It is always the traditional desserts that we will always craving for Asians. Ah Chew desserts are no strangers to Singaporean for its famous desserts. People are flowing in and out from the dessert shop located at Liang Seah street.

Ah Chew occupies 2 shops next to each other and has doubled their sitting capacity. However, if you are coming in a big group, it is likely to be hard to find seats. You will always have difficulties finding seats whenever you drop by. But lucky for us on that day (8/8/2013) , we managed to secure a table for a quick refreshment. Note, you will not be able to chat after your dessert as there like likely people eyeing on your seats by then.
It is a self-service dessert shop where we place our order at the cashier counter and made payment upon ordering. The staff will then serve us the desserts.Mango Pomelo $4.00 .Mango taste sweet and the pomelo meat blends inside the mango sago enhance the taste. The slight sour pomelo neutralises the sweetness of the mango.Black Glutinous Rice Desserts ($2.90). The ‘spider web’ design presentation with a bit of toasted almond flakes was something fascinating. The black glutinous rice was grainy and a subtle creamy taste. It is quite a filling dessert.
The queue can be very bad sometimes and some customers tend not to queue for it. The staffs can be quite loud to customers when the place is crowded with people. So if you are going for good desserts, I guess you won’t mind on the staff services.

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I love Japanese cuisine and I was thrilled to receive an invitation from Estelle OpenRice Singapore. It was long queue during dinner time around 6pm plus when I reached Ippudo Mandarin Gallery. We were introduced to Vivian who is the PR executive of Ippodu who hosted us throughout the dinner. It was a pleasure dinner with familiar faces and also new friends.

History of Ippudo:-

Ippudo was founded in 1985 in Japan’s ramen capital of Hakata by Shigemi Kawahara, the internationally-acclaimed Ramen King and CEO of Chikaranomoto Company, which encompasses some of Japan’s finest restaurants. Today, there are 44 Ippudo restaurants throughout Japan, serving nearly 20,000 customers per day. Ippudo SG is the second overseas venture after Ippudo NY. Other new and upcoming ventures Ippudo HK, Ippudo Seoul, Ippudo Taiwan, Ippudo Sydney, Ippudo Malaysia and Ippudo China.The overall interior design of the outlet was cosy and comfortable. There are comics featuring on how to enjoy the ramen so that customers can have a rough idea on how would it be like. The big chandelier hanging at the centre of the outlet brings out the classic feel of the dinning restaurant. The lights are slightly dimmed lower with people chit chatting over dinner is one of the ideal dinning place if you are opting for a gathering session with nice ramen.

I ordered Choya Mandarin Orange. It comes with the choya and a bottle of mandarin orange. The choya taste wasn’t strong as it blend into the sweet taste of mandarin orange.I had my second drink which is the Calpis drink. Calpis is an uncarbonated soft drink which taste is similar to Yakult. The drink has a light and milky and vanilla flavored yogurt taste. I had mine without soda and I am loving it. You can always try it with soda or other mixtures of drink.We started off with appetizers and side dishes. We were served Goma Q which is the fresh japanese cucumber with sesame. The japanese cucumbers are cut into slices and well marinated. It tasted crunchy and refreshing too.Crispy Corn is quite an innovative dish I would say. Smoked taste corn and golden shinning colours of corn makes the whole dish looks glowing. It tastes crispy and addictive after the first bite.The presentation of the Spicy Shrimp Mayo is so beautiful that we can’t bear eating it. Lightly battered deep fried succulent prawns served with Ippudo’s homemade spicy mayonnaise dip. The tiger prawn is fresh served although it has been deep fried. We are able to taste the freshness of the prawn that blends well with the sauce.Beef Tataki is my favourite out of the dishes. Pan-seared tender beef slices served with a tangy sauce on the side. The beef is said to be imported from Australia and I love the colours and the marbling of the beef. I had them with the slices of garlics and sauce. Thumbs up!Pork Bun was served. This dish is a mixture of chinese cuisine style but the braised pork is cooked with Ippudo’s original sauce. Texture of the pork was tender and smooth. Perfectly blend well with steamed bun. Yummy!Here comes the main highlight of the outlet. Ramen! Here in Ippodu the customers are given a choice to choose how would their ramen texture to be served. It can be soft, medium, hard and very hard. We had hard, medium and very hard ramen that night.

First comes the Shiromaru Motoaji is their original recipe tonkotsu soup served with thin noodles rosu chashu (pork loin), cabbage, kikurage, pickled ginger and spring onion. It is called the classic Hakata-style ramen.For this bowl, we were served with ‘hard’ noodles. The broth has been cooked for many hours. The base was light and flavourful. The Akamaru Shiaji is their original tonkotsu broth enhanced with special blended miso paste with special blended miso paste and fragrant garlic oil. It is served with thin noodles, buta bara (pork belly), kikurage and spring onions. It’s a refined, modern-style ramen. We had ‘medium’ ramen texture this time. The broth taste was stronger compared to the original recipe as it has the miso paste in it. The taste would be slightly salty. If you prefer to have more garlic taste, you can get the fresh garlic to be pressed in the broth. It is served to individual table for customers to enhance their ramen taste.Karaka-Men is best suit for those who loves spicy stuffs.The broth is mixture of the original tonkotsu broth with special spicy miso and ground pork. It tasted spicy for me but others are quite enjoying the taste. The ground pork was sliced to smaller sizes and mixed into the broth so you can’t really taste the pork taste. It has been covered up by the spicy broth.Our dinner ended with a sweet thought of PR executive as she served us the Yuzu Sherbet. It was splendid dessert to end the session. Everyone enjoyed having the sherbet and the yuzu taste was strong that we were perked up immediately.

