Anyeong Noona

Anyeong! How has everyone been doing? Have you completed your Christmas shopping yet? Noona has to buy one particular gift for gift exchange and the gift has to be suitable for both men and women. Omo. In addition, the gift has to be wrapped in red. Oh gosh, Noona has never scored A in her craft test back in primary school. Such a difficult condition for gift exchange indeed. Haha.

As usual, what supposedly be a gift hunt has ended to a feast and chat session with fellow chingu. We have found a yummy Japanese food place at unexpected place in Vivo City, the food court at level 3. To be exact, Noona has found someone posted about the Japanese food served by Washoku Goen, one of the stall in Vivo City's Food Republic. Washoku Goen specialises in Juu (which Noona thinks has something to do with the rice box?). Since Noona has been eating pork and beef for the past few days, she sticks to her choice of Chicken Juu that night and oh boy, it was so good, Noona finished the whole box. The price for the juu? 7 SGD! Oh yeay!

K-in-Singapore: Yummy Juu and Lovely Christmas Tree at Vivo City

Since we were too full from all those meat and rice, we decided to wander for a while at level 3 of Vivo City and went outside to check out the annual Christmas decoration. Vivo City always display an amazing Christmas tree at its rooftop every year and the tree must be seen at night because all the lights decoration will be turned on by then. A pretty amazing view Noona has to say.

The full display of the Christmas tree. It has an interesting twist of something which looks like Christmas theme park under the tree. Aww, don't you just love Christmas? ^^

Noona wondered if the walk really did her good because she ended up continuing the chat with chingu at another place, a dessert place to be exact. The one called Honeymoon Dessert. Honeymoon Dessert specialises in Hong Kong traditional dessert but it does have a modern twist about some of its menu. For instance, the dessert that we ordered use blueberry ice cream instead of those traditional green tea or red bean ice cream. Hahaha.

Hong Kong Dessert at Honeymoon Dessert Vivo City

Washoku Goen's location:

1 Harbourfront Walk, Food Republic

Level 3 of Vivo City

Honeymoon Dessert's location:

1 Harbourfront Walk, #01-93

Vivo City

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.

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.

Anyeong Noona

K-in-Singapore: Yummy Juu and Lovely Christmas Tree at Vivo City

Jumbo Korean Bingsu at Caffe Bene, Vivo City