I was heading to coffee club with a friend to visit a friend of ours who was working there. You can’t miss Coffee Club if you’re heading to Tampines 1! Turn right after exiting the gantry at the control station and after walking down the short flight of stairs, to your left is coffee club, located in an open area. I’ve previously tried the tea because I needed some place to sit, but this time it’s visiting my friend at work! The best thing is she recommended some good cakes! She recommended quite a few cakes but I couldn’t make up my mind I just told her to give us two slice of cakes that she thinks is good.

Presenting to you the first cake: Apricot Passion Fruit Heaven ($7.20). This little black fella needs more than just one mouth to be fully appreciated by the taste buds. The first taste of it for me was like, “Weird” because the apricot was a little sour and it made the whole cake just tastes funny. But for every subsequent mouthful, I grew to like it a lot! The sweet and sour taste complement each other.The second slice of cake that we had was Blackforest Cake ($6.90). It may just be very ordinary to some but this blackforest cake is really quite rich in flavour. The drink we ordered was Iced Hazelnut Choco Latte ($7.50). My friend actually recommended the blackforest latte but because we had a blackforest cake already, we choose something else. She said the latter was nice because of the rum in the drink. Anyway our hazelnut latte was kind of diluted, and it’s hazelnut because there’s really hazelnuts in the latte. Kind of weird right! I couldn’t taste the hazelnut though. I don't recommend this drink at all!

After seeing the super wide range of food on the website, plus hearing good feedback from my friends, we decided to give Buffet Town a go! Alas, it’s too popular because it’s really affordable if you eat a lot of those expensive seafood items. My friend called up on Tuesday but the reservations were full! And there’s only places for 30 walk-in customers. So my friend went to start queueing at 5.30pm and managed to be the 14th person. Walk-ins start at 6.15pm, reservations at 6pm.

I can’t remember what this station was called, but you pick the amount of meat you want (fish, pork, chicken) and ask the person to stir fry it. IT’S SUPER DUPER NICE. Especially the dory. Succulent! Similarly for the vegetables, you choose how much you want and they will stir fry it for you. I didn’t know they will stir fry with garlic, I’m not a huge fan of garlic, but I still ate it because it’s so good! LOVE THIS STATION THE MOST. Wanted to go for a second round but my stomach was really full and there’s still a lot I haven’t tried.We attacked the crab after that. I was a little disappointed that the portion was rather small, because they were serving the leg part of the crab only, not the full crab. They have chilli crab and black pepper crab. The chilli crab was too spicy for me (my tolerance is not very high) but the black pepper one was great! We also ate probably 14 prawns or more. The prawns were fresh, so it was really nice. And it was really thoughtful of buffet town to have placed the lemon water on our table before we even sat down so we can dip our hands into it after deshelling the crab and prawns.

We went to walk around after that, trying to take in the amount of food they have as well as checking out the varieties. I was zooming in on laksa whereas my friend was aiming for the curry chicken which we took very long to find. We thought it’s at some station and we have to go ask for it, but turns out it’s with all the cooked dishes at the thai section, that’s just right next to where we were sitting. Another section of the buffet worth commenting about is the coffee section! I feel so happy to see this section! It looks just like a real coffee shop! And I had a hard time choosing which one I wanted because I wanted to try all. In the end we ordered a kopi c! As there were only hot drinks here, we took a cup with ice and poured the hot coffee over the ice. Another item to try is the soya beancurd (really smooth and silky, it rolls down your throat) and the soya bean drink (as recommended by my friend but I didn’t try).I did not try the dessert section as I was really full and couldn't take in any more food in my stomach. I saw one dessert which looks quite nice, something like oreo flavoured cake. My friend who went to have desserts said there wasn't any more of that at around 9.20pm. Some of the other food I tried as well; Overall, I think the buffet is really value for money, especially if you like sashimi a lot, you can just keep going to the station to take. They have different types of cuisine; Thai, western, Chinese and Japanese etc. There's really too much food to write about but the ones I've written are those that are worth giving it a try. One tip is that, it is not possible to finish trying all the food, so just zoom in on the more worth it, more expensive food and the ones that you think is really nice. And also, if you really want to go for the buffet and don't mind waiting, you can try waiting until 7plus-8plus because that's when some people already start to leave.

