It's been 4 days since I arrived back here in Manila from a 5 day trip to Singapore with my friends. It was our first time to fly out of the country together as a group and needless to say, it was a fun and epic summer getaway!
We stayed at the V Hotel Lavender as it's located above the MRT station - very convenient! The above photo is the view from our room on the 15th floor. For a good price, I guess the trade off would be the space as the rooms are small. We didn't really mind since we would be out the entire time, and would only use the room when it's time to sleep and shower.
Since Zhayne and I were the first to arrive in the Lion City, and Chris and BLi were scheduled to arrive early in the evening, we had the afternoon to ourselves. We spent majority of our time in the mall, but ended up not buying anything. We were trying to restrain ourselves from doing too much damage on our very first afternoon/night, hahaha! But on our way to meet up with our friends, I made my first big purchase: a Canon EOS 7D, the best upgrade of my life.
So, enough of my babbling and I will let the photos with some captions do the talking. This will be the first part of probably 3, so I do hope you enjoy! :)
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| Capping off our first night with ice cream at the Cold Stone Creamery at 313@Somerset |
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| Chris, BLi, and Zhayne -- the greatest friends and best travel companions! |
Okay, so this one deserves its own story.
We began the next morning with a hearty brunch at Wild Honey in the Mandarin Gallery along Orchard Road, the major shopping destination for locals and tourists alike. Wild Honey provides its customers with a unique and themed all-day breakfast menu, where each dish is cooked and served the way it is done in its country of origin. What does that mean? Wild Honey is not your typical bacon and eggs with toast breakfast place. Its menu features breakfast dishes from around the world and I would describe it as having breakfast in a new destination each time.
From left to right, Zhayne ordered the Tunisian breakfast, a dish consisting of spicy shakshouka (onion, tomato, red pepper, chili), chorizo sausages, and topped off with two fried eggs, served in a very hot pan. Everything was just amazing with the Tunisian breakfast, but the presence of spice was the best part for me. While it looks like any other eggs benedict, the surprise in BLi's European breakfast were the sauteed mushrooms, which we all agreed tasted very good, and Italian prosciutto.
My I Love New York breakfast looks simple, but simple as it may seem, the taste was remarkable. I'm not really a huge fan of scrambled eggs, but it was only recently that I began to appreciate it. In my dish, smoked sturgeon (and I first thought it was salmon) and onions were mixed into the eggs, and alongside it was a bagel and a generous serving of their homemade cream cheese. Can't go wrong there! Lastly, Chris had the Californian breakfast, which looks like a salad mixed with scrambled eggs. It was indeed healthy as different herbs, scallions, tofu, mushrooms, and peppers dominated the dish (besides the eggs, of course).
WHEW. I hope I did Wild Honey justice. Pricing starts at 20 SGD (about 660 PHP) and that's before taxes! But believe me, the food is worth it!
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| Double Chocolate Muffin! DIVINE AND SINFUL. |
After a kastu dinner at Ginza Bairin (must try!), we placed a sweet, but sinful ending to our night: milkshakes! When I was researching for food places to try, Singaporean food blogger
Lady Iron Chef made an entry about
Once Upon A Milkshake, and just from the name itself, I knew we had to visit. The small kiosk is located at the B4 level of
ION Orchard. The menu was unique and creative; drinks were named after characters the store had created for its fun concept. I was not able to take a photo of the menu, but head on over to their
site to get a taste of a storybook milkshake. :)
So that's it for the first part of our Singapore trip! Stay tuned for the second one!
Cheers!
