Tea break @ Carpenter and Cook for tarts, tea & gossip. Apart from being a cafe, most of the decors are all available for sale. Pretty interesting place.Banoffee. The banana inside the cake is very sweet, but the coffee extract on top of it ia way too bitter. Passionfruit Meringue Tart. A little too sour on the passionfruit even the sweetness of the meringue can't musk away the sourness. Do this only if you can take real sour stuff.Double Chocolate Muffin is sweet & a little dry on the crown. Prefers Famous Amous's muffin!

A nice place for chilling out but nothing much to rave about the food.

Boss's treat! Finally the long-awaited department dinner!We have been talking about the department dinner for the past 2 months and finally it happened! For the first time, the venue is in a Chinese restaurant - Imperial Treasure Nan Bei Restaurant cos there is no Muslim team-mate now, so we don't have to specifically pick a Halal restaurant! Squid with Salted Egg Yolk - $16: is coated with thick layer of salted egg & the squid is nicely cooked.Seasoned Bean with Minced Pork - $10: Tastes pretty generic.Peking Duck - $55: Skin is super crispy & not oily. The wrap is also served warmed & it's very soft. However, the serving of the vegetable is slightly little. BBQ Combo - $18: We ordered BBQ Combo of Chicken, Roast Pork & Char Siew, but they ran out of Char Siew! Nothing to rave about on the chicken, but the Roast Pork skin is very crispy. It is also very tender & the ration between fat & lean meat meat is just nice.Beancurd with Seafood - $20: Nothing to rave about apart from the fresh seafood.

Having a birthday celebration at Tea Bone China, Sam requested that I help to buy 2 slices of Birthday cake from TCC for the birthday girls, but I ended up buying from Medzs cos they look prettier than those displayed at TCC. Surprisingly, both the cake taste pretty good besides looking goodTruffle Chocolate $6.5 is very chocolaty, cake is soft & fluffySalted Caramel Cheesecake $6.5 doesn't have much of the cheesy taste. cake is also soft & fluffy

It's the Multiply girls' Birthday Celebration again and venue for this month is at Tea Bone China by Arteastiq. We have 2 birthdays in Nov - Wendy & Angeline. Twelves beauties 金陵十二钗 $25.90 with impressive presentation consists of 6 pairs of the restaurant's signature dim sum(Sesame glutinous rice dumpling, Crispy wanton, Baked Lotus Paste Pastry, Chicken wrap, Prawn Dumpling & Custard & Salted egg yolk buns)Beancurd skin salad $3 was served at every table. Delicious beancurd skin tossed with vinegar, chili oil and shredded cucumberFried rice w/crabmeat, dried scallop & egg white $16.90. A little pricey and it sure doesn't look impressive, but amazes us with rich flavors of crabmeat and savory dried scallops.Custard & Salted egg yolk buns $4.90 It was really good. Buns are soft and fluffy; as for the filling, by looking at the picture, I reckon I do not have to go into details.

More pictures, http://milkfrost.blogspot.sg/2013/11/arteastiq-tea-bone-china-hong-shi-yi.html

An impromptu dinner with Angel, Ivy & Whye Wan. I was craving for steamboat few days ago, so Ivy suggested Xian De Lai 鲜得来, JEM. We were there on Tuesday evening & it wasn't crowdedThere is an option of Set meal or Ala Carte Buffet (can't remember the price, but it was aout $25), so we opt for the buffet. There are 5 soup bases to choose from, namely: Irresistible Sichuan Spicy; HealthyTonkotsu Soup; Bak Kut Teh Soup; Secret Recipe Duck Soup & Thai-style Tom Yum Soup. All of them choose the Healthy Tonkotsu Soup while I had Tom Yum. No complains from them, so I reckon it's passable. Tom Yum is mild sour & spicy.Variety of sauces were available at the center of table of the restaurant. Of which, only 4 catches my eye. Sesame Peanut Sauce (dilute & no sesame taste.. a little salty also); Spicy Peanut Sauce (not spicy & no peanut fragrant); Spicy Chilly w/bean (Not spicy & it's sweet cos of the bean) & Thai-style Chilli (not spicy; has a hint of sourness). Of the 4 sauces I tried, Thai-style Chilli proves to be the best dip for the night.There were more than 50 dishes to choose from, but... ... the portion were very small, so I suggest you order more if you;re a big eater. How small is the portion? Eg. 2 portions of prawns turn out to be only 8pcs (for 4 pax)! However, the ingredients were all very fresh.Apart from the fresh/ raw ingredients, there are also more than 15 side dishes to choose from. Braised Pork Belly in Tea Sauce is very flavorful & the pork is very soft. However, it is so fat you see a layer of oil on the pork belly when it has cool down!

The buffet also comes with a dessert of the day. Most of the staffs here were from China & they were pretty friendly & attentive.