Nutella Crepe Cake... IT ACTUALLY EXISTS!?

Went to meet my boyfriend, his brother and his god sister for a late lunch. Decided to go to Everything With Fries (EWF) at Orchard Central. I was so hungry that I actually forgot to take a photo of The Slider meal ($11.90) I had at EWF. I had the burger with sour cream and onion fries. To be honest, I am quite disappointed with the Slider. It is basically minced... like really MINCED beef with cheese, mushroom and puny bits of bacon. That is it. It wasn't even a proper beef patty. It's a pity I forgot to take a photo of it so you guys can see just how sad it is.. it really can't be considered a burger if it is not in meat patty form.. it's like a sandwich. The sour cream and onion fries are basically shoe string fries drenched in sour cream and onion powder ala McDonald's Shaker Fries style. Overall, the set meal I had was nothing to shout about.... until we topped up $5 for the legend.............................wait for it......................dary Nutella Crepe Cake!

YES. IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! (EWF also serves Nutella Tart but seriously the crepe cake looks way more epic.)

JUST LOOK AT IT. Lay upon layer of crepe with hazelnut cream and nutella drizzled all over it. I tell you, it's a culinary work of art. If I know I will not be hailed off to IMH for evaluation over my mental health, I will definitely go on my knees to worship this dessert. It tastes as good as it looks. Imagine slicing the cake, layer upon layer of hazelnut cream (I reckon from the taste) oozing along with the fork and when it's in your mouth, the cream, crepe layer and the nutella (inside and outside the cake) melts together in an unholy matrimony of sweetness. If this is a prize for winning the Hunger Games, I will definitely volunteer as tribute.    

Nutella Mille Crepe

 After that, I went window shopping around Orchard Road to purge my body of the sin of eating the Nutella Crepe cake. I like to tell myself that to make myself feel better after having such an orgasmic dessert. About 6pm, my dad called and asked me if I'm around town and whether I wanna join him for lunch. Being the glutton that I am... I agreed.

I met him at Gyoza no Ohsho (5 Koek Road #01-10, Cuppage Plaza S228796).

It's a little ramen place that looks like one of those zhi-char stores.. except.. it serves ramen. Not zhi-char. Ok that came off as pretty OBVIOUS... but moving on.

The prices as you can see on the menu is pretty much the same as any ramen franchise in Singapore. The only difference is the environment. The waitress does not give a shit about something called personal space. This is understandable because it IS a small store. Basically, she will march up to you, ask how many people and cram you guys into whatever space she can find to maximize the use of the space the store has to offer.

It's weird if you are not used to it. But being Singapore where we are targeting to hit 6.9 million human beings, you jolly well get used to it.... and since I can't help but pack myself into the MRT every morning at 8 am to get my ass to work so I can have income to continue my gluttony ways... I am fine with the way she seats people. Just pointing this out to people who cannot stand eating at crowded places.
 

The first dish we had was the pan-fried gyoza. For crying out loud, the place is called Gyoza no Ohsho. So if we don't order Gyoza, which is their trademark dish.. I might as well just go elsewhere to eat. Anyway, the gyoza was served pipping hot, they do not serve the traditional dark vinegar and ginger that we Chinese are used to dipping our dumpling (chinese version of Gyoza) in. What they have is white vinegar. So there was this moment of awkwardness where we poured the bottle with the dark sauce which turned out to be soy sauce not vinegar, then pour another bottle which looked like red vinegar but it turned out to be chili oil only to succeed when we poured the bottle with the transparent liquid which turned out to be white vinegar. We finally got down to tasting the gyoza. First thing I noticed.. it's oily. The positive thing about this was the skin of the gyoza, springy and crispy. The fillings were pretty disappointing.

Pan-fried Gyoza

 The salad came next. I'm very anal about the way ramen stores serve their eggs. If the egg is completely hardboiled, I'll say they fail at making the perfect ramen egg. The egg on this salad passed. Hard on the outside but soft yet not too runny on the inside. Great job. The salad is fresh, but the sauce overpowered the vegetables. The potato salad was ok. They didn't put in mayonnaise or anything funky into it. Salad overall is ok.

Salad

 Next came the Kanitamago, crab meat with eggs. I expected it to be like the oyakodon style of cooking but it ended up in omelette form. I was quite disappointed. The crab meat was actually shredded crab sticks.. lots and lots of it. Which is fine considering the price of this dish. The only complaint I have of this is that the sauce is wayyyy too sweet. Overpowering the omelette completely.

Kanitama

 My dad had the Tamago Ramen. He always comes here for their ramen so I guess it's pretty good? I'll make a mental note to try it the next time.

Tamago Ramen

 The only dish I really liked was the tori karaage. Can't go wrong with this dish. We also ordered a bottle of green tea each.

