YuanYuan

Went for the soft opening @ orchard central as it's expected to open on 2nd July.
Was rather disappointed as most of the shops are under renovations while others r still preparing to start biz. Only a few restuarants were opened. The veranda(L7) Onwards to Level 12 i think are foodies haven. Ben's and Jerry opened an outlet together with Heaven's loft(a dessert shop). I went in and bought a hazelnut crunch. Most of the items here looks the same as CA California. However, they have more varities such as crepes, eclairs....etc. Ootoya( jap theme fd court) is also there but prices are on the high side thus i skipped that. On level 5, I can see fruits paradise( fruit tarts from manpuku). They have 3 new flavours of tarts- Choc mint, grapes and apples. I dont have to travel to tampines 1 to get the fruit tarts anymore. I realised that i can get most of the foodies along the orchard belt(orchard central and the upcoming orchard ion).

In order to be the first to try the cakes from 1 cAramel, i arrived there quite early but they r still under renovation. I was quite disppointed as i did not get anything frm them ytd as the manager asked me to come back today. I wanted to try the chocolate berries lust(sugnature). However, one of the malay staff told me that they are opened only @ 5pm!!! OMG, i dun want to waste this trip again. She informed me that they r opened @ 11am everyday except today as they have to prepare for the official opening tmr. I begged and persuade her for a long time as i sincerely wanted to get something here! She told me that she does not know how to operate the cash register n thus there's no way i can get the cakes. I refused to gave up and finally she called her manager and they agreed to make this an exception! I was thrilled and wanted for her to pack it for me. I saw many varities of cakes and im going to try all!!!* (my goal). To my surprise, she actually gave me 2 chocolate berries tartlets as complimentary. She did her best to help me but as she does not know how to operate the cash register, she cannot do the selling. I really appreciate her gesture & promised to come bk again tmr.

After which i walked past sunshine plaza and bought a chocolate muffin frm delicious muffins. I think it's quite popular as there were nwspaper articles and a guy bought 10 muffins @ a goal. Yeah, indeed the chocolate muffin were very soft and moist.... Very rich and thick chocolate used but it's oily!!! Sinful.

Had tim sum@ victor's kitchen. It's very crowded and the place is very narrow. Ordered the Deep-fried king prawn dumpling(most popular). Exp..... but yummy. Svc sux here. After lunch i wanted to get some more fried salmon skins frm ishi mura n i walked past a salon which states '' hair-cut + wash+ consultant = $19.90 nett''. Ha... spent 1 hr there doing my hair .... sleepy. Yay i got a new hairstyle.

Tmr i shall visit 1 caramel again(a promise)