VICTOR'S KITCHEN @ SUNSHINE PLAZA // SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2013

Location: Sunshine Plaza #01-21 Singapore 189652

How to get there: Douby Ghaut Mrt Station. Exit at Red Line's exit. Walk to the Grand Cathay, then walk to NAFA. You can see the Singapore Pools from where you are and Sunshine Plaza is straight ahead.

Opening Hours:

Tues - Sun: 1030am - 2000pm

Contact Number: 9838 2851

HOWDY LOVELIES! Happy Friday!! Recently the weather has been CRAZILY CRAZY! It's either scorching hot or raining cats and dogs. Hopefully none of your plans got cancelled or re-scheduled thanks to it.

It's kinda like exam week for many local university students now, MAY&FJ wish you peeps all the best in your papers. May the bell curve be in your favor!!!!Perhaps when your exams have ended, you peeps might wanna visit Victor's Kitchen for a reasonably cheap after-examinations celebration.

Getting on Victor's Kitchen. An old friend of mine introduced it to me and told me that it has this AWESOME Liu Sha Bao that I should give it a go. Went once with him and since then I have been telling my dear May that this is one place that we should definitely do a review on! And~~~we were there on a faithful Wednesday.

We've ordered 2 Liu Sha Bao/Salted Egg Bao baskets (J,$4.50/basket), Nemo Porridge (U,$4.50), Ha Gao/Giant Prawn Dumplings (A,$5/basket), You Tiao Chee Chong Fun (X,$4.50), Fresh Chicken with Wolfberry fruit and Rosey Wine Steam Rice (L,$4.50), Scallop sausage Carrot Cake with XO sauce (C,$4.50) HK Summer Ice Tea ($3) and 1 hot Chrysanthemum Tea ($1.50) and 1 cold Chrysanthemum Tea ($2) . We paid about $39 in total. Here's their menu!

Liu Sha Bao/Salted Egg Bao:

• This was my personal favorite! I have been to Victor's Kitchen before this official trip and I gotta say their Salted Egg Bao left the deepest impression in me. 
• It is super molten and it tastes so good! 
• However, May and our mutual friend felt that the skin was thick and that it was more buttery than the usual. They did prefer to taste more of the salted egg yolk!
• But still give it a go! It's not bad!

 Nemo Porridge:

• It was a little light. Consists of century egg and fish.
• There were not much ingredients in the porridge itself. 
• Not something we would recommend you all.

Ha Gao/Giant Prawn Dumpling:

• The skin is thin and it's exploding with prawns.
• This whole dumpling is very chewy and Q.
• The price is slightly on the high side for dim sum like this, but trust us, this is worth every cent! Try it!!!

 You Tiao Chee Chong Fun:

• Sounds unique? We felt the same as well when we first saw it on the menu!
• It also tastes very unique.
• The crispy You Tiao wrapped in Chee Chong Fun gives the whole dish a very unique texture!
• You all can consider giving it a go!

Seasoned Chicken and Dates Rice:

• The chicken is well seasoned. Quite nice.
• However, the rice itself was rather dry, it makes it very hard for us to swallow.
• So sadly, its not something we'd say you peeps should try.

Scallop sausage Carrot Cake with XO sauce:

• This is by far the best steamed carrot cake we've tried thus far.
• The sauce is very appetizing and the carrot cake is very soft.
• This is definitely something we'd recommend you all to try!

HK Summer Ice Tea:

• Awesome milk tea!
• Unique point: They put their ice outside the cup so as to ensure the thickness of their milk tea.
• As much as that is said, I do not think that this tiny cup warrants the amount paid for. (But I still get every time I visit, because its that good)
• Maybe you peeps can order and share the milk tea! It's worth trying for the first time! As for repeat purchase; I would say that it would be up to your wallet and your willingness to part with $3.

Overall, we would say that Victor's Kitchen is one dim sum place worth the eats and tries. However, we would like to warn you all, they have a tendency to take off days without any pre-hand warning so you might walk alllllllllll the way there for NOTHING. (That happened to us before, so just fyi~)

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After lunch the three of us decided to head down to SAM and the National Museum of Singapore to view the Singapore Biennale 2013 Exhibitions. I have been a fan of the Biennale since two shows back. This time round the scale is smaller and spread out across museums with SAM and National Museum of Singapore housing major exhibitions. I'm gonna upload a couple of pictures enough to entice you all to visit^^

The Singapore Biennale 2013 starts from now all the way till 16 February 2014. Singapore Citizen Students/ Permanent Resident Students, full time NSF, teachers from local schools and Singapore Citizen/ Permanent Resident senior citizens above age 60 gets free admission. Otherwise, Adults ($10) and Foreign Students and Senior Citizens above age 60 ($5). They have their usual thick exhibition booklet for sale/donation at $2 per booklet. It contains all the information of the art pieces displayed and their locations.

Do head down when you are free during your school holidays or your annual break! Love you all! Till the next post!

<3 May&FJ

FLOCK CAFE @ TIONG BAHRU

Location: 78 Moh Guan Terrace #01-25 Tiong Bahru Estate Singapore 162078
How to get there: Take MRT to Tiong Bahru, turn left towards the bus stop after you leave Tiong Bahru Mall, do not cross the road until you see the three story short houses, walk down and Flock's there!
Opening hours:
Daily: 0800am - 1800pm
Contact: 6536 3938

Hello!!!!!!!! TGIF everyboday! I bet you all are thankful that the weekends are coming! I spent the whole of today being Cinderella, sweeping the house, cleaning the windows and toilets with my bro. If this does not sound tiring enough, the both of us decided to head out to play some badminton. However the courts were fully booked. So we decided to head up to the gym and work out. Boy it was a crazy 1.5 hour workout, but I gotta say it was good!

