Happy 1.5!

Le & I celebrated our 1.5 Anniversary just this Saturday and had such a great time!

I was honestly unsure if I wanted to blog about our 1.5 or just do individual reviews on the 3 places we went to but decided to just stick to one loooong post. Why? Because my boyfriend deserves some credit for planning the day.

We planned to meet at Holland V @ 2pm but being typically me, I arrived at 2:20pm (not that bad imo HAH) and immediately spotted this beautiful bouquet of flowers in Le's hands. Even as I'm typing all of these, I can see it in the corner of my eye and the colours just makes me soooo happy!

Isn't it just the prettiest bouquet ever?!!!?

After my fair share of spazzing and going crazy over the gorgeous bouquet (I can never say it enough), we headed to Project Acai for a light lunch. He initially wanted me to choose between this, Sunday Folks or Patissez. I personally, didn't enjoy Sunday Folks the last time I was there so it was between Patissez and Project Acai but ...

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OMG PLS?????? So pretty but the number of calories in this jar is off the charts.
When it comes to over-the-top milkshakes like these, Patissez was the one that started it all. I drooled as I read articles after articles on this BUT if I had this, I'll have to skip my dinner *cries*

Project Acai

Despite being a Saturday, we managed to grab a seat at a corner beside the window - aka perfect lightning. The cafe wasn't big but the turnover rate of customers was quite high so I doubt it'd be tough to find seats. There is also a small sitting area with pillows for customers who would prefer to stay around longer and get some work done. 

(Apologies for the absence of price because I forgot to take the receipt!)

Original Flower Bowl - Handy

I'm sure many of you aren't new to Acai Berries but if you are, here. 

Although small, this little Acai Bowl packs a punch. I was pretty much full after eating this because it is so high in fibre (let's not forget the chia seeds on top) but I give it to myself for having a tiny ass stomach so if you're a big eater, please go for the larger sizes.

Nuts for Acai Bowl - Medium 
The smallest size for this bowl was medium so I gave this to Le since he had a bigger appetite than I did and choose Cookie Butter out of the 3 butters (Cookie, Peanut and Almond) available.
Admittedly, this was much nicer but, also had more calories. If you're a health junkie and enjoy eating clean, this bowl will feel more like a dessert to you because of the butter but if you're in it for the taste, this is the one you're looking for.

Tummies satisfied, we took a walk around the vicinity and ended back where we were a year ago, on our 6th Monthsary, to take OOTDs and obviously the ajsdkfghl FLOWERS.

Wearing a denim jacket my mum got when she was a teen! Still in tip top condition.

Next on the list was Fosters. Fosters is a Steakhouse that is also known to serve the cheapest High Tea in Singapore, without skimping on quality.

Fosters

Having read through quite a couple of good reviews on this place, I was initially quite displeased by how noisy the restaurant was. Nevertheless, we were lucky enough to clinch the sofa seats and went ahead with our afternoon tea.

Devonshire Cream Tea Set ($11.50)
For only $11.50 per set, we were given 2 scones, an, albeit small, slice of cheesecake and a salmon mayo sandwich served alongside a tea of our choice. I had Earl Grey while Le got Peppermint.

The scones, I must say, were really tasty. The top was perfectly crisp while the inside was so soft and moist. We both agreed that the scones tasted better without the jam because, well, it's just that good. It was surprisingly filling too!

Honestly, I did not see myself enjoying the sandwich or expected it to be just meh but damn was I wrong. They were very generous with the amount of salmon mayo and we may have also been lucky because they seem to change their sandwich and cake flavours once in a while.

After lounging around the comfy sofa seats for a little bit lot, we made our way to Clarke Quay for dinner. Talk about fat! Thankfully, Le wasn't exactly hungry when we got to Clarke Quay so we push back our reservation and tried to digest some of the many things we've been eating throughout the afternoon.

Try hard artistic shot but the sky was really gorgeous.

The highlight of his night -

8 Korean BBQ

We've been eyeing this place for quite a long time but never felt like it was the right occasion to take a trip down because this was considered more atas, something our wallets can't handle well. Refusing to smell like Korean BBQ, we requested for outdoor seating and even though they warned us that it would be hot, it didn't really affect me after tying up my hair.

4 Colours Set ($58 + $6 for Army Stew) There is a beef option too.
If you're not sure how the "colour" works, they have 8 different flavours of pork belly and we get to choose 4. For bigger groups, you can get the full 8 Colours set and 1 of each flavour. Simple! We chose 2 light and 2 heavy flavours as recommended - Wine and Garlic for the light flavours, Kalbi and Red Pepper Paste for the heavy flavours.

The meat, kindly cooked and cut up nicely by the waiter, told us that we should eat from the lightest flavour down to the heaviest so we started off with wine down to red pepper paste. My favourite was garlic followed by wine, kalbi then red pepper paste.

The wine was pretty subtle, just enough to enhance the flavour of the meat without being overly alcoholic, but best eaten alone. Wrapped in lettuce, I could barely taste the wine. As for the garlic, it tasted good with or without lettuce. I finally understood what the Running Man members felt like whenever they ate the sizzling bbq meat on tv. :') so good.
Kalbi was tasty but nothing out of the ordinary and finally, we were both very disappointed with the red pepper paste flavour. It wasn't spicy. At all. I expected it to taste of Korea but nope, not one bit.

All sets come with a Seafood Bean Paste Stew so we topped up $6 for the Army Stew instead. There wasn't much to shout about for the Army Stew, probably just there to fill you up.

Overall, it was a good experience trying something out of the regular $20++ kbbq buffet. The meat was pretty much cooked to perfection and I really enjoyed my time there. One downside would be the price, definitely. Apart from being situated at Clarke Quay, nothing about this place justifies the price because our total bill came up to $80 when it felt more like a $60-70 meal.

Deadbeat from waking up early that morning for Sean's Parade, we took a trip back to Holland V because my dear boyfriend left his phone at Fosters (thank God they are nice people!) before heading back home.

It was really an enjoyable day just eating and chilling around with the person I love. In hopes for more days like these, Happy 1.5 to us once again. Yay!

xx.