ANNIE'S FAREWELL DINNER AT RAMEN KEISUKE TONKOTSU KING FOUR SEASONS

Super delayed post once again. I'm at Starbucks now clearing my work emails and have decided to take a break from work for a short while to update my blog because its been dead for weeks hahaha. Anyhoo, do come down to Clarke Quay Central for their CNY Fukubukuro Bag Event to show your support guys. Tyvm. I've been planning this event for weeks and nothing can describe how happy and fulfilling I'm feeling right now (besides being totally shag).

So anyway, Annie has flown to Paris since weeks ago (and yes I miss you, please come back soon and feel free to keep an eye out for hot guys for me thanks, or don't come back if you found someone who can make you happy there.) Because the rest of the gang have been sooo busy, we couldn't make it to send Annie off to the airport (sorry once again) so we had a farewell dinner for her at Ramen Keisuke Tonkotsu King Four Seasons since she wanted something asian-y before flying off for her exchange.

I'm a fan of ramen but as usual, i'm a complete know-it-nothing so i've NEVER tried Keisuke's Ramen. I know i know, what have I been doing with my life. I have no idea hahaha. So apparently, you can sort of make your own ramen and obviously i chose Summer cause I like it hawt. Initially, when my friends told me I could make my own ramen, I got kind of excited like omg, I can cook my own ramen!? REALLY? I can do a Camillia Ramen!? soo upon seeing the paper, I got really sad hahaha. but OH WELLS. Better than nothing.

Then there's this free flow of specially marinated Bean Sprouts thats freaking nice but be warned, its a trick! You'll keep munching on the bean sprouts and you'll end up really full. No shit. For someone who never liked vegetables (except sambal kangkong), you'll love their bean sprouts. I'm serious. I had to control how much I was refilling because it was sooo damn good. And then there's the complimentary hard boiled eggs too.

It's like there are so many things for you to do while waiting for your ramen. You can get to grind your own sesame seeds as well. Its up to your preference how grinded you like your sesame seeds to be but I was doing it for fun so I kept grinding it till well, till there's nothing left to grind...

And by the time we're done competing whose the pro sesame seeds grinder, our ramen came. Okay because everyone ordered different 'DIY Ramen', I have nooo idea what theirs was. But Annie's ramen was SOOOO GOOD. The broth was awesome. Her ramen looks like this so guys try it, I'm serious. We ended up leeching her soup and completely ignored ours.

Annie's Ramen

Chengyong's Ramen

Junny's Ramen

My Ramen

Out of the many ramen places I've been to, I can honestly say that Ramen Keisuke's ramen was really great. I'm categorising it as my go to ramen place now so thanks guys for bringing me hahaha. YAY.

Keisuke Tonkotsu King Four Seasons
158 Rochor Road Bugis Village
Singapore 188433
Telephone: +65 6333 5740
Opening Hours: 11.30AM to 2.30PM | 5PM to 10.30PM (Daily)

Have a wonderful trip Annie. I'm missing you all the way from Singapore. COME BACK SOON PLS.
Oh, and please come down to Clarke Quay Central once again. Check out their Facebook page for more details:
https://www.facebook.com/clarkequaycentral

TANUKI WITH THE CLIQUEEE

Why hellooo, its only been 2 weeks into the brand new year but somehow, its feeling alot like half a year have flew by. The Christmas craze, then the New Year Craze and now the Chinese New Year craze - I NEED A GETAWAY.

I spent my first weekend of the New Year with the amazing cliqueee. Its a very rare occasion when EVERYONE in the cliqueee are able to make it so imagine my surprise when all of us kept aside the entire Saturday for each other. We've spent more than 12 hours with each other and yet, it still wasn't enough.

We had our brunch at Tanuki where we also celebrated Yuliang's birthday as well.
(yayy happy belated birthday! Congrats to being the first of us to get old.)

The 2 other busiest girls I ever know, besides me.

With a big group of about 9 people, a special thanks to the Tanuki staffs who tolerated with our slow decision making and when we confused our own orders as well as the amazing customer service (especially when we requested to have 9 back to back polaroid shots taken just so everyone of us can get to keep a polaroid lols).

Majority of us ordered different things but the food was amazing. Not sure if its cause we took 15 minutes to take pictures or what but we all shut up when we started eating HAHA. The only thing that I kept hearing was 'Mmmm, soo good.', 'Ehh, can try yours?'

This is my first time at Tanuki actually and I really enjoyed my salmon bowl (its the fourth bowl picture). There were so many different variations of salmon that in full honesty, for a moment, I couldn't decide on which salmon I would want to eat first. I usually save the best for last but I had a tough time deciding which salmon was the best sooo that's a first.

We then had a mini celebration for Yuliang and the Tanuki staffs were nice enough to refrigerate our cake for us and they even provided us with plates and forks for our cakes too. I mean I've been to certain restaurants where you HAVE to buy their cakes and even if you didn't, they wouldn't provide you with dessert cutleries either. I get where they are coming from but I just don't think there is a need to be so rigid.

We spent more than an hour at Tanuki's balcony taking we-fies and making a hell loads of noise (i'm sorry, i think we're horrible too) that i'm actually super surprised that we didn't get thrown out HAHA. So brunch at Tanuki was awesome. The food is awesome, the atmosphere is awesome, the people are awesome too - its definitely a place that I would revisit when I crave for some Japanese food.

