What I bought in Singapore

My first purchase in Singapore was no surprise - more cute pasta *_*. Upon arrival in Singapore, my in-laws took us for a late lunch in Paragon. SIL showed me the DaPaolo Gastronomia shop where she bought the Disney Character pasta. Babylet was excited to see that the Mickey pasta was in stock, besides Princess and Pooh. So, bought the Mickey pasta and another pack of Princess pasta, this time in tricolour. BIL also bought more dinosaur pasta from Australia, so our pantry is well stocked with pasta for next year.
Went to the Hello Kitty counter at Takashimaya, and saw many bento boxes there - Hello Kitty, My Melody, Shinkansen, Twin Stars, and Cinnamoroll - mostly rectangular/oval shape. It took me a long time to decide and I finally bought this Hello Kitty box for its red colour and apple shape. Was also the cheapest there at SGD11.90. And picked up a HK belt too, just for the heck of it. *_^ The Shinkansen train is really popular in Sg. I've not seen any Shinkansen products in KL.
There were quite a number of Thomas the train bento boxes in the various shopping centres, which were not available in KL. I bought this box which comes with adjustable divider and upper tray for cutleries.

I didn't buy much things at Daiso. Went to the branch in Plaza Sg as arranged to meet IL there. As expected there was a huge Christmas crowd there, and I already owned most of the things left on the shelves. The only interesting thing I bought was these plastic crinkle cut knife (probably sold in Daiso KL). While I have a similar steel knife, was looking for one with a deeper groove. These are for cutting jelly, don't know if can cut harder things like potato or steamed carrots.

YL had earlier tipped me about new Mickey Mouse products in KaiKai at Chinatown Point, and I called ahead to book some items. Must be kiasu, mah. Was quite disappointed that the stock will only arrive in January. Still I had fun going through the 2009 catalogue book and seeing the new Mickey products. (Hey, YL, saw your order on a few things *_*) Now the question is how to collect the things. Looks like another trip to Sg is required if my dearest sis or SIL couldn't pick up for me. Well, I am going back hometown in Johor for Chinese New Year.........

My purchases from KaiKai were the Pooh and Tomica multi-cutters, Tomica vege cutter and Pooh furikake case.

On the penultimate day, I 'geram' didn't shop enough as too busy entertaining kids. So put the kids to nap and headed for Takashimaya again, this time Basement (Household section?) for 1 hour shopping before dinner. Found silicone moulds in the shape of dinosaur fossils for my dinosaur lover boylet. It was sold as ice tray but can also make jelly. Can withstand temperatures of -58`F to 446`F, so can also bake??, not that I'll be doing that. They were rather price-y, enough said.

More impulse buys (still at Takashimaya)- cutters, which I had seen in NST and Marketplace but didn't buy. Why did I make the plunge this time? Well, I was in a buying mood and the things were there to be bought. Make sense? haha.... Lucky for hubby I'm no longer into LV bags. *_^

Also bought some cheap books at Lucky Plaza, t-shirts for the kids, cute stationeries & stickers. Overall, I think I showed a lot of restraint this time round. ^_^

Bento # 9 - Animal Pasta

This is girlet's lunch today. Animal pasta, tossed with a little evoo and lots of cheese. Also added animal shape carrot and cheese in main compartment. In the smaller container, is a pig silicon cup filled with animal shaped ham, as well as animal picks for the grapes.

The verdict : Girlet ate everything except for the broccoli, which is strange as that is one vegie she usually eats. The maid said it's because the broccoli are normally stir fried, so more tasty, while these were blanched with the pasta. Next time, I'll pack some thousand island sauce for her to dip in.

Later, I found out that Girlet didn't eat the pasta by herself.


Girlet : I like the animal pasta. Can I have it again? All my friends also like them.

Me : Oh, did you share? I thought you ate them all yourself.

Girlet : Erm..... I gave one elephant to SL and one tortoise to SM.

Me : Okay. You didn't give any to your partner?

Girlet : Oh...... I gave him a lion.

Me : What about the new girl behind you? What's her name?

Girlet : Yeah.... I gave JX a giraffe.

Me : So how many did you give away?

Girlet : Only 6..... looking at my raised eyebrow........ er ...... I think 8.......er maybe 9......


LOL. I think she gave a piece to each of her friends - must be a novelty. Better pack more next time.

Pasta Zara, animal shaped pasta, bought from Singapore.



Also bought transportation and wheat shaped.





















Also got Disney pasta, in shape of Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, as seen in Our Story. So very cute, right?

More loot from Singapore

Bought these cute stuff from the shop in Chinatown Point. Spent more than SGD100, so am now a member, ie. future purchases have 10% off. Yay!

This is a silicon cake/pudding/jelly mould. Is oven safe. There is a similar mould for Winnie the Pooh, but out of stock.

These are vegie/cookie cutters. So cute right? I'm eyeing those with Tigger and Piglet. Read somewhere that Carrefour Plaza Singapura has, but didn't find any when I went.

My dear sis, can you please go check at BHG Bugis when you are free. Thanks!

I tried them on carrots. Works well. But don't slice carrot too thin, or the cutter will cut through, as can see from the broken HK's neck on top.

The kiddos were very impressed, but didn't eat any cos too cute. That defeated the purpose, didn't it? Hmm.....
More Hello Kitty cookie/sandwich/pancake cutters.

Also bought a Hello Kitty pancake pan. I had actually seen something similar being sold in KL for RM20+, but didn't get it. Now couldn't find it anymore. Talk about regret. Ended up having to pay double of that.
This is a Pikachu rice mould. After buying so many girlie Hello Kitty stuff, must balance with some boyish things ~_~ And lastly, my favourite. A complete set of Hello Kitty rice mould, nori and vegie cutter. Rice mould to shape the face. Nori cutter (which works like paper punch) for the face features -HK eyes, HK whisker & rabbit nose/mouth. Vegie cutter for cutting out HK's bow (from red capsicum), My Melody's flower and bear's ears.

Daiso loot

Early last week, I went back to Johor, and of course must pop over to Singapore for a spot of Bento shopping. Dragged my sis to Daiso in Plaza Singapura, and here is what we ended up with ~ 100 items ~ consists of cookie/vege cutters, silicon molds, rice molds, pancake molds, egg molds, silicon cups, plastic sidedish cups, cute forks n spoons, picks of various designs, bento belts and bags, sauce container and bottles, various dividers, and a tamagoyaki pan each. My dear sis blame me for enabling her...... hey, you've got your craft stuff as well, didn't you?

Anyway, what a loot!! And at SGD 2 each, they're a real steal too. Saw most of these things going for at least USD 2.99 each on ebay, and that's not including the shipping costs!!! For basic bento stuff, nothing beats Daiso. Other than the variety, the quality is also better than those in the 100 yen shops here in Klang Valley, eg. the tamagoyaki pan.

As for cutie character stuff, that'll be covered in the next post. Right now, I'd better go put the kids to bed. Poor kiddos, I've been busy figuring out this blogging thing today, and have severely neglected them. Sorry my darlings.