Apokat milkshake (avocado milkshake) @ Padang Indonesia Restaurant

Thankfully there was no need to travel to Indonesia to try Apokat milkshake, a beverage made of Avocado, some are made with syrup and some are made with chocolate sauce.

The Apokat milkshake here was nice and creamy, there was no avocado taste, but after swallowing the full impact of avocado arrives.

The drink itself was smooth and thick, and there was chocolate syrup decorated on the side of the cup.

As well as the drink, I tried the Pandan Katam Hitam, it is a two coloured cake made from glutinous rice.
This cake was really nice, it was chewy, and a slightly sticky texture from using glutinous rice rather than normal flour.
The texture was very similar to a sweet malt loaf, but not so dense and chewy.

Mangkok Pandan tape ketam was slightly dense, but the texture was like a cake. The top was covered with pandan paste and had a piece of young coconut in the middle.
The taste was similar to Pandan Katam Hitam, but slightly stronger and sweeter.

 

 

 

 

Getting “Dressed” with an Avocado and mint Smoothie

Saw some interesting smoothies, so got the Minted Avocado smoothie.

The other interesting one I wanted to get too was the Raspberry cheesecake.

There are nine smoothies to choose from and they mostly contain vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup.

On the poster, the nine smoothies were:
Mango tango (Mango juice, Apple juice, apple, mango and syrup),
Minted avocado (Avocado, mint leaves, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Peanut butter and jelly (banana, strawberry, peanut butter, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Gingered pear (pear, ginger, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Pretty peaches (peach, mango, milk, vanilla yoghurt and peach syrup),
Banana and berry (Banana, mixed berry, apple juice, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Raspberry cheesecake (raspberry, cream cheese, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Fruits of the forest (blueberry, strawberry, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
The classic (banana, strawberry, apple juice, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup)

I don’t usually like mint, because it is fake mint syrup or artificial flavouring, but here it is fresh mint that tastes Ok, same as the minted pea soup at the Limehouse.
The smoothie had a cooling lime mint colour, and it was thick with fine icy particles in it.

Although it was quite a heavy smoothie, it was very healthy in the sense that it was at the right sweetness level, it was not syrupy sweet, and you could taste each of the elements, ie the avocado, the vanilla yoghurt and the sweetness lingering.
The mint couldn’t be tasted at all, which was fine because I didn’t like mint anyway, and overall, you could also taste the slight savouryness of the avocado.

I was really surprised by it, and went back for the Raspberry cream cheese.

Getting “Dressed” with a Raspbry cheze cake Smu Fi
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Food @ Pokka Cafe

POKKA café is just one of those restaurants that has always been around and was popular in the 1990's.

It didn’t really appeal to me before, because the food is just similar to a combination of other western style Japanese restaurants.

Browsed the menu, it was just curries, ramens and steaks.

In the end just ordered a salmon and avocado toast and a Japanese style Korean bento containing grilled beef, soup and Korean sides.
The toast tasted how it should, however the cuts of the salmon were not that good because it contained grey bits in it.
The Korean bento was quite good, but it felt slightly Japanese with the miso soup, and the cucumber and octopus in wasabi soy sauce.
The Wasabi sauce was actually rather hot.

In general, the food was acceptable, but I felt the pricing was overpriced.