It has been a while since we last had a post.
Tora Shabu @ Ebisboshi Shotengai (Iluma @ Bugis)
I was at Illuma last Saturday, Illuma is a ghost town even on Saturday, thus is a good place for my gf and myself as we hate crowded places. One of our friends told us that there is a good place for Shabu Shabu, so we decide to check that place out for lunch not knowing where it is located. We went to the fourth floor and found this huge Japanese restaurant corner, and walk forward and the menu was presented to me, it was a la carte steamboat set, Pork Set for $20.90, I think I got the place, then the hostess told us that they are actually serving buffet for lunch @ $18.90, so I ask for the Menu, it has Scallop, Prawns, Crab, Loin Meat, Pork Belly, golden mushroom, chicken thigh just to name a few and these are also mainly what we ate, therefore “It’s a Bingo!!”
There are only a few other tables in the restaurant, and on the table there is this electrical stove, unlike other places that uses gas. The setting is a mix of country and Victorian, not bad. One thing that caught my eye, there are no waiters, only waitress, and they are dress in French maid uniform… Lolitas in French maid uniform, I think you get what I mean, if you watch enough Japanese AV.. But you cannot compare the waitress with those AV Idol, they dun come close.. Back to the topic, for buffet, we are presented with the order chit which you write how much you want for that particular items, the same as those steamboat buffet at Liang Seah St. For drinks, they serve soft drinks at $2 and Green Tea (Hot/cold) at $1 non refillable, I dunno about Sake.. The maid, no, I mean the waitress ask us, “are you students”, so I reply “Uni student?” she says “Can”, so I show her my Murdoch student pass, then she told me they have student price for the buffet.. Wooh, I am almost 30 and I get to enjoy students privilege.. Power Sia!! By the way, the F&B Industries employs mainly foreign workers, same goes for this place..
There are about 5 choices of soup base, Chicken, Paitan (I think is Pork rib), Miso, Spicy Miso, Spicy and Tom Yum. At first I ask for Chicken and Paitan, the maid says that, these soup base do have not have much taste so we change it to Paitan and Spicy.. The interesting thing is the condiment, you only sees light soya sauce and sesame oil on the table, the rest is at a counter, where you can rojak your sauce, for eg. You can put chilli oil, garlic and wasabi and mix them together if you are happy, but too bad there is no vinegar… Nothing much to comment on the food, except the Prawns is of good size and fresh, the scallop came with shells and the Pork Belly is a must try. The spicy soup is not really that spicy, you can add chilli oil and chilli sauce if you want to spice it up some more. While I was eating, one of the waitresses came and top up our drinks, which I was confuse, I thought it was non refillable, so maybe it was part of the student package.
Overall, I find this place to be quite a good place to dine as compare to other steamboat buffet, but they do not have large tables, most is 4 seats, not sure about joining table though. Final bill was $40 net for the 2 of us, quite reasonable for a tonne of Pork Belly, prawns and 1 glass of cold green tea and coke. By the way I think student price is $15, cool huh..
Atmosphere – 7
Service – 9 (Nice uniform and good enuff to give us advice, change my plates when it was full with prawn shells and top up my drinks)
Food – 9 (I would say the best place for steamboat buffet)
Damage – 9 (Student price!! What more can I say!!)
Return value – 9 (I intend to go there for lunch every Saturday!!)
Toilet – 3 (There are suppose to at least have a sink… but no.. you have to walk all the way outside and use the toilet there to wash your hand when you hands are dirty from peeling the prawns shell..)
Monday, December 21, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
New Harbour Front Cafe & Bar
Where – New Harbour front Café and Bar
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/new_harbour_cafe_bar/
Location – 114 Tanjong Pagar Rd (opposite the stretch of bridal shops and walking distance from god’s forsaken place.)
A friend of mine recommended this place to us. Went there to check it out last Friday evening after work and try the food. It was given a 5.7 rating in (is it in or on huh??) hungrygowhere.. But I think they deserve better.
Ambiance
When I was at the café’s door, I didn’t even know that I have reached my destination, it gives me an impression that it was some Irish pubs with its green sign board and tables and chairs outside. There were already some crowds there trying to drink their sorrows away. The waitress showed me the way in and bought me to the other part of the café (apparently this place is actually made up of two shops space) and got us seated near the other shop house door (it was a glass wall and door).. There is only another table in the café (it was almost full outside, I think they got sick of sitting in a air-conditioned place), it gave me a feeling that I was isolated but with no privacy (people can see through the glass leh). The furniture’s and interior design is exactly like an Irish pub, wooden settings, dim lights etc and they were playing one of seal’s album in the background “No I will never ever survive more less, Im a little crazy”..
Service
There are dishes in the menu that are typed in red, so I assume they are recommendation. So I made up my mind to order one of them, while my GF ordered the dish that our friend recommended which turn out to be the main highlight of the evening, but it was not in RED, Pork Chop with Apple Sauce, how it taste? We will get to that later. As we were “isolated” It took the waitress a while to notice that we were going to make an order, I almost wanted to stand up and get one of them to come over to my table, when I finally got one of their’s attention, the first sentence she said was “Oh! I thought there was no one here.” That was quite a good excuse.. My GF ordered the Pork Chop with apple sauce and I ordered the Crackling Roast Meat (It was in RED), we also ordered a ham and cheese salad to share, so for drinks I ask for Ice water for the both of us and I got a disappointing answer, “Sorry we dun serve ice water here” WTF!! So while sucking our thumb, my GF ordered beer, root beer and I got myself a glass of Ice Lemon Tea.
Food
The drinks came shortly, it was an unknown brand of root beer for my GF.. Nice can, it doesn’t look like a can for soft drinks, more like beer can. While I was admiring the can, the salad came, the bowl is fill with the usual stuffs, lettuce, roman lettuce, tomatoes etc the ham and cheese were cut in strips together (together as in together, the ham on top of the cheese and being cut together) and were place nicely in a circle around the bowl. The salad sauce in another bowl. Wooh, Nice presentation.. The salad is nothing fantastic, except for almost every mouth of ham you get some cheese too, that goes really well. While I was chewing some grass, the main course came.. The Crackling Roast pork is actually “Shio Ba” but bigger and fatter, nicely sliced and the roast till very crunchy skin separated from the fats and meat, with mash potatoes and some greens. The Pork chop with apple sauce is two piece of pork T boned, almost the size of my hand with Fries the size of my fingers (isn’t it wedges?), actually you can choose to go with fries or mash potatoes and some greens.. The crackling roast pork look and taste like “shio ba” and very fat and oily, it gets really “ni” towards the ends.. For the Pork Chop, the T bone is fat and juicy but it tasted really good with the apple sauce and it didn’t get “ni” as even my GF can finish it with the plates almost clean..
Payment
No funky style of payment here.. But there is no GST and Service Charge.. Cool!! The total cost of my meal is almost $53.. Quite reasonable in my opinion..
Overall
The RED Wording are misleading…
No hidden costs…
Ambiance
6 – Dun really like Irish pubs.. But Seal is ok..
Service
6.5 – Can’t demand much as there is no Service charged
Food
5 for the “Shio ba” 9 for the Pork Chop and 7.5 for the Salad
Damage
8 – Reasonable enuff..
Return value
8 – I will be back to eat the pork chops.. no more shio ba for me..
Toilet
Didn’t went to the toilet.. But I bet it will be like those pubs in boat quay.. Gross..
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/new_harbour_cafe_bar/
Location – 114 Tanjong Pagar Rd (opposite the stretch of bridal shops and walking distance from god’s forsaken place.)
A friend of mine recommended this place to us. Went there to check it out last Friday evening after work and try the food. It was given a 5.7 rating in (is it in or on huh??) hungrygowhere.. But I think they deserve better.
