VIVIENNEELUV

Food | Lifestyle | Travel | Me | Everything Boring

Showing posts with label Pastries. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Mid-Autumn Festival 2015 with Mooncake Crodo @ Da Paolo Gastronomia

Address:	290 Orchard Road #B1-k8 Paragon Singapore 238859
Website:	http://www.dapaolo.com.sg

Other outlets of Gastronomia are: Bukit Timah, East Coast I12 Katong, Holland Village, Marina Bay, Orchard, Raffles Place, River Valley.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!

Was at Paragon the other day, meeting Jacq for dinner and I was very early as usual so I went shopping at Wisma, Takashimaya and lastly Paragon's Market Place. As I came out of Market Place, I decided to walk past Da Paolo Gastronomia to peek at their Crodos, I was so thrilled that there are still crodos left on the shelves!

Pros-Pie-Rity 2015 @ Pie Face

Outlets:

Address:	313 Orchard Road #B3-10 313@Somerset Singapore 238895
Tel:	+65 9622 5662
Opening Hours:	10am - 10pm daily

Address:	245 Victoria Street Bugis Village Singapore 188034
Tel:	+65 9638 6318
Opening Hours:	11am - 11pm daily

Address:	23 Serangoon Central #B2-49A NEX Singapore 556083

Website:	http://www.pieface.com.sg

Hello!! Its back to reality day for me today. Meaning back to work. Oh wells, good times don't last but i am sure good times will be back again!

Because weekend is so long this time, I have so much to post and share, mostly is what I did during this long weekend only. Alright I will take my time to post, now throwback to the eve of CNY!

I was overwhelmed with meetings and work, my mum is busy spring cleaning and preparing for CNY, this time round I was rather disappointed that I did not get to do kueh lapis baking or even tidying my cupboard :X

I am so glad when I received this box of piping hot pies at my door step!

Pros-Pie-Rity Value Pack S$38.88

Consists of 8 regular pies, including 3 new flavours! 16 and 24 pieces pack as well as mini pies pack are also available!

Looking at this cute little pie expressions makes me smile. Encased within the flaky pie crust are fresh ingredients, spices and premium cuts of meat.

Pie Face @ 313 Somerset & Bugis Village

PIE FACE

Address: 313 Orchard Road #B3-10 Singapore 238895
249 Victoria Street Singapore 188034
Opening Hours: 10am to 10pm

Australia's Pie Face has unveiled its very first foray into Asia with the opening of 2 new stores! Address is above.

Established in 2003, this Sydney-headquartered micro-bakery cafe is best known for baking all of its gourmet pies from scratch. The dough of the traditional French puff pastry takes 3 days to prepare. The kitchen team is required to fold the special blend of butter to create 48 layers. This crucial step is the key to producing the best pie pastry.
Encased within the flaky crust are fresh ingredients, premium cuts of meat as well as other delicious fillings created by its chief pie baker.

The chef is Mr Francois Galand (previously known as Francois Cointrel), a french-born and pastry-trained chef who blended his specially French pastry crust with the Australia comfort food. Chef Francois comes from a long line of pastry chefs; his grandfather and 3 of his uncles were passionate about pastries. Since young, his world has revolved around pastries and he started playing with dough at an early age.

Such a cute shop front, and the tv screens functions as their menu.

These are the sweet desserts that we get to try them!

These are what we shared among the 5 of us! Dinner is awesome with them around, really.

If you can't decide what filling of pie to choose from, you can choose the face that appeals to you most. :P Each face represents a different filling.

: > TANDOORI VEGETABLE PIE S$4.90 (mini version available S$3)

For vegetables lovers! Freshly chopped carrots, capsicum and mixed beans are drenched in a moreish tandoori sauce. Carnivorous eaters will love it too, true enough. Its my 2nd favourite pie here!

:O THAI CHICKEN CURRY PIE S$4.90 (mini version available S$3)

An Asian-inspired offering, this pie brings together chicken meat, carrots, onions, garlic and coconut milk. Quite a special one I would say.

:S CHUNKY STEAK PIE S$5.20 (mini version available S$3)

Perhaps the best-selling pie among all, this pie has chunks of beef that have been braised with onions, garlic & gravy.

:) CHICKEN & MUSHROOM PIE S$4.90 (mini version available S$3)

My favourite! Inside the golden pastry is a medley of tender chicken breast, mushroom and garlic. The rich & thick cream pulls everything together.

When we cut into the pie, wow it has lots of chicken chunks, not dry at all also due to the cream.

CHICKEN SAUSAGE ROLL S$3.80
CHICKEN + CHEESE SAUSAGE ROLL S$3.80

Not in mood for pie? Pie Face also has sausage rolls and they are soooo good that I actually prefer them to the pies. :P Flaky & crispy pastry and really good sausages!

