The 1.833/2 Year –> 4 Year Journey

Half a pint of Erdinger – $10.50

Service Charge – 10%

GST – 7%

Hearing the song you requested played by the band when you’re just about to leave – Priceless

Having some alot of free time on our hands during the holidays, me, Nerite and our neighbour from hall decided to engage in Singaporeans’ favourite activity – QUEUING!

And so we arrived at Raffles City to queue for the famous donuts from Donut Factory, the queue wasn’t so bad as it was about 2-3pm in the afternoon. I’m sure everyone has tasted the soft, fluffy donuts with oh-so-sweet-but-yummy toppings before so I’m not going to talk much about it.

After Raffles City, we went to Bugis Junction to check out this new store called Chewy Junior. Presumably wanting a piece of the donut pie (no pun intended), they are selling this donut looking pastry except that it’s a bun with (coffee?) flavoured cream stuffed inside and of course it comes with the many savoury toppings that is the main attraction of the many donut shop that has popped up all over our sunny island.

So there is this guy giving out pamphlets to people in the queue telling them how wonderful their stuff tastes and pointed out that it would taste better than the donuts in my hands. Well that remains to be seen

The queue was longer than Donut Factory’s maybe because it was pushing 5pm and it’s kind of a novelty amid the many donut shops.

Here are some pictures showing the variety they have and the cream pump they use to stuff the cream into the puff.

I guess the workers there are mostly students/part-timers judging from the way they prepare the buns. Most of them seemed a little lost and the guy I was watching doing the toppings seemed to take a little longer than I would expect. All these small delays made the waiting longer, maybe that’s why the queue was so long. Heh.

Finally we got what we wanted and then proceeded to Starbucks to rest our tired feet and find out just how wonderful they are.

(Yes, those are my sexay arms)

Nerite – Oh yea we didn’t mention Starbucks was giving free coffee on that day to raise money for Salvation Army. We had our chewy junior thingies with coffee! Kudos to Starbucks!

And as the name suggests, it was really chewy and it was kinda special having the toppings and cream in your mouth at the same time. The filling was generous, too generous in fact, if you didn’t read the instructions (yes there are instructions on how to eat this), you would probably made an ugly mess with the cream going all over your fingers and cheeks.

And obviously I didn’t and only saw the instructions after I was done with them.

Well for me, I thought it was a tad too chewy and a little hard, making it difficult to go smoothly down the throat. So IMO Donut Factory takes the cake, or donut in this case.

Edit: Ok, feeling I haven’t given it justice because I ate it hastily the other time, I’ve decided to give it another go. This time I had the Double Chococlate Crunch. Anyway, like the last time, it was hard to chew off and the fact that it was chewy was exactly because it was hard to chew. Am I making sense here? I also figured that it was impossible to finish it without having the cream dropping everywhere because when you squeeze hard to bite off a chunk, the cream comes out. Yep so Donut Factory anyday, although props for the delicious chocolcate topping.

But hey, that’s just me and I’m a fusspot as everyone knows. So this shouldn’t be stopping you from trying it out.

(Pictures are not up yet because we are lazy to resize the big ass pics so that we won’t bust the 50MB cap for uploaded content.)

PS: Oh yeah and italics have been used a record-breaking 4 times in a single post on this blog.

PPS: Just FYI

Hi guys,

Makan Trail has gone over the Causeway and Back!

Xeniel and I went with a mutual friend to Johor Bahru to Jiak Png (eat). Firstly, a stop off at Citi Square to catch a movie for RM10 (around SGD5) at Cathay (Yes, the Singapore owned Cathay Cineplexes). With the rising ticket prices in our sunny island, it was worth it!

After that, we went to Taman Sri Terbau Food Centre to have our dinner. FYI, It’s a Malaysian food centre (sorta) popular with Singaporeans for the cheap seafood. There are many stalls but we just randomly chose one seafood store to order from. For our dinner, we ordered Butter Crayfish, Cereal Prawns, Sambal Stingray, Sambal Kangkong and Hotplate Deer Meat.

Well, of all 4 dishes, the best were the Cereal Prawns in my opinion. The prawns were fresh, did not have any fishy smell, and was deep fried to perfection. The crayfish was not enough for the 3 of us, but we weren’t complaining as it was RM30 for it. Somehow, the crayfish was not very meaty but were still fresh nevertheless.

Wee Lin: My favourite was the crayfish though, digging out the whole chunk of white succulent meat from the crayfish and popping it into your mouth to enjoy the chewy and slightly crunchy texture was simply an orgasm in my mouth.

The Sambal Kangkong was very spicy but nice. Not overcooked but the portion was minuscule which was kinda disappointing. The stupid lady boss forgot to serve us our stingray piping hot and left it standing on the countertop. Hence it was lukewarm and totally spoils the taste.

Wee Lin: Yeah the portion for the kangkong was definitely pathetic, I mean come on it’s only vegetables, how much can you skimp on vegetables? But the chilli definitely packs a punch for me

We also had our seafood with freshly made sugarcane juice (RM 2.50). Kinda expensive you think? Well, consider that spicy and oily seafood plus the fact that the sugarcane juice was served in large beer size mugs, it was worth it.

Wee Lin: The sugarcane juice tasted kinda weird. Firstly there’s not much foam at the top and I didn’t taste the sandy sugarcane taste you find in local sugarcane juice. It also looked kinda dark as compared to the local version. Not my cup of tea sugar cane.

To get there, tell the taxi driver Taman Sri Terbau Food Centre or Da Ma Hua Yuan in Chinese. It should cost you around RM7 to get there from City Square.

Till then,

Eat the good stuff. And don’t get robbed ;P