Tag: West Singapore

Tanjong Beach Club @ Sentosa

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Navigating one’s way around Singapore can be a tricky affair at times, especially with her ever changing infrastructure, and not forgetting – and this is my greatest pet peeve – the ever so strange way we name our places and buildings. Like how some places are named after a district that they’re not even located in.

Heck, there’s a certain Pasir Ris Secondary School right smack in my neighbourhood, and I sure as hell am not living in Pasir Ris!

Luckily, Tanjong Beach Club (TBC) is nowhere near committing this cardinal sin; its name is as straightforward as its location: right in Tanjong Beach at Sentosa! Though some might easily confuse it with Tanjong Pagar,  going by evidence in hash tags on Instagram.

Arriving at its pristine white entrance with a couple of colleagues one sunny Saturday afternoon, who would’ve guessed that we would be stepping into a tropical oasis with a 1950s beach resort concept:
Tanjong Beach Club

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Student Meals @ Watami Japanese Casual Restaurant (Star Vista)

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The perks of being a student in Singapore are endless: with bus concessions, special memberships and the like, getting by with our hectic schedules and heavy workload gets a wee bit easier when we have perks like these to look forward to. C:

And the best student perk of all?

STUDENT MEALS! Hey, since we are a nation that’s well known for her rich cuisine and dynamic eating culture, why not? I’d say bring on the grub! 😀

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Famished and wanting to escape the post-exam crowd in school, my friends and I headed over to Star Vista after we heard about Watami Japanese Casual Restaurant’s Student Meal, which offers ala carte items from their lunch sets for half the price!

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[CLOSED] Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice Eating House

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Update June 2020: Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice Eating House has closed.

Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long; four years of living close by to what could possibly be the best duck rice in Singapore and it never occurred to me to check out this humble stall. It wasn’t until I heard that Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice Eating House would be serving its final plate of braised duck rice on 22 June 2013 that I found out that this gem of a stall was about a mere five bus stops away from my Hall in NUS.

Can you believe it? All this time I never knew such good food existed (almost) right outside my doorstep, and here I am, about to graduate and move away from this strategic spot!

But as they say, it’s better late than never, and late though it is, I’m definitely not going to miss out on this chance to try the much talked about Teochew Boneless Duck Rice before it disappears for good.

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[CLOSED] Humble Origins Cafe @ NUS

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Update 20 Jan 2025: Humble Origins has closed.

Humble-Origins

Happiness is a scoop of vanilla ice cream; all other things are secondary.

If you’ve been hanging around LT 11 and 12 at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (NUS), you’d probably have noticed a quiet and cozy cafe run by cap-donning baristas- that’s right,  I’m talking about Humble Origins Cafe which opened in August last year.

Drawn in by its relaxed atmosphere and soothing music, I’ve been frequenting Humble Origins for its drinks in between classes, but I never tried its array of baked goods that practically beg to be eaten whenever I head to the counter for a Root Beer Float or Coffee with Ice Cream. 

Well, this week I finally gave in to temptation and succumbed to not one, but three of the “new” items on the menu! Oh, the joys of indulgence

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