Ambiance
When I was at the café’s door, I didn’t even know that I have reached my destination, it gives me an impression that it was some Irish pubs with its green sign board and tables and chairs outside. There were already some crowds there trying to drink their sorrows away. The waitress showed me the way in and bought me to the other part of the café (apparently this place is actually made up of two shops space) and got us seated near the other shop house door (it was a glass wall and door).. There is only another table in the café (it was almost full outside, I think they got sick of sitting in a air-conditioned place), it gave me a feeling that I was isolated but with no privacy (people can see through the glass leh). The furniture’s and interior design is exactly like an Irish pub, wooden settings, dim lights etc and they were playing one of seal’s album in the background “No I will never ever survive more less, Im a little crazy”..
Service
There are dishes in the menu that are typed in red, so I assume they are recommendation. So I made up my mind to order one of them, while my GF ordered the dish that our friend recommended which turn out to be the main highlight of the evening, but it was not in RED, Pork Chop with Apple Sauce, how it taste? We will get to that later. As we were “isolated” It took the waitress a while to notice that we were going to make an order, I almost wanted to stand up and get one of them to come over to my table, when I finally got one of their’s attention, the first sentence she said was “Oh! I thought there was no one here.” That was quite a good excuse.. My GF ordered the Pork Chop with apple sauce and I ordered the Crackling Roast Meat (It was in RED), we also ordered a ham and cheese salad to share, so for drinks I ask for Ice water for the both of us and I got a disappointing answer, “Sorry we dun serve ice water here” WTF!! So while sucking our thumb, my GF ordered beer, root beer and I got myself a glass of Ice Lemon Tea.
Food
The drinks came shortly, it was an unknown brand of root beer for my GF.. Nice can, it doesn’t look like a can for soft drinks, more like beer can. While I was admiring the can, the salad came, the bowl is fill with the usual stuffs, lettuce, roman lettuce, tomatoes etc the ham and cheese were cut in strips together (together as in together, the ham on top of the cheese and being cut together) and were place nicely in a circle around the bowl. The salad sauce in another bowl. Wooh, Nice presentation.. The salad is nothing fantastic, except for almost every mouth of ham you get some cheese too, that goes really well. While I was chewing some grass, the main course came.. The Crackling Roast pork is actually “Shio Ba” but bigger and fatter, nicely sliced and the roast till very crunchy skin separated from the fats and meat, with mash potatoes and some greens. The Pork chop with apple sauce is two piece of pork T boned, almost the size of my hand with Fries the size of my fingers (isn’t it wedges?), actually you can choose to go with fries or mash potatoes and some greens.. The crackling roast pork look and taste like “shio ba” and very fat and oily, it gets really “ni” towards the ends.. For the Pork Chop, the T bone is fat and juicy but it tasted really good with the apple sauce and it didn’t get “ni” as even my GF can finish it with the plates almost clean..
Payment
No funky style of payment here.. But there is no GST and Service Charge.. Cool!! The total cost of my meal is almost $53.. Quite reasonable in my opinion..
Overall
The RED Wording are misleading…
No hidden costs…
Ambiance
6 – Dun really like Irish pubs.. But Seal is ok..
Service
6.5 – Can’t demand much as there is no Service charged
Food
5 for the “Shio ba” 9 for the Pork Chop and 7.5 for the Salad
Damage
8 – Reasonable enuff..
Return value
8 – I will be back to eat the pork chops.. no more shio ba for me..
Toilet
Didn’t went to the toilet.. But I bet it will be like those pubs in boat quay.. Gross..
Thursday, September 3, 2009
KL Business Trip
I was away in KL for work last weekend. It was a business trip with my team lead LC (AKA Myo Htun Cai). I will share the experience with family members here.
Friday, 28/08/2009
We were supposed to check in to the airport @ 11 am, but we still have to come to office @ 9am and leave @ 10am to the budget airport (Yes I know, WTF!!). One of the new staff saw me when I was on my way to the office from the train station and thought that we can dress down on Friday (Ya, you wish!!) Came to office with a couple of colleagues showing me the Italian WTF hand sign, toke my petty cash (Allowance) which is really petty, $15 per day (Ya, I know, Italian WTF hand sign again) and took off @ 10:15am to the budget airport. Reached the airport @ 11am, check in @ about 11:10am, since our flight is schedule to fly @ 12:15pm. So we decide to grab lunch at Mac. After that we went to the waiting/boarding/gateway (seriously I have no idea what is the actual name for that place) area to watch discovery channel. 12:05pm last call for my flight, so we made our way to the plane. We were greeted by an veteran stewardess (boring), but the next stewardess I saw made my day and the safety demo was done by her, quite entertaining. Touch down at KL LCCT (Low cost career terminal, lol! nice name) at 1:15pm. Took a cab to my home for the next 2 days, Hotel Capitol.. The cab journey was about an hour, when we reach Bukit Bintang, the driver who do not know how to speak English, drove in circles and could not get us to where we are, in the end he drop us at a the taxi stand opposite Berjaya Time Square and told us “Jalan (something), Jalan (something)” while pointing to a alley on the side, I understand jalan, it meant walk, so I was showing the Italian WTF hand sign to myself. So we walk along the alley and found our home for the next 2 days, Hotel Capitol.. walk in and the first thing that struck me is, you must be kidding me, their lobby have no chairs and tables, where the f*** will I hold the interviews.. but we decided to think about it later. Got our keys and our room number is 406, went into the room and the 1st thing we did was on the TV to see if there is ESPN as Man Utd is playing Arsenal on Saturday. Yeah!! We got ESPN!! Next agenda, stock up on necessities and we decided to go to “Giant” in Sungei Wang for that. While we were shopping, my 1st cdd called and our 1st problem has surface, where to interview sia!! So we made our way back and met up with my cdd and……. I bought him to the coffee shop just around the corner and interviewed him (I know, its sucks), my cdd is a nice guy he treat me to a cup of ice Barley. After that LC met his cdd at a malay prata stall and had teh tarik, while I was doing a recon mission, the search for good interview venue and found that the Starbucks @ Low Yat Plaza to be the most ideal. After LC came back and slack for a while in the Hotel rm, we decide its time to go for dinner.
Jalan Alor
The place for dinner the 1st night is Jalan Alor. When we were walking there we walk past a streets which looks like boat quay, but instead of pubs you have foot relexology parlor and they were hard selling their service to us, some look sleazy with all the China girls sitting outside.. den one man came up to us and ask, “Are you looking for young girls?” I was a bit stunned as the last time I came here with my GF, no such things happened. While we were walking to Jalan Alor, we were approach and asked the same question for at least 7-8 times.
Jalan Alor.. The whole stretch is all about food, then we began walking down one store, by one store for about 150m, den LC decide to go into a air conditioned place and eat. This restaurant is LC favorite eating place in KL. We ordered Salad pork ribs, Prawns fried with Salted egg, BBQ sting ray, 10 sticks of chix satay and fried balachan long beans, the drink of the night Lime Juice with sour plum. The food were really good, especially the Salad pork ribs, the dish that LC will never missed whenever he come to KL. The Salad pork ribs was fried pork ribs with a thick layer of salad sauce, yummy!! The moment you bite the meat with the sauce, the taste can only be describe with one word, Yummy. The prawns fried with Salted eggs, is about the same as those zi cha store in Singapore (and I meant those that are good, not those lousy ones.). You have to eat them with the shell on to have the full taste of the salted egg and prawns taste, juicy and good. Nothing much to say about the Satay and long beans, but they were good too, local power zi cha and Satay store standard. The stingray… it wasn’t grilled with balachan, it was plain, but it still taste good, the meat is fresh and juicy not like those sub standard unfresh ones, where it is some how a bit “Mien mien de”, although it did not come with the balachan, the chilli that is specially use to eat with the stingray makes up for it. Overall it was a 9/10 rating on the food. But the place is you know… but at least it is air conditioned, I didn’t go to the toilet, so I dunno the standard. The auntie and Bangladesh working there are quite nice and they are quite prompt, nothing to complain about. The meal cost about RM 81. After the meal we decide to meet up with one of the ex staff, AK for tea at Pavilion, so we make our way there. The moment we get to the main streets, “Sir, you want girls? We have Thai, Indonesian, Malay girls….” Give me a break, I just had dinner. We met up with AK at Pavilion, Starbucks and chat till midnight and AK send us back.. Watch Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid on Vision 4 and that’s it for day 1.
