A long long time ago, we have A & W for our fix of waffles and root beer floats. Now that they are gone, Waffletown seems to be the only substitute for A & W. Located in Balmoral Plaza at Bukit Timah, the place is actually quite accessible because its only about ten minutes walk away from Newton MRT. Taking a bus from Orchard road takes a mere ten minutes too.
Offering the same “American” style of fastfood, even the seats are “A & W”-like. There’s seats outside if you prefer to seat in their “al fresco” area, otherwise go on in to their air-conditioned areas inside.
The place is a let-down though, the seats are all right, just like your fastfood restaurant chain. But i find the interior to be a little shabby. Actually i am saying this because i felt that Waffletown has great potentials but the management somehow don’t seem to be too bothered about business.
To prove my point, look at the first picture, they took some ugly shots of their food and post it at their entrance. The unglam shots are not even their focus which is waffles. Instead the shots are pictures of some totally unrelated food like black pepper steak, fish and chips, grilled fish.
Single scoop chocolate chip waffle ($3.70)
As the name Waffletown imples, its a place for waffles after all. Thus selections for waffles are aplenty, with your plain waffles at $2.50, there’s ham waffle, sausage waffle, turkey bacon waffle, and of course ice cream waffles.
At $3.70 for a single scoop ice cream waffle, its really a steal though. Even Haato which has one of the cheaper waffles around, are selling at $6 for their single scoop waffles. But then again you can’t compare it this way because the ice cream at Haato are gelato, while the ones here are the normal ice cream.
Single scoop raspberry waffle ($3.70)
The raspberry ice cream is really nostalgic, remember the raspberry ice cream which we buy from the motorcycle uncle when we were young? Its exactly the same one! My friend says that raspberry flavor is still available at supermarket, but i can’t seem to find it.
But i can conclude that at the waffles are definitely better than Gelare. That one is expensive, normal days single scoop waffle is almost ten bucks, and their waffle isn’t even good.
2 Pc Fried Chicken set ($6.70)
The two piece fried chicken set at $6.70, prices are comparable to KFC, but the chicken is slightly better. For one, the chicken isn’t as oily as KFC’s, and nowadays KFC standards really are not consistent. The coleslaw and potato here are at most average, with the chicken faring better.
Total bill is $14.1 for 2 waffles and 2 piece fried chicken. Although the place can’t really substitute A&W which is deep in our heart, but it can be a replacement for now, until someone brings back A&W. I won’t say the waffles are that excellent, but at $3.70 they are really worth the price, and their fried chicken is all right if you dislike KFC.
You are always welcome to visit http://www.ladyironchef.com/2008/07/02/waffletown for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written herein are my genuine feelings expressed in words. Food, my dear, is what they call an adventure!
After hearing so much about threadless, I've been wanting to get my hands on one! But was relunctant at first as I wasn't sure of the sizes I should get. But when I heard about the sale that was on a month ago, I quickly placed my order to test the sizes out!
As I only know about the sales on the very last day, in the very last few hours, I had to rush my purchase. Quickly went through the Size chart and took out my favorite tshirt to measure the sizes. By the time I was done, many of the designs I wanted were already sold out!!
Managed to place my order for 2 of the designs and paid for the express delivery service. In less than 2 weeks, I got my threadless in my mailbox!
I wore them both already and I'm loving it! The material is soft but not sloppish-type. Great for the humid weather here in Singapore!
If you've not tried threadless tee, you better do so soon!
Went to E! Hub with my close colleauges, not knowing where to have our dinner. We decied to choose New York New York.
We order a lots of stuff to be share with among 6 ladies. 2 soup, 4 main course, 1 free starter and 2 desserts.
2 Roasted Mushroom Cappucciino ($5.90 per bowl)
Cream of roasted mushrooms with flothed milk and topped with a sprinkle of coco powder. The soup is actually quite special to me. Not too bad. I love mushroom soup but it will be good if there is more mushroom inside.
1 Hawaii Teriyaki Chicken Chop ($13.90)
The prefect combination of topical pineapple and delious teriyaki sauce on grilled chicken thigh. It comes with lots of geens and wedges. The chicken is tender and goes well with the teriyaki sauce but I feel the chicken need to marinate more that will be nice.
2 Brats Wrapped in Bacon and Cheese ($12.90 per plate)
Bratwurst sausges wrapped with bacon and cheese. It comes with lots of greens and french fries. It taste sausges taste sweet, can taste that they have put honey on top of it. The dish is not bad.
1 Jiggy Piggy ($12.90)
Pork Chops come with lots of greens and wedges. The pork chop is not tender. It will be good if it soft and tender. As for the greens and wegdes is good.
