The search for the best RVC in SG

Ever since I came here I have been searching for the best Red Velvet Cake.  The best one that I tried was in Manila during my cousin's wedding and its from Karen's Kitchen. Yummmm i swear it is the most moist red velvet that I ever tasted!! Cream cheese was divine!

You can visit and order from this link (cant click must copy and paste)
http://karenskitchen.com.ph/dotcomdotph

I have tried a couple of cafes that sell red velvet from:

1. Food for Thought (Good food for a good cause) located at 420 North Bridge Rd, North Bridge Centre #01-06. It is in front of the National Library.

http://www.foodforthought.com.sg/fft/home.php

Store front, work stations and the menu

The cake costs around Sgd 5.90. It was dry and I was not satisfied- FAILED

How to eat a red velvet

2. Some cafe beside 313- It was around Sgd 3.85
sorry no pictures because yet again it FAILED my standards

3. Black at 111 Somerset Road

Blackboard menu

Marie ordered cafe latte @sgd 6 while I ordered macchiato @ sgd 4

Black and White

The cake was too tempting not to be ordered RVC @ sgd 6
Moistness level-Check
Rich cream cheese level-Check
Sweetness-Check
PASSED ilene's standards

YUMMY

SPOTTED: Greg Uttsada Panichku aka VJ Utt 
(Stalker mode- was too shy to take this photo but with Marie's help I was able to get some okay shots)

Anyway, will be still searching for the best RVC in town...

When Boredom Strikes - Makeup to the Rescue

Every once in a while, there's not much to do here in Singapore. And sometimes we're just too lazy to go out of the house.

Sooo...to cure our boredom, we color...our faces! (This is also mainly influenced by Bernice who is a Makeup Addict - seriously, this girl has more than 30 lipsticks, tons of makeup brushes and watches youtube makeup videos almost everyday. Amazing!)

Here are some of the experiments we've done so far:

ILENE | Very simple and beachy makeup

I did this! Woot! Notice her thicker brow. Can't see it much here but Ilene had bronzer too. Her "photoshoot" got cut short though, she had a panic attack because of some work related sh*t haha

MARIE | Queen of Hearts-ish

Bernice showed us this video copying the queen's makeup - here's what happened. They glued my bows so to cover it better with concealer (not so successful). Raised my brows, put a fake mole, and lipstick in a heart shape.

VOLDEMORT (He who shall not be named. P.S. I seriously still don't think you'll keep your anonymity with this idea haha) | Two Faced

We tried to do a split makeup for Voldemort - good girl on one side, taray look on the other.

BERNICE | Just plain evil

Goal here was to look like a crazy evil character - like an evil step mom in a Disney movie. Eyes were the emphasis, real thick shadow and pointed upwards bringing the cat eye to the next level.

Oh, i forgot to mention the nose haha a bit over the top but hey, kudos to the nose bridge effect.

BERNICE version 2 | Trying to look like a she-man with male genitalia

Our second attempt at hiding the eyebrows and I think we finally succeeded. This makeup is just plain CRAZY yet achieved the purpose of making her look like a drag queen. Lashes, shadow, plumped up lips...exaggeration is the key word here.

So, when you're bored...grab a brush and paint yourself like crazy!! Can't wait for more craazzzyyy experiments ;)

Drinks and More: Part 1

Time to revive our blog again!

Been 4 months so it will be very difficult to recap everything that had happened.

This one will be all about the places where you can get alcohol and fun!

Disclaimer: Singapore is not the right place if you want to get a hang over - unless you've got cash to spare.

1) Filter Members Club
1 Nanson Road, Beside Gallery Hotel, Singapore

Went with Ilene, Bernice and Karen that night. That night we got free drinks from friends so can't really tell how much was the damage. But what's nice about this place is that the crowd is nice - "filtered" in a sense. Although some girls act like they're drunk to get attention - very annoying.



2) Lantern Bar
Rooftop Bar at The Fullerton Bay Hotel, Singapore

Three nights of bar hopping with the girls, this is the second night after Filter. Went to Lantern Bar where you get to have the most wonderful view of the city.


I ordered their mojito, which was quite nice. Bernice got the Rose. One drink costs around 20sgd++. But we met some pinoy waiters who got us another round for free! Thanks Jose and Rizal (seriously, that's their names!)


3) Attica Bar
Clark Quay, Singapore

The night of over the top makeup and more - LIPS LASHES and SHADOWS Galore!



It was our Girls' Night Out - with some dancing. Went to Attica Bar after going around Clark Quay. Can't even remember why we chose this place but maybe because we got in for free haha

This bar had different sections, one for hiphop, one for trance/house. The crowd wasn't that nice though. One of us even had a moment with a Korean looking guy and some ass touching - I won't mention who that girl is hahaha



4) Does Your Mother Know
41 Neil Road, Singapore

Love them gays - and this is one of their spots. Does Your Mother Know (witty name for a bar) is a chill place if you just want to chat and drink. Beer costs around 15sgd.


5) Soul
331 North Bridge Road, Odeon Towers, Singapore


Probably the worst club we've been to here in Singapore. At 1am - there's no one there! Literally we were just around 15 people in that club that night hahaha I don't know if this is how it is there every night but man was that club lonely. They've got 5sgd beers though - so that's our consolation.

