The Moomba Tuck Shop

After work, i went over Moomba to buy the items for the Seafoodies Potluck at my place....

Just to show u some of the interesting mini things sold at Moomba....



Mini Pastries (10 in a set) at $8.50... mini sandwiches (6 in a set) at $8... i bought the mini muffins!

The Moomba Tuck Shop

After work today, it was raining again.. i went over to Moomba again to buy my mini muffins... hee... today the lady at Moomba smiled and talked to me, asked me about my christmas, asked me what i like about the muffins and stuff.. I rave about this because on my first trip there, i noticed that she's not exactly a very smiley person despite how i try to smile to her... but after my second and third visit, shes smiling back to me too.. and chatting wif me.... and if that's not all, when i asked her about the rose cream tart, she offered me a piece of their breakage...............



to try for free!!!!!

So nice of her right? Breakage are those dat are not in full pieces and can't be sold. Though it may be something small and its something she cannot sell anyway, but she needn't have given it to me.. yet she did. To let me sample it. I was so happy.. more impressed by the gesture den the tart itself. Anyway, the tart was nice.. the custard texture is like egg tart but tasted like bandung and its not too sweet... =)

The Moomba Tuck Shop

I walked over to Moomba after work.

I asked the aunty if they have the mini sandwiches.. again she told me its out.. but this time, she asked if im willing to wait (probably coz she saw my 'sincerity', being there yesterday and today)... she specially made a set for me.....



The mini set consists of a dozen mini sandwiches... namely vegetarian (portobello), seafood (crab mayo), beef (roast beef), salmon (sugar duno wat salmon), ham (honey ham) and chicken (poached chicken).

Yay, i bought the mini muffins as well! Yesterday i said i really liked the muffin right? Today i declare i love them!

And check out the cute mini sandwiches! I specially took pics and let you guys compare them against the size of my fingers....



Cuteeeee right? They are going to be my dinner for today!

The Moomba Tuck Shop

Was walking around before work and i walked past the cafe that was featured on tv last night!



The place is called The Moomba Tuck.Shop. Its located at 4 Battery Road, the basement of Bank of China. I told myself i must check this place out soon.

After work, i walked back to The Moomba.



The interior of the the place....



Despite being located at the basement, the white walls and all gave it a simple, clean and bright feel. Reminds me of those cafes always seen in the movies. Love the atmosphere.

Their menu....



their selection of salads....



and their special muffins!



As featured on the TV programme yesterday, their muffins are special because instead of the usual sweet muffins, their muffins are saltish. They have flavours like tomato, bacon and onion, etc... i bought the mini sized ones, VERY NICE. As in, i really liked them.

Their sandwiches were also featured yesterday. I tried to check on their mini sampler size sandwiches but it was sold out so i took a normal sized one. I opted for a roast beef sandwich.

This is the choice of bread they have....



I know its not very clear.. and i can't really recall the different names.. I chose Tomato Toast though.

this is the lady preparing my sandwich...



Aside from roast beef, there's also a spread of mushrooms... Yum~!

Italian - Pasta Brava

Pasta Brava!



Today we were seated nearer to the wall so i can take a clearer pic of the wall....




When patrons order pasta like spagetthi or linguini, they'll usually put a bib ard them....



The boss actually came over to us to explain to us why they had to put the bib on....



I think its for reasons that they fear the sauce from the pasta might stain our tops...

Anyway, there were a few servers who kinda came too close to comfort... we didn't really appreciate some of their humour.. in fact, it pissed Jo off. haha....

The starters we ordered.....



For mains we ordered...



From left: Carbonara, Agnolotti Farciti Al Salmone and Stracci Gamberi E Capesante!

Carbonara as we all know is a cream based pasta with bacon or ham. It was not bad.

The Agnolotti Farciti Al Salmone taste was not bad as well but i guess my favourite ravioli has still gotta be Modesto's!

The Stracci Gamberi E Capesante was WOO HOO! WONDERFUL! It is a cream based pasta but it doesn't feel too creamy and the cream has a strong prawn taste.. absolutely yummy! The pasta is thinly sliced to perfection!

Italian - Pasta - Pasta Brava

I went on to meet up with Fiona for dinner at Pasta Brava....

Located at 11 Craig Road...



ard 5 minutes walk away from Tanjong Pagar MRT station......



I went in first as Fiona was held up at work....

The ambience of the place was great!



This is the menu..... Designed in the form like its some newsletter.....



Look at the variety of ravioli they have!! I'm sooooooo spoilt for choices!!!



They also have this little basket of chalks where we are allowed to draw on the mahjong paper on the table.....




So i drew.... Can you guess what this is?



haha.... i hope my drawing was ok.. a pic of the lamp on the table!



