The F-outing II - Old School Delights

215M Upper Thomson Road, 574408
6458 4518

Next up, we went on to find some cafe for us to sit down and continue our gluttony. Came upon this nice cafe called old school delights. It kinds of brought us back our memory lane when we're still primary school students. Vandalising, drawing cartoons on the walls while some old teachers nagging throughout the morning. Hahaha ok apologies to them. 

On every table, there was a box which contains some of the old school games that were played. Donkey, five stones, snakes and ladders and many other more. Chalks can be found in it too. Yes you're right! They were given to us to vandalise on their chalk walls. Scribbling, drawing whatever we want to do. F3 drew a Flamingo logo & a flamingo on it. I hope those drawings are still there. Old school food like mee siam, nasi lemak, curry chicken were sold but since we just had some main meals at LittlePart1 Cafe, decided to order some of their signature cakes. 

Lemony Cake
F3 ordered this cake, thinking that its gonna be filled with lemon cream but to our disappointment, it was just a normal lemon cake..... Not only that, it was dry with no bursting of lemony goodness like they describe on their webby. Haiz bad choice.

Old School Delights' Special Banana Cake
F2 actually wanna have their banana cake but then their waitress recommended us to their cafe special banana cake. Hmmm.. Isn't banana cakes too? wads so special. From her description, its less sinful with the ingredients used and its steamed instead of bake. OMG the cake really tasted awesome. It was moist and with a strong banana taste. Thank you so much for recommending that to us!! :D:D

Sticky Chewy Chocolate cake
Sweet tooth F4 does really love chocolate cakes. This cake was described as detectably sinful & not for " calorie-counting" faint hearted ones...oooo i think im included. It consists of 4 layers of gooey, fudgy, sticky and chocolate goodness. No wonder its sinful. OOOLALA. The cake taste perfect even its not placed in the fridge. Man this chocolaty cake cnt be consume often due to the sinfulness of it, but still Im gonna come back to enjoy again!

Crinkled Fries with BBQ coating
Regretted ordering this. Its far from the curry fries we had at LittlePart1 cafe. They were salty with the salt added, oily and its not spicy at all from their description. The fries were not coated properly, some with lots of powder some with none. But one thing for sure their service was excellent as they offered to change a whole new basket of fries as we feedback to them that its really salty. Didn't want to cause any trouble so we asked for more spicy powder coating for the fries instead. 
Even though we didn't like some of their food, but still its  sure recommend for a re-visit. Wants to try their signature dish and their drinks like teh-bing, lemon tea in their glass jars!!

The F-outing I - Little Part 1 Cafe

Alright alright i know this post is overdue way long. Even F2 who had 100++ photos had them posted on fb before my teeny tiny post. She even Photoshop them. We THE FLAMINGOS finally got to meet up after so long like since.....hmmm.... forgotten. LOL. super duper missed them, well the purpose of this meetup was at first a venting-out-anger HTHT but in the end it turned out to be a food outing for us. :))) I LOVE IT!! Met up at upper thomson road since F2 and F3's workplace is around there. First up we came upon this little cafe located right beside Thomson Plaza.

15 Jasmine Road 576584
6451 7553

This little cosy cafe is a regular hotspot for office workers to come down after a day of work, relaxing & have a drink. They serve german beers, british beers as well as some tasty treats. * Note to german beer lovers, they have 25% off for all german beers on wednesday night. Haha so do go down and grab yourself some of it!!

silken tofu salad
First up salad as an appetiser. To quench our thirst but most importantly to make us feel less guilty from the sinful stuffs that we going to have later on. The salad was fresh and the tofu was really silky. Together with the pumpkin seeds, its very refreshing. Definitely a good choice for dieters.

Buffalo wings - original spicy
Their signature buffalo wings were indeed spicy but up to my liking! These were served with some cucumber sticks and a sweet sour thai sauce. We love the sauce that we even mix it together with the salad!! HAHA.

