After making waves in Japan and other countries for 3 decades, it's finally here in Singapore! Indeed, I saw it everywhere I went in Japan!

Anyway, the first CoCoICHIBANYA Curry House in Singapore is conveniently located on B3 of 313@Somerset. If you're going down from the Forever 21 escalators, turn left, it's at the corner. It is open-concept and has comfortable seating. When my friend and I were there, there weren't lotsa people around. But our orders did not come super fast either.Hot Lemon Tea - $3.50

My friend ordered the Hot Lemon Tea and it was served in a teapot, very cute!Clam and Tomato Curry Omelette Rice - $14

It's very nice! The clams are big, juicy and fresh! The omelette is fluffy "fuwa-fuwa"! The curry spiciness level can be customised and I chose the middle level. Great!!Kinoko (Mushroom) Omelette Rice - $13

It's creamy and fluffy! The mushrooms are soft and everything goes very well together!

Great to have CoCoICHIBANYA in Singapore!! ♥

It was a good and thrifty outing at Downtown East that day after a few hours of crazy fun of Kinect and KTV at $10 per person. We became hungry and went in search of food.

Different Taste was literally full to the brim but luckily there was one table for the six of us right at the entrance. Nothing to talk about for the interior design (or lack thereof). It is just a very simple family restaurant with many many big round tables of families with elderly and young children.

To continue our thrifty outing, each of us only paid $10 for the food we ordered! Good and value for money! Wonderful!鱼漂蟹肉羹（中）Fish Maw Crab Meat Broth (Medium)

Thick and not stingy with the ingredients, I definitely recommend this dish! I'm a soup lover! The fish maw is soft and gooey, delicious!脆皮豆腐（小）Crispy Tofu (Small)

As its name suggests, it's indeed crispy and it's not hard! As I later discovered that there's prawns in the filling, I only ate that one piece.麦片鸡（小）Cereal Chicken (Small)

I love this dish as well! The cereal is sweet and crispy! The chicken meat is not hard from the deep frying and retains its juiciness!酸甜鱼片（小）Sweet and Sour Fish (Small)

The balance is important in this dish and it really did not disappoint! Yummy! Not too sweet nor too sour, just nice, add your mouthful with a piece of the cucumber, perfect!!蚝油小芥蘭（中）Small Kailan in Oyster Sauce (Medium)

Very normal dish done to perfection~ Good!!

I'd totally recommend you this family restaurant if you happen to be at Downtown East!!

This particular branch of ThaiExpress has a "Bistro" attached to its name and we have no idea why because it's not small and café-like, it's got two levels and serves full meals!

As the name suggests, "express" is an overstatement for ThaiExpress chains. Their serving time is notoriously long and this branch is no exception. Being super hungry did not help at all.

Though the service is not very friendly and the time taken can be improved by 150%, the food is good, so, okay.The Green Curry was shiok!! It's thick and spicy! The coconut fragrant is strong and sweet!The Beef Glass Noodles was good too! The soup is clear with soft and bouncy glass noodles! The beef is also tender and strong in taste from the spices and herbs!The Chicken was nice too! Crispy and tender! The sauce is HOT though!!

If you have a lot of time to spare and not so hungry, you can wait in this ThaiExpress Bistro.

Little Pancakes was all over the media when it first opened. Before it opened, they also put in a lot of effort into promoting their opening on FaceBook.

It is situated along Upper Thomson Road and it has a direct bus stop. The building is very special because it is not by the pedestrian pavement, it is further inside with a big space and it has a very classic design from the olden English days.

With its highly recognisable icons of Mr and Mrs Pancakes as the design on the glass doors of Little Pancakes, you can be sure to press that bus bell in advance.

The menu is a few cards held together by a book ring. Everything is cute in this shop, even the girls making pancakes. They are all smiles when my friend and I entered the shop. It has a free feeling even though it's my first time there. We just sat down at a two-seater and looked at the menu without any need for assistance (unlike posh/posh-wannabe restaurants).The shop is narrow but the distance between each set of tables is good enough. The decoration on the walls are quite nice and homely. The design of Mr and Mrs Pancake is cute too. A very good start for branding and merchandising.

The serving time was quite long in actual fact but we just chat and didn’t realise the time.Iced Chocolate - $3.90

Quite sweet and thick! Yumz!Apple Yakult Love - $3.70

Sweet and sour, it's really quite shiok and refreshing!Something Blue - $8.50

I was pleasantly surprised by the size and amount of the pancakes, so cute and small, placed in stacks and on a square plate! The contrast is nice as everything's round. I especially like the placement, it's very artsy fartsy, haha! The blueberry yogurt in the shot glass is exciting with the sour and thick yogurt and the sweet blueberry jam!

It’s got blueberry yoghurt, maple syrup, butter, vanilla ice cream, blueberries and the little pancakes!! Not too sweet, very nice!!Peanut Butter Time - $8.20

It’s got peanut butter, butter, bananas, vanilla ice cream and the little pancakes! Compared to my Something Blue, this dish seems really plain and ordinary. But for peanut butter and banana lovers, it's heaven! The placement is also nice and like the name suggests, "TIME"!

Overall, I really like the atmosphere of this little shop. Free and easy, cozy as well! I'd recommend this shop for a lazy afternoon high tea session with your friends and then chat the day away!

There was a food fair in the middle of Takashimaya so it was crowded there but not at Tampopo. Lucky~Deep Fried Black Pig Gyoza (6pcs) - $6.80

Crispy on the outside and so tender on the inside! The kurobuta is so good! It is so smooth that it literally glides into your throat! Tender and juicy, the flavour of the pork is well-kept and leaves us craving for more! Kurobuta/Berkshire pork is known for its brimming fat content lined prettily on a single slice. So I think that $6.80 is really worth the price of this gyoza dish! Chocolate Marble Chiffon Cake - $6.50

OH! So soft! This cake is one of the softest cakes I've ever eaten! Fluffy like clouds, I was literally on Cloud Nine~

The cream is not the sick-in-your-stomach conventional cream, it's really light and soft and not so sweet and most importantly, does not make one sick!

The almond pieces help to balance the taste of the whole cake by adding some crunchy and natural-sweetness factors!

Overall, I love this cake so much! Worth every penny!