Price:
Latte $3.50
Iced Americano $4.50
Classic New York Cheese Cake $4.90
Okay the sushi rolls were rly as good as the real ones. I mean, the overall taste rly pulled it off. If you would dissect them and eat it, it would be wasting the chef's efforts and unless you are just rly curious how it tasted individually.
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I knew I'll come back to this cafe! This roll was just toasty skin stuff with generously spiced potatoes and tofu - think Indian spices! Definitely one of the better vegetarian wraps!
Finally tried it! The patty is really worth the trip. Thick, juicy and done medium rare. And did I say the salad is really good too. Will be back again!
Ban Chan so good you can eat it on its own
And yes they are free flow side dishes !
1. Kim Chi
2. Potato salad
3. Ikan billis
4. Bean sprouts ( yes the large Korean style ones)
5. Chilli cucumber
6. Stewed cabbage
7. Fishcakes
8. Stewed brinjal in sweet gravy
9. Roasted seaweed
10. Boiled spinach with sesame oil
11. Seasoned mushrooms
12. Egg and ham pancake ( aka frittata in western terms )
Just with the variety and quality of the ban Chan that this family style Korean restaurant serves - I Guess little needs to be said about their main courses . Just the ban Chan alone is worthwhile for anyone to make a trip down . Who cares about the main course hahah?
12 different ban Chans all with distinctively different flavours and textures . This was really the highlight of the evening for me .
Special mention needs to be made of the potato salad which was puréed till so smooth and creamy ( without being cloying) and had little surprises of crisp apples within - this was surprisingly very light on the palate.
There was this pan fried egg layered with ham ban Chan that almost looked like an egg frittata that tasted so good .
The home made Kim Chi and bean sprouts were also very well prepared.
The rendition of ikan billis here was by far one of the best I have eaten across all Korean restaurants so far. Think high quality crisp ikan billis well seasoned ( without being overly salty or sweet ) and a little spicy , this was so addictive .
And yes - the main courses were also good and very value for money .
This must be the best kept secret at Lorong kilat .
Despite the healthy take on ice cream, it was still yummy and I loved the pistachio flavour for its richness and natural nutty taste + the crushed bits of pistachio that added crunch to the smooth scoop. If you're wondering, the ice cream is made with organic brown rice milk & evaporated cane juice - cheers to healthy guilt-free desserts 🎉
⚠️ This new cafe only opened around 2 weeks ago and is having a 1-1 promotion on ice cream & drinks till 13 July!
📍@smoocht, 319 Jurong East Street 11, S600319
Despite the healthy take on ice cream, it was still yummy and I loved the pistachio flavour for its richness and natural nutty taste + the crushed bits of pistachio that added crunch to the smooth scoop. If you're wondering, the ice cream is made with organic brown rice milk & evaporated cane juice - cheers to healthy guilt-free desserts 🎉
⚠️ This new cafe only opened around 2 weeks ago and is having a 1-1 promotion on ice cream & drinks till 13 July!
📍@smoocht, 319 Jurong East Street 11, S600319
$7.90 to choose a salad with 5 toppings and 1 dressing (+$3 for buttered seared with parsley dory) MmM what a treat for the eyes and the soul. Honestly speaking one of my top go to salad places to go because it is affordable, filling and not at all plain and boring. Strongly recommended!!!!
It's been awhile since I've last had a salad bowl so this detox feels good 😊 Went for the salad option for $8.40 (you can choose olive rice too) and added $2.20 for my protein of choice. One of the more value-for-money salads considering the decent portion will definitely fill you up!
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I love it when places like this let me customise my own meals. It's like God asking me what kind of girl I want in my life. Supermodel, Hourglass, Tall, Smoking Hot, you get the point. 😉
This bowl includes: Super Greens Bed, Roasted Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato, Grilled Striploin Steak, Chargrilled Salmon (+1 Protein S$3.50), Wafu Tomato, Coleslaw, Furikake & Miso Caramel. 😋
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ACAMASTIPS💮: Make it a Square Meal with a Drink & a Set at just S$2 top up. Or have one of their Signature Bowls like "El Hibaro", "The Beebop" & etc if you can't make up your mind with the extensive choices they offer. 🖖🏻
It almost sounds or looks like atas chye-png bowl and well such grain bowls are probably a staple these days in cafe to have their rendition of our hawker stall's economic mixed vegetable and rice on a plate! I was drawn to ordering this because of the grilled miso egg plant. And boy I wasn't disappointed, except that it should come in a slightly bigger cut. The white miso is torched and complements the eggplant's otherwise tasteless flesh. Comparing to the other items on the menu this is probably for the small eater. Well, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with bowl, mushroom and tomatoes were well sautéed, kale was kind of air-fried to a nice marinated crips. Stir-fried chicken chunks were satisfactory and savoury. Corn was a must giving both the balance of flavour and substance, as the grain base used was quinoa, which was nothing short of tasty but was only a really thin layer at the base. At the end of it all, it might well be the case of too good (hence) too little.
H O S T E D
OK, I have to be honest. I am not into healthy food especially those that are "hard core" if you know what I mean. But because August was my birthday month, I'd spoiled myself with far too many rich meals. Inevitably, guilt set in. So I wanted to "eat clean" to balance out those indulgences but had trouble locating a place to go. As fate would have it, I was invited by Word Of Mouth P.R. to a tasting at Wholesome Savour - a vegan and gluten-free eatery in Palais Renaissance. It seemed like the universe was trying to tell me something 😆
Admittedly, I was a tad worried because I generally like my food unhealthily delicious ("more pork lard please"). Hence, my secret fear was their food would bore me. However, the dishes I had, turned out to be actually much tastier than I'd anticipated. What a pleasant shocker!
It helped that while waiting, I learned from the friendly owner Jason Fong, so much about the company's approach and philosophy to food, as well as their on-site high-tech preparation methods.
Only ingredients with the highest amount of nuitrients make the cut and they use alkaline water in everything too. What's more, nothing, and I mean nothing, is "cooked" at temperatures above 46 degrees celsius. So the benefits of everything, from vegetable to nut, and spice to grain, are retained at their maximum.
You would think that prices would be exorbitant with all that effort but nope. The Smoothie Bowls pictured above were listed as $10++ each (I especially loved the one with housemade almond milk, bananas, berries and crunchy "green-ola"), while "The Savour BLT" with avocado, an ingenious "bacon" made from coconut, fresh vegetables and lemon cream sandwiched between onion and sunflower seed "bread", cost only $15++.
The strawberries-covered Hangover "Bread" (also $15++) reminded me of a dense alcohol-free fruitcake. Accompanying it were the most amazing cinnamon coconut almond butter, fermented cashew macadamia yogurt and berry-chia jelly - all made in-house naturally.
I also realised how filling these ultra healthy dishes were as the hungry pangs didn't strike till many hours later.