1 Waffles with chocolate and ice-cream ($7.90)
The waffles is crispy on the outside and soft in the inside and it hot. It goes well with the chocolate ice-cream.
1 Mudpie with Chocolate ice-cream ($7.90)
Lots of hot chocolate fudge over a chocolate pie. The chocolate fudge is too sweet for me. The pie doesn't taste good to us. I don't recommend it.
We got a free basket of wedges as we spent above $30 by using DBS credit card.
The service was not bad. Btw the candy floss is free flow, you can help yourself with it.
Total Bill: $94.40 (Including 10% service charge & 7% GST)
I love to eat breads, especially bread from four leaves then the rest of the bakery as has lot of different kind of flavours bread. When Four Leaves has come out an idea of making confectionery into mini items, I feel it a great idea as I get to try different type of item in small bites.
Any 1 mini items - $0.65, any 3 mini items - $1.80 & any 5 mini items - $2.80.
I brought 5 mini items and 1 fruity cheeze bun.
5 Mini Items - $2.80
Lemon custard with peach, Chocolate twist, Chocolate Dainsh. Not too sure what are the rest of the bun names.
I like the chocolate danish as the chocolate is actually thick. The buns were actually soft and nice.
1 Fruitz Cheese - $1.35
The bun was filled with lots of canberry and in the middle of the bun there is lots of cheese. The texture of the bun is soft. It really nice and it one of my favourite.
On the way to T1 fetch my dad, My BF and I decided to have dinner at Popeyes chicken as I have craving for it. It my second visit, the first visit were good impression.
We order a set meal as it actually look cheaper.
1 Set Meal
Yup, the set meal actually come with 2 ice lemon teas, 4 pieces of chicken, 2 pieces of Biscuits, 1 packet of french fries, 1 Mashed potato and 1 colesaw.
We got chicken ribs, drumsticks and chicken wing. The chicken were hot, crispy, juciy and tender. It really very good. The french were hot and crispy. A bit of pepper taste.
For the mashes potato is hot, soomth and creamy. It a bit spicy as there is pepper. As for the coleslaw, it has cabbages, carrots and onions. There is one of vegetables inside which I really not sure what it is. But overall it still not bad. Last but not least it is the biscuits, at first I though is bread but it not. The biscuits were crunchy on the outside and soft in the inside. Can taste it made of butter and flour. It goes well with jams too.
It really taste yummy! Better then KFC. As for serivce I think they really need to improve.
After having a long day shopping at Vivo City, my BF and I decided to find a place to relax and have some drinks. So, I choose coffee bean as it has been a long time I haven't been to coffee bean for coffee.
I personally don't like to drink coffee but even since I try coffee bean drinks I began to like it. My BF and I order 1 drink and 1 dessert.
1 Ultimate Mocha ($7.20)
Coffee Beans, Mocha with rich milk together blend with ice. . Every sip that you take you can actually taste the the grind beans. It not too sweet. I really like it alot. Thanks to my brother who has actually introduce this drink to me. It really a rich tasting ice blended coffee drink.
1 Blueberry Cheesecake ($5.60)
Thick layer of the blueberry on top of the cheesecake. Creamy cheese in the middle of the cake. The based of the cheesecake were crunchy. I feel that the cheesecake were just nice. It creamy and not too sweet. I love the cheesecake.
It my mother's birthday, my brothers and I, 3 of us decided to buy a cake for our mother. After making a few choice, we decided to choose swensen ice-cream cake.
1 Blackforest cake ($40.00 per Kg)
A thin layer of sponge cake at the bottom. Inside is the sticky chewy chocolate ice-cream. There is a layer of berries jam on top of the chocolate ice-cream follow by a thin layer of sponge cake on top with fresh cream. A layer of chocolate fudge around the cake. With some chocolate chips and berries for decoration.
I'm not too sure what berries they are using but it sweet and cold. The sticky chewy chocolate ice-cream was good. The chocolate is not too sweet or bitter. It just nice for all of us. Actually I don't really like to eat sponge cake but because swensen ice-cream cake sponge cake is in very thin layer. It good for me.
Overall the cake is not too bad. But, there is still other cakes which I feel good.
Having a farwell today for 2 of my close colleauges. Another 6 of us decided to order a cake for giving them farewell. 1 of my colleauge has order a cake from Prima Deli.
1 Mango Delight ($39.80 per Kg)
Classic concoction of fresh diced mangoes with mango fresh cream in vanilla sponge.
