HABITAT COFFEE

Location: 233 Upper Thompson Road
How to get there: we came by bus 52 and 401 respectively. There are other buses available. Google map your way^^ Alight at bus stop number 530341.
Opening hours:
Tue - Fri: 1100am - 2230pm
Sat - Sun: 1030am - 2230pm
Contact: 6456 2567

HELLO :) How's the week been for you lovely people? I just came back from an impromtu trip to Sentosa and boy was it hot! Rode the skyride and the ludge. It was pretty fun ^^ hahahas, this week has been well spent!

May&FJ visited the Habitat Coffee awhile back to celebrate Joey's birthday^^ We thought we'd share a little about Habitat Coffee with you peeps for we absolutely love this darling little cafe.

We bought 2 Take Shitake Pasta ($12/each), 4 Cheesynara Pasta ($16/each), 1 Something Fishy Pasta ($14), 1 Ocean Linguine ($16), 1 Cappuccino Regular ($4.90), 1 Truffle fries ($8), 1 House-made Churros ($9), 1 Tiramisu and 1 Black Velvet Cake. I think we can safely say that the 8 us spent close to $150 that day.We have included the menu below, prices of cakes are not included.

Take Shitake Pasta:

• They give you very generous amounts of juicy mushrooms.
• The mushrooms were very well cooked and tasted great.
• Black pepper was added into the pasta to give it more flavour.
• Amount of olive oil included was reasonable.
• This is one that I would personally recommend.

Cheesynara Pasta:

• There was generous servings of cheese sausages. The sausages were oozing with melted cheesy goodness.
• Bacon included in the pasta was not too salty.
• The cream sauce won't make you feel soooo sick of it after eating a couple of mouthfuls.
• Portion of dish was sufficient.

Something Fishy Pasta:

• It is essentially tuna pasta.
• The black pepper gave extra flavour to the pasta.
• Overall not a bad dish, but we felt it's a dish that can be easily made without much of a hassle at home. $14 is a tat too expensive for it.

Ocean Linguine:

• Comes with 5 fresh looking prawns and 2 mussels.
• My friend only had one thing to say about this: "Not filling enough for me leh."

Truffle Fries:

• Many of my friends could not appreciate the "gas taste" of the truffle oil.
• Personally, it was okay and very yummy^^
• The portion was reasonable for $8 paid.

Home-made Churros:

• Nicely made.
• Tastes even better with the chocolate sauce.

Tiramisu:

• Liquor blended really well with the tiramisu.
• Could not really taste the cheese. 
• Portion wise: reasonable.

Black Velvet Cake:

• The name itself sounded really unique.
• It's just coffee cake with cream cheese.
• The cake it spongy. I like it's texture.

Cappuccino:

• Pretty coffee art.
• Does not have the acidic after coffee taste as said by Maymay.
• Medium bodied.

Overall Advantages:

• No service charge or GST.
• The food prices are reasonable!

Overall Disadvantages:

• The place is rather tiny so do make your reservations before hand. (I called 4 days in advance to make mine for it's for a big group)

Note:

• They are close on Mondays.
• Brunch for weekdays end at 1730pm. (That's why we have not gotten the chance to try it.)

Habitat Coffee is a really awesome place. It's rather inaccessible though; but we'd do anything for good food^^ Have you peoples visited Habitat Coffee? Let us know your views too alrights!

(The whole bunch of us^^)

Till next time!

<3May&FJ

***Update on: 16/06/2014

Hello! Habitat Coffee has been my recent hangout these two weeks. Thought I'd update you peepos on the stuffs I have tried there!

Firstly: Changes to the menu, they do not have Waffles Sunrise anymore.

I had The Shrooms ($12):

• Consists of: two poached eggs, large portion of sauteed mushrooms, two slices of Brioche and Salad.
• The eggs were well done!
• The sauteed mushrooms was the ultz! You should give anything mushroom at Habitat Coffee a go!

