Dinner at IKEA ;D
As usual, ikea on a Saturday night was crowded and it took us a while to get seats during dinner time.

We decided to get a plate of mee siam each, chicken wings and a butterscotch chocolate cake.

The mee siam costs only $1.90! but we only managed to get two plates and it’s out of stock due to high demand:/
Although it is quite a small plate, but it’s just right for one person, with some sides like chicken wings.

The mee siam is not too spicy and the tou pok is quite a lot. I like the gravy!;D
But it’s a little salty though :x
Considered super worth it comparing with the price of other items.

The chicken wings is as always, crispy and fragrant on the outer and the meat is tender and tasteful^^
It is not too dry and there’s still some juice within :D

For the cake, we actually wanted to get the chocolate cake but I think we got the wrong one and got the butterscotch chocolate cake instead.
But we’re glad we got the wrong one because we simply love the cake!;D

There’s a few layer of taste and texture…a combination of the soft chocolate cake and the crispy layer, which seems like biscuit bits kind of layer.

A little sticky and it is sweet but not the kind that we will get sick of it after a few mouthful.
Chocolate coupled with the butterscotch, I just really love it to the max ;D

On the summary, we got a cake, 6 chicken wings and two plates of mee siam, shared between the 3 of us.
The whole meal that made us fairly full merely costs the each of us around $4 …pretty worth it right? ;D

IKEA Tampines is one of our favourite hangout places! We can spend hours browsing through the many displays, getting ideas for our own place. Shhh, don't tell anyone, but most of my FB pictures are taken at IKEA, posing in the elegant furnishings. I could never get our place to look like that!

The marketplace is also a great place to impulse buy. From tealights and candles to little oddities, you can get almost anything quaint, adorable (and sometimes functional) from this section.

Take a break in between browsing to catch a quick bite to eat at the restaurant (try the Swedish Meatballs!) and rest your legs. Then shop some more!

After the checkouts is the deli, which is where you can pick up a soft drink, coffee, ice cream cone or hotdog at relatively cheap prices. Judging from the queue, seems everyone has the same idea!

Even though many people think that Ikea only have good furniture, but the food there is SUPERB.

My favourite food there is the meatball, the meatball is super delicious with the topping of the meatball sauce, whenever i go there i will always other the meatball. The fried chicken wings there is also very nice.

The bad part about eating at Ikea is the looking for seats, the people that go there for meals are alot, everytime i go there i would have to look for seats which is a trouble but its worth it for the good food =D

If you ever go to Ikea you must try the meatball there..

I visited and bought things from Ikea Tampines close 8 times in the last 2 months. That's really a record for someone who doesn't drive. I faithfully took the shuttle on most trips and took a cab home on a couple of occasions.

There are a number of things I've learnt on these trips to Ikea...

Unless you bought extremely large items, it still makes more sense to take a cab home rather than pay for delivery which is $40 if you live in Tampines, Pasir Ris or Simei areas and $45 for other areas. There was one occasion where we bought quite a number of items and we booked a Maxi Cab home, costing us $20 which is still cheaper than the delivery cost and we needn't wait for the delivery date/time.

If you're going for a specific item/s, call ahead to check for stock, especially during peak seasons before Christmas and CNY. Things go out of stock easily and may not be re-stocked within the week. It happened to me a few times and it's quite exasperating.

Always keep your receipt. Ikea is no longer as liberal as they used to be on return policies. I think there were amendments to the policy when they realised that people were taking advantage of it. Keep your receipt not as proof of purchase but to prove WHEN you made your purchase as they have a 100-day policy. It didn't used to be this way.

AND if you see the item going on clearance... MAKE SURE you really want the item before buying it. If the item is no longer sold at the store, you'll have trouble trying to return it if you don't like it anymore.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK before going. We did do our homework but when we got there we had a change of mind. If you take a look at my pictures I have a high table with metal legs. Those aren't suppose to go together. The metal legs are meant for another table top that has one end attached to the wall. The table top has 16 holes pre-drilled under it. This table top that we got has 20 holes pre drilled under it and we couldn't fix it properly. We were a little upset that we had to return it at first but LUCKILY my contractor did us the favour by putting it together for us. hehe

I still like going to Ikea... I like to buy all the little decorative items for my room and the rest of the house. I enjoy walking around in the big open space and not have any salesperson following me around. I like how they sometimes stock the things in two areas so that you can change your mind and still buy the item without going back up. I also love the $1 hotdogs which I buy to eat while waiting for the shuttle.