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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.

I like Mr Baguette. Located at Golden Mile Hawker Centre, along Beach Road #B1-51 store number. As the name of the store implies, the humble store sells baguette (French bread cups but in smaller version) that are filled with different toppings like egg custard, red velvet, tiramisu and many flavours. The prices are reasonable about $1.50 to $1.80. The baguette bread came in a small bread cup, eat it slowly or you would get your mouth and even your nose stuff with the fillings (haha, mrupupup's nose got red velvet filling once). Mrupupup also bought Mr Baguette's garlic bread which was very crispy and nice. If you ask Mrupupup, the fillings with egg custard and red velvet were the most yummy! Eat the baguette while it is hot- super nice!

Alfero Artisan Gelato at Orchard Gateway #B02-06 got the most yummy Gelato Ice Cream on the island. With a voucher for $5, Mrupupup tried out the Gelato at Alfero Artisan Gelato. Mrupupup looked at the various tubs of Gelato. The tubs were chilled and hidden inside those tubs were various flavours of Gelato. There were flavours of hazelnut, durian (premium), chocolate, berries and many more. As we were trying to match the flavours for two scoops, Mrupupup ordered the Matcha Green Tea and yuzu flavours. These two flavours - one sweet (matcha) and the other a bit sour (yuzu fruit). The combinations was yummy and smooth. With the voucher, mrupupup paid only $0.90 of the $5.90 price. Mrupupup also had a nice seat inside the shop which was crowded on a weekday night. People were just chatting over the Gelato and having a good time. Oh, taken from the table-note about Gelato as compared to normal ice cream, Gelato contains all natural ingredients which gave a richer & smoother tast

Mrupupup went to check out the new Ben & Jerry's core flavours within a sundae at the Vivocity Singapore outlet. The core flavours are banana brownie or triple phish. Mrupupup tried out the new core flavour of triple phish (tasted a lot like caramel fudge) within scoops of chunky monkey and chocolate brownie. Wow, the core really made the ice cream sundae super awesome. It was yummy to the max. Mrupupup getting fatter with this 'core' flavours within the Ben & Jerry's sundae. Dig into the CORE! See the core- dig into the core     See me the CORE   Can add toppings like nuts       #coresg     Dig into the core with this spoon!  

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.             

In the spirit of the up-coming Chinese new Year, Mrupupup visited the Le Café at Blk 42 Cambridge Road. Le Café also have outlets at Blk 637 Veerasamy Road and 264 Middle Road. Wow, the golf ball size pineapple tarts was simply big and very nice. Mrupupup tried one pineapple tart and it was so filling that mrupupup had no much appetite for other snacks. The pineapple tart was huge, flavourful, yummy and totally enjoyable. Mrupupup say go try the pineapple tarts and each box varies from $18 to $21 (for ten big tarts) depending on when you buy the tarts, as closer to Chinese New Year date would mean an increase in price. Slowly enjoying the golf ball pineapple tart while writing this blog post. So very good!     The shops also sells other traditional cookies      

Loong Fatt Tau Sar Piah 龍發豆沙饼  at 639 Balestier Road serves up one of the best Tau Sar Piah (Chinese biscuits) according to Mrupupup. As one would know, Balestier Road has so many stores selling Tau Sar Piah, Mrupupup figured it out today that the one at Loong Fatt Tau Sar Piah served up the best Tau Sar Piah. Tau Sar Piah is a bean paste biscuit. Mrupupup tried the Tau Sar Piah and found it delicious, especially with a good cup of coffee! The older generation of Singapore loved eating Tau Sar Piah with coffee. Tau Sar Piah came in sweet or salty version and costs 60 cents each. The crust of the Tau Sar Piah was buttery and with the bean paste the biscuit was yummy! Haha, Mrupupup felt happy eating Tau Sar Piah. Take note that Loong Fatt is also a old style coffee shop that sells lunch and all sorts of biscuits & cakes. One can just hang out at this place and feel the old style 70s of Singapore.     Tau Sar Piah !!!    

Mrupupup enjoyed the Costa Coffee at the second floor of Plaza Singapore. Costa Coffee was created in London by two Italian immigrants as so the story was told on the wall of Costa Coffee outlet. Well, Costa Coffee was good and fragrant. Mrupupup ordered the cappuccino and latte. Both drink costs $5.80. The beautiful thing was the nice Costa sign placed onto the cappuccino drink. made the coffee drink much more nicer. The environment was very vibrant for a Friday evening, people were just talking and enjoying their coffee into the night. Very nice, Mrupupup felt happy with coffee.                  

For this week, Creamier café and ice cream place made Mrupupup happy! Creamier served up one of the best handmade ice cream ever tasted in Mrupupup's life. Creamier is at a secret location in Toa Payoh. Just kidding, will share the location. Creamier is at 128 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh. Mrupupup tried out the handmade berries, orange vodka cranberry, chocolate and Horlicks flavour. Each flavour varies in price range from $3 to $3.40 per scoop and $5-$6 for two scoops. Mrupupup felt that the ice cream are of high quality using the freshest ingredients! Mrupupup tasted every single mouth full of ice cream and enjoyed every bit of it! Mrupupup loved the orange vodka cranberry flavour which had a light refreshing taste! Yummy! The place also had a nice decorative touch using many arts pieces. Do enjoy a day out in quiet solitude in Creamier with a single scoop of ice cream in hand. Nice!      

Mrupupup purchased two durian puffs from Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore. Two small durian puffs costs $7. So expensive! Like eating two plates of chicken rice but very much smaller in size, haha! Ok, the durian puff was delicious and very filling. The durian puff had a generous amount of durian mousse! Very yummy! If one needs to satisfy a craving for durian, just go buy the durian puff and one piece would be enough because there was so much durian filling! Goodwood Park Hotel also has the durian fiesta till July 2013 - got all things filled with durian like cakes, pastries and of course the durian puffs!   Durian puffs in a box waiting to be eaten     Goodwood Park Hotel     Side view of durian puffs     Thick amount of durian filling     Durian puff came in a nice bag     Durian cakes and other pastries price list      

Mrupupup managed to grab one of Tim Ho Wan's famous char siew buns during their charity sale recently. One char siew bun was on sale for $2. Mrupupup wanted to try only one bun to taste. Wah! The char siew bun really lived up to its name as one of the five famous 'heavenly' food of Tim Ho Wan. Well, Tim Ho Wan is a one-Michelin star Hong Kong dim sum restaurant that recently opened in Singapore's Plaza Singapore (Atrium Wing) with very long queues everyday. The char siew bun made of pork fillings was very tasty and loved the crusty bun. Now, Mrupupup knows why Tim Ho Wan is so popular in Singapore. Mrupupup got to find one day when the queue is short to eat the other famous food items in Tim Ho Wan. Mrupupup felt very good to eat the nice char siew bun and do a bit for charity. Nice!

Mrupupup tried the Suckao chocolate drink at Max Brenner Chocolate Bar at Esplanade Mall Singapore (#01-08). First time tried the suckao drink which costs about $7. Well, this drink was special. It was like a chocolate drink but deconstructed by Max Brenner. The Suckao would be served with chocolate bits (dark type), milk, metal straw to suck and a pot to mix the milk and chocolate. The milk could be top 3 times. Add the chocolate bits to the hot milk, wait for the chocolate to melt. Once the chocolate melt in the hot milk, drink up! Enjoy the taste of your own chocolate drink. If you bored and could not wait, you could take a few chocolate bits and chew them to satisfy your chocolate cravings!