the garden slug

Thanks for the lovely photos, Lesley!

“Effin’ big breakfast”

“Defeated…”

More of our All Day Breakfasts here.

The Garden Slug will be open all day on Tuesday (9/8/2011) from 9.00am to 10.00pm.

photo: strawberry layered shortcake w/ lemon whipped cream and balsamic candy bits ~by Jian Yun Slug

Jian Yun Slug’s dessert and our brick wall is about as red and white as we’ll get. No tacky, national-day related paraphernalia at our little shoppe, we promise.

Last year JY wrote an ode to pulled pork.

This year, while you celebrate with the latest iteration of the fanny pack song, say a little prayer and let the universe know your gratitude for being able to live in this peaceful, clean country where nobody bats an eye if two grown men hold hands on the street, buses run on time, and your daughter can return home safely from clubbing at 4a.m. in a cab all by herself without an ounce of fear in her heart.

Now, all we need are bicycle lanes.

And paternity leave.

And prisons that look like IKEA showrooms.

Then we’d be the most perfect, first-world country in Southeast Asia.

Oh wait. We are the only first-world country in Southeast Asia. Hmm.

O look! A kitten!

Meow-julah Singa-purrrr-a.

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Testing out recipes for chocolate truffle snowskin mooncake.

D’you reckon they look a bit like tiramisu? HEHE

Testing out recipes for them old school waffles. Gotta be crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside.

Inspired by Indomie Rasa Ayam Spesial. This weekend we’re having Rasa Mama Spesial (Special Mama Flavour) for youse. There’s nothing instant about what we make here, but we always make sure it is spesial. That’s a promise. Not just any promise, but a double-triple-promise, k?

I remember back in 19xx, I introduced the Spice Girls to my Mum. To my surprise, instead of frowning and judging them to be the absolute floozies they were trying so hard to be, she said they were pretty cool and she liked them. I told her my favourite was Sporty Spice.

I had this pirated VCD (yes, pirated. Hello, I’m Malaysian!) of one of their concerts, and Mum actually sat through it with me. After which, she told me her favourite song of all was “Mama I Love You” and that they sang it very well.

Now, I happen to think most mothers are highly-trained in the art of guilt-tripping. Although this time, I think Mum actually meant what she said. ‘Coz at that very moment I got a lump in my throat and something happened to my heart. Maybe it broke, maybe it melted, maybe it felt a twinge of guilt. No wait, maybe my angsty teenage heart simply felt something… like… love? But hey, I was seventeen and I wasn’t about to show any emotion, yo. I wanted to hug her but I didn’t. Teenagers. Sigh.

Anyhoo.

We’ve never talked about this publicly, but without my Mum there would be no TGS. She was our angel investor, and perhaps in a way, our angel. She gave the three of us this opportunity to live our collective dreams. Mum’s visited TGS a grand total of two times in the last four years and I wish she could visit us more.

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This Mothers Day weekend, make a table reservation with us and we’ll give you something we think most mums will like: a Not-Too-Sweet Mango Alphonso, topped with freshly cut & lightly-honeyed strawberries. On the house.

For reservations, call 6346-0504, or e-mail justask@thegardenslug.com, or SMS 9225-7913, or send us a tweet @thegardenslug.

I was having a sandwich when I was watching this, and around 2:40 I nearly choked ‘coz I was getting that lump in my throat again. Show this to your mama, and if you’re a mama reading this, Happy Mothers Day with big sluggy hugs from all of us here

We know it’s not easy, and we hope that you’ll always think it was worth it – the day you decided to become a mother.

It’s weird & wonderful how some of youse come to TGS and only ever have that one dish over and over, time after time, … Like how Mindy only ever has the Buttery Garlic Glaze Chicken Pasta. Like how Hansel only ever has the Meatball Pasta.

We have a little over 80 different dishes but nuuuuuu … die die must have that one and only dish. I know we’re all creatures of habit, but really. It’s like your habits are carved in stone, yo. STONE. We’re not quite sure whether to feel happy or sad about this. Don’t y’all get bored?? But hey, I suppose if being a creature-of-carved-in-stone-habit gets your name/photo on the menu, can’t be all that bad.

Anyhoo. The menu is going through a slight revamp. We’re introducing a couple of new items, and are taking away a few not-so-popular dishes. If they happen to be your favourite(s), we apologise deeply & we might still be able to make it for you if you ask and if we have the right ingredients.

And yes, the All Day BIG Breakfast made it.

Somewhat-new-menu coming your way, 1st May 2011.

In true Slug-geek style, we’re celebrating Foursquare Day here at TGS.

A little background:

Foursquare Day is April 16th – because it is the 4th month, and the 4-squared day! (4/16) It’s also the first “Social Media holiday” and was officially endorsed by Foursquare.com (Twitter / Facebook).

So cut to the chase. Here’s what you get when you check in today (from 2.00pm onwards):
• 1 x bottle of Bittersweet Apple Cider on da house for the first 10 check-ins after 2.00pm.
• The 11th check-in onwards gets 1 x Brownie Popsicle FOC.

Show any one of our staff the screen of your smartphone to claim your mini surprise. And you have to claim it today hor.

Just for a bit of fun lah.

If you has a smartphone & you’re not on Foursquare yet, git yer butt on the bandwagon yo. Is as easy as 1-2-3.

Is true. If you no eat breakfast, you no is champion.

Recently, we were asked point-blank, “Why do you serve all-day breakfasts?”
Probably Sophia Slug had the best answer of all:

The Garden Slug is all about comfort! Having hearty non-pretentious food in a comfortable fuss-free setting. Part of that comfort comes from understanding our customers’ individuality and dare we say, indiosyncracies. If our customers feel like having breakfast at 5pm, we will not stop them. In fact, we see it as our cosmic responsibility to get them out of bed later.
~Sophia “Tokio Hotel #1 Fan” Slug

Old Fashioned Pancakes with Fruits

Runny Salmon Scramble Up

All Day Breakfast

Anddddddd… Introducing our Big Breakfast.

It’s the mega-sized cousin of our All Day Breakfast, with a few extra things like bacon strips, herbed button mushrooms and stove-top tomatoes.

Available from today, all day, every day.

We have absolutely no explanation for the following photographs. Enjoy.

MOAR here. And by more we mean all 62 glorious, glorious photos of cookie-making pr0n.

All photography © Tilt for MCYS Social Development Network 2011

This is a bit of a last-minute, very late night post, but we were totally inspired by Out Magazine’s 23 Love Stories, which includes our most favouritest story Tom Ford and Richard Buckley Forever.

What’s your love story? Tell, tell. We wanna know.

E-mail it to us before Valentine’s Day. We’ll stay up all night, read all your submissions, pick a winner (or two, or three), and the winner(s) will have their Valentine’s Day dinner at our little restaurant FREE OF CHARGE.

It’s as simple as that.

E-mail your love story to justask@thegardenslug.com before Valentines’ Day!