Joie: Monthiversary dinner

J brought me for a monthiversary dinner @ Joie which is by opened by Dozo. They serve modern vegetarian cuisine with Japanese - European fusion. We selected the 7-course dinner instead of ala-carte so that we can try more dishes @ more cost-effective price. We (or rather he) paid S$68.80++ per pax.

Address

Orchard Central

#12-01

Starter dish

Assorted Platter: Raspberry sphere with biscuit, konjac jelly and seaweed tempura with wasabi mayo

Side dish

Matsutake Cake: Steamed Japanese mushroom, golden enoki and creme pattisiere, pistachio crumbs

Gratinated Champignon with Mozarella: Button mushroom gratin served with potato puree, focacia and endive. 

Cold dish
Zucchini Tower: Zucchini with cream cheese, truffle mayo with a pastry stick with a beetroot sphere on the side

Sashimi with Quail Egg: Vegetarian sashimi made from aloe vera, konjac, coconut and pear

Soup
Infusion of Truffle & Cepes

Snow Pear & Napa Cabbage Consumme

Main dish
Grill Bai-ling Steak on Pu-Ye Hot Stone: Bai ling mushroom served with mash

Truffle Risotto: Risotto served with edamamme with cream and parmesan

Dessert
Truffle Creme Brulee

Warm Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream

Drink
Ice Fruity Refresher

Ice Mallow Apple Melody

And yay we received an anniversary cake haha..

Here's our review:

• The food was very satisfying! Tasted great despite not having any meat in it!
• Super huge portion! We were so full after the soup haha
• Service was superb
• Ambience: very nice for a special occassion
• Highly recommended! :D

PetiteFreckles ♥

Love Nest: Purchases

J and I bought some items from this electrical shop in Bukit Merah called Hong Liang Electrical Enterprise.

 

Address

123 Bukit Merah Lane 1

#01-70

Singapore 150123

 

Not sure about their opening hours, but they open till 8pm.

 

Here's a photo of the boss, Vincent haha

Their service was good and the price pretty reasonable so we bought these items for the house:

♥ 2 707 Everton water heaters

♥ 2 Otto toilet bowl

♥ 2 Otto toilet basin - 1 top mount and 1 wall hung 

♥ 1 Mayer Chimney Hood

♥ 1 Delizia Hob

♥ 2 Crestar Fans -  1 with light (for the master bedroom) and 1 without (for the living room)

♥ 1 Carysill black jumbo kitchen sink

♥ 1 Rubine pull-out kitchen mixer

♥ 1 Samsung Fridge

♥ 1 Samsung Washer

 

Below are some photos, will update more once they have been installed :) The items are not necessary cheaper but the service was pretty good. They are very busy so have to be patient with their replies at times but it's totally acceptable for us!

 

P.S. Oh the more item you buy and payment by cash, might be able to get you a better price.

 

PetiteFreckles ♥

Hubs 's Bday Lunch Celebration

First-time celebrating J's birthday as husband and wife. Since MIL would like to celebrate his birthday for him on the actual day in Johor, I decided to celebrate it for him in advance. After the fabulous experience at Full of Crab, I decided to bring him to Crab in da Bag @ East Coast for lunch.

 

It was a Sunday afternoon lunch time but there were no other patrons, maybe it's due to the bad haze.. At least we didn't have to wait long for our food :D

 There was a 1-for-1 promotion for the clams with Maybank card!

So yes, we went straight for it!

 

We ordered loads of food for 2:

Sweet potato fries

2Kg of Clams in Ultimate Curry Sauce

1 portion of Squid in Mum's Special sauce

1 portion of Tiger Prawns in Salty Splash sauce

1 portion of Alaskan King Crab in Caboodle Mix sauce

 

Total bill came up to about S$130.

 

We were so so so full after the meal! Forcing ourselves to finish the food haha..
Overall the food is good but personally I still prefer full of crab, the sauces tasted better.

It was J's birthday so they gave him an agar agar "cake", so nice of them :D So only had a couple of bites as we were too full!

Overall we enjoyed our meal but the low point came when we were making payment. Their terminal some how wasn't able to read my credit card after 2 times so I decided to call the bank, the bank personnel told me there was nothing wrong with my card and suggested a few methods for the cashier to resolve the issue. With each method, it was a failed attempt and throughout the process, the cashier and manager was getting annoyed and saying that it really my card issue and made it seem like we can't afford to pay or something! Geez! If it wasn't for the maybank promotion, I would have used other CC and get it over and done with! And finally after another few minutes, ta-dah the transaction went through, and found that their terminal had some issue so couldn't read the card well -.- And the cashier gave an embarrassed sorry after.. but it still left us feeling blue when we left the restaurant...

PetiteFreckles ♥

Love Nest: Aircon Servicing

The current Daikin aircon is about 6 years old and changing the whole system will cost us about $4000 to $5000, so we decided to call for repair and servicing instead.

We noticed that the casing of the master aircon pipe had some leakage stain& the air isn't exactly cold, so the repairman told us that we needed to change the motor and insulator. To change the motor was the main bulk of the repair cost. Our bill came up to $430 excluding servicing. We will request for servicing after the completion of the renovation, I think it should be about $25 to $50 per system. 

Not sure how long this system will last but it is good enough for now. Hopefully it lasts another 5 years or so because it will be a very messy business! *cross fingers*

Before

 

After

PetiteFreckles ♥