Louisiana Crepe
The serving was quite big. Had it cut into 4 for us as we had to save some space for more food later on. Their crepes were normally served with salad but since we had the delicious salad beforehand, we requested for a change to their curry fries. The fries tasted heavenly... coated with curry powder not salt, crunchy and not oily, we regretted not getting a basket of it instead. Moreover there was no additional charges to the change made too!! But something caught our attention... the crepe was suppose to be black pepper ham but instead it turned out to be having the black pepper sauce on the crepe. Come on so we paid $3 more for this crepe than the italiano crepe with the ingredient just that there's black pepper sauce on the crepe.... -.-".

Earl Grey Tea
Ordered an Earl Grey tea as im allergic to beer, would grow rashes the next day everytime. Nothing special about the tea since its from the same packaging as anywhere. But this tea sure do help me digest these food.

Serangoon Gardens Breakfast.

Well well sunday is usually a day when people would wake up at 9-10am and have their meals as so called brunch. But for me. it is a must to wake up at 7am to do some exercise and have breakfast. Today mum & dad decided to walk to serangoon gardens market for breakfast since there was nothing to do.

Tan Soon Mui Beancurd - $0.50

 Everytime before we start gobbling down other food, we definitely would get one of this. It tastes so soft and smooth, especially when its fresh out in the morning. At only 50cents, it is so much worth it than the rochor beancurd at certain places.

Sim's Delicatessen's You Char Kway and Butterfly Fritter - $0.70 each

To go along with the beancurd, we got these as there was only one stall selling YCK. The YCK was not crispy and kind of oily. The only thing that i found it quite ok was its not so thick even though its quite big. The butterfly fritter taste much better than. It was fried to the right crisp and not so sugary. hmm yummy.

Rolina Tradition Hainanese curry puff - $1.20 each

Lucky i queued up for this puffs early when they just opened their stall... The queue went freaking long after that. Although Rolina is famous for their tradition curry puffs, i still prefer their sardine puffs. With onions and chilli, the sardine tasted so heavenly. The crust was another lovely point as it was thin and crispy. Even though it's quite ex for the size, i find it quite better than Old Chang Kee's. So Shiok!!

black carrot cake - $3

 Dad went to order this famous black carrot cake from the serangoon gardens carrot cake and wanton noodle. Even though there are quite a few stalls at the serangoon gardens market centre, but this one still taste the best. Fried with chilli, the carrot cake was soft not mushy and together with the egg its simply amazing...we could even swallow it without chewing.

The only disappointment is that we were not able to get buns from the serangoon garden confectionery. It was raining quite heavily that time and the queue was way too long. Dad and mum had to rush back to catch the Kungfu panda 2 movie. Oh well we could just come and get anytime since we lived near there!! WAHAHAHAHA

First hands-on!!

Ah its been so busy these days. Have to complete all calling of IVR and plotting out their call flows by these few weeks. But still i managed to find some time to go down to Phoon Huat which is located at aljunied, and attend their baking work shop. It was my first time baking without my fantastic dad... haix.. The menu for that day was  Chocolate Cream Fudge Cake and Caramel Nut Banana Bread. Luckily the class was quite small and I've got a partner to help me!! First up is the bread.

All the ingredients except the butter and salt were mixed together first.

the dough is then put to rest for 30 minutes before dividing them again.

While waiting for the dough to rise, the chef demonstrated to us how to caramelized sugar to the perfect the taste. The nuts consists of roasted walnuts, roasted almond, roasted hazelnut and roasted pistachio. Well any nuts could be added into it as long as they add up to 400gm..... I guess cashew nuts would be better than pistachios.

Bananas were cut into cubes and added into the caramelized nuts

The dough were then flatten and the fillings were added into it. God i hate the wrapping part. Its like wrapping xiao long bao but i just can't master it. luckily my partner helped me covered up the holes. They were then left to proof before bushing with egg wash and bake. Finally tadah!!

