I have been buying tees from threadless since I came to know about it 2 years ago.
Unlike other online stores, Threadless invite members to submit their design, which will be rated by other members. Based on results and popularity, the team will decide on a number of designs to be printed and released every Monday. Which means to say, you can get to voice out and rate the tees which you like (or dislike). Members can also get to interact with other users from all over the world on the forum.
The more popular themes associated with Threadless are those of abstract, cute, out of this world (attention grabber) and slogan types.
The site is well maintained, easy to navigate and pleasing to the eyes. The average price for a tee (inclusive of freight charges), when converted to Singapore Dollars, is roughly about 25 bucks each. Not a bad deal, in fact.
Only thing to bear in mind, delivery takes about 3 to 4 weeks to our sunny island. Other than that, I would suggest you hop over to the site to view their wide collection of designs. Thousands of them, wouldn't kill you that easily huh? (: Hope this enriches your online shopping knowledge!
P.S: I will strongly advise you to order whenever they have a sale, especially when the US$ is dropping madly nowadays. As far as 2 years back it cost S$22 during sale, now it's about S$16 a piece after conversion. Guess I shouldn't have brought so much threadless in the past. Gahh..
I got to know of this stall when I was working in this vicinity. You will always see a queue forming in front of their stall even outside lunch timing. They will sell all their ingredients before they close the shop, which is around 8pm. It is that good, here's why!
Jin Hua is famous for their fish soup, fish bee hoon and fish head. I haven't had a chance to try my hands on the fish head as it is always sold out, plus I don't really know how to eat a fish head. Ooops...
The fish meats that they use are very tender and fresh. I prefer to eat the fried fish version, not to mention the fish meat version taste great too. You can choose the soup base to be clear or with milk. I would strongly recommend it to be cooked with milk, more tasty I would say. One key ingredient that complements the milk would be the ginger. I don't know how to explain in detail but the ginger spiciness seems to make the milk taste better with the soup.
This is one of the best stalls around Maxwell and if you have the patience, do get up and queue for a teeny bit for this lovely dish (:
This stall lies on the second floor of Hong Lim Complex, a place filled with great gastronomic delights at low rates.
This stall in particular, has been around for more than 15-20 years and has been a popular choice since its time at Outram Park.
I always have this perception that a stall that concentrates on selling a single item will be more successful as compared to others who sells hokkien mee and char kway teow at the same time. This is one example to justify my judgment.
The cost of a plate starts from $2. The cockles used are freshly obtained daily and is one of the highlights of the dish. The kway teow is not too dry or too wet, the ideal kind of thickness and wetness.
The place is packed with customers from the nearby commercial buildings during lunch time so be prepared to come with your packet of tissue to reserve your seats! Average waiting time during peak period is around 20-30 minutes, although I have worst experience of waiting for 45 minutes. But the wait is all worthwhile.
Requesting for special order should not be a problem as they actually remembers the request even during peak period. Some other stalls just doesn't really bother when they are busy (or even free).
Overall, I feel that the price is very affordable and is value for money. This rank 2nd in my ranking for Char Kway Teow. The best time to visit if you want to avoid the queues are before 12pm and after 2.30pm. Do pop by if you're around Chinatown, worth trying!! :)
I like Plaza Market Cafe's wide selection of dessert, the fresh thick slices of sashimi, the DIY salad bar, its Peranakan dishes and its mean local soup!
I patronise it often because of a special one-for-one promotion with my Amex card. hehe.....
Must trys! The popular and super delicious Durian Pengat! A huge, chilled pot of it!
Its awesome Bread Pudding which is available only during the Lunch Buffet.
Sorbets!! Made in its own kitchen, some of the sorbets are so delicious.
Try its daily boiled local soup. Its Pork Maw or Kiam Chye (Salted Vegetable) Soup tastes heavenly! The soup was exactly how my Mom and I would boil it. So flavourful! It has the porky aroma! That's what you get for boiling pork bones for hours! I drink 2 - 3 bowls each time. It not only warms my stomach, it warms my soul.
Service is friendly and pretty good. Empty plates are quickly cleared away and they do not add hot water to your used tea bag!
Some restaurants' idea of refilling a cup of tea is to add hot water to the used tea bag it! Delifrance is guilty of that. I hate it! It's like drinking longkang water.
