Sunday, July 31, 2016

Le Sucre Du Patisserie Macarons

Tsum Tsum

A few blog posts back I was talking about the belated Valentine's Day cum Wedding Annviersary celebration at Hungry Heroes

However other than having the belated Valentine's Day celebration, we had our own kind of Valentine's Day celebration at home on the actual day itself. More about it in this blog post. 

The gifts we got for each other (or more like for ourselves) this Valentine's Day were the Tsum Tsum soft toys and Tsum Tsum Macarons from Le Sucre Du Patisserie Sg. It was #everythingtsumtsum ever since we were hooked onto the Tsum Tsum line game :) 


Placing them all together...


A #welfie with the Tsum Tsum. 


With the cute Tsum Tsum macarons 

The macarons' filling were the same for all the macarons which is chocolate. I've no problem with that but find it a little sweet for my liking. It's not meant to consume more than 2 at a go. To be honest, 12 macarons is a little too much for us and it took us sometime to finish it.

The collection place for the Tsum Tsum macarons were quite out of the way and I do hope that they could be improved. Ordering of the macarons is via whatsapp. Payment has to be made in full before they confirmed your order. That's all for my review for Le Sucre Du Patisserie Sg's macarons.

I do think that it's a good gift for your loved ones on special occasion because they are very exquisite and could be customize to your liking!

Valentine's Day Steamboat Dinner

We decide to have steamboat for dinner on Valentine's Day itself simply because it's still the CNY period. We simply enjoy cooking and eating our steamboat dinner slowly despite there's a need to spend some effort in clearing up after that haha!


Steamboat dinner for 2. 

If I'm not wrong, the soup base flavour we used were Tom Yum.

The beef was oh-so-good! It's very fresh and they were nicely sliced up. I'm already looking forward to our next steamboat session :)  


#welfie before we start eating our Valetine's Day dinner 

That's all for our Valentine's Day 2016 celebration. Unknowingly, it's already the 10th year we are celebrating Valentine's Day together :) Here's to many more years to come!

Sunday, July 24, 2016

CNY 2016 Day 1 and 2

Back to continue where I stop the previous time on CNY, and this will be my last post on CNY 2016. 


Goodies from Mum once again to bless us in this new year.

The yearly custom of having homecook reunion lunch before heading out for CNY visiting. Simply because there's no food and nothing beats comfort food :)


Cabbage with Mushroom and Wolfberries, Stir Fried Pork with Sliced Ginger.

After clearing up, it's time to get ready to dress up nicely and go out to 拜年.

#welfie taken at home.

Tried really hard to include the CNY decor in the background into our photo lol. 


Sending our CNY greetings to all our family and friends. We did this last year too haha!

Time flies and it's the 2nd year we are celebrating Chinese New Year in our home :)


#OOTD for Day 1

Headed to my aunt's place to 拜年. It's the first year my niece join us for CNY visiting haha.


Alright seems like she don't really know what's going on lol


They were all dressed in pink and it was not planned at all. 


Alright behind every scene, it's usually chaotic haha. And seems like the 2 youngest girls have become bff in a short while lol. 

It's my first year giving out the hong baos hence there's photo-taking to commemorate this moment.

My eldest niece


The 2nd eldest niece

Time really flies and all of them are so grown up now! And that would means how much I've aged too :(

Back to my parents' place after visiting my aunt..


Yet another feast waiting for us even though it's much simpler this time. But still the food is way too much for us haha! Indeed the best season to gain fats. 


One more #OOTD taken before we left for home after spending half a day at the west. 

On CNY Day 2, we had a good rest before preparing for the reunion dinner with Derp's immediate family members.


Steamboat in the house!


#welfie with the family members

We used 海底捞's steamboat soupbase for the steamboat. I ordered it from Qoo10 and glad that it came in time for the reunion dinner. It tasted good (even though I've not try the actual 海底捞 steamboat before), but however the MSG level in the soupbase is really high. All of us felt so thirsty after the steamboat dinner though.

Not very sure if the actual 海底捞 taste the same and will only know when we decide to try it. The queue seems to be always long!

This year CNY's celebration is really short (just simply 2 days and everyone is back to work) so there isn't much chance to do more CNY visiting. Hopefully in the coming new year, we will have more chance to do visiting and catching up with our relatives/friends.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

One Piece Run 2016

My first run of 2016 was a fun run and it's none other than the One Piece Run 2016. Feels good to kick start the year with a casual run to get the year going!

I was so excited when I first knew this run is coming to Singapore and signed up together with Derp without second thoughts. Derp introduced me this anime back then when we were dating and yup I got hooked to it. 

Though I've stop watching the anime for quite sometime (and should probably go back to chase it since I'm free-er nowadays), at the very least I think I've known enough about the story line to call myself a One Piece fan.

Race Pack Collection 

Race pack collection was held at Orchard Central. The whole race pack collection was a breeze because there wasn't any queue when we reached.



Since there wasn't any queue, we took the chance to take photos first before collecting the race pack because we don't wish to carry the race pack around with us.


With my favourite Chopper


Saw many guys #welfie with this big poster.


I guess it's a good photo spot.


The race day event site map. 


The race route.

All of them were nicely decorated and printed :)



Asked a kind soul to help us snap a picture of us for keepsake purpose.

