Keisuke Ramen at Clarke Quay

Finally I have the time to write down about this place HAHAHA. I've been dragging a lot time (probably 2 weeks?) cause my life schedule is kinda hectic =(

WARNING!

This post contains lots of words and only 4 pictures as this is a reminder story for me that there is still awesome restaurant with awesome service out there. So don't complain that it's so wordy. I've warned you. LOL

Here it goes =)

Probably a lot of you have been here and know that this place has legit good ramen, however, I really want to write down this post to remind me how good is the service given to me and my boyfriend when we visited this place.

To be very honest, we did not know this place even existed (sorry not sorry, but both of us really haven't been exploring restaurant HAHA) I know that there are few eateries at Clarke Quay, but did not expect a Japanese ramen place to be there; cause you know Clarke Quay is drinking place and I did not associate drinking with ramen. Anyway, doesn't really matter. What matter most is the food quality and the service as well as the pricing of the food and beverage.

We knew this place thanks to the $10 voucher given to us by doing CapitaLand survey (we got 2 pieces! Woohoo!!) Just because I didn't know what to have for dinner, my boyfriend suggested we tried out the ramen place. It took us around 5 mins to find the place (mind you, it's because both of us kinda lost in this area) 

When we reached to the restaurant, we was taken aback as there was long queue (which we never expect) so we waited around 10 to 15mins. Well at least at the front queue, we managed to grab a seat and also drinks (provided at the entrance area, self-service for the water). After the wait, we were seated inside at the corner where we can see this huge bell in the middle for decoration purpose LOL

Right after seated the below catch my attention (although I know this is common haha). We ordered two ramen (to be honest I really forgotten which one my boyfriend ordered cause it's been too LONG !) and also ordered Sakura Cola. Picture below =)

Complimentary egg 😃

Lovely Sakura Cola =)

I have to be honest, for the Sakura Cola, it tasted just okay for me. I don't really know how to explain the taste, but it just doesn't taste like the normal Cola. It's bit sweeter and I can taste a bit sour plum? which I know is a bit weird HAHAHA. This is just for one time experience, as I was curious to know the taste and there will be no second time of ordering this. I rather just drink water LOL

As for the ramen, I swear I've forgotten what my boyfriend ordered (perhaps when we visit another time, I'll look up the name in the menu and then update it here. IF I remember ! HAHA) Meanwhile for me, I ordered the Miso Lobster ramen with egg (Ajitsuke Tamago, not the normal hard boiled egg). I can tell you it taste so good !! I finish the whole bowl by myself 😆

Meanwhile for my boyfriend, oh dear, so much drama !! Let me start narrating the drama HAHA

So he ordered the ramen and when it was served, I took picture (as usual). Right after that, he taste a spoonful of soup and gave me weird face and said "this is so bland!" I was quite curious so I took a sip (after tasted my ramen soup) and I definitely agree with him. At first we thought that it was like that, however, my boyfriend still doubting. In the end, we called one of the staffs and asked her if its normal.

She asked if we usually have stronger taste buds (meaning if you like more salty/spicy). If yes, we should not choose normal taste (there are three categories; less, normal, more (something like that, can't really remember). Thank God that she is quite understanding, and she took the bowl away.

However, on very next minute, the chef suddenly came out from the kitchen and apologized to us. He mentioned that it was their mistake that the ramen was bland. They eventually changed a new one to us and voila, tasted so much better !! My boyfriend enjoyed the meal to the last drop of the soup 😂 You can see the proof at my Instagram highlight.

The experience is definitely really good as they really care about customer feedback and immediately act on it. I know for someone who is little peanut like me, one complaint will just be another one customer lost, and it won't affect their business profit. I really appreciate the kind gesture of changing the ramen. What even surprised me more is that they actually let us eat it for FREE !! YES FREE !! The restaurant didn't charged us any single cent for the ramen that was being exchanged. I was shocked when I was leaving the restaurant and still could not believe it.

The final receipt ! At the end of the day, they only charged us one ramen and one cola =)

This is another reason why I bother to write so much word (sorry if you're looking for recommendation and I bore you with all these drama HAHAHA) and only 4 (YES 4. You can count it) pictures posted =)

I just want to write this down so I can remember there's this restaurant named Keisuke Ramen at Clarke Quay that still care about their customer although they are busy af !!

The address as per below:
3C River Valley Road,
#01-07 The Cannery, Clarke Quay
Singapore 179022

Opening hour - 6PM to 5AM daily
Nearest MRT - Clarke Quay

翠華 Tsui Wah Singapore

The new hype in town is this restaurant from Hong Kong, 翠華 Tsui Wah !!

Managed to visit on Sunday for brunch (we were there at 10.22am and started queuing LOL) Since it’s still fresh in town there’s no doubt that you will have long queue even before the opening hours. By 10.45am, one of the employees started to distribute fan (you can see picture below) for all the customers while another one started to take queue number (asking you how many pax and your name)

The Free Fan !! LOL

I did not manage to take the interior of the restaurant but I did snap few pictures of the menu (though it might not be that clear). Scroll below to see the picture =)

For this time, we ordered just 2 main and 1 dessert and a drink (both of us ordered the same stuff but it's not their specialty, which is milk-tea, because we had Gongcha yesterday so enough with milk-tea haha)

The dishes we ordered were Kagoshima-Style Braised Pork Cartilage with Tossed Instant Noddles, King Prawn in XO Sauce with Tossed Noodles, and Savory French Toast Bites served with Vanilla Ice-cream. Overall, the food was okay (not like wow! Delicious!!) but still acceptable. 

