'Joey's Blog'

11th January 2015

What are the odds of having our monthsary on a weekend? Its neither by luck nor arranged but just nice our 22nd Month fell on a Sunday and it rang up a bell for Brunch time. 

Plan wasn't always planned as it should be. Our initial plan was to dine in at LAB sg along Jalan Pisang but we foreseen its a weekend and therefore we have to stand by under the waiting queue. Hunger striked us badly as we both did not have our breakfast before we left the house so waiting is definitely not prohibited, furthermore under a hot scorching sun.

So how when you need food so badly? A perfect apps called blupple is used in place for food hunt. Searching for good cafe along Kampong glam and we made it through the way to Hyde & Co which served all day good-breakfast.

I was surprised by crumplets that was written on the menu. I googl-ed on what is it and caught me amazed by how they changed their food uniquely. Apparently, crumplets mean a mix between and English muffin and a sponge cake. So instead you have toast bread for your breakfast, you can have English Muffins as a substitute. 

Many Tea selection can be found in the menu and we had a hard time to choose what flavour to go well with our food that we ordered. To simplistic, we wanted to take off with just Earl Grey tea but the boss strongly recommend us to try their Earl Grey Cream which has a strong vanilla taste on it. So glad that he recommended us a good tea. 

Our main dishes came to save our tummy. I ordered lady hyde ($12.90) which is a classic Croque Madame. Freshly baked brioche, honey baked ham, juicy pineapple, cheddar sprinkled. What's so special about this would be the spicy shrimp (while they called it Hebi Hiam) that topped up with a sunny-sided egg.

While Bf settled for his 'The full works'' ($17.90) which comes with a grilled cheese portobello mushroom, bratwurst, steaky bacon, roasted baby potatoes served with creamy scrambled eggs and a slice of freshly sourdough rye and homemade crumplets. 

With so many choices in a plate. this dish can definitely be more than brunch.

Truffle fries need not to be said. Those who have been following, all of you should know that both Boyfriend and I are die hard fan of fries. So whenever there is truffle fries in the menu, our temptation couldn't save us further. 

This truffle fries looked small in serving in the photo but when the food was served, we over-judged it but at least, we managed to finish it all.

To soothe our throat, we ordered Teh Tarik. I would say that Teh Tarik goes hand in hand with Prata. It was good, not to the sweet kind and immediately perked me up for the rest of the day. This is how powerful tea is.

Go for this if you are craving for murtabak badly (:

Singapore Zam Zam Restaurant

697 North Bridge Road, Singapore

+65 62986320

Mon–Sun: 8am–11pm

This new cafe born out of their love for pop art, desserts and western fusion food, It has become the exclusive trendy spot for young generation in Singapore. It is really cute to enter in to a cafe full of pop art.

The cafe has a very interesting colour scheme. It has splashes of bright colours element, kind of neon like colours in many parts the cafe.I think they are trying to be playful with colours. You know that happy colours make one happy and certainly. they do (:

All the cakes and pastries they had on that day. Their Apple crumble looks promising, maybe I will try it one day,

Just by looking at their menu make me crave for more, The whole was so interesting too look at it, not like most of the cafes which has single colour,or dull page. They insert graphics to and pictures to illustrate what they have on the menu.

With vouchers given, I am only entitled to purchase their desserts and beverages. It does not include with their main dishes. Not blaming on them because they have pretty good dessert choices on the menu. And also, both of us had a full lunch before that,

Its quite ironic that neither of us ordered caffeine drinks as most people dine in cafe because of their coffee arts, caffeine taste. However, both of us ordered their soda drinks instead. He had the normal Spritz while I ordered their passionfruit italian soda ($4.90).

Our dessert for the day:

Banana-tella French Toast ($11.90)-Thick toast with caramelized bananas drizzled with caramel and a dash of hazelnut chocolate. Nobody will say NO to nutella. I love to apply mouthful of nutella onto my toast bread. However, the nutella portion is not enough for me! May request for a bigger one please (: Anyway, the Bananas are so soft, they melt instantly in your mouth. 

Overall, De’Pop Culture Cafe is a quiet, and money worth cafe that serves pretty delish food. Since boyfriend and I had skipped their main dish, we will sure be back for that.

De’pop Culture (North Bridge Rd)

749 North Bridge Road #01-01 (off Jalan Kledek), Singapore 198717 (Bugis MRT)

Tel: +65 90296406

https://www.facebook.com/depopculture

Opening Hours: 11am – 10pm (Mon-Fri), 9am-11pm (Sat), 9am to 9pm (Sun)

We caught Annabelle together (to be honest this was our first horror movie together) and as usual being the timid me I hid behind his shirt most of the time. He was usually frightened by my actions instead of the show because I will gave a sudden jerked on his shoulder and he will stood up straight looking terrified. HAHA, it was a half thought to choose this movie show because we wanted to find time to kill and there were not many good films shown, 

But overall, I would rate this show 7.5/10 for a beginner like me. At least when I have kids one day, I know that I am not going to pamper them with DOLLS ( oh, set aside barbie dolls!) HAHA. Anyway, its just a myth ( not going to believe so much).

Fun-filled weekend I have and im looking forward to the upcoming week (:

Till then.