MrUpUpUp's Blog

Mrupupup had a milkshake at MakeShake Singapore located at basement 2 of City Square Mall.  MakeShake is a customisable premium  milkshake  concept in  Singapore . Mrupupup had a chocolate oreo type of milkshake for around $3. Mrupupup just loved their quirky chairs and tables with lots of messages on having milkshake. The oreo milkshake was thick and nice. Woooo... the place has many flavours of milkshakes & frozen yoghurts. Mrupupup could keep on trying milkshakes for a long time. Yummys! Life seems better with a milkshake in hand.

Putu Piring store sells a Malay traditional coconut snack filled with sweet coconut and brown sugar bits (gula melaka). Putu Piring is a steam rice flour cake snack with lots of grated coconut. Mrupupup thought this store had disappeared after the coffeeshop the store originally was at became some provision shop. Mrupupup was happy to find the Putu Piring store at Blk 14 Haig Road hawker centre #01-08. Each packet of 'steamed' Putu Piring costed $2 for about 4-5 pieces. Mrupupup loved the sweet taste of this putu piring dessert snack and the snacks were all handmade by the ladies. Pretty happy and Mrupupup ate up all the pieces in double quick time! Yummss!

There is a pau store at Blk 4 Changi Village Road #01-2082 and named as Johore Bahru Handmade Pau. Think this pau store has been around for a many years and has a few outlets in Singapore. Mrupupup tried out their paus (Chinese made steamed buns). These paus, steamed came with many types of fillings like chicken, pork, red bean or coffee paste. Guessed the unique nature of the Johore Bahru paus were their funny names given to the paus, like 'kung fu' kick pau (filled with chicken filling) and the Hong Kong TV Star 'Amy Yip' Giant paus (very huge steamed paus with pork and egg). Mrupupup liked their char siew pau for their nice taste and packed with lots of char siew pork meat. The coffee paste steamed pau was not bad too. Pretty good snack time from Johore Bahru Pau store, do remember to steam the buns before eating. The steamed buns (paus) range from $1- $3 in price depending on what buns you order. Think Johore Bahru Handmade Pau is 'generous' with their filli

Woohooo.... There is a new Japanese Cafe in town - St Marc Cafe located at Vivocity First Floor (facing the harbour) and it is their first branch in Singapore. Mrupupup ordered a large cup matcha latte ($7) and their awesome croissants (plain and chocolate) - $2.40 and $2.60 each estimated. The green match latte was great and taste very nice especially with the croissants. The St Marc Cafe's croissants were really crispy and wonderful to the taste. Mrupupup ordered two croissants and felt like ordering more! Wonder why Mrupupup never encountered this St Marc Cafe when he went travelling in Japan! St Marc Cafe also serves up ice cream desserts, pastries, bread and various types of coffee. Do get their St Marc Cafe coupon which gives one a 10% discount on all items till May 2013. Mrupupup is going again to St Marc Cafe one day.

Teadot is a specialty tea cafe located at Nex Mall Level 2 (next to Starbucks) which serves a wide variety of cakes, coffee and tea concoction with exotic names. Mrupupup ordered  their matcha latte with creative coffee tea art on top. The Teadot Cafe is an open concept place and Mrupupup just shared one green tea matcha latte which costs $6.30 (a bit overpriced). The place was relaxing place for a cuppa and sharing interesting conversation. Mrupupup felt that the matcha latte was pretty but the taste lacked a bit of green tea. Anyway, Mrupupup slowly enjoyed the green tea matcha latte with Famous Amos biscuits (Yummss!).  

Mrupupup missed the fried sweet potato balls at Maxwell Road Food Centre. Maxwell Road Food Centre is closed for renovation till the end of 2012. Sighz .... Cannot eat the nice fried sweet potato balls at Stall 76. This stalll just sells fried sweet potato balls and comes with different types of fillings - peanut, bean paste, coconut, pandan coconut and many more. These type of fried snacks are hard to come by because all Singaporeans nowadays want to eat healthy "GRASS" - I mean garden salads - pretty boring. Nevermind, Mrupupup would be waiting patiently for the stall (hopefully it will open when renovations are over) and get those fried balls to eat (eat it while it is hot - very nice!).

Mrupupup just likes to eat. Hans Cafe at Velocity @ Novena Square #01-11 (Thomson Road) sure has many types of cakes and pastries for one to eat. Mrupupup just could not resist and bought their chicken pie, kaya pandan cake and their peach tart. All the items bought was in Mrupupup's tummy within a few hours! Yummys! Guess Mrupupup loved their pastries. Chicken pie was great with chicken and potatoes, eat it while the pie is warm. The kaya pandan layer cake was very nice and fragrant with pandan. Peach tart just one huge peach on top of the tart which was good.

Mrupupup visited this little dessert shop known as the 'Grin Affair' at 3 Everton Park, #01-77a (Everton Park HDB estate). Grin Affair serves cakes in little glass jars and comes in many flavours. Mrupupup tried out the chocolate and honey lavender berries cakes. Mrupupup likes that the shop tries to be environmentally friendly by using pretty glass jars and recycled paper. Check out the photos!

Mrupupup felt that the Ya Kun Coffee and Kaya Toast is the best at Far East Square outlet, 18 China Street #01-01. Ya Kun at this outlet serves the toasted bread and coffee that tastes more authentic than the rest of the stores in Singapore. The Ya Kun store was super busy on a weekend morning. With such long history of making coffee and toasted bread (since 1944), there are many outlets of Ya Kun's in other countries like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia. Anyway, Mrupupup was at Ya Kun to have a nice cup of coffee and the kaya/butter toasted bread. Kaya is a coconut based jam spread and the ingredients that goes into making this spread is a closely guarded secret by Ya Kun's. It is weird that Mrupupup has cravings for toasted bread and coffee, espcially Ya Kun's. Took some pictures of the half boiled eggs, toasted bread and coffee. Very Nice! Enjoy the photos!

Sakon Thai Food place at Jalan Wangi served up a very nice sticky rice dessert. The durian and mango versions of the traditional Thai dessert were done well at this Sakon Thai Restaurant! Yummy and sweet. The durian version slightly better than mango version. Anyway, both very nice. Mrupupup took a picture of the sticky rice, have a look and enjoy the picture!

Mrupupup visited the new food venture known as 'Once Upon a Rosti' at AXA Tower, Shenton Way, Basement 1-15. The shops sells the European pan fried potato food known as Rosti. The shop has an interesting name and is the same managment that brought us the food concept 'Once Upon a Milkshake' - which sells milkshake. The Rosti shop is nice and sells different types of rosti with sausages, bacon, eggs, ham, vegetables. If you ask Mrupupup, the shop served up pretty good rosti. After enjoying the rosti, Mrupupup later went to the nearby 'Once Upon a Milkshake' store at Maxwell Chambers (near to Tanjong Pagar MRT). Had a pretty good red velvert cake with ice cream (wah... very very nice cake and ice cream pairing!!) and very thick chocolate milkshake. By the way, Mrupupup had a receipt that showed that the server was Fairy Godmother - pretty cute (check out the photo below). Do visit these two stores in the evening for Shentown Way becomes much less busy. Good day an