Wandering Fel

We also saw weird stuff like a natural viagra market. Like, seriously? Nobody buy this in a broad daylight when we were passing by the stall though. Hahaha. 

We finally made a stop when we saw the famous Nazars tree. Nazars refer to the blue eyed bead talisman which are believed to ward off evil eyes. The evil eye is a curse believed to be cast by malevolent glare, which is usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures (including the Turks) believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury. 

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Nazars are usually made in the form of disks or balls, consisting of concentric blue and white circles (usually, from inside to outside, dark blue, light blue, white, dark blue). Folklores say that the staring eyes are supposed to bend the malicious gaze back to the sorcerer. 

The talisman is most frequently seen in or on houses and vehicles or worn as beads. 

I was not looking for any traditional dessert items in particular that night. In fact, my friend and I were more interested in the fusion sweet treats, especially those dishes which look like Japanese parfait. We were quite surprised that Honeymoon Dessert is now selling these parfaits. Maybe it is due to fiercer competition from Japanese cafe like St Marc. Hahaha. 

My parfait consists of bean curds, red beans, cereal flakes, two slices of banana, vanilla ice cream and a stick of almond Pepero.

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While my friend opted for a slightly traditional parfait which consist of bean curds, cereals, red bean, glutinous rice balls and green tea ice cream. 

The parfaits version created by Honeymoon Dessert taste okay although I never have a superb parfait. A good place to have a nice chat with friends over dessert. 

Club Meatballs is a restaurant located in the hip area of Telok Ayer, China Square Central. It serves a humble food called meatballs in two ways. You can have the meatballs in your subs (just like Subway's I guess?) or in your salads. Meatballs salad, hmm, now that sounds pretty good too. Club Meatballs serve different food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But since we are working nearby Telok Ayer, we only manage to try the lunch menu. Let's see how it goes. 

When my friend told me about meatball salads, I kinda thought that the ingredients of the salad have been fixed by the restaurant but turns out, we can do a mix and match of ingredients for our salad. The meatballs are part of the proteins choice available for the salad. The price of the salad will depend on what kind of ingredients you pick because each ingredients has their own price tag. There are a variety of different flavours for the meatballs from wagyu & rosemary to salmon & coriander balls. My first lunch buddy salad choice are salmon & coriander meatballs, guacamole, walnuts with basil and pine nuts pesto dressing. Seriously I don't know if her choice qualifies as salad despited the amount of greens in it. XD

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My second lunch buddy's choice for his salad bowl, pork and fennel balls with baby spinach and salsa verde dressing. The salsa verde kinda looks like sambal (re: a type of chili dressing). I prefer the pesto dressing because the dressing for 2nd lunch buddy's salad tastes kinda weird. 

I don't feel like eating salad so I chose the meatball subs. Turns out the subs can be replaced by wrap so well, I chose to replace because I thought meatball subs will make the food looks like Subway's food. LOL. The meatballs chosen are spinach and falafel meatballs although after ordering a number of meatballs, I can't really differentiate them anymore. 

The third lunch buddy decided to keep it as meatball subs and she chose ciabatta bread to go with the meatballs. Wagyu & coriander was the flavour that she chose for her subs. The ciabatta were pretty hard to bite (not that the bread is naturally known for its softness but nonetheless...).

The meatballs served at Club Meatballs are pretty tasty although I cannot really decide which way is the best way of enjoying the meatballs. I guess the choice depends on each individual's preference. 

Club Meatballs' address: 

#01-35 CHINA SQUARE CENTRAL

20 CROSS STREET

SINGAPORE 048422