Green Milk Tea from Chun Cui He (純萃喝 or Just Drink)

Green Milk Tea from Chun Cui He (純萃喝 or Just Drink) has just landed on Singapore shores recently. There wasn't a frenzy for this, unlike the last 2 flavours like Milk Tea and Coffee Milk Tea.

Shaped like a shampoo bottle, the drink looks good on its own. Just be reminded to close the cap tightly in case of leakage.

The Green Milk Tea costs the same S$2.80 and I really dislike it, despite being a green tea fan. Overly milky, the drink was a tad too sweet, so much so that the sweetness lingers as an after-taste. The green tea taste was subtle.

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Shop For Christmas Cards & Support A Good Cause

If you intend to get Christmas cards for your family, friends and business associates, why not consider the following avenues?

1) Muscular Dystrophy Association ( MDAS )
2) Bizlink Gifts
3) SPD 

Reuse Your Christmas Greeting Cards

1) Christmas Tags - Cut those pretty pictures from your old greeting cards and recycled them into gift tags.Write your wishes on them and tag it to your Christmas gifts

2) Make new greeting cards out of the old ones - Cut the picture or scene from a used greeting card. Glue the picture onto the front of the folded piece of construction paper and write a verse inside.

3) Make a great bookmark - Cut a strip from the posterboard or thin cardboard and glue the picture from an old Christmas card onto the strip. Write a Christmas message on your strip.

4) Use it as a postcard - Cut the front picture off the used greeting card and use it as a postcard. Draw a line down the blank back, write a message on the left-hand side, and address it on the right-hand side.

5) Christmas Card Wreath - For this project you will need an embroidery hoop, a glue gun with glue sticks and at least a dozen Christmas cards. Cut the backs off the Christmas cards and lay out the cards on the embroidery hoop in a fan pattern, circling all around the hoop. Once you have found a design that you like, glue them to the embroidery hoop. Glue gun a small piece of ribbon on the back of the hoop as a hook to hang the wreath.

6) Coasters - You will need some plain wooden coasters, decoupage glue for outdoor projects and foam brushes. Cut your Christmas cards to show the designs and patterns you like the best, measuring so they fit on the coasters. Glue them down using the decoupage glue, with the foam brushes. The outdoor decoupage glue is stronger and will help protect it from liquid.

7) Christmas Tree Ornaments - You will need white glue, scissors, hole punch and ribbon. Match Christmas cards up so you have pairs of cards that you like. Decide on a shape to cut them in - stars, hearts or even just leaving them as rectangles. Glue the cards together and allow the glue to set. Once the glue has set, cut the desired shape. Punch a hole at the top of the ornament and put a ribbon through to hang it on the tree.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle In The Comfort Of Your Own Home

Reduce :

Purchase things with less packaging.
Bring a shopping bag while shopping instead of requesting for plastic or paper bags.
Use cloth instead of paper tissue for cleaning.
Minimise the use of disposable items such as disposable crockery, non-rechargeable batteries etc.
Switch off lights and electronic appliances when not in use.
Close the refrigerator door immediately after taking out necessary food, fruits or drinks etc.
Use the fan instead of air-conditioning if possible.
Turn off the water tap promptly.
Use a tumbler of water when you brush your teeth.

Reuse :

Use unwanted plastic bags to bag garbage.
Use old clothing as rags for cleaning.
Convert scrap paper into memo pads.
Pass old textbooks, story books, and toys to others.
Pass smaller size but good quality clothing to others.
Donate good quality but unwanted items to old folks' homes, charitable organisations etc.

Recycle :

Participate in recycling programme/s and deposit recyclable items into designated recycling bins.
Purchase recycled products.

Matcha Soft Serve at Rice Workshop, Melbourne

Rice Workshop is like one of those self-serve fast food restaurant selling Japanese food. You can check out the food on their site. It is available in both Sydney and Melbourne and I visited both.

I went there specially for their affordable AUD2 ~ 2.50 Matcha Soft Serve Ice Cream but still did try out their food too.
There is a choice of getting the normal cone or the matcha cone and needless to say, I ordered the latter.

The soft serve does not have that intense bitter matcha taste but its not overly sweet or milky too. It hits the right notes when you just want to satisfy that matcha craving. A good balance between matcha and milk.

Matcha Shake at Purple Peanuts Japanese Cafe, Melbourne

Located along Collins Street, which is a pretty busy place usually swamped by the lunch time crowd, Purple Peanuts Japanese Cafe looks ordinary yet not exactly so. It is a casually, mismatched quirky place, with knick knacks littered around as part of its decor. The prices are reasonable and the healthy non-traditional Japanese food looks good. The menu are all hand-written on butcher's paper and taped to the wall which makes me wonder if they change their menu frequently.

Matcha Tart & Swiss Roll at Cre Asion Cafe, Sydney

If you are ever in Sydney and is a big matcha fan like me, you must never ever miss this tiny cafe located in a small alley. A must-visit matcha cafe for all matcha fans!
How I missed this place! What a shame that I only came to realize that its so near to my hotel, on the last day, else I would probably visit the place for my breakfast every morning, just to enjoy all the different types of matcha delicacies available. Heh!

Matcha Latte at Chanoma Cafe, Sydney

While planning my itinerary for Sydney, I did some research on matcha cafes and stumbled upon Chanoma Cafe at George Street. However, prior to visiting the cafe, I already had an ice-cream at the popular Gelato Messina at Surry Hills and can't take another ice-cream anymore.

My heart was yearning for the soft-serve or matcha float but my body was saying NO. So I ordered the Matcha Latte AUD4.20 instead.