Vietnam, Ho Chi Ming 2018

March Holiday, and we are here at Vietnam for a holiday! 

Very uncommon for parents to bring little kids to Vietnam for holiday, but over the years, I have grown to love the culture and food of Vietnam and would not mind bringing Sharize here at all! 

waiting for taxi to head to the airport

taking off! 

Cu Chi War Site 

Vietnam Cafe Hop! 

Inside Cu Chi Tunnel! 

River Tour! 

Cafe fun! 

Love from us! 

The Big 3-O!!

This year I turn 30, and I am elated and proud to say that I am happy and glad to turn 30 with a lovely hubby and also a cute little baby.

Here are some photo of the celebration I have!

Spending my day with my baby

She love to sit but hate when it moves... Good lah, mummy save money! 

Daddy buy eggless red velvet cake so that baby can share some with me too... 

Day out @ Marina Square

Buffet Lunch @ Pan Pacific Hotel 

Cute! 

CAKES 

LOVE 

Till the next celebration! 3-0 but not oldie! 

Taiwan Again 2016; Yilan & Taipei

Stanley and I travel as and when we could and for the past few years, we been travelling almost every quarterly; during all the school holidays. Being a teacher, I get to enjoy all the school holidays thus, despite the high fareat, we travel every opportunity we have! Stanley always complain that he will never have enough leave for me to fly around, but I guess we been making things work for a couple of years now and we do still wanna keep it possible to fly together years from now.

June 2016, we fly to Taiwan again, as it is one of Stanley fav country! He loves Taiwan because of the warm and nice people and of cos great great food. Therefore, when we were discussing where to fly to this year for June, he was like let's go Taiwan again! And so we did.

Having been to Taiwan for like 6 or 7 times together already, we really wants this trips to be just a chill one; just to revisit the places we love and eat the food we had when we were there the previous times.

So here are a series of photos which is the collection of things we did in Taiwan; new and old. Not forgetting the things we love there too! =)

First meal in Taiwan as we travel to Yilan. 

Our hotel @ Yilan; Deer Hotel

Clean Toilet

Spacious Room!

Yummy Jap Food in Taiwan!! 

Little Jap Food Stall in Taiwan! 

MUST TRY!! 

@ Yilan... 

Monster Village!! 

Yilan Forest area!

Pretty place among the Suburb area of Taiwan! 

Seeing double! Stanley & Mr Sim... Hee Hee... 

Stanley Fav Taiwan Pig Leg Rice @ the Basement of Taipei Main Station, Been having this since we first visit taiwan together in 2009!! 

Happy Food, Happy Man! 

Air BNB in Taipei Main Station! 

Clean Toilet with washing machine... 

Meeting my friend Teri and her hubby in Taipei for HOTPOT!! 

Cat Village, Cat Cafe!! Love the meows meows!! 

Same Same but Different!! <3 this man! 

Beef Noodles in Taiwan!! 

Charashi Don from Sushi Take Away! 

Summing up our 8 chill days there, it was nice to have time spent together with the love of my life and back at the place we love and spent so much time and moment together!

Looking forward to many more travel time together!! Cheers!! 

Cafe Hopping Fun

Spent the past few weeks cafe hopping with peers and hubby and am here to share some great cafe food with all!!

1. Hatter St Cafe (Hougang)
212 Hougang St 21 #01-333 (Nearest Station Kovan)
Great place for waffles, cakes and ice-creams!

Visited Hatter St Cafe, with my friends and had some sweet treats and also spent time catching up!

Fruit Tart, which i find alright only, had better ones. So not recommended. 

Waffles on the other hand is recommended! 

Had  the mint chocolate and cookies & cream ice-cream on a waffle with salted caramel sauce. At first, we only wanted to try the mint because of its colour, but yup upon trying it, it is really good and no regrets! Unlike some waffles place with give just waffle, ice-cream and sauce, this have icing sugar and fruits to deco as well! Effort max!!

So thumb up and yup should try!


2. Rainbow Cottage Cafe (Ang Mo Kio)
452 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 #01-1777 (Nearest Station Ang Mo Kio)

This is not my first time here, I enjoy visiting this little cafe as the owner is nice and friendly and always have good recommendation from time to time, they bothers to spend time chatting with you and ask how is the food and service, and to me this is what makes this place successful!

This time round I visited it with a group of my ex-students (dancers) and we spent an afternoon there to chill and catch up with life! Was nice and cosy as usual and we tried their normal waffle, red velvet waffle, drinks and pizza.

Red Velvet Waffle, chewy and really nice comes with white chocolate sauce! Yum! 

Not only is their dessert good, so is their food food! Their Pizza is yummy too with lots of cheese! So great or cheese lover! 

If you have not try this place, pls do!! No regrets! 

