Decided to go for their Japanese bento instead of our usual fried rice.

We ordered their grilled salmon set which turned out to be a disappointment. The set comes with white rice, some tiny bits of shredded carrots and cabbage with lump of mayonnaise. The grilled salmon was so so only and there were quite a lot of bones. As we dig further, we managed to find few strands of bean sprouts in the bento set.

It was a rainy and quiet evening and the usual stalls we visit were closed. We decided to go for something that could warm us up.

We ordered mined pork noodles in mini pot. Noodles were nice with braised mushrooms while the soup with egg, minced and sliced pork were quite ok too. Best part was the soup was kept warm in the mini pot throughout the meal. It was comfort food on the cooling night.

Happened to pass by Owen for lunch that day.

The coffee shop was in quite a "ulu" place. There was a queue in front of the stall even though there aren't many people around. Maybe it is because the hawker centre nearby was closed for renovation. Their roast pork was quite nice, noodles was of usual standard as well. But there is one thing that really bothers me, that is the food is being served in styrofoam plates for dine in customers. Wondering why only disposable plates were used but not the chopsticks and spoons, washing is more difficult for plates?

PAUL - French bakery company with more than 120 years of savoir-faire. It is touted to be the leader in authentic French pastries offering unmatched quality of sweet patisserie using all real cream.

Our expectation was definitely raised after reading about this French Patisserie.

We ordered their canele and a butter cream pastry for take-away. More review and photos at http://monsoontravel.blogspot.sg/2012/08/paul-bakery.html

Canele @$3.50
Canele is a small cake with dark, thick caramelized crust and soft centre. The name Canele came from the little fluted copper mould in which it is baked. This canele is flavoured with vanilla and rum. I would not describe it as soft and tender custard center but something chewy like Nonya kueh Bingka Ubi or Indonesia honeycomb cake. The rum is quite distinct and the caramelized crust was quite nice as well. However, $3.50 for such a small piece of honeycomb cake like canele is a bit expensive.

Not sure what's the name of this pastry as the tags were all mixed up. Only get to know that it is some butter cream pastry from the salesperson. It doesn't taste as good as it looks. Neither soft cake nor fluffy crispy puff, cream was nothing special as well. We didn't continue after 2 bites. Perhaps its just because we kept it overnight in the fridge.Maybe we will try some other pastry fresh at the restaurant next time.

The braised ducks hanging at the stall looks tempting and the service seems to be prompt, so we decided to go for the braised duck rice since we do not have much time to queue for our favourite stall at Alexandra Village.

We ordered braised duck and pork skin. The pork skin was nice and Q but the braised duck was slightly tough. The braised sauce was quite nice with the rice.