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Mrupupup went to YWCA Singapore to have a dinner buffet. YWCA located at 6 Fort Canning Road (near to Fort Canning and YMCA Orchard) The dinner buffet was quite cheap about $20 per person. Had spread of local delights like curry fish, rice wine chicken, local snacks, drinks, desserts, fruits, prawns, oysters and Japanese sushi. Think if you want to save some money you can try YWCA cafe lodge for some value for money buffet. Check out the photos. Cheap and good buffet with family and friends on a weekend.

If you want to buy snacks, one can go to One Huat Trading located at Blk 9 Telok Blangah Crescent Singapore 090009 postal code (located at the corner of the void deck HDB shop spaces and nearer to the hawker centre). The small shop space sells tons of snacks at good prices. If you are crazy over Japanese imported snack, local snacks, gummies or polo mints sweets, you can try One Huat Trading for their great variety of snacks. The shop sells many versions of Japanese Pocky boxes (those long biscuits coated with matcha or chocolate sauce). Have a look at the variety of snacks - pictures taken below. One more thing, the uncle is nice and friendly and would tell which snacks are popular and good buy. A money saving tip if you want to buy yummy snacks! Mrupupup just like to share good stuff from HDB estates Singapore, not paid advertising hor. Cheerios! Crunch..... Snacking time...... Crunch.

Hellos! Got a nice information to share with you today. Mrupupup found a website that allows cash back to the purchases you made with online merchants likes Lazada, Groupon, Taobao, Expedia and many more. The website is know as https://www.shopback.sg . Pretty interesting website - allows you get cash back to your bank account - key point! Click on any store in the https://www.shopback.sg  website. Shop as usual on the store and make a purchase (think I like Expedia - going for December Holidays!). Here's the interesting part, you can get cashback in your shopback account within 48 hrs. Once you hit $10 (minimum to redeem) in your cashback, one can cash out to your online bank account or Paypal at the end of each month! Think Expedia booking for flights and hotels or shop for stuff at Lazada can easily hit $1000. So with cashback you can get some discount back in the form of cash instead of some vouchers which may need minimum spending to qualify for discounts....

Mrupupup encountered an NTUC Roving Truck. Well, this truck would be going around Singapore to provide goodies and discounts on NTUC items like health supplements, health screening, health products for the seniors. Each month the truck will have a different theme like health, cooking, fun learning, relax time, stay active and eat well. Well, the truck is part of NTUC's social enterprise Pioneers OK! Package. More information from: http://www.pioneersok.com.sg/ntuc-pioneers-ok-launch/ . Thumbs up to our Pioneers in Singapore!        

Psst... You want discounted bread and pastries.... One can go to the Marks and Spencer Food Hall and get their very yummy breads and pastries at 50% discount. The discount would happen between 8.30pm to 9pm daily (timing varies from store to store). Well, Mrupupup went to the Marks and Spencer Food Hall in Vivocity and found there were discounts for their shortbreads, biscuits, pastries, bagels and nice savoury food items at 50% off. Food items costs between $1.70 to $3.70 (before 50% discount) and need to buy two items. Value for money and the pastries are nice. Loved their biscuits and pastries! A money saving tip from Mrupupup.             

Mrupupup know of  a place located in the industrial area of Ubi which sells Fujifilm Instax mini Camera, Instax Mini Films and other cute cute stuff. Passion Gadgets/ Passion Kites is a most comprehensive gadgets retailer. The place also sells kites with all sorts of designs. Interesting place and quite busy on a normal weekday. Well, Mrupupup bought a fish eye lens mounted to a phone for about $5- $6 and a handphone cable for about $3. Pretty good. Do check out their prices for insta pictures film which comes on many designs. Mrupupup also loved their quirky Spiderman/ Hello Kitty design Insta Cameras. Zoom! Zoom! Lion Building B, #05-12, Arumugam Road ( Macpherson MRT Station Exit B). It is closed on Monday, opens 11am to 9pm on weekdays and till 6pm on weekends.                 Spiderman !!!! and Hello Kitty Camera Instapixs!!!!    

