Mia's Review: gobuylah.sg [Advertorial]

Very recently, I was introduced to this new locally based online shopping mall, gobuylah.sg, with a pretty wide variety of items, ranging from beauty & health, baby products, home & living, IT & electronics, fashion, and also food & beverage with a MaMa shop!

From popular make up brands like 3CE, Miss Hana...

To health food like organic food products, honey, and propolis...

To home appliances like fans, vacuum cleaners, irons etc...

And even frozen food!

The list goes on, and the variety is huge, so you better drop by and check it out for yourself. There's also a hot deals section that offers discounted price for certain products from all categories for a limited time period.

And so, I went on a crazed shopping spree and just kept adding items into my cart, and finally checking out when I realised I've hit about 20 items. 

And did I tell you that you get a $5 off your first purchase, with 500 reward points given at sign up? And subsequently, with every $1 purchase, you'll earn 1 reward point and accumulating 100 points will give you another $1 off!

And I know the exasperation when you finally found the product you've been searching high and low for online, was so eager to click purchase and then you realised, the e-store uses a courier service that doesn't do night delivery (yes, happened to me) and there's absolutely nobody around in the daytime to receive the package for you?

GoBuyLah got you covered, allowing you to choose your preferred day and time of delivery that stretches from 9am to 9pm. The best part? Delivery is absolutely free with no minimum purchase! And as you can see I made my order on 21st (Tuesday night) and the earliest delivery time is 23rd morning! 

Well, I wasn't at home in time to receive the package personally. But I was truly surprised to find that my orders were packed separated accordingly to type/category instead of having everything packed together in a huge box. 

And here's a sneak peak of my GoBuyLah haul! Other than some necessity like my stock of morning coffee (old town and owl!) and my hair care supplies, I've also picked up some beauty items because they look so cute!

Cutest packaging for some organic teabags I've ever came across. 

And look at these cute faces on the packaging! It's so adorable that I don't even care if they work or not, I just feel super happy having bought such cute stuff. Heh!

But yeah, do expect reviews on part of my haul in time to come. 

You can find all these products I've hauled, plus many more, on gobuylah.sg. 

And gobuylah.sg is also extending an additional $5 off for all my lovely readers, on top of the standard $5 off for new members! 

Just key in MIA05 in the discount field and enjoy $10 off your first purchase! Discount code is valid for 2 months from now.

So what are you waiting for? Hope over to gobuylah.sg right now and start shopping!

Till then,

Mia Foo

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Mia's Review: Tilley Scented Soy Candles & Reed Diffusers [Sponsored]

In my previous post about Lin's Australia, I talked about their Neo Rosehip Oil Cleanser and this time round, I have another 2 awesome goodies from Lin's under their Home Spa range! 

A huge fan of scented candles, I was simply elated to find a full sized 40-hours burning time soy wax candle in Peony Rose scent in the bag along with set of reed diffuser. 

Tilley Peony Rose Candle - $55

This exceptionally clean burning premium perfumed candle envelopes your senses with the heavenly sweet floral scent of peony rose. Carefully crafted with a slow burning lead-free cotton wick, the white frosted glass container adds an elegant ambience to any décor.

For those burning scented candles in a non-airconditioned room, I'm sure you will have the disappointing experience of smelling absolutely nothing while the candle burns right in front of you. But for Tilley, the scent payoff was just great! 

Even with a fan on rotation blowing at the candle, I can still smell the slightly powdery floral sweet scent of the candle as it burns and when placed at another spot in my room away from the blowing wind, it can easily fill my entire room with the deliciously feminine smell. 

Absolutely love this! 

Tilley Soy Candle currently comes in a total of 12 scents and another scent that really caught my eye is Pink Lychee. 

Have to get my hands on that after I'm done clearing my current stock of candles and reed diffusers. 

And of course, the same scent is available in the form of reed diffusers.

Tilley Peony Rose Diffuser - $69

Peony Rose is a tempting rose aroma with an incredibly delicate allure that adds a soft feminine ambience to any room.

Reed diffuser is an awesome alternative to scented candles when safety issues restrict the usage of burning candles (small area with many clutter etc). Plus, by reducing the number of sticks you leave in the bottle of essential oil, you can easily tweak the concentration you would like to have in your room to have a more subtle, less overpowering scent and also have your reed diffuser last longer.

And a small tip: If you wishes to have a quick boost of scent, just flip your sticks and let the saturated ends be in direct contact with the air.

