Oasis Restaurant breakfast at Croydon University Hospital

With normal people, you probably want to get out of hospital asap but as a foodie, there was a restaurant so I decided to check it out.

It is basically canteen style which is quite comforting serving English fare so why  not try it out.

As well as English food, the curries and rice looked good as well as cakes and pastries.

Since it was early, I had the breakfast, there were three different sausages available so got all three ie the chicken, pork and vegetarian.

They were a bit dehydrated and chewy but it was late in the morning otherwise good.

Fried maggi noodles at Kafe Malaya, Balham

Kafe Malaya serves Malaysian fare in Balham however it seems they were at this other stall in Peckham or maybe it was seventh floor.

Anyway, the first visit was closed because there was some gas or water supply problem hence the takeaway on the second time.

I had the stir fried noodles maggi goreng telur mata but it was different to the eat in as the noodles were different.

The dine in was definitely maggi but the takeout was not but to honest, I was happy with the non maggi version because the texture was better.

The taste of these noodles were to my liking as it was not too sweet.

Finished with the corn pudding which was sweet and coconutty.

The only thing I was not happy about was the menu, they had a great offering yet only a few of the items were available to order especially the desserts.

Horchata at Taqueria

There are not many places that serve Horchata.
The one at Taqueria was nice because the Cinnamon taste was strong and not artificial.
It was not watered down like this other place. Overall nice but a little bit too sweet.
I like the way that it was served in a bottle which made it convenient as opposed to drinking it from a straw.

taqueria: 6-8 Exmouth Market

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MISONOMI pop up wth Artist / Misonomi soup chef Mitsunori Sakano

I love rice balls (Omusubi) so when I found out about this Misonomi pop up, I had to go.

The menu is fixed with tea, candy, soup, rice ball where you get to choose the miso soup.

Unlike other miso soups, Misonomi is colourful with freeze dried ingredients served on a rice cracker canvas where all the soups were designed by Mitsunori Sakano who is an artist.

There are three choices of miso soup base: rice miso, barley miso and kelp miso paired with freeze dried ingredients.

Each soup has a unique name and theme like Spring magenta, Winter snow etc.

On their website, there is an interesting cheese and miso corn soup.

As you can imagine, it was a tough decision but in the end I tried the Pink Lagoon which has rare ingredients like white wood ears and Gagome kelp with plums for that different tangy taste.

It was definitely different in taste compared to savoury miso soup with the refreshing plum and very enjoyable with all these other ingredients.

Overall, I was so glad I tried.

Also got some soups to take home, the Lush Forest (okra and zucchini) and Green wave (dried shrimps and radish).

Both were nice but Lush Green was my favourite because I am an okra person.

https://www.misonomi.com/en

Lush forest:

Green wave:

Sweet Treats at Warung Putera Puteri

This joint offers meals and street food which can all be seen at the counter.
Tried the Pulut panggang, Kue kochi/koci.
The Pulut panggang is grilled glutinous rice with a desiccated coconut filling that tasted like the ginger puree that you get for Hainan chicken, overall it was a nice snack but it was weird because it was sweet and savoury. I would have enjoyed it more if it was 100% savoury.
The Kue Kochi/koci was nicer, similar with sweet desiccated coconut filling but it was 100% sweet in a firm chewy glutinous rice mochi and smothered in coconut cream.
Also tried the onde onde the previous night which was a pandan glutinous rice ball covered in coconut with liquid brown sugar in the middle.

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Bready Danishes at Grainier

I have always wanted to try Grainier in Bayswater but there are too many options in the area.

Finally tried it one afternoon and found it very similar to Camden Bakery in terms of layout and food items.

Their Danishes were definitely different, the ones looking like apple turnovers were filled with cherries while the one with cherry was filled with apple.

The Danish that they offer is rather different to the conventional Danish pastry or crowns, it was bready and bun like.

It turns out that these are Spanish treats.

Overall, not bad but different.