Saturday, 29/08/2009
Woke up to a phone call from a cdd that I am suppose to meet at 10am, damn he was early, it was only 8:50am… Rush down, took him to the coffee shop just around the corner and had the interview there. Poor guy, he came in Long sleeve shirt and tie… I had my 2nd cup of Ice barley there, compliment from my cdd (Thanks mate!) After I send him off, I went back to my room with breakfast on the table, looks really enticing… it was gardenia bread with Ayam brand tuna (Wah kaoz!! The hotel do not have complimentary breakfast for us!!)I think it cost about RM 6.. fews hour later, LC had a couple of cdd.. then it was lunch time..
U Village Restaurant @ Sungei Wang Plaza
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/restaurant-u-village-sungei-wang-plaza
The one place where my GF and myself always dine when we are in KL, this time the company is different, I brought LC there to have some good food.. U village is a Hong Kong style restaurant, like those we seen in those Hong Kong shows, where they order toast and stuff, you can even smoke in there. We ordered One ton (Wantan) soup, fried chix wings for sharing and I had a plate of Honey chicken drum stick rice with their specialty Iced milk tea while LC had the curry chix noodle.. The service was prompt and good, then the food came. The One ton soup.. the wantan was really meaty with prawns in it, Power Sia!! Might not appeal to others, but it is my kind of food. The Honey chicken was really tasty, sweet, juicy and delicious, the honey taste really compliment the chix meat. I didn’t really ate the curry chix noodle, but LC says it was good. The fried chix wings was nothing out of the extraordinary. The meal cost about RM 45. After lunch, we went back to our room to prepared for a long afternoon. We decide to conduct the rest of the interview at Low Yat Plaza’s Starbucks. Which is more presentable.. We started our interview at 2:15 to 5:15pm (lucky the last cdd came early).. Hurray!! That its for works.. We went back to our room and started our soccer marathon.. 7:00pm, take a break from soccer marathon and went for dinner..
Super Noodle House @ Sungei Wang Plaza
http://wanderinggourmet.net/?p=253
Another place that I will never miss when I am in KL.. Decide to go there for dinner for the Roast goose meat.. While we were walking there, we met another pimp, this time he is really good with marketing, below the line marketing, he gave out his name cards like it was some kind of brochure… Super Noodle house is something like crystal jade.. we took a seat at one corner. The waitress are really very eng, only just 2 mins after we sat down, they came and ask what we will like to order and after I told her to cut us some slacks, another waitress came 2 mins later… after being ask about 3 time, we decide on what we gonna have. We ordered a plate of fried noodle, Roast Goose meat, Pi Pa Duck, fried mango roll and Pork liver and kidney fried with spring onions with water chestnut as our drink of the evening. The fried noodle and pig innards/guts was good but not fantastic.. The 2 main dish I will like to recommend is the goose meat and Pi Pa duck. The goose meat, seriously, how often do you eat goose meat? Dun think its often, it taste good, not so oily, just nice, the skin roasted just right with the fats still attached to eat.. This is good stuffs, like those high graded coke man. The Pi Pa duck is also fat and juicy with the correct taste. Recommended.. The Fried mango roll is nothing out of the extraordinary to me, but LC loves it. Different ppl have different opinion. The Water Chestnut drink, has sweet potato, sugar cane and water chestnut literally in it, it looks funny but taste right.. The meal cost about RM 95. on a side note, while we were dinning, the restaurant had i think up to 5 short power failures, causing a blackout and quite romantic, but he company is wrong. After dinner we went back the way where we met the pimp that gave his name card as marketing strategy in hopes of getting a name card for souvenir, but alas, he was gone.. So we went back to our hotel rm empty handed with a full stomach to continue our soccer marathon.. Chelsea was playing Burnley.. Ended the day with Man Utd beating Arsenal due to an own goal.
Sunday, 30/08/09
Nothing much happening that day, went to the coffee shop where I bought my first few cdds for interviews to have breakfast.. Had my 3rd Ice barley and a normal one ton mee for breakfast, while LC had prawn soup noodle. One thing to note though, the soup for the prawn noodle looks like those mee soto soup, but taste like those normal prawn soup but spicy.. Overall the meal was Rm 12.00. Pretty cheap, lest than SGD $3.00 per person.. After that we pack up, took a cab to LCCT, tiger airways back to our homeland Singapore.. I had Popeye chicken at the airport, I dun think I need to share. And that’s it for KL trip..
Conclusion
I burned my weekend in KL, but it wasn’t that bad, as we had some good food and watch a total of 6 soccer matches sia! Repeat telecast of Barca Vs Shantar, Jubilo Iwata Vs Gambas Osaka, Chelsea Vs Burnley, Shalke Vs Freiburg, Bolten Vs Liverpool, Bayern Munich Vs Wolfburg and Man Utd Vs Arsenal. If you ask me is there any return value, I will say why not.
Friday, 28/08/2009
We were supposed to check in to the airport @ 11 am, but we still have to come to office @ 9am and leave @ 10am to the budget airport (Yes I know, WTF!!). One of the new staff saw me when I was on my way to the office from the train station and thought that we can dress down on Friday (Ya, you wish!!) Came to office with a couple of colleagues showing me the Italian WTF hand sign, toke my petty cash (Allowance) which is really petty, $15 per day (Ya, I know, Italian WTF hand sign again) and took off @ 10:15am to the budget airport. Reached the airport @ 11am, check in @ about 11:10am, since our flight is schedule to fly @ 12:15pm. So we decide to grab lunch at Mac. After that we went to the waiting/boarding/gateway (seriously I have no idea what is the actual name for that place) area to watch discovery channel. 12:05pm last call for my flight, so we made our way to the plane. We were greeted by an veteran stewardess (boring), but the next stewardess I saw made my day and the safety demo was done by her, quite entertaining. Touch down at KL LCCT (Low cost career terminal, lol! nice name) at 1:15pm. Took a cab to my home for the next 2 days, Hotel Capitol.. The cab journey was about an hour, when we reach Bukit Bintang, the driver who do not know how to speak English, drove in circles and could not get us to where we are, in the end he drop us at a the taxi stand opposite Berjaya Time Square and told us “Jalan (something), Jalan (something)” while pointing to a alley on the side, I understand jalan, it meant walk, so I was showing the Italian WTF hand sign to myself. So we walk along the alley and found our home for the next 2 days, Hotel Capitol.. walk in and the first thing that struck me is, you must be kidding me, their lobby have no chairs and tables, where the f*** will I hold the interviews.. but we decided to think about it later. Got our keys and our room number is 406, went into the room and the 1st thing we did was on the TV to see if there is ESPN as Man Utd is playing Arsenal on Saturday. Yeah!! We got ESPN!! Next agenda, stock up on necessities and we decided to go to “Giant” in Sungei Wang for that. While we were shopping, my 1st cdd called and our 1st problem has surface, where to interview sia!! So we made our way back and met up with my cdd and……. I bought him to the coffee shop just around the corner and interviewed him (I know, its sucks), my cdd is a nice guy he treat me to a cup of ice Barley. After that LC met his cdd at a malay prata stall and had teh tarik, while I was doing a recon mission, the search for good interview venue and found that the Starbucks @ Low Yat Plaza to be the most ideal. After LC came back and slack for a while in the Hotel rm, we decide its time to go for dinner.
