Souvenirs from NYC

Some colleagues came back AERA 2018 Conference in New York City nd got me these sweet souvenirs! 

Sweet Debriefing

After another day of data collection, my RA/friend, Cheryl and I had a debriefing and break at a cafe nearby the school. It was a sweet debriefing with our charcoal waffles and ice cream. :)

Cuteness

It's time to eat these, regardless of how cute they look! Expiry date coming up! Haha.

Childhood Memories: Morinaga Milk Candy

Here is another one of my childhood memories: Morinaga Milk Candy. I used to have this when I went back to Taiwan annually as a child. In the early days, there was only the original - milk caramel flavour. Now there are different flavours such as green tea matcha, red bean, vanilla, black seasame, etc., and it is available in Singapore too. Despite the many flavours available, my favourite remains the original - milk caramel as it is deeply entrenched as part of my childhood memory after all. :) 

Milk Caramel (Source: www.tnh.com.br)

Milk Vanilla is not too bad either. :)

House of Mini

I saw House of Mini when I was at Yew Tee Point and just couldn't resist buying the mini donuts for my RAs. I initially wanted to buy the mini cupcakes because they were so CUTE!! But I was so lost in what to choose that I gave up lol. :P (no pics of the donuts because I didn't have my camera with me)
However, here are some photos of the mini cupcakes! My RAs were so enthralled with the mini donuts that they went to Jurong Point where there is another House of Mini branch haha. :P They went nuts and bought three boxes of mini cupcakes (each box of 6)! :P



House of Mini is on Facebook too. Log in to find out more about their mini donuts and mini cupcakes.

Craving for Sweets

Tonight, I had a sudden craving for sweets!! Since going sugar-free, there is hardly any sweet stuff at home. I just couldn't take it any more. I desperately need something sweet!

The girls' father came home, had his dinner and off we went to Holland Village. There would be something at HV that will appease my craving, lol.

We tried 2am: desserts. It is a place more for yuppies, couples, but not really for families with young children. They either had seating at usually high tables or sofa seating. But you had to remove your shoes to sit on the sofa because the sofa is deep and once seated, your feet would be the only part of your limbs that are sticking out of the sofa. Definitely no mini or micro mini-skirts for ladies, lol.

We ordered two desserts to share:
Twix ($13): brunt caramel mousse, peanut crumble, home-made valrhona chocolate ice-cream. The mousse was fantastic, but maybe it's because I love caramel, lol. It went really well with the peanut crumble which gave it extra crunch, literally too, lol. The ice cream, on the other hand, I thought wasn't necessary, it didn't really add value to the mousse.


Apple Pudding ($13): apple crumble, caramel beer sauce, cinnamon spice ice-cream. It wasn't the usual apple crumble for the pastry was moist, more akin to a christmas pudding kind of apple crumble. The caramel beer sauce was poured over the apple crumble. It was nice enough but nothing to shout about. I like the cinnamon spice ice cream though. It's really exotic and spicy in taste and I think it saved the apple crumble.


Overall, I think 2am: desserts is kind of pricey for desserts, even for a tai-tai wannabe like me, lol. The portions were fairly small too, having one dessert is just not enough to satisfy a dessert lover like me. :P

After the desserts, we popped into The Marmalade Pantry, a few doors away to see if we could still get any cupcakes. But they were sold out. The manager, who has become our friend now, gave the girls a piece of tea cake to try instead, without charge. That was really nice of her. :)

We did a little grocery shopping at Cold Storage such as getting my Almond Soy Milk, the girls' Chocolate milk, etc, before returning home.