Meeting Partner & Melting At Christmas Wonderland

Sup guys.
Happy Boxing Day? (I don't even know what does it celebrate or the meaning behind it, neither do I celebrate it)
Finally I get to meet up with my partner after I was done with my event in Downtown East.
There was a Santarina and a Candy Gal Walking Table in D'Resort on 24th & 25th December.
It's pretty much just roving around the lobby and the courtyard.
We kop some of the candies too ;P

Saw this on the way to meet her. This way to love?

The both of us have been wanting to go to this eatery called MEET & MELT.
It sells toast with ice cream, ice cream waffles and ice cream.
The food they sell are very limited & their seats are few too.
There's like 2 tables of 2 indoors, the rest are placed outdoors. & when we entered the place, the owner's child occupied one table, so that's just left 1 table of 2.
Lucky for us, eh? Hahahhaa!
The both of us ordered Ferrero Rocher Toast because it was our objective coming to Meet & Melt.

The menu is plastered on the wall, different from the typical book or paper menu in cafes.

All (or most) of their fan's Instagram pics! I'm gonna upload mine in hoping it would appear here hehehe

The toast was baked in the perfect crisp-on-the-outside-and-soft-on-the-inside texture.
I'd give an A for the effort of decorating (see the Ferrero Rocher wrapper rose) the food.
There's also chocolate wafer stick and INSIDE THE WAFER STICK THERE'S PRETZ PIZZA STICK.
I think it was creative to do that :)
The sauce.. can't make do what is is. Partner said it was either honey or Gula Meleka but I thought it was caramel?
Either way, it was delicious.

I'm like the boyfriend who takes pictures of his girlfriend to show her off (I'm straight as a ruler).

Zoom in

Details

The chocolate wafer stick and Pretz

Well, for the first 6.5/9 'cube' of the toast.
It got too sweet and thick for me, I could not finish the whole thing.
I really love the toast but it too much for me. I bet Eve can finish the toast since she have a sweet tooth. I should bring her here one day.

Food: 6.5/9 Toast
Ambience: 2.5/5
Will I come again? Yup

How to go:
1. Take the MRT and alight at Tampines MRT Station
2. From the interchange, take bus 22
3. Alight at the 3rd stop - East View Pr Sch
4. Walk in the opposite direction of the road, (which means walk behind) and turn right
5. You should see Jun Yuan Primary School.
6. The cafe is just across the road.

& since we have some time left to spare, we decided to go to Christmas Wonderland in Gardens By The Bay.
Because we went on Christmas Eve, you can expect the crowd.
It's warm and squeezy.
Honestly we only took pictures, that's all. Well, she wanted to take the photo strip but there's a price and the queue turned us off.
When we decided to go back, the way to Bayfront MRT Station was full so we have to walk the long distance to MBS & take the train to Dhoby Ghaut to take a bus back.
What a day :D

There's a carnival too, where you buy tokens and use them to play.
So I told Partner that it's exactly what you'll see in K-drama where the lead actor & actress goes for a date, & the girl wants that plush toy so badly & then begs the guy to get it for her. Miraculously, the lead actor won the big prize and gave the toy to the girl.
So I was like, to Partner, 'OOOPPAAAAAA~~~~'
Obviously she hits me. 

I love this ride when I was a child!

Because I was sticky and hot

Best pic I took

It was a great day laughing and singing (mainly I was the one singing & then influencing her :D).

Jolly July! Assembly Coffee For You?

Yes, yes, I know...
I haven't been writing & now then I start my July post when it's already mid-July..
Pardon me, I haven't got any events to write about.

Yesterday I went out with my dearest Ong because she's treating me a meal as a birthday gift!
I was craving for waffles or pancakes, either one is fine.
Good thing is that this week is Home-Based Learning week, so students are not required to go school but stay home and complete our assignments.
Yay to no alarm!

The waffles place that she brought me to is Assembly Coffee!
Reviews online claim that their Salted Caramel Buttermilk Waffles is the best hands down, and we thought, 'oh, it's not very far. The nearest MRT station is Botanic Gardens'.
Well.. we THOUGHT so..
As usual, I will be writing the directions to Assembly Coffee in the best descriptive, possible way.
If my directions are not clear, resort to Google Maps or hailing a cab. xD

It was an awkward walk to the cafe because part of the route was blocked for construction works & the path was right beside the road & the traffic is driving in the opposite way.
Furthermore we were dressed up & it makes us a little uncomfortable to be walking is such area.. xD
But alas! We found the area! How I wish one of us have a driving license so we can rent a car for a day..

