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Apr 30 2013

Sunday Johor trip

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This is my 3rd Johor Sunday trip post. You can read the previous one from here and here.

Don’t judge me for being lazy but writing an outing post is more interesting than me writing about my life right? Kk like to go JB whenever he don’t want to stay at home or/and he doesn’t know what to do in Singapore. Spending at JB is so much better because it is cheaper and also. Kk’s 3rd brother stayed there so we will also visit them. Anyway, he opened an online shop at ebay. Do support him too.

First Stop: Breakfast at 大四喜(Taman Johor Jaya)

Detail of the place
Shop Name: 大四喜香港点心小厨
Address: 11 Jalan Dedap 4 Taman Johor Jaya (Rose Cottage Hotel)
Operating Hours: I am not sure. (according to forums they opened up to night)
GPS: TBC

金沙包 (Jin Sha Bao). It taste like 流沙包 (Liu Sha Bao).

 糯米鸡 (Luo mai gai)

鱼圆饼 (Fish cake)

炒萝卜糕 (Fried Carrot Cake)

排骨 (Rib Bone?)

黑胡椒燒卖 (Black Pepper Siew Mai)

燒卖 (Siew Mai)

腌肉包金针菇 (Bacon wrapped Enokitake)

芋圈包叉烧 (Yam Ring Wrapped Char Siew)

The chili is damn great with the dim sum. I heard this Chili can be buy off shelve from Malaysia. I shall packet it back to Singapore next time.

Dessert Time!!

巧克力泡芙饼 (Chocolate Eclair)

榴莲泡芙 (Durian Puff)

芒果布丁 (Mango Pudding)

Slightly expensive then normal dim sum at Johor but I would say taste wise is quite good.

Review: I always love going to Johor for dim sum breakfast. This place is packed with people, imagine I reached there at 11 plus am and we are still diverted to second floor. I heard from Ah Kun and Cui Yun that  大四喜 has quite a few branch and this branch is open not long ago. I like the cooling environment since there is aircon on the second floor. We did not manage to try their porridge and xiao long bao as it was sold out. I don’t deny I am disappointed the xiao long bao is sold out because this place opened till night and at 11am, something is sold out really is disappointing.

If you ask me, the lor mai gai taste average, I prefer it to be wetter with more sauce but Ah Kun likes it like that so I would say Lor Mai Gai is worth trying. For me, the must try is their 金沙包, 萝卜糕 and 火腿包金针菇. 金沙包 is also 流沙包 is smooth and delicious. I love how it is creamy and not too sweet. Next, though Ah Kun dun like the carrot cake but I love how soft it is. It melts in your mouth. The only thing I don’t like is the bean spout. Lastly is the bacon wrapped Enokitake. It looks like Japanese food but Japanese restaurant grill it. But here, they fried it! It is crispy and the savour salty is just the perfect match with the tasteless Enokitake.

Unlike normal dim sum place, they served dessert!! I swear that all the 3 dessert are my favourite. The Chocolate Eclair is not like normal ones, they add the icing on top of the chocolate to make it cuter and sweeter. The cream inside taste light too. Next is the durian puff, the durian mousse inside the puff is delicious and it has a generous amount. Once u bite, if you are not careful, the mousse will explode. :P Lastly, the pudding!! It taste thick and fruity. They are not using those cheap mango pudding to serve you. They are really putting effort on this pudding as well, the toppings are peeled grapes, jelly and fruits pulps. Overall, I am very satisfied with the dessert especially I find the dessert worth the money. I strongly recommend you to try their dessert if you are there.

Since we had our dim sum brunch, we skipped our lunch and had dinner earlier. After the dim sum, we went to Ah Kun’s place and all of us are playing Candy Crush. We played for 3 hours!! Talk about addiction.

We had Kinsahi for dinner.

Detail of the place
Shop Name: Kinsahi
Address: Lot F09,
AEON Bukit Indah Shopping Centre
No.8, Jalan Indah 15/2,
Bukit Indah, 81200 Johor Bahru,
Johor Darul Takzim.

The first dish I always try for Japanese food is Chawanmushi. I just love steamed eggs.

First Love Sushi.

Volcano Sushi.

