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"Let's not fall in love, we don't know each other very well yet."

Anyeong! Do you ever have this feeling of having a crush on someone and yet the more you know that particular someone, you feel like suddenly there's a background song with TOP's voice saying "Uri saranghaji marayo"? Noona is having this weird feeling at the moment because she thinks that her crush has turned out to be crazy. Not in a criminally psychotic way but weird kind of psycho. Okay, Noona does not know how to explain this weirdo but...oh well, further observation required perhaps? Hahahaha.

Talking about TOP, Noona hopes he recovers soon. Sobs.

When girls are in doubt, the next thing that they do is to meet up with other girls and talk about their life's problems away, including guy problem. Noona admits she herself often does this kind of things and thankfully her stories so far has not irritated any of her girl friends despite how weird/ unusual her storytelling skill is. This time, we are visiting one of the most-often-featured-cafe in K-drama worlds, Dal Komm Coffee. It was featured in Descendants of the Sun and Goblin and the famous cafe has opened an outlet at Centrepoint in Somerset.

Cute dolls from Dal Komm Coffee at Somerset

If you recalled watching Goblin, Eun Tak was drinking a peach looking drink named Honey Grapefruit. Noona was kinda curious on how good the drink is so she ordered one glass of grapefruit juice. It tastes so refreshing and hopefully the drink is really filled with Vit C instead of sugar. Well, there's honey added to it though otherwise it will be super sour.

Grapefruit drink from Dal Komm Coffee at Somerset

Cake-wise, we were not really attracted to the cake display at Dal Komm Coffee but decided to try out one of their cheese cake after all. The drinks taste better than the cakes.

Cheesecake from Dal Komm Coffee at Somerset

Noona's other two chingus ordered sweet potato latte and hot version of Honey Grapefruit. The sweet potato latte tastes pretty unique and it is categorised under the non-caffeine drinks. So you will still be able to sleep even though you drink the latte pretty late at night.

Sweet potato latte and hot honey grapefruit from Dal Komm Coffee

The hot version of Honey Grapefruit taste not bad either although Noona prefers the iced one.

Hot honey grapefruit from Dal Komm Coffee

Dal Komm Coffee is located at:

176 Orchard Road, #01-01/02, 03/04, 05/06, 102/103

The Centrepoint

Opening hours:

Daily 10AM - 10PM

"I could've been a princess, you'd be a king"

Once upon a time, there was a Queen, a Princess and a Prince living in their wonderful castle served by many maids. Fast forward to the modern days, the Queen, the Princess and the Prince somehow have no escape from the brutality of high living cost and now they have to work in an office. However, despite the change in season, they still demand certain service from someone who they think are not worthy i.e. Noona. Once their meets are not met, they have succumbed to their irrational behaviour and end up exploding to bits and pieces much to Noona's amusement. Too bad the last part has not happened yet. Instead, the Prince gave rude attitude and keep making up excuses when his work does not meet standard, the Princess simply refuses to do what she's supposed to do since Noona can't help but doing the task since Princess kept someone as hostage, and the Queen file a complaint to...wait-a-minute, what's higher than Queen and female? Queen Mother? Fairy Godmother? Oh well, let's just say the Queen file a complaint to the higher-up and act like she's a victim or something. Epic. You guys deserve an Oscar. Really.

With this kind of drama, Noona needs a nice and cozy place to spend time hanging out with her BFF while venting about this drama. And there's one nice cafe at Kovan which seems to be the perfect venue for this occasion.

Turns out Lola's Cafe is pretty big, it uses two side-by-side units and yet, don't get deceived by its big premise. It's still recommended to reserve seats before you make your way all the way to Kovan to avoid disappointment or long waiting time. Since Kovan is considered far far away from where Noona's staying, it seems wise to just make a booking nonetheless.

Even with the booking, Noona still has to wait for 5 minutes or so. Hmm okay, she could wait for 5 minutes. No biggie. We should not live a rushed life all the time. Especially when it's time to unwind and chill.

Noona was more excited than her cafehopping buddy to check out the menu. This is normal considering that her cafehopping buddy has been at Lola's Cafe so many times before since this cafe is located near to the TCM that she often visits for health check-up.

Food and desserts menu from Lola's Cafe at Kovan

Lola's Cafe is famous for its coffee too but it was already quite late at night and Noona did not want to risk insomnia since she wanted to just lie on bed and doze after this dinner. Hmm, let's see what we should order other than coffee then.

The tarts on display at Lola's Cafe look so damn good seriously. So many diners are requesting for these tarts for takeaways so Noona feels these tarts must be quite good.

But tonight is the night meant for booze. So let's drink our ice cold (watermelon) beer and cheers for good days ahead. Noona was quite surprised this watermelon beer taste so good.

