Baja Fresh

This consider as the Mexican fast food, very similar to McDonald's and KFC kind. You order at the counter, pay for the bill then take your item. However, you normally won't get your main instantly as they need time to prepare. 

I am not particular with Mexican Cuisine, probably because I never try the authentic one. Baja fresh version consider good yo me. I was satisfied with the food I had. The portion consider quite big for 2 of us and we have to pack back half of it.

Hoshino Coffee II

My 2nd time visit because I wanted to try the soufflé. My 1st Visit had no bad experience although my friend that accompanied me did not have good impression on this. It always has a very long queue and lucky me that particular day, the queue was short.

Wafu Salad($6++) - Salad is fresh and I liked the dressing they used. Curry Rice($15++) - all their rice selection have beef ingredients, if you do not take beef, do go direct to the pasta selection. The curry rice was great and I like the thick curry flavour like this.

Vanilla Souffle($9.8++) - not as good as I imagined, but it is soft and smell good. Ice Matcha Latte($9++) and Hot Matcha Latte($9++) - I had hot and my friend had iced drink. Tasted good for both of us.

Hoshino Coffee

Address: 68 Orchard Road #03-84 Plaza Singapura

Tel: 63383277

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Hoshino Coffee

I suddenly tempted to try their desserts and on a Friday night, I went and queued for an hour. That is quite a long wait so I decided next time better dun come to plaza Singapore during dinner time as it seems always crowded and long queue at almost all the restaurant. Once a while, I will do crazy stuff but pity my friend who waited for it also, I know he hated this kind of queuing. He had no choice as I told him, if he dun want to come to this restaurant then we met elsewhere but he still choose to come.

Basically what you can see on the display here are almost all the stuff on the menu

Hoshino Blended Coffee($5.80++) - Famous for its hand dripped coffee. The milk container is very very small but cute. How is the taste of the coffee? hmmm..texture smoother than the one I had in kopitiam as sometime kopitiam one a bit powder taste. Not that bitter, if you are not coffee expert(I am not), I cannot tell what is the best about this. Taste wise to me similar to any other coffee.

Fuwa-Fuwa($15.80++) - Once glance from the display, I thought it is dessert but it actually the main course. What it attracted me is the novelty as out of all the items, this looks special! It looks like souffle, when you pop in, it is like in cloud. The topping has no taste. Inside is the baked rice with beef/pork in tomato sauce which tasted quite nice. I was quite satisfied with my choice, not only looks good but tasted great too. All its baked rices item come with beef and pork and is blended together, so if you a non-pork or non-beef person, you may need to consider the other dishes.

Hoshino Spaghetti($14++) - Non tomato, non creamy based pasta with bacon, eggplant, tomato, spinash, a poached egg,  it looks healthy. My friend did not like it as it feel the bacon is too pork smell and I think he did not appreciate this kind of pasta. I tried a bit, I am fine with the taste but the spaghetti is too hard for me.

French Toast($9.80++) - I am french toast lover but normally I have it at Hong Kong Cafe more, this french toast is really SUPER YUMMY, probably the best I have as of now. It is soft and it tasted like cake too. Dun be fool of the white scoop on top, that is not the ice-cream, it is cream. I dun like the cream so I finished fresh toast only will dip in maple syrup.

Matcha Softee($5.80++) - I got this free with Standard Chartered card promotion where you ordered a main course + drink, it will free you the softee. You can choose between the vanilla and matcha. I took matcha as I almost crazy to choose most matcha desserts if they have.

Our bill

Hoshino Coffee

Address: 68 Orchard Road #03-84 Plaza Singapura

Tel: 63383277

Bangkok Jam

I had been to the branch at Malaysia and did not have a good experience, mainly because I felt we ordered the wrong dishes. Bangkok Jam has quite a lot of branches in Singapore. It is part of Creative Eateries Group.

The experience this time was fine, but the food portion generally smaller than some places. Taste wise average.

Seafood In Red Tom Yum tom yum talay($7.90++) - seafood is fresh and taste is good.

Vegetarian Red Curry($12++) - this is not on the menu, but my vegeratrian colleague requested and specially prepared. There are few dishes which they can make it vegetarian.

Banana Tempura with Hot Caramel Sauce serviced wuth Vanilla Ice Cream kluay tod ice cream($9.90++) - Both of us were attracted by the picture on the menu and looks so good. It tasted good but the banana tempura a bit soggy when served. You can choose chocolate ice-cream if you like.

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The Thai food here generally taste average. Another visit on 2014, there are quite a lot of selection in the menu. Here are all the food we got. My friend said tasted quite ok for the food they ordered.  We also got a fried banana for sharing.  This is the dessert that I had twice for my 2 visits. 

Bangkok Jam

Address: Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road #03-85 (The Atrium), Dhoby Ghaut, 238839   

Tel: 6341 9188

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

Nana's Green Tea

New Japanese cafe at Plaza Singapura new wing that serves mainly matcha drinks, introduce you the traditional way of tea culture in Japan.

I did not get the traditional one but went for the matcha latte as I read from somewhere that it is better, wonder if I wilk like it. So decided to go for the recommended Hot Matcha Latte($7++) and my friend got the Matcha Float ($8.50++). This version it comes with the milk and sugar, you can also have the light version without sugar and milk. Both types also serves hot and cold. How is the taste? Definitely not the same as the one you have elsewhere even the latte version you still can taste slightly bitterness. I like thid and will be good to go with some desserts so I added matcha roll. If you order any drink you can get $1 discount for the cake.  That seems the only cake on the list.

We were late for our dinner so decided to order some light stuff, the Broccoli Prawn($7.80++). Broccoli and prawn salad is warm, it uses white boiled prawns, broccoli, corn and miso finished with a dash of mayonnaise.

