Desserts at Shin Kushiya! (Part II)

I'm sorry but I have to write another post of the desserts at Shin Kushiya again. Haha!

Please remember that there is this offer! It's still going on!!! Hahaha. But of course, this price is exclusive of GST and service charge (like always).

So, you get 2 green teas,

You will have 2 desserts!! Hahaha! This time round, we tried the parfait. (And it was the most expensive dessert on the menu. So, this means, we chuan dao la~)

Unlike most of the parfaits I have ate outside, this one totally stand out from the crowd. Goodbye to all the synthetic feeling stuffs (kanten jelly, nata de cococ etc) and say hi to all the good quality stuffs. Even the chocolate waffles stick is really nice! Haha. And this parfait has something new. Sesame cream (greyish thing on the bottom of the green tea ice cream). Eating it with the green tea ice cream was a really brilliant combination. However, I find it too sweet when I just eat the cream alone. I guess, the cream was born to go along with some ice cream. Hahaha!

Another thing that was really nice was that they add chestnuts! My favourite chestnuts! Hohohohoho! All the beans, jellies were totally different from the ones I have all the time. I LOVE IT!

I know I know, I've raved reviews about this mochi before. BUT! I have to do it again. If you are not interest, skip it. LOL!

Have you ever been in a situation before? Like, you remembered this particular thing as heavenly but when you went over to have it the second time, you realized that this is not as good as before? And then, you start blaming on the change of chef, on the fact that you have over rated it the last time. We did a check. No, this was as good as we had both remembered! Hooray!

I'm serious. This has to be the best mochi ever. Haha. Okay, the best I have had so far. Lol. I may go to Japan and realized that this has to be one of the lousiest there. LOL!

Addresss: 1 Harbourfront Walk #02-120-122 VivoCity Singapore.

Provence wassant buns

I had Provence breads quite some time ago. And I fell in love with them! I believe the top top seller of the bakery has to be their wassant buns, which are the small small buns you see below. But then, recently, I noticed that more and more bakeries are coming out with them. And when my mama buy them for me, I would just eat them and say "yum yum". Hahaha.

But every single time I ate the original Provence's buns again, I can't help but notice a difference. The original one was better!

(Didn't take my favorite chocolate because they are hiding inside my tummy. Ha!) Well, I felt that there's an extra crispiness around the Provence one. Not exactly crispy but it felt that there's a more defined outer layer as compared to the others that I had tried. Plus, I felt that the chocolate taste better from Provence. Well, no one had noticed it and no one really agreed with me because everyone thinks that they are really similar. BUT NO! It's really different! LOL!

But then, come again, if Provence is so far away and we have a four leave bakery nearby, I don't really mind eating them. The difference is not that huge anyway. Hehs.

Baumkuchen cake from Muji

I went shopping at Muji and I saw this cake!

Ha. I remembered it as a pretty nice cake from the Japan shows. Haha. It is cut from a big round ring cake. I remembered it as a very interesting dessert! And so, I have to buy it. It's at $2.90 per piece and if you were to buy 2, there's 10% off. Lol. So, I bought 2! (COME ON, there's a few favors around, and if you know me well enough, you would have guessed that I have to try all the favors!)

My verdict was. Erm, its too dense for my liking. Haha. A little dry too? I think it would have went really nicely with some fruit tea. Ha! But I cannot deny that the apple and banana smell (the 2 favors I chose) was really fragrant. It's a tad too sweet for my liking too.

No idea what would others think of? But then, could it be just Muji or all the cakes will taste like this? HMMMM. I have to find baumkuchen cake from bakeries to find out!

Shokudo @ Raffles City

It's been a long time since I last went Shokudo, so, I thought, we can hop over there for a quick dinner fix since we are around Raffles City (yet again).

If you had not know, Shokudo is like the Japanese version of Marche. So you get a card and then you just go around the entire restaurant and order food with the card. At the end of the day, you bring the card over to the cashier and pay. Hehs. There's a wide selection of stuffs. From drinks, ramen, western food, finger food, sashimi all the way to desserts. Well, of course, I would not say that it's ohmygodish kinda nice, but it's not too bad.

So, since I've been there before, I just zoom zoom zoom to buy the food I wanted to eat. Haha. It's supposed to be a quick dinner!

Had a craving for rosti. But then, hmm. I think it's slightly burned. And. I have not ate enough rosti to really know how good a rosti should taste. To me, it was pretty good. Just potato? Haha. The sausage was not too bad too. So well, not too bad a dish to pick if you are at Shokudo.

Another thing that I remembered was nice was the omelete! I chose the ham and cheese. Yummilicious. This was really nice! Haha. You should see how my man goes "Wooo. This is nice!" everytime he took a bite. (Well, it could because I starved him before the dinner.) But yea, the melted cheese and the ham goes together with the egg. And I've always liked eggs!

And urm, something that is not too nice is the salmon. Very normal tasting. Not very tender and not ultra fresh. And the grill was not that nice. Oh, the sauce was not fantastic either. So urm, maybe not the salmon the next time.

Something that was really nice was this apple juice. Ha! It's not too sweet and I just love it! Ha! Apple taste is good too!