Jalan Alor
The place for dinner the 1st night is Jalan Alor. When we were walking there we walk past a streets which looks like boat quay, but instead of pubs you have foot relexology parlor and they were hard selling their service to us, some look sleazy with all the China girls sitting outside.. den one man came up to us and ask, “Are you looking for young girls?” I was a bit stunned as the last time I came here with my GF, no such things happened. While we were walking to Jalan Alor, we were approach and asked the same question for at least 7-8 times.
Jalan Alor.. The whole stretch is all about food, then we began walking down one store, by one store for about 150m, den LC decide to go into a air conditioned place and eat. This restaurant is LC favorite eating place in KL. We ordered Salad pork ribs, Prawns fried with Salted egg, BBQ sting ray, 10 sticks of chix satay and fried balachan long beans, the drink of the night Lime Juice with sour plum. The food were really good, especially the Salad pork ribs, the dish that LC will never missed whenever he come to KL. The Salad pork ribs was fried pork ribs with a thick layer of salad sauce, yummy!! The moment you bite the meat with the sauce, the taste can only be describe with one word, Yummy. The prawns fried with Salted eggs, is about the same as those zi cha store in Singapore (and I meant those that are good, not those lousy ones.). You have to eat them with the shell on to have the full taste of the salted egg and prawns taste, juicy and good. Nothing much to say about the Satay and long beans, but they were good too, local power zi cha and Satay store standard. The stingray… it wasn’t grilled with balachan, it was plain, but it still taste good, the meat is fresh and juicy not like those sub standard unfresh ones, where it is some how a bit “Mien mien de”, although it did not come with the balachan, the chilli that is specially use to eat with the stingray makes up for it. Overall it was a 9/10 rating on the food. But the place is you know… but at least it is air conditioned, I didn’t go to the toilet, so I dunno the standard. The auntie and Bangladesh working there are quite nice and they are quite prompt, nothing to complain about. The meal cost about RM 81. After the meal we decide to meet up with one of the ex staff, AK for tea at Pavilion, so we make our way there. The moment we get to the main streets, “Sir, you want girls? We have Thai, Indonesian, Malay girls….” Give me a break, I just had dinner. We met up with AK at Pavilion, Starbucks and chat till midnight and AK send us back.. Watch Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid on Vision 4 and that’s it for day 1.
Saturday, 29/08/2009
Woke up to a phone call from a cdd that I am suppose to meet at 10am, damn he was early, it was only 8:50am… Rush down, took him to the coffee shop just around the corner and had the interview there. Poor guy, he came in Long sleeve shirt and tie… I had my 2nd cup of Ice barley there, compliment from my cdd (Thanks mate!) After I send him off, I went back to my room with breakfast on the table, looks really enticing… it was gardenia bread with Ayam brand tuna (Wah kaoz!! The hotel do not have complimentary breakfast for us!!)I think it cost about RM 6.. fews hour later, LC had a couple of cdd.. then it was lunch time..
U Village Restaurant @ Sungei Wang Plaza
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/restaurant-u-village-sungei-wang-plaza
The one place where my GF and myself always dine when we are in KL, this time the company is different, I brought LC there to have some good food.. U village is a Hong Kong style restaurant, like those we seen in those Hong Kong shows, where they order toast and stuff, you can even smoke in there. We ordered One ton (Wantan) soup, fried chix wings for sharing and I had a plate of Honey chicken drum stick rice with their specialty Iced milk tea while LC had the curry chix noodle.. The service was prompt and good, then the food came. The One ton soup.. the wantan was really meaty with prawns in it, Power Sia!! Might not appeal to others, but it is my kind of food. The Honey chicken was really tasty, sweet, juicy and delicious, the honey taste really compliment the chix meat. I didn’t really ate the curry chix noodle, but LC says it was good. The fried chix wings was nothing out of the extraordinary. The meal cost about RM 45. After lunch, we went back to our room to prepared for a long afternoon. We decide to conduct the rest of the interview at Low Yat Plaza’s Starbucks. Which is more presentable.. We started our interview at 2:15 to 5:15pm (lucky the last cdd came early).. Hurray!! That its for works.. We went back to our room and started our soccer marathon.. 7:00pm, take a break from soccer marathon and went for dinner..
Super Noodle House @ Sungei Wang Plaza
http://wanderinggourmet.net/?p=253
Another place that I will never miss when I am in KL.. Decide to go there for dinner for the Roast goose meat.. While we were walking there, we met another pimp, this time he is really good with marketing, below the line marketing, he gave out his name cards like it was some kind of brochure… Super Noodle house is something like crystal jade.. we took a seat at one corner. The waitress are really very eng, only just 2 mins after we sat down, they came and ask what we will like to order and after I told her to cut us some slacks, another waitress came 2 mins later… after being ask about 3 time, we decide on what we gonna have. We ordered a plate of fried noodle, Roast Goose meat, Pi Pa Duck, fried mango roll and Pork liver and kidney fried with spring onions with water chestnut as our drink of the evening. The fried noodle and pig innards/guts was good but not fantastic.. The 2 main dish I will like to recommend is the goose meat and Pi Pa duck. The goose meat, seriously, how often do you eat goose meat? Dun think its often, it taste good, not so oily, just nice, the skin roasted just right with the fats still attached to eat.. This is good stuffs, like those high graded coke man. The Pi Pa duck is also fat and juicy with the correct taste. Recommended.. The Fried mango roll is nothing out of the extraordinary to me, but LC loves it. Different ppl have different opinion. The Water Chestnut drink, has sweet potato, sugar cane and water chestnut literally in it, it looks funny but taste right.. The meal cost about RM 95. on a side note, while we were dinning, the restaurant had i think up to 5 short power failures, causing a blackout and quite romantic, but he company is wrong. After dinner we went back the way where we met the pimp that gave his name card as marketing strategy in hopes of getting a name card for souvenir, but alas, he was gone.. So we went back to our hotel rm empty handed with a full stomach to continue our soccer marathon.. Chelsea was playing Burnley.. Ended the day with Man Utd beating Arsenal due to an own goal.
Sunday, 30/08/09
Nothing much happening that day, went to the coffee shop where I bought my first few cdds for interviews to have breakfast.. Had my 3rd Ice barley and a normal one ton mee for breakfast, while LC had prawn soup noodle. One thing to note though, the soup for the prawn noodle looks like those mee soto soup, but taste like those normal prawn soup but spicy.. Overall the meal was Rm 12.00. Pretty cheap, lest than SGD $3.00 per person.. After that we pack up, took a cab to LCCT, tiger airways back to our homeland Singapore.. I had Popeye chicken at the airport, I dun think I need to share. And that’s it for KL trip..
Conclusion
I burned my weekend in KL, but it wasn’t that bad, as we had some good food and watch a total of 6 soccer matches sia! Repeat telecast of Barca Vs Shantar, Jubilo Iwata Vs Gambas Osaka, Chelsea Vs Burnley, Shalke Vs Freiburg, Bolten Vs Liverpool, Bayern Munich Vs Wolfburg and Man Utd Vs Arsenal. If you ask me is there any return value, I will say why not.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
THE CHAIRMAN HAS WRITTEN!!!
Since i am not that fantastic with words. I will upload a PICTURE BLOG INSTEAD!!
Rum Raisin Ice Cream at ICE3 Cafe. Very heavy rum taste. Supposed to melt very fast as it is super premium level icecream. Something to do with the air bubbles in there. COST : $10 something 
GARY KIM restaurant (Tampines) The cheese egg tofu is very sinful and very expensive!! Nikki ordered the yuan yang baked rice with fish (comes with 2 sauces, cream and tomato). Its big enough to feed 2 of me so can share share. The cheese egg tofu is to die for lar.. must try when u go eat there!
THOMPSON PRATA HOUSE. i will usually order sambal chicken ($3.50) and egg prata($1.20). Very nice! 4 drool out of 5 drool
CURRY FLAVOUR
The ramen there is lousy! Charsiew taste bland, noodles taste too spongy and the soup is tasteless! BANNED!!
