'Joey's Blog': Pasta

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Here to a post on Saturday whereby we held a BBQ session at Abel's new condo for my 5N1 clique. Not only some gathering, we also met up to celebrate all the belated June and July's babies birthday. The best part was to bring along our +1 for those who have it so I brought along boyfriend to this gathering to introduce him to all of my friends who have not met him before.

The whole Saturday was so occupied with preparation that Edwin and I had to meet up earlier to get gift for Kah sheng's birthday. Its quite easy to buy gift for guys (is either shirt/ cologne/ watch or wallet), so we decided to get him a shirt from Benjamin Barker and Davidoff cologne from Tangs. Thanks to Edwin good eye-catch if not I will be stuck forever on the gifts. Heh.

After purchasing our items, we have to pick up Yau on and drove to Giant to buy our groceries and Kah Sheng tagged along with us. We had a hard time squeezing through the crowd because of the massive sales and Ramadan period that the whole market was really crowded.

Managed to be home to prepare the rest of the things and I decided to whip up 2 dishes for them. Cooked baked pasta and a simple fried rice to ensure that the food are sufficient.

Boyfriend came to help me and we took a cab down to meet the rest for our BBQ session.

Lucky Abel's new condo was just a street away from his old house so having to bring over all the ingredients wasn't troublesome for us. But we started setting up the fire late thus we didn't manage to cook finish all the food but at the same time we ordered way beyond lot more ( thought the food will not be enough) but we were all wrong. Thanks to Yi hua for clearing the rest of the food and volunteer to bring back home.

The rule was set to leave the BBQ pit by 10pm so we packed up and proceed on to our second plan and that was to surprise the june and july babies. Huiting ordered a kiddo kind of cake for them. HAH, but the chocolate cake taste not bad from Prima deli.

The birthday babies (:

And last but not least, we attempted to do a group selfie suggested by Yau on and he has long arm to stretch far so that all of us can fit in to the frame. Clap clap hand for him. HAHA!

Surprisingly, the attendance was a remarkable one. 15/18 came for the gathering, it was more than 3/4 of us there. Those who MIA or seldom meet us came too. It was really a good gathering, having to update of each other lives. And also, managed to intro our +1 to everyone so now no more awkward if we see each other on the street.

For that, thanks everyone for coming to this gathering. Always love 5N1 forever (:

Till then.

Tuesday dinner with my Mum before we visit grandmum at TTSH. Yes, grandmum admitted to TTSH again after groaning in pain on his abdomen therefore the doctor advise her to do a thorough check-up. But on a bright side, she is recovering well, at least she is able to feed herself and also to pick up some light exercise.

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Headed down to Square 2 for dinner and ended up in Pasta De Waraku. They offer a range of Italian-Japanese fusion pasta and pizzas. The restaurant is decorated with several displays of their pastas looking yummy! This outlet is located near an escalator heading down to B1 and a newly opened cafe, Viet Cafe.

The last you would expect from a Japanese restaurant is pasta and pizza. But Pasta de Waraku is a Japanese casual pasta and cafe restaurant. They offer a pretty intensive menu ranging from pasta, pizza to rice and other side dishes.

Menu categorize in Pastas, Baked rice, Pizza and desserts. There are alot of choices to choose from for their pastas. We had a hard time flipping through the menu back and forth.

Mum decided to order one of their dinner set so for soup we cannot choose, they only have corn soup, so creamy but was not served hot. Its kinda warm. The set also comes with a salad that contain tomato & lettuce with wafu dressing.

Ice lemon tea that was included in the dinner set too (:

Out of curiosity, I decided to try their matcha milk-shake ($6.80)

Its kind of expensive and I would expect a strong flavour of green tea but unfortunately, all I taste was the whipped cream. A milky kind of drink.

This is the only main that we ordered and shared. It came with 2 portion. One with a choice of pasta and the other will a choice of salmon/ chicken/ steak/ pork chop.