I think it's a very good place to go if you have a lot of friends. Ha! Then everyone can choose some dishes and enjoy the dishes together. It may not be fantastic but it's the company that counts right? Urm, not the place to go if you are looking for fantastic and ohmygodish kinda food. Ha!

It's located at B1 of Raffles City Shopping Center! =D

Kazoku Tei Hand Made Udon

I seriously hope I got the name of the place right. I translated directly from the Kanji on the menu (please pardon my poor memory of remembering places and names!). Haha. But then, as the English words on the menu say, this place sells hand made udon! Almost ALL their dishes revolve around udon. Nice!

This place doesn't sell green tea. But this is still really nice!!

Okay, to the Udon. So, there's actually a few ways they cook the udon. So, you can choose the way you want your udon cooked and also the dish that comes along with it (of course you can opt out of that dish).

So, because of what my neighbor was eating, I decided to go ahead with the curry udon!! Super duper big bowl, considering the fact that the udon did not fill up the bowl! Ha!

The curry udon contains beef. THANK GOD I can eat beef out of home! Haha. Anyway, this curry is seriously a pretty special one. Sweeter than all the Japanese curry that I had tried. But it was really good. Fragrant.

The udon was nice. Q~ It went really nice with the curry!

Haha! I have to take a glutton photo with my curry udon! LOL!

This is what I would have preferred more. Soupy and mild. Apparently, my man does not feel the same way and he does not believe me and so he did not exchange his with me. ARGH. And in the end, he did not really enjoy the meal. Ha! Too bland for his liking even though I thought the soup was pretty good. Ha!

Okay, so besides udon, we also ordered this curry chicken. I ordered it because it looked like Tori Karrage and I have a craving for some. And when I looked at the menu's photo, I would expect it to be tori karrage with curry powder on the surface. Erm, NO CURRY TASTE AT ALL! BOOO!

Pretty oily.

I prefer thigh meat over breast meat. Hehs. NO CURRY FLAVOR ANYWHERE! Oh crap.

Not exactly a happy man. Ha!

Alright, because of a meatlover, he chose the pork cutlet as the dish to go along for my curry udon.

Yes, the outer layer was pretty cripsy. But, I tasted a too-strong-for-my-liking's butter taste. Too oily. Meat not exactly there yet. *Tampopo have better pork cutlets*

The soft shell crab was nice though. Nicely fried. And the crabs had quite a big of meat! Woohoo! I love that! Haha.

Well, I went in because it looks kind of nice! I would say, I may return again for the udon but I would not make a special trip down.

Address: Plaza Singapura Tokyo Walker -Kazoku Tei #04-01

Desserts at Shin Kushiya!

Once upon a time (okay, not really that long ago), my man and I hopped into Shin Kushiya to have our anniversary dinner. And now, we chanced upon this restaurant again to have some desserts because I was attracted by the pretty looking desserts at the window!

The mains were not too bad. But we are here for our dessert/afternoon tea!

First, tiramisu. God. The cream was fresh, the taste was good. The plum wine gave an extra boost somehow. And the coffee smell was just nice for my liking. Woooosh! WE LIKE! Haha. The cream layer was really good (considering that I'm not a great fan of creams). The cake part was heavenly. Wooooo!

I erm, finished quite a fair bit of the cake before my man noticed it. Hahahahaha!

 

Next, is the green tea mochi with ice cream.

The mochi was reallllly suppppeeerrrr Q. Heh. And as you slowly chew it, the nice aroma of the green tea will diffuse into your mouth and you will go 'hmmmmmm....'. Haha. And I love the warm mochi.

Eat it with the accompanying green tea ice cream. Woo. You will have the merger of warm and cold in your mouth! YUMS!

And apparently, there is an offer. If you dine in during the afternoon tea time, all desserts will be at $6 each. NICE! Haha. Offers just made good desserts even better right? Hahaha.


Final verdict. I'm sure I'll go back there sometime for the desserts again! I'm serious! Well, I'm great fan of Japanese style desserts, or rather desserts as a whole. Haha. So, I would never waste my calories on yucky desserts. Hehs.

Addresss: 1 Harbourfront Walk #02-120-122 VivoCity Singapore.

Ramen Nantsuttei @ Parco

Oh, I think I should probably talk about this place too! Haha.

They are one of the most authentic ramen around, I would say. Just look at the shop! It's full of cool Japanese guys! And there's actually a counter that you can sit at. But it's often too crowded and so I did not get my chance. GAH! Next time. Haha. And it's actually a flagship from Japan! Oh, how cool is this?

Well, so, since this is a ramen shop, we have to try the legendary char-siew ramen right? Lol. I always see the man ordering char-siew, so I thought I should give it a try since he was not around to order it. Hahahaha.

The soup was really special. Nothing like the ones that I had tried before. I think it must be because of the garlic oil (that gave the black look). A little too salty for my liking. Just have to down a few more cups of water. Haha. But the char-siew is seriously nice!! I like the seaweed too! And oh, the ramen. This is crazy. Haha. *Like like like*

I would probably go back there again. Hehs. Do beware of the crowd man! It can get really crowded!

Address: Private House No.P3-06, #03-02 Millenia Walk 9 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039596. On the 3rd floor of PARCO Marina  Bay.
Tel : (65) 6337 7166    Fax : (65) 6337 7791