Bottom layer of sponge cake with fresh cream and diced mangoes, another layer of sponge cake and fresh cream with diced mangoes. Fresh mango slices on top of the cake and strawberries too. A layer of jelly coated around the cake.
The mango were sweet and nice, strawberry is big, a bit sour but it still taste sweet. The sponge cake is a bit dry but overall all of my colleagues agree that the cake is nice.
There is charges of $8 for delivery the cake to our office. But, there is 10% discount too.
After a nice dinner a east coast park playground @ Big Splash with my BF. We looking for a place to relax and have some drinks and desserts. We notice starbucks and we went in.
Looking at the menu, I order a 1 Frappuccino Beverages & 1 Desset.
1 Frappuccino Blended Cream Vanilla ($5.50)
A creamy treat of vanilla blended with ice, topped with whipped cream. The drink were good, it very creamy and milky. It taste just nice as it not too sweet.
1 Warm Chocolate Cake ($6.30)
Looking at the chocolate it really make me feel hungry again. The chocolate cake were serve warm with some chocolate syrup. When we open the cake the chocolate didn't melt at all at all, a bit disappointed. First bite of the cake, the chocolate were not too sweet is bitter. Overall it still not that bad.
My BF and I were craving for crabs so we decided to go and have crab for dinner. I have been to this zhi cha stall alot of time since I was young as the place is actually near my house.
We wanted a smiple crab meal so we order a crab dish, 10 pcs of man tou(fried bun) and a bowl of rice.
Shimmering Sand Crab ($29.70)
(Crab - $35 per Kg)
The first time I try this dish I began to like it, I did try other places crabs but I still prefer this dish. The crab were actually not to bad. The sauce is actually thick, creamy, cheesy. If I'm not wrong there is butter, cheese, mayonnaise, chili padi, curry leaves. On top of the crab is actually some fried coconut pulps.
10pcs of Fried Man Tou(Bun) ($2.50)
The bun were serve hot. It crispy and nice. The sauce really go well with fried man tou.
The service were good as the lady will always have a cheerful smile to welcome you. Do try some of their recommend dishes. It really not bad.
1=SGD 0.0587
A long long time ago, we have A & W for our fix of waffles and root beer floats. Now that they are gone, Waffletown seems to be the only substitute for A & W. Located in Balmoral Plaza at Bukit Timah, the place is actually quite accessible because its only about ten minutes walk away from Newton MRT. Taking a bus from Orchard road takes a mere ten minutes too.
Offering the same “American” style of fastfood, even the seats are “A & W”-like. There’s seats outside if you prefer to seat in their “al fresco” area, otherwise go on in to their air-conditioned areas inside.
The place is a let-down though, the seats are all right, just like your fastfood restaurant chain. But i find the interior to be a little shabby. Actually i am saying this because i felt that Waffletown has great potentials but the management somehow don’t seem to be too bothered about business.
To prove my point, look at the first picture, they took some ugly shots of their food and post it at their entrance. The unglam shots are not even their focus which is waffles. Instead the shots are pictures of some totally unrelated food like black pepper steak, fish and chips, grilled fish.
Single scoop chocolate chip waffle ($3.70)
As the name Waffletown imples, its a place for waffles after all. Thus selections for waffles are aplenty, with your plain waffles at $2.50, there’s ham waffle, sausage waffle, turkey bacon waffle, and of course ice cream waffles.
At $3.70 for a single scoop ice cream waffle, its really a steal though. Even Haato which has one of the cheaper waffles around, are selling at $6 for their single scoop waffles. But then again you can’t compare it this way because the ice cream at Haato are gelato, while the ones here are the normal ice cream.
Single scoop raspberry waffle ($3.70)
The raspberry ice cream is really nostalgic, remember the raspberry ice cream which we buy from the motorcycle uncle when we were young? Its exactly the same one! My friend says that raspberry flavor is still available at supermarket, but i can’t seem to find it.
But i can conclude that at the waffles are definitely better than Gelare. That one is expensive, normal days single scoop waffle is almost ten bucks, and their waffle isn’t even good.
2 Pc Fried Chicken set ($6.70)
The two piece fried chicken set at $6.70, prices are comparable to KFC, but the chicken is slightly better. For one, the chicken isn’t as oily as KFC’s, and nowadays KFC standards really are not consistent. The coleslaw and potato here are at most average, with the chicken faring better.
Total bill is $14.1 for 2 waffles and 2 piece fried chicken. Although the place can’t really substitute A&W which is deep in our heart, but it can be a replacement for now, until someone brings back A&W. I won’t say the waffles are that excellent, but at $3.70 they are really worth the price, and their fried chicken is all right if you dislike KFC.