Verdict: Good variety of food, value for money, efficient staff (they cleared our plates extremely fast to the extent some people were quite annoyed!), quality of food is quite good! I can't find any fault for this buffet at all.

PS: Sorry if I didn't provide pictures for some of the food I mentioned, limited to 12 photos for this review only!

My friends and I decided to settle dinner at The Soup Restaurant, where the famous plate of chicken reigns. I’ve seen it far too many times on instagram but I haven’t tried it. Anyway we got a table quite fast because I think it’s quite late. I love the Chinese, vintage feel of the place! I didn’t order anything off the menu, my friends were the one deciding what to order because they always eat there!We had the Samsui Ginger Chicken (Small, $15.90). The big one costs $30+. But there’s only 4 of us, so the small one is enough! So happy to be eating this, it’s my first time eating it. At first when it came, I thought, “it's just ordinary chicken, but why so many people always order it.” It comes with a plate of vegetables. WHY? It’s for you to wrap it with the chicken, ginger and cucumber. You can of course choose to omit any of the last 2 but the chicken is mandatory! I’m not a fan of ginger, but my friend said that it’s nicer to put ginger with it. For my first wrap, I ate it with only a little bit of ginger and then I know what she meant by putting more ginger. So for my second wrap, I put half a teaspoon of ginger, and it’s really good. The crunchiness, cold and refreshing taste of the vegetable is such a good combination with the ginger. If you must know, the ginger doesn’t taste like the ginger we usually eat, it has a milder ginger and less raw taste though. They ordered Claypot Tofu (Small, $8). Despite it being small portion and just $8, we all ate 2-3 pieces of the tofu. But it’s abit sweet for me though.I cannot pass up vegetables! So for the veg, we got Ah Kon Fan Shu Leaves (Small, $8.90). The sambal was of the right spiciness for us and it tasted really nice and appetising! They also ordered this Steamed San Yu Fish Slice ($10.90). It is sliced fish steamed with ginger and nice soy sauce! I think it’s quite nice, very generous amount of sliced fish for $10.90!Verdict: In total we paid $57.60 for all! Not seen in photos are the FOC soup that we got because we paid via OCBC card, our 4 plates of rice ($0.80 each). Plain water is free! I think for around $14 each, the meal is quite reasonable. The dishes were all nice and we didn’t have to wait very long for it. What left a deep impression on me was the chicken. It’s a must try!! Soup restaurant: affordable Chinese cuisine with good atmosphere. Service was quite good too, all the staff were efficient!

I always head to yoshinoya if I'm eating alone or just looking for a quiet and peaceful place to have my meals. Yoshinoya serves healthier food compared to other fast food restaurants and it's great for a family hang-out as well. There's kids meal available too! Great for the whole family. In fact when I was there just now, I saw 4 families.

Just recently, Yoshinoya came up with a new dish, Salmon/Chicken with Japanese Curry! Was tempted to get the student meal because it's cheaper, but wanted to try something new so I tried Chicken curry ($7.90)! It comes with miso soup. You can choose to top up $1 for a drink but I did not. The curry was quite good during the first few mouthfuls but I realised that the curry is quite spicy, different from the normal Japanese curry we usually eat. My tolerance of spicy food is not very high, so I advise people who can't take spicy food to not choose this. Otherwise, the chicken was nicely grilled, which is healthier than it being deep fried. The curry had onions, cabbage and diced carrots! The miso soup was rather bland but healthy!

Decided to try something else at this kopitiam instead of the ban mian which I usually eat. My friend and I ordered based on 2 persons and we shared 4 dishes with 2 plates of rice. We ordered kang kong, potato, stir fried pork and steamed egg plus some curry as the sauce (not sure if the curry is chargeable as it's just the sauce to pour over our rice) and it costs $6.60 together with the rice. The curry was not very nice, it's quite oily so we skimmed away the oil on the surface. The kangkong was nice! It's not the spicy kind, just the normal one stirred fried with garlic. The pork was just so-so only. It didn't have much meat. The steamed egg was smooth and silky to taste, the potato was great too! The amount of rice given was very generous that we were bloated after that. And we also ordered too much for 2 person.

And it was good that it wasn't crowded during lunch time! We get to enjoy our meal in peace.