Anyway back to the topic of food, May&FJ recently head out to FLOCK. We've bypassed it many times and have seen many bloggers talking about it. So we decided to give it a go.

Flock is a rather little cafe that has a rather nice interior decor. However, the tables, especially those at the far end are rather cramped to the fact that conversations 2 tables away from yours could be heard. (Times like these just makes me wanna join that conversation. It's like hello, since we're here too, might as well! What about that idiot ex-boyfriend you were talking about just half a minute ago?) Because of that, May and I decided that it was better to take the seats that were nearer to the door, you get a more personal space and privacy.

We ordered a Scrambled Eggs & Croissant with Smoked Salmon  ($14.90), a Prawn Aglio Olio ($14.50), a Latte ($5.50) and a Cappuccino ($5.50). The bill totaled to $40.40. We have included the menu here too!

Scrambled Eggs & Croissant With Smoked Salmon:

• May said that scrambled eggs were recommended by many.
• The scrambled eggs were well done. It wasn't too firm or too watery. It's texture was very consistent!
• Quoting May: A Croissant can determine whether the rest of the bakes and food are worth trying in a French restaurant. While this ain't a French restaurant, we're still gonna give you a review on the croissant the "French defined" way. The croissant was not light or fluffy enough, it was also slightly hard; however it has a nice butter aroma.
• The combination of the croissant, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs was good!!
• The salad was a little disappointing for we picked bits of lettuce was browned ends.

Prawn Aglio Olio:

• 5 prawns included which were fresh and Q. We loved it.
• The spicy taste came from both the chili padi and the black pepper. (Surprisingly, mostly from the black pepper) It was too spicy!
• We both felt that there was an excessive amount of black pepper and hence it doesn't taste like Aglio Olio.
• It was also quite oily.
• D' Good's was sooooooooooooo much better 

Latte & Cappuccino:

• Both tasted fine. I felt that the cappuccino was light though (maybe the Aglio Olio turned my taste buds haywire)
• However, we felt that the foam was not well done. After 15 mins, we saw huge holes in the foam and it looked rather disgusting and disturbing for the both of us. (I decided to stir my coffee instead of keeping the coffee art)

 (Cappuccino)

(Latte)

Overall, we feel that it's the All Day Breakfast is worth a try over here. As for their Pastas, maybe not. And the coffee, if you don't really mind the looks of it after 15 mins, it's definitely okay to try. However May&FJ were rather disappointed with our food there. The both of us were wondering why so, even when other reviews on it were not thaaat bad. In the end we concluded such disappointment was due to our expectations. Sadly, we felt that we had too high an expectation. So it's always better to enter without expectations! Saves you from feeling disappointed!

Alrights, that's all about FLOCK from us! Do share with us your experiences in FLOCK! We'd love to hear from you all :) Till the next post lovelies!

<3 MAY&FJ

CHOUPINETTE

Location: 607 Bukit Timah Road Singapore 269708
How to get there: Buses 151, 74, 154 (these are the ones we memorized by heart, there are more per se!)
Opening Hours:

Tues - Thurs: 0900am - 2000pm
Fri: 0900am - 2200pm
Sat: 0800am - 2200pm
Sun: 0800am - 1800pm

Contact number: 64660613

Hello! May&FJ are back with our food review today! Our friends and us decided to head out one day to Sunset Way for a food excursion, however we went at a timing where many restaurants and cafes turned us down due to external events or resting period. After feeling sorry for ourselves and hungry, May suggested Choupinette where we heard about good all day's breakfast! So we chugged ourselves down there at that odd hour to grab some lunch! After all that walking and stuffs, you bet we were hungry!

Choupinette is a  tiny little French restaurant that is situated at the corner. They have these set lunches that looks rather worth it, but we were after the all day breakfast, so we decided to skip that. We ordered an Eggs Royale set ($23), a Tristen Set ($21), and a Le Geo-Burger ($20). The bill totaled to about $74.90, since there are 4 of us, we each paid about $18.70. We have included their menu here. 

Eggs Royale Set:

• Comes with one cold drink and one hot drink. 
• The bread is crispy.
• They give you a generous portion of smoked salmon.
• The Hollandaise sauce was not too creamy.
• The eggs were poached to a good extent, so we were contented customers!

Tristen Set:

• Comes with one cold drink and one hot drink too.
• To be honest, at first look, the food looks kinda pathetic. The plate was too big and the food was too tiny. It made us feel that this seemed like a meal not worth the money paid for.
• Coming back to the good side of this dish, the Saute Mushrooms were very flavorful. (They could have given more of it! D' Good gave so much more at a cheaper price!)
• The eggs were well poached.
• The baked tomato was good. 

Le Geo-Burger:

• We requested for the patty to be "well done" but it was not well done at all -.- It was all too too hard for everyone.
• The fries comes in a huge ass amount that fed 4 people to their satisfaction.
• The salad has this slight sourish sauce that tasted good.

Note: 

• They have timings for the Brunch Menu
• Lunch sets are served till 7pm.
• They are not opened on Mondays.

 (Hot Chocolate)

 (Chamomile Tea)

(Apple Juice and Orange Juice)

Overall, we feel that the All day breakfast sets are worth the ordering, as for the meals, maybe not? But $18.70/ person for food and drinks to feed 4 people would seem rather worth it!

That's all for now! We'll come back with more food reviews for you all! Thank you for keeping a look out on our space! Do keep that love going! We love you all <3

(We're so cute ^^ Friends are hidden gems )

<3 May&FJ