But i doubt it'll be nice enuff to be placed onto their wall of fame.....



lol.. that's where they pin up some of the drawings which i presume were drawn by guests....
When Fiona arrived, we ordered.....

We shared a soup of the day - Cream of Asparagus.....



Was not bad..

Our starter was fried calamari....



Tastes wonderful! Not rubbery but rather, crunchy (duno if u can use dat to describe elyn squid) lol.... Really.. its VERY GOOD!!!

Fiona's Marinara in cream tomato sauce......



U know how Marinara are usually tomato based, upon special request, they added cream for Fiona and it tastes really different and Fiona kept going on saying that its VERY GOOD! VERY NICE! haha...

As for me, i ... i know i said no more cream pasta.... i... give in to temptation! I had their beef ravioli in gorgonzola cheese sauce....



The server specifically warned me before ordering this.... coz apparently alot of locals couldn't take the cheese smell.. they find it too smelly.. They were surprised dat i could take the smell and actually quite liked it.... just dat u can't have too much of it or u'll probably feel sick.. portion was just right....

For dessert, the most unique item we figured was their caramel cream....



I din like it! Dun think Fiona likes it either coz its got abit of almond taste.... i dun like!

I'm not done with Pasta Brava yet! I still wana wana wana try their other ravioli!!! Anyone interested? hee....

Hong Kong - Si Nai

We headed to a hongkong style cafe located at upper east coast road, recommended by Sorina.

Its called Si Nai (meaning madam in cantonese).



The best part about this place is, it operates till 5 am daily!

This is the interior of the place....



and the menu....



oh.. and for guys, the 'best-er' part is, they have huge TV sets to show soccer matches!



Nice concept right?

Food wise, variety is good, taste is not bad (not heavenly fantastic la... but really not too bad .. depends on wat dish u order i guess)

These were our orders.....



Meina ordered a tomato based yuan yang rice... i ordered the curry based yuan yang rice... their yuan yang here is having pork and chicken meat. Both our rice were nice. I din finish all my rice.. reduce carbo!!

Sorina ordered a marcaroni with luncheon meat and ham... the soup tasted abit.. milky.. abit funny.

Yifan and Weipang shared a bowl of pork instant noodle... i can't help but compare it against Central's. Central's one is much much much much much nicer.

And we shared a plate of crispy combo...



Items inside includes fried chicken wings, fried wanton, potato wedges, chicken chop, pork chop. I would say its rather reasonably priced. Very sinful. lol

And the drinks they ordered....



Meina ordered some pomelo and mango thingy... which they said was quite nice but i being a non mango lover din koe how to appreciate... Yifan and Weipang had the milk tea.. which i tried abit, it was nice!! Sorina ordered some peach and lychee freeze.. i tried i found it too too sweet for my liking but Sorina liked it.

Cafe - Bakerzin

I heard dat the Plaza Singapura Bakers Inn has closed down and this Raffles City one is newly opened, replacing the Delifrance.

They kinda changed their menu abit... now its in a sweet Pink!



The rest of them arrived about 15 mins later.

Our orders...

I ordered the Linguine with mushroom cream sauce...



NICE~ I like!

We shared a Escargot with Asparagus Crepe....



Not bad also... but serving was quite small..

Ping jie jie ordered a Vongole...



Slightly spicy but still nice. Ping jie jie said its BEST!

Ah yee ordered the lamb curry!



According to them, they said the lamb is very tender. I din try coz i dun take lamb.

Leow ordered the chicken thigh with baked sweet potato...



Portion was rather pathetic.. haha.. but we still did pinch from him. It was quite nice. We din steal his sweet potato though.. i dun think he'll be full.. lol

And Uncle sq ordered some pork chop with duno what pasta...



I quite like the greenish noodle but i found the pork too tough.

The rest of our drinks were nothing fancy except Ah yee's order of the lychee mint....



In a nice light green colour of smoothened ice...yum~

Thai - Lerk Thai

Lerk Thai....



Their menu...



The first dish was some exotic pomelo with prawns and peanuts dish.



Its actually quite unique. I've never tried this. Pomelo lovers should try it. Its abit sour but i like it.

Second dish is the kuay tiao .. i think its called phad thai.



This thai kuay tiao. I found it to be just so so. Comes with lotsa peanuts.

The third dish is the prawn fish cake, K's favourite or rather, he likes it very much.



Its really very nice and served hot. K said he likes it coz u can really taste the prawns inside. I agree.

The last dish was some deep fried dory fish...



We agreed its not very nice. I feel that there was probably too much flour and the fish was too thinly sliced.

We stopped for awhile and chatted abit before ordering the dessert. I ordered red ruby while he had coffee.




The red ruby was not bad.