You are always welcome to visit http://www.ladyironchef.com/2008/07/02/waffletown for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written herein are my genuine feelings expressed in words. Food, my dear, is what they call an adventure!
Rating given:
I heart threadless!! I'm now a fan!
After hearing so much about threadless, I've been wanting to get my hands on one! But was relunctant at first as I wasn't sure of the sizes I should get. But when I heard about the sale that was on a month ago, I quickly placed my order to test the sizes out!
As I only know about the sales on the very last day, in the very last few hours, I had to rush my purchase. Quickly went through the Size chart and took out my favorite tshirt to measure the sizes. By the time I was done, many of the designs I wanted were already sold out!!
Managed to place my order for 2 of the designs and paid for the express delivery service. In less than 2 weeks, I got my threadless in my mailbox!
I wore them both already and I'm loving it! The material is soft but not sloppish-type. Great for the humid weather here in Singapore!
If you've not tried threadless tee, you better do so soon!
I'm loving it!
Rating given:
Went to E! Hub with my close colleauges, not knowing where to have our dinner. We decied to choose New York New York.
We order a lots of stuff to be share with among 6 ladies. 2 soup, 4 main course, 1 free starter and 2 desserts.
2 Roasted Mushroom Cappucciino ($5.90 per bowl)
Cream of roasted mushrooms with flothed milk and topped with a sprinkle of coco powder. The soup is actually quite special to me. Not too bad. I love mushroom soup but it will be good if there is more mushroom inside.
1 Hawaii Teriyaki Chicken Chop ($13.90)
The prefect combination of topical pineapple and delious teriyaki sauce on grilled chicken thigh. It comes with lots of geens and wedges. The chicken is tender and goes well with the teriyaki sauce but I feel the chicken need to marinate more that will be nice.
2 Brats Wrapped in Bacon and Cheese ($12.90 per plate)
Bratwurst sausges wrapped with bacon and cheese. It comes with lots of greens and french fries. It taste sausges taste sweet, can taste that they have put honey on top of it. The dish is not bad.
1 Jiggy Piggy ($12.90)
Pork Chops come with lots of greens and wedges. The pork chop is not tender. It will be good if it soft and tender. As for the greens and wegdes is good.
1 Waffles with chocolate and ice-cream ($7.90)
The waffles is crispy on the outside and soft in the inside and it hot. It goes well with the chocolate ice-cream.
1 Mudpie with Chocolate ice-cream ($7.90)
Lots of hot chocolate fudge over a chocolate pie. The chocolate fudge is too sweet for me. The pie doesn't taste good to us. I don't recommend it.
We got a free basket of wedges as we spent above $30 by using DBS credit card.
The service was not bad. Btw the candy floss is free flow, you can help yourself with it.
Total Bill: $94.40 (Including 10% service charge & 7% GST)
Rating given:
I love to eat breads, especially bread from four leaves then the rest of the bakery as has lot of different kind of flavours bread. When Four Leaves has come out an idea of making confectionery into mini items, I feel it a great idea as I get to try different type of item in small bites.
Any 1 mini items - $0.65, any 3 mini items - $1.80 & any 5 mini items - $2.80.
I brought 5 mini items and 1 fruity cheeze bun.
5 Mini Items - $2.80
Lemon custard with peach, Chocolate twist, Chocolate Dainsh. Not too sure what are the rest of the bun names.
I like the chocolate danish as the chocolate is actually thick. The buns were actually soft and nice.
1 Fruitz Cheese - $1.35
The bun was filled with lots of canberry and in the middle of the bun there is lots of cheese. The texture of the bun is soft. It really nice and it one of my favourite.
Total Bill: $4.15
Rating given:
On the way to T1 fetch my dad, My BF and I decided to have dinner at Popeyes chicken as I have craving for it. It my second visit, the first visit were good impression.
We order a set meal as it actually look cheaper.
1 Set Meal
Yup, the set meal actually come with 2 ice lemon teas, 4 pieces of chicken, 2 pieces of Biscuits, 1 packet of french fries, 1 Mashed potato and 1 colesaw.
We got chicken ribs, drumsticks and chicken wing. The chicken were hot, crispy, juciy and tender. It really very good. The french were hot and crispy. A bit of pepper taste.
For the mashes potato is hot, soomth and creamy. It a bit spicy as there is pepper. As for the coleslaw, it has cabbages, carrots and onions. There is one of vegetables inside which I really not sure what it is. But overall it still not bad. Last but not least it is the biscuits, at first I though is bread but it not. The biscuits were crunchy on the outside and soft in the inside. Can taste it made of butter and flour. It goes well with jams too.
