The Dispensary Bakery @ Tiong Bahru

When you heard of Tiong Bahru, what will be your first thought and the impression of Tiong Bahru? Your first impression might tell you that Tiong Bahru are quiet and old neighbourhood estate. Or you might think that Tiong Bahru is only famous for their Tiong Bahru Market. You are half right.

Do you know that Tiong Bahru are the oldest housing estate that was built by the then United Kingdom colonial. You can find many architecture with the mix of streamline moderne shop houses and buildings around Tiong Bahru. It left behind the charm and rich heritage of Tiong Bahru.

Many investors came over to Tiong Bahru to setup their business due to the charm, chic housing architecture of Tiong Bahru. Furthermore Tiong Bahru are now known as Heritage and conservation area.

Many old shop houses and housing estate are converted into modernise theme cafes or boutique hotels which added to it charm in Tiong Bahru.

At Blk 69 Tiong Bahru Road, it was once a glory Chinese Medical Hall which served the residents before it was abandoned for few years (I used to work around Tiong Bahru around year 2006) before The Dispensary Bakery took over and changed the fate of the Chinese Medical Hall.

The Dispensary Bakery is located at the heritage area of Tiong Bahru. It located opposite LINK Hotel and beside Nostalgia Hotel.

Why they named Dispensary Bakery? As it was once a Chinese Medical Hall, they tried to preserve the old appearance of the old Chinese Medical Hall with the western/modernise concept to their Bakery store.

When you first step into Dispensary Bakery, you might be mistaken that you are entering medical hall. They displayed many nostalgic items which brings back the childhood memories.

Dispensary Bakery displayed their products and displays very neatly and tidy, You also can see that they tried their best to restore every bit of the premise to it original status as much as possible.

You can find many retro decoration displays like the poster, wall clock and many more. They also provided outdoor seat for those who prefer to breath fresh air or those who do not like air conditional.

You should try their signature cake and please visit early to avoid disappointment as their cakes are selling fast!

For those who love retro kind of concept, you definitely love this place! You may wish to click here to view more photos of The Dispensary Bakery!

The Food Dot

Little India which is located in the North Eastern of Singapore, where the Indian forefathers doing their trade here during the colony time. This is the place where they call it as home. In today context, Little India is still exist where you can explore around.

In the vibrant neighborhood of Little India, you can learn on Indian rich history and their culture, you can taste their delicious and tasty food, celebrate their festival together and better understanding and respect their place of worship.

In people perspective, they thought that Little India is just a place of interest to the overseas guests without exploring around. you would never expected to find a place to chill out with your loved one or having HI-Tea at Little India.

The Food Dot which is owned by Chief John See. His half Cafe, half cooking studio located at 70 Race Course Road, Singapore 218572. Nearest MRT Station: NE7/DT12* Little India Exit E.

The Food Dot offers various of choices just for you. You can enjoy his delicious pastry, enjoy HI-Tea with your loved one or enjoy the HI-Tea buffet. If this is not enough for you, you can able to learn hand- on baking pastry or learn how to cook Singapore local food.

Last Saturday, my friends and I had this great opportunity to visit to the Food Dot for our first gathering and also enjoy the HI-Tea buffet. Upon reaching the Food Dot, Chief See greeted us and the crew member served us our dining seats.

The Cafe somehow look like a showroom but very neat kind. The ambience was very homely feel. At the back of the premise will be The Food Dot Cooking Studio where they will prepared the food and served all their guests who visited them.

After we settled down, Chief See told us the brief of his pastry creation that we are going to have it for our HI-Tea Buffet. They also prepared Iced Lychee Rose tea and ice cream for us. After that, the Chief See helped us took photos with his yummy pastries that should not be missed!

The texture of the pastries looked so delicious. Once you looked at it, you will be drooling away and wanted to try it straight away! You can enjoy the Coffee Pudding, Waffle, Dark Chocolate cake, cookies and many more.

We also paid for their Macaroons (2 for SGD$5.00). Green Tea and Chocolate flavour. But I preferred Chocolate flavour instead as the Green Tea tasted too milky and weird (I am not a milky person).

Look at the photos, We are satisfied and had a pleasant experience for our HI-Tea buffet at the Food Dot.

We loved the ice cream! Especially the Rum and Raisin. We can tasted alcohol in the ice cream. They also included icy and plenty of Raisin! As a Raisin lover, It was a bonus for us!

Soon after, they changed Iced Pineapple tea for us. Which all of us do not like it as it was simply way too sweet compared to the Iced Lychee Rose Tea.

Our small suggestion was that, it will be great if they served Iced Lychee Rose Tea due to the pastries and the ice cream sweetness which will caused the Iced Pineapple Tea to be extremely sweet!

Furthermore, Ice Lychee Rose Tea can makes us feel more refreshed and easy to digest the pastries which was served to us.

Overall, we really enjoyed ourselves at the Food Dot! This is the first time that we felt extremely full just to eat the pastries! We did not even refilled the pastries as well.

To view more of the photos, you can visit to my FaceBook Page here.

Paris Baguette Singapore

When you first heard of people mentioning about Paris Baguette Cafe or when you visited to Paris Baguette Cafe to dine in, you might thought that this cafe was from French. You would never ever thought that Paris Baguette Cafe actually based in South Korea!

Paris Baguette Cafe located at 435 Orchard Road, #02-48/53 Wisma Atria. Formerly where Ding Tai Feng was located.

Although the cafe premise is small but yet their interior designs are cozy. Most of the time Paris Baguette cafe can be full house. So you need to be patient while finding the seat. Most of the employees here are Korean but do not worry about it as they can speak very fluent English.

They offers wide range of selections of breads, brunch, desserts and drinks for you to choose from. And they are very creative to name their cakes.

You must try their signature pudding as their pudding are very tasty. Furthermore, the pudding are very popular and always run out of stock!

You can try their cakes! Their cakes are soft and contains real fruit and very sweet too. Those who loves to eat cake should try it!

Paris Baguette second outlet will be located at JEM, Jurong East, Singapore.

Paris Baguette third outlet will be located at Tampines Mall, Singapore.

Paris Baguette will be open their new outlet at Changi International Airport, Singapore too!