Tanjong Pagar Cafe Hunt + Cake Spade

So I met Geisel at Tanjong Pagar with the intention of finding a cafe to have dinner and desserts.

She Whatsapped me a whole list of cafes on her to-go list! Though after I narrowed it down to Arbite and Artistry, we realised that Artistry closes at 7pm, and for some reason we decided to skip Arbite and just try our luck at Tanjong Pagar Road.

Okay fine, we both wanted to get cakes at Cake Spade (love the name), which she recommended. Since we are both dessert people...... PROPER FOOD > DESSERTS ANY TIME.

Ge: "Or should we just get cakes first then we go eat the lor mee?"

Gw: "Omg best idea ever. Let's go!"

Yup, because having your dessert after your main meal is way too mainstream.

And so began our little cafe hunt.

There were so many Korean BBQ restaurants around, I swear!

It's like down the whole stretch all we encountered were pub, pub, Korean BBQ, pub, cafe, Korean BBQ, Korean norebang (karaoke), Korean BBQ, drunk Korean people, Asian dessert cafe, more drunk Korean people, pub, Korean pub, pub, pub, Korean BBQ.

And. There. Were. MORE.

We were so tempted to have Korean food instead of trying to find a nice cosy cafe to have our dinner at!

I was sweaty by the time we got to Cake Spade cuz we walked up and down Tanjong Pagar Road AND the Duxton Area. Thank goodness we got seats inside!

What we had: 

Dark chocolate banana cake, Cupcake of the Day (Chocolate Peanut Butter) and strawberry tofu cheesecake.

The drink we ordered, as recommended by the guy working there! 

(Thanks for being so nice! Made us feel totally comfortable dining there)

Look at her happily opening it..

We kinda judged the drink because it had ginseng in it, and I – accidentally – proclaimed out loud "OMG EW NO IT HAS GINGER!" when the dude overheard us talking about which drink seemed nicer.

Thoughts, stay in my head will you????

All the drinks were stored in really pretty bottles omg it was like prettybottlegasm.

Felt so good chilling with her talking about everything – especially dance stuff because that's what dancers do best at any gathering with dancers – and reminiscing the past. All the things we did as Year 1 dancers with our ABCDEFG clique.. boy do I miss them big time! Especially my bros, like Zhicong :(

More than half of ABCD left SDZ, sigh. But then again it's a good thing cuz through that my batch wasn't two seperate cliques anymore as we started to mingle with the others that weren't in ABCD.

I'm so out of touch with anything dance and anything SDZ, and it kinda sucks.

And we were done!

(Don't worry, even though we couldn't finish the cupcake, I polished off the Kit Kat at least. THEN I entered a chocolate coma. It's been a while since I had too much chocolate really. I mean, how does one have too much chocolate? *inserts impossibru face*)

Lesson learnt: If you're getting a slice of dark chocolate cake, forgo the chocolate + PB cupcake.

..actually I always forget this lesson once I get desserts again. Who's up for a scoop of dark chocolate ice-cream paired with a scoop of hazelnut chocolate ice-cream?!!!

She then brought me to have some lor mee at one of her favourite places whichnameIdidnotnotedown.

Oh don't worry about me and the fact that my stomach was totally bursting (I thought I was pregnant for a good 10 minutes). Another huge bowl of lor mee totally wouldn't hurt.

Before we ordered, she asked, "Have you ever had white lor mee?"

.....white lor mee?

"Nope I've only ever had black ones."

I prefer them black, you see. *raises eyebrows* Hurhur.

She wasn't kidding when she said it was the best lor mee cuz it was so good! Major plus points cuz it had loads of veggies and seafood, both my ultimate favourites!

Need to go back again hehe it was really, REALLY good. And when I rave about a certain foodstuff you know it's good since I seldom do.

We also ordered a plate of fried sotong with salted egg.

Was initially against the idea cuz the first time I had something with salted egg, it was SO BAD and it totally weaned me off anything salted egg. Thank goodness we tried this though!

We couldn't finish everything, sadly, and she packed back half the plate of sotong.