CHEESE STICK S$1.90
ALMOND STICK S$1.90

Cheese stick was a little too much of the cheese, almond stick on the other hand is pretty good, can make a decent sweet treat after a meal.

MOCHA, GREEN TEA, APPLE CRUMBLE, CHOCOLATE PIE, RASPBERRY, BUTTERSCOTCH, PECAN, LEMON PIES S$3.30 each

These are mini sizes pies that are great for sharing, we tried all 8 flavours.
Sissy & myself love the Butterscotch mini pie.

The Mini Lemon Pie is a little on the sweet side, as I like my lemon pies to be slightly sourish.

Apart from the above food items that you see, you can also savour cookies, moist cakes, hot soups and coffee at Pie Face!

Pie Face serves high-quality coffee. Enjoy fresh brews such as cappuccino, latte, long black, mocha, macchiato. Prices start form S$4.

Thank you Pie Face for having us and congratulations to your opening of 2 stores in Singapore!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Saizeriya, desserts, coffee, desserts, egg tarts!

15TH MAY 2012 TUESDAY

Blogging this with a very frustrated mood although this should be a happy post - full of food (you can see form the title)!

I am so pissed off by Starhub's connection by it my mobile's 3G or my house's broadband. They don't seem to work at all.

In my new Cotton On FishTail/HighLow dress! Comfortable, pretty & flowy!

Hair is in a mess! Have to go to the salon soon!!

Bought a pair of white lacy shorts for weekends wear!

In a super good mood today! And I realised I love taking pictures even more now! I had always loved taking pictures and was the first among all my friends to have a digital camera (when digital camera was first launched) thanks to my daddy. He loves buying gadgets for us. He bought 1-3 digital camera and there is a panasonic one which is very slim and is also a MP3 player. Nice & cool! Thereafter, Kelvin bought 2 Sony digital cameras for me. Then I got tired of carrying heavy bags and now with my iphone4, I take pictures almost everywhere (believe me, I even took pictures of my poops before!). Now my heart is on the Olympus Pen! OMG!

Ok, anyway to continue blogging first! I had lunch at Saizeriya.

Many should have heard of Saizeriya - a cheap & nice Japanese chain of Italian restaurant. Cheap, meaning for an average of about $15, you can be satisfied. You will never believe, I had wanted to come here since 3-4 years ago. You can never imagine my joy (may sound ridiculous) when B said we are going to Saizeriya today! WOOOHOOO!

I had 2 portions of salad!

Wings!

Bacon & mushroom risotto, quite tasty! Its like chinese Mui Fan from Zhi Char stalls.

Seafood spinach spaghetti for me!

And this........ is something you have to order if you have the chance to step in here. I personally seldom take seashells kind of food. Mussels, clams, Gonggong, escargots.... I at most take only 1 mussel and the 2nd one onwards makes me feel like puking.

But we order 2 plates of escargots because its damn good. The garlic & butter is so good that i cleaned up the plates.

See! I wiped out all the garlic. :P

This whole meal cost us $29+! $15 per person for salad, free flow drinks, wings, escargots & main course!

Saizeriya

177 River Valley Road, #02-22 Liang Court

180 Kitchener Road, #B2-55/56 City Square Mall

Happy, satisfied and headed to Meidi-Ya! My favourite Japanese supermarket! Camwhore at the tidbits section :D

Next we stopped for some desserts! OMG... They are so pretty & yummy that I could eat 10!

This is a chiffon chocolate cake with a little bit of cream in the centre.

This raspberry puff is orgasm, i swear!

This is like a food excursion.

Decided to pop in to Five & Dime for a cuppa coffee in the afternoon! Its a pretty cafe, my kind of cafe to quietly sit down, lost in my own thoughts, with coffee & a piece of cake.

No pictures of the view outside, because its dirty, dusty road, with SBS buses, cars, noisy bikes.

Five & Dime

297 River Valley Road

Talking about the address, its is very near Oxley Road and so I decided to go to Oxley Road to take a look at LKW's house :X

Actually it is far from what I have expected. I thought it would be grand & pretty, but I see nothing but high walls and plants. But I could see from the roof that it is a very old house. The houses around his, are much nicer! There are 2 guards standing outside his house, and prevented me from walking near his house HAH! They told me to cross opposite and walk on the pavement. :P

Passed by Le Cafe Confectionery & Pastry.

Really love their beancurd tarts, brother loves them too! So I popped by and asked if they are closed. I dislike talking to them or going to the shop late as I find that they have attitude problem. Bought from them 2-3 times, and I always get attitude problem from a auntie. This time, I went in and a lady told me they are actually closed but since they are still there doing some work, and there is still some tarts left, so I get to buy! No smile, no attitude. Thats all.