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Cafe-hopped: FIX (HomeTeamNS-JOM)


Mid week with Stella and Wendy and we went to explore a new cafe found at Toa Payoh. FIX cafe was opened by the folks at Grub and I thought that I would be able to get my Churros fixed after having it at Grub. Unfortunately, with the same boss, they had different kind of menu and each dishes has its own specialty. You will know why later.



With a one whole page of menu, food here were limited! There wasn't pasta/ bake rice choice. But you can try their Naanwiches here. It is made up of Indian Naan ( tasteless & hard), most likely flour, baking soda etc. They have 4 different type of fillings to choose from in the menu and we selected Tikka chicken Naanwiches. 

Affordable price can be seen here if you purchase 1 main and 1 starter. You save $3 for the whole set. We mixed Naanwiches to go with our crispy soya chicken drumlets. With the original price of $17, we only paid $14 for both items.




The Naanwiches ($10) are served with a side of tortilla chips drizzled with melted cheese and salsa. Anything do with cheese taste delicious especially when you scoop the whole amount of cheese into your finger.The Naanwich looked kinda small but is so freaking filling already! It will sufficiently fill up a hearty eater.

I think its me that I feel that their Tikka chicken taste exactly like Nasi Briyani chicken that you can find in Indian shop. The herb and spices were too strong that allow the chicken to be tasty and flavoured.

Talking about the soya chicken drumlets, the two girls started comparing their chicken to Lola's cafe. I have never tried Lola's chicken dumlets so I do not understand how good the chicken is in Lola. But instagram will always show a good picture of their chicken drumlets. So far, this is the best dish among all!


The 3-cheese Penne Gratin ($10) that Stella loves. It comes with 3 different types of cheese. I can name one as mozzarella cheese. The rest of the two were kept as a secret! If you are a fan of mac & cheese, this one is it. It’s not too tacky and rich, but just smooth and creamy and utterly delicious. 

The high-light of this post would be this LIU SA ( Salted custard) donuts. Though, we were disappointed that the custard was separately used, the chef fried the donuts into a chewy pastries. And also, with a dip of their salted custard, it was a perfect combination.






The cafe hunt girls camwhore after our dinner. Thanks to Wendy's fish eye len and my stick rod, we are able to capture the background of the swimming pool.



Must be wondering why his face suddenly appeared? Anyway, he sent me home from Bishan after my dinner and we had a short conversation at Macs to catch up with our daily life. After which, he has to return back to his camp for his duty.

Though I know time spend with you will be getting lesser and lesser! I will wait.. wait till both of us are settled well with our new work. So far, we are adapting well so don't give up so easily! Just remember that a girl will always be pending you home to bring her out on the weekend.

Love you <3

Till then.

Wednesday Cafe-hopped: Sunday Market

Lets just say that I really enjoyed cafe-hunting with my friends, especially on a mid-week because it is telling me that weekend is dropping by to say HI to me. And also to pamper myself after these 3 long days at work. Not like there were lots of work to be done, but at least I get to stay away from my computer screen to have a catch up session with the girls.

Met up with my 2 of my netballer girls for our new cafe hunt which was just so near to our area. Finally, they opened more cafes at the North-east estate. There's more reason for us to meet up for dinner!

Dinner was at Sunday Market, so strongly recommended by danielfooddiary from his 20 new cafe post.


The cafe was located at LIM TUA TOW! This street name can be a joke to us ( In Hokkien, it means BIG HEAD) and we were wondering why there is such street name in Singapore. Not only they have a weird street name, the cafe was located at the inner corner along the whole street of furniture shops. It will be difficult for some people to locate it if you are not staying nearby.


But finally, with a great piece of mind, we managed to find the cafe. We took from bus 82 Serangoon bus stop, alighted 1 stop later and walked the rest of the route by foot.
It wasn't hard to find because from far, we saw their striking red signboard shinning at us.


We simply love how comical their poster was. With lots of instagram #hashtags to fill in when you are uploading pictures of their food or cafe ambiance. It could be a good backdrop for photo taking too!



And this is what we did. HAHA, with the help of my mono stick to capture the backdrop behind. A good handy tool for people who love to camwhore like us.


Stepped inside the cafe and we were like WOW, got the feel of a mini garden. it has vines creeping on the wall and the plant pot lying around on the tables.




I wondered having a vintage bike is so trending at cafe now? There were cafes that I have been to were also decorated with their bikes on the walls, Sunday market has it too.



I always look forward to their dessert shelves and patronize it whenever I stepped into the cafe to see what is on their display for today. What I could see for the 'çake for the day' are red velvet, cheese cake and chocolate fudge. Not really appealing to me.



