Anyeong Noona

Showing posts with label Farrer Park. Show all posts

"When we go crashing down we come back every time,

cause we never go out-of-style."

Noona was totally out of ideas on where to hang out last Saturday so Chingu came to the rescue. Chingu's sister was actually the one who suggested the place which is named like somewhere from Harry Potter's world. Welcome to CreatureS! Please take out your wand and get ready to capture the magical creatures flying inside.

Okay, just kidding. CreatureS is a nice quaint little cafe located at the stretch of the road just a few blocks after the happening area of Mustafa Center. We reached the cafe around 5.30ish and we were informed that the table that was gonna be assigned to us was only available until 7.20. Hmm, okay, since Noona and her chingu were only going to have coffee and cakes, we figured that we would not sit for that long.

No idea why the limited time was given to us because there were not many diners at that particular timing. Well, we might be wrong though, who knows that most people will start to flock in after 7.30pm? If you are looking for a cafe to chill solo, you may want to consider to come to CreatureS around the same timing as us and sit at this particular corner because it looks so nice (although there is no backrest provided on that kind of chair).

Chingu's order of cafe mocha came first and it looks so pretty on the table mat.

Cafe mocha from CreatureS at Farrer Park

Meanwhile, Noona tried to be more adventurous by trying out something-out-of-the-norm such as Coconut Latte but turns out coconut does not go well with latte according to Noona's tastebud. Noona did not really fancy the coffee served at CreatureS because it's kinda too strong for her lousy caffeine intake level but at least there's Lotus biscuit provided at the side. #consolationpoint

Coconut latte from CreatureS at Farrer Park

We also ordered a slice of Thai Milk Tea Cheese Cake to share between the two of us because the sweetness of the cake will make our bitter life taste sweeter. Excuses, she knows but we like it anyway.

Coffee and cake from CreatureS at Farrer Park

The Thai Milk Tea Cheese Cake from CreatureS tastes not bad although it does not reach the word "fantastic" in our cake-review-vocabulary. Hard to please, this crowd.

Thai milk tea cheese cake from CreatureS at Farrer Park

The seats at the corner has pretty nice lighting for selfie, so take note of this location if you need to take selfie before eating. #selfiepoint

CreatureS Restaurant is located at:

120 Desker Road

Singapore

Opening hours:

Monday: Closed

Tuesday - Thursday, Sunday: 12PM - 10.30PM

Friday and Saturday: 12PM - 11.30PM

"If I lay here, if I just lay here.

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

Anyeong! Noona is currently feeling a tad emo because it seems that the more she sees some light about certain situations (or someone), the more her fantasy crumbles. Crack crack, yeah, that's more like it *dry laugh*. For someone who has always been a dreamer (despite the fact that she has become less and less idealist because of some reality lessons learned from life), she kinda feels sad when her fantasy crumbling. Oh man.

In time like this, let's go for a cuppa joe. Noona used to think that Tyrwhitt Road is somewhat inaccessible because the last time Noona visited Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee Bar (CSHH Coffee Bar), she has to take a bus from Lavender to a she-dunno-where bus stop and then walk for a bit to CSHH Coffee Bar.

Oink Noona: Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee Bar, Farrer Park

But now, Noona and her cafehopping buddy took a train to Farrer Park MRT Station and made our way to CSHH Coffee Bar on foot. It seems to be way nearer than taking bus from Lavender MRT Station. Since this was cafehopping buddy's first time at CSHH Coffee Bar, she was kinda shocked when Noona brought her into a building which looks like a deserted office building. Once you are inside though, you will immediately see an al-fresco area of CSHH Coffee Bar which obviously look like a normal cafe and not some industrial building. Hahaha.

Al fresco area of Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee Bar

This is the main entrance of CSHH Coffee Bar if you would like to sit inside an air-conditioned section of the cafe.

Main door to Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee Bar

Other than coffees, CSHH Coffee Bar serves food too. The food section is divided into mains, to share, salads and sides. Noona has never been a fan of salads so she totally did not look into it. Since we are going for dessert at the neighboring Creamery after this, we tried to limit our food intake by sharing the Huat Dog and Mac and Cheese.

Food menu from CCSH Coffee Bar Farrer Park

While cafehopping buddy proceeded to make order at the cashier, Noona is busy observing the cafe's interior. Yeap, we are sitting at the coffee bar table and hence, we could observe how the coffee is made at CSHH Coffee Bar. Not that we understand how the coffee was made though, so we could not really comment much after looking at the creation line. Hahaha.

