Out of the Pan

Been really busy with work and stuffs....
nothing much to update recently anyway...

"Out of the Pan" is located at the basement of Raffles City where the escalators are. It is always crowded with customers and the crepes look really good. It is 1 of those place I usually past by, make a mental note to try it but never did. Because it's so centralised and accessible, we kinda take it granted it will always be there and can try it another time. Anyway, this time i finally tried it with a frn. Actually, we settled for that because most of the other places were crowded and it was getting late. Hees!

We could not decide to share a crepe or have one on our own. Finally, we decided to share a set which contains a savoury crepe, a salad or soup and an ice lemon tea. Cant remember the price now (think its ard $18) but it was really worth it!


We took the potato salad. not bad.


The crepe was rather nice too. Cant rem wat we had. But i do rem that we took the sun-dried tomato crepe.. nice!


The portion of a crepe was quite ok, considered we were sharing. Filling but we still felt a tiny unsatisfied. But having one alone maybe will be a bit too filling.

We took a dessert crepe! Strawberries & cream! Strawberries were abit sour but there were an overload of them!!! Generous. The vanilla ice cream was good!


Place is worth to give it a try. Dun mind going back there again! :)

Birthday Weekend!

It isn't my birthday yet but I have already celebrated it trice! Wee!!!

Last week, it was celebration with my best frns at Togi @ Siglap! This Togi branch fails in comparison to that of the one at Mosque Street. 1 thing,the rice cake ramen its not as nice. It doesnt even have egg and dumplings! I was craving so much for it. Such a disappointment. The other dishes were so-so.

We did a little touring of Singapore that afternoon. ha! Long story! We then headed out to Cedele @ Wheelock. Haha! I had a craving for its chocolate cake previously so yx suggested to get that as my birthday cake! yumz yumz!! Wat an enjoyable birthday! Thanks everyone for the treat!! and for spending it with me!


Lucky to have so many pple to come and celebrate my birthday with me!


My cake! yummy yummy!


:)


And yesterday.... it was birthday lunch at The Line @ Shangri-la! hehe! Been wanting to try this ever since i heard it was like the best buffet in Singapore! Opted for lunch because I reckon it will be cheaper! haha! It was! The bill came up to $112 for the both of us! Meaning its around $48++ per person.

The food were not bad! They have a fantastic selection of cold appetisers. The oysters were huge and fresh! They have a wide variety of food for one to choose from. Some were good.. some were pretty ok. We tried to take abit of everything and was already stuffed by then. I think we are too old for buffet. I used to be able to eat much more. We reckoned we should continue to stick to ala carte.


Huge oysters! So huge.. that 2 is enuff! 4 me! Ha !Yummy scallop!


BC's artistic prawn pic. He say he is trying to bring out the "loneliness of the water lobster". Go figure!


Sashimi and California handroll! Yummy yum!!


Roast pork good! Duck.. so so..


Snapshot of the indian food... the indian food is not as nice as the asian kitchen buffet @ hyatt...


They have a counter where you can customised your own pasta. You jus point out the ingredients u wan and they will make it for u. Pretty much like those omelette counter when you go for those breakfast buffets. This is my sun-dried tomato, mushroom and bacon bits pasta tossed in olive oil! The waited added a bit too much garlic and oil. haha! But its a excellant combi! you should try at home!




intricate desserts...

They have an ice cream corner with a good selection of ice creams instead of the usual vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavours. And they have all sorts of toppings! you can even customise your own ice cream! They have all sorts of candies, chocolates and gummies for you to choose from! exciting eh~ They even have a crepe corner! amazing! the only challenge is how much can u stomach! I am quite sad that there were some dishes i had to forgo jus because I cant eat as much.

Then at night, we had a good dinner at Pu Tien @ Kitchener Road. The food there was pretty good but both of us were too stuffed to actually enjoy the food. I dunno the name of the type of cuisine they serve there. i guess its some part of china? hees! Its a really crowded place though. Amazing!


Jus a pic with my mischevous little gal~ We were both wearing polka dot dresses that night!

and the night was spent with some of my good frns singing ktv! It has been a long time since we last met up as a group! N a super long time I sang KTV!

