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"I wish that we could sail our sad days away forever."

It's one day to weekend. Woots! Today was not an easy day for sure but my mood is sure high after a hot and steamy body jam class at the gym. The class is equipped with lights and disco balls but the air-conditioner does not work properly and hence, it really feels like we were in a hot and steamy club dancing the Thursday night away. After a hard day at the club, eh I mean gym, it's just right for us to celebrate Thursday night by having dessert at Tsujiri, a matcha speciality cafe at the Centrepoint.

Despite having speciality in matcha, Tsujiri also has other flavour-based desserts such as sesame and houjicha (i.e. Charcoal roasted green tea and hence the brown color). My matcha-drinking buddy and I are weak towards cakes and rolls so you can imagine what's gonna happen to both of us when we face this kind of cake display.

But first, let us start the night chat by putting order on the matcha drinks. Tsujiri offers both hot and cold matcha drinks and apparently there is a wide variety of matcha available from O-matcha (pure green tea), matcha latte, and ice blended matcha. There is also a combination of matcha drink and soft serve ice cream oh my gawd, imagine how good it tastes. Since I was still feeling the heat of the dance floor, I decided to go for the Omatcha Milk Ice Blended in medium size (SGD 5.80).

Omatcha Milk Ice Blended from Tsujiri at Centrepoint

Matcha-drinking buddy prefers her drink to be hot so she had hot Omatcha cream latte in medium size (SGD 5.80). When other people cheers each other by drinking alcohol, we cheers each other by drinking this sweet green liquid. But, we don't care we love it.

Omatcha Latte from Tsujiri at Centrepoint

Oh right, I have forgotten about the cake for a while but obviously we ain't gonna go without the cakes. Since our drinks are green, we wanted to eat something that has no green for our cake. So here is the sesame cream roll served with cream and red bean. Despite the cream, the roll cake taste light and not so sweet. We like it.

Sesame roll cake at Tsujiri at Centrepoint

Tsujiri is located at:

176 Orchard Road, Level 1

Centrepoint

(Nearest MRT: Somerset)

Opening hours:

Daily 11AM to 10PM

"I think of you, I haven't slept. I think I do, but I don't forget."

I am so annoyed with a lot of people at work today. Actually I do realise that I get frustrated when work become overwhelmed but not as pissed as when I had to deal with annoying people. Sadly, a lot of these pests are available at my work. Hmmph. Oh well, I suppose I have to find a good way to keep my sanity while having to deal with them on a daily basis. Any idea, peeps?

Anyway, someone from office suggested a new workout class named Cru Cycle. It's basically one of those fancy private cycling studios located along the posh Duxton Road. The studio was manned by beautiful looking people, I'm not kidding and I kinda feel out of place for a while when utilising my SGD 25 worth of trial class.

Crucycle Studio at Duxton Road Singapore

The minimum amount that you have to pay for the trial classes is SGD 50 for 2 classes though. I had thought that it was expensive until I realise that one normal class can cost around SGD 40. Hmm, seems too ex for my budget but let's see why my colleague is so addicted to this exercise. First of all, since it's a cycling class and nowadays, the latest bicycles have special clip on function on the pedals, so you have to wear special shoes which sole can be clipped on to the pedals. I am never good with any sports which require a certain degree of technology so it took me a while to try to clip my shoes to the pedals. The friendly staff who's manning the front desk helped me out with the setting of the bikes and that includes clipping on the shoes.

Cycling shoes for Crucycle at Duxton Road

Overall, while the music used for the exercise is fun to listen to while cycling and there's certain part where you feel like you are cycling on tour with a wolf pack, I find the whole package for the normal classes (the non-trial classes) too expensive as I am already a member of Fitness First. I should just join RPM classes in the gym since I had paid for the membership anyway.

After cycling through the dark (yea, the class is quite dim, a bit wasted when the instructor is cute), it's time to reward myself with good food and great company of a friend. We went to Orchard Gateway to try out Kanshoku Ramen Bar which supposedly sells a nice dry Truffle ramen. But we opted for pork-based soup ramen, the Signature Kanshoku Ramen (SGD 13.90) in the end because we were curious how do 8-hours boiled broth and 4-hours marinated pork taste.

Truffle Broth Ramen at Kanshoku Ramen Bar at Orchard Gateway

We also ordered fried gyoza (SGD 5.90) to share between the two of us. Everything's fried taste good. Really.

Fried gyoza from Kanshoku Ramen Bar at Orchard Gateway

After our ramen meal, as usual there is always room for dessert. Dinner buddy wanted to try out Chimney Cake Soft Serve and I was lost when she told me about this dessert stall named Chimney which is located at *Scape in Somerset.

Chimney basically offers cinnamon-coated pastry filled with soft serve ice cream. There is, however, savory option available too. Since I was in the mood for sweet stuff, I proceeded to order Chimney Cake with Soft Serve (SGD 4.50) and choose vanilla ice cream for the soft serve. While it looks good when it's just served, you have to eat this dessert fast before the ice cream starts to melt and dripping from the bottom of the pastry (which has hole). It was a big sweet mess when I realise the ice cream has started to melt but otherwise, the dessert taste quite good and filling too. I won't eat this for a date though especially when I just started dating. Hahaha.