The King prawn was very fresh, but the noodle is too dry for me; so I added almost half bowl of the soup to the noodle LOL.

King Prawn in XO Sauce with Tossed Noodles, $11

My boyfriend had the other main and he really likes it. The pork cartilage is cooked to perfect tenderness and the noodle is not too soggy (it is like Maggie noodle LOL)

Kagoshima-Style Braised Pork Cartilage with Tossed Instant Noddles, $9.50

As for dessert, we had the French Toast. We waited for quite a long time (almost 30mins 😭😭) The table beside us ordered the Crispy Bun with Condensed Milk (one of their signatures), but eventually, they gave up and just canceled the order. The main reason why it was late (as per the employee) is because the vanilla ice-cream is not available anymore! Hence, they asked if it was okay to switch it to matcha which is totally fine with us =) When it was served, I was quite perplexed cause the ice-cream doesn't look like matcha ice-cream 😅 

 French Toast with Vanilla Ice-Cream, $9.50

The Yuen Yeung (coffee and tea) is mixed to perfection !! Love it so much that I don't mind to go back there again to have it HAHAHA

 Yuen Yeung, $4

To be honest, while I was waiting, I checked the review on their Facebook page (you can click here) and I was quite surprised as there are few 1star rated (mostly because of the waiting time for the food). But hey, let's be fair to the team too as it is still newly operated and all the operation might still be trial and error. 

Though we waited quite long for the dessert, the food is still good anyway (not that when it comes out the ice-cream melted and the toast tasted bad) so I will still give four-star =)

PS: THANK GOD they kept my boyfriend sling bag !! He left it at the restaurant and just realized it after 15mins later 😌😌 

Location :

翠華 Tsui Wah Singapore

Address - 3A River Valley Road, Clarke Quay #01-03, Singapore 179020

Opening hour - 11am - 11pm

Out from Singapore for 3 Days 2 Nights ! Desaru, Malaysia !!

Finally I gotten the chance to visit Desaru ! This visit is special for me as I am not exploring to the famous Desaru fruit farm or Ostrich farm or to see fireflies at night. It's a 3 days 2 nights trip, what did I do if I didn't visited those places which a lot people recommend?

Basically, first day when we reached Desaru, we just chilled. The second day is race day (scroll below to read more on this) with seafood night and the last day is purely chill, shopping at JB and went for a cafe tasting 😋

So, let's begin the journey !!

I shall start with what we did when we reached Johor. We decided to have lunch at Hwa Mei Bak Kut Teh (华美) which is located around 10mins from the Johor Custom. It's bit tricky though as the shop is located in a very small corner of the road.

The BKT shop)

I thought it will be those traditional served BKT (in one big hot pot with all the meat inside), but I was wrong. To be honest, I'm quite a bit disappointed as this is not as what I expected, but it's okay as the taste is still the herbal BKT that I miss so much. Three of us ordered one big bowl of pork ribs, small bowl of organs (I did not touch any of it)

Food that we ordered on for our lunch

For three rice and three drinks with all the food we ordered total spent was RM50.00 (inclusive of 6% GST), in SGD it's around $17 (conversion rate of 2.95). Below is the snap of the dish individually, see if you are tempted by them. If yes, then give it a try. No harm in trying eh =p

Big portion of Pork Ribs cost RM18.00

Preserved vege (Mei Cai) small size - RM7.00

The organs (😨) small bowl - RM12.00

After the lunch, we headed to Desaru straight away. It was quite smooth journey and it took us around 1 hour 15mins following Google maps (distance at 76.4km). Weather was good as well !

Looks cloudy on the beginning of the journey =(

The cloud decided to spread out and giving me nice view to take pic =)

So how did we end up choosing Desaru for our weekend getaway?

I decided to join my boyfriend for Desaru trip as I am rooting for him and his friend as they joined 113 Desaru Johor - 113 Triathlon (2km Swim, 90km Cycle, 21km Run) held at Lotus Desaru Beach Resort on the 5th May. I never see him in the race and decided to give it a try =) Plus I never visited Desaru, so why not !

Few pictures taken using Huawei P20 Pro.

I've labelled the picture so you can read each description below 😊

1. The banner spotted on the road before turning in to the resort
2. The start line of 113 Triathlon, the Elite (approx. 5 persons only) will get to start first
3. The beach to swim
4. 113 Triathlon route map
5. Route map for three categories (113 Triathlon, 113 Sprint, and 113 Mini)
6. Finishing line !

Although the race is at Lotus, we decided to stay at Sand & Sandals Resort & Spa as suggested by my boyfriend's cousin. It's also because I saw the room pictures from the cousin and fall in love with it. Lotus was quite an old establishment and the room might not be that clean as well, hence we decided to top up few dollars more.

After the race, the guys totally knocked out and rest for another few hours before we went to have our seafood night at Sengat Seafood Restaurant, which is 30mins (31.1km) drive from the place we stayed. Good food however location wise is totally unpredictable (we thought we were LOST!) but all in all, it's worth the experience =)

And on the very final day, we just chill at the beach/pool and checked out at 1pm and went for shopping at JB ~

Instagram worthy? 😂

I'll wrap up my stories on this entry. There are quite few stories that I will write more linking up to this trip and I'll update all the links here, so stay tuned !

»»—— To see the review for the place we stay, you can click here 😄

»»—— To see the review for the seafood place, you can click here 😄

»»—— To see the review for the cafe we visited this time at Johor, you can click here 😄

»»—— To see the review during the race of the 113 Triathlon by my boyfriend, you can click here 😄