Selfish Gene Cafe

Went to Selfish Gene Cafe at 40 Craig Road. Nice quaint little cafe that serve brunch and sandwich food. I ordered the poached eggs ($15?) and was very happy. The eggs were poached perfectly and they used large eggs unlike Group Therapy. I'm an egg-fanatic so I can tell haha. They served the poached eggs on top of salmon and a toast with a side of creme fraiche. 

Had to take a pic of this as the perfect yolk just oozed out from the eggs. Super duper happy. Worth every single calorie. Will definitely be back again :) 

Poached eggs at Group Therapy

Went for brunch at this quaint little place called Group Therapy at Duxton. It's very arty farty and is a hit with the breakfast crowd. We decided to go check it out. While the ambience was fun and retro, I kinda thought the food was pretty overpriced. I ordered Poached Eggs and I think it cost me $16 for a slice of thick toast, some salmon (very little), 2 small eggs and hollandaise sauce. Being an expert with eggs, I could tell that they used smaller eggs instead of the regular big ones. I mean, paying $16, I would expect the eggs to be bigger? Lol. 

But I guess our main gripe was that the service took a really long time. Like 20-30 mins before the food can be served. I wasn't exaggerating but it was really really slow. 

I guess the flavor was alright, I kinda liked the poached eggs but my friend's order of the sunny side up was returned because the parma ham tasted funny. I think we feedbacked to the owner and at least she was nice enough to change the order to a stack of pancakes and followed up by saying that she will check on her batch of the ham. 

My friends got really pissed and started to joke about how we need to go for Group Therapy after eating here. They really need to work on the pricing a little bit + service speed. 

Once is enough :)

Food for Thought @ 8 Queen Street

Went to Food For Thought @ 8 Queen Street. I've always wanted to try it out but never had the opportunity to do so till now. We arrived at around noon on a saturday morning and it was already pretty filled up by then. Luckily there was still a table available and we were seated after 5 minute wait. The picture above was the table "placemat" (is that the right term to use?)

For 2 people, we ordered a salad, a pasta, a side and a dessert to share. This is one of the techniques that I use so that we can enjoy our food and desserts while ensuring that we do not overeat the calories. 

We ordered the Slow Cooked Broccoli with crispy tofu salad ($9) ...

Followed by the Chunky Sausage and Tomato Linguine ($14)

A mushrooms with bacon and onions side ($4)

And a red velvet cake ($10)

Food was lovely and absolutely delectable on the palate. The mushrooms with bacon was awfully good, a wonderful mix of bacon fat and onions. Yes I did feel a tad guilty eating it but I did try to remove the visible bits of fat to make myself feel better haha. The pasta was good, al dente and the sauce was not overwhelming. The real highlight is the red velvet cake. 

It was a marriage between layers of cream and cake. The proportions were done just right - good amount of cream and cake. Guilty pleasure. We would have loved to finish the entire thing but we felt very guilty doing so, and left 1/3 of the cake on the plate. Haha. 

We spent about $40 for 2 people. It was very nice and I will be back the next time to try out their breakfast/brunch menu. Yum yum!

Brunch @ Epicurious

I love brunches, they are a good way to drag me out of bed on Sunday mornings. I went to Epicurious for a lazy sunday brunch. It is recommended to reach slightly before 11am or the place will fill up really fast after that. I ordered the full monty set and it was really filling. Thank god I shared it with a friend (alongside with a side of pancakes - my other favourite). The full monty doesn't come with Spinach, you gotta add it on. I love my greens, don't you think the green spinach made the dish more colourful and appetizing? :P

Brunch was nice and hearty. I really liked how they used those traditional chinese cockerel plates to present the food. Nothing too fancy about the brunch, but it was nice chilling by the Singapore river and tucking into comfort food. I've checked out their lunch and dinner menus while I was there, look really interesting though, must find an opportunity to try them out next time.

Strictly Pancakes @ Prinsep Street

Had a huge craving for pancakes and decided to drop by this pancake themed place along Prinsep street called Strictly Pancakes. Everything here is pancake themed. The first time I went there, I tried this beef patty with pancake, very interesting.

Today I wanted brunch and ordered the all American pancake set. What was interesting is that they served a fried quail's egg instead of a normal chicken egg. It made me feel slightly less guilty indulging, lol.

Perfectly rounded fluffy pancakes with a choice of flavored butter. I took the garlic butter but there is also rum? Butter available. I think that was what I heard. All in all, a nice novel food place. Will be back again when I have another bout of craving for pancakes.

Brunch @ Hatched

I've always loved eggs and breakfast so when I heard that there's an egg themed place that served all-day breakfast, I had to check Hatched out. We ordered the salmon royale and ceasar salad. I loved how they perfectly poached the eggs. I've had lousy poached eggs one too many times (think of overcooked yolks) that I have almost given up on ordering them. Lucky for me, hatched still did it pretty well. The moment you cut through the poached egg, the yolk oozes out like how a poached egg should be! Taste was pretty good and I'm sure to go back again to try the other stuff.

They do have other non-egg offerings like shepherd's pie if you don't feel like having eggs.