My first ever bread!! haha they smelled so nice, freshly out from the oven and soft!! I mean really soft!!! (Y). Next we carried on with the chocolate cake. Unfortunately, chef baked the sponge chocolate cake for us. :( I wanted to do that!!

We had to cut the cake into 3 layers so as to put in the chocolate cream in between it. Hahaha u guess it, help was needed for this too.

The ingredients for the fudge filling

While waiting for water to boil, i was busy stuffing myself with the left over cakes and the dark couverture. Oh my super glutton. We added some rum into our sugar syrup as it would taste better than just chocolate. yeah just chocolate.The filling were then spread on the sponge before covering up the whole cake with chococalte flakes on the side and dust cocoa powder on top. TADAH!!

I didn't add much cream to it as my family are kinda like anti-too-much-cream cakes. Yeah the calories add up would be woah. It was fun experience for me and im gonna sign up for the next lesson which we'll be doing chocolate special cake (hazelnut, hazelnut nougat and bittersweet chocolate) plus black sesame wholemeal bread with dice cheese fillings. Much anticipation!!

Giant Ikea. Ikea Giant.

33 degrees!! Man it has been hot, i mean really super hot these days. Even my fishes in the tank need some ice to cool down. Today we went to IKEA in search of cushions for sofa. 50 x 50cm cushions. Hmm something nice and compatible to our old traditional chinese wooden sofa. Almost all singaporeans would know what IKEA is famous for. Not the furniture, not the tools but.... the MEATBALLS!! yeap the swedish meatball.

Swedish Meatball Kid's size - $2.90

Got myself a kid's size as i wasn't hungry during that time. These meatballs are not purely beef but consist a mixture of beef and pork. I thought it would be like some meatballs sold at pizza hut but surprisingly it taste good. Its has a abit crunch when you bite it and its not salty due to the seasoning. Totally perfect with the sauce!!. These meatballs come with a potato... I think it would be better if those potato were mashed as isn't better to mix it with the meatballs and sauce?!

Vegetarian organic pasta with tomato sauce - $3.80

Mum tried the vegetarian organic pasta with tomato sauce. I could say it totally look so different from the menu picture. There was only pasta, the sauce and cheese only. And it costs like $3.90?!! oh well mum has to bear with it as its not 12pm yet. Her break from vegetarian time.

Salad - $3.20

There was a mini salad bar too where we can DIY our own salad. Well theres nothing to complain about since there was only lettuce, tomatoes, peas, purple lettuce and canned peaches. There was also soup of the day which was mushroom soup but we didn't try that as it cost $3.20 for just a mini plate. Not worth!!

After touring IKEA, we went to Giant which is like 2 mins walk only. But since its approaching lunchtime, we decided to fill our stomach first at the kopitiam before it. There was quite a number of people at the Dim Sum stall which made me quite curious, wanting to try their food.

Yuan Yang ( chee cheong fun + yam cake) - $1.80

 The sauce taste powdery and sweet. It is like drinking not well-stirred bubble tea!! ... eww yucks. Both the chee cheong fun and yam cake taste ordinary like from some factory. The only thing i like was their chilli. It was spicy and well to my liking.

Siew Mai and Egg Tart

The siew mai was bigger than the usual normal ones and was good. There isn't any smell from the pork and the outer yellow skin is still soft, not so dry like some. The egg tart was ok. Dad found the egg tart not to his liking but to me, i find it ok.

Besides these, there were dumplings, buns and fried stuffs. I do not dare to touch the buns as they seemed dry and the bread is more than the filling. The fried ones looked sinful and full of msg as well. So nope thanks!

Dad couldn't resist himself from taking one container at of this at Giant and wanted tohide it in his cupboard. HAHA! why? Cause durian is his favourite fruit of all!!

 This container contains 75 packs of it. Don't think that they looks quite small so consuming a number of it is ok. According to it, 3 mini of it contains 150 calories and 60 of it comes from fats!!. Well well I do have to control myself while snacking on sometimes!