Starbucks celebrates National Day with limited edition Singapore flavored menu

As National Day approaches, Starbucks has introduced one Singapore flavored drink and four local hawker inspired food.

Here’s what they are:

Venti-sized Shiok-ah-ccino (S$8.20)

This vanilla cream Frappuccino is topped with chocolate chips and served with a waffle crisp. The Venti-sized drink comes with a complimentary reusable straw and a straw clip set. While stocks last.

Cheesecake Sandwich (S$6.90)

The cheesecake sandwiches, which looks like the old school ice-cream, is available in three flavors: cookies and cream, raspberry swirl, or blueberry swirl.

The raspberry swirl and blueberry swirl comes with waffles. The cookies and cream is wrapped around a rainbow bread.

Quinoa salad (S$9.90)

This chicken rice inspired salad is a healthy combination of cauliflower rice, quinoa, poached chicken slices, achar, cherry tomatoes, chicken skin crisps, and ginger.

Laksa Croissant Bowl (S$6.50)

This pipping laksa croissant bowl is topped with a prawn and a hard-boiled egg.

Satay Chicken Roll (S$6.90)

The dish is made with chicken and pineapple chunks and a nut sauce.

Images from Starbucks Website

Häagen Dazs offering 1-for-1 parfait from now till 19 July 2019

From now till this Friday (19 July 2019), Häagen Dazs is offering a one-for-one deal for its parfait crunch. The flavors available for this promotion includes the salted caramel, cookies and cream, and strawberry parfait.

One parfait retails from S$14.90.

This promotion is available only for take-aways and cannot be used with other promotions.

These are the Häagen-Dazs outlets in Singapore:

  1. Junction 8
  2. Hilton Walkway
  3. Holland Village
  4. Tampines Mall
  5. Westgate

One-For-One Parfait Crunch Promotion

When: Till 19 July 2019
Where: All Häagen Dazs Outlets
Cost: From S$14.90

Image from Häagen Dazs Facebook

There is now an app to help Muslim families located their beloved’s grave

Have you ever had the experience of trying to remember your loved one’s grave at a cemetery to no avail?

This problem will soon be history because an ingenious Singaporean has coded an app that allows Muslim families to locate their loved one’s site.

Pusara Checklist is the name of this Community-driven cemetery directory app that aims to help ease the search for information of the deceased.

It serves as a centralized public storage for keeping deceased-related information in place. Users can search for information such as name, grave address and/or death date via the search and filter functions.

There is even a Google map function to help you get to the actual site.

 

Japanese brand Emma opens store selling gravity defying ice-cream at Plaza Singapura

Japan’s popular ice-cream company, Emma has opened its first overseas outlet at the basement of Plaza Singapura.

This ice-cream brand is well-known for its rich soft serve made using premium Japanese ingredients. In fact, the ice-cream is so dense, it doesn’t not fall off even when its inverted.

This is the menu:

Signature Emma (S$5.80)

The original signature Emma ice-cream comes with Okinawa Brown Sugar Pearls.

Additional toppings like kinako (roasted soybean flour) powder, matcha powder or caramel syrup are also available.

Emma Soft (From S$4.80)

There are three options namely Emma Soft Milk (S$4.80), Emma Soft Mix (S$5.20) and Singapore exclusive flavor, Emma Charcoal Cheese (S$5.50).

Emma Dips (S$5.30)

There are four dip flavors to choose from. They include caramel, strawberry, matcha and chocolate. These ingredients, which work like your McDonald’s chocolate cone ice-cream, are imported from Japan.

Emma Handmade Waffles (S$6.80)

The wafer bubble mix soft serve is a delectable combination of home-made wafer topped with Emma’s signature soft serve ice-cream before adding crushed peanuts and warm, Okinawa brown sugar pearls. This dessert is also exclusive to Singapore.

Emma Soft Serve

Where: Plaza Singapura, #B2-45
Operating Hours: 1100hr – 2130hr
Cost: From S$4.80

Images from Emma Singapore Instagram & Klook

Spend S$10 at any Guardian and get back S$10 from now till 21 July 2019

From now till 21 July 2019, shoppers would be able to get 100% cashback of up to S$10 when they shop at any Guardian outlets in Singapore.

In other words, shoppers get S$10 worth of Guardian products for free! This promotion is also applicable on top of ongoing in-store offers.

3 Steps to earn S$10 Cashback
  1. Download, signup and link a card to your Shopback Go Account
  2. Visit any Guardian store in Singapore
  3. Pay using the linked card

The 100% cashback would be received within 48 hours.

You’re welcome.

 

Singapore Radio Stations are giving away National Day Tickets and here’s how to get them

For those of us who do not have much luck with the National Day Parade tickets, Singapore radio stations, 88.3Jia and Power98, are now running a contest to give away those tickets and here’s how you can earn them.