She got me these from BKK! Yay thank you babe!

Before Geisel passed me these at Cake Spade, she asked me what my horoscope was. When she got my answer ("Eh? I'm an Aries. Why leh?"), she whipped these out of her bag and gave me this expression that said PHEW!, which was quite funny. Then I understood why she was so relieved after I opened the bag.

Wore my new Aries bracelet immediately hehe. I'm a proud Aries.

So yes, new armcandy and a small pack of chocolates, because you do not gift Gwen something unless it includes chocolate. I didn't set this rule but somehow everyone who ever got me proper gifts seem to presume/understand that? My boyfriend even! 

Then again I suppose it's not that hard to figure what my absolute favourite foodstuff in the world is.

Discussed Waves 18 auditions and her and decided that no matter how reluctant I was about it, I know I would regret it big time when I sit there watching everyone during vettings and trainings.

So yeah, guess I'll be a part of Waves 18, but maybe not the bboy items due to the fact that my knees are super weak now, doubt they could take 2 months of bboy AND hip hop training.

Hope I score a girls' hip hop item this year. My favourite genre and I only did that for one item as a Year 1 during Waves 16 :(

Rise @ MBS

So my relatives and I had a buffet lunch at Rise Restaurant located in Marina Bay Sands.

Heard from my mom later on that it was a birthday lunch to celebrate my grandaunt's birthday!

Can't tell you how terribly blessed I am to have such doting and understanding relatives and family members whom I treasure a lot, even if I don't show it much. My mom tells me stuff here and there (mainly things like my relatives asking about me, so on so forth) and it really warms my heart to know that no matter what, I'll have my family and their support.

Mom and pops.

(And loads of food infront of them)

The desert section!

Apparently I was so engrossed in the main dishes that I didn't bother taking photos of it. Only bothered to take photos of the desert heehee *glutton 4 lyfe*

So much I didn't try due to the fact that I was already full from eating all the meat, fish, etc. Looking back at this photo makes me think of what a pity it was because I absolutely LOVE anything chocolate and there were plenty of chocolatey stuff there.

Mmm chocolate fondue! I LOVE

What is a buffet without chocolate fondue? ;)

Glutton of a brother whose body doesn't show it.

When I took all these back, my mom was telling my grandaunt,

"Aiyoh look at her plate! Quite nice ah the way she puts everything but EVERYTHING IS CHOCOLATE. She LOVES chocolate."

A photo of the bro tucking in to the best desert (the one with the bright red raspberry on top). Would definitely go back to the restaurant just for this desert because that's how good it was!

Such a glutton for chocolate.

OM NOM NOM

Then it started pouring without warning!

Poor staff had to scramble to move tables and chairs away because the rainwater started coming in through this opening that was meant to make way for the structure of the building.

Crazy weather we got here.

She tried to catch the rainwater with her mouth as if they were snowflakes!

Was cute but I had to tell her not to do so cuz the rainwater's dirty hahaha.

Showing me her peacock and Chinese dance. Cutest thing she told me that made me wanna hug her and never let her go:

"Gwendolyn jiejie I wanna become a dancer when I grow up!"

After lunching at MBS we decided to head down to my relative's place at Ion Orchard.

Oh the envy. Really wish I could stay there too :(

Snapped this in the Orchard Residences carpark!

The cars are soooooooo pweety.

In the (very cold) lift.

View of the pool from their balcony!

My babygirls whom I dote on very much.

They were showing me how to play this Japanese toy. Really cute! It's like Cooking Mama but the less advanced, less high-tech version. The whole thing was in Japanese, but apparently they were smart enough to figure the game out.

You have to switch the things from time to time, depending on what you're cooking!

Bbg playing the harmonica. She learnt how to play a song on her own!

Was it happy birthday or something? I forgot. But yes she's so talented. Luv her to bits!

My couz Jonathan came into the room and was like, "Hahaha, this is the media-crazy generation."

Made In Candy!

Ending off with two very badly taken night shots so seeeeeeya!