The long awaited weekend finally arrives. Weekends are meant for brunch with your date or your usual group of foodies. Met up with Wanping for brunch and we decided to head to Maison Ikkoku. Maison has been sitting on my cafe to hop list for ages but i was too lazy to travel. This place is a gem and I regretted not patronizing this cafe earlier! It is quite a walking distance from Bugis station. 

See that guy holding the reservation booklet? If you are coming during peak hours, I suggest you make a reservation. Well, this place is getting more popular so i am afraid that you may have to wait quite some time before you get your seats. I love the hanging lamps which makes the cafe really cosy. Perfect for a catch-up session with someone whom you haven seen in a while too! 

There's a small bench for customers to wait for their seats. 

Hangover Omelette-$16

This is absolutely a generous serving of food. It is like an upsized thick omelette with many chunks of shaved ham with mushrooms and tomato. The bread was toasted nicely and their herbs roasted potatoes were very fragrant too. For that price, it's pretty worth it when you compare with brunches served at other restaurants.

Salmon Florentine-$18

Muffins are perfect to-go breakfast especially for working adults and students! Get your sugar craving fix early in the morning. I especially love the double chocolate chip muffins from the muffin stall at Amoy Food Centre. Their muffins are so far few of the best muffins i have ever eaten. Muffins are easy and less time consuming to bake! Knowing that i love to cook and bake, my mum specially photocopied a couple of recipes she came across from one of the magazines at her workplace for me!! So the original fluffy chocolate muffin recipe comes from Chef Reynaldo Pauline Arriola! Sweetness was just rice after i reduce the sugar level. 

Recipe: Makes 6 big muffins

Butter 125g

Sugar 70g 

Flour 125g, sifted

Baking Powder, 7.5g

Cocoa power 15g

Chocolate Chips, 75g

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius. 

2. Beat butter and sugar till creamy with an electric mixer or hand-whisk

3. Add eggs gradually. 

4. Add in flour, baking powder, followed by cocoa powder and finally chocolate chips. 

5. Spoon the batter into muffin cup molds and bake for about 22-25 mins. 

My 2nd attempt at making Japanese egg roll. This time, i made with my happy call pan instead of a tamago pan because i didn't have one at home. I am so tempted to get one right now! Tried with my friend's tamago pan the previous round and it was soooooo much easier compared to a happy call pan. 

(Check out my 2nd visit here!!)

A traditional coffee shop tucked in the Tiong Bahru neighborhood turns into a self service pizzeria bar by night. Headed down to Eng Hoon Street for some pizza with my lovely girls on a saturday evening. The place is pretty cosy and I like their metamorphosis concept of how the pizzeria bar is located in a coffee shop. They are heading towards the urban-chic direction yet still retaining the original Singaporean culture. Besides, this place is really affordable! Definitely cheaper than other pizza place i've been to! 

Simple and traditional asian furnitures with western food. This is a good alternative cafe if you are sick of going to those 'atas' bars to have your beers and pizzas cravings fixed. 

Finally got to meet my dear girl after the longest time! Singapore is so tiny. There's really nothing much to do so everyone just go around exploring the exotic cafes located at those remote pockets of this island. Took a 1 hour long bus ride and walked for 15 mins under the BURNING HOT SUN to reach the cafe.. We were perspiring like mad by the time we arrived at the cafe. The indoor seats were pretty limited so we settled for an outside seat instead. Their pastries looked pretty stale. It was a bad idea for us to order 2 quiches because we were pretty sick of them afterwards. 

Latte: $5

Yay my 1st 20th birthday gift! Thanks babe!! :>

I just ended a week of school camps and i was really drained by the last day. I felt so unhealthy- sinful late night suppers and not being able to exercise for the past 7 days. I couldn't stand the fact of not exercising for 1 whole week so I forced myself to exercise although i was really exhausted . My fitness went down and i felt so breathless running at my usual speed. I was perspiring like mad but i felt really really really fantastic after exercising. Mind over body, mind over body and YES, YOU CAN DO THIS! This was the discipline i used to have in the past. Unfortunately as i get older, I gradually morphed into a lazy koala. 

  Had a pleasant brunch with Megumi the next day. It's time to clean up my diet. So, we headed to Real Food Cafe @ The Central. It is a vegetarian cafe, serving food free from processed ingredients, artificial preservatives and Trans-fat. Feels really healthy after our lunch. HAHAHA. However, the waiting time is slightly too long especially during peak hours. 

Orange and Pumpkin Vinaigrette: $10.80 Loving the roasted sweet potato and pumpkin. But it took damn long to be served. 

 

The jap girl with her salad! 

Me with my MEGA SWEATPANTS. Muhahaha