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Disappointing Cafe Fest 2014

I was so anticipating for 6th Sept to arrive but sadly it ended with a bad note. The well-known Cafe Fest that was arousing around and to call out for all cafe lovers received many nasty comments & feedback. Could you imagine my excitement lasted for that 30 mins of fame?
 Not totally blaming the organiser as there are always room for improvement. Feedback are there to improve.
I’m gonna start by saying I didn't really enjoy it much. It’s not that I hated it, but I guess you could say that the whole event was not well-organised. The dessert served was good and definitely with my partner's company, but I think the event wasn't all that I thought it would be, so I felt it was a waste of my time and money. I actually have to spend another $20 on the cafe fest itself in order to enjoy all the delicacy served in the booth.

Feeling rather guilty for calling Wei Min and her partner along and having them to spend $25 on the ticket and in the end received such a bad experience.


It stated that it's free entry to the venue, but if you want to purchase coffee and food, plus sit at the seats provided,  you need a Café Fest Pass. With the pass, you also get to purchase food and drinks up to 25% off the usual price in their own cafe.

However, you do see public buying food without that Cafe fest pass while the rest of the event and ticket holders were given a miserable S$0.50 or S$1.00 discount off the public price. Unfairness given?

And what's more, with a Café Hopping Pass, there wasn''t much thing given for us. A small paperbag with:
2-day café hopping pass at Café Fest
Free Uber rides on festival days
Access to all F&B festival prices
Access to all festival entertainment & games
Spa Esprit voucher notebook 
(Up to 20% per beauty brand) 
Oh well, they even provide us with a bottle of NEW water!

How can all these items added up to $20? Isn't like we are paying for all their rental fees?
















"First off, being a VIP is always amazing. The VIP area we're catering for is a sheltered tent where our VIP guests can get some shade from the sun. Trust us, with Singapore's weather, any shade would make a massive difference. VIPs can hang out in the VIP area and watch our live music acts while enjoying great food & beverage. The space in the VIP area is limited so we're operating on a first come, first served basis! We're very strict on who gets to enter so please ensure your friends and family coming with you are all VIPs, if not you'll be the only one in there and trust us, you'll have no second thoughts about leaving everyone behind. "

Although I didnt get their VIP pass but it is so unfair for those who spent alot of money on the pass but were restricted as the VIP Area was taken up by everyone who wanted to be there - regardless of whether or not they had a ticket. 



Forget about the negative remarks, on the good hand, its not an everyday thing that you get to try out all 12 cafes at one go! You can experience Bloomsbury bakers, i am, Jimmy monkey, Maison ikkoku, Oz specialty coffee, Toby's estate, Tiong bahru bakery, Cake Love, Smitten Cafe, Common Man Coffee Roasters, The Providore and Hatter Street Bakehouse & Cafe.












After walking round and round, my hunger couldn't save me any further. I decided to get a sausage bread ($7) from Tiong Bahru bakery and definitely contented me. I have never doubted their bread! Bf ordered a pork burger from Toby estate and it was not a pleasant one. How can a pork burger ($8) taste like TUNA? I suspected they have added a mixture of pork and tuna together! 

I walked past Bloomsbury bakers and immediately stared at the desserts in the chiller. One that really caught my attention would be Speculoos cheese cake topped with peanut butter crumbs! The peanut butter melted inside my throat but it won't be good to finish it all by yourself as it tends to get heaty.

Last but not least. we ordered hazelnut milk shake from Hatterstreet bakery and they actually used mobile tap water which kinda allowed me to doubt their hygiene. But since Singapore is a safe environment for drinking tap water, let me just close one eye.

You can't believe that all these added up to $25 for our lunch which wasn't filling at all. Thinking of getting rainbow cake from I am which means I have to splurge another $7 on that sweet treats. I must as well go somewhere to have my main course.




Oh ya, not forgetting of getting a strawberry chocolate ice-cream sandwiches from providore for that $6.90! And we were told that there's isnt any discount'for this sweet treats! WHY LIKE THAT! I would have brought 2 more if its cheaper.