Tanuki
181 Orchard Road, #02-03 Orchard Central.
Singapore 238896
Telephone: +65 6636 5949
Opening Hours: 11.30AM to 10.30PM Daily

The cliqueee then went back to our usual spot of standing in circles to decide on what to do. Apparently, that is our fav past time - standing in circle in the middle of nowhere, to decide what to do. So we ended up playing L4D2 till evening before walking all the way from Dhoby Ghaut to Marina Square to have dinner at Burger King because Yongshan wasn't there to decide on what to eat for us HAHA and we walked from Marina Square to Clarke Quay to chill at Alegro's after.

It was a very tiring day. There were alot of walking involved. Orchard to Dhoby then Dhoby to Marina Square then finally to Clarke Quay. But it was a fun walk with loads of bullshit. What can I say? We've been friends for almost 9 years. Digging up each other's embarrassing moments and crap that we talk about when we were young is what we do.

Oh, and i'm finally doing something about making sure I can get my license before my 22nd Birthday. yay goals! so many goals to achieve, so little time. I can't believe I'm turning 22 this year sighhh.

THE ORANGE THIMBLE

My friends have been constantly trying to bring me to new cafes recently to help me relax a little (and also to make sure that I have my dinner) because I've been so preoccupied with work. Thanks guys for the love and making sure my tummy is filled up before I head home.

Rowena and I have this routine of meeting up at least once per week to catch up on each other's lives and because we're both really bad in coming up with places to eat at, we'll always end up dilly dallying and all the shops will be closed by the time we finally decide on a place to eat. And because we have so much to catch up on (even though its only been a week), sometimes its a hassle cause if you eat at a restaurant, you can't really catch up much when you see the queue of hungry angry people outside. So to find a nice, quiet place where we can have our dinner and chill is pretty hard for us.

So one fine day, Rowena decided to be smart and google for cafes that is close for us (because I knock off later than her) and thats how we landed in The Orange Thimble. First off, I'm really bad in cafes and I'm rarely in cafes because I don't drink coffee at all so there isn't really a need for me to be in cafes in that sense. I'm not sure about majority of the other cafes but Orange Thimble's menu selection is pretty straight forward and limited so I had a pretty hard time deciding on what I want because I wanted something super filling (since I've not had breakfast and lunch). But then again, cafes are called cafes for a reason.

I got a Beef Shepherd's Pie in the end and Rowena got a Ms Portobella Sandwich. I thought their shepherd's pie was pretty good. The ratio of potatoes and the beef was just nice so I liked it. As for the sandwich, I remember laughing when I saw it because by Ms Portobella, they truly meant Ms Portobella. There was only one portobello mushroom on the sandwich itself sooooo there's that.

But leaving the food aside, Rowena said their coffee was pretty good. I wouldn't know cause I don't drink coffee and I don't know how to appreciate coffee either. So you will have to trust her on that. I really like the cafe's atmosphere as well. It isn't particularly noisy, we were on the sofa seats and since the entire cafe's architecture is divided into different sections, you kind of have your own privacy as well. So if you're looking for places to just hang out and chill, I think The Orange Thimble is a pretty good spot. Plus they have very good lighting for wefies. HEH.

The Orange Thimble
56 Eng Hoon Street, #01-68
Telephone: 6223 8068
Opening Hours: 9AM to 11PM Daily

MY 21ST BIRTHDAY PARTY

I KNOW THIS IS WAYYYYYYYY OVERDUE since my 21st was like 5 months ago. As previously mentioned I was waiting for my photos from the photographer BUT an unfortunate case of the SD card being corrupted happened and trust me i am SUPER upset about it because there were like 500 over photos that he took and I really wanted them :(

BUT OH WELL SHIT HAPPENS. so my 21st birthday party was captured on solely Samsung & iPhones hahaha.

I just like to really thank my bestie - Rowena for helping me plan out this super last minute birthday party. The initial plan was always NOT to throw a party because firstly, i'm too lazy to do so and I rather meet my different groups of friends for a birthday dinner instead cause its wayyy easier and there won't be this awkward atmosphere where your friends simply do not know what to do at your birthday party.

I smartly invited everyone 2-3weeks before the actual celebration and omg it was such a MAD RUSH BECAUSE I DRAGGED IT TO THE VERY LAST WEEK BEFORE I FINALLY STARTED PLANNING THE PARTY. Rowena had to come over to my place, force me to sit down with her, just for me to properly start planning it. It was crazy. We decided on the design of the cake and my food caterers on the same day and we got my photobooth tools & props (from Spotlight & Daiso) like 2 days before the actual day. This party really wouldn't have succeeded without her help because I simply threw her the design of the cake I wanted and she started calling and sourcing out every single bakery she can find within budget for my perfect 21st birthday cake. Thanks bff, love you many many.

I couldn't have asked for a better birthday cake design and taste. I decided to go for something very simple but yet different at the same time. The guest list was only extended to my close friends & family for my 21st so its not like there were hundreds of people to feed so ordering a tier cake didn't make much sense.
I ordered a rainbow cake for my main cake on the top and strawberry & chocolate cupcakes to make up for the rest of my birthday cake from Baker's Heart. Their rainbow cake is prolly one of the best I've ever tasted. It's really moist and you can actually taste the 'colors' respectively in a way. I think they've managed to mix up the flavors really well because some of the rainbow cakes i've tasted were either too strong in the pandan flavor or its too dry. I think my rainbow cake was great, it was the first to go as well and Rowena had to hide away my slice of the cake before it got snatched away hahha. The guys from Baker's Heart were really helpful as well. Considering that my birthday cake was a super last minute order, they've done an extremely great job in terms of taste & design. Thanks guys!

Baker's Heart
Blk 929 Tampines St 91, #01-443
Singapore 520929
Telephone: 9226 3744
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bakershearts