Saba Shioyaki (If I am not wrong)

Tori Katsu Don

Review: I guess I don’t really need to review this place because I guess many had already tried this before. I been here quite a few times. If I were to choose between Sushi King and Kinsahi, it will confirm be this. I love how they innovate their sushi and it taste quite nice too. However, they do not have much other choices. I am particular that a Japanese restaurant must have Hotate!! The sad thing is they do not offer that. They do offer Bento and set meals which I guess is still quite alright for normal eaters.

I still not full after the main course so we went to have Baskin Robbin for ice cream!!

Chocolate Mousse Royale and Pralines `n Cream (2 scoop)

 Strawberry “something” and Mint Chocolate Chip

Apr 29 2013

Haircut at 76Style

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This is actually my 4th time at 76Style, 3rd time with Hikki and 1st time at Mont Kiara branch. After Hikky went to Mont Kiara, I haven’t had the chance to go there. (I have yet to blog about my previous hair cut but will try to blog back when I have the chance.)

Here is the outside of the 76Style Mont Kiara Branch

The sofa waiting seat at the salon. The sofa is comfortable!!

Hikky and Sato (I think is Sato la) cutting hair.

They serve coffee and tea~

Finally took a photo of their legendary treatment~

This time I decided to cut, perm my hair and touch-up my hair root. Here we go…

My hair before anything. Hikky is “hiding” behind me.

I really trust Hikki with my hair.

This time I decided to but my hair much shorter and also cut my fringe very short. I had to admit that despite trusting Hikki with my hair, my heart still beat quite fast as I really feel unsafe cutting this short. Hikki did not fail me. I love it very much. It is something that I wanted!! I never knew I could carry short fringe and shoulder length hair.

Dun judge my hair. It is not 100% done yet.

Hikki finishing up her initial cut.

Next, perming. The cute guy mixing the chemical to soften my hair.

My fringe is not permed so they did not wrapped it under the plastic.

Time for perming~

Everytime I see this rollers, I really feel funny. It looks like the Egypt sphinx.

As compared to the previous perm which i felt hot, the digital perming this time was so much better. I dun feel heat but it might be because my hair is shorter too.

Removing the hot rollers.

After they remove the roller, they still leave the curls cool before washing my hair again.

My perm is done. Now to dying of hair.

 

Applied the dye already. Since I am only touching up my roots only.

Last step is the legendary hair treatment. I swear that even until today when I wash my hair, it is still soft. Maybe many people may say that I am crazy to spend this money on this treatment but trust me, this treatment is worth every cents u paid.

Before it was clamped together, it is red.

Once you clamped the hair iron clamps together, it will turned blue.

This is actually not my first time going to 76Style. You can read the previous post here. I like the environment here better than mid-valley one. I am more of a stylist follower so when Hikki changed her working branch here, I also followed her. I personally find that her English seems to be better this time. It might also be I know what I want this time. I told her I want a shoulder length permed hair. I also told her I wanted to try shorter fringe. She understood and took the magazine out and told me which few style she recommend and I told her what I want.

The she start with the hair cutting. I have to admit that after the fringe was cut, I am not satisfied with it. But I was thinking to see how it was style later. After the treatment/hair dye (I can’t remember already), Hikki did trim my fringe furthermore and now I love them. Phew, I did not start screaming at them initially.

Many readers did ask me about the treatment. The hair iron resemble the typical strightener but it does not have any heat. When the clippers of hair iron are open, the light will turn to red and when clipping it together the light will turn to blue. Another thing about this hair iron is it produce a soft buzzling sound when the clippers is closed. It feels like some ultra sonic is emitted to your hair. I mentioned many times, I really love how smooth my hair will be after the treatment.

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Took a shot outside of the salon while waiting for cab.

Another shot while I was on coach back to Singapore.

Last shot of me before going to sleep.

So how was it? There are comments that perm don’t look nice on short hair but I really like the result. The shorter fringe did make me look younger too. I also shamelessly feel the below photos.

Okay. Now I am embarrassed! Thanks for reading~

Oct 14 2012

[Review] Merely Ice cream – Not the normal ice cream shop

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Image taken from their facebook. (As I was drafting this entry while waiting for Kk last Monday)

I don’t think I should blog this entry since I am supposed to be dieting and ice cream is sure a no no but I decided to blog it because it is just too delicious. Kk who is not a fan of dessert love their ice cream too.