Thats about the time i have to upload! I will upload another eon later!!
Honjin Restaurant
Its has been awhile since there was a update.. So I decide to write a review based on what happened last Friday..
Name: Honjin Restaurant
Venue: Near the god forsaken place
1st of all, some of us were there to experience 1st hand of the whole event. Seriously I would never step into that place if not for someone up there (and I dun mean God (in general, dun start the your God, my God shit on me) ), who wasted 20 years of his life at some crap shit company. But for the benefit of those that were not there, here goes..
Pre-event
The event is suppose to start @ 6:30pm. So most of us hung around god’s forsaken place for a while, but for some reason, my team (IL, EW, RS and myself) was being arrowed and had to bring some drinks down to the restaurant early (for those who wasn’t there, only hot green tea (Ocha) will be serve, others we have to buy, but someone manage to negotiate with them and ask them to waive off the corkage (Damn!! had to use the dictionary to find this word)). So I was there at about 6:20pm.
Beginning of event
6:30pm, I think more or less the people has taken up their seats. I sat with IL and our chairman, 3 other seat were reserved for Ah Liang (7pm), WL and EC(EC last day so they stayed to have a last look of the god forsaken place), but they wasn’t here. Our cups were filled with ocha. And the food starts flowing in, 3 man to eat 6 man share, it was a good deal!! The 1st few dishes were, some vegetable salad, the softshell crab maki, one more unknown maki and Sashimi set (Salmon, octopus, yellow tail (Not really sure if it is yellow tail) and tuna.. I am not really a fan of sushi and maki, so I dive into the Sashimi(s), the tuna, yellow tail and salmon were below par.. even some crappy sushi bar like Sakae serve better fishes than them, but the Octopus was not so bad, fresh and chewy.
1st half of the event
I think it was about 6:50pm. Came the softshell crab, shisamo, teriyaki beef and my favorite of the night, the grilled squirrel looking chicken wing. I dun eat beef, so can’t really recommend on that, the shisamo, was the smallest shisamo (About the same size as those big ikan bilis) I had ever seen, but it taste the same as those big ones, but due to the size, I giving it a thumbs down. Soft shell crab was the same, so nothing fantastic. The grilled Squirrel, yes the gross looking chicken wing, it had that look because the chicken wing was peeled open on the sides of the wings, one of the bones was removed and it was skewered by a stick, despite the look, the skin was crispy and the meat was rather juicy and that is what I call food. And also about this time, one Japanese chap, the tall, small eyes, lady’s man(you known who I mean) came around pouring sake(FYI, I was the one that brought it down) for people.. I dun drink, our chairman says it was good, if not for his presentation later that night, he would had drank the whole bottle. Then at about 7:10pm the other 3 guys came. But after they look at what was left on the table and I was actually feeling full, they decided to order some food, they ask for the menu and the waitress said that we already ordered a lot, so wait till after all the course were serve then order. But after a while still no food were served, so they ask for the menu from another waitress, this time round the menu were given to them and about this time, one of the Japanese lady, the one that speaks like a TV presenter when she is on the phone with her clients came with Wine glass and Red Wine, ah Liang reluctantly finish up 1 glass in one go. Then after a while the guys made their food order.
2nd half of the event
7:30pm. IL and our chairman left the restaurant after they had a toast with the man that spend 20 years here. The food started flowing again, shocked at the food presented to us, because we didn’t order it, but we saw the food were serve to other tables, we realized that it was still part of the course. Together with the food that the guys had ordered, we had a table full of food. There are Tamago sushi, fried tapioca, fried mushroom, Fried Tofu and others that I dunno and dun care as I was already full. It was a rather bad situation as I was full, Ah Liang dun eat most of the food on the table, which means WL and EC better be hungry enough to finish them.. During this time, there are some drinking contest going on at other tables. And my ocha is running low. We ask the waitress to refill the ocha and she told us to hold on.. and about this time, the Fat Japanese came to our table with white wine and try to pour it in my ocha cup which I covered with my hand, stupid guy.. After quite some time we ask another waitress to refill our ocha, this time, finally my ocha was refilled. 7:50pm, the food on the table were gone by 40% and we decided to leave at 8:00pm and about this time, the drinking competition has become more furious and we can see that some people will be drunk by the end of the night. 8:00pm, the food on the table were gone by 70%, well done and we decide to bounce.. Toast the man and hope that he will stay for another 5 years prowling, topping up paper, saying morning to people looking at the construction opposite our office?? Neh, I dun think so.. So we pick up our bags and walk out without saying a word.
After I left/ After event
There was an ass groping incident (Offender Fat Japanese, Victim RS(lol)) and I heard someone tried to act tough, knowing that he was drunk but still tried to take the train home and ended up puking at orchard MRT station..
Ambience: 6 (nothing out of the ordinary for a Jap restaurant)
Service: 3 (Hey!! Where is my ocha?!)
Food: 5 (The food is only so so.. except for the grilled squirrel)
Damage: Its Freeeeeeeee!!!
Return value: 3 (Dun think I will set foot in that place again.. *Sigh* but I did this morning to bring back the unfinished drinks..)
Toilet: 5 (The toilet sucks, only thing good is, it is quite spacious, quite a number of cubicle for the gents)
Overall, it was a event for people to suck ass, try to be a poser, acting tough as if you could really drink and taking advantage of the situation to grope some ass. And yes I love this god forsaken place as there are always events like this and job securities here. It is an ideal place for slackers like me who dream that we will someday take the place of that man that spend 20 years of his life in this shit hole, doing shit that will never really help with the productivity.
Name: Honjin Restaurant
Venue: Near the god forsaken place
1st of all, some of us were there to experience 1st hand of the whole event. Seriously I would never step into that place if not for someone up there (and I dun mean God (in general, dun start the your God, my God shit on me) ), who wasted 20 years of his life at some crap shit company. But for the benefit of those that were not there, here goes..
Pre-event
The event is suppose to start @ 6:30pm. So most of us hung around god’s forsaken place for a while, but for some reason, my team (IL, EW, RS and myself) was being arrowed and had to bring some drinks down to the restaurant early (for those who wasn’t there, only hot green tea (Ocha) will be serve, others we have to buy, but someone manage to negotiate with them and ask them to waive off the corkage (Damn!! had to use the dictionary to find this word)). So I was there at about 6:20pm.
Beginning of event
6:30pm, I think more or less the people has taken up their seats. I sat with IL and our chairman, 3 other seat were reserved for Ah Liang (7pm), WL and EC(EC last day so they stayed to have a last look of the god forsaken place), but they wasn’t here. Our cups were filled with ocha. And the food starts flowing in, 3 man to eat 6 man share, it was a good deal!! The 1st few dishes were, some vegetable salad, the softshell crab maki, one more unknown maki and Sashimi set (Salmon, octopus, yellow tail (Not really sure if it is yellow tail) and tuna.. I am not really a fan of sushi and maki, so I dive into the Sashimi(s), the tuna, yellow tail and salmon were below par.. even some crappy sushi bar like Sakae serve better fishes than them, but the Octopus was not so bad, fresh and chewy.
1st half of the event
I think it was about 6:50pm. Came the softshell crab, shisamo, teriyaki beef and my favorite of the night, the grilled squirrel looking chicken wing. I dun eat beef, so can’t really recommend on that, the shisamo, was the smallest shisamo (About the same size as those big ikan bilis) I had ever seen, but it taste the same as those big ones, but due to the size, I giving it a thumbs down. Soft shell crab was the same, so nothing fantastic. The grilled Squirrel, yes the gross looking chicken wing, it had that look because the chicken wing was peeled open on the sides of the wings, one of the bones was removed and it was skewered by a stick, despite the look, the skin was crispy and the meat was rather juicy and that is what I call food. And also about this time, one Japanese chap, the tall, small eyes, lady’s man(you known who I mean) came around pouring sake(FYI, I was the one that brought it down) for people.. I dun drink, our chairman says it was good, if not for his presentation later that night, he would had drank the whole bottle. Then at about 7:10pm the other 3 guys came. But after they look at what was left on the table and I was actually feeling full, they decided to order some food, they ask for the menu and the waitress said that we already ordered a lot, so wait till after all the course were serve then order. But after a while still no food were served, so they ask for the menu from another waitress, this time round the menu were given to them and about this time, one of the Japanese lady, the one that speaks like a TV presenter when she is on the phone with her clients came with Wine glass and Red Wine, ah Liang reluctantly finish up 1 glass in one go. Then after a while the guys made their food order.
