Double dates@Wala Wala, Holland Village

Demona: It was the Valentine's Day weekend, and the boys were totally broke, outta' idea, bored.. *yawns*. Aileen and I crossed our arms and shook our heads with disbelief.

Demona: "Hmm... Wala Wala then? Near home, can have some drinks and good music."
Dogma : "Sounds like a good plan!" (Cantik la.. 5 mins drive, CHEAP drinks, got ambience, skip LV,GC,Coach bags etc, skip extravagant dinners, skip chocolates, skip presents blablabla...."



Demona: Man.. ain't we ladies easily satisfied? Give us some chiccccc-ken wings, some potatooooooo-wedges and our mouths are full, our hearts are satisfied. No sophisticated losbter bisque, grilled lamb shank with rosemary mashed potatoes, light fluffy creamy coffee tirasimu, swirling over riedel glasses of bordeoux wines.

Demon: Warfiener, the taste didn't leave much impression. Pale coloured like beer, kinda' reminded us of Anchor beer. *yawns*

Demona: Konig! ME favourite-tieeeee! I've developed the liking for it so much that this is the beer that I order everytime I'm here. Refereshing, with a hint of sweet and bitterness, this beer really gives you the *gulps* and ," Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....." at the end of it.

All in all. We shall give it a hand to the guys. Though they did not do much, it was still quite nice chilling out as double dates, overbloating ourselves with beer and junk food. Totally ain't sophisticated and romantic at all, but dang..raw deal like this is so much better. The night had been fun.

FULL ON FUN!

Except.....

when Dogma was enjoying getting pinched and touched by someone else... Grrrrr... (Dogma, you know who)

Nasi Ayam Penyet@Sanur Restaurant, Far East Plaza

One of the things that could make Demona YAY YAY YAY when she goes to Orchard is the opportunity to have some good old Nasi Ayam Penyet in Far East Plaza. I think this is the closest Singapore comes to compare with KL's Nasi Lemak Ayam Goreng.. Demona has got the whole Indonesian Contigent in Singapore to thank for this blissful dish during her horrid time here.

The chicken was fried till crispy and filled with crumbs. Anything fried is a fatal attraction to Demona. Coupled with ultra spicy belacan. Instant heaven for her.


Next we ordered the fried pomfret in sweet indonesian sauce. Again, it was fried till crispy and the accompanying sauce was deadly spicy. We love it and we cleaned it to the bone. Ngarm ngarm ngarm.

Fossil Fish in the making.


Next to round up the meal is a oily stir fried eggplant dish. It was so so and slighly on the sweeter side...

Overall, the meal at Sanur Restaurant was a great relieve for sambal belacan lacking days in Singapore. Demona will miss this place.

Carbohydate Binge@Four Leaves

Demona: Anchorpoint is mine, and Aileen's favourite hangout point during days when we have no where else to go but too lazy to go anywhere further too. Besides the fact that is near home, it is also the one and only FULL-ON-PURELY outlet shopping mall. Thus, brands like Charles&Keith, Giordano, G2K etc are at a damn good price alright. C&K is also constantly swarmed by fashionally maddened ladies, who could not resist overspending shoes and bags that they don't truly need, but at that moment psycho-ed themselves to think that they need 'em. Myself, a culprit of it too, although for a girl, I am considered fashionally underbudget.

*wacks Dogma*

Demona: RIGHHHHHHT, Dogma? :)

SGD 11.90 for a pair of heels?? How to find?? (even if I want to bring in the RM exchange rate).

Ok, crap. I'm totally getting off track here alright.

For those who knows me well, they know besides my love for chillies, I pledge my heart to forever self-struck in love with sinfully starchy, carbohydrate power packed, sugary sweetness pastries, buns, bread too.

On some shamefully desperate days, I could go on every meal with ... buns.. toast bread with any spread.. pastries. Friends of mine, especially testosterone oriented ones who survive on rice, meat.. macho staple foodie stuffs, sometimes worry for me bizarre eating habits.

This one particular night, was *sigh*..... a full-on carbohydrate binge (rate was accelerated even more after a few extra laps on top of my routine 1 km length swim). Calories "kau kau" piled back on alright. Hahaha. Who cares, until my skirts and pants get a little too tight again.


Demona: I stopped to scout pastries from Four Leaves because I found their "Little Bite Size Pastries" promotion, hard to resist! One costs, SGD 0.85, however if you choose four, you will pay a total of SGD 2.80. Discounted SGD 0.15. Best part of it, you could choose from any combination of these cute, tiny, lil' buggers!

SLURPSSSSSSS.

Demona: Aileen was craving for a.. CHOCOLATE BROWNIE baby slice. The brownie was actually fairly nice. It was moist, superrrr chocolate-y and not too sweet either. The walnut content was a lil' "kiam siap" though. I think my home made brownies still win the trophy
(Laughs out loud with no awareness to even flight a slight bit of shame)

nDemona: Like yin and yang, coffee and tea, nasi lemak and sambal ikan bilis, char siew and siew yok rice, thosai telur and spicy chutney, sweet pastries must also be in balance with some savoury ones also. I chose a mayonaise sausage bun.

