Sorry for the lack of posts and effort in blogging. As in the previous posts, I’m busy planning for the exchange (sometimes I feel so fed up over it that I don’t want to go already). Don’t get me wrong, I love travelling, I just don’t like to be constrained when travelling/overseas. It’s hard to elaborate further on this constraint thing, well put in a 2 words: TIME AND MONEY.
Anyway today’s post is gonna be about our staycation before National Day! Read the previous posts here and here.
So after the Bailey’s and movie session that night, we went to sleep at 2plus! So much for wanting to stay up right. Fail sia. Honestly I didn’t sleep much, I prefer my own bed! But we woke up at around 8 to 8.30am (thanks to my alarm hehe) and surprisingly everyone woke up too. We went to The Forum for breakfast. Initially we wanted MCD (I think) or toast box but we saw that Ruyi (Basement 1) had breakfast sets so we went there! You can choose either Fish/Chicken Porridge or fried rice and they come with a cup of coffee/tea for $5.50!
Shared the chicken porridge with Rachel, together with peanut toast from toast box. And of course you got to mix all the ingredients in the porridge! Personally I didn’t like the porridge. It’s quite grainy and not the smoother and silkier kind of porridge that I anticipated. Furthermore the chicken taste like it’s leftover from the night before. The tea came in quite a small paper cup. It would be better if it’s refillable. I think for $5.50, it’s not worth it. They do have the non-breakfast menu available as well.
So after not-so-nice breakfast at Ruyi, we went to Starbucks to have some coffee fix! This Starbucks at RWS is different from all other Starbucks in Singapore as it sells coffee that are made from more exotic beans. I thought that it would be quite expensive to have a cup of coffee made from these exotic beans, however, the price range is about the same as a cup of normal Starbucks coffee. I love the vintage feel of the storefront, makes me want to go in and explore! It’s located on the first level at the Forum.
A close up of the menu for the reserve coffee, in case you think I’m kidding you that it’s the same price as normal coffee. I was a little disappointed that they don’t have Kopi Luwak. Kopi Luwak is otherwise known as cat shit coffee, a very direct term for it. But despite the name, the coffee is actually very nice but it’s so expensive! One cup can costs up to $20+ in some countries or even more. But I can never forget the taste of it because it’s so good on its own, even without sugar.
A description of what we ordered. We ordered the Guatemala Finca Los Caballitos, Pour Over type @ $6.50. Difference between pour over and French press? I’m not sure too, pour over as the name suggests, it’s just pouring hot water (of a certain temperature) over a piece of filter paper with the coffee powder on it. French press is like pressing coffee taste out from the powder. So one is press, one is pour.
The barista showing and telling us how she actually made the coffee. It was really nice seeing how she actually make our cup of coffee and she also advised us how we should go about drinking it. She got us to try the first sip before deciding whether we want to add milk accordingly. It was quite bitter so we asked for milk and sugar to taste. The original taste of the coffee tastes like a milder version of black coffee and with a very light tinge of sourness. The barista told us that we’re supposed to taste some lemon but we aren’t coffee connoisseurs so we didn’t really taste that. Anyway after drinking many mouthfuls of it, I think the taste wasn’t too bad! Just add some milk and sugar!
doing the pour over, fascinating that the “cup” has a little hole below for the coffee to drip into the cup
always sauntering. 