Chimney cake with softserve at Scape Somerset

Kanshoku Ramen Bar is located at:

277 Orchard Road #01-06

Orchard Gateway

Opening hours:

Daily 11AM - 10PM

Chimney is located at:

2 Orchard Link #02-02

*SCAPE

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday 11AM - 9PM

Saturday and Sunday 11AM - 3PM, 5PM - 10PM

"So you can keep me inside the pocket of you ripped jeans. Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet."

The best thing about having birthday pretty near to your friend's is that you can skip all the nitty gritty of picking place and treat because (a) you only celebrate with each other and (b) you can just pick one place for all. Since both I and the other birthday girl have been living off from food court's cuisine on the weekdays, we decided to splurge a bit by celebrating our birthday at a steakhouse, Bedrock Bar & Grill.

Singapore Eats: Bedrock Bar & Grill, Somerset

Bedrock Bar & Grill has other main dish like fish or chicken if you are not a fan of sirloin, tenderloin and ribeye. We were pretty surprised at first because we could not find our favourite starters, fried calamari in the list of starters.

Only shortly after the waitress served us complimentary bread (which looks like naan) then we realised that the fried calamari is listed under different menu on our table. It's listed as the bar's finger food instead of starters.

Complimentary bread from Bedrock Bar & Grill Somerset

Here come our orders which turn out to be kinda too much for two ladies. As usual, hungry eyes bring doom to our waist line. We shared a plate of fried calamari (SGD 16), a plate of Australian ribeye (SGD 89) and a plate of USDA tenderloin (SGD 89). By the way, if you are signing up for the Entertainer app, you can get one for one for the steak dishes. Good deal indeed!

Feasting at Bedrock Bar & Grill at Somerset

The portion of the fried calamari is huge but as usual, this dish never disappoint. The tartar sauce taste superb too.

Fried calamari from Bedrock Bar & Grill at Somerset

You can select which sauce you want to go with your steak. For the Australian Ribeye, we chose to go with the red wine sauce. The other day one of my friends told me the guy she's currently dating with helped her to cut the steak here. But to be honest, you can just ask the waiter to help you cut the steak so you don't have to do it yoursels (lazy people like us...hahaha). Another thing, the meat is tender enough up to the point I don't think we need anyone to help us cutting it. There goes romance in dining with us.

Australian ribeye with red wine sauce from Bedrock Bar & Grill

For the USDA tenderloin, we chose the whole grain whiskey mustard. It taste kinda weird (although I still can eat it). We kinda regret not going for the bearnaise sauce instead which I think should be better compared to any sauce with mustard inside. Other than the sauce, the tenderloin is good although it has some fats parts inside. Some people don't mind eating the fat though, like my brother. With the accompanying judging glare from my Mum obviously.

USDA Tenderloin with bearnaise sauce from Bedrock Bar & Grill

When we ordered the dessert, I asked the waitress for candle since the other birthday girl has not had the chance to blow a candle yet. Surprisingly, the waitress put an extra touch to the cake by putting happy birthday chocolate and to make us even more amazed, she said that the birthday cake is on the house. It's FREE-OF-CHARGE. Oh my gawd, we were very very touched (yes, who does not love free stuff? Hahaha).

Black forest cake from Bedrock Bar & Grill

Bedrock Bar & Grill is located at:

96 Somerset Road, #01-05 Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Orchard

(Next to Oriole Cafe)

Opening hours:

Daily 12PM - 3PM, 6PM - 12AM

Originating from New York, Dean & Deluca has managed to capture the hearts of people in Singapore. The famous cafe has gained so much raving both online and offline for a few days when it is just came into Singapore's shore. Now, Dean & Deluca has a few branches in Singapore. However, our favourite branch is still the one located in Orchard Central.

Breakfast for Dinner at Dean & Deluca, Orchard Central

At one glance, it seems that Dean & Deluca kinda looks like a provision stores (albeit, not for your usual groceries). However, Dean & Deluca also sells food and beverages at its counter. The food ranging from salad, pastries, and sandwiches. Beverages include coffees, teas and juices. On top of that, Dean & Deluca also provides American breakfast all day. And just like that, we were having breakfast for dinner. My American breakfast-for-dinner menu that day consists of sausages, scrambled egg, mushroom, tomato served with rye bread.

All day American Breakfast in Dean & Deluca Singapore

While my friend's American breakfast-turn-dinner seems to be a combincation of cheesy jalapeno hotdog and a bit of greens at the side. Both the American breakfast dishes taste average.

Jalapeno Cheese Sausage at Dean & Deluca Orchard Central

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Once we are done with our breakfast/ dinner, it is time to try out the cakes at Dean & Deluca. The cakes here do not come cheap at the average price of SGD 9 per slice. But since we have made our way here, we could not bear to leave without eating some cakes. Okay, make it two slices of cake please. The first cake that we tried is the Strawberry Shortcake. The amount of strawberry used in the cake is a lot and I love it because I am such a strawberry lover.

Strawberry Shortcake at Dean & Deluca Orchard Central

Since I chose strawberry, my friend chose something to add to her cake instagram collection, the Rainbow cake. I don't really know how to appreciate a rainbow cake to be honest. While the cake is really awesome to post to Instagram, the taste itself...well...purely sugar and coloring? I just can't figure it out. But I think the rainbow cake served at Dean & Deluca is one of the better ones in Singapore.