My model

The door to delicious waffles

When we enter, we were greeted by the staff. It was a pleasant service :)
The cafe is quite small though, but thankfully it's only us 2 people and we got a table.

The interior

Baby girl treating me ♥

The kitchen is quite small but it looks nice to be a kitchen in my future house hehe 

Didn't know she took it haha I swear

Ah this she told me to pose

Here's the menu:

Very simplistic menu

I didn't take the back of the menu because, I thought they were the same front & back..
We waited quite long for our waffles to arrive, wonder if they only have 1 waffle maker.
BUT, the wait was worth it.

Eve's Salted Caramel Buttermilk Waffle

I got Earl Grey Caramel Buttermilk Waffle

I ordered Earl Grey Caramel because it sounds out-of-the-norm kinda flavour.
When I ate it, wow, it tasted interesting! Like a flavour I never thought of mixing.
It's very sweet so for those sweet tooth out there, this is the perfect waffle for you. The strawberries combines well with the sweet Earl Grey Caramel so I enjoyed my dessert!
In addition, the vanilla ice cream doesn't melt easily, when I scoop it out it is still quite hard. I like hard gelato (think Baskin Robbins, Marble Slab) more than soft serve (think MacDonald's).

Overall:

Ambience - 3/5
Reason because there was a table that was placed right in front of the window & the sun was shining directly at one customer. She have to block it using the menu..
Assembly Coffee, maybe you can do something about this! :D

Food: 4.5/5
I haven't tried others though so I cannot say the rest of their food is good. I saw a group of girls eating the Shibuya Toast, Smoked Salmon & Eggs, and Bacon & Baked Beans on Toast beside us.
I'll definitely try the Smoked Salmon & Eggs the next time I come here, if there's a chance.

Service: 5/5
The (same) staff greeted us when we entered and left the cafe. I saw 1 staff helped to take the cutlery & serviettes to one customer even though it's self-service.

Feedback: any cafe will be extra enjoyable with good music :)

After eating, we took some photos because it's such a nice place to take pictures!

Good thing we can take the bus back to the MRT station instead of walking.
While walking, we happened to walked behind a group of boys. Then slowly, a few of them slowed down so the both of us were in between them.
Talk about awkward...
Then this Eve want to snap a picture of them (not sure if pedo or...)

Not sure what was she thinking

Afterward, we head to town to run some errands; she needs to buy chocolates for her sister, meet a seller, buy this & that.
At one point I've been spending my money on food whereas she already bought one apparel..
It's just walking around Orchard area, it's always nice to shop with her xD

Such a f(l)attering picture

Her meeting point was at Ngee Ann City, Takashimaya.
What's perfect was there's a food fest going on! Just in time for dinner!
Not sure if the event name is Takashimaya Food Fest or Food Lovers' Fiesta.
We weren't really hungry, neither are we gonna miss dinner so we settled on a light meal.

Everything I see relates to Events Management now...

She had to photobomb

Eve bought this for us to share!
THE BEST CHEE CHEONG FUN WE EVER HAD. 
It's not the 1st time we tried this, there was one blog post that I talked about this Chee Cheong Fun before.
I've had before Chee Cheong Fun with black sauce, red sauce, but this is brown in colour.
It has added sesame seeds & deep fried dried onion (common in Ban Mee).
Ong told the Auntie to put a little chilli and damn, it taste better with a little spiciness! (Even though I can't take spicy food well).

Rice burger! Own by Koreans

So that's how our day basically went!
It was always a great day whenever I'm with her ^-^

If you wanna go to Assembly Coffee, here's how:
1. Take the train & alight at Botanic Gardens
2. Exit through Exit A
3. When you reach street level, you will see an overhead bridge & a bus-stop. Ignore both and head to your right
4. Follow the path. There's construction works going on (at this point of time) so just keep going
5. You will past by a bus stop. Keep walking on the path
6. You will see a zebra crossing if I remember clearly. There's traffic light on your left. DO NOT CROSS THE ROAD/ZEBRA CROSSING.
7. Turn to your right, there's a curve.
8. Keep on walking straight after you turn the right curve. You should see a children/kindergarten thing on your right.
9. Go left, you should be in NUS campus. There should be a MOE building on your right once you turn left.
10. Keep walking straight you should see a gantry for cars to enter into the campus.
11. Assembly Coffee is in the shop in front, a little to the right! :D You just have to cross the road.

I certainly hope my directions are clear! Hehehe!
Enjoy your day in Assembly Coffee ^-^