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Tiong Bahru Bakery is a very popular new bakery in of course Tiong Bahru estate (along Eng Hoon Street)! Tiong Bahru Bakery is branded as 'French Bakery' of the East. Well, judging by the crowd at this bakery it sure is a popular bakery. The bakery serves many types of breads, coffee, sandwiches, pastries and jams. Tiong Bahru Bakery is a very hip place with the 'in' crowd. The bakery was so crowded on a weekend afternoon that Mrupupup just ordered take away for the bread - a chocolate croissant (pretty good!). Ok, do take note the breads are not cheap (minimum $2 per bread). Mrpupup will be back some day at this outlet or their new outlet in Raffles City basement 1 to try out the rest of the french style breads and have a cup of coffee. Bon Jour! Tres Bien!

Mrupupup enjoyed a day of games today. Yeah. It was fun. The game was social mahjong. Do you know mahjong? Mahjong the enjoyable game played by Chinese Asians involving tiles of game cards and trying to form patterns to win a game. Mahjong can be really addictive. Well, Mrupupup just play for fun. The mahjong game played was against very experienced mahjong players. Mrupupup was just happy to win one game. Totally enjoyable. Mahjong challenges the mind and maybe just maybe delays the decline of mind power.

Judge Dredd is back and he is out to get rid of the bad guys in a futuristic city. Well, if you like violence and major gun shooting scenes, check out Judge Dredd the movie to be release on 20 September in Singapore. Mrupupup was fortunate to attend the Gala Premiere of Judge Dredd 3D movie at GV Vivocity Max cinema. The GV Max 3D cinema was huge and the 3D effects was not too bad. Enjoyed the movie for the action scenes. The 'spoiler' is the good cops (Judge Dredd and his partner) triumphed over the bad criminals and walked out of the building with minor injuries - predictable story plot. Well, Mrupupup's rating is 2 out of 5 popcorns.

Hatched located at 26 Evans Road is a cool place to eat American style breakfast all day long. The place serves all sorts of Western dishes: French toast, eggs in amazing styles, coffee and more. The store opens from 8am till 6pm. The place was packed with many people on a Saturday lunch time. Mrupupup ordered the 'Sir Benedict' egg with bacon and another egg dish with salmon. Both very nice dishes and went well with the coffee. Had many photos of the eggs as it turned out a nice pretty yellow and of their French Toast. Do note the breakfast is not cheap, at least $10 and above per dish. Enjoy your breakfast all day long at HATCH (eggs many eggs please!).

Lao Ban Soya Beancurd is the current soya bean curd craze in Singapore. Mrupupup often see people carrying boxes of this Lao Ban Soya Beancurd. Mrupupup managed to get two boxes at Old Airport Road Hawker Centre #01-127. Well, the bean curd looks smooth and tastes smooth. Lao Ban Bean curd is pretty nice. Can just use a spoon and scoop up the smooth bean curd into your mouth. Guess smooth bean curd is a popular dessert in Singapore, ever since the 'Diner en Blanc' saga, the high class picnic event along the Marina Bay Sands waterfront whereby people make their feelings known by purchasing boxes of beancurd to share and elevate bean curd to a popular status. Costs $1.50 per box for the original taste and $2 for the almond flavour. Luckily, got no queue for the Lao Ban beancurd that day, sometimes might have a long queue. Yummsss!

Au Chocolate is a new French theme food store. The bistro sells all things 'French' inspired. Mrupupup has been to France and this 'Au Chocolate' place at Marina Bay Sands Singapore gives me nostalgic feelings. The bistro is located at Level 1- 03, above the skating rink. Mrupupup was impressed by the deco: got dog as a mascot/logo, got a train hovering above, fire place, beautiful art drawings, nice tiles and the wait staff wearing French hats. Very nice! The food was great too. Mrupupup had a very thick hot chocolate, chocolate cake (big piece!) and lemon meringue (very sweet and well done!). Oh one more thing, the next door to the bistro sells lots of confectionery items likes sweets, ice cream and chocolates. Mrupupup enjoyed Au Chocolate place and took many photos! Viva France! Tres Bien!

Have you been to the top of Orchard Central? This building along Orchard Road has nice art pieces at the roof top. Mrupupup find these art pieces interesting. Orchard Central is a lighted building in the evening and uses up lots of energy (Mrupupup's thinking). Do check out the art installations, Mrupupup likes the 'whimsical cartoon like' pieces. Oh one more thing, if you dare to take their buidling's escalator up to the roof top, you would be able to see closely the mynah birds (very noisy birds) nesting on the top of trees. One can also see the whole of Orchard Road district from the roof top of Orchard Central building- (free views!). Check out the photos.

Up and away, the beautiful kites flying high up in the sky. Mrupupup attended the Kite Festival 2012 Singapore held over the weekend along the Marina Bay Area. Mrupupup loves kites. The Kite Festival was fun and had many families coming to the Marina Bay to fly kites, listened to musicians, watch buskers performed and soaked up the 'carefree' atmosphere. The Kite Festival 2012 organised by NTUC Income and Act 3 International also brought kite masters from various countries like South Korea, Malaysia and Pakistan to teach participants how to make traditional kites from these countries. The kite workshops were very interesting and Mrupupup managed to make a kite. Kite Festival was fun! Check out the photographs below.

Paris Baguette Cafe is a newly opened bakery cum cafe in Wisma Atria (2nd floor) in Orchard Road. The cafe although named as Paris Baguette Cafe is not run by French but from South Korea. Well, Mrupupup loved their bread at the first try. The cafe serves very nice breads (French style) and even pudding in bottles. The cafe was crowded on a weekday evening and would take some time to find a seat. Mrupupup just loves bread from cheap bread to high class bread! Paris Baguette Cafe belong to the high class range of bakery and their famous baguette costs $2.50 each. Mrupupup tried their chocolate croissant (flaky and nice), mushroom pastry (very good), coffee (nice) and pudding (unique taste and yummy). All pretty good and loved how the food was served on a tray with a nice paper to gather up the bread crumbs.