Oink Noona: Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant, Bugis
"Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favourite song, I have faith in what I see"
Anyeong! Noona is seriously feeling the boredom of living a monotonous lifestyle again in Singapore. She does not know why it is so freaking easy to lose out the having fun soul once you are stuck in a 9 - 6 job everyday. Even the weekends has become somewhat typical because you will surely need to recover from the weekdays' burnt out. Despite being a hardcore believer of her own "work-save-travel-repeat", it seems that the need to travel has become bigger and bigger. Soon, the mojo will turn into work-save-TRAVEL-repeat. Wonder what the bank account gonna say. Probably scream. Hahahaha.
Since we are currently in the saving period, let's just try to have fun with the activity that Noona and friends love the most in Singapore, cafe-hopping. This time around, we are going to make ourselves comfortable at all Clinton St Baking Company & Restaurant.
Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant in Singapore is apparently the same as the one originally created by chef-husband & wife, Neil Kleinberg and Dede Lahman. Sounds like a very beautiful dream comes true story. Noona is actually pretty inspired by this kind of dream but she does not know how to bake and where is the capital going to come from. Oh well, for now, let's just check out the menu.
We ordered one sweet and one savoury dish to share amongst the two of us. For the sweet dish, we ordered Pancakes with Warm Mapple Butter (SGD 19) which comes with three options: Blueberry, Banana Walnut or Chocolate Chunks. We were in the mood for some Ba-na-na moment so we chose banana walnut. The pancakes are fluffy and thick, which are exactly what Noona likes.
We were kinda having difficulties to decided on what to order for the savory items because all the items on the menu look quite similar to each other. This is especially after reading so many "egg" words in the menu. Our choice of egg savory dish finally fell on Spanish Scramble (SGD 21) which consists of three eggs, chorizo, tomatoes, caramelised onions, scallions, melted Monterey Jack with hash brown and sourdough toast. Noona does not really fancy sourdough toast but the hashbrown tastes so good. Yummy.
We did not feel like eating dessert at Clinton St Baking Company & Restaurant because we had just finished the pancake. So we decided to go for a walk around Bugis area before eventually settled down at Llao Llao which is located at the 4th level of Bugis+. It is not easy to secure a table here because the yoghurt place is not big in the first place.
Since we were sharing the yoghurt, we decided to go for Sanum (SGD 6.95). In a gist, Sanum gives you the choice of many toppings from chocolate to fruits to sauce (which makes the yoghurt questionable in its healthy value).
Seriously Noona does not think this yoghurt from Llao Llao is going to help her diet in any way. But it tastes good and weekends are meant to be enjoyed in any case. So yeah, all is well. Hahaha.
Clinton St Baking Company & Restaurant is located at:
31 Purvis Street
Singapore
Nearest MRT station: Bugis
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday 9AM - 6PM
Friday, Saturday and Public Holidays 8AM - 10PM
Sunday 8AM - 8PM