Steam Chicken Salad($6.80++) - the steamed chicken with vegetables topped with sesame sauce. The sesame sauce taste definitely nice, but the steam chicken has some weird taste, not too sure it is taken directly from the fridge so it have kind of special taste.

Nana's Green Tea

Address: Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road #03-80/82 (The Atrium), Dhoby Ghaut, 238839

Tel: 6684 4312

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NanasGreenTea

Kith

I passed by Kith at Robertson Quay once weekend but did not manage to try their coffee as our group was huge and there isn't enough place for us. I happen to search online and find that it actually has another branch at Park Mall at Dhoby Ghaut area. So I decided to try it out. It is not located inside the Park Mall, you have to go in via outside.

I reached around 4pm and the sun was burning.  Immediately I requested to have indoor air-corned seat as original I planned to have natural fan outside. They serve main course, desserts and drink. You can view the menu HERE. I was here only for coffee break as that day I suddenly craving for coffees.

Cappuccino($4++) - Not bad but I feel the coffee taste not that strong if compare to others.

My friend's Lime. Ginger and Mint($8.50++), her comment was: Not too bad.

Homemade Tiramisu($8++) - I almost tried tiramisu everywhere, This one is average.

Kith

Address: 9 Penang Road, #01-01E,Park Mall,Singapore 238459

Tel: +65 6338 8611

Everyday 8am - 10pm

Website: http://kith.com.sg/

Mouth Restaurant地茂馆

Heard the good review of the dim sum for this restaurant so we dated a group of dim sum lover to try this out. I choose the branch at Plaza Singapura as it is easier to access but I guess I had the wrong choice. I found that most of the dim sum are not make in the kitchen itself, instead the food are mostly make at the Chinatown main branch then delivered over. I went at 10am with the reservation and I finished my dim sum at 12:30pm.  Not because we were chit chatting for long, we were actually waiting for some dim sum to be served.  

I was here to try the salted egg custard bun and guess how long did I waited for that, I hour and 45 minutes.  It was way too long. We were curious why the bun is nit coming yet while other stuffs had been served. Only after an hour and 20 minutes,  the staff told us the dim sum is made at the main branch and it took time for them to deliver, it seemed there is traffic jam and they will reached in 5 mins. Since we had waited for so long, another 5 mins sounds reasonable to us but I was wrong, we waited for another 25 mins only the bun was served. We ordered the rice roll and only 10mins before the custard bun was served, they told us, it was not available and seems not at this round of delivery.  Oh my god..1st time I heard about such things.  I am lucky I was not waiting for that item only, if not isn't it a waste of time when after 1 hour 35mins they told you it is not available.

If you want to have better and fresh dim sum,  I will advise you to go to the main branch. From what my friend told me, the food main branch tasted better. She was part of the diner today. She tasted both branches and that is what her conclusion. I am not too sure about the dishes other than dim sum.

Deep Fried Prawn Dumpling, 3pcs($4++) - Taste: standard. Steamed Siew Mai with Whole Prawn, 3pcs($4.80++) - Taste: quite good in fact is the best among the dim sum. Deep Fried Banana Prawn Roll, 2pcs($3.50++) - Tasted good.

6 flavour "Har Gao" with XO sauce变色龙(六味极品酱虾饺), 6pcs($9.80++) - this is really go for the novelty. It tasted all the same although the skin is blended with different ingredient but you can't taste at all. The 6 colour skin is make of the spinach, squid ink, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot and original.

Century Egg with Sherred Pork Congee($4.80++) -tasted standard. Steamed BBQ Honey Pork Bun, 3pcs($3.80++) - tasted quite nice.

Seafood Congee with Squid Ink($8.50++) - again for its novelty. The taste is almost the same as the normal congee that we ordered.

Pan Fried Carrot Cake, 3pcs($3.80++) - not bad but a bit too soft. Steamed Glutinous Rice in Lotus Leaf Wrap, 2pcs($4.50) - tasted quite nice. I personally like it.

Squid Ink Char Siew Bao, 3pcs($5++) - it has quite a funny chinese name, 黑脸包青天. If you read the Chinese history, you will know who is 包青天(Jutice Bao). Again for its novelty, but we found that the skin is softer than the normal char siew bao, tasted wise quite ok. It depends on personal preference, some of my friend like this version, some like the traditional one.

Steamed Spicy Chicken Claws桂林蒸凤爪($3.90++) - standard, Steamed Spare Ribs with Pumpkins($4.50++) - taste nice and smooth, Deep Fried Prawn Spring Roll($3.80++) - nothing special. Mini egg Tart,4pcs($4.70++) - not nice as the skin is not crispy and the filling doesn't taste good.

Signature Baked Cream of Salted Egg Yolk Bun地茂雪山流沙包, 3pcs($5.40++) - This is really disappointed me, the skin can be better if it is freshly baked and cripsy but it tasted a bit soggy and the bun seems like setting. The filling is kind of a bit sweet and the salted egg taste is not strong enough. My friend told me that the one she tried at the Chinatown branch was really very nice. I wasn't sure if today the standard happen to be dropped or because of the delivery.

Chilled Durian Ball, 3pcs ($4.50++) - tasted not bad and is best when chilled. I am not sure if it is originally should be like this but looks to me the Durian Ball like putted there for long as the white caster sugar coating was gone and the skin is a bit sticky, is it suppose to be like that?

Total damage for this breakfast or lunch is $170++ for 8 of us.

Mouth Restaurant地茂馆

Address: 22 Cross St, Singapore 048421

Tel: 6534 4233

Website: http://www.mouth.com.sg/