Sanrio’s beloved Japanese character, Cinnamoroll is floating into Singapore and landing at Kumoya, for a special limited time pop-up café collaboration from 17 May 2017 to 13 August 2017.

The collaboration is with Kumoya, Singapore’s first Halal-certified Japanese-French café is to mark Cinnamoroll’s 15th anniversary.

This collaboration will see the cafe being transformed into a Cinnamoroll theme wonderland, with a specially commissioned Cinnamoroll theme décor. 

Diners can enjoy delicious special limited-time menu has been curated and styled by me with the kitchen team at Kumoya. 

The selected Main Courses, Desserts and Beverages will all carry the themed Cinnamoroll character.

Definitely not to miss this unique experience and a must-visit for fans of this cute fluffy character. 

Campaign Date: 17 May 2017 to 13 August 2017

Location: Kumoya @ 8 Jalan Klapa Singapore 199320

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Opening Hours: 

Tuesday – Thursday, Sunday 12.00pm – 9.30pm

Friday and Saturday 12.00pm – 10.30pm

(last order 30 minutes before closing)

Price Range: $7.90 – $21.90

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The official opening of Isetan Scotts Supermarket Phase 2 today last Friday welcomes shoppers with new 4 brands, Johan Paris, Chateraise, WA-Dining and Matsuzo, and the reopening of Nishino Pharmacy.

Matsuzo confectionaries are sweet yogashi style delights made from sweet potatoes that are brought straight from Miyazaki and Kagoshima in Japan. Savour the sweet potatoes in different way through this Japanese スイートポテト – Sweet Potatoes style.

Sui-to Poteto is a Japanese classic created by Matsuzo Inoue, the patisserie of the exclusive Imperial (Teikoku) Hotel in Tokyo.

Reminding me of the deli stores found at deepachika is WA-Dining, a purveyor of Japanese delicatessens and bento boxes.

They pride themselves in the use of hig h quality Japanese beef and seasonal vegetables in preparing Sozai (Japanese Delicatessen). You can order these for takeaway, or get their convenient bento sets or even order for your house parties as well.

Some of you might be familiar with Johan Paris bakery and Chateraise cakery, both brands with existing presence at the Isetan Jurong East Supermarket.

What is special is that their Scotts branch offers exclusive items, for instance the Yuzu bread (so delicious) and Matcha Chocolate bread from Johan Paris; and a much wider collection of patisseries by Chateraise.

Johan Paris (ジョアン) is a Japanese bakery with French origins established since 1983.

Some of the favourites from Johan include their corn bread, Nihombashi bread, and the new Yuzu bread.

They are known for freshly baked Japanese-French bread using fresh ingredients in Japan. And Isetan Scotts Supermarket is its second store in Singapore.

With more than 460 cake shops in Japan, Chateraise (シャトレーゼ) is popular with the Japanese for using fresh ingredients by working closely with the farmers in Japan. Their cakes and pastries are also very reasonably priced with prices start from just over a dollar to under $5 for a slice of cake!

I highly recommend their swiss roll, creme brulee roll, and their literally melt-in-the-mouth soft mochi. Their strawberry shortcake is pretty good too!

Sake lovers – there is something for you too. In addition to the 4 new brands, you can now enjoy Japanese sake at the newly open Kaku-Uchi sake bar in Isetan Scotts Supermarket.

Do note that the sake bar opens from Sunday to Thursday, 11am to 9pm, Friday, Saturday and eve of Public holiday from 11am to 9.30pm.

I visited them after the launch event party on my own as a paying customer and the service at the stores were excellent and the breads and sweets were delicious too.

This is why I continue to love Isetan, for bringing the Japanese Omotenashi and Japanese offerings.

Isetan Scotts

350 Orchard Road
Shaw House
Singapore 238868

Website (English)

Supermarket
Sunday to Thursday, 10am – 9pm
Friday, Saturday & eve of public holidays, 10am – 9.30pm

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EKIBEN has arrived in France!

East Japan Railways and partner Nihon Restaurant Enterprise (NRE) will be opening a limited time first-ever Japanese Ekiben (Train bento) lunchbox shop is in Paris Gare de Lyon.

Paris-Gare de Lyon is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It handles about 90,000,000 passengers every year, making it the third busiest station of France and one of the busiest of Europe. (Source – Wiki)

It opens from 1 December 2015 and ends 31 January 2016 – Hurry now!

With exhibition ventures in Singapore and Taiwan, this time, East Japan Railways and NRE aims to spread the BENTO culture even further overseas to France. The store, aside from the delicious lunch boxes for sale, will also showcase an introduction of over 130 years history and charm of BENTO in Japan.

Bento, Japanese box lunches has been steadily gaining interest and popularity all around world. I am so totally jelly that France has a Ekiben store!

At this ekiben shop, there will be exclusively created Ekibens for Paris – named the “Paris-Lyon lunch”, as well as other Ekiben lunchboxes that incorporates local produce and meat such as the well known Charolais cattle in France. And of course the elements of washoku (Japanese cuisine) such as  tempura, sushi, pickles, traditional Japanese food cooked food are also in the menu.

 (Images provided and copyright of NRE)

Check out the 5 types of bento boxes for sale.

All of them look absolutely delicious and so pretty! Gosh, I want to try all of them.

Now… anyone can pack me in a luggage to France? haha

Want to know more about Ekiben (Train Bentos) and even check out NRE’s bento factory in Japan? Read more in my earlier blog postings.

EKIBEN (limited time)

Address: France Paris Gare de Lyon Hall in 2

Sales period December 1, 2015 (Tuesday) – January 31, 2016 (Sun)

Opening hours: 8 am to 8pm

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