Al Dente

Went to Al Dente Trattoria down at Holland V a week ago, and sampled all their recommendations!

Summary: looks good, tastes not bad, but for the price (worked out to be $110 or so for two mains, two deserts and one starter) I don't think it's worth it. Out of everything the best has to be the pizza, wood oven baked, just the way I like it! Thankfully, Al Dente has a promotion of having their pizzas at $10 after 10pm everyday, so if you're thinking of hanging out one night with some friends drop by there and try their pizza!

I know this is brief, I promise a more comprehensive update next time!

Cold Rock

Went to the Cold Rock down at Holland V yesterday with the class to have ice cream. The Cold Rock has a different concept from most other ice cream parlours - They basically use a special cold rock and then take the ice cream flavour of your choice and mix it with an extra ingredient of your choice - They have things like chocolate brownie, Tim Tams, M&Ms, Rocky Road and loads of other sweet stuff! You can add as many as you like - just pay extra.

There's my butterscotch ice cream + peanut butter ice cream + rocky road + cookie dough mix!

The ice cream costs a bomb though. A regular with one topping costs $6 already. It's all nice and sinful and very satisfying, especially for finicky people. You can always have a different combination at every visit! Mine got very chunky due to two toppings in a regular cup, and very sweet, good for a sweet tooth like mine but some may find it too much.

Ah well, I'm glad that there's such a place around anyway. May be pricey but now you don't have to fly to Auzi to get your fix of Cold Rock!

Secret Recipe Sale!

Secret Recipe is having a 42% off all whole cakes in line with National Day celebrations! The queues for them are crazy and the promotion ends tmr, 10th Aug, so go and grab them while you can! There's different types at different outlets, and it's limited to 3 or 4 types per outlet only I think. Each person is only allowed to buy a max. of 3 cakes and no reservations are allowed.



I have this 2kg cake sitting in my fridge now, with a slice of it in my tummy.

It's HUGE.

And it only costs $26 after the discount!



This one is called Chocolate Indulgence (oh wonder why) and is coated in dark chocolate coverture with loads of cream and chocolate mousse inside, oh it's heavenly! All the cakes are fresh too!

Go and grab yours NOW!

Al Azhar

School's been on and bad. Spending the days with the body present but the mind floating somewhere else... Coming home to slump in front of the com for a few hours before sleeping. Two weeks have just passed by in the blink of an eye.

To more interesting things, been craving a couple of things lately, namely cheese ravioli and prata. Just got them both satisfied in the past two days!

Had the cheese ravioli at Amici yesterday, but due to the place being way too dark for pictures, I'm left with none. Amici is a wonderful place, great service, great atmosphere, located at Holland Village (the place with countless renowned restaurants) serving up Italian food that's worth the money. The ravioli (they only have one type) is stuffed with cheese and comes with pesto cream sauce - one of my favourites. I noted that there was deep fried cheese ravioli with herb sauce as an appetizer too, but didn't get around to having it. Maybe next time :D

Went to Al-Azhar, a pretty well known prata place opposite Beauty World, for prata today after school. Finally! For the unacquainted, there are two big prata shops along the stretch of food shops there - Al Ameen (I hope I got the spelling right) and Al Azhar. Al Ameen is usually easier to spot as it's the first one along the row, but Al Azhar is known for having better prata and service. I've tried Al Ameen once a logn time ago, and today was the first time at Al Azhar!

Mozerella cheese prata, banana prata, mutton muturbak, tissue prata (and not featured: cheese and egg prata)

Milo GODZILLA!

Chicken, beef and mutton satay!

Butter naan

All these shared by three. My stomach is screaming now. Everything is good! The prata is not oily, unlike some pratas that shine with oil upon being served! It's the first mozzarella cheese prata that I've tried too - usually most cheese pratas are just cheddar, with those kraft sandwich cheeses or something. You can really taste the difference in the cheeses int he prata (we could compare since we had a normal cheese and a mozzarella). The mozzarella has a stronger cheese taste that may not suit everyone, but is great to me :D. Ordering the muturbak was funny - they come in different sizes, with portions priced at $3, $4, $6 and $8 if I remember correctly. We went for a $3, and it was already really big! Like, possibly too much for one to finish even. I can't imagine the size of the $8 one. Shall find out what it looks like someday, heh.

Milo Godzilla is really, like Godzilla, the king of the Miloextinctanimals series. First there was the milo dinosaur - iced Milo with extra Milo powder on top for extra oomph, and then it gets better with the Godzilla version: iced Milo with extra milo powder, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and of course the cherry on top! It's a nutritious drink, a desert, a fruit (uh.. the cherry...) all in one! Good.

Satay is pretty good, I think the chicken one is the best. Beef ones were pretty chewy, not that great, but the sauce is really chock full of peanuts! They also serve a wide variety of naan, this bread that's good with the curry.

Sorry for the rushed and not fully detailed entry, rather shagged from the week of long days! Overall: Not for the faint hearted, calorie counting female. For everyone else, it's really a place you must go to, and will likely come back again and again and again. Cheap food (we spent $8 each or so), great service indeed (the waiters are all super funny and joking with us and being really attentive and patient when we couldn't make up our minds on what to have!) and a really good place for comfort food. It's open 24/7 to boot, so you can literally go down anytime! It's ultimately still in the open and not air conditioned, but the food more than makes up for it.

As though we weren't full enough, we ordered this:

Soursop with jelly balls on shaved ice

Sweet sweet sweet.