Bee Guan's orange peel with sour plum is a very refreshing drink. Mrupupup went to this stall named Bee Guan coffee stall at Whampoa Market # 01-23 two times to try out this drink. Mrupupup's verdict - best drink in Singapore on a hot day! The drink was very nice and pretty cheap at $1.50 with a large amounts of orange peel and came in two cups of cold water. Great value for money and fantastic on a hot day in Singapore! Oh, the uncle that sells the drink is quite a generous man. Just have a chat with him and he would tell you many stories of people ordering his orange peel drink. He would also top up your drink for free with more cold water if you need. See the large amounts of orange peel on top of the sour plum drink   Uncle preparing the drink    

Ho Tit Coffee Powder Factory is an old coffee powder maker for all kinds of blends - Arabica and Robusta coffee beans. Ho Tit Coffee Powder Factory is located at 402 Upper Paya Lebar Road Singapore 534988. This place protects the craft of roasting traditional coffee. Mrupupup bought a pack of special blend "heart beat fast' blend as coined by the female boss of the place for about $7-8, price much cheaper than major supermarkets. A money saving tip for coffee powder. Go to Ho Tit Coffee Powder Manufacturer and you can view the traditional machines to roast coffee. Quite an interesting place and the owners will chit chat with you of your coffee preference. Enjoy the conversation and have a cuppa of coffee. Hope we can preserve one of the last traditional coffee roasters in Singapore.           Special Blend - Ho Tit Coffee Blend know as 'Heart Beat Fast'

Teo Heng KTV Karaoke  studio is a 'value for money' place for karaoke singing sessions. Do go there because Mrupupup paid only $4.50 for a three hour singing session with 8 people. Really cheap. While the system is not very advanced and the room is simple, the great music makes up for everything. Mrupupup spent 3 hours at the outlet at Buona Vista (NTU alumni club - level 8) with my friends so it's really nice that they have cheap standard drinks and a nicely cold room, with music of your choice.  Scrape kbox and party world, Teo Heng is the place to be. Another good thing about the venue was that they do not charge you extras for tidbits and compulsory drinks on the menu like other places. You can buy a can of drink from the counter from as low as $1 and you can even bring in your own food. Mrupupup's only irk is that their location could have been a bit more accessible than NTU alumni club in Buona Vi...

Mrupupup going to tell you a store where it sells egg tarts. Fancy Delight sells all sorts of egg tarts which come in many flavours: strawberry, apple cinnamon, banana, durian, orange chocolate, kiwi and many more. Mrupupup went to the Nex mall at level 3 near to NTUC. Shusssh, don't tell people that the egg tarts are nice. The egg tarts comes with wholesome soft sweetness with many flavours and the crust tasted good. Think don't eat too many egg tarts, too many eggs for the week means high cholesterol. Mrupupup likes the orange chocolate egg tart! Another secret - Fancy Delights sells the egg tarts at a much cheaper price of $1 per tart  between 9pm to 10pm in order to get rid of stock for the day. A money saving tip! If cannot wait, just get one egg tart at $1.40 or better still just get a box to share. Yummys!!!    

Mrupupup first time tried out Sushi Express (food chain originated from Taiwan) located at Citylink Mall (#B1-23 - near to adidas sports store), Singapore. Why first time? Because the queue is very long! That friday evening- Mrupupup got to brave the queue for 45 minutes and find out why the place was so popular. Mrupupup could find two reasons for Sushi Express's popularity - cheap and decent sushi & sashimi. Where to find in Singapore $1.50 plates for all Japanese conveyor belt food?  Sushi Express had salmon sashimi, sushi of various types and many more..... All the dishes at $1.50 per plate (excluding service charges). Mrupupup just ate about 15 plates of sushi express! Too much salmon in Mrupupup's belly, burp! Nice prawn sashimi - quite sweet & fresh All Sushi at $1.50 Conveyor belt sushi Look at the pinkish fresh salmon Rows of salmon sushi - fresh on the conveyor belt Full hous...