Just eating can make you feel full!





Anyway, though this cafe fest is sooooo disppointed but I'm glad that the person who went with me made everything possible, I mean its the company that counts.

Oh yes, Cafe Fest is giving us some sort of compensation for people who only came on Saturday and not Sunday. But oh well, I have sent an email to request for the compensation, as per the instructions, so now I’m waiting to see what compensation all of us will get. I doubt it’s gonna be cash, most probably some vouchers that we can use at the Cafe would be good enough too!

Till then.

Maison Ikkoku @ Kandahar Street

Boy booked out on a Saturday morning. Despite him being tired, he's still willing to get dressed up and walk along with me to our cafe hunt. 


Everyone has their favorite hangout cafe. It’s where we go when we need that temporal break from the atrocities of urban living. It’s a somewhere that fits into our schedules, regardless of how complex they may be. My disappointment lasted quite a minute when I realised that La marelle cafe is closed for birthday party. Subconsciously when my boy and I continued to walk further down, we came across to this unexpected surprising cafe.  
Maison Ikkoku is one of my favourite list hangout cafes. I can’t exactly deem it my absolute favourite because there are a few more places that I really love as well. But this little cafe along Kandahar Street is definitely one of those that I return to again and again, even on rainy days. 
It is located along a quiet street in the kampong glam area. A cosy cafe is located on the ground floor of a 3-storey shophouse, while the second and third floors house a boutique and cocktail bar respectively – all part of a multi-concept lifestyle store that the people behind maison ikkoku are trying to sell.




Here’s a peek at the menu:


Highlights for today: 




Break of dawn – $22
This is hands-down one of the most value-for-money brunch dishes i have ever had. seriously. at bigger establishments like wild honey, you’d probably pay more than this and get something barely 1/3 the size? just check out the size of that plate – it was HUGE and piled high with an array of breakfast foods. i think two average eaters can share this plate very comfortably and leave feeling very satisfied! Each component on the plate was good which i thought was no mean feat, given that its rather hard to achieve that with the number of different things they served up. What it contains inside this enormous dish: Bratwurst/ Wedges/ Toast bread/ Cherry Tomatoes/ Salad/ Scrambled eggs/ and oranges or grapefruits?! 

And our preferred choice of dessert. Red velvet cake with nutella paste in the middle of the sponge cake ($8). This cake has a pretty good cream cheese frosting, which is not too sweet, allowing you to taste the cream cheese. The cake however, has little chocolate taste to it and most importantly, it is not moist enough. This is perhaps because it has been refrigerated for a few days? It could have been more moist if it was freshly baked. The red is really vibrant which explains why there is little chocolate in this cake. I like my red velvet to be more chocolately but this is just personal preference.






 Maison Ikkoku Cafe
20 Kandahar Street, Singapore 198885
Mon-Thur: 9am~9pm
Fri-Sat: 9am~11pm
Sun: 9am~7pm
And don’t forget to pop by haji lane and kampong glam while you’re in the area! its always nice to take a stroll around a culturally rich area rather than being constantly surrounded by towering skyscrapers. 














My dress down outfit for that day. If you are wondering where do I get this from? Its actually from one of the blogshop at Nex but apparently it has closed down for some reason ): I think I bought this dress for $20 under their sales item. 


We spent our afternoon at Maison Ikkoku cafe and then decided to window shopping around while waiting for the time to pass by. After which, we headed down to Sultan hotel to celebrate his friend's 21st. They held the party at a hotel room which accommodate 30+ people? The room is just as simple as a deluxe room so you can imagine us squeezing inside the room. With the accompanied of his secondary school friends, we had quite an enjoyable times together talking about the army stories and cracking up their old jokes. Our next meet up together will be on the 24th Christmas eve night with his sister and the other few who didn't turn up for that party. Can't wait for this day to come. Hehehehe.


And boy bought this packet of DAIM chocolate for me which is kind of unexpected and definitely my favourite. Who doesn't love chocolates yeah?  But still thanks for this caramel love chocolates (:


Till then.
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