For the first time in many years, I ventured into Far East Plaza, known for its very fashionable stores and their wares. I hardly shop there as the clothes are rarely my style and I'm the sort to look for clothing suitable for work.
I stumbled onto this tiny shop tucked away on the entrance level (3rd floor). Small as it was it had plenty hanging on its racks. I took up some of the dresses and was amazed at the quality of the material used. The seams are also well done and the lining for each dress was well sewn.
My excited friend and I spent 3 hours at this shop trying on about 30 pieces of clothing. The salesgirl never once showed a face and volunteered more pieces to try. She gave her honest opinion when some dresses didn't fit too well and tried her best to understand our style, thus not pushing every single piece of clothing to us.
When some of the pieces we liked had an odd button or feature we didn't quite like, she offered to have them removed or altered for free. Any alteration (even tightening of waist areas) was offered for free. If it only required a shortening, it could be done immediately even.
What I liked most was the good quality for a reasonable price. One dress cost about $79 and cost me less than $70 after discount. I washed the dress when I got home and it didn't even require any ironing. Just hang straight and drip dry.
Another top I got cost $34 initially. The salesgirl noticed that there were some makeup stains on the white collar and she took the initiative to look for a new piece even when I didn't notice the stain. Then as there weren't any more pieces, she brought me a black one and told me that I still wanted the white one she would send it to the laundry and have it cleaned for free. How's that for service? That's not all. I told her that I could not afford the time to come down again any time soon and asked for a discount so that I could bring it to the laundromat myself. They agreed and let me have the blouse for $26 with an $8 discount which can easily cover the costs of having it washed.
When we left, it was really late and most of the shops at FEP were closed but they were still all smiles and actually called us by name. It's no wonder I saw a number of Tai-tais buying a large number of clothing from them within the time I was there!
Im not too sure is it the product or is the product not suitable for everyone. I seem to have the same problem as the person in the first review.
I saw cestnaturel in a magazine long ago and decided to check out its website. It says that customization is its forte and their scrubs are good for eczema. So I ordered one for myself, a customized one.
Honestly it smells quite good and unique. (But there was a short strain of hair that was totally gross but accidents do happen I guess) but after using it for a while, not only did my eczema not gone away, I started to have some rashes over some parts of my body. I thought it was detoxification maybe, since it is shown in a magazine it cant be that bad. So I continued using and the rashes got worst and it was the painful kind of rashes.
I did not want to take the risk anymore and stopped. Very quickly, my rashes disappeared!
Initially I thought it was just not suitable for me. But if the product is not suitable for everyone I think the site should at least state a warning! I followed all the instructions, scrub only once to twice a week, not on broken wounds. I thought the strain of hair was a mistake to be forgiven, but after reading the first review, I cant help but doubt its cleanliness and quality.
Just my opinion, think twice before you try. It may work well for others? I don’t know. But I will never try it again.
This outlet of fastfood is small and they have pizza together with KFC. You can order both KFC and pizza while sitting there for a meal.
But the service is terrible. Their tables are not kept clean. Even after the customers who left 10 minutes ago, their trays are still on the table and the staffs didn't even bother to clean up.
Since the place is quite small and it is not crowded comparing to other outlets, I supposed cleaniness is important to a food industry.
I have to repeat 2 - 3 times for my order to this guy and I couldn't catch what he say with his english accent.
This place is always full during dinner time even during weekdays. They have a waiting list to register you but you could get a seat in a while.
They sