Anyeong Noona

"Cause maybe someday, we'll figure all this out. We'll put an end to all our doubt."

Anyeong from Bali! Noona is currently reliving its Balinese experience from her humble bode in Singapore where she lives the reality of her life. Hahaha. Haiz, the pressure of life makes her having a pain in her stomach now (wait, maybe it's the period not the life per se). Back then, Dongsaeng has spent a lot of quality time with his best pal (literally spent the whole night until morning Noona tell you) and the best pal suggested him to try Eat Well. Eat Well is located in the hipster area of Seminyak and we managed to eat here at our last night in Bali.

Eat Well is a restaurant specialising in steak. It especially offers a lot of pork meat from ribs to steak to burger. But you don't have to suck thumb if you don't really like to eat pork because Eat Well also has alternatives to the non pork-eater fellas such as lamb, fish, beef and chicken.

Food Menu from Eat Well at Seminyak Bali

Cousin has been complaining about not eating enough greens but the Garden Salad served at Eat Well does not seem to be healthy in the slightest because it is served with crispy bacon and yummy BBQ sauce. At least, cousin did get to eat her fresh greens before the whole thing is condemned under the sauce and crispy bacon. Hahaha.

Crispy bacon green salad from Eat Well at Seminyak

Dongsaeng obviously does not give a care in the world about the greens and went straight to the crispy pork belly. Noona wonders where do the fats from all these food go into his body because he is so bloody skinny for goodness sake. The sauce for the pork belly is so good by the way.

Crispy Pork Belly from Eat Well at Seminyak Bali

Not satisfied by meat alone, Dongsaeng also insisted that we should order the butter rice too. It does taste good when you eat the crispy pork belly together with the rice to be honest with you.

Butter rice from Eat Well at Seminyak Bali

The aunties were a bit sick of eating pork because it seems that our foodie adventure in Bali has been involving a lot of pork meats (the Balinese cook awesome pork dishes, mind you). So we ordered grilled chicken for them. It's served with two kind of sauce, once is spinach mayo and the other one is ranch sauce. Grilled chicken taste okay.

Grilled Chicken from Eat Well at Seminyak Bali

Oh wait, apparently all dishes here come together with the spinach mayo and ranch sauce. Here is the pork ribs. While the pork ribs taste not bad, Noona still prefers the one cooked by Iiga Warung.

Pork ribs from Eat Well at Seminyak Bali

Last but not least, Omma wanted some fish. Okay omma, anything to please you but obviously the fish gonna taste so so. Hahaha.

Fish Fillet from Eat Well at Seminyak Bali

Eat Well is located at:

Jalan Raya Basangkasa No 36

Seminyak, Kuta

Bali

Opening hours:

Daily 10AM - 11PM

"Cause all I know is we said hello and your eyes look like coming home."

Nothing is worse than getting sick on Monday morning and there is no way you can take any sick leave at all this week because by doing that, you will make yourself more miserable the next day. Why is that so? Because you have to endure longer working hours to finish what you did not do the day before. What is this vicious cycle of corporate slave?

Noona's method of dealing with light flu symptom like runny nose is (a) Take a lot of Vitamin C, (b) Eating healthier i.e. No fried food and preferably something soupy and (c) Don't be too hardworking at work. So she heck everything at work and went home at 6PM sharp. The thing is despite you are being sick, that does not mean you can immediately go to bed after eating dinner. So here she is with a runny nose to nurse (all the meds expire, wtf), writing away her latest Oink adventure with her friend at Kith at Millenia Walk.

Noona went to Kith once at the outlet located at Park Mall in Dhoby Ghaut area but as far as she remembers, Kith only serves pasta back then. But now, it seems that Kith has expanded on their food offers because the restaurant serves a variety of dishes from sandwich to wrap to pasta.

Oink buddy decided to have her favourite aglio olio with bacon. Kith is very generous in the toppings of the aglio aglio and oink buddy really enjoys her food very much. The aglio olio is on spicier side too especially if you accidentally bite off the chili.

Bacon Aglio Olio from Kith at Millenia Walk

Bored with pasta, Noona decided to have Mango Chicken Wrap instead. The wrap is served with a generous portion of greens. Noona can taste the tangy feeling of the mango sauce inside the wrap in a good way because tangy is a tricky flavour to play with. Generally, we are quite happy with the food served at Kith. May be back one day to try out more of its dishes. The outlet at Millenia Walk is not too crowded and hence, nice for an evening chat with a friend.

Mango Chicken Wrap from Kith at Millenia Walk

Kith is located at:

9 Raffles Boulevard #01-44/45

Millenia Walk

Nearest MRT: Promenade

Opening hours:

Daily 8AM - 10PM

"Lying in the gutter, aiming for the moon.

Trying to empty out the ocean with a spoon.

Up and up, up and up."

Noona has just met her friend who just came back for her recent honeymoon. While honeymoon tend to be associated with "relax" and "romantic", Noona's friend seemed to have a unique-and-yet-taxing honeymoon experience with her newly-wed hubby. She and her hubby went to Bali for their honeymoon but they (or more like her hubby) chose the adventurous route for the honeymoon. For example, they embarked on an adventure to Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan which are considered to be quite tough and not for the faint hearted. And for sure not for the newly-wed couple unless that's how they prefer to get intimate during the honeymoon, by overcoming challenges together. Hahaha.

Anyway, if you are looking for a relaxing place to spend your honeymoon in Bali, you may opt to go for the relaxing part of Bali such as Nusa Dua area. Noona and her family had a chance to visit the St Regis Bali at Nusa Dua beach. The visit is actually suggested by Noona's cousin who is very curious on this resort.

4D3N Bali Trip: The St Regis Bali, Nusa Dua

The lobby at the St Regis Bali is so grand and you will be immediately greeted by the hotel staff upon arrival. That's when the problem arose though because actually none of us has made any reservation with the hotel and yet, we still insisted to come because our curiousity got the better of our healthy mind. So how to get out from this situation? It's time to put on your acting mask.

The lobby of the St Regis Bali at Nusa Dua

Omma immediately acted as someone who's about to marry off their daughter to some chaebol because there's no way poor people can afford to get married at the St Regis Bali. So Noona had to play around with her since she's the supposed-bride-to-be (despite her lack of real man at her side) so that the hotel staff is eager and even welcoming us to walk around the premise. My goodness, the decoration for a normal stairs can be so beautiful in the St Regis Bali.

Flower staircase at the St Regis Bali at Nusa Dua

The wedding chapel is located at the far back side of the hotel because it is facing the beach so we had to pass through the green green grass.

And here we are inside the chapel which can only cater to 30 people max. To be honest, the idea of getting married at the St Regis Bali does not seem to be a bad idea after all considering that Noona has been a pretty much anti-social human being for most of her life and hence, she does not have many friends to invite in the first place. LOL.

The wedding chapel at the St Regis Bali Nusa Dua

The view outside the wedding chapel is breathtaking. The empty space will be decorated with table and chairs as this is where the wedding banquet will be held for the invited guests. The number of people you can invite for the banquet is limited to 60 people though. Hahaha.

Outside the chapel of the St Regis Bali at Nusa Dua

The lights will be turned on at night and the whole place will be romantically lit. Awww. Can totally imagine that. But still cannot imagine who will be the man on the altar until now. Wait, isn't that the most important thing to obtain before all these details? Life's tough.

Side view of the pond outside chapel of St Regis Bali Nusa Dua

Just beside the chapel, there are some villas and a swimming pool. The swimming pool looks so nice and so relaxing, Noona seriously feels like putting on her swimsuit and just jump into the pool since the weather is so hot.

Right opposite the swimming pool is where you can laze to your heart's content while facing the therapeutic blue ocean of Bali. Perfect for a couple who just want to snuggle with each other, no?

Umbrella beach at the St Regis Bali at Nusa Dua

Nusa Dua Beach has white sandy beach with smooth sand. While the location is pretty far from the bustling city center like Kuta and Seminyak, it is a perfect getaway spot to run away from crazy and busy reality.

"I came along. I wrote a song for you. And all the things you do, it was called yellow."

Noona just found that someone uploaded the latest string of A Head Full of Dream Tour by Coldplay (either in Singapore or Bangkok because only those two countries the Coldplay has visited in 2017 so far) and oh boy, there is no way she's gonna moving on from this best band in the world. Despite the fact that she has just watched and danced to their songs last Saturday.

Back to corporate world, Noona's colleagues have been saying that Noona loves Chinatown so much that she often goes there for lunch. Well to be honest who can afford lunching at Downtown so often since (1) the choice of food is rather limited and (2) not budget friendly. In addition, Noona often has lunches with her friends from outside office and yes, Chinatown seems to be a good meeting point in any case. So here we are at Chinatown again at Genki Sushi.

Oink Noona: Genki Sushi, Chinatown Point

Genki Sushi is a quite fun sushi joint to hang out. It was famous when it first opened in Singapore because of the moving train/ car which will carry your sushi plates to your table upon ordering via Ipad. One train/ car can carry 3 plates of sushi at one time so you can immediately send your order to the kitchen once you have selected 3 type of sushi. Noona did not know what happened that day but she and her friend were very very hungry and so easily tempted by the display of the menu in Genki Sushi's Ipad. We ordered mentaiko tamago sushi, aburi squid sushi, mentaiko aburi salmon sushi, salted aburi salmon sushi, chicken karage mayo sushi and jumbo cheese kani sushi.

Yummy sushis from Genki Sushi at Chinatown Point

In addition, Genki Sushi was having a promotion for three different type of salmon (which looks the same to Noona's eyes) on one plate. The salmon comes from Scotland, Norway and Canada. Noona could not really differentiate the taste either.

Noona loves everything fried so she left the chicken karage mayo sushi to the last. Hehehe.

Chicken Karage Mayo Sushi from Genki Sushi

By the way, just being random, Noona found this webtoon so relevant in her life. Oh no! Hahahahhaha.

Genki Sushi is located at:

#02-33 Chinatown Point,

133 New Bridge Road

Opening hours:

Daily 11.30AM - 10PM

"We'll run wild, we'll be glowing in the dark."

Anyeong! It has been a long time since the last time Noona wrote something on her blog. If you are wondering what's she been up to recently, well, nothing much to be honest. Except for the fact that she has become lazier and lazier and hence, turned into Oink Noona. The idea for Oink Noona is that since Noona has been eating so much lately, she will share with you what's nice and what's not and even her latest attempt to lose weight by eating out (no cooking allowed at Oink Noona's rented place). So let's start the premiere of Oink Noona blog series by something sweet, shall we?

Last Monday, Oink Noona and her chingu needed to recover badly from Monday blues and hence, they made their way to Milk & Honey Artisan Yoghurt & Dessert Bar at Marina Square to have a bite of yoghurt parfait.

You can create your own parfait but if you do not want to think so much about what goes well with what. We are more of the latter so we just spent our time looking at the choices listed under Signature Yogurt Parfaits board.

Signature yoghurt parfait from Milk & Honey at Marina Square

When you are confused about what to order, you can take a look at the various type of toppings provided first to give you certain degree of encouragement. Noona finds the toppings offered by Milk & Honey seem to be yummier than Llao Llao's.

Yoghurt toppings from Milk & Honey at Marina Square

After meditating and discussing for 5 minutes, we have decided to share Honey Velvet yogurt parfait (SGD 6.8). The parfait comes with red velvet bits, cereal flakes, chocolate pieces, vanilla macaron and a drizzle of honey.

Honey Yoghurt Parfait from Milk & Honey at Marina Square

While we were happily eating the parfait, the chingu suddenly gave Noona the snack loot from Japan. Aww, she's such a sweet friend and she knows what Noona loves. SNACKS.