For pasta, we had the classic Carbonara Waraku Style which i thought was something different as compared to the normal pastas we normally have. There was a lot of bacon within the thick sauce and the nicely poached egg in the middle took the whole dish to a whole different level when mixed in ($24.90)

Last but not least, this is what I am excited to share! I don't have to travel to BKK/ Japan for Shibuya Honey toast ($12.90)! Hehehe. The bread is so tender and succulent and buttery that the moment I tasted it, this has got to be the most perfect bread I’ve ever tasted. I was a bit hesitant because it’s a thick slab, but slicing it in the middle gave me a jolt of surprise. It’s surprisingly tender, and a melt in your mouth experience.What make it good will be a scoop of vanilla ice cream and the fruits laying around the toast bread. This sweet dessert will be too full for 2 person, mum and I had a hard time clearing the plate.

Service was excellent despite it being full house, which also brings me to my point about making a reservation to avoid disappointment. And if you do not get a table, fret not because they have not one, but two outlets.

PASTA de Waraku

10 Sinaran DRIVE

#01-07, SQUARE 2

SINGAPORE 307506

+65 6317 7962

Till then.

Haven't been introducing my two cafe hunts on Tuesday with Amelia and her friend. It's kinda an impromptu plan for her friend to join us. But oh well... I make a new friend and he is kinda nice to talk with. Comfortable enough that the three of us could really laugh and chit chat for the whole night.

First cafe to bring you to: Wimbly lu. I brought them over to Jalang riang. Initially I thought of bringing them to Rokeby cafe for dinner but this cute little girl got frightened by this cafe. I mean yeah, she tried this cafe and all the food taste horrible (to what her opinion). Since she haven't try wimbly lu, we thought that maybe we can have our dessert first before proceeding on to our main and we did!

Here to our Chocolate tofu cake ($6.80). The name scared us and I would expect something like the soft tofu found in the market. But I was wrong! The after taste alittle of cheesecake, I actually mistooken it. There wasn't any strong tofu smell but instead it gave us this bitter like taste. Not too bad after all.

And gosh.. We made a right choice of ordering this molten lava cake! ($6.80) I can't explain how good it is. Imagine chocolate melting all over your mouth. OKAY, abit exaggerating! But the fluid of the chocolate simply sipped through your throat.

And last but not least, the over rated waffles overloaded inside Instagram by many customers. I would say that their ice cream added up to the waffle taste. I don't think they use butter milk but well... It's crispy from the outside, soft from the inside. 2 scoops of ice-cream with waffle cost us $11.90.

After our pre dessert, we headed off to serangoon garden for our main.

I didn't take lots of pictures partly because the lighting doesn't appear well inside my iPhone camera.

Starter; TRUFFLE FRIES ($12.90) I guess what is good for truffle fries will be their sauce. If the sauce is well blend, everything will taste perfect.

Amelia had her Arbite breakfast ($16.90) Scrambled eggs, Bacon, Baked beans, grilled tomato, smoked beef sausage, sautéed mushroom, toasted brioche and panned noisettes. Everything taste so BLEH )): The sausage is so salty, the scrambled eggs is so creamy. Their toast bread is so hard. Not a recommend dish to order.

El had his Tagliatelle lobster which cost him a BOMB ($24.90). It came in big portion but the pasta taste like MEE POK. Tagliatelle tossed with a secret recipe oriented chilli sauce and crabmeat with a grilled rock lobster.

I ordered this ($16.90) pork bolognaise egg roll and I love it really a lot. It comes with paper thin egg rolls baked with a pork bolognaise filling tapped with cheese and over baked served with a side of fresh green.

What's good is we are lucky to have free desserts for that day. It a complimentary dessert! hehehe. Mint pudding on the left & strawberry pudding on the right! FREE ONE SO JUST EAT even though we are full filled.

A really good hangout with them. Cafe hunt wouldn't be good without both of you (:

Till then.

If you’re in love with pizza and pasta, you shouldn’t miss Ricciotti Pizza Pasta Deli. Mid week with Poly classmates and we dined in at this Italian restaurant at Chinatown Central. The decoration is contemporary and the place looks befitting for small group gatherings or a romantic night out.

All of us love Wednesday. It is the middle of the week, and it is the timely message to tell us: hang in there, Friday’s coming soon! Here’s one more reason to love Wednesday – there’s an ongoing 1-for-1 pasta/pizza promotion at Ricciotti Italian restaurant.

In case you are still confused about how the Ricciotti’s 1-for-1 dining promotion works, we paid $21.50++ (the higher value) for two pastas, which makes it very value for money. The 1-for-1 dining promotion is available all day for lunch and dinner. Now you know where to find during lunch/dinner every Wednesday!