Food!

While i was out with Fish and Nico, we had lunch at Delicious Cafe / Ms Read / Ms Read's Delicious Cafe, which was extremely packed with customers.

I've been wanting to visit delicious cafe anyway for quite some time since Heko raved about it. Their food was delicious (otherwise it would be too damn ironic) which explains the amount of patrons.

My smoked salmon angel hair was served with a whole lot of smoked salmon, topped with a dollop of caviar. A little too salty for me, as they gave me far too much salmon (which is good thing, i suppose?) that the angel hair was not enough to balance the saltiness. The caviar that came along with the pasta didn't tame the flavour, either.

Nico's marsala lamb shank was, and i quote him, "heavenly". Huge, huge lamb shank, fantastically marinated and delectably tender. Served with nasi pilaf, cucumber raita & papadum. Nasi pilaf is, i suppose, the raisined rice in the picture. As i have no idea what nasi pilaf is, i'm not sure whether this is some Delicious Cafe innovation, tossing raisins in rice, or that traditional nasi pilaf recipe contains raisins in. Cucumber raita is some sort of cucumber-yogurt salad hidden beneath the papadums.

Fish's... grilled balsamic mushrooms on toasted multigrain... was just vegetarian. The mushrooms were fantastic and flavourful. But it was rather pricey, if you think about it. Mushroom sandwich for twenty bucks. No meat. XD I'm such a carnivore. I guess it sounds better than grilled vege and pesto on toasted ciabatta. Grilled vege... 0_O

The highlight of our visit would be the desserts. Oohlala. Deli-cious desserts!

Scones! Delicious Cafe's scones are just divine. I've always thought that scones were like.. muffins? Or muffin-ish croissants or something. But they turned out to be nothing like muffins or croissants! They were light and crumbly, and absolutely wonderful with preserves and pure cream. Scones! Just order scones when you go to Delicious Cafe.

Next up is the blackberry and apple crumble. Another divine dessert. Warm crunchy oaty crust and fragrant blackberry apple base, coupled with a large scoop of ice-cream. Ooh-lala! The apple cubes were dyed a sexy purple by the blackberry. :D I didn't recommend the peach and banana crumble as i've eaten it for years at Heko's Christmas Eve lunch, and i guess she copied their recipe.

Last of all, chocolate brownie. Chocolate brownie, with a large scoop of vanilla ice-cream topped with chocolate sauce. Absolutely sinful! So far the best chocolate brownie i've eaten. Warm, walnutty and not too sticky. Sinful. Very.

I've heard loads of good word-of-mouth about Delicious Cafe's desserts. Will pop by soon for more. :D I feel like trying the sticky date pudding. Or... the flourless orange cake. Hmm.

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I've visited Dave's again. Screw Italiannies and wherever. Dave's is the place for pasta. Sis recommended their aglio olio so i decided to give it a try (i ordered my favourite carbonara, regardless, and shared the aglio olio with fish).

Here is the aglio olio with mixed mushrooms and truffle oil. Definitely different from carbonara. It is definitely less cloying and much lighter. If you like simple and light dishes, try the aglio olio. The mixed mushrooms and truffle oil version is slightly spicy, with little bits of chilli tossed inside.

Excuse the dark picture as i forgot to turn on the flash. You could always select whatever ingredients/toppings you like. Mixed seafood, bacon, salmon & spinach, meatballs... (wouldn't recommend smoked pork sausages as they have an overwhelming smell). The one you see here is aglio olio with mussels (might recommend mussels, fresh + sufficiently marinated). The mussel aglio olio tastes very different from the truffle oil one, with a stronger hint of basil leaves, and not spicy.

Dave's bruschetta is definitely worth trying. Crispy bacon and salsa bruschetta. Scrumptious. Absolutely delicious. And once again you can choose various toppings. They used to have salmon, smoked duck and anchovy bruschetta but i couldn't find it on the menu.