chewy dough

My brother bought a box of 5 chewy juniors. Been wanting to try these out of curiosity but haven't got a chance to do so. Bro said it averages out to about like less than a dollar each. Ok lor, I eat free one no complaints!


buy 4 get 1 free


strawberry top


blueberry top


apple top


almond top (note the oddly shaped dough? 'coz i put in my mouth first before thought of taking a pic hehe!)

So I ate the almond and the chocolate one. Taste wise, it reminds me of Beard Papa, but with a chewy dough. Usually its vanilla(i think..) cream inside while the chocolate one had a chocolate cream. The almond toppings had a condensed milk like base to stick the almonds, combined with the cream inside.. it's very very sweet!


plain old chocolate top

Chocolate ones, tasted pretty normal...


creamy insides

So there you go, Chewy Juniors. Been there, done that.

Orchard Road

ION


arty farty stuff?

The landscape of Orchard has new additions! As I walked around Wisma, Tangs and Taka, I found quite a number of good looking people (youngsters!) on a Friday night. Saw a bunch of people sitting inside the Tangs glass window, and found out they were having a blogathon. I suaku leh... what's a blogathon? A blog marathon lor, I suppose. Haha! Anyway, click here to see their postings and this event is held in conjunction with the soon-to-be-launched Lenovo Ideapad U350. Speaking of this Lenovo thingy, they had the showgirls in front of Tangs. So I also went up to them to get a leaflet to see wat's the config and stuffs. You know what... I think the showgirls were expecting guys to be more techie or something, 'coz I stood in front of her and she didn't hand me a pamphlet till like her colleague gave her an eye signal. What? I cannot buy laptop isit? Tsk tsk...

mangosteen

What do you do when there's a surplus of mangosteen?

A. Eat it
B. Give away
C. Ignore it long enough and it'll go away
D. Take picture

saturday appointments

Met up with ML for early lunch to catch up. Went to Wisma Atria and decided to have lunch at DTF.


regular sized pork xiao long baos (which are kinda tiny!)


close-up view


xlbs' 料


egg fried rice


close-up view


chili crab xlb (was told that this dish comes out once a year for the Food Festival)


tasted just like chili crab with some pork i think

The chili crab xlb is currently having 15% off for Citibank members, so 4 pieces is about $5.10++.


After lunch, naturally, we shopped. What to do... When in Rome, do as the Romans do.. so when in Orchard, do what Orchardrians do.... Shop till drop! We were purposeful. ML was thinking of getting bags and pillows while I need to get the birthday presents for July babies.

Went around, poking our noses in shops that we encountered. We shopped from Wisma to Ngee Ann, from Ngee Ann to Taka, from Taka to OG, and from OG back to Taka. In between, we had coffee!


cake to go along with the coffee


raspberry view


After buying our stuffs, it was time for another gathering with the alumnus. The occasion is to meet-up over crab dinner! Location: Mellben Seafood at Toa Payoh.


the whole gin gang


As it is zhi char, we ordered other stuffs like fried tofu, 'playboy' chicken which is basically just fried chicken cutlet with Thai chili sauce, crabs and spinach.


supposedly 'playboy' chicken (??)


main cast (for dinner, that is) - 金沙 crab

Didn't take any pictures for chili crab 'coz too busy eating and didn't wanna handle the camera with my 'saucy' hands. Haha!


deep fried man-tou


Then as the night drew on... we went to have drinks with durians.


hey, I didn't know the durian was these colors as it was quite dark! The darker colored ones taste better as the flesh is more fragrant and softer and the seeds were smaller as well

shiroi koibito

Another definitive product or rather, touristy product from Hokkaido is the chocolate from the Ishiya Chocolate factory.







If you're at Hokkaido, remember to try this.