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NYDC which is also know as New York Dessert Cafe serves all kinds of dessert and main courses as well. But we were there to try their specialty desserts.Boo Boo ($6.80/per slice or $62/whole)
‘NYDC friends’ chocolate cake with piped swirls of light whipped cream’. I am a chocolate lover and i truly love this cake very much. It does not have the overdose of chocolate-y taste. I can taste the smoothness of the rich chocolate mousse and the sponge texture was just nicely done.Goldmine Cheesecake ($7.20/per slice or $68/whole)
It’s Ally’s New York Cheesecake with chocolate chunks, slathered with irresistible chocolate fudge topping. The base of the cake is the solid oreo cookie.The smooth top of the chocolate fudge and the cheesy fumes made the overall combination a perfect dessert after the main course.3-some mudpie ($11.80/per slice) It comes with three layers made up of chocolate chip dough ice cream, strawberry ice cream and strawberry cheesecake ice cream, sandwiching cookie crumbs and graham crackers. I would say it taste sweet with the combination of strawberry and chocolate but it would be a good choice to select when you are dropping by.Jedi Mudster (mudpie) ($11.80/per slice).Double Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Nut ice cream on an Oreo base with homemade cookie chunks. The cake is complete with chocolate fudge and whipped cream.Awesome I would say and the person-in-charge was so nice to offer another slice of it when we whipped off the first slice. It wasn’t as sweet as the 3-some mudpie and if you are chocolate lover, you wouldn’t mind to have the second servings.Anyway, NYDC is currently having a promotion where everyone gets to enjoy the desserts at the discounted rate.
You may want to check them out in their facebook page constantly for the update.

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Ambush, a cafe offering western cuisine located at Jurong Point. We was searching high and low for a place for dinning and it was suggested by my sister that we can dine in this cafe as it offer affordable price and the food is not bad. Luckily for us that we do not need to queue.

The cafe adopts an open concept style and people who are walking pass could easily watch what we are doing. It is an open cafe between the shops. Didn't take many photos as we are concentrating chit chatting all the way throughout the dinner. My friend was back from Paris and sister has not seen him for 8 years? That was long...Picture of the menu. The menu has the newspaper concept. Simple and understandable.My friend ordered hamburg beef and fries.The presentation was nicely done. The portion was generous enough and it goes well with the special sauce. The fries was cripsy and soft in the inner.We love munching the fries away.Swiss german sausage with rosti by sister. I like the rosti which is actually made of potato slice. We can choose either take rosti or mashed potato during the order. Love the swiss german sausage. The juicy part of the sausage was flowing when we cut them into smaller sizes. My saliva is drooling while typing on my keyboard now..My fish & chips. Taste nice and i haven't got to eat good western food for quite sometime. So this is consider a treat for me.The serving was within 20 minutes time and the staffs are quite attentive to customers' needs. As for the environment wise,the restaurant concept is using open air style which include open view of their kitchen where you can see their chef is whipping up the meals. Overall, it's quite a pleasant dinning choice for heartland who are staying around jurong point mall.

It was a rainy Saturday morning when I headed for breakfast food session at The Rotisserie with OpenRice members and bloggers at Rochester Mall. It is a walking distance approximately 10 minutes from Bouna Vista MRT station. This is my first time here to this area. The café is infused with Australian culture with spacious layout and white washed walls. It is furnished with solid wood tables with fabric sofa chairs for indoor seating and aluminium tables and chairs for outdoor seating. There are also bar wooden tables and high stools chairs available in indoor seating.

There are menu boards at the cashier counter where you can choose your choice of the day. It is self service order and pay at the cashier first. The staffs will then process your order and you collect the order at the food area. There is the queue stand at the cashier area to make sure the customers are aware the queue point.I ordered Panini (Shaved Leg Ham with tomato, cheese and seeded mustard). Another way of saying is that bread sandwich with the mentioned ingredients toasted. It was definitely a filling choice. The ham portion is quite generous and you can see the thickness of the Panini on the plate.There are also other available choices for breakfast. You can try the Smoked Salmon Bagel with Cream Cheese with the choice of bagel (Pain Bagel/ sesame Bagel, with/without cream cheese). One of the member commented that the smoked salmon taste good with the cream cheese and bagel. It’s not too smoked taste but the bagel is a bit hard to bite.I ordered English breakfast tea to complete my breakfast. They also served other tea choices such as Earl grey and chamomile. As for the choice of coffee, you can choose from cappuccino, latte and flat white. Photos below is art coffee served.Customers started to flow in after 10 am morning despite for raining day. Surprisingly the business is good despite it is rainny days and people just seems to start off with a nice breakfast here for the weekend.

As for my view, it is one of the place to begin with filling breakfast choice and warm and cosy ambience at an affordable price. Simply a place to laze around for family members & friends bondings.