Therefore I cant resist but to share one BAGUS (WONDERFUL) alternative deal (that i accidentally came across while exploring Kallang leisure park recently) for the usual ice cream dessert that we "SLIM" ladies crave for
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introducing the berri-li-cious Ice Cream-like yogurt!!!
The first thing that attracts me to this yogurt store was the special deal of free toppings on every Saturday regardless of the size of yogurt cup that you order from them.
I found the following nutrition facts from their website after i get home with cravings for more of their yogurt
HEALTH BENEFITS FROZEN YOGURT
Yogurt is an amazing SUPER FOOD and many of the tremendous benefits have been well established for some time.
PROBIOTICS – Literally meaning "for life", these are active cultures in our frozen yogurt that work with our body to:
Aid METABOLISM. Acidophilus probiotic naturally fortifies the body's microbial balance, helping to relieve chronic constipation.
Improve IMMUNE functions. Helps promote immune cells.
Manage LACTOSE INTOLERANCE. Helps individuals tolerate more lactose so they can get the benefits of dairy without the digestive irritation.
Helps LOWER CHOLESTEROL levels. The acidophilus probiotic has been shown to interfere with cholesterol re-absorption.
Helps LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE.
Still even MORE BENEFITS...
Yogurt also contains seven essential nutrients: calcium, potassium, magnesium, fiber, and Vitamins A, C, and E.
Yogurt is also an excellent source of protein.
Helps PROMOTE WEIGHT LOSS.(<= Princess Christine likes this part especially) Studies have shown that high calcium diets favor bodies.
Aids in BURNING FAT (Princess Christine is laughing triumphantly from the thrill of discovering that her body fats are burning after eating) rather than storing fat
The young sales girl at the counter was really nice. Instead of asking us what we would like to purchase, she asked if it was our first time visiting yoguru as she sense that we were like scrutinising the menu board with great intense curiosity(ok mainly the lost look on our face gave us away). Immediately she offered us sample tasting of the 2 types of yogurt they have. The plain yogurt and the berry yogurt(yoguberry). Not that I would like to steroeotype, but I expected her to hand us just a small scoop of sample on those tiny spoon each but unexpectedly the sample was in a tiny mini cup which i thought was pretty decent and generous.
The yogurt came in a very attractive and sweet pastel colour of purple and it looks really sweet with the white yogurt in between. It was pretty hard to decide which yogurt to choose from and just when i thought we should just order the Yoguberry (berry yogurt) as the costing is like about $4 plus for a small cup and $ 5 plus for a large cup for yoguberry and about a dollar cheaper for the plain flavour. As a pretty thrifty housewife, I often find such pricing a little hefty for my pocket but this was different because of the size of the large cup!!!
The most fabulous part was I can have the best of both worlds by ordering a mixed flavour of the 2 yogurt types(most importantly it meant that i can have the taste of yoguberry at a cheaper cost since the normal yogurt flavour is mixed in) and the free toppings were a wide selection between different types of fruit and nut. Woodblock and me selected mango as it was the topping on the poster advertisement.
I was so glad that the free topping was not like a miserable scam of a small amount(i can imagine some pple will just give like a countable number probably just 6-7 cubes). The topping will cost you $1.20 on normal days.
The purple pastel reminds me of yam.
I wanted to give credit to Yoguru for such lobang and pray hard that the price of the yogurt will not rise and the sat free topping will go on FOREVER.
Woodblock is never a supporter of health food. Look at how he cringed in horror from the sight of healthy yogurt..... SIGH
Cant help but realise the yoguberry was pretty light on our tummy in terms of taste and we soon finished up most of the yogurt without getting tired of it.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT 1!
It was so delicious that I found woodblock starting to creep into MY bowl of Yoguberry.
I love the fact that the yoguberry is frozen! I told woodblock it felt absolutely like eating ice cream without feeling fat!
CAUGHT IN THE ACT 2!
In the end, $#^%$&%&$ woodblock start to take away my bowl of yoguberry and gobble up himself %$#%$#%#$% (yes that was how mad i felt when he stole my berri-li-cious precious yoguberry away)
The sample cup and the large cup of yogurt was finished to bits by the hungry royal family. I am so glad that i manage to maintain my royal image by not licking the cups clean.
After our nice tea break session and a short walk around the mall, we settle into this japanese restaurant which specialise in shabu shabu called Akashabu.
It was pretty a surprise that many people started queuing up as soon as the restaurant opens its door at 6pm. The reason why we were attracted to this restaurant was the super duper low costing of the meat offered for the shabu shabu => $6.50 for beef, $6.00 for pork , $4.50 for mince chicken, $6.00 for smoke duck meat.
Despite that, we thought that seriously for such low costing it definitely meant a relatively small plate but we were gambling and hoping that it will at least turn up to be medium size.
Therefore we place our order for :
- 2 bowls of rice(to ensure we are full so we need not waste too much money ordering more plates of meat)
- 1 grilled saba fish ($7.00)
- 1 sotong($5.00)
- 1 serving of pork($6.00)
- 1 serving of beef ($6.50)
- 1 serving of mince chicken ($4.50)
- 1 serving of cabbage ($2.00 or $2.50 cant rem clearly => but a must for health) (i read up somewhere that cabbage is a negative calorie food. It means that the energy that the body use to digest the cabbage is more than the energy the cabbage provides for our body, ending up with net loss of energy from our body).
As I say woodblock was never a vegetarian and you can see it clearly from his carnivore instinct when he stare at the meat salivating and controling himself from attacking the food.
I like the presentation of the mince chicken even though such presentation is getting common these days. But it always makes the food more interesting for the cooking for the customers and adds a tinge of favour(ok i acknowledge that is it mainly hallucination) for our food.
I always love seafood and woodblock ordered this specially for me!
LET"S NOT BLINK...................................
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Wahhhhhh the serving of the shabu shabu meat was really generous for the crazily low price!!!!!!!!!!
Such serving of meat is probably way much more compared to me visiting those ATAS restaurant charging like probably 2.5 - 3 times the price this restaurant is charging!!!
Now if you think that probably quantity is ALL this AKASHABU has to offer..................=> Princess Christine SHAKE HEAD AND FINGER IN YOUR FACE... NOooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! (in a high and slow shrilly thrilling voice).
Introducing the DRIVE-YOU-NUTS sauce!! The sauce on the left was really super thumbs up and it was so freaking good that it made me ate up many slices of pork meat as well as the beef meat. People who knows me probably will know that I dislike the taste of pork but this sauce is JUST SO MARVELLOUS that it must have been invented by some GENIUS CHEF!!!
I swear that both woodblock and me were praising the sauce for probably 1/2 the total time of our meal and the last worry i can have on my mind was for the sauce to run out. Amazingly the sauce never seem to run out and was pretty plenty in quantity for our 2 generous serving plates of red meat.
Chef woodblock in action.
Total cost? $40.00 bucks $KACHING$!!!! The saba fish was in the end very redundant as the shabu shabu itself was very FILLING AND FULFILLING. For those who are planning to dine over there, my advice is that probably a bowl of rice is sufficient as i didnt expect a bowl of rice (costing $1.00) is so huge. so if you minus out the saba fish and bowl of rice, it should cost you about $30 or so.
Sir Woodblock: We are definitely coming back for more!!!
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