6) Pump Room
Clark Quay, Singapore

Beers and A Band - lovely combination. They perform new songs from Bruno mars to some reggae music from the olden days. Nice place to hang if you want to chill after a busy day from work and some light dancing on the side :)



Will continue this list some other day - just realizing i had my share of booze while I was here haha

Founder Bak Kut Teh

Haven't posted anything since I started work. But hopefully we'll get our momentum back again =)

What a better way to start again with FOOD!!! haha Over the past months, been able to try more yummy stuff here. Let me begin with...

Founder Bak kut Teh

37 Balestier Road

Bak Kut Teh is one of Singapore's signature dishes. It's basically pork ribs soup. And Founder is one of the most visited place to get this soup.

The place is covered with photos of famous people who went there for their Bak Kut Teh. I honestly don't know anyone from the photos, but I guess they're popular here.

The owner, is the man sitting wearing a green polo. He's always there apparently, still overlooking the operations of the restaurant. AND all the photos in wall, are photos of him with the popular folks.

Back to the food. When you order Bak Kut Teh, it will come with Youtiao, the fried bread. But I of course need my rice!! And some veggies.

Here's the Bak Kut Teh in close up. My ribs unfortunately was not that tender - SAD!!! Saw this place get featured in AFC and when the host was eating his ribs, the meat was falling off the bones. So too bad for me I got the blah ones. The soup is quite good. Simple, I think it's just garlic and pepper. But you'll really feel the warm kind of heat when you eat this. It's not that kind of spicy that burns your tongue. But you'll get heat down your throat, a little tamer than what you'll get from tequila. Haha

Overall, I was not that happy. I mean it's meat and bones in a soup. But I guess some people enjoy that kind of simplicity. This will cost around 10sgd I think.

Theme Park

Hello Universal Studios!

This was a random-impulse-sporadic trip to universal! We went straight to the roller coasters since we both are fans of thrill rides! But before we can ride the coaster we have to deposit our things in their high-tech locker system!

not your average locker

see why..

step one to step 4

We rode both the coasters 3 times...each! We love the blue one since it was the scarier one but after 3 times it was no big deal for us anymore!

hello coasters

We had hotdogs for lunch.. not happy with mine!

$11.50 each

Went to one of the biggest candy shop i saw.. and cam-whored

we love candies and chocolates

also went to the pseudo new york city

yaya 1 and yaya 2

Went to kingdom far far away as well..

Found this signage uber cute :)

Chili's

6 flags wait for us!!

Papa Palheta

I love magazines back in manila i make it a point to buy Preview magazines (though in the latter part of the previous year the issues are getting worse but i think they already reformatted the mag thank god) anyway since preview is not available Her World is my alternative.. its is priced at $6 and I really get the value for my money! Yay!!

March 2011 issue

Anyway, on the Lifestyle Food section they were talking about the best places for coffee here in SG. So we decided to try one (since it was also recommended by Marie)

according to the magazine:
There are no price tags here as this hole-in-the-wall cafe lets you tip as you wish.. (suggested that $3.50 per cup)

So Honestly is the best policy! It is a place to buy your coffee beans not really a cafe :)
Had a hard time finding this huhu stress!! but i guess it was worth it..

path to Papa Palheta

entrance

ok went inside and ordered a Cappuccino and Marie ordered a Latte on the top of our head since there was no menu (hmmm...not bad coffee)

Coffee photo

We went inside and saw a lot of cool stuff like..

A more Jurassic Apple vs my Jurassic Apple

more Jurassic stuff

What hell are these?
went to their coffee tasting session (other day) and realized that these are tasting spoons!

tasting spoons

Papa Palheta is found ar 140 Bukit Timah opens from 9am-730pm Tuesday- Friday,Sunday and 9am-9pm on Saturdays. They are closed on Mondays for coffee roasting.

They have another real cafe Loysel's Toy at 66 Kampong Bugis (they have actually food, drinks and menu)

Weee for Wee Nam Kee

Heard they serve the best chicken rice according to some people. So Ilene and I decided to visit the place one day!

If you're expecting an air conditioned restaurant with table cloths, you won't find that here in Thompson Road.

The view. Tables and chairs along the street, and the inside looks like a normal food eatery in Chinatown in the Philippines.

View from across the street. As you can see, it's already packed with people. And it's not even lunch time yet!

Roasted or Steamed???? Ilene and I ordered a set with both =)

The sauce / condiments selection!!! LOVE IT!!!

Ilene got her favorite chili ginger sauce!!! (Although for her it lacked ginger a bit)

And I got my PLAIN old ginger! Usually stalls selling roasted chicken etc don't serve this...happy!!!!

Ilene - Left, Marie - Right

By the way, this was our view, the garbage bin where they throw away left overs. See the crow getting one of the pieces? Haha

Free soup is also served. If you are familiar with the soup from Masuki, it tastes kind of like that.

Finally our order came!!!! Roasted and Steamed Chicken combi for 8sgd!

We each got a cup of rice (the rice is so fluffy and fragrant! Yum!) 0.50sgd for each.

I don't know if you see it clearly BUT the chicken meat is really thick, unlike the others who give you small portions.

Ilene also ordered the Barley drink (1.5sgd). Not my favorite, but she enjoyed it. Tastes like the Am from rice. Cleanses your palette I guess, after eating the food.

As you can see we are almost done eating but I just wanted to show you the meat! Usually the steamed one has no flavor, but Wee Nam Kee's is soooooo tasty and juicy! Actually, you won't really need the condiments with it because the chicken is already flavorful enough!

THE CHICKEN WAS AWESOME. Not yet sure if this is the best. But what I'm sure of is that we will visit this place again soon. Blogging about it wants me to go there right now haha