After the collection, we walked around to see the merchandise. We did have thoughts on getting some of them but in the end we didn't because those 'nicer ones' have already been sold out since the start of the race pack collection.



What's in the race pack..

Frankly speaking nothing much and in the first place, I didn't expect much from them too because fun run are always expensive and the race pack doesn't come with much freebies.

One Piece Run 2016

On race day, we reached the race site pretty early as the race start before 8am.


Lots of one piece fans have gathered 


While walking to the start pen..


Waiting for flag off with the beautiful sunrise as the background

After the flag off, the first station we passed by was Fish-Man Island. 


Mermaid spotted and probably lots of guys too queuing to take photo with them.

Basically at every station, you may take photos with the backdrop and etc but there's a long queue at every station. We merely stop there for a few mins and then move on quickly because we don't think there's any photo-worthy factor in it.


Cosplayers spotted lol. Totally apt for Fshman Island.


Next we passed by Dressrosa.


Really crowded so we quickly moved away if there's chance.



Stuck at a bottleneck and saw this young one piece fan(or perhaps not?) haha! So cute :)


As usual lots of spots for you to take photo..

Last but not least, Punk Hazard.


We came to the Burning Land first.


And then the Ice Land next.



Taking a #welfie before we come to the end of the race.

When we reached the finishing line, my runkeeper show the distance to be 4km. It was suppose to be a 5km race. No idea why is that so unless they counted the effort for climbing up and down the stairs. 


With the pretty medal.

I believe most of our race fees have gone to making this medal haha. 


With the iconic Thousand Sunny


Okay it's hard to take photo showing no people at the background


The best photo I could take for Derp because runners came flooding in after they have completed the race.  


Our first race together with our long time Maple friends who happen to be one piece fans too.

The race route wasn't that ideal because it's full of climbing up and down the stairs, and looping outside indoor stadium area. However, I guess it's not easy to find a space in Singapore to hold this run with different themes as it requires much space.

We didn't really participate in any post race activities because it was long queue everywhere. No idea if they will hold it again in 2017 and if that's the case, I hope it will be a more enjoyable race with more fringe activities to cater to the crowd. Not forgetting, a better race route in the next race!

Last but not least..


2 more medals added to our One Piece collection :)

Saturday, July 09, 2016

Valentine's Day Celebration @ Hungry Heroes

We had a belated valentine's day cum 2nd wedding anniversary celebration after the CNY period mainly because many places jet up their price during the festive season. In my opinion, it's totally not worth it so we had a belated celebration instead.  


#OOTD for the celebration - Got this Hollyhoque's midi dress from a reseller on Carousell

Before we head to the dinner venue, we went to collect the One Piece Run's race pack, Shall blog about that the next time round.

Anyway. we decided on Hungry Heroes for our valentine's day cum wedding anniversary celebration. Ran out of ideas and not a fan of buffet so here we are, dropping by at a superheroes theme cafe :) yay to another cafe off the bucket list. 

Reservation can be made through Chope and I'll highly recommend it because this cafe can get fully booked from time to time. So it's better to make reservation before heading down to avoid disappointment. 


The cafe is of walking distance from Farrer Park MRT. 



Derp standing right outside the cafe haha. 



Was greeted with lots of super heroes figurines upon entering the cafe 


Many more figurines and they all belong to the owner of the cafe. It made us wonder how long did he took to collect so many of them.


The cafe's counter (spot the huge figurines behind) 


Very interesting table mat haha! Or should I say 'news article'.


The menu.

Without much thinking, we ordered the Nice To Meet You platter. After ordering, we started to roam around the cafe to take more photos while waiting for the food to be served.


More displays at level 1


Totally 'wow' upon seeing this


Our drinks came before we head up to the 2nd level to see more of the display. Can't really remember what we order though haha.


Upon climbing up the stairs to level 2, this interesting lights were spotted. It is made up with lots of superheroes. This is probably one of the highlights of the cafe.

More figurines/displays spotted on level 2..




This is cute :) 


Captain America, Thor and Iron Man :)

This is the view from the 2nd level whereby you can see the huge display. It looked almost like the actual size to me haha! But perhaps slightly smaller than the actual size if I were to compare it with those who acted as these super heroes in the movies.


You can totally imagine how big they are judging from us posing with it. 


After we were done taking photos, we head back down to level 1 to wait for our main course. It's a pity we didn't sit at level 2 because it's definitely much more cosy and the ambiance is better.

I can't really remember how long we waited for the food to be served but it wasn't a long wait after all the walking around to take pictures.


Nice To Meet You - $62

We chose the brown sauce and cajun mayo to go with our platter.

Before digging in..



From this angle, you can see the huge portion of meat and also fries that were served haha! 

All the different meats were really good, there's pork ribs, beef sirloin (we requested for medium-well), de-boned chicken leg and pulled pork. 


A #welfie of us. 

The staff were busy hence we didn't ask them to help us take photo. 

Derp and I couldn't finish the meat platter and we were feeling really full when we left. Perhaps 4 ladies can share a meat platter even though it's recommended for 2-3 pax. 

Overall, the experience was a great and memorable one. The food was good and even though it cost $62 for a meat platter but the portion was really huge hence I will say it is value for money. 

Hungry Heroes
33 Tessensohn Rd, 217656