2nd half of the event
7:30pm. IL and our chairman left the restaurant after they had a toast with the man that spend 20 years here. The food started flowing again, shocked at the food presented to us, because we didn’t order it, but we saw the food were serve to other tables, we realized that it was still part of the course. Together with the food that the guys had ordered, we had a table full of food. There are Tamago sushi, fried tapioca, fried mushroom, Fried Tofu and others that I dunno and dun care as I was already full. It was a rather bad situation as I was full, Ah Liang dun eat most of the food on the table, which means WL and EC better be hungry enough to finish them.. During this time, there are some drinking contest going on at other tables. And my ocha is running low. We ask the waitress to refill the ocha and she told us to hold on.. and about this time, the Fat Japanese came to our table with white wine and try to pour it in my ocha cup which I covered with my hand, stupid guy.. After quite some time we ask another waitress to refill our ocha, this time, finally my ocha was refilled. 7:50pm, the food on the table were gone by 40% and we decided to leave at 8:00pm and about this time, the drinking competition has become more furious and we can see that some people will be drunk by the end of the night. 8:00pm, the food on the table were gone by 70%, well done and we decide to bounce.. Toast the man and hope that he will stay for another 5 years prowling, topping up paper, saying morning to people looking at the construction opposite our office?? Neh, I dun think so.. So we pick up our bags and walk out without saying a word.
After I left/ After event
There was an ass groping incident (Offender Fat Japanese, Victim RS(lol)) and I heard someone tried to act tough, knowing that he was drunk but still tried to take the train home and ended up puking at orchard MRT station..
Ambience: 6 (nothing out of the ordinary for a Jap restaurant)
Service: 3 (Hey!! Where is my ocha?!)
Food: 5 (The food is only so so.. except for the grilled squirrel)
Damage: Its Freeeeeeeee!!!
Return value: 3 (Dun think I will set foot in that place again.. *Sigh* but I did this morning to bring back the unfinished drinks..)
Toilet: 5 (The toilet sucks, only thing good is, it is quite spacious, quite a number of cubicle for the gents)
Overall, it was a event for people to suck ass, try to be a poser, acting tough as if you could really drink and taking advantage of the situation to grope some ass. And yes I love this god forsaken place as there are always events like this and job securities here. It is an ideal place for slackers like me who dream that we will someday take the place of that man that spend 20 years of his life in this shit hole, doing shit that will never really help with the productivity.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Cut Cost?
I managed to find another hilarious clip from the Mr. Brown show...and I've edited to make it a small video clip. Enjoy!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Something to make you laugh!!
Now a little something funny to cheer up your day at the office...check out this video from our local production - the Mr. Brown Show!!
Monday, June 1, 2009
Dinning at the Carousel on 29 May
Contributor - Ah PatWhere - Carousel (Inside Royal Plaza on Scotts hotel, opposite Far East Plaza)
Location - 25 Scotts Road
Ambiance
The restaurant definitely has a 'classy' feel, given its location right at the heart of the hotel. Quite a lot of 'recession-proof' Singaporeans are dinning inside - they have separate dinning rooms that can seat more than 10 people for private functions. It is definitely better to make a reservation ahead before going. The lighting inside the restaurant gives out a warm & fuzzy feel, and the airconditioning is not set too cold which suits me just fine. The drinks menu for the buffet is actually separate, so I started off by ordering a Ice-Peach tea which tastes just nice. My idiotic friend went ahead to order a Perrier - which he foolishly thought it will be cheaper! After settling in, I rushed immediately to tackle the buffet as I was ravishing with hunger inside.
Service
The waiters/waiteress were very prompt with their service - they will offer to help set your dinning napkin on your lap and helped to refill your plain water & clear your plates constantly (they better be given the expensive service charge we had to pay =p). The drinks menu is quite cool - it comes in a leather pouch with zip, (i had this strange impression it looksjust like a CD-holder though).
Food
The dinning cutlery on the table was really classy as well. The fork, spoon, knife & other cutlery was actually inserted into a cutlery stand on the table! As for the chopsticks & dishes, you have to get it yourself at the food counter. This restaurant serves a wide variety of Western, Asian & Japanese cuisine (including fresh sashimi & sushi). There is really a huge variety of food, for seafood lovers they have lobsters, crabs, salmon, etc. For the Western cuisine, the chefs serve delicious cuts of beef, lamb, chicken and pork. The Asian cuisine consists of the usual fried rice, fish, vegetables (stuff you will normally find in a Zi Char hawker). The most enticing part for me was that they have a chocolate tower with mash mallows by the side for the patrons to dip the mallows in it! Heavenly delicious...and not forgetting the desserts (strawberry shortcakers, puddings, vanilla & red bean ice-creams) for you to try out as well! I personally guarantee you will be promoted to President straight away after dinning there...I felt so full afterwards that I walked around the hotel lobby trying to digest...and I believed I've added another inch to my waistline. =(
Payment
It costs a heavy bomb!! When we went to the counter to pay, the bill comes up to $500+ for our table of 7 people! Luckily, my friend's GF has a Citibank credit card and they have a 15% discount off the total bill...still it costs me $66.20! Most expensive meal I've ever eaten in my life though..
Overall
0-10 (10 being the best) - 7.5 stars
Ambiance
7 stars
Service
8.5 stars
Food
8.5 stars
Damage
10 stars!!
Return value
7 stars (food is great, will only return if my pocket feels rich)
Toilet
0 star (there is no toilet here, you have to use the main toilet in the hotel lobby though)
Restaurant website
http://www.royalplaza.com.sg/carousel.php
HungryGoWhere review
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/carousel/
Tips for Promotion
I am posting this because no one else wants to post their dining experiences (Bunch of selfish liars!!). Recently I have been promoted to VP of this club, so I would like to share the secrets to my success.
1) Bad Time management/Lack of exercise
Kind of tough to juggle between works, studies, girlfriend and most importantly gaming, so whenever I am free I would pick the gaming option over exercising, as time passed, the promotion seems inevitable.
2) Having Late meals
Attributed to studying, class start at 7 and ends at 10, knock off at 6 reach school about 7 = no time to eat, unless you are like Boon Kiat. So every time after class (3 times a week) I would have my meal at about 11:30pm, den sleep @ about 12:30am.. Research shows that it is not advisable to eat after 9pm.
3) Snacking in office
Attributed to good colleagues.. Thanks for all the Koropoks, chocolates and “offerings.”
4) Posting for this Blogs
What more can I say, this is blog about food..
5) Being the Rubbish bin
Thanks to my girlfriend, what ever she cannot finish, I finish. Just like the golden pair of 90’s Man Utd whatever Dwight cannot finish, somehow Andy will finish..
6) The Mario Brothers
“Teh ice upsize” having one of this everyday to flush down lunch is the best way to get promoted. It took me about a month, having it without fail.. and the results is amazing!! It really works!!
I hope these tips will help you guys to soar up the ranks (like taking a Helicopter) in this club, like I did. And somebody please share your dining experiences.. You know who you are, I’m not going to say who, but you know him very well..
1) Bad Time management/Lack of exercise
Kind of tough to juggle between works, studies, girlfriend and most importantly gaming, so whenever I am free I would pick the gaming option over exercising, as time passed, the promotion seems inevitable.