I had a beautiful cake! I dunno the name of the cake but i do noe its from Rive Gauche! It has a amazing nutty chocolately bottom crust!

I also had a super long birthday song! and 2 pressies! Weee!! Thanks for the delicious cake and wonderful time my frns! Love you guys!!


Dun count the number of candles on the cake!! Forever 21!!! HAHA~ who am i kidding?!

Hua Ting @ Orchard Hotel.

It's mummy's birthday! Brought her to Hua Ting for dim sum! My friends love this place and frequent there often. A place I have always been eagered to try but never had the chance to.


Table setting...


Chee Chong Fun! We had 2! this was the "mei cai rou bing" one.... so unique!! and i liked it!! The other one was scallops. Pretty good too!


Fried beancurd skin prawn roll... Good! Good! too


Siew Mai! Dun u think their siew mais are very pretty?!! unique!! N its like filled with prawns mainly! Fresh and yumz!


Har gow.. yummy too. loads of prawns again!


Yam cake & chicken feet! both i dun eat. Heard the yam was something unique.. but the chicken feet a bit salty.


so-so..... not the kind i like. i think even the one i had at melbourne was nicer. The traditional cantonese kind.


Some fried ramen. Din eat. heard it was so-so.


egg tarts. I think china teahouse ones are nicer. My mum and aunt found it a bit too sweet.


mango chicken tart... bleahz... sweet and wierd.


the xiao long bao. THis dish totally spoilt it for me. The "tang" inside the xiao long bao was so oily makes me feel kinda sick. Wat a way to end my lunch!!

The dishes are rather pricey like 1 siew mai cost about $1.60 kind of price. I thot the overall bill will be costly but it turned out pretty okay. Even cheaper than if we were to eat at china teahouse. I think at china teahouse we tend to over order and we always order like the more expensive dim sum (like $6.50 per plate kind). N i had citibank 10% discount! Wee!!

I find the dimsum there are exquisite and yummy but must avoid a selected few.. esp the xiao long bao. I still like crystal jade's xiao long bao! and din tai feng's xie fen xiao long bao (din tai feng's normal one are not as nice as crystal's jade)

Went parkway after that and got myself a little treat from cedele!


Chocolate banana cake! 1 of my favourite chocolate cake! yummy yumz! I think awfully chocolate not so nice nowadays. I had a slice ydae. Cake feels a bit dry.


Sun dried tomato foccacia!! taking pic for fun! haven eat yet... haha!

Kimchi soup!

My colleague who is into korean culture taught me how to make kimchi soup. I really liked the kimchi soup we had @ Togi. Also, the kimchi soup we had at the korean bbq place at Melbourne was kinda yummy.

My colleague told me that she did it in a really easy way. All you have to do is to fry some onion and the kimchi, then add a little water and bring it to a boil...and then some of the kimchi "water" (the kimchi 'gives out' water the longer u keep them) and some canned tuna.

She even told me to use those kimchi are about to spoil. The stronger the flavour the better...adds more flavour to the soup... she sae that's what most shop did with their leftover kimchis.


Onions and some leftover kimchi in my fridge...


frying onions and then the kimchi....


Add a some water.. else the soup will be too diluted.... and then pour in the kimchi water...



I was lazy to open a can of tuna so i added meatballs instead... and bring it to a boil.

The soup was not bad... there was the kimchi flavour.. except i find the soup lack a certain sweetness. I think if i added the tuna, i think it will taste quite good! my Home-made kimchi soup!

A yummy way to use my kimchi leftovers!

The trip ends... Day 10..

Day 10 was simple...

We had a couple of hours before our domestic flight back to Melbourne and then back to singapore.

We visited the Swiss Village. It was like a small resort with loads of activities. It looked really relaxing and fun to stay in. We wished we could have been there earlier but it will also mean we would have missed out a good day in our itinery to enjoy its facilities. So we thot maybe we should visit the french village at cameron highlands 1 of these days. It should be similar than this. N moreover, its so much more cheaper and nearer.. hehe.















we even had our brunch at its cute little cafe...





an interesting view from the top of the plane....


I finally finished blogging abt my trip!! I AM SO HAPPY!! DONE!!! Weeee~~~
I think i am too freee.... blogging takes up so much time manz...