Lunch: Daily - 12:00 noon to 2:30 pm $32 (adult) and $18 (child) High Tea: Saturday, Sunday & public holidays - 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm $25.50(adult) and $14 (child) Dinner: Monday to Friday - 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Saturday, Sunday & public holidays - 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm $42(adult) and $22 (child)
You must be patient if you want to eat at this stall. I was surprised to see the long queue in front of the stall. The queue on a Sunday morning (11 am) was long, I cannot imagine what it would be like on weekdays!
My son had to queue for more than 30 mins. He was quite lucky then, the guy behind him ordered 10 bowls! *faints* hehe.....
It's not like you don't have to pay money lor. I find the prices here expensive. A bowl of Pomfret Fish Slices with Prawns (S$10), S$5 for a small bowl of Batang Fish soup and S$7 for a Pomfret soup (small).
The soup is clear, very flavourful and the ingredients fresh!
Delta Sports Complex is a good old complex, coupled with badminton courts and a artificial hockey turf. It also houses the Singapore Hockey Federation, where Singapore National Hockey Team plies their trade and skills.
There are 4 badminton courts available in the complex. It is a regular hangout for the veteran badminton players over the evenings and the weekends. Proper bathing facilities and water cooler are available at the second floor, where the booking office is located.
A gym is situated on the third floor, with all the exercise equipment you can utilise. Toilets and water cooler are available too within the gym.
There is also a child care centre located on the first floor, great for parents looking for child care service in the area. There are a few vending machines located outside the complex. Parking lots are widely available behind the complex.
It can also house private function such as indoor competitions and basketball matches, which is subjected to availability and approval for conversion by the management.
All in all, this place gives a kind of nostalgic feeling without comprising on the standard of the services. I have been using this facility since I was young (I studied at the school beside the complex, which has now shifted). This place is worth a visit if you could not obtain any badminton court at other locations, but kindly note that the courts here are strictly limited and are on demand whenever they are released for booking. Enjoy your trip there!
I bought 2 earrings and loved them to bits! The reply is prompt since I caught Bobo online. The packaging is rather secure and neatly wrapped.
The prices are pretty affordable and each item has their own names.
The site is easy to navigate until you realised that all the earrings and necklaces are in their respective pages. Not that it's a bad thing but once there are more items for sale, the scrolling does get longer.
An entry long overdue. Had lunch at Eighteen Chefs with a few friends one weekday afternoon. What's interesting and noble (to a certain extent) about Eighteen Chefs is that it takes in ex convicts and delinquents and helps them turn over a new leaf by training them in the food business. Its owner and head chef, Benny Se Teo, who was a former drug addict, trained at Jamie Oliver's London restaurant, Fifteen.
Located at a corner of Eastpoint just next to the POSB, Eighteen Chefs has a rather simple interior which can seat up to about 50 pax. This place runs on a self service system hence no service charge is levied. To order your food, simply fill up a form and bring it to the counter to make payment. Your orders will then be served to you shortly.
Baked Rice with Creamy White Sauce & Chicken Slices ($8.90) - You get to choose what kind of sauce you want for your baked rice as well as the ingredients that go into it. Honestly, the baked rice I had (see above) was decent but nothing to shout about. While the cheese was nice and thick, I found the rice a little too bland for my liking and the cream sauce did little to help. But at $8.90, its relatively cheaper and quality is slightly better than the ones they serve at Swensens.
Eighteen Funky Strawberry ($5.80) - $5.80 for 4 scoops of ice cream served with strawberries, hazelnuts and oreo biscuits - now that should be excellent value for money really. It would have been better if the strawberries had been fresher and if the ice cream had been been richer. My guess is that they gave us tub ice cream from the supermarket.
A decent lunch for 3 inclusive of a dessert to share cost just over $35, which is still pretty acceptable for the quality. Service was excellent and even though the food wasn't exactly stellar, I'll be back to try other stuff. After all, life is all about second chances isn't it?
My mom brought me to try that locally famous (for now) dessert hut near her workplace in Chinatown that day, I heard big fuss about it from my friends and from TV.
My mum had the Walnut cream and it was hella fragrant. The waitress auntie recommended almond and sesame cream (mixed, they called it yuan2 yang2)....
Personally, I am a bigbigbig fan of almond flavour that some people hate...I hate mango, but I have heard the Mango chilled dessert is awesome too...
Though the Sesame was great, it was really rough on the throat, it made my throat realllllllllly DRIED Up...and the almond didn't really help.
I ended up only drinking the almond center....superb. Was no more than $2.50...was really cheap.