Watermelon beer from Lola's Cafe at Kovan

And the beer goes super well with the two starters that we ordered, the nacho cheese fries (SGD 9) and the honey paprika chicken wings (SGD 10). The nacho cheese fries taste so good, we ended up finishing the whole bowl.

Nacho cheese fries from Lola's Cafe at Kovan

The honey paprika chicken wings also taste so crispy and yet tender and well seasoned. Since the serving portion of the starters are quite big, it was a wise decision for both of us not to order anymore food other than these two. For your information, we often over-order during our course of cafe-hopping adventure. Sometimes our eyes got the better of us.

Honey Paprika Chicken Wings from Lola's Cafe at Kovan

Lola's Cafe is located at:

5 Simon Road

Opening hours:

Closed on Mondays

Tues - Thurs, Sun 10AM - 11.30PM

Friday and Saturday 10AM - 12AM

Noona was getting very excited when she heard that Caffe Bene, a popular coffee chain from South Korea, has finally landed in Singapore. To be exact, at level 2 of Vivo City. When Noona and her friend visited Caffe Bene, they were not receiving any customers because they had problem with their ordering and payment system. Noona thought they should just go on with manual way of ordering and keying payment but they chose to close the place for a while. Oh well, we came back around two hours later and they were back in business. Thankfully.

Jumbo Korean Bingsu at Caffe Bene, Vivo City

Caffe Bene serves mostly coffee, Korean bingsu, waffles and toasts. You can check out the display of those main dishes that Caffe Bene serves in their cafe.

Noona's friend refused to share that jumbo glass of Korean bingsu so we ended up ordering waffle which is served with a scoop of gelato (you can choose two but of course with additional cost). We chose dark chocolate gelato for the ice cream. The gelato and waffle taste so so. Nothing too fantastic about it.

Dark Chocolate Gelato Waffle at Caffe Bene Vivo City

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On the other hand, the garlic & cheese bread taste pretty yummy. You don't get sick of eating too much cheese and the combination of the cheese topping and the garlic toast works pretty well together.

Garlic & Cheese Bread at Caffe Bene Vivo City

On another visit to Caffe Bene with Noona's cousin, he agreed to share the jumbo Korean bingsu. Noona let him choose the flavor (as he will do most of the eating in the event that Noona gave up on eating anymore ice). He chose Green Tea Bingsu and on top of the bingsu, the server will throw in a lot of toppings like red bean and almond nuts. To complete the look, a big dollop of whipped cream (not ice cream unfortunately) are put on top of everything. Surprisingly we can finish the jumbo bingsu (Noona supposes because after all, this is mainly made from ice and ice equals water?). The toppings, the whipped cream and the green tea shaved ice taste pretty good when it is mixed. And this is a good dessert to share if you have a lot of things to talk about as you will not be able to finish this bingsu in a short time. XD

Thanks Steve for fulfilling the curiosity of his greedy cousin.

When Noona was walking around in Hongdae area, she saw a very cute cafe known as Hello Kitty Cafe. This was not the first time Noona dined in Hello Kitty Cafe as apparently Hello Kitty is such a rich kitty (she did claim she is not a cat) and she has a lot of cafes across the countries. Noona had dined in at Hello Kitty Cafe in Taipei before and she loved the experience so much. Up to the point she was willing to re-enact that experience here in Hongdae.

Since we visited the cafe quite late at night, there was no queue line spotted and we managed to enter the restaurant immediately. Pretty amazed by the design of the cafe.

Entering Hello Kitty Cafe in Hongdae Seoul

The cashier and the kitchen looks quite similar to the Hello Kitty Cafe in Taipei. Basically, you feel like you enter kitchen belonged to Hello Kitty herself.

The cashier and cake display at Hello Kitty Cafe Hongdae

After you made your order at the cashier, you will receive a buzzer. It will buzz when your order is ready for collection. You just need to wait patiently at your Hello Kitty table while taking a hundred over photos of your cute surrounding.

Food buzzer at Hello Kitty Cafe in Hongdae Seoul

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None of us dared to order a cup of coffee late at night because we were scared of being owls after that. So we ordered hot chocolate instead. Thankfully, they come with Hello Kitty art on it. Let's call it hot chocolate art. LOL.

Hot Chocolate at Hello Kitty Cafe Hongdae Seoul

We are seriously glutton. Instead of sharing, we order one waffle for each of us. Hahaha. Noona feels gaining weight in South Korea is inevitable because the country is simply filled with yummy food. The waffle on the left has mangoes and vanilla ice cream while the waffle on the right side has cinnamon and caramel and a dollop of whip cream at the side. Noona prefer the fruit waffles but both taste quite tasty as they are served warm. Fluffy warm waffles kind of feeling.