Strictly Pancakes

We usually associate pancakes with breakfast, served with butter and maple syrup or fresh fruits and cream.
Tuck along the same row of shophouses where the italian restuarants, pubs and board games cafe sits at Selegie Road is this unique cafe called Strictly Pancakes.
Strictly pancakes serves pancakes as a main course with meat, vegetables or seafood.
The combination sounds weird - "will my stomach reject it?"


All side pancakes and main course comes with maple syrup and a choice of butter - salted, unsalted, garlic and herb or run and raisin.

Garlic and Herb butter

Rum and raisin butter

My friend and I choose to go the main course way.
We each selected a main dish to share.
I choose Beef Me Up.
My friend picked Potatoes Leeking Cheese

Beef Me Up, $14

The extre-thick pancakes were really thick. It's about the same thickness as the pancakes from Mr Bean, but bigger in circumference.
The beef patty was disappointingly dry, different from the claimed "juicy" in the menu.
The ingredients they put inside the beef makes the whole patty taste funny the more you have it. I didn't quite like the taste.
The sautéed mushrooms were totally dried up. Some slices of mushroom had a strong heat and peppery taste.
The arugula salad was nice and tasty, vinaigrette dressing with walnuts in it.

Potatoes Leeking Cheese, $12

This dish sees the idea of rosti. The pancake batter is mixed with potatoes, leeks and cheese and shaped. It looks like the japanese pancake, okonomiyaki.
As usual the sautéed mushrooms are of the same pot, so they are as dry as those in Beef Me Up.
This dish is served with sour cream, which gives the idea and presentation similar to rosti.


We also ordered fries and it came tossed with some unknown powder.
It has some burnt tasted and we guess that it's roasted curry powder or something similar.

Overall was filling but I guessed that idea of having pancakes with main course items doesn't quite fit our mind sets.
Nevertheless it was a good try on their food.

Their weekend breakfast menu looks better.

Pan-caked,
Pei Yan

Swiss Baeckerie @ Frankel Ave

Met my Jiemei today to top-up funds.
Since he was meeting his client at Kembangan, I decided to do a search on eateries with good reviews near that area.
I came across Swiss Baeckerie, location at Frankel Ave.
It's along the same row of shophouses as where Bakery Deport is.

The shop can be recognised by its huge croissant that has already blacken.
Walking into the shop, it's pretty small but brings out the cosy feeling.
The tables were most all taken up.

Looking at the menu, the food sounds good but slightly pricy for the amount that you get.
My Jiemei ordered the Mushroom "Croques".
It's mushroom sandwich covered with cheese and toasted till the cheese melts, served with salad.

Mushroom "Croques"

I ordered the Savory Crepe served with scrambled egg and chicken sausage.

Savory Crepe

I find that the amount of mushroom in the "croques" could have been more and a bit too wet for the bread.
However the melted cheese on the toasted sandwich provided a good taste.

The crepe taste normal. Not very nicely done as it was a bit thick on the inside.
The scrambled eggs were a bit too wet, turning the crepe a slightly soggy.
However the eggs were nice to taste.
Chicken sausage, yummy!

We ordered the set meal, so it came with coffee or tea.
I think I would return to the place again to try the other dishes.

Swiss bakery,
Pei Yan

Hokkaido Ramen @ ion Orchard

For some reason, I wanted to go for dinner today.
So I smsed Jeanbean and Leonard and after a few rounds of discussions, we decided to have ramen.
The place was suggested by Jeanbean.
Hokkaido Ramen located at B2 of ion Orchard.
The plan was to meet at the restaurant at 7pm.
Luckily the 2 guys were early and they had to queue to get into the restaurant.

By the time I reached B2 (slightly after 7pm), the whole eatery area was filled with people and many of the restaurants had long queue.

This is my first time eating Japanese ramen.

I ordered the Shio Seafood Ramen and fried tofu.
Jeanbean ordered Shoyu Cha Shu Ramen with Toro Don.
Leonard ordered Shoyu Toro Ramen.

In my opinion, i find that the ramen soup taste saltier as I eat.
It could be the nature of the soup but it got too salty for my liking towards the end.
The egg is nice as it has a soft yoke for a hard boiled braised egg.

Shio Seafood Ramen

Shoyu Cha Shu Ramen

Toro Ramen

Fried Tofu

The restaurant has 10% discount for citibank cards.

It was a great dinner and we shopped around at Tangs before heading home.

Slurp!!!
Peiyan

Delicious tau huey @AMK

Did you know that AMK hub sells very nice tau huey (beancurd)?
Now you know.
It's the dessert shop located on a corner on the second floor of AMK hub.
They serve freshly made tau huey.

Menu. The shop is called Tang Shui Chun.

This is the beancurd bucket for 2 people.
It just so happened that we were lucky the beancurd was ready.
Since their beancurd is freshly made, they are served in such a bucket.
That means the beancurds are made in individual buckets.

You can have the fun to enjoy being a beancurd seller and scope your own bowl of beancurd.


The beancurd is superly smooth and tasty.
A little bit of sugar syrup is sufficient.

Yummy beancurd,
Peiyan

iPuke Botak Jones

Was thinking of what to have for lunch.
Since I was at Bedok Central, decided to walk across the library for Botak Jones.
As usual, I ordered the botak burger with cheese and side order of spicy fries and pasta salad.

The food came in a full plate, each dish taking up third of the plate.
The pasta salad was stunningly A LOT!

Close up of the whole plate.

The combination of pasta salad and spicy fries proved to be a bit wrong.
My stomach was feeling uncomfortable when I reached the bus stop on my way home.
Eventually, my stomach gave way after holding on to it at home for some time.
I think I threw up about 90% of that plate of food.

The next round of Botak Jones, I swear I will not have this side dishes combi again.

Bleh,
Peiyan