Next time the xmas gift for my whole class will be dessert right to my school LOL.
Then, it was saturday so there was the steam egg custard, aka 'dandan'...
Though the ones in HK are better, i guess it's the best i can get in sg....
Slurp!
anytime again!
(P.S. Heard that those almond walnut etc are all grinded by the dessert house by their own machines they invented!)
Ah, now I know why I felt that "asian" flavour in the food at Changing Appetities. Because it's Japanese fusion! Alright, only realized when I saw one of the reviews above.
Honestly, Changing Appetites totally did not strike me as a place with jap-fusion food. It looks like another Cafe Cartel/ Breeks. Even their list of food looks very much like it. Pasta, brownies, mud pies etc. Very western style.
I was there with a group of friends for early lunch. I didn't order a main course but I (after several attempts to order a mudpie of any sort) got myself a brownie and stole several mouthful of different dishes from my friends.
Main course - eh, let's see. First thing that struck me was that it seemed rather typical for them to display their meat-stuff in a "kebab" style. If they were really a western restaurant, I'd be pretty amuse with this style of presentation. But when you try their food, it sure does have a tinge of asian flavour, with the funny unidentifiable taste/ spices used. Nonetheless, it (was nothing like japanese-fusion food) tasted rather weird to mix things like pasta with weird sour-sweet spices.
Drinks - nothing special. Feeling super hyped and all, my friends and I ordered 2 giant mugs of their super-sized ice chocolate. Well, all I can say is that it felt like a drink done with little effort put in. Powder, water, ice, ice cream, stick a spoon in, serve. If chocolate powder were coarse grains, I'd feel as though I was drinking sand-water. Yuck.
Dessert - bleh. Though their menu seemed to have such a variety of desserts, with their mudpies looking like their "main attraction", there was virtually NO mudpies available then! Out of the THREE brownies they had, only ONE was available. Were we too early (we were their first customer of the day)? Still, I think that's no excuse to not have all their desserts available! Was quite a let-down.
Price - it's a little like Cafe Cartel I'd say. Though with what I experienced the other day, I'd say it's a place I'd go once and never again. Not with that quality nor price.
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I have been buying tees from threadless since I came to know about it 2 years ago.
Unlike other online stores, Threadless invite members to submit their design, which will be rated by other members. Based on results and popularity, the team will decide on a number of designs to be printed and released every Monday. Which means to say, you can get to voice out and rate the tees which you like (or dislike). Members can also get to interact with other users from all over the world on the forum.
The more popular themes associated with Threadless are those of abstract, cute, out of this world (attention grabber) and slogan types.
The site is well maintained, easy to navigate and pleasing to the eyes. The average price for a tee (inclusive of freight charges), when converted to Singapore Dollars, is roughly about 25 bucks each. Not a bad deal, in fact.
Only thing to bear in mind, delivery takes about 3 to 4 weeks to our sunny island. Other than that, I would suggest you hop over to the site to view their wide collection of designs. Thousands of them, wouldn't kill you that easily huh? (: Hope this enriches your online shopping knowledge!
P.S: I will strongly advise you to order whenever they have a sale, especially when the US$ is dropping madly nowadays. As far as 2 years back it cost S$22 during sale, now it's about S$16 a piece after conversion. Guess I shouldn't have brought so much threadless in the past. Gahh..
Rating given:
I got to know of this stall when I was working in this vicinity. You will always see a queue forming in front of their stall even outside lunch timing. They will sell all their ingredients before they close the shop, which is around 8pm. It is that good, here's why!
Jin Hua is famous for their fish soup, fish bee hoon and fish head. I haven't had a chance to try my hands on the fish head as it is always sold out, plus I don't really know how to eat a fish head. Ooops...
The fish meats that they use are very tender and fresh. I prefer to eat the fried fish version, not to mention the fish meat version taste great too. You can choose the soup base to be clear or with milk. I would strongly recommend it to be cooked with milk, more tasty I would say. One key ingredient that complements the milk would be the ginger. I don't know how to explain in detail but the ginger spiciness seems to make the milk taste better with the soup.
This is one of the best stalls around Maxwell and if you have the patience, do get up and queue for a teeny bit for this lovely dish (:
Rating given:
This stall lies on the second floor of Hong Lim Complex, a place filled with great gastronomic delights at low rates.
This stall in particular, has been around for more than 15-20 years and has been a popular choice since its time at Outram Park.
