I thought we would get a cake when my parents came to visit but there just wasn’t much time. So, finally, we decided to get one. Salted caramel red velvet cake. The cake has been staring at me for weeks, months even. Butter Studio opened just a couple of months ago. It was a juice bar before. The popcorn, pretzel and waffle cone all looked nice but they were a little stale and/or soggy. I am not sure getting the cake any fresher would alleviate that issue. As for the cake, it was soft, fluffy, moist. Red velvet-y. So, it tasted like chocolate cake. The frosting was tasty. I am pretty sure it had glitter on it. It was kind of expensive but cake in Singapore is. Nice and tasty as a cake but the things that make it pretty were a little disappointing.

So this Valentines’s day we were going to be apart but then Triston booked his flight to help me organise stuff in Sydney. Before he arrived but after he booked his ticket we found out a lot of the things I needed help with no longer needed to be done. Handy and not. We had the Park Hyatt Sydney booked for Thursday and Friday nights but the annoying task of selling all the random stuff in our apartment was far too time-consuming for us to be able to proceed. Sadly we cancelled. Although we probably shouldn’t have because we pissed the time away and didn’t achieve a whole lot. I have a whinge about that on my gumtree selling post. Anyhoo, because we were home and not somewhere fancy and refreshing we didn’t really celebrate. Nice to be together, that is for sure. Instead of glamour and luxury, we had lunch at Jumbo Thai in Pyrmont. It was an old favourite. It costs quite a bit more than we pay in Singapore but it is …

Miam Miam is on level 2 of Bugis Junction, on the BHG side, not the foodcourt side. Occasionally we will walk past. They have big soufflé pancakes advertised which look amazing. Traditional soufflés are on the menu too as well as french toast. So, for whatever reason, we decided to go for dinner and have pasta because if you see a pancake you like, why not have pasta? Triston went with the Modern Yaki, and he thought the name was fitting. He thought it was yucky. That is a shame. I had the Carbonara. It was decent. Maybe too traditional for me. A little too salty. I think that makes it a good one, the properly made ones do tend to be salty. Too salty for me. The meals were decently large which meant we had no room for the pancakes. We sat for a while to try and wait for hunger to return but we were just too full. We still haven’t had a sweet at Miam and I reckon they would be tasty. …

Monster curry is a large chain. You may have heard of it. Before arriving in Singapore we hadn’t. We have dined at both the Bugis and Suntec Monster Curry outlets. Generally, we will go on a week day lunch to take advantage of their lunch special. You basically pay standard price for the curry but you get a soup, drink and ice cream for free. It is actually a really large meal and one is probably enough between two, yet, we get one each. We have had Monster Curry for dinner and just shared one dish with extra rice. Yet, at lunch time we go with one each and all the extras. Weird. I guess that is marketing for you. You get to choose hot spicy you want the curry. Triston will go for none or 1 and I usually go with a 3. Every time, they give mine to Triston. I guess it is just assumed the male can handle heat better. Not sure why that is the assumption, it is nice and emasculating …

Tombik is a dish I hadn’t heard of before Singapore. In fact we were living there over a year before I even heard of it there. It is like a kebab but instead of on a flat bead is it on a nice Turkish bread roll. Triston had one with a work college at a different store and then took me a few weeks later. On my way to have lunch with him one time I saw it on the Menu at Sofra and it was actually listed as cheaper. The amazing thing is their listed price includes the tax. That is almost unheard of in Singapore. They also have a lunch set special which comes with a drink. $8.90 including tax and a drink. I can eat cheaper in Singapore but I can’t really eat Turkish food cheaper in Singapore so it is amazing value. Plus it is a sit in restaurant, quite a large one at that. In Shaw Tower on Beach Road is happens to be half way between our apartment and …

My flight to Australia is fast approaching. I will be super busy when I arrive. We weren’t sure how early I should leave for the airport and after I checked in a delay was posted for the flight. Later, the answer was we should have left later than we did. With time to fill but not wanting to sit alone in the airport, albeit in the Qantas lounge, we had dinner. My choice, Shake Shack. I had the smoke shack and Triston had the standard shack. We both had a vanilla milk shake but I added malt onto mine. As far as burgers go, they delivered everything you expect from shake shack (or Betty’s Burgers if you have not had shake shack before but happen to live near Betty’s like we used to in Darling Harbour). The burgers were fine. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat them. The milkshakes were great. My shake was better than the burger, I thought. My shake was super thick and very malty. Triston’s plain vanilla was …