I always try to resist their ice cream while walking past their shop at sunshine plaza along Bencoolen Street. (You can’t blame me because I am slimming)  It is like so hard especially if they happen to have my salted butter-scout ice cream.

I don’t really know the bosses of the shop but apparently they are sick of desk bound job and venturing into the ice cream business without knowing how to even cook before doing this. They are really 3 very interesting people, they have an unconventional blog here. I have give them thumbs up for their hard work and creativity so if you passed by there, do give them a try. I think they also have alcoholic ice cream but I have yet to try before.

This is my first try. 2 scope of ice cream (salted butter-scout ice cream+dark chocolate)

I totally in love with the salted butter-scout ice cream because I really love salty stuff and this ice cream really bring out the special unique taste of butter-scout without any funny taste. However, the chocolate ice-cream seems to be less tasty when eaten together because I find that the butter-scout flavour seems to cover its gentle dark chocolate taste.

This is my second try. 2 scope of ice cream (red velvet cake+oreo cream ice cream)

I was sad when I did not see my favourite salted butter-scout ice cream. The red velvet cake is a limited edition favour, it is unique and feels more like eating a smooth texture cake than ice cream and the oreo cream is confirm my 2nd favourite favour of this ice cream shop. It is creamy without having the disgusting feel when u eat creamy things and yet it has some oreo biscuit bits. I assure you it is not those normal cookie and cream type of ice cream where the taste is so artificial. I ate with Kk this time round and he loves it too.

My 3rd try (Gula Pandan+salted butter-scout ice cream)

I ate this last Monday while waiting for Kk to finish his meeting. I wanted to get the oreo cream with salted butter-scout ice cream but I figure out it will be too fattening for me. The Gula Pandan is a mixture of melon and pandan cake. You did not hear me wrong, it is pandan cake!! Who would ever thing of adding pandan cake to ice cream? But it taste quite nice. The pandan cake they use also seems to be of a better quality type because the colour of the cake is less green.

Conclusion

I shall give them ★★★★★ for their awesome ice cream but maybe a small advise is they could recommend the ice cream and make the testing of ice cream be more comfortable. Other than that they are just the prefect dessert shop I recommend.

Being a really innovative shop, they also have their QR code which will directly link you to their facebook page.

Eating Hagen Daz or Anderson Ice Cream is too common? Try them, they will rock your taste buds and don’t be afraid to try their unique favoured ice cream, it still taste very nice with those unconventional ingredients.

PS: I am not paid or invited to do this review but they are just too great not to blog about them. Though it is not easily accessible to many people but they are definitely worth your effort to try them

Sep 3 2012

Recent Haul

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I am kinda of dry of what to write recently, maybe I truly need a good rest after the ultra busy first half of the year. This year have been a great change to me, I am now officially Mrs Ng. But honestly, I am feeling tired more easily. I guess my metabolism rate has decreased greatly. I am getting fatter and more like an auntie. Studies and work sometimes really is demanding on me. Seriously, those who never go through studying and working at the same time have should not give comment like part time is easy. I have honestly wanted to give up a few times from end of last year to last month. I am now having a super short one month holidays. The sad thing is my holiday will end with August which means I am going to having my lessons again today… Thumbs down to this.

Have been really stingy to myself this month because I am in debt. I know this is a vicious cycle and I don’t want to make my life in a bad state too. So this month with a kind help of hubby, I was given S$650 to spend. It may sound a lot but nope it wasn’t a lot because most of my salary went to my course of 1K and my phone bill of near S$400 and last month’s cc spending of S$500. I was really left with zero by the 5th of the month so Kk gave me S$650 to spend and of which I spend another S$350 on my mum, brother and previously promised purchases from my friend which end me with S$300 to spend. I told myself I wouldn’t want to live like this ever again so I shall try and build my saving again.

But I still spend on some stuff towards the end of the month because it is either very cheap or I need to prepare for some occasions.

