted average only.

And then dessert time. Ordered the jelly thing that contains osmanthus cause it sounds unique.

Tonic Medlar and Osmanthus Cake

3 for $5.50

I think it really tastes quite refreshing and unique but I don't really like it. Not a super big fan of floral smelling food. Like I HATE LAVENDER COOKIES. Why eat something that taste like soap!?

Overall, I feel that Tim Ho Wan wasn't super good? We ended up spending around $25 per person. yes we were full but I feel that it's not really worth it. Tim Ho Wan doesn't have much variety compared to Swee Choon (okay maybe I have just become a Swee Choon fan). I think Swee Choon is still more worth it and more life-changing hahaha. I swear trying Swee Choon liushabao is a life-changing event HAHAHA. Shall compare to HK outlets when I am over in HK :)

Went for a walk around after dinner. Christmas lights :) Someday, I shall be having a White Christmas!!! Okay some pretty pictures :)

Good nightttt, I think the post is a little too long.

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Mitch Albom is too good. Don't know whether it's just me getting used to his way of writing or what. Because I find the ones I read recently really good. And I find the first book I read (Five people you meet in Heaven) not that good leh.

Didn't expect myself to like this book. I mean it's about faith and I am not a loyal believer of anything leh. But I guess I realised why some people are so loyal to their beliefs?

Okay maybe not everyone agrees with it. But I feel/think this may be the reason why.

"It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there"

Okay other quotes/words that I really like:

"..that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow"

"Because it means you are willing to accept people as they are. Nobody is perfect. Not even Mom and Dad. That's okay."

"... even in this new age of horror... you can find acts of human kindness."

"My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have'... And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete."

"Much of what we called 'depression' was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures that we weren't willingly to work for. I knew people whose unbearable source of misery was their weight, their baldness, their lack of advancement in a workplace, or their inability to find their perfect mate, even if they themselves did not behave like one. To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs."

"Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied- before working some more."

"But we do have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

I still remembered in primary school, some English teacher explained the difference between a house and home and I always remembered the difference. And I guess this quote kind of explains the difference haha.

"But with those we are closest with-wives, children, parents- we too often let things linger."

Point about how human sometimes take those that closest for granted. Like we will worry whether our new friends will be insulted but we forgot how those that we are close to may be sensitive to certain things anyway.

"Nothing haunts like the things we don't say."

Okay good night ^^ if only I can just read and read storybooks everyday.

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