Tori Karaage

Total damage for my dad and I was SGD$43. I guess this place is pretty ok to come by if you want something quick and fuss-free. The service is brisk and people come and go fairly quickly. Quality of food wise, I guess it's ok? Just keep your expectations to a minimum because what you pay for is what you will get. Personally for me, I will only pop by here if I have a craving for their Tori Karaage.   

Something new, something different... Serbian Food.

Earlier this year.. in January to be precise, for the first time in my life, I tried Filipino food. Obviously, I was too lazy to blog about it at that time.... so moving on...

Last night, I tried Serbian food for the first time. It was something really random. My boyfriend's boss's boyfriend, Luka suddenly said he wanted a meet up and let us give Serbian food a try (since he is from Serbia). My immediate and (sadly) idiotic answer to my boyfriend was "What? Isn't it like Russian food?" And my boyfriend was like "I dunno, let's just meet for a catch up anyway..." I agreed and the rest as they say is history....

Not.

Before I continue, let me redeem myself by saying, I THOUGHT that Serbia was a part of Russia because it sounded similar to Siberia.. so I thought it's like somewhere near there, you know like a small town or state.. something like that... until I googled "Serbian Cuisine" out of curiousity and ended up on Serbia's Wikitravel page. Then I realised... "OMG, I got it completely wrong."

In my defense, I suck big time at geography (My worst grade was HALF upon twenty five.. who the hell gets HALF a mark for a test?!), that's why I gladly gave it up to take history class which I must say, I am remarkably wayyyy better at. That aside, I learnt that Serbia is actually located somewhere in central and southeast Europe.. nowhere near Russia. So my apologies for the assumption and for making an ass out of you and me.. well mainly me.

So back to the story, Luka took us to Sahara Authentic Persian & Mediterranean food (58 Boat Quay S049847). It's located right smack in the middle of Boat Quay (the restaurant not the country, mind you), just approximately two shop houses away from the Cat Cafe Neko no Niwa. As you can see, it's a shisha place where expats hang out.

We left it to Luka to order since we have no freaking idea what Serbian food to order and to our surprise the first dish that came was Naan and Chicken Tikka Masala. And can you guess why? Because Luka LOVES Chicken Tikka Masala. Yes, because he loves it, not because it's Serbian cuisine. This IS Singapore, so it's nothing to shout about for people to order a variety of food from different cultures.. I guess it's because we were anticipating Serbian food to come first, not Indian food. But hey, no complaints, the masala.. as my boyfriend puts it..is "DAMN ORGASMIC." Quote, unquote. And orgasmic it is.. I liked it too.

Chicken Tikka Masala

Next came the hummus. I know it's middle eastern cuisine but according to Wikipedia.. the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) once annexed the Kingdom of Serbia in the 16th Century therefore that is how it probably influence the cuisine... you can learn more about Serbia on Wikipedia and make the connections about it yourself. As hummus go, you can't really go wrong with it.. mashed chickpeas drenched with olive oil then you scoop it with naan. Healthy and delicious.

Hummus

Next came the Greek Salad. All I can say is.. I LOVE FETA CHEESE. And I LOVE how huge the cubes of Feta Cheese are. Some greek salads I have tried before, the feta cheese are so puny and sparse, I felt like I was only eating grass, not a greek salad. This is a Greek Salad.. with a capital G and S! I love how it is drenched with olive oil, not pathetically drizzled with it like some places I know. Could not stop eating this.

Greek Salad

 Anyway, before I go on, I bet most people are like "Huh? Why haven't you got to the Serbian Cuisine yet?" Well, according to Wikipedia, Serbian Cuisine is a heterogeneous cuisine, meaning it is diverse, like Singapore's cuisine. And because it is right smack in the middle of Europe, it shares the characteristics of the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Turkish, Austrian and Hungarian dishes. So technically, we have already begun the Serbian food.

The next dish, I forgot it's name, it's basically like chicken kebab with briyani rice. This dish was nothing special to me because it is basically barbecued chicken with rice.

Chicken Kebab with Briyani rice

And here's the best part, we completely forgot that we ordered garlic naan. When it came, I was like "OMFG, I'm so full already. T___T" But I had to take a naan anyway because it goes with the next dish...

Garlic Naan

The next dish is Ćevapi which is minced lamb and beef. Luka said that it is usually made with pork and beef back in Serbia. My boyfriend's and my first thought when the dish came was that it looks like........................ Ok, let's leave it as that. Luka taught us how to eat it. Basically we grab a naan, put the red stuff which are bellpeppers, onions, one piece of cevapi and eat it. The cevapi tastes like meatballs with the charred BBQ aftertaste. It's quite tender and the bellpeppers and onions really add flavour to the meat. The naan effectively keeps the meat juice trapped, which one bite, the marriage of the tastes simply explodes in your mouth. 

I had like four helpings of it before I surrendered. Simply too much food.    

Cevapi

The total damage for the four of us was about SGD$174. It was an interesting experience. Really love trying something different.