Firstly, I bought 3 top from Qoo.com.sg. They all cost S$8.50 each and the shipping is S$5.30. However, I am horrified to get items from this selling again. I have shipped from Eurasia before but they will knock on my door and delivery to my house personally. This time, it fail to delivery to me, it just leave the item outside of my house and on the shoes rack. However, the shipping this time is much faster than the previous time.

The quality of the top is not fantastic, but I would say given the price of S$8.90, who do I still have to expect? It worked out that 1 top is slightly more than S$10. The blue top is quite good just that it is too big, even for a L size like me, I feel big. Then the black and the white top is unbelievably thin. However, the attractive part is the design and price so on the whole the experience was still fine.

The 3 items from Qoo10.com.sg


Golgi color match 골지배색 / Color:blue 파

 Real manteau 리얼망토 / Color:white ivory 흰

Poncho T 판초티 / Color:black 검

Then I got 4 items from Kikki.K. Initially wanted to get a Baking Organiser for Pei Wen BUT it is out of stock so I need to wait for them to call back ba… But I still got some stuff. I am eye-ing on their 2013 coral organiser but I think I still can wait and they usually will have sales early January for their organiser.

 My Haul bag from Kikki.K

 Total damaged is S$114.60 but because they have a discount on their memory book so in the end it was S$98.64.

Things that I got 2 memory book that I am doing for my anniversary with KK and also the Christmas gift for my honey. I also got 1 receipt refill for my monthly receipt and my budget for detailed tracking of where my money go.

Lastly, I bought 2 dress from collectpoint.
 My mini haul from collectpoint, my new favourite store in town!

 I tried this since last month and have been lemming it since then since it was S$72.90 and this price is seriously too high for me especially I am really broke.Sometimes it is good to wait so I managed to get a 20% and it cost S$58.32. (I bought it before the end of August as they are having a 20% storewide for the regular items)

See my Instagram photo, many comment that it look nice on me. The lace is also comfortable. Totally in love with this dress.

 I saw this while I was on the Lowrys Farm’s fashion show at Bugis+ months back and have also been eye-ing on it. It was S$44.90 when I purchased it.

It make my total damage to be S$103.22 and I am aiming to spend till I can get their VIP card. Okay, so anyone wants to give me their receipt, I don’t mind meeting u or pay for the postage. Current accumulation is S$145.36 + S$103.22 = S$248.58. I still need another S$351.42 to get it. :(

I also went to got my Haba ion my esthe from Bing, I asked her to get for me.

It was just I discovered that I will need to spend another S$200 at Comex IT fair. Hmm… I guess I have got no choice ba… Since my HDD is running low in space and my camera SD card is also giving me problems. Initially wanted to get 2 extreme SD card but it was sold out sold in the end got a 32gb and a 16gb instead.

 Overall haul from IT fair. Got 2 xbox 360 games at S$39.90 each, red mouse at S$14.20, Buffalo 2TB HDD for S$139, 1 Sand disk Ultra SD (32gb) at S$37 and the Sand disk extreme SD (16gb) at S$37. TOTAL DAMAGE S$258.10

 I immediately opened the red mouse when I was back home.

The rest of the things was not opened because I was doing my assignment that night.

Aug 3 2012

Vanity Trove (August 2012)

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Wohoo~ I thought I will only be getting next month since now I no longer stayed with my parents and my place is forever without any people. Therefore I still remained all my beauty box subscription to my parent’s place.

This month, I even did a youtube video. I did it while waiting for my hair to dry and I used an iphone to edit the video. Impressive right?

Photos of this month’s Vanity Trove:

Vanity Trove (August 2012)

Vanity Trove (August 2012) – inside

Brands Innershine Products

Biore Makeup remover and Neutrogenar foaming scrub~

Origins Plantscription™ Anti-aging Cleanser

Marjolica Marjorca Eye Reset Gel

The Scottish Fine Soaps Au Lait Bath & Shower Gel

OxyPad

Sampar Glamour Shot Eyes

This month Vanity Trove Box in my view have several repeated cleanser which I feel can be actually better by having a more variety of products. I have yet to review my last month Vanity Trove Box which actually a Tang’s box. Really appreciated the kind gesture because i heard that the Tang’s box was given on random and the previous month box was not as good.

I have yet to used any the items yet. I will do a review again once I used the items.

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