3. Double Scoops Cafe (Ang Mo Kio)
226A Ang Mo Kio Ave 1 #01-627 (Nearest Station Ang Mo Kio)

Having visited so many cafe with my friends and ex-students, how can i not visit it with my hubby?

So decided to head to a cafe near our parents place on a Sunday and that is Double Scoops! They are well known for their desserts! Actually, looking at their menu, I won't eat anything else there, besides the sweet! They have great ICE-CREAM and wonderful Waffles!

Shop Front! 

Waffle with 2 Scoops! 

Hubby happy with his food! 

Besides waffle, they are famous for their thick toast, and for Ice-cream, their Thai Ice Tea and Orh Nee is really good! If you like yam, do try the Orh Nee, it is thick and yummy!

Vietnam 2015; Da Nang

Day 6 of Central Vietnam 2015.

Day 6 continues at Da Nang, a Cab from Hoi An to Da Nang cost about 350,000 dong (SGD$23). So we took a cab from Hoi An to our Airport at Da Nang; Happy Day Hotel, beside Han River.

So after checking into the hotel, we had our usual rest before heading out!

We walked 1.5km from our hotel to Big C @ Parkson Plaza. 

There, our shopping begins and we got lots of stuff!! 

Stanley carrying all the items back to the hotel in out 1.5km walk back! 

A simple act of love! He refused to let me carry any of the stuff! 

At night we head to the highly recommended seafood place @ Quan Be Anh for dinner! Seafood is super fresh and super tasty! Communication will be a problem but they have a lady who can speak some chinese which helps a lot!

Fresh live seafood! 

Must have Clam Soup, since Da Nang is actually City of Clam in Chinese so of course we must have the clams here! 

Giant Prawn which is almost like lobster! 

Sea Snails! 

Veggie! 

Sotong! 

It is a feast! 

After eating way toooooo much, we headed back to han river for a night walk! 

hmmmm.. the dream is to always hold hands and have night walk the rest of our life! 

Ended the day with Aroi Milk Tea from Aroi Dessert Cafe! 

Day 7 of Central Vietnam 2015. 

Last 2 days in Vietnam is pretty chill and relax, did not really plan much, so is just go with flow and see what we wanna do! Today, Stanley planned the day to be our date day! So it is all up to him! 

We started the day visiting Han Market! 

All the local produce! 

Map of Han Market is like a mini JJ in BKK! 

After that, we visit Cham Museum! 

Ticket cost 40,000 dong each person (SGD$2.67)

The History of Cham Island! 

Having Visited Cham Museum, we took a cab down to Lotte Mart. There you can get Korean, China and Japanese Imported goods! 

However, when we reach lotte mart, we saw a cinema and decided that it will be cool to watch a movie together overseas! So.... we did! We were worried that the show will be in Viet, so ponder for very long before we decided! We tried asking with lots of sign language and whatever english they could understand. We found out that for English Medium shows, PD means it will be in English, LT means it will be in Viet. So we caught the 11.25am show in PD; The good Dinosaurs.  

  

Buying my snacks! 

In the cinema! 

With my Pop corn! 

After the movie, we had lunch in the food court of lotte mart! Going the Local way! There is not much tourist so is just us and all the other locals eating! 

We also tried the massage chair! 

After a day @ Lotte Mart, we head back to Han River for our Date Night! There we took a walk along Han river before heading to Waterfront for Dinner!

Stanley planned this for a long long time!! He celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary there and surprise me with a necklace he brought from Singapore but was secretly hiding the entire trip! And HOW CAN I NOT KNOW? 

I was very surprise and cried! He is sooo sweet!!! And i did not buy him anything!! How Can?? Oh mann. Our plan was to celebrate 29 March and not 13 Dec, as 29 March is the date we got tgt and also out ROM, whereas 13 Dec is our wedding date! Too many dates to celebrate so trying to streamline! But he was still sweet enough to surprise me anyway! Love! 

After dinner, we took a walk down the beautiful han river towards Da Nang Souvenirs & Cafe. After which we head for dessert! 

The cheapest BR you will ever eat! 19,000 dong (SGD$1.30)

We each have 1! 

And I got more Aroi Milk Tea!! 

End the night with the fire spitting dragon of the dragon bridge! 

Day 8 of Central Vietnam 2015. 

Last day in Vietnam before we head back to Singapore! 

Our flight back will be at 8pm so we have the entire day again! But we really just wanted to chill! So last day was really simple! We head out late and make our way to Parkson Plaza! There we chilled and cafe around and also had lunch! 

After which, we head to Con Market to visit yet another local market, before heading back to the hotel to pack! 

Before flying back we had BR again! 19,000 dong still! 

Dinner was simple as we just eat at a food court near our hotel before cabbing to the Airport! 

We ended our 8 days of fun in Vietnam with our direct flight back to Singapore! It was indeed a great experience with lots of first! And we look forward to our next adventure!