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Caffe Vergnano 1882 is a cool Italian coffee joint. The Italian coffess are simply superb! Mrupupup had two cups of latte from this place. Do try the coffee. The coffee come sin various styles and made by a super coffee machine. Anyway, Mrupupup went to see the barista contest whereby the people came to compete in coffee art on the cup. Pretty nice designs on the coffee cup. Learnt that one need to be good, you have to consistent in your coffee art design on the cuppa. Love the latte! Caffè Vergnano 1882 Singapore  located #B1-17, South Beach Avenue, 26 Beach Rd, 6385-5579. Mon-Fri 8am-9pm, Sat & Sun 9am-6pm. 

Mrupupup had an Awfully Chocolate Hot Chocolate and Sinfully nice cupcake. Well, life is beautiful with nice good quality chocolate stuff. You could have it at the nice Awfully Chocolate store (#02-18) at Star Vista. Side note- Mrupupup was amazed by the high ceiling of this store. The hot chocolate cost about $5.90 and the cupcake about $5 plus. The evening was nice with the hot chocolate and the cupcake. Glorious cupcake with some serious chocolate Very delicious drink with the right blend of hot chocolate

Hurry, go have your Magnum Ice Cream at the Magnum Pleasure Store in Nex Mall, near to Shabu Shabu and Mugiya Bread store at B1. This is a 'pop up' store meaning it is temporary, enjoy the good ice cream till end of April 2014. Mrupupup had the Magnum Ice Cream "Venice in a Jar" which came with a nice vanilla ice cream stick tops with strawberry & chocolate shavings and jar of chocolate tiramisu (about $12) and a very yummy chocolate shake (about $8). On a weekday it was full house in the pop up store, highly popular with couples on a date. Many couples that evening were seen sharing a chocolate fondue for $25. Yummy days!!!! Mrupupup likes Magnum! Hope to eat Magnum again!       Slurps ! Two sticks!       You can have a customised stick of Magnum at $7.          

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    

Mrupupup got invited to the Singapore Wine Festival 2013 held at the old Customs House area located in the Marina Bay Area, 70 Collyer Quay. Singapore Wine Festival had major sponsors like DBS Bank. Mrupupup's ticket which costs $45 per piece was sponsored by De Dietrich. Mrupupup in this Wine Festival had a chance to sample major wines like Rose, Red Wines, White Wines, Sweet Fruity Wines, High class water Perrier, Riesling and even a Champagne!     Singapore Wine Festival 2013 had over 50 stalls with many types of wines from Australia and many European countries- France, Germany.      Mrupupup saw many people enjoying themselves with samples of wine and nice conversations along with the drinks.   For a weekend afternoon, Mrupupup had a nice time savouring the wines from many parts of the world. Mrupupup only liked the sweet fruity Riesling wine.      Cheers to a Wine Drinking session! The ticket ...

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.                  

Dome Cafe is a good place to hang out in Parkway Parade Shopping Centre at Marine Parade, Singapore. Mrupupup went to Dome to sit down and get away from the shopping crowd. Mrupupup ordered the Dome Chocolate drink with gelato ice cream ($7.90) and their chocolate lava cake with ice cream ($6.90). The lava cake was oosing with chocolatey goodness and so nice with ice cream. The chocolate drink was made more chocolatey with the gelato ice cream. Very good. Dome got nice big sofa for one to sit down and drink coffee. You can also browse the many magazines in the cafe.

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!

Laurent  Bernard opened the French patisserie at  Robertson Quay  in 2006. This  Cafe &  Chocolate  Bar located along the Pier @  Robertson Quay  does pastries, cakes and  chocolates . Mrupupup had a chance to visit the place and it was crowded on a weekend. People just came into the store to order the chocolate drinks, ice cream and wonderful desserts. Mrupupup had a classic Vienna Hot Chocolate drink ($9) and their Black Forest Cake ($7.80). Wow, their Black Forest Cake was OOOmmmmmph! So nice! The Black Forest had a great outer layer of chocolate, wonderful tasting inner core of sweet cherries and oooomph ! The classic hot chocolate was very nice too with a bitter chocolate taste. Mrupupup also tasted two sweet chocolates pieces filled with nuts and orange. Wa! Mrupupup just enjoyed a nice 'chocolatey' weekend. Black Forest Cake Hot Chocolate Drink

Max Brenner Chocolate Shop serves very nice chocolate drinks. Mrupupup went to the 112 Katong branch (#01-05) of Max Brenner and had a hot chocolate drink (about $6-7). The taste of hot chocolate drink was full of flavour in the special Hug Mug and loved the taste of cocoa in the mouth. Very nice! Service was good and fast. This outlet was not very crowded during weekend evening time and Mrupupup just enjoyed the hot chocolate drink sip by sip. Very nice way to pass the evening and listening to people's conversations while they enjoyed the wonders of chocolate. Mrupupup saw a particular group of ladies pouring over hot chocolate on their lava cake. Just pure 'bliss' watching the hot chocolate melting in theirlava cake.... oooooooo very nice! Life is beautiful when there is chocolate!

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!