Apple Cinnamon Pancakes ($10):

• Consists of: three thick fluffy pancakes, caramelized apples and raisins, and slices of raw apples.
• The pancakes were fluffy and nice. It is rather filling although the portion looks otherwise.
• The portion of caramelized apples and raisins was good! And every bite tasted like heaven!
• This is something I would definitely try again when I am back!

I also had their flavoured coffee: Iced Macadamia Coffee ($6.90). They really have good coffee! Its something you peeps have to try when you are there!

 (Iced Macadamia Coffee)

(Mocha)

That's all for the updates lovelies! Weather's hot! Do remember to stay hydrated!

<3 FJ

CUPS N CANVAS

Location: 139 Selegie Road Singapore 188309
How to get there: Little India Mrt Station is the nearest, from there you can google map your way there.
Opening Hours: 
Tue - Thu : 1030am - 2200pm
Fri - Sat: 1030am - 2300pm
Sun: 1030am - 2000pm
Contact Number: 6884 6855

Hi Lovelies <3 Chinese New Year is coming! Looking forward to a load of red packets coming your way? For those giving red packets, looking forward to making a child smile? (Wells, kiddos at the age 20 are still considered a child when it comes to CNY) I know I am looking forward to wearing a nice dress out to meet people :) Remember not to catch a sore throat with all the eating of CNY goodies! Drink loads of Vitamin C daily during this period!

May&FJ went to Cups N Canvas awhile back and boy weren't we amazed with the interior decor! It was sooooo prettay! Here are some pictures!

We ordered a Pan Seared Dory with Corn Salsa ($9.90), Blanc Bacon ($15.90), Sweet Potato Latte ($4.80), Latte ($4.80) and French Apple Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream ($6.50). We have spent about $39.80 in total.
We have included the menu here.

Pan Seared Dory with Corn Salsa:

• The corn salsa was very fresh, together with onions, tomatoes and corn, the combination was amazing! I am not a corn lover, but in general was this was good!
• Salad was fresh. It was accompanied by a good sauce.
• The dory fish was very well grilled. It was very fresh and very very very juicy! I can't stress how juicy it was!
• The salsa with the fish is a very interesting combination. The corn provides the sweetness and the fish gives the salty tastes. Very good!

Blanc Bacon:

• Generous servings of bacon & mushrooms.
• Bacon was just right, it was not too salty.
• Cream sauce was not too much. You won't get too sick after eating it.
• Mushrooms were juicy!!
• There was a 10% promotion for pasta and drink. Hence we paid about $18.65 for both the pasta and latte.

Latte:

• Nice coffee art.
• There was sufficient froth.
• It wasn't too bitter. There was a right amount of coffee to milk ratio.
• It doesn't have the acidic after taste

Sweet Potato Latte:

• No caffeine included.
• It was a very very unique latte that required an acquired taste bud.
• It was very thick and there was real sweet potato included. 
• It was very milky.
• Personally, it's not something I'd order again for it was too milky for my liking. I'd prefer if it came in a coffee base instead of milk.

French Apple Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream:

• It actually comes with a mango sauce which provided a slightly sour.
• There was a generous amount of apples inside the cake. The apples layer the cake. It's like a layer of cake, no top of that a layer of apples, a layer of cake, a layer of apples and so forth.
• There was a faint cinnamon taste in the cake.
• They were also very generous with the amount of Vanilla Ice Cream.
• The cake was light and moist. Together with the Vanilla Ice Cream, it was awesome <3
• This is one cake I'd personally recommend! It was soooooooo good.

Cups N Canvas was honestly a good experience. May&FJ really enjoyed our time there and we had a good long conversation talking about almost anything. It's a good place for gatherings. There are no additional GST and service charges! 

Have you been to Cups N Canvas? Do share your experiences with us:) We'd love to hear from you lovely people!

(Pictures of pretty may ^^ )

That's all for now! Till the next food post :)

<3May&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