Hello earthlings!
It's such a happy day! I hope you had a great day today too! Anyway, I want to share my happiness with you guys!
As you know, I'm a fan of Japan. I LOVE everything about Japan, there is just nothing for me to detest about. Hence, when I heard about Japan's unfortunate event, my heart sank. I was and still am sad about it, and I definitely hope they will be strong. I am sure they will! Gambatte Japan! If you guys do visit shops such as Topshop, Japanese restaurants or just anywhere where you see donation boxes for Japan. PLEASE help them, it doesn't matter whether it is $1 or less or more, just DONATE. Your kind thoughts and that amount of effort you try to help will definitely help them, so please do! Thank you!:D
Back to the topic, I knew about this Japan's food fair they are holding in Tampines mall today. (FYI, it ends on 10 April 2011, so it's not to late to pay a visit to it (; ) Momsie and I headed down with much excitement. However, ofcourse she was worried about whether the food are safe. Don't worry, it is and they have stated a notice just outside the booths. The food were from Kyushu where it is a part of Japan that is not being affected. It was really crowded, so if you guys hate the crowds, do avoid visiting during the weekends.
Despite the crowd, we still managed to get seats for our ramen. It's really expensive and I would definitely NOT recommend you guys to try, it is kind of not worth it. :/ So here is a picture of it.
Beside the ramen, we also bought fried seafood which we have tried before last year at Takashimaya's basement. We love the fried hotate, we just love hotate! However, it was not as good as the previous one that we had tried, hence another disappointment. We ordered 2 potato croquettes as well, crab and sweet potato. The sweet potato one was better but still I would not recommend you guys to try any of it.
After that we head on for our ice-cream! How can we miss out ice cream!?! This one, yes you MUST try! It is totally worth it even though it is pricier than our normal ice cream but hey you don't get to eat these often! They have four flavours altogether, Black sesame, strawberry, milk and one more which I have forgotten(woops). My momsie had the strawberry one whereas I tried the milk one. She ate it before I even had the chance to take a picture of it. I tried a bit of the strawberry one, it's sour so if you like sour do go ahead because I like! However, since it was expensive so I did not get a second serving, if not I would!
Before heading home we bought some food back home for dinner too! We ordered a sweet sweet potato as well as rice cake(mix with sweet potato) with red bean inside. They have a tempura sweet potato which we have tried however we prefer the sweet one. Also for the rice cake they have plain and red bean, so we got the red bean one! Their value set are only $15 in which you can save $3 because 400g of sweet potato originally cost $10 and 3 pieces of rice cake cost $8! It is really worth trying. x)
So if you guys have time next week, do head down to Tampines Mall for the Japan food fair, you sure won't want to miss out!
Other than that, we have visited Yamakawa, it's my favourite Japanese snack store located at Tampines One basement. They are not selling my chocolates anymore ): however, I managed to get some sweets! :D Also, we got strawberry steam cake from one of my favourite Japanese Bakery, Yamazaki! Here is a picture which I took outside their shop, be prepared to drool!
I was so in love with their strawberry shortcake and strawberry fudge cake, however it was quite expensive so I decided to give it a miss. Till next time cakes!! My new project is to take a snap of all the pastries in the world! Hahahahas, this is probably the longest food critic I have given ever!
Sayonara!
Love,
PJ
