tart blanc & tim ho wan

went out over the last weekend to try out 2 new places = tart blanc & tim ho wan... i believed tim ho wan is no strange name to many people but it was my first time trying out that place in SG last weekend..... but first let me share about tart blanc...

my friend bought some high tea voucher from tart blanc some time ago & we only had the time to try it last week.... the shop is located in millennia walk, is next to mos burger if i didnt remember wrongly.... the shop is quite small & it doesnt really stand out so we actually walked pass it without noticing....

tart blanc

different types of tarts

our high tea set

so for our voucher, we can redeem 2 tarts & 2 drinks.... there are some restrictions to the type of drinks which you can order, i believed mocha is one of them..... so for us, we chose the 2 most popular/famous tarts = peach with salted egg yolk & raspberry praline....

the salted egg yolk is a warm tart meaning the staff will heat it up..... i would say it tasted like the dim sum custard bun... the custard really flow out when you cut the tart open, not too bad... as for the raspberry tart, the cream filling is pretty good... so me & my friend actually prefer the raspberry tart over salted egg yolk... i guess we prefer the traditional sweet pastries...  my friend also gotten additional macaron ($2.50)... i think it was some rose flavour.... pretty nice filling but i am not a fan of macaron...... i would say the pastries in tart blanc are of pretty high standard but the price is too steep... a tart (about 6cm diameter) costs $7.50 & average of $5 for the beverages..... i think is quite expensive... but if you gotten those groupon vouchers, you can try them at half price then i think is more worthwhile....

next is tim ho wan.... went to have lunch with my mama there on sun...... i have yet to try out SG outlet cause there is always a long queue but we decided to give it a go last weekend.... we went to westgate outlet since is the nearest to our home..... i was surprised that the shop actually opens at 9am on weekends!!!! we reached about 1130am & we managed to enter the place with about 10min wait...

menu

our lunch

we ordered like 10 dishes.... honestly, i think the food quality is not too bad but not good enough for me to queue for like hours..... i would say the good thing for SG outlet compared to HK is the table size.... here you have a standard table size whereby you can put the food comfortably unless you order crazy amount of food.... but in HK, the tables are so small that it could barely fit 3 dishes!!!! for those who love dim sum, i think tim ho wan is still a good choice to satisfy your appetite but do choose your dinning time wisely or else you can spend a long time queuing...... =)

griddy gourmet waffles

passed by the griddy gourmet waffles store before but didnt try it the last time since i wasnt in the mood for waffles.... finally got to try it today.... the store is located at westgate basement 2 where most of the food stores are....normally i am not a very adventurous person & especially conservative when it comes to food... i dont like to eat fushion food, i think it's a very weird concept... similarly i dont like savory sweet food... i think it's just wrong.... but i decided to give griddy a shot cause the pictures look yummy....

griddy plates

griddy fingers

menu

desserts

so they have quite a variety of food, i forgot to take picture of the waffle sandwich page... i think the dessert page looked the most yummy in the menu... especially the smores.... delicious looking!!! but since we are going to order waffle sandwiches, we decided to forgo the desserts.....

sunrise sandwich

griddy burger

so i ordered the sunrise sandwich ($7.90) which consisted of turkey bacon with chicken ham + sunny side up.... & bf ordered griddy burger = beef patty with sauteed mushroom ($9.90)... the interesting is that waffles were used to replace normal bread.... the taste was not as strange as i imagined since i believed that waffles should be eaten sweet & not with savory stuff.... i think on the whole was ok but i think there was too much MSG in the food cause after that the whole night i felt super thirsty & kept drinking water....

in general, this store is ok.. interesting concept but perhaps the next time i will just go for dessert & not the waffles sandwiches.... not exactly my thing.... but really interesting =)

review: osaka ohsho

*back dated entry*

went to have casual dinner with friend & met up at westgate.... wanted to try miam miam but my god... the queue was so damn long at about 6.30pm... of cause we can join in the queue but my principle is why queue so damn long for food UNLESS i DIE DIE want to eat at that place, which we dont... so went to try our luck with other restaurants in the mall.... normally i will prefer to eat japanese food cause it suits my taste & not so oily.... naturally i recommended osaka ohsho since i like their gyoza... the queue was ok there, about 4 groups of people in front of us, so we waited about 15min before we were seated....

the menu

shaku me still not very used to using a pad pad as a menu.... well is good since it saves the trouble of waving frantically to catch the waitress attention in order to take our orders.... & it also give you a rough bill after you placed the order....

karage

my bf's set... some mix fried with egg

my fried rice

actually i only ordered karage & fried rice since both my bf & our friend dont take pork... so yeah... got free gyoza.... normally i dont like japanese gyoza... i dont like the dumpling skin... i find it too thin & the filling doesnt suit my liking... i prefer the chinese guo te style... juicy filling with thick skin... but the gyoza from osaka ohsho is really nice.... no wonder the store is so famous in japan.... i think in general the dishes are quite nice there... prices are also average... approx $20 per pax for a set + a drink.... so is good to have a nice meal there once in awhile =)

toast box @ westgate

actually dropped by westgate when it just opened think 2 wks ago but it was still renovating.... today went down to JEM to sign up for the bloody NTUC member card again cause it rejected me... I was like WTH!?!?!??! reject me!?!?!? ok.... lets not talk about random stuff.... so after going to JEM, we decided to go next door to check out westgate.... 1st impression, quite a nice building, quite a variety of stores which are seldom available outside town area, cant remember the names so cant give any examples.... but they have isetan.... not that I am isetan fan but always good to have more departmental stores around.... food wise... I think also quite a large variety... PAUL, skinny pizza, menya musashi, Osaka oosha & 4fingers.... I guess jurong east is like trying to be the next orchard... damn... bloody property price will increase, like that how to buy flat!!!!!

so after walking around, nothing much interest me so decided to go for something more budget = toast box which turn out to be a bad choice... I think I ate at toast box before but should be super long ago so I forgotten about the taste....

laksa set

my bf ordered this.... the laksa has too strong coconut taste & the gravy is way too little... so deh deh... not nice

mee siam set

I seldom eat mee siam so thought want to be adventurous... again... deh deh... not nice... somehow as I ate more, I somewhat had a vomit taste from the noodle but I guess should be just the seasoning.... & to make it worst... the barley is super blend... like omg terrible.... ya kun barley not say SUPER nice but at least quite good so I thought toast box 1 shouldn't be too bad but I am so wrong.... NEVER try the barley here again... is like drinking cloudy water.... kns...

ok... the peanut butter thick toast still ok... again.... if it has more peanut on top, it will be nicer....

in short... can only go toast box for the thick toast but I think I will rather go yakun & get kaya toast & have a nice cup of barley....