It really taste yummy! Better then KFC. As for serivce I think they really need to improve.
Total Bill: $14.50
Rating given:
After having a long day shopping at Vivo City, my BF and I decided to find a place to relax and have some drinks. So, I choose coffee bean as it has been a long time I haven't been to coffee bean for coffee.
I personally don't like to drink coffee but even since I try coffee bean drinks I began to like it. My BF and I order 1 drink and 1 dessert.
1 Ultimate Mocha ($7.20)
Coffee Beans, Mocha with rich milk together blend with ice. . Every sip that you take you can actually taste the the grind beans. It not too sweet. I really like it alot. Thanks to my brother who has actually introduce this drink to me. It really a rich tasting ice blended coffee drink.
1 Blueberry Cheesecake ($5.60)
Thick layer of the blueberry on top of the cheesecake. Creamy cheese in the middle of the cake. The based of the cheesecake were crunchy. I feel that the cheesecake were just nice. It creamy and not too sweet. I love the cheesecake.
The service were not bad.
Total Bill: $12.80
Rating given:
It my mother's birthday, my brothers and I, 3 of us decided to buy a cake for our mother. After making a few choice, we decided to choose swensen ice-cream cake.
1 Blackforest cake ($40.00 per Kg)
A thin layer of sponge cake at the bottom. Inside is the sticky chewy chocolate ice-cream. There is a layer of berries jam on top of the chocolate ice-cream follow by a thin layer of sponge cake on top with fresh cream. A layer of chocolate fudge around the cake. With some chocolate chips and berries for decoration.
I'm not too sure what berries they are using but it sweet and cold. The sticky chewy chocolate ice-cream was good. The chocolate is not too sweet or bitter. It just nice for all of us. Actually I don't really like to eat sponge cake but because swensen ice-cream cake sponge cake is in very thin layer. It good for me.
Overall the cake is not too bad. But, there is still other cakes which I feel good.
Total bill: $42.80 ($2.80 is for the 7% GST)
Rating given:
Having a farwell today for 2 of my close colleauges. Another 6 of us decided to order a cake for giving them farewell. 1 of my colleauge has order a cake from Prima Deli.
1 Mango Delight ($39.80 per Kg)
Classic concoction of fresh diced mangoes with mango fresh cream in vanilla sponge.
Bottom layer of sponge cake with fresh cream and diced mangoes, another layer of sponge cake and fresh cream with diced mangoes. Fresh mango slices on top of the cake and strawberries too. A layer of jelly coated around the cake.
The mango were sweet and nice, strawberry is big, a bit sour but it still taste sweet. The sponge cake is a bit dry but overall all of my colleagues agree that the cake is nice.
There is charges of $8 for delivery the cake to our office. But, there is 10% discount too.
Will give it a try of the rest of the cake too.
Total bill: $42.83
Rating given:
After a nice dinner a east coast park playground @ Big Splash with my BF. We looking for a place to relax and have some drinks and desserts. We notice starbucks and we went in.
Looking at the menu, I order a 1 Frappuccino Beverages & 1 Desset.
1 Frappuccino Blended Cream Vanilla ($5.50)
A creamy treat of vanilla blended with ice, topped with whipped cream. The drink were good, it very creamy and milky. It taste just nice as it not too sweet.
1 Warm Chocolate Cake ($6.30)
Looking at the chocolate it really make me feel hungry again. The chocolate cake were serve warm with some chocolate syrup. When we open the cake the chocolate didn't melt at all at all, a bit disappointed. First bite of the cake, the chocolate were not too sweet is bitter. Overall it still not that bad.
The service were good.
Total Bill: $11.80 (Including 7% GST)
Rating given:
My BF and I were craving for crabs so we decided to go and have crab for dinner. I have been to this zhi cha stall alot of time since I was young as the place is actually near my house.
We wanted a smiple crab meal so we order a crab dish, 10 pcs of man tou(fried bun) and a bowl of rice.
Shimmering Sand Crab ($29.70)
(Crab - $35 per Kg)
The first time I try this dish I began to like it, I did try other places crabs but I still prefer this dish. The crab were actually not to bad. The sauce is actually thick, creamy, cheesy. If I'm not wrong there is butter, cheese, mayonnaise, chili padi, curry leaves. On top of the crab is actually some fried coconut pulps.
10pcs of Fried Man Tou(Bun) ($2.50)
The bun were serve hot. It crispy and nice. The sauce really go well with fried man tou.
The service were good as the lady will always have a cheerful smile to welcome you. Do try some of their recommend dishes. It really not bad.
Total bill; $32.90 (Including rice, towels)
Rating given: