'Joey's Blog'

Since its a holiday for most of us, I dated Boyfriend for brunch & we headed over to Clementi for our food. I was browsing through what we could have at Clementi area and a few cafes popped out from the site. 

Just along the street, I discovered Revelry cafe, Carpenter & Cook,  Nook D.I.Y House of Pancakes, The Signature Patisserie & Udders Ice-cream. Followed down from Udders ice-cream, they have outlet which sells pancakes so both of us decided to give it a try.

Udders Pancakes sell only pancakes as their main dish but they have both savoury & sweet type of pancakes so if you prefer something meaty, you can opt for their Pull-Pork Egg Benedict but we went to order their Honey Glazed Herbed Chicken ($14.80). 

The portion was rather disappointing! Just look at the size of the pancakes. They have a option of half or full menu which means if you choose half sized, you will only get 2 pieces of pancakes.

Saw salted egg york fries on the menu & decided to give it a try! Waited for about 1 hour plus due to the lack of manpower. I could count with one finger the number of staffs maintaining this shop & therefore the service pace was slow.

7 Lorong Kilat

#01-08 Kilat Court

Singapore 598139

Mon – Thu: 12:00 – 23:00

Fri: 12:00 – 00:00

Sat: 11:00 – 00:00

Sun: 11:00 – 23:00

Eve of PH till 12 midnight;

PH opens at 11:00

Good day ahead!

And here is my Pork Burger ($25). I was beginning to feel a bit skeptical when this arrived. I started with the chips - very nice, and very flavorful. Don't know if this was done on purpose, but some of the chips were less crispy than the others and made for nice chewy wedges where the potato taste isn't completely fried out. Some people take it as an incompetency factor when not all the chips are fried to the same consistency though.

The burger itself was wonderful. The edges of the pork patty were delightfully crispy, and as I worked my way through the burger it quickly proved tender and succulent. The burger was just the right size, being smaller than your average slider but still big enough to count as more than a snack. 

Banana Nutella Panini. ($8.90)

The Banana Nutella Panini is something that can be created at home with sliced bananas, bread and a jar of Nutella with less money involved. The combination of hazelnut and chocolate spread and bananas makes up for a delightful breakfast. The Panini was crispy, but not consistent throughout with some tough bits here and there. For a meal that can be simply replicated at home, we wondered if it was really money well spent.

Wimbly Lu is not an unfamiliar name in the cafe scene; the Jalan Riang cafe had been noted for serving delectable desserts such as their widely-raved waffles.

Root beer cake ($8)

Definitely one of the must-try in Wimbly Lu. The combination was quite a surprise. It's like a brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream however dip in root beer sauce at the bottom of the cup. Soak the brownie in fizzy root beer sauce, take a bite with the vanilla ice cream and the taste it. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Waffles with Ice cream ($8.50)

For the waffles with ice cream, you can choose which flavor of ice cream you want, I chose the milo icecream because it stands out from the rest of the flavors I guess? And you hardly see places selling milo ice cream. You also get to choose the topping, Maple Syrup, Toffee or Chocolate Sauce on it. You may request the syrup to be separately with the waffles.

Wimbly Lu is definitely worth a visit for the desserts if you're near the vicinity. All of their desserts are really worth trying but personally, the root beer cake is a must order whenever I'm here. Be there early, the queue usually starts after dinner about 8pm. Chocolate lovers, this is the place for you!

This post came in late once again. Back to last Sunday where I have a good brunch with Bf and his Mum. We brought her down to Chinatown for some good local dim sum. As both Bf's mum and I are Dim sum lover, I got ready excited to search for affordable and well-recommended Dim sum buffet. It was none other from the top 20 dimsum venue in burpple till danielfooddiary posts.

 It took me really long to find a suitable venue as some buffet rised up to $50+ person which was not in our budget list. It was pretty decent when we found a buffet which cost $24 per person and with so many thumbs-up for this Chinese restaurant.

From the outside, one would certainly have no idea that JuChunYuan is a restaurant. I initially thought that it was an exhibit of the ancient times houses. 

One of the best chinese restaurant that I came across because of their interior design! It seems like you are in Huang dynasty, having your lunch at a imperial treasure. Every display looked so ancient and antique. The designer must be having a hard time to come up with this ancient chinese concept.

The restaurant gave me a very "atas" feeling as I could totally enjoy my meal in peace without disturbance from the staffs. Moreover, the staffs were always ready to help whenever I need them.

Buffet means we can order as many stuffs as we could so Bf and I are in charge of indicating the quantity of food that we want to order whereas her mum will be in charge of eating whatever we ordered. So we ran through the whole list and listed 1 at almost all column. We must have over-ordered our food again!

It came out that we ordered 17 different plates of food for our FIRST ROUND. 

This was my favourite dish out of all: salted egg custard bun. Once bite into it, you can see the yellow fluid slowly flowing out and great combination of salted egg taste in it. Was reminded by the waitress there to eat while is still hot otherwise the fluid won't be so watery. So sweet of them (: Oh by the way is green in color in case you can't see clearly the color of it.

Done with the first round but we are not yet full. So we decided to go for a second round with orders of different kind of food. Here to a more appetizing dishes rather to those heavy food. 

Too much to list down all the names. If you are curious on what type of dishes they served, just head down to give it a try. 

I want to introduce their top favourite! Their dessert, Durian Cream Pancake, melts in the mouth and leaves you hanging there for more. Sorry to those who detest durians! It comes in the shape similar to a pillow. And when cut open, the durian cream stuffed to the brim! And if there's any reason why people would return to JuChunYuan, it would be this dessert! 

Overall, I would go back if I want a cheap and affordable dim sum fix.Well, but everyone's taste bud differs so just take my comments lightly and try it out for yourself!

Address: Far East Square,

130 Amoy Street #01-01

 (S) 049959 (nearest mrt: Telok Ayer)

Please do make reservation at this number:

6536 2655

Till then.