2) Having Late meals
Attributed to studying, class start at 7 and ends at 10, knock off at 6 reach school about 7 = no time to eat, unless you are like Boon Kiat. So every time after class (3 times a week) I would have my meal at about 11:30pm, den sleep @ about 12:30am.. Research shows that it is not advisable to eat after 9pm.
3) Snacking in office
Attributed to good colleagues.. Thanks for all the Koropoks, chocolates and “offerings.”
4) Posting for this Blogs
What more can I say, this is blog about food..
5) Being the Rubbish bin
Thanks to my girlfriend, what ever she cannot finish, I finish. Just like the golden pair of 90’s Man Utd whatever Dwight cannot finish, somehow Andy will finish..
6) The Mario Brothers
“Teh ice upsize” having one of this everyday to flush down lunch is the best way to get promoted. It took me about a month, having it without fail.. and the results is amazing!! It really works!!
I hope these tips will help you guys to soar up the ranks (like taking a Helicopter) in this club, like I did. And somebody please share your dining experiences.. You know who you are, I’m not going to say who, but you know him very well..
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Sushi Kikuzawa
Contributor: Ms. Noey
Where: Sushi Kikuzawa
Location: 360 Orchard Road, #02-13, International Building
Ambience
This “restaurant” is actually a sushi bar, almost like those you would see in Japanese shows. The main bar seats about 12 customers, and they have a private room by the side which seats about 6-10 people. It is located at a rather “ulu” part of town (come on, how many people actually know that the building next to lido – no, not pacific plaza – is called International Building?!), but judging from their steady flow of customers, the food must be GOOODDD! Been there a few times, and there were always some native Japanese customers enjoying themselves there. Other than the native Japanese, the restaurant seems to attract a large crowd of Japanese speaking customers too (which kinda makes me, a non-Jap speaker, feel quite out of place. YA, cos they all speak to the Jap Chef/Owner in Japanese. -___-).
Service
I chose the sushi buffet, and it goes like that – you will be served some appetizers (edamame, radish soup etc), then the sashimi platter (one serving per buffet only) before various kinds of sushi is plonked onto the serving plate in front of you. The sushi is prepared freshly right in front of you, a steady flow of sushi will be served, with the chef paying attention to your eating speed before serving the next portion of sushi. The sushi will just keep coming unless you tell the chef to stop serving you. If you would rather choose the kinds of sushi that you would be served, you can let them know your choice of going ala carte buffet. The restaurant is run by the Japanese Chef/Owner, a Chinese apprentice and a Chinese waitress. The waitress takes care of all the customers’ requests in the restaurant, including refilling Green tea, collecting used plates, billing/payment and preparation of Chawanmushi steamed egg (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – it is only prepared when you order, takes about 15-20mins!). Since she has a lot on her hands, be prepared to have her serve you with a lag time of 5-10mins! Furthermore, if you’re a stickler for quick service, DO NOT EVER sit in the private room. Heard of the saying “Out of sight, out of mind”? Yeah, that applies to the customers sitting in the private room…
Food
The sashimi was great! Fresh and sweet (and they appealed to a non-sashimi fan like me)! They have the blow-torch to serve all their sushi in aburi style YUMYUM. If you’re not a raw food/sashimi fan, then this restaurant is not for you! And if you are not a seasoned sushi eater and choose to let the chefs serve you their spread of sushi, be prepared to eat all sorts of sushi that you’ve never seen… After stuffing yourself with rice, have some jelly for dessert! The jelly comes in various flavours (strawberry, apple, grape, mango, lychee and something else I forgot). All are yummy but not all are available always. While stocks last. My bf and I always manage to squeeze down at least 2 portions of jelly even after so much sushi!
Payment
Usual – ask waitress for bill, wait 5 mins (while she goes to clear other customers’ plates/refill their green tea) before she gets back to you, pay up and go off.
Overall: 0-10 (10 being the best)
Ambience: 6.5 (very normal Japanese fixtures)
Service: 6 (Average pulled down by the waitress. Chefs’ service was prompt and good.)
Food: 7.5 (Very good sushi and good range of Japanese wine – heard from other pple cos I don’t drink)
Damage: 8 (weekend lunch buffet - $39.90 / dinner - $49.90)
Return Value: 8 (I would keep going back if I had the money)
Toilet: N/A (no toilet in restaurant)
Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/sushi_kikuzawa/
P.S: Try to make a prior reservation if you are going on weekends, it tends to be full house…
Where: Sushi Kikuzawa
Location: 360 Orchard Road, #02-13, International Building
Ambience
This “restaurant” is actually a sushi bar, almost like those you would see in Japanese shows. The main bar seats about 12 customers, and they have a private room by the side which seats about 6-10 people. It is located at a rather “ulu” part of town (come on, how many people actually know that the building next to lido – no, not pacific plaza – is called International Building?!), but judging from their steady flow of customers, the food must be GOOODDD! Been there a few times, and there were always some native Japanese customers enjoying themselves there. Other than the native Japanese, the restaurant seems to attract a large crowd of Japanese speaking customers too (which kinda makes me, a non-Jap speaker, feel quite out of place. YA, cos they all speak to the Jap Chef/Owner in Japanese. -___-).
Service
I chose the sushi buffet, and it goes like that – you will be served some appetizers (edamame, radish soup etc), then the sashimi platter (one serving per buffet only) before various kinds of sushi is plonked onto the serving plate in front of you. The sushi is prepared freshly right in front of you, a steady flow of sushi will be served, with the chef paying attention to your eating speed before serving the next portion of sushi. The sushi will just keep coming unless you tell the chef to stop serving you. If you would rather choose the kinds of sushi that you would be served, you can let them know your choice of going ala carte buffet. The restaurant is run by the Japanese Chef/Owner, a Chinese apprentice and a Chinese waitress. The waitress takes care of all the customers’ requests in the restaurant, including refilling Green tea, collecting used plates, billing/payment and preparation of Chawanmushi steamed egg (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – it is only prepared when you order, takes about 15-20mins!). Since she has a lot on her hands, be prepared to have her serve you with a lag time of 5-10mins! Furthermore, if you’re a stickler for quick service, DO NOT EVER sit in the private room. Heard of the saying “Out of sight, out of mind”? Yeah, that applies to the customers sitting in the private room…
Food
The sashimi was great! Fresh and sweet (and they appealed to a non-sashimi fan like me)! They have the blow-torch to serve all their sushi in aburi style YUMYUM. If you’re not a raw food/sashimi fan, then this restaurant is not for you! And if you are not a seasoned sushi eater and choose to let the chefs serve you their spread of sushi, be prepared to eat all sorts of sushi that you’ve never seen… After stuffing yourself with rice, have some jelly for dessert! The jelly comes in various flavours (strawberry, apple, grape, mango, lychee and something else I forgot). All are yummy but not all are available always. While stocks last. My bf and I always manage to squeeze down at least 2 portions of jelly even after so much sushi!
Payment
Usual – ask waitress for bill, wait 5 mins (while she goes to clear other customers’ plates/refill their green tea) before she gets back to you, pay up and go off.
Overall: 0-10 (10 being the best)
Ambience: 6.5 (very normal Japanese fixtures)
Service: 6 (Average pulled down by the waitress. Chefs’ service was prompt and good.)
Food: 7.5 (Very good sushi and good range of Japanese wine – heard from other pple cos I don’t drink)
Damage: 8 (weekend lunch buffet - $39.90 / dinner - $49.90)
Return Value: 8 (I would keep going back if I had the money)
Toilet: N/A (no toilet in restaurant)
Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/sushi_kikuzawa/
P.S: Try to make a prior reservation if you are going on weekends, it tends to be full house…
Brotzeit Restaurant
Its Food Review time again.
Where: Brotzeit Restaurant
Location: 252 North Bridge Road, #01-17 Raffles City Shopping Centre, Singapore 179103
Ambience
Went there at 5:00 pm last Saturday have to leave to somewhere else by 6 + pm so had an early dinner. The place is located at one corner of
Service
The place is filled with Fillipino waiters and waitress. Open the menu, damn COOL!! The name of the dish and beers are names you can’t even pronounce (What do you expect it is a German restaurant -_- )… but lucky the description is in English. Not long after we sat down the waitress wanted to take my order, she speaks really well (Like Dahzle), but I haven’t made up my mind yet, I think she thought we were there to have a drink. It was early so I ask them if they are ready to serve dinner dishes, then the staff says they have to check, after she check, she told me they are ready to serve dinner.. Then I also notice that the glass walls are actually partitions, they can actually open them up and make it look like those provision shop where there are no doors (Personally I feel it is a bad idea, they do not have air curtains, so the aircon will surely condensate).. My GF told me the Roast Pork Knuckle is Fantastic (that’s why we came here) so I ordered the Roast Pork Knuckle and Smoked sausages (not cigar ar), with two glass of Ice water (I dun drink alcohol). The food came promptly..
Food
The Roast Pork Knuckle came with some funny side dishes, pickles, some sour white veggie, weird tasting smash potatoes and some green… Nonetheless it look really enticing (the presentation is good). The sausages came with the sour white veggie and weird tasting smash potatoes. There a couple of sauces, one of them for the Pork Knuckle and some chili, mustard and an unknown good tasting sauce for the sausages. The sausages taste quite good, the way it should taste, nothing fancy. The pork knuckle is really fat and oily and REALLY YUMMY!! Both dishes are really good, but the side dishes are not so good, which really took the credit away.. While I was fighting my way through the pork knuckle, I drank a lot of water.. but the waiter never took the initiatives to refill them :( until I ask them to do so (Yes, minus marks again).
Payment
After I am done with my food, I ask for the bill, it cost $62+ (Above average damage, anyway it was my GF Treat :) ).
Off topic: I met Yumi and another Japanese Native there.. They were drinking beer and chatting..
Overall 0-10 (10 being the best)
Ambience: 7 (weird choice of furniture and the partition thingy hmm…. And I heard they change to some loud music later in the evening..)
Service: 5 (no initiatives, but still not that bad that I will fail them)
Food: 7.5 (Main Dish Superd!! Side Dishes hmm.. )
Damage: 6 (quite damaging)
Return value: 8.75 (will go back there for the pork knuckle)
Toilet: 6 (Average, gents has a bull on the door, ladies… I dun remember)
Company Website: http://www.brotzeit1516.com/
Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/brotzeit_german_bier_bar_restaurant_raffles_city/
Only average in Hungrygowhere I feel they deserved a little better..the. Indugle Restaurant
I will write a review for my dining experience for this place,
Location: the. Indulge Restaurant, 2 Handy Road, B1-26, The Cathay, Singapore 229233
Ambience
Reach there at about 6:45. Went into
Service
There was only 2 floor staff (If I am not wrong) working and they seems busy. I ask one of them to place my order, she told me to consider the set promotion, so I ponder for a while and she was gone, tending to other guests. So I called the order waitress to place the order, she was quite friendly, I order the promotional set dinner (lobster pasta as main, Meepok* white wine) and a standard Lobster pasta (Meepok*, Aglio olio). Then the waitress came with the settings for our dinner together with the ice water, she places the plates and drinks all over the place except where it is suppose to be :( . Then our Ices Tea came, it was very sweet (Drink to much might get diabetes, btw it is a complimentary drink)… After a while the appetizer came..
*Meepok = Linguine
Food
The appetizer was Crispy prawn something, it came in a rather long plate with just 2 prawns on it (I think it is in the promotion set that’s why so pathetic), the prawn taste awesome, crispy, juicy and all. After we finish the prawns, the soup came (there was 2 choices, herbal chicken and pumpkin, I picked herbal chicken), the soup was serve in a funny shape bowl, the soup taste quite good too, the chicken meat in the soup also tasted good. So far so good, then came the main course, the Lobster meepok, the lobster Meepok was serve in a width about 2.75 inch, length about 1 foot long plate (Odd choice), the lobsters are rather small, without the feelers it is about 4 – 5 inches long ba. So we dig in, I had the white wine styled Meepok while my galfriend had the Aglio Olio styled meepok which is spicy. The white wine meepok tasted okay, while the aglio olio is really too spicy and it has lots of garlic. Some how the meepok never live up to its starters and soup… Haix. After the main course, I ask for my Desert, which is chocolate ice cream with some coffee favour puddings, which wasn’t that good too.. after finishing up, we called for the bill, no fanciful payment method here, standard show you the bill while you pay..
Overall 0-10 (10 being the best)
Ambience : 6.5
Service: 6.25
Food: 7 (Started well, but ended badly)
Damage: 7 (the whole meal cost about $42, I dun think it is that worth it)
Return value: 9.5 (I gave high ratings as they had quite a good spread in the menu, maybe can try other food next time)
Toilet: N.A (No toilet in the restaurant)
Company Website: http://www.theindulge.com.sg/
Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/the_indulge/
Overall it’s ok for a date, can catch a movie after the meal. Personally I think the price can be manipulated.. Maybe order the crispy prawns ($7.50) for sharing and a main course each will be ok ba.. anyway that’s all for now..
Ma Maison Restaurant
I didn’t go to the one at Central, I went to the one at Bugis Junction (02-51).. I think should be the same.
Location: 200 Victoria Street, Bugis Junction, #02-51, S(188021)
Ambience
Went there at 6:15pm last Saturday. The place is dim lit, very cozy and country styled with Jazz music playing in the background, a candle (those that you use to light cigarette at some places) was at the side of the table. I had a table near the entrance (table 1) , it was half a booth seat (you get what I mean), my GF sat at the booth sit while I sat in the traditional seat, the furniture was just nice, the chair fit nicely into the table with little rooms for adjustment.
The lady that bought us to our table was Japanese, her English is better than some of our colleagues from downstairs. Then when I ask her to order our food, she told me to wait and got a local guy to take the order.. I ordered a Clam Chowder, Cuttlefish ink pasta and Scoth egg. As I was ordering my food, the ice water came. Not long after I ordered the food, the clam chowder came, it looks good, but no garlic bread to go with it L.. it taste good, but not fantastic. My galfriend like it too. Than after we finish the soup. We waited for maybe about 10 mins, dun really know how long but quite long.. our main course came..
Food
The cuttlefish ink pasta looks black and untasteful (what can I say, its black).. The Scoth egg looks really fantastic. Than I dig in, the cuttlefish ink pasta, although doesn’t look good, it actually taste good, I dunno how to describe it, its just good. My galfriend commented that Sushi Tei’s taste better but the promotion is over :( . The Scoth egg is a hard boiled egg that is coated by unknown meat, so I ask the waiter, what meat is that, she told me its mince pork and mince BEEF WTF!! So bloody sad.. So my girlfriend ate the eggs, her comment was, it taste fantastic, (T_T) damn…
Payment
When all our food is served, the waiter gave me a key, a big one with a big key tag that reads Ma-Miason Restaurant and Hotel and a number 1 on it. Then she told me that I have to present it to the cashier for payment. So after the meal I took the key to the counter and made the payment.. the total cost was $44+ quite reasonable in my opinion.
Ambience : 7.5 (I preferred futuristic feel, but still okay)
Service: 7 (didn’t really utilize it so can’t really comment)
Food: 8.25 (Very Good, but still can improve)
Damage: 8.5 (I find it reasonable for date purposes)
Return value: 10 (will definitely go back there again or try the one at Central)
Toilet: 3.75 (The men toilet is old and a bit dirty, no stench though.. dunno about the ladies)
Company Website: http://www.ma-maison.co.jp
Hungry Go Where Review: http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/ma_maison_restaurant_the_central/
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