Bar area at CCSH Coffee Bar at Farrer Park

Fancy coffee machine at CSHH Coffee Bar. Kinda makes Noona and her cafehopping buddy want to try out learning coffee-making. Barista course on the look. Hahahaha.

Coffee machine from Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee

There is no way we visit CSHH Coffee Bar without ordering their coffee. Noona notices that a lot of customers are buying their coffee powder so CSHH Coffee Bar must have been serving an awesome coffee. The latte art on our mocha looks fantastic too with hearts on both coffee. Definitely happy with our mocha <3.

Mocha from Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee Bar

Halfway sipping our mocha, a plate of Huat Dog (SGD 16) has arrived on our table. It is basically something like coney dog but served with Asian rendang sauce. Quirky and yummy at the same time.

Huat Dog from Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee

There's nothing that can go wrong with an order of Mac and Cheese. Taste even better when eaten with chili sauce (blame my Indonesian tongue). Yummy!

Mac n Cheese from Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee

Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee Bar is located at:

150 Tyrwhitt Road

Singapore

Nearest MRT: Farrer Park MRT

Opening hours:

Sunday to Thursday 9AM - 10PM

Friday to Saturday 9AM - 12AM

"There's no need to complicate, our time is short."

Today is Friday and yet it's so hard to be chill like how Noona is usually is on a Friday because Noona's friend in office is going through a trouble. In a gist, there has been a miscommunication within our team member which resulted in some stuff not reported timely to the tax authority. And this may result in penalty to our workplace. Nothing is a good news when it involves some kind of "loss" to the boss no matter how big or tiny the amount is so yeah, Noona has been busy consoling her friend throughout the day. Sometimes she wonders why work has become so complicated up to the point everybody is busy and tired and start to make mistake.

That's why it is so important to enjoy weekend to the fullness whenever it arrives. Last weekend, Noona and her cafehopping buddy finally managed to get seats at Creamery Boutique Ice Creams (after one hour of waiting, nonetheless).

The one hour waiting time is probably partly because the ice cream boutique is not big in size and hence, only manages to accommodate a few table and chairs. The concept of the dessert sold at Creamery Boutique Ice Cream is a set of cookie and ice cream. The idea is to serve cold ice cream on a lava/ non-lava cookie.

Cookie set menu from Creamery at Farrer Park

The lava cookies will crack and ooze out its fillings whereby the non-lava cookies stay sturdy and solid even when you put a scoop of ice cream on it. Creamery has beverages too but we are not interested in the beverages menu at all.

Cookie, ice cream and beverages menu from Creamery at Farrer Park

Some nice decoration beneath the menu at the black board. The menu on the blackboard is not that complete so it's better to take a look at the paper menu instead.

Some of the flavour of the ice cream to select from include Piko Piko (tiramisu coffee flavour), Sugus (a brand of sweets from the past), Strawberry, Matcha, Thai Tea and classic flavour such as chocolate and vanilla. You can ask for tester first before deciding which ice cream you would like to have with your cookie.

Ice cream flavour at Creamery Farrer Park

Since it took a lot of effort just to get a table at Creamery Boutique Ice Cream, we decided to pig a bit and order two cookie sets. The first set is called Red Devil (SGD 8.90) as it consists of Red Velvet Cream Cheese Lava Cookie and one scoop of ice cream. We chose Milo Dinosaur ice cream to pair with the red velvet cookie. But when the waitress press the cookie, the cream cheese filling did not really ooze out like what we expected it to be.

Lava cookie red velvet cream cheese from Creamier at Farrer Park

In fact, the cream cheese filling was only oozing out from one direction. We found this kinda anti-climax to be honest with you.

Milo Dinosaur on Red Velvet Cream Cheese Cookie from Creamier at Farrer Park

The waitress came back to pour topping which seems to be Milo powder on the whole cookie + ice cream set. Still not impressed with the lack of oozing cream cheese inside our red velvet cookie here. Taste wise, it was not bad. Red velvet and milo make a pretty good combination apparently.

Milo Dinosaur ice cream on Red Velvet Cookie with topping from Creamier at Farrer Park

The next cookie set that we ordered is Brownie (SGD 7.90) which consists of a non-lava Brownie cookie and one scoop of ice cream. We paired our brownie cookie with Piko Piko ice cream. Since it is a non-lava cookie, we left it aside to finish our Red Devil first.

Tiramisu ice cream on Brownie cookie from Creamier at Farrer Park

But when we were going to move on with our second cookie set, the Piko Piko ice cream has started to melt and creating a great visual for our Instagram. Taste-wise, Noona thinks she's about to have diabetes after eating this sugar + sugar combination which leads to sugar overload. Okay, morale of the story is tiramisu + brownie is an overkill. Don't do this unless you have an extremely high tolerance of sugar.

Tiramisu ice cream on brownie cookie at Creamier

Creamery Boutique Ice Cream is located at:

139 Tyrwhitt Road, #01-03

Nearest MRT: Farrer Park

Opening hours:

Daily (except Thursday) 11AM - 10PM

Closed on Thursday

"I am happy on my own, so here I'll stay.

Save your lovin' arms for a rainy day.

And I'll find comfort in my pain."

Anyeong! It's only Monday but Noona has already feeling the pain of working with an idiot. A lazy idiot, to make it worse. Noona has been merciful enough to give him chance to do a certain work for two days (plus weekend if he's desperate enough) but being a lazy bum, obviously the fella did not even bother to try. And today he has the guts to say he had not done it and yet he decided to go home anyway because he's not feeling well. Noona tried so hard to sympathise with the fact that he's not feeling well but to be honest with you, will boss care if Noona is the one who's dying and her work is not done? Nah. Working with this kind of pain-in-the-ass is really more painful than choosing to do the work by yourself, really. So like what Ed Sheeran said in his song, Eraser, I'd rather finding comfort in my pain rather then asking this asshole's help (love's not even involved here).

Right, thanks for letting Noona relieve the burden off her chest (not that you have a choice actually..hahaha) but let's explore the next cafe on the list, The Tiramisu Hero.

Oink Noona: The Tiramisu Hero, Farrer Park

The funny thing is, Noona and her cafehopping buddy did not actually plan to visit The Tiramisu Hero when they made their way to Jalan Besar which is around Farrer Park area. They wanted to go to the neighbouring Creamier but they were told that the waiting time for a table for 2 is one hour. One freaking hour.

The Tiramisu Hero Signboard at Farrer Park

Since we have been denied entry to Creamier, we proceeded to this cute cafe named The Tiramisu Hero. The cafe even has its own mascot, the cat. Meow Hero? Noona wonders if the owner does love cat or there are cats who love eating tiramisu. Hmm, totally no idea.

Welcome to the Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

Food served in The Tiramisu Hero in a glance. It's quite hard to read the menu on the wall because of the dimmed lighting to be honest with you.

But the decoration of The Tiramisu Hero is so nice and fun to look at. Even a simple (oh wait, it does not look simple) lamp decoration looks so cool.

Cute decoration at the Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

Peeking Meow's head. It seems that The Tiramisu Hero has its own merchandises and souvenirs too.

Souvenir at the Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

Some take away desserts are available for sale on the counter table.

Hot Cocoa Mix from Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

Since the name of the cafe is The Tiramisu Hero, Noona feels that she should go for the tiramisu. There are three size of tiramisu offered at The Tiramisu Hero: Minihero (SGD 3.50 - 4.50), Mommahero (SGD 7.50 - 9.50), and Noonahero (SGD 17.50 - 22.50). We ordered Mommahero because the menu said it's for 2 people sharing but Noona thinks she can finish the whole jar herself if she wants too. What a glutton. Hahahaha.

Tiramisu in a bottle at the Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

The packaging is so cute though although none of us brought back the plastic jar. However, despite the cute packaging, the tiramisu tastes so so. Noona feels that there is not enough liquor inside the tiramisu.

Momma Hero at the Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

In addition to the tiramisu, we also ordered the most interesting non-caffeine drink on the menu, Iced Bailey Chocolate. It tastes like chocolate milk with a droplet of Bailey. Yummy and yet, you have to go to the gym the next day to burn the calorie. Oh well.

Iced Chocolate Bailey from the Tiramisu Hero at Farrer Park

The Tiramisu Hero is located at:

121 Tyrwhitt Road

(The road is situated next to Jalan Besar Stadium)

Opening hours:

Daily 11AM - 10PM

Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom )

Anyeong Noona

Oink Noona: CreatureS Restaurant, Farrer Park

Oink Noona: Chye Seng Huat Hardware Coffee, Farrer Park

Oink Noona: Creamery Boutique Ice Cream, Farrer Park

Oink Noona: The Tiramisu Hero, Farrer Park