I always have this perception that a stall that concentrates on selling a single item will be more successful as compared to others who sells hokkien mee and char kway teow at the same time. This is one example to justify my judgment.
The cost of a plate starts from $2. The cockles used are freshly obtained daily and is one of the highlights of the dish. The kway teow is not too dry or too wet, the ideal kind of thickness and wetness.
The place is packed with customers from the nearby commercial buildings during lunch time so be prepared to come with your packet of tissue to reserve your seats! Average waiting time during peak period is around 20-30 minutes, although I have worst experience of waiting for 45 minutes. But the wait is all worthwhile.
Requesting for special order should not be a problem as they actually remembers the request even during peak period. Some other stalls just doesn't really bother when they are busy (or even free).
Overall, I feel that the price is very affordable and is value for money. This rank 2nd in my ranking for Char Kway Teow. The best time to visit if you want to avoid the queues are before 12pm and after 2.30pm. Do pop by if you're around Chinatown, worth trying!! :)
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I like Plaza Market Cafe's wide selection of dessert, the fresh thick slices of sashimi, the DIY salad bar, its Peranakan dishes and its mean local soup!
I patronise it often because of a special one-for-one promotion with my Amex card. hehe.....
Must trys!
The popular and super delicious Durian Pengat! A huge, chilled pot of it!
Its awesome Bread Pudding which is available only during the Lunch Buffet.
Sorbets!! Made in its own kitchen, some of the sorbets are so delicious.
Try its daily boiled local soup. Its Pork Maw or Kiam Chye (Salted Vegetable) Soup tastes heavenly! The soup was exactly how my Mom and I would boil it. So flavourful! It has the porky aroma! That's what you get for boiling pork bones for hours! I drink 2 - 3 bowls each time. It not only warms my stomach, it warms my soul.
Service is friendly and pretty good. Empty plates are quickly cleared away and they do not add hot water to your used tea bag!
Some restaurants' idea of refilling a cup of tea is to add hot water to the used tea bag it! Delifrance is guilty of that. I hate it! It's like drinking longkang water.
Lunch: Daily - 12:00 noon to 2:30 pm
$32 (adult) and $18 (child)
High Tea: Saturday, Sunday & public holidays - 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm
$25.50(adult) and $14 (child)
Dinner: Monday to Friday - 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday & public holidays - 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm
$42(adult) and $22 (child)
Rating given:
You must be patient if you want to eat at this stall. I was surprised to see the long queue in front of the stall. The queue on a Sunday morning (11 am) was long, I cannot imagine what it would be like on weekdays!
My son had to queue for more than 30 mins. He was quite lucky then, the guy behind him ordered 10 bowls! *faints* hehe.....
It's not like you don't have to pay money lor. I find the prices here expensive. A bowl of Pomfret Fish Slices with Prawns (S$10), S$5 for a small bowl of Batang Fish soup and S$7 for a Pomfret soup (small).
The soup is clear, very flavourful and the ingredients fresh!
Rating given:
Delta Sports Complex is a good old complex, coupled with badminton courts and a artificial hockey turf. It also houses the Singapore Hockey Federation, where Singapore National Hockey Team plies their trade and skills.
There are 4 badminton courts available in the complex. It is a regular hangout for the veteran badminton players over the evenings and the weekends. Proper bathing facilities and water cooler are available at the second floor, where the booking office is located.
A gym is situated on the third floor, with all the exercise equipment you can utilise. Toilets and water cooler are available too within the gym.
There is also a child care centre located on the first floor, great for parents looking for child care service in the area. There are a few vending machines located outside the complex. Parking lots are widely available behind the complex.
It can also house private function such as indoor competitions and basketball matches, which is subjected to availability and approval for conversion by the management.
All in all, this place gives a kind of nostalgic feeling without comprising on the standard of the services. I have been using this facility since I was young (I studied at the school beside the complex, which has now shifted). This place is worth a visit if you could not obtain any badminton court at other locations, but kindly note that the courts here are strictly limited and are on demand whenever they are released for booking. Enjoy your trip there!
Rating given:
I bought 2 earrings and loved them to bits! The reply is prompt since I caught Bobo online. The packaging is rather secure and neatly wrapped.
The prices are pretty affordable and each item has their own names.
The site is easy to navigate until you realised that all the earrings and necklaces are in their respective pages. Not that it's a bad thing but once there are more items for sale, the scrolling does get longer.
Rating given:
An entry long overdue. Had lunch at Eighteen Chefs with a few friends one weekday afternoon. What's interesting and noble (to a certain extent) about Eighteen Chefs is that it takes in ex convicts and delinquents and helps them turn over a new leaf by training them in the food business. Its owner and head chef, Benny Se Teo, who was a former drug addict, trained at Jamie Oliver's London restaurant, Fifteen.
Located at a corner of Eastpoint just next to the POSB, Eighteen Chefs has a rather simple interior which can seat up to about 50 pax. This place runs on a self service system hence no service charge is levied. To order your food, simply fill up a form and bring it to the counter to make payment. Your orders will then be served to you shortly.
Baked Rice with Creamy White Sauce & Chicken Slices ($8.90) - You get to choose what kind of sauce you want for your baked rice as well as the ingredients that go into it. Honestly, the baked rice I had (see above) was decent but nothing to shout about. While the cheese was nice and thick, I found the rice a little too bland for my liking and the cream sauce did little to help. But at $8.90, its relatively cheaper and quality is slightly better than the ones they serve at Swensens.
Eighteen Funky Strawberry ($5.80) - $5.80 for 4 scoops of ice cream served with strawberries, hazelnuts and oreo biscuits - now that should be excellent value for money really. It would have been better if the strawberries had been fresher and if the ice cream had been been richer. My guess is that they gave us tub ice cream from the supermarket.
A decent lunch for 3 inclusive of a dessert to share cost just over $35, which is still pretty acceptable for the quality. Service was excellent and even though the food wasn't exactly stellar, I'll be back to try other stuff. After all, life is all about second chances isn't it?
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My mom brought me to try that locally famous (for now) dessert hut near her workplace in Chinatown that day, I heard big fuss about it from my friends and from TV.
My mum had the Walnut cream and it was hella fragrant.
The waitress auntie recommended almond and sesame cream (mixed, they called it yuan2 yang2)....
Personally, I am a bigbigbig fan of almond flavour that some people hate...I hate mango, but I have heard the Mango chilled dessert is awesome too...
Though the Sesame was great, it was really rough on the throat, it made my throat realllllllllly DRIED Up...and the almond didn't really help.
I ended up only drinking the almond center....superb.
Was no more than $2.50...was really cheap.
Next time the xmas gift for my whole class will be dessert right to my school LOL.
Then, it was saturday so there was the steam egg custard, aka 'dandan'...
Though the ones in HK are better, i guess it's the best i can get in sg....
Slurp!
anytime again!
(P.S. Heard that those almond walnut etc are all grinded by the dessert house by their own machines they invented!)
Rating given:
Ah, now I know why I felt that "asian" flavour in the food at Changing Appetities. Because it's Japanese fusion! Alright, only realized when I saw one of the reviews above.
Honestly, Changing Appetites totally did not strike me as a place with jap-fusion food. It looks like another Cafe Cartel/ Breeks. Even their list of food looks very much like it. Pasta, brownies, mud pies etc. Very western style.
I was there with a group of friends for early lunch. I didn't order a main course but I (after several attempts to order a mudpie of any sort) got myself a brownie and stole several mouthful of different dishes from my friends.
Main course - eh, let's see. First thing that struck me was that it seemed rather typical for them to display their meat-stuff in a "kebab" style. If they were really a western restaurant, I'd be pretty amuse with this style of presentation. But when you try their food, it sure does have a tinge of asian flavour, with the funny unidentifiable taste/ spices used. Nonetheless, it (was nothing like japanese-fusion food) tasted rather weird to mix things like pasta with weird sour-sweet spices.
Drinks - nothing special. Feeling super hyped and all, my friends and I ordered 2 giant mugs of their super-sized ice chocolate. Well, all I can say is that it felt like a drink done with little effort put in. Powder, water, ice, ice cream, stick a spoon in, serve. If chocolate powder were coarse grains, I'd feel as though I was drinking sand-water. Yuck.
Dessert - bleh. Though their menu seemed to have such a variety of desserts, with their mudpies looking like their "main attraction", there was virtually NO mudpies available then! Out of the THREE brownies they had, only ONE was available. Were we too early (we were their first customer of the day)? Still, I think that's no excuse to not have all their desserts available! Was quite a let-down.
Price - it's a little like Cafe Cartel I'd say. Though with what I experienced the other day, I'd say it's a place I'd go once and never again. Not with that quality nor price.
Rating given: