The world needs bigger heroes

The week-long school holidays have come to an end. Usually during school holidays, I would find a day or two to bring niece and nephew out. It was also because they did not go overseas for a vacation this time. I just wanted them to have a little fun. Their parents had brought them to visit different interesting farms earlier on.  

Seemed like recently our hang-out place is Iluma Bugis. This time we went to a Japanese-fusion cafe, called Benten Cafe at the ground floor facing the main road. It is Benten, not Ben 10. Haha.

Nephew ordered the Teriyaki Chicken Baked Rice while niece ordered the Blue Cheese Pizza. I could share the pizza. Niece loves cheese but blue cheese was really not to her liking while I find it was ok. We had to takeaway 5 pieces of the pizza left. Blue Cheese was really an acquired taste, I guess.

The kids shared a plate of the salmon sashimi because they loved it. In this cafe, the salmon sashimi came dripped with a special soya sauce, a little unusual. I ordered the Egg Omelette Udon. They custom-made this dish for me, because the original was supposed to be fried ramen. I asked them to change to fried udon as well as removed the meat.  It was a little sweetish because the egg omelette had salad sauce on it. The piping fried udon was quite nice.

These were the smallest portion of the green tea ice cream and chocolate banana ice cream the kids ordered which they shared with me. I would say their desserts were only so-so and not comparable to those from Azabu Sabo Hokkaido Ice Cream. 

The desserts and food on the display shelf outside looked more appetising. The huge ice cream giant was supposed to be shared between 5-6 persons because it was gigantic. The final verdict; the kids still prefer Empire State on the 4th floor and not this BenTen Cafe. I agreed. Guess this would be the first and last time we patronise this cafe.

We explored the new arcade upstairs. There were many machines on the 5th floor which you had to try to "fish" up these cute items. What was unusual about these big machines ... the items were big-size soft toys and very cute.

The kids did not play these machines, we just walked and adored the soft toys.

They were more interested in the Tornado arcade on the 7th floor. I let them buy some tokens to play the games and they had fun playing for the next one and a half hours.

And they collected many coupons to exchange some free items at the counter. They were so excited they got 199 coupons which allowed them to exchange a number of goodies with higher value.

Then we went to the 5th floor to watch the movie, G-Force, which they loved immensely. Funny and cute comedy about guinea pigs. Haha. I tried to snap niece in the theatre with her 3D glasses on, but it was just too dark. The movie's tagline "The world needs bigger heroes" and the kids were my heroes that day.