CNY 初二 // Ninja Bowl

Okay here's the 2nd post!!

As I've said previously, this year's CNY is different, which applies for the 2nd day as well!! Usually my family will go my mum's godma's house to 拜年 but this year I spent it with my besties!!! HEHEH it has been long since we 3 met up together wew. We met at Soph's house first to nua for like 1.5 hours. We just sat and talked and played with Happy. Wah he's very obedient today and he even sat beside me man so cute!!!

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Headed out at 11.30am to take train to go to Ninja Bowl. Google Maps estimated 47mins of travelling and our reservation was at 12.30pm so we thought we'll like reach early or on time but no man. Got a bit lost after getting out of the station and spent like 10-15mins finding the place. It didn't help that the signboard was so unnoticeable as well lol we walked past without noticing it.

Get what I mean lol

Upon opening the door

counter with cake selection

We took quite a while to decide on what to get cause everything seemed so good?? We were there for the bowls which were priced between $14-16 and base add-ons of ninja rice (brown rice+pearl rice)/ orzo pasta (pasta shaped like rice grains)/ garden greens (lettuces) for $2 or quinoa for $3! Their bowl names pretty unique, all Japanese names eh! HAHA but omg their brunch items look damn tempting tooo :((( Okay anyways, here's what we selected!

ps sorry for bad quality photos this time round 😥 kinda screwed up the camera settings :((

Iced Honey Yuzu, Iced Cafe Latte, Black Current sparkling water

Ki's Kaisen

The Kaisen bowl consisted of pan-seared Hokkaido scallops, mussels, carrots, mixed mushrooms and lemon butter sauce. Ki added ninja rice to her bowl and ordered a glass of Iced Cafe Latte ($6) !

"Mmm I liked the bowl a lot but I felt it was slightly heavy and so I took a longer time to eat after a while, especially the mushrooms. the rice also was on the heavy side but I would've liked it a lot if it had less 料 alongside it. but the scallops were so nice omggggg 😗😗😗 I think I'd prefer to add the garden veggies next time instead for a crunch that offsets the richness of the 料 so I won't end up so full like today ://

I was kinda shocked that my bowl had mussel shell shards inside. none of them cut me or anything but I'm still pretty worried cos it could be like a kid or somebody else cutting their mouth or even worse with the shards. they should prolly check the bowls more carefully?

Also, the coffee was alright? I liked the slight thickness of the coffee but I had to add syrup halfway cos it just didn't go with the hearty bowl well :(( The slight bitterness wasn't very pleasant halfway though the bowl, probably should have ordered like juice instead."

I tried one scallop and it was a big piece that was of good chewiness nomnom.

My Genki 

look at that bowl size LOL

The Genki bowl consisted of yaki unagi, Korean beansprouts, pickled beets, onsen egg and roasted pumpkin. I added garden greens to mine and ordered a glass of Iced Yuzu Honey ($7 + $0.50) ! Omg I really love my bowl?? The unagi was soft and was not very jelak. My bowl had many crunchy stuff of the beansprouts, beets and lettuce hahaha, I quite like the pickled beets actually! Like the sourness adds a different tone to each mouthful of veggies. The roasted pumpkin was my love omg 😍😍 They're so soft and mushy and just so good!!! The black pepper added a nice touch of flavour to them too I think! It was pretty damn filling okay, damn heng never order rice hahah

Omg the Honey Yuzu was like scam my money lol We thought it's like those fruit drink but nope it's teabag of like honey yuzu flavoured tea I think fml and the flavour was so so slight that I felt like I was just drinking plain water... Went to get like some honey to pour in which was much better. Probably had to wait a bit for the tea favour to diffuse through the water too I guess since towards the end I could finally taste stronger tea flavour which was quite nice I think. Won't order it ever again though lol so bloody expensive omg :( It was supposed to be a hot tea so when I changed to iced, I had to top-up 50cents sigh.

Soph's Kabuki

The Kabuki bowl had seared honey chicken leg, baby corn, pickled beets, Korean beansprouts, onsen egg and fried shallots. She added ninja rice and ordered Black Current sprarkling water.

"The portion of food was huge and I felt like there was a lot going on. The buttered baby corn was unexpectedly easy to chew, I didn't like the beets tbh 😅 and although the rice with furikake was nice, it felt like too much overall.

The Black Currant sparkling water went pretty well with the bowl since it was pretty refreshing and balanced out the heartiness of the food."

I tried a piece of the chicken which was quite tender I think!! And I quite like sparkling water too, like it reminded me of less sweet Ribena.

We would probably return to try their other bowls and brunch items hopefully in the not-near future (our wallets crying from malnutrition) but definitely not buying their drinks. ever. So overpriced sobbles.

After our ultra filling lunch, we went to take some photos and walked around the area before heading to Mustafa Supermarket.

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Reached Farrer Park and holy smokes it was so crowded?????? We totally forgot it was like Sunday so everyone came out to shop or something fml. It was slightly intimidating tbh and we didn't get to enter the supermarket in the end as we saw the crowd hovering around the entrance and were like.... nope. So we just went to the nearby City Square Mall's Food Republic to sit down and like chat ahaha

Left at like 5.30pm for home and it was such a heartful day hhah that makes no sense but well, I love spending time with my besties hehe.