Food, Glorious Food

Since I still have some spare time these few days, I decided to blog about some of the food which I had tried recently.

For a headstart, here is my most recommended dessert.

Chocolate, Peanut and Plain Belgium Waffles from Yamazaki Boulangerie Chaude @ Tampines 1

This outlet is actually under Sun Moulin and all its breads and snacks are freshly baked daily at the bakery. So far I have only tried its Belgium Waffles as it is highly recommended by my sister. The waffles are quite popular so they are often out of stock by late afternoon or evening. There are 3 choices in total- Chocolate, Peanut or Original. Sorry if the photo look unappealing but trust me, they taste really nice. It is crispy on the outside with a cake-like texture inside, although I find it to be a little too sweet for the chocolate one. In contrast, the peanut waffle tastes much more savory and guess what, I figured that if the peanut waffle can be glace with a little bit of chocolate coating, it would most prob be heavenly.

Plain Belgium Waffle $1.50 each
Desribed as "Crispy crust and sweet aroma with original Belgium Sugar"

Have a full stomach at the new "Manpuku" at Tampines 1!

I was lucky to be able to attend the private food tasting session at this Japanese Gourmet Town- Manpuku on Tuesday night at Tampines 1. I had dropped strong hints to my sister on the day before on whether I can tag along with her. I was so excited when she smsed me to say that she could bring me along.

Manpuku is located at level 3, Japanese Gourmet Town of Tampines 1. It is Ajisen's latest creation, which boasts of a new Japanese food store concept that provides Japanese cuisines in a Japanese gourmet street setting. It is the 2nd outlet, after the 3-in-1 Japanses Gourmet Town at Vivocity, but the 1st to have so many store concepts thus far. I was rather impressed to have it here at our doorstep- Tampinese!

The interior of the restaurant was set up to replicate those authentic and traditional food eateries in Japan and it will house 10 different counters of food stores which includes famous restaurant names such as AOBA (Hokkaido Ramen), HOKKYOKUSEI omu rice, BOTEJYU Okonomiyaki (pan fried batter cake) etc... as well as tempting desserts - Fruit Paradise (1st in Singapore) and the all time favourite, KYOTO SABO.

Just like the Marché concept, each patron is given a card where you charge all your purchases until the end of your dining experience. Pretty straightfwd, so I guess not much elaboration is required here, except that you shd never ever lose the card (S$100 penalty).

To order food, all you need to do is to inform the order counter at each mini store and pass the card to the staff. You may need to wait for a few minutes for the food to be ready so there is a receipt where u can come back later to collect the food. And before I forget to mention, the number that the staff calls out when the food is ready is based on the Table No. printed on the receipt, so do refer to the correct no.

To start off, my sis and I each ordered 2 different dishes from BOTEJYU and HOKKYOKUSEI. She ordered a Seafood Okos while I ordered the Fried Prawn Omu Rice.

I love this design of the Okos where they made patterns on the top of the batter with sauce and mayo. Reminds me of Coffee art. a little disappointing is that the okos was a little over done which makes it a bit dry.

The Fried Prawn Omu Rice is the other popular Japanese dish which we tried. The main lead of the dish- the rice inside the omelette, was pan-fried with ketchup. We find it to be just average but what more than compensate it was the ebi tempura (Prawn Tempura) which we find to be mouth-watering. The deep fried thin batter was crisp on the outside while the inside was firm and tasty.

Finally on the desserts. We tried the Pear and Honeydew Tarts. And boy!, not only are they great to look at, they also taste great. No wonder, they were all snapped up at the end of the night.

The honeydew tart was my fav. It was not overly sweet and even though there was cream all over, my sister and I still cant resist and ate up the whole thing.
Having posted these fotos, I cant help but feel hungry again even though I just had my brunch an hr ago. Need to tempt my kakis to come try it again soon. (Geri, if you are reading this, consider coming to this 'mini-orchard' k! The new Tampines 1 is now opened, got alot of shopping and food!!)

Manpuku Japanese Gourmet Town
Level 3, Tampines 1
10 Tampines Central 1
Singapore 529536
Located beside Tampines MRT station
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