Favorite Ice cream shop in Sg - Gelateria Italia

My favorite ice cream shop in Singapore used to be Holland Village's Island Creamery, but after eating ice cream from this shop, I really can't make up my own mind!

Gelateria Italia! I'm guessing it's a worldwide franchise. Singapore has a number of branches- Vivo, Dhoby Ghaut, Ion, and so on. This particular one is in Vivo. 

It's in basement area near MRT and it's towards the food court side, as far as I can remember it correctly.

Look at these babes!

This is by far my favorite flavor- the one that I fell in love with at the first taste, and the one that I still love fervently: Moscato wine. I bet it's alcoholic, but even though I don't drink alcohol, it's very mild. Not much taste of Wine.

These are also not bad. Quite good!

If you like something sour, go for this! It was the shop keeper's favorite :)

Salted caramel is also lovely!

This guy was so sweet!!

Price is not cheap. It's the smallest size Piccolo, which is about $5.40. But the portion is not so small, even though it looks a bit small here.

Just random photo on the way to bus stop. It looks nostalgic with the red bike. 

Windy day with Moscato Wine. What can be better? :)




 

NUS Deck recommendation!

As a Decker, this is very personal, maybe even biased review of Deck, the arts canteen in NUS.

My favorite favorite favorite favorite shop in Deck. Maybe second favorite is the Indonesian shop upstairs. Their seafood satay is yum!

I eat here almost everyday, and so far I haven't gotten sick of it!

My favorite dish: potato. So good!

My favorite dish: lady finger. Also finger licking good!

My favorite dish: spinach. Also so yum!

And omg, this salad is the best thing ever! But it finishes really quite quickly. Try to be there before 2.

This costs $1.90. Can you believe it?!?!

Normally the dishes will be on the compartment, but instead of getting gravy, I prefer just eating them this way ;)

My favorite seat that gets most sunshine and looks out to sky and trees. But be careful of bird poops sometimes!

And! of course, I looove this fruit juice shop! Everything's good here. I used to eat avocado milkshake, raspberry shake, and so on. But after I found out they use lots of syrup I switched. I mean, it's alright. Many people still love them, but it's just that I don't want it.

My favorite thesedays is apple carrot juice, no ice, take away. It costs $2.10. (With ice it's around $1.50.) And it's been my favorite for about one year? Though some people hate the idea of drinking carrot juice, apple carrot is pretty good. It's healthier this way too, for some reasons I forgot.

It comes out this way. That's my juice! > < Love this shop!





So because of these two shops, deck is my favorite! Anyways, even if it were not, I wouldn't have any choice to go to other canteens :(

Marche Vivo: Best Crepe!

Finally I will introduce my FAVORITE restaurant in Vivo city, harbourfront, Singapore: MARCHE!!!! 

Feel like I have to moooh

Seriously, after having had my first Crepe here, it's the best thing ever. I loooove it! 

It's in Harbourfront, the last station of Circle line. From Kent Ridge MRT, it takes about 20 minutes to get there. Pretty convenient.

This is the map of Marche. It's on the top floor of Vivo city.  

Already drooling! 

This is the interior. I wanted to take more proper photos, but one of the workers there abruptly stopped me in not such a pleasant manner. Service is not superb here. That's one disappointing part, but apart from that it tastes so yum! 

Juice here is yum! 

The one on the left end is the savory crepe. It's different from sweet crepe next to juice, so beware!

There are add-on toppings like chicken, salmon, mushroom and so on. But I love the vegetable one the most, and that's even free! Vegetable one has zucchini, paprika, brinjal and so on, and it tastes so yum! > <

So this is what you get. One thing to beware is it gets cold really quickly so make sure you it is quick enough if you want hotter food.

Just Look at this beautiful yum creature (?)!!!
I would say portion is just enough for one person.  Personally I cut it with knife and fork, pour yellow sauce on top slightly, and put it inside my mouth with spoon. Just love this food!

They also have Lunch express menu which is just sooo worth it! I think it's from 11am - 3pm on weekdays. Last time I had Paella with free drink. It was freaking cheap and so yum!! Definitely worth it! 

I also recommend pizza (I had vegetarian one and it was so good! Free flow basil!). Personally I am not a big fan of rosti but it also seems popular. For dessert, wahae was alright.

Such cozy and pretty place. Very comfy air and old cottage-like. Charming!

Anyways love this place sooo much! Decent price(almost everything below 20), decent food! Lovely lovely place in Vivo!

I ♥ Ootoya Clementi

Since the day we stepped into Ootoya Clementi, we fell in love with the restaurant, and it became one of our favorite spots. Even better thing is it's so near our school! Just 10 minutes or so away by bus. Clementi Mall also has almost everything you need, in terms of grocery and daily needs shopping. 
Simply lovely! 

Main entrance of Ootoya Clementi

it's right next to Crystal Jade on the floor where it's connected to MRT (not sure whether it's called first or second floor). It's somewhat hidden, so you have to get in there. You can see this from Starbucks which is in the center.

Beware of the operating hours! Typical one.

When you just step in, this is what you will see.

Rather pleasant, clean looking place. 

If you sit in the tatami area, you can also see what goes inside the kitchen!

Green tea here is good! It's only $1 and refillable. They have choice of hot and cold.

Moving on to menu!

Definitely one of our favorites!

It's set meal. Yea, the portion's not huge :(

Rice and miso soup are refillable and you can choose different rice. Multi grain rice is free and refillable!

This kind of hotpots are quite popular. I also tried zosui and it was good! (if you are fine with homey taste)

It was quite good. Portion is soso. 

This one's also not so bad. Traditional Japanese taste, according to bf. For this one, a la carte will do! Torotoroni is the soup I think. You may have to check with the waiter.

Before you start eating, warm chawanmushi can be soothing. $3 is also affordable though it's not big.

I loooove this!!! I don't care about beer, but on weekday dessert is buy one free one!! Even more, if you order one $7 and another $6, it will be counted as $6!!!

Number one dessert here!! We've tried almost everything, and this definitely tops it all!

You scoop mousse, whip cream, banana ice cream and red bean together! Super duper yum!!

Closer to real color

This one's second best. I don't know, at least for me, I don't like anything else apart from these two.

It can be quite eggy so if you hate such taste, maybe you won't like it. But definitely worth giving a try! You may be surprised :)

Yummm~

Some other desserts.. If you like parfe, maybe you will like this one. Not bad. Just don't feel like coming back here just for this one.

Somehow couldn't rotate the pictures. In terms of taste, it's definitely worth it, but in terms of portion.. Well, typical Japanese I'd say.

Anyways, have fun at Ootoya!