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Odd Cafe is indeed odd. It's a relatively spacious nook hidden in the 7th floor of a Salcedo Villlage building, and you would not know it was there unless you knew where to look. Great coffee ranging from single origin pour overs to sweet, Instagrammable mixes. Cheerful baristas, and cozy. industrial decor with bright touches of color. Crowd skews very GenZ, and you might find a group of young women crowding in the center sofa table or taking selfies with the "Odd Vibes Only" neon sign on the wall. Fun place for a coffee break or change of workspace in the middle of the day, or to unwind after hours.

Mendokoro Ramenba Salcedo Villlage has a limited edition Hitachi Gyu Ramen (P2,723.21). It's a very creamy beefy broth made even richer by egg yolk and the fat from the beef. The staff encourage you to mix the yolk and wasabi thoroughly into the broth. The centerpiece is a generous portion of above average, well cooked medium beef more typically found with rice bowls. It's rounded out with the contrasting vegetable taste of asparagus, broccoli flower and young corn. It was very well made, but not my favorite style of ramen, and I do not particularly like the pairing of grilled beef and the very vegetable taste of the vegetables. The broth was also richer than anything Mendokoro has, and I felt a slight headache walking out from all that egg yolk, oil and fat. People will ask if it's overpriced, and it probably is considering this is above Singapore prices already; this bowl's price is identical to Fat Cow's gyudon, a higher end Singapore Japanese steakhouse topped with this style of beef but even higher quality. Mendokoro Ramenba remains one of my favorites for solo diner comfort food, but I'd much rather have their standard tantanmen or tsukemen over this special hitachi gyu. The tantanmen has the right mix of spice and flavor that never gets boring, and is not as overwhelming as the hitachi gyu broth.