Pre-Birthday celebration with Sillies
I'm back from my 5 days 4 nights Bangkok trip with the love and here to update my back posts before I left for my trip. Bangkok posts will be up soon ( probably this week). Some of the photos have been uploaded to my Facebook for preview.
8th March 2015
Sometime I questioned myself ''Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.''
Never felt so thankful to have sillies with me for more than a decade. No matter how far I have to take it with them, whether I am fighting with them or we bicker together for the past years, I know that I just really need them, because they are the ones who teach me the most about myself.
Last Sunday, sillies brought me to Jamie Italian for my birthday celebration, a rather high end restaurant by Jamie Oliver. Oh well, I heard he is a phenomenon in the world of food. He is one of the world’s best-loved television personalities and many people was inspired to spend more time enjoying cooking delicious food from fresh ingredients, and even start growing their own food.
We didn't make any reservation and thus we were given an outdoor seats. With the hot weather and having a meal under the sun made it difficult for us to enjoy our food. We have to finish it fast and left the humid place so I urged one to make a reservation before you come. You may chope it from the chope reservation apps.
The menu looks extensive but the price can leave a hole in your pocket. We ordered 3 different dishes from the Pasta Category:
1. Crab Spaghettini ($16)/ ($24.50)- With capers, chilli, fennel, parsley, anchovies and lemon
2. Meatball Pappardelle ($14)/($24)- Beef and pork meatballs with wriggly pappardelle, tomatoes, garlic, red wine and hereby breadcrumbs
3. Truffle Tagliatelle ($15)/ ($23)- Fresh foraged black truffles, butter, Parmesan and nutmeg
4. Posh Chips ($7.50)- With truffle oil and Parmesan cheese
Why do they have different pricing for each pasta? There come the sizes that you preferred. We ordered everything small which led to a petite serving of pasta that doesn't make us feel full at the end of the day so opt for a larger serving if you are extremely hungry ( a few dollars doesn't hurt yeah?).
With GST and service charge included, our whole meal came up to $61.50. Jamie's Italian is a great place to get your Italian fix. The chilled out and relaxed atmosphere makes it a great place to hang out your friends. Given by the outdoor seats, we were able to dine in with a nice view, a landscape of resort world but since the sun shows no mercy to us, we had a hard time enjoying our food. But nevertheless, the food was worth for the price.
Jamie’s Italian Singapore
1 Harbourfront Walk, Vivocity #01 165-167, Singapore 098585
Opening Hours: Mon – Thu: 12:00PM – 10:00PM;
Fri – Sat: 12:00PM – 11:00PM;
Sun: 12:00PM – 10:00PM
Tel: 6733 5500
Email: enquiries@jamiesItalian.sg
Website/Online booking: http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/singapore/vivo-city
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamiesitaliansingapore
Next up, our food journey doesn't end here. We took a bus to Dakota which is very near old airport road food centre and our next destination was: Tian Kee and Co. The hyped up for their ombre/ rainbow cheese cake and their Pink Lady (Rose Syrup with Steamed Fresh milk) can be found here.
We were lucky enough to find an indoor seats as the cafe was fully packed with people. The shop was a little small and could fit less than 20 people. We were blessing in disguise and got into the shelter just in time before the heavy downpour.
While some of the people who were seated outdoor, they have to deal with the heavy rain and unfortunately their food was drenched by the rain. I could see the agony on the customer's face and as such the boss could not do anything to stop the rain.
The interior of the cafe whereby the spacious level was alittle low. Its very cramped and stuffy to squeeze everyone in.
Pink Lady (Rose Syrup with Steamed Fresh milk which taste like Bandung to me) ($6.50)// Peppermint ice chocolate ($6.50) - really refreshing kind of beverage, especially on a hot and sunny weather.
Rainbow Tofu cheesecake
Well well well, this has been all over my instagram and most of them are talking about the beautiful light colours that make the cheesecake looked so attractive. Prolly this rainbow cheesecake is their signature dessert dish but sadly to say that it wasn't as nice as I thought!
The first thing I observed on the cheesecake, its so wobbly and jelly! Once you shake the plate, the layer of tofu cheesecake starts to wobble very fast. Its kind of cute to play well. Hahaha. Anyway, its not those very nice cheesecake I have eaten before, I guess its the only the colour that attract one to get it. The cheesecake melts very fast so eat it fast before it turns into liquid ( you won't want to eat liquid kind of cheesecake, right?)
Yuan Yang Cheesecake ($6.50) which is actually made up of a layer of espresso and another layer of Hong Kong style milk tea. The two combination can totally relate well on your Yuan Yang drink. Both friends and I think that this piece of cake won over the rainbow cheesecake.
Tian Kee and Co is surprisingly easy to locate. The nearest MRT you can find : Dakota or Mountbatten MRT and simply cut through the blocks and this will lead you there.
Tian Kee & Co.
Blk 12 Dakota Crescent 01-48 Singapore 390012
Tue-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sun 10am-9pm
And thanks ladies for the day spent (: Till we see again.
Till then
