Takeaway Desserts & Pizza

I stopped by The Sweet Spot @ MBS to get some more desserts. The lemon pound cake $14.90 is about the size of a brick, looking forward to my next tea-time already. The blueberry scone is $3.50 comes with butter and jam, the size is massive almost as big as the brick of cake.

I took a look inside the MBS Hotel gift shop and found co-branded TWG tea. There is Marina Bay Sands a green tea with fruity notes, Paris-Singapore a green tea with floral notes, White Sky Tea a white tea with ylang ylang.

Gold! Souvenir coins are $10 a piece and MBS-shaped gold ingots are under $1,000.

Sarpino's home delivery coz my parents are away on cruise.

My order from Sarpino's this time - salami pizza, calamari, carbonara spaghetti. The bacon in the pasta tastes like bak kwa, seriously.

Lavo @ MBS

It's like an Italian New York restaurant with an amazing view of the entire Gardens by the Bay.

Olive bread with olive oil and a really yummy lemon muffin drenched in sugar syrup. I actually bought a similar lemon pound cake at Sweet Spot after this meal, coz that lemon cake is really good.

Set Lunch included yellowfish crudo, better than sushi restaurants. I was expecting the charred octopus to be better coz it costs the same as this set lunch but its actually a coffee marinade. If you like coffee pork ribs from Tze Char stalls you would like this.

Spaghetti with meatballs, each meatball is an additional $6. This place serves meatball with ricotta cream as a starter so they cannot give it away for free I guess.

Dessert! I went out to get more desserts coz this was delicious but it wasn't enough.

Dancing Crab

 Dancing Crab is famous for its seafood boils that are dumped onto the table for the whole family to tuck into and that's what I ordered, in the signature hot sauce. This is a one person portion so it wasn't dumped onto the table.

This place is like a traditional seafood restaurant with freshwater tanks filled with live seafood, but its all western or cajun style food.

Lobster rolls here are $28 and if you order the set lunch its only $17, comes with pumpkin soup and fizzy lemonade.

I ordered one more side of garlic noodles that come plain but taste soo good, you can eat it on its own aglio olio.

YardBird @ MBS

Yardbird @ MBS serves American style cuisine but the decor and music is really masculine + rustico. If not for the good reviews on the food, I wouldn't come here at all.

I ordered the set lunch and Arnold Palmer iced tea, don't quite know what that is and there isn't any description. I like the mason jars and appetizers like deviled eggs, what I had here. It's a little sour but the smoked trout eggs on top are really good and make all the difference.

Best part of lunch is actually the hand-cut potato chips, unbelievably delicious especially with the sauces like ketchup, sweet chili and honey bourbon. I would order that on its own. The seafood roll I had was very fresh & bouncy.

Walking around The Shoppes I got an eyeful on Omega's new constellation watch strap, think it came out only a few years ago. Along with its new Day-Date watch face. Looking good in gold.

Chaumet Josephine ring, famously known as angelababy's $1.5 million dollar wedding ring.

Rolex President watch in solid gold is about $32,000 SGD. The all diamonds version is about $150,000 SGD.

Cartier's jewellery box bag is back Guirlande de Cartier, for those looking for a belated Valentine's Day gift this year.

I am still into Kwanpen croc, especially with the hardware. Clutches are under $5,000 sgd and bags are under $10,000 sgd.

我的聚宝盆

This is my fengshui Ju Bao Peng or Wealth Bowl. The trend before was different gemstone chip beads and now its crystal pebbles of the same colour. I thought about buying the marble ones on SGmall auctions but someone left this one lacquered coconut bowl at my place. Coconut husks like this are really popular in these yoga years and used to hold food, like the pic below.

I placed all my zoisites in one bowl. There is the gemstone Tanzanite, set into a pair of butterfly white gold earrings from Goldheart. Anyolite, also known as Ruby in Zoisite, faceted beads bracelet. Thulite, opaque pink cabochons that look like tumbled pebbles. Clinozoisite, gemstone beads in faceted leaf shapes.

These are pretty close to smoky quartz, one of my favorite gemstones. Only smoky quartz has an orange glow from within and clinozoisite has a greenish-yellow glow from within.

Thulites just look like coloured pebbles, closer to marble I would think. I started with these pretty pink pebbles when I put together my wealth bowl.

Very proud that I managed to find an unusual variety that I now know as Anyolite. It looks like watermelon and is often used to make objects d'art or home decor items. 

Tanzanite is really popular now, its natural purplish-blue colour is unique. The darker variety of gemstone Tanzanite actually resembles blue Sapphires. It's regular retail pricing is 12.5% to 25% of the price of blue sapphires, making it a real steal of a deal.