Wandering Fel

Chocoholics will love this post because for a change, there is a cafe chains which specialize in chocolate opening all around Singapore called Cocoa Colony. I did not really know when exactly the craze starts but up-to-date, Cocoa Colony has a lot of branches all around Singapore. From the display, you can see that Cocoa Colony has so many things to offer other than chocolates. For instance, how about some cakes and those huge chocolate balls?

I love December so much because the town is decked in Christmas decorations from head to toes. In particular, I like how the shopping malls in Singapore decorate their Christmas trees because they try to be different from one another. I guess this has turned into some kind of competition between the shopping malls in Singapore. I wonder if the mall who has the most beautiful Christmas tree will get the higher sales for the month? Hahaha. Okay, enough joking, let's check out how the Christmas trees in Singapore for the year 2015 fare.

1. Marina Bay Sands

Marina Bay Sands decks its Christmas tree with pink as its theme. The Christmas tree is set up on the gift box which also has pink color. Matchy matchy I see. I find them so-so this year so let's check out other malls then. 

Hello everyone. So glad to reach the mid week in a jiffy thanks to the public holiday that we had yesterday. Two days to go before weekend (although I have to spend my Saturday volunteering at the nursing house which is a corporate social responsibility activity sponsored by the office). Due to all these busy activities in the office, I don't really have time to have a good ol' brunch with my buddy. Well to be honest, we only have two days per week to have brunch and most of my friends are attached and well, weekend is supposedly their lovey-dovey time with the spouse. I suppose brunch with attached brunch buddy has become a rare activity nowadays. #cryme

Since it has finished the renovation, it is time to go back for Sunday brunch at Oriole Coffee + Bar at 313 Somerset. Turns out Oriole Coffee + Bar is now serving all-day breakfast. All breakfast-lovers rejoice!

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Even though the menu has been revamped quite a bit, I stick to my all-time favourite breakfast dish, Eggs Benedict (which is now called 2 eggs + 2 muffins). I don't see the need to change the name of the dish but oh well, we got the point. I'm perfectly happy with my eggs ben...oh wait, 2 eggs + 2 muffins as long as the eggs are poached perfectly. Thankfully, this was the case that day.



Other than the food menu, Oriole Coffee + Bar has also revamped their coffee menu quite a bit. A lot of people is raving about the Taisho M.A.D. Milk. Basically, it is a dairy free coffee so if you are lactose intolerant, you can still drink coffee (I think?). I don't really have issues with milk and the price of S$8 kinda makes me shudder a bit, so I stick to my usual cup of mocha. Perfect coffee art, I see.

LINE Friends had made appearance in Singapore shore before and recent news mentioned that they are making a comeback now in Singapore. More details at the end of the post. If you don't know what to expect, well it's basically a chance for you to grab all those cute LINE merchandises while they are here. I visited the pop up store before and oh boy, it was so cute. Bring a camera!

When I went to Japan, it is a very challenging task to get a seat in a cafe in Tokyo. I did not try to hang out in a cafe in both Kyoto and Osaka, so I don't really know if that only happens exclusively in Tokyo or not. But the fact is, Japanese love to hang out in a cafe. And so does Singaporean and thanks to that, we can find a number of Japanese cafes in Singapore such as Dolce Tokyo. 

We still managed to find seats around 6pm-ish on a Saturday evening. For a start, I ordered an iced red bean (which is also known as azuki).

If you like Japanese desserts, Dolce Tokyo also sells other type of desserts like Japanese cakes. Other than Dolce Tokyo, you can also try Japanese cakes at Flor Patisserie. It's quite nice to eat other things than green tea sometimes. Azuki is yummy too!

On a very rare occasion, my friend and I were adventurous enough to venture into Orchard Road for a weekday lunch. To our surprise, there are a lot of restaurants offering lunch deal at Orchard area for weekday lunch, including Malones.