For more information on available scents of Tilley Soy Candles & Reed Diffusers, visit Lin's Australia HERE

Till then,
Mia Foo

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Mia's Review: Pique Nique

Well, this has got to be the most overdue review post I've ever written. I've first visited Pique Nique a few years ago when they first opened at Ngee Ann City, taking over the McDonald's beside KFC. 

And subsequently, I've re-visited a handful of times, even after I've started blogging on food, but still didn't intend to blog about them. 

But now, I guess I will. 

The cafe is pretty spacious with decorations that somehow hover in between simply chic and pretty IMO. 

Now, let's get started with my first visit with the TK girlies. I remember it was hardly a full house the night we visited, and the internal hoo-haa over their salty caramel pancakes (between J and me only, salted caramel was just beginning to trend back then, I remember) aside, the most memorable experience I can conclude from my first visit was: They have no cups/glasses. 

Yes, despite them serving plain water with no additional charge, we (group of 6) couldn't get a single glass of plain water that night (we stayed there for at least an hour, if not more) because, as according to their server, they ran out of glasses. But no worries if you order a beverage off their menu, they have more than enough cups and glasses for them. 

Really, you might as well charge us 30 or 50 cents for a glass of plain water rather than to tell us you ran out of glasses. 

And then my subsequent visits, though not as eye-rolling unpleasant, were still not rendered service I'll label as good. I remembered standing like an idiot outside the cafe, staring at all the empty tables and the servers just loitering and chit-chatting among themselves, refusing to host me to a table despite seeing me. And of course, all their other services (order taking, order serving, getting the bill and etc) were as slow as the process of bringing you to your table. 

And lastly, on my most recent visit with Airmeli, Oyhz and her friend, it was another short-of-decent service given to us, when I tried to order something directly off the menu for Airmeli, who was late.

"Erm, okay I'll check for you."

And off scurried the server and never returned. Hello, if you said you'll check for me if I can order something that's already stated in the menu, you should still get back to me and let me know if the order is taken in or not, no? 

The order was a cabonara pasta by the way, and by the time Airmeli arrived (about 15 minutes after I ordered), the pasta was still not served and it took another 10 to 15 minutes before the pasta was served. 25 to 30 minutes for a pasta, even when the cafe is not full house? 

Or perhaps the server who said she'll check with the kitchen if it's possible to have an order that's straight up from the menu with no special order, however small, at all, actually didn't place in my order in the first place? 

Hmm, you decide for yourself yeah? And let's get started with their food. 

Chili Seafood Spaghetti - $18.80

Spaghetti tossed with squid, mussels, prawns, white wine and spiced tomato sauce. 

This is definitely a pasta dish that will make me want to re-visit Pique Nique (in spite of the bad service) to have it again. I ordered this without much expectation of the spiciness, and I was definitely surprised! The spiciness level definitely packs a punch, and yet still remains on a comfortable level for me, such that I do not need to keep chugging water while I'm eating it. The seafood, although overcooked, wasn't that much of a disappointment to me for the yummilicious spicy tomato sauce totally made up for the lacking in that area. I mean, I wouldn't mind eating just the pasta without any seafood too, albeit not at the same price tag. 

Farmer's Omelette - $12.80

Made with 3 eggs, sauteed onions, bacons, sausages, potatoes and mushrooms. Served with grilled tomato, toasts and side salad. 

And there's Oyhz taking picture of her food with her pink camera. Haha, feed your camera before you feed yourself. Bloggers' habit. 

Norwegian Benedict - $14

2 poached eggs with toasted english muffins, smoked salmon, sour cream and served with side salad.

We thought this is a double-yolk egg, but it turned out to be just a normal egg. Haha, cheated by the egg whites. 

Hot Iron Waffle with Salty Caramel - $11.80

Freshly baked waffles topped with 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream, 1 dollop of whipped cream and drizzled in yummy salted caramel sauce. 

Oh man, this is good! Even though the waffles isn't exactly those crispy on the outside, moist and fluffy on the inside kind of heavenly waffle, the generosity of the salted caramel sauce (on both my visits for this) made up for the mediocre waffle. Plus, as you can see that scoop of ice cream is pretty big too, definitely worth the price tag, I'll say. 

And I strongly advise that you either order this as a dessert to share after your mains, or just eat it as your mains if you do not like sharing. 

And at Pique Nique, you can find yourself drooling over some pretty looking cupcakes, whoopie pies and cute french macarons! I've bought their macarons on multiple occasions as well and you can find my short and brief review on them HERE along with my review of the now-out-of-the-market Canele Patisserie's macarons. 

Pique Nique is located at Ngee Ann City Tower A B1-01/02.

For more information, visit their website HERE

All store pictures credit to PiqueNique.sg

Till then,

Mia Foo 

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