Currently, the radio stations are giving away tickets to the NDP Preview Show 1 on 27 July 2019.
5 Steps to Win
  1. Like the radio station’s Facebook Page Power98 &  88.3Jia
  2. Download the CAMOKAKIS radio app (For Android | For Apple)
  3. Tune in to listen out for the NDP 2019 theme song
  4. Take a screenshot of the app with the NDP 2019 theme song
  5. Share your screenshot in the comments section of the radio station’s Facebook page. You are also required to answer this question in no more than 80 words: If you could have any Singaporean personality perform for this year’s NDP, who would it be and why.
The 5 most creative answers will win a pair of NDP Preview 1 tickets or a set of NDP funpacks! Each set consists of 2 funpacks. There are a total of 4 sets to be won! Contest ends 19 July 2019. Terms and conditions apply.

BreadTalk celebrates 19th birthday with S$1 bun promotion from now till 21 July 2019

From now till 21 July 2019, BreadTalk is selling their popular buns for just S$1 each. This is part of their 19th Birthday celebrations.

The S$1 promotion for buns will start from 12pm daily.  While stocks last.

These are the list of all the S$1 buns:

  1. An Pan
  2. Bak Kwa Delight
  3. Butter Sugar Loaf
  4. Cheese Croissant
  5. Cheese Sausage
  6. Chocolate Croissant
  7. Coffi-O
  8. Croissant
  9. Curry Chicken
  10. Get Cheesy
  11. Gold Mine
  12. Ham & Cheese
  13. Multi-grain Croissant
  14. Pillow Raisin
  15. Sausage Standard
  16. Sugar Donut
  17. Sunflower
  18. Tuna Bun

In addition, a selection of tea cakes and muffins will also be available at S$1 each.

This promotion is available at all BreadTalk Outlets except CityLink Mall, Funan, ION Link, Marina Bay Sands, Raffles City, Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore Cruise Centre and VivoCity.

 

Images from BreadTalk Singapore Facebook

Streat Singapore Food Festival has food, drinks and entertainment

The main event of Singapore Food Festival 2019, Streats, is back today and tomorrow (12 & 13 July 2019) with food, drinks and music.

This year’s theme is “Savour Singapore in Every Bite”.

The Food

12 F&B stalls will be serving delicious hawker food and modern interpretations of local cuisine. The operators includes:

  • Archipelago Brewery
  • Artichoke Singapore
  • Jin Ji Teochew Braised Duck & Kway Chap
  • FatPapas Burgers and Shakes
  • Indian Express
  • MeatSmith SG
  • Restaurant Ibid
  • Sabar Menanti 2
  • Salted and Hung
  • SIRI House Dempsey
  • The Feather Blade
  • Wokin Burger

Among the offerings, look out specially for the Jin Ji Teochew Braised Duck & Kway Chap, zichar-inspired burgers from Wok In Burger, and chicken rice kueh pie tee from Salted & Hung.

New eatery outlet, Restaurant Ibid, will also be selling  Hong Kong-inspired brown butter beef curry dish and a yuan yang milk tea shaved ice dish.

The Drinks

There is also a pop-up bar by Origin Bar selling locally crafted district-inspired cocktails. All cocktails retail at S$15.

Some of the cocktail selection includes “Ma-sa-la” (Masala Spices, Gin, Single Malt Whisky, Milk Wash, Citrus), “Kopittan”(Local Kopi Vermouth, Bourbon, Black Cherry, Angostura Bitters) and “Local Negroni” (Hibiscus, Hawthorn, London Dry Gin, Campari, Sweet Vermouth).

The Entertainment

There are also live performances by our local talented musicians.

Boy band hauste, RETROFOCUS and Charlie Lim are slated to perform on 12 July 2019 while Glen Wee, Dreesbsby and Astronauts will entertain the crowd on 13 July 2019.

BONUS: Exclusive Launch

Be amongst the first Singaporeans to shop for snacks and drinks that are exclusively launched during this event. For instance, Yakun is debuting the limited edition Pocky flavours: Kaya Toast and Kopi O Pocky. Each box retails at only S$2.

Homegrown bubble tea brand, LiHo will also be launching an avocado Kopi drink (S$6.90).

Streat: Singapore Food Festival 

Where: The Promontory
When: 12 July & 13 July 2019, 1700hr – 2300hr
Prices: Free Admission (Food from S$3 – S$15)

 

Images from Muse INC Events

Tim Ho Wan is now offering S$3.80 per Dim Sum at these outlets

For a limited time only, Tim Ho Wan is running a S$3.80 per Dim Sum promotion on weekdays from 2.30pm to 5.30pm.

Diners can choose from more than 20 different food from the selected menu below:

Do note this promotion is for dine-in only and takeaway is not allowed. This promotion is only valid for Tim Ho Wan Jurong Point, Westgate and Citylink outlets.

Tim Ho Wan S$3.80 Promotion

Where: Tim Ho Wan Jurong Point, Westgate, Citylink
When: Weekdays, 1430hr – 1730hr
Cost: S$3.80++/dish

 

Images from Tim Ho Wan Facebook