This was average, as with every mayonaise sausage buns there are outside. I've been eating this bun my whole life, and they look the same, taste the same (either bun is too soft, or too hard, lack of taste, or the sausage is too soggy, or too hard, or too oily, or all of the above). Just that now, they make it look cuter, smaller, prettier. Package change, taste stays same. *yawns*

My future bakery, I would like to revamp this sausage bun into something, new, cool, exciting and tastes gooooooood!

Demona: This was a raisin cross bun. It was actually quite nice, the taste I mean. The only downside was that the bun had already soften. After all, it was almost 8pm when I came over here to eat. The hot and humid weather of our country just won't permit us to take a nice, crunchy, crispy bite of freshly baked pastries and bread however air and moisture tight these bakers want to keep their shop to be.

Demona: This was my favourite! Coffee bun! The top part had some crumbly crunchy bits of peanuts and baked cream, the bun filled with tiny swirls of chocolate and .... inside... surprise! Creamy coffee cream.. mmmmmmmmmm...

Best of all.. they all came in baby bite size pieces! You can have a lil' of everything in half the fullness, half the calories, half the sin! I guess, sorta' like the western way of "dim sum". However, don't underestimate these small, small, dwarfs....I was full to the brim after I had my last bite of everything! BURPS.

Bin Pao Bin.

Yam chao session@Ice Cold Beer

Demona: My colleague, IL, is a regular kaki of Ice Cold Beer (ICB). Since ICB is conveniently located nearby his main area of coverage, he's developed the liking of heading over here after a stressful, hard day at work, gulping down icey cold beer at the bar, and .... free eye washing of pretty OLs who also head over here for the very same reason too. (Wife of IL, oops! Don't worry, he is faithful to you)

We decided to join him for a change this time, from his usual drink-beer-alone nights, since he mentioned that the chicken wings and pizzas are delicious here.. and most importantly, drinks are cheap during happy hours!

Demona: Oooooh lah lah. He was right. This thin crusted pizza was well baked and coated with golden brown baked melting mozarella, and filled with chunky sweet, sour, zesty tomato slices and fairly fresh tasting prawns, ending with a nice touch of italian herbs sprinkles. SGD 17.

Dogma, let's bake pizza once i'm back! Then we open a bottle of wine from your collection, and laze on the couch watching fake dvds. :)



Demona: This was the prawn paste fried chicken wings. The size of 'em were actually slightly bigger than the regular ones that we see in most places. The deep fried outer skins were crunchy, crumbling in our mouth and sinking in your teeth into tender, succulent chicken meat. The disappointment however, was that the taste of the prawn paste was almost missing. If I'd never knew its flavour, I would have thought that these were normal, plain deep fried chicken wings.
SGD 16.
Demona: Nevertheless, pizzas and chicken wings, never go wrong with beer. *bite*chew*ngaw* chicken wings.... *slurps* icey cold hoegaarden = blisssssssss.

The place was packed as it was a Friday night, and extremely noisy. We had to shout our lungs out to get our messages across to one another. I'd still prefer Wala Wala, since I'm an avid music fan, who particularly loves acoustic music. Happy hour beers, with fairly good chicken wings and pizzas also... and nearrrrrrr home. Gosh I'm so gonna' miss this place. :(

Jam fight!@Demona's home

Demona: Tonight's dinner was one of those...." bored-hungry but do not know what to eat-too lazy to buy or cook food-i'm too tired-i'm still broke" dinners.

Let's settle this with......... good olde' carbs!

A healthy loaf of wholemeal bread and a good spread to go along with.

So happens... I've got two types of jam on hand.

Demona: Looks like there'll be war here tonight! Blood shed will smear the night!


Jam warrior 1:
Demona: I got this cute lil' bottle of jam from White Bait and Kale, when I attended one of their baking classes (Which was so much fun! And my.. my.. I learnt a kick-ass gingerbread spiced cake from there). This jam, along with a gingerbread man cookie was WB&K's door gift.

Jam warrior 1:
"You can taste my powerful squashed, juicy sweet blueberry bits! "
"Feel the fire, feel the heat, from my silent weapon.. port!"


Jam warrior 2:

Demona: Jams ain't cheap in Malaysia. The really good ones are dressed with shiny, golden price tags. The horrible taste, almost unedible ones are dirt cheap.. but yeah, one teaspoonful and you can't go on no more. Then, there are those in-between ones, which are not bad.. but you won't get the good kick from them either.

This was my first time buying Tamara, costing almost RM 7.


Jam warrior 2:

"Although my appearance may seem a lil' watery..look closely, and you could see the squashed berries, cherries and strawberries in me!"
"Look at my size... you're like an ant to me!"

Demona: Who wins the war?

............................................

jeng jeng jeng jeng.

TAMARA!!!!!
Despite being a bit watery, the sweetness was just nice, plus you could still chew on lil' bits and pieces of the fruits. Just like what it was mentioned on the bottle. Something something German.. with a big 50% 'de fruits'. I'm assuming it meant 50% more fruits in it.

The posh looking blueberry port jam, was a major disappointment for me. Although its packaging gave it an impression of a high end brand of a jam, its taste spoke otherwise. I couldn't taste much of the berries flavour and the port was overwhelming the whole package. Its heat killed the fruit flavour. It was as if, I poured port itself on my bread. I tried stirring the jam in the bottle, wondering if the sweetness was at the bottom, but no difference was made.

All in all......

So I guess, in-between jams rock too!