Saturdate at Royals!

Today was a really wonderful day. The weather isn't so hot anymore now that we've hit the rainy season. I really love this time of the year. It reminds me that Christmas is coming and i'm so excited for it!

Me and Gab headed to Royals along Upper East Coast for dinner today. We really love this place a lot. It's a nice little cafe. Its value for money too, however unfortunately the serving sizes are much smaller than before. Nonetheless, it's still good food!

Since Christmas is coming, they had already decorated the interior of the place with Christmas decorations!

My date who refused to take a proper picture

We eventually settled for our favourite Mee Siam and Pulled Beef Sandwich. For the Mee Siam, we ordered it as a set so it came with a dessert and drink.

They have all day breakfast as part of their menu too!

Royals is well known for its Mee Siam and Nasi Lemak! A lot of people come here to try it. Plus the prices are super value for money! But of course, it comes with GST and service charge. If you're craving for any of these foods or asian cuisine, this would definitely be a good bet!

It's interesting they have an all day breakfast too. I wouldn't suggest it. Personally, i've tried their scrambled eggs but i wasn't a fan of it. It was too buttery for my liking!

Pulled Beef Brisket and Swiss Cheese Sandwich

I love this. The pulled beef brisket is so well marinated and it is so lean! This is definitely something you should order if you're health conscious and craving for western food. They are very generous with their swiss cheese too so that's a plus. The salad is tossed in vinaigrette. It comes with potato chips but you can opt to change it for mash potato with no additional cost.

Their mash potato is so creamy and good! Sometimes i just order it alone. I just can't get enough of it!

Signature Nyonya Mee Siam

You might be worried that the Mee Siam is too spicy. It isn't! In fact even if your spice intolerant, you can give this a go! Gab is really spice intolerant but he managed to finish this. It only has a tinge of spice.

This Mee Siam is very rich in flavor, probably easily one of the best Mee Siams i have ever tried. It comes with a hard boiled egg, about 5 prawns and a generous serving of tau pok and beans sprout.
It's really perfect. You definitely have to try it!

Flat White

Since we ordered their Mee Siam as a set, it came with an additional drink and dessert. We chose their coffee and a brownie for dessert. Their coffee was surprisingly good too! It did not leave a sour aftertaste like most bad coffees do. In fact, i actually thought this coffee reminded me of Dimbulah's. Creamy and good.

Brownie with Vanilla Ice Cream

Well, i thought that wasn't anything special about their dessert. It was just mediocre. The brownie was moist and good, but the serving size was way too small. If you want a proper dessert, this doesn't quite fix it.

In all, the Mee Siam which came in a set costs $13.50. The Pulled Beef Sandwich costs $13.50 as well. I wouldn't recommend getting the Mee Siam as a set since the dessert wasn't value for money in my opinion. If you get it alone without the set, it costs $5.90. It's really not worth it to pay and additional $8 just for the coffee and dessert.

Royals also sells a selection of bread. I myself brought back two cinnamon buns for $3! You can order their cakes too. If you're thinking of having a party, you can check out their mini bites too! You can also book the place for a private event (i.e. 21st birthday party) in the afternoon.

The Royals Cafe

19 Upper East Coast Road, Crescendo Building

Singapore 455209

Tel. 64456457

East Coast Park Memories

It's been way too long since i last blogged and the bf has been reminding me to blog all our happy memories so we can remember them!

We've been spending so much time at East Coast Park since it's really near Gab's place.

East Coast Park is such a significant place for us because of all our memories there.

I've been there for runs, picnics and who can forget the feast at the East Coast Park Lagoon?

There are so many things to do at East Coast Park!

1. We brought the silly dog, Cutie, to the beach

Cutie's first time at the beach and he was so intrigued by the sea. We tried to drag him into the waters but he was too scared of the sea.

He refused to leave and i had to carry him all the way from the beach to the pavement.

The sun was setting and we had to bid our goodbyes to the beach. Cutie's sooo adorable right? He's really our little baby!

2. We had a picnic by the beach

We prepared a salad, hamburgers and i bought a banana pie for me and Gab to enjoy by the beach! We went in the evening so it was nice watching the sun set. It was also really breezy too! It was such a perfect date. Of course, my date was even more perfect! :P

Gab took this pic on the way to our picnic spot! The sun was setting already and it was like a race to beat time.

The food we prepared! Gab had prepared the salad while i made the hamburgers!

For the salad, we marinated the chicken with taco sauce bought from NTUC, garlic and ginger. Gab fried it with a bit of milk and it turned out really wonderful! The hamburgers were really easy to prepare! I just bought the muffin bread from Cold Storage and layered the burger with cheese and ham.

Me at the picnic spot!

This was our view. :)

We ended the day with a glass of Moscato at home. It was really good because the wine tasted so sweet! 

3. Feast at the Lagoon

We always end up over ordering whenever we're at the Lagoon! The food here never ever disappoints!

We really really love the food their fried carrot cake! I think the Lagoon sells one of the best fried carrot cake we've ever had!

Some of the food we've tried on one of our dates!

Alright so this sums up my post! ECP really holds so many dear memories! I am looking forward to more ECP dates in the future. :)

Date with my love

I thought i should record all my happenings for the day! So yesterday after church with Gab, we headed to Marina Square to buy new working clothes for our internships. Then i accompanied Gab to get his hair cut at Parkway.

While he was getting his hair cut at Parkway, i went around to shop. (Recently i've been loving Korean products. I always think that Korean products are so interesting.) After i was done with my shopping, i went back to look for Gab but he wasn't there! I thought that he was looking for me so i texted him to ask him where he was. He told me that he was having a stomachache and i actually believed! He asked me to go to some place nice to have dinner. I chose Social Square and waited for him there!

Suddenly, Gab appeared out of nowhere to surprise me with the flowers! It was so unexpected because he bought them for no occasion. :') I was so touched! I asked him why he bought them and he said that the roses match my white dress. I was so delighted!

This was what we had for dinner. I ordered a pesto pasta while Gabriel ordered a dory fish with sides at Social Square! I thought that the food was really good and affordable and definitely worth visiting again. The have a rather impressive wine selection as well with my favourite Moscato! A pity we didn't get to order it though!

We were quite surprised at how generous they were with the sides! You get to choose how many sides you want too.

Our day didn't end there! After dinner we headed to a cafe at Simpang. It's called D'zerts cafe! It's quite a new cafe and we realized a lot of people head there at night. The interior is neatly decorated with hanging fairy lights!

We had a meringue lemon pie and a matcha mousse cake. :) It was really good and we both would be heading there again sometime soon to try out their pasta selection!

So thankful to God for such a wonderful guy by my side!