the honey mascarpone toast is really good ! and the Starter Lab 3 cheese👌🏼✨💣
Very fulfilling meal, wish this was near my work place! $21 for double toasts and drink
Beef pastrami toasties with mozzarella cheese and roasted peppers. Really decadent and substantial. Crisps on the side were light and nicely seasoned with salt and pepper too.
𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐱 - 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 ($32)
Our favourites were first the Sicilian Pistachio Escargot with chopped pistachios interlaced with rose petals; both notes came through well. Second was the plum galette with the unique sweet/sour jammy notes. The Pain Au Chocolate and almond croissant impressed with the perfectly laminated and flaky layers; the latter especially won us over with its rich bitter dark chocolate.
People who enjoy decadent buttery pastries would like their Kouign Amann and Brioche Feuilleteee. Both were buttery and flaky while still airy, albeit a tad too rich for us.
I love that these donuts have a chewy texture which makes the dough so nice to bite into and the fillings are not too sweet , it’s creamy tasty fillings without the excess sweetness . Best Donuts in SG !
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1. Steamed glutinous rice with chicken wrapped in lotus leaf [$5.80/2pcs] - one of the better versions of this, good proportion of rice and filling. The gravy of the filling permeated into the glutinous rice around it, sooo flavorful!
2. Steamed siew mai with braised quail egg [$6.80] - this is one of the innovative H.K style dim sum available for a limited time only. not too sure for me if the quail egg adds any value to the siew mai. found it quite distracting in fact
3. Steamed Cheong fun with dough fritter [$6] - love how crispy this is, comes with a soy sauce dip!
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4. Steamed spare ribs with preserved olives [$5.80]
5. Pan fried siew mai with foie gras sauce [$6.80] - Another innovative item available for a limited time only. Enjoyed this much better than the braised quail egg one version, very creative and love the mod sin infusion here with the robust foie gras sauce. Rich and creamy!
6. Steamed black truffle char siew pau [$6.80]
- Also available for a limited time only. The texture of the buns was super fluffy, love the aroma of the truffle and how it goes with the char siew filling. Totally elevated the typical char siew pao!
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7. Baked BBQ honey pork buns [$6.80/3pcs] - Liked how the crust is not dusted with sugar, the sweetness is purely from the honey pork filling!
8. Steamed chicken claw with black bean sauce [$5.20] - Plump and fleshy chicken claw, in a pool of gravy
9. Baked diced chicken with pork, mushroom tart in a goose shape [$7.80] - Flaky buttery crust! Yums!
I preordered online to avoid the queue. Some of my friends have said that the wait can be up to 2h on a bad day. I got them at 6 for $16.90, that’s about $2.80 each! This is significantly cheaper than P&P.
• Crème Brulee: The custard was of the right sweetness. Do note that the torched crust is bitter, and not for everyone. The filling for this was the most generous of all the donuts I got.
• Maple Cinammon: This reminds me of auntie anne’s! The filling tasted like whipped cream to me.
• Blueberry Cheesecake: The filling was ~80% blueberry flavoured whipped cream paired with 20% blueberry jams like those old school bread. Couldn’t really taste the cheese.
• Donutella: Just the usual nutella.
• Raspberry Jam: The jam was a perfect balance between the berry’s sweetness and tanginess.
• Pistachio: The filling is really thick, nutty and fragrant. It will definitely hit the spot for pistachio lovers.
The bread is more of the chewy type, in my opinion.
Feature their Pandan Gula Melaka waffle, Buttermilk waffle with
Muah Chee and Green Apple Yakult gelato.
Finally north have supper place for sweettooth people, yay 😀
📍No Horse Run
160 Yishun Street 11, #01-216
#mediatasting
It’s really affordable for a simple breakfast.
It come with a drink and soft boiled eggs.
The good thing is that you can dine in real food cafe if you are also ordering from their cafe. So you get the best of both worlds. 👍🏻🌍
It’s located at Tzu Chi Youth Centre.
🚆Yishun MRT
Located in a pretty secluded corner, this frog porridge restaurant is popular to many, and I can understand why. The claypot frog legs (3 for $16) was pretty meaty and had a good strong flavour from dried chilli sauce. Paired with porridge, this is one hearty meal. They have grilled stingray ($16 for medium portion) as well, and it's pretty sizeable. We got the garlic version of it, which is uncommoy seen 😂 Although the umami from the garlic comes through, we still preferred the dish prepared with sambal. We all agreed that this place is better than the one at geylang 😛
Located in a pretty secluded corner, this frog porridge restaurant is popular to many, and I can understand why. The claypot frog legs (3 for $16) was pretty meaty and had a good strong flavour from dried chilli sauce. Paired with porridge, this is one hearty meal. They have grilled stingray ($16 for medium portion) as well, and it's pretty sizeable. We got the garlic version of it, which is uncommoy seen 😂 Although the umami from the garlic comes through, we still preferred the dish prepared with sambal. We all agreed that this place is better than the one at geylang 😛
I can see why the Boneless Chicken in Paper Bag ($11 for 5 pieces) from Hillman Restaurant has been the restaurant’s signature item for the past 58 years🤤 Each bag contains a boneless chicken thigh that is extremely tender, moist and thoroughly infused with the flavour and fragrance of the savoury sauce - glad the 古早味 survived the passage of time!
Personally, I find the other dishes pretty average as I have had better ones elsewhere, but still worth a visit for the Boneless Chicken in Paper Bag:)