Menu are simple yet easy to look at! They squeeze all their menu food and drinks on 2 pages of cardboard paper?! Thats a good way of saving earth!






Here to our drinks for today:
We ordered their famous Thai Iced Milk Tea, Organic Apple Guava and also Matcha Latte.
I love their Thai Milk Tea, it somehow reminds me of the Thai iced that I had in BKK. That thick and sweet milk simply made my day. But paying ($7) for this cup of drink could really burnt my pocket. 
Matcha Latte ($7) was good because I could taste the aroma of the green tea and the foam of milk layer did not cover up the whole Matcha taste. Apple guava ($5.90) was so refreshing too!


Their Skinny wings and Truffle fries ($6.90) was their only appetizer. Wings sticks marinated in house spices, deep fried till crispy and accompanied by shoestring fries tossed in truffle oil with Aioli and Thai chilli sauce.
Quite stingy for their portion but the wings were surprisingly good. They have marinated the wings well with the spices and herbs.


Seafood aglio olio ($14.90)
Mixed seafood in chilli oil, seafood broth, garlic, chilli, crispy fish flakes, mussels and prawns with spaghetti.
The dish can be a little too oily for females out there due to the chilli oil. But the whole dish was whipped out with a good liking by us. I specially love their crispy fish flakes.


We also order waffles in their Menu and chose their fried chicken waffles ( $11.90) .
Crispy fried chicken tenders with chitpotle maple drizzle, sweet and creamy slaw.
This was first served on our table but because of the long wait for the rest of the dish to arrive, the waffles became soften. So we couldn't bite through the crispiness of the waffles. The chicken was left soft too.


We had to get ourselves the famous Bangkok Toast ($10.90) which was a cinnamon thick sweet brioche toast with Matcha Green Tea custard, served with Thai milk tea ice-cream. The brioche 
was little dry at the surface but moist within. Strongly recommended by others but I thought that it could be better.



Well, the mains here are really good. But the desserts were slightly disappointing. Then again, these desserts have very unique taste. So perhaps you will be able to appreciate them better. 





Sunday Market
22 Lim Tua Tow Road
Singapore 547772

Telephone: +65 6287 8880

Web Page: http://www.sundaymarket.sg/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/sundaymarket.sg

Tull then.

Tuesday's girl out

Oh my, this was a long dread post that I dragged for 3 days. So can I throwback to Tuesday when I met up with Hong xiu and Jue yu? (; First of us, met up with Jue yu to collect our IAP certificate after post-poning and delaying for weeks. Supposedly to be collected on the grad day itself. HAHA. So much of time management we have. 

Proudly present to you my LONZA certificate which I don't really like to work under them, not the company but rather to my department. All guys in the office, you can see a age difference between that. Not trying to be very mean though!
  
After collecting, we headed down to Upper Thomson for dinner and that's when Hx joined us too! Initially, we wanted to settle for Habitat cafe but we came in late so all the brunches in the menu were all sold out. The dinner menu doesn't look appetising to us so we left the cafe without ordering anything. Walked down the aisle to the Fat boys but the waiting time will be 45mins-1hr. So we decided not to wait for our seats and proceed on to another cafe which is just a few shops down the aisle. 

Here we are at this bistro called cafe etc. The bistro was so empty at 7pm sharp, not sure how's the food review goes. But their service sum up to be an excellent one, better than 4 stars hotel. The waiters were over-friendly and approachable and recommended us some of the signature dish on their all day breakfast menu. Set aside that, the waiter came to ask whether we need any wifi excess and sprouted out the password without us asking him. 
They even sell alcohol drinks so TGIM, TGIS, TGIW, TGIT, TGIF could happen anytime here. I think most customers are Eurasian or Ang mo. 
The menu were more on western kind.

Food verdict now: 
Truffle fries ($9)

We shared this because we thought that it wil be big but unfortunately, a small size bowl of fries here. HAHA. Not so bad as we concluded, the fries were on a thicker size and I really love thick fries compared to those skinny ones.


Hong xiu's egg Benedict ( $9)

Parma ham with posh eggs and hollandise sauce. The size is just right for her as you can see that Hx is a petite little girl. 

 Jue yu's happy face pancake ($11)

Such a delightful dish appearing on our table. The smile on the pancake enlighten us and make our mood a happier one. The pancake shredded with coconut which was stated on the menu. And also they added up sunny side up and a gourmet sausage.

 And lastly my batter fish and chips which was not well recommended ($14). 
The fish batter was soft and wet, like they just took it out from the freezer and fried it immediately. Not the usual dish that I will order but when it does, it disappoints me ):


203 Upper Thomson Road 

http://www.cafeetc.com.sg 

But nevertheless, I have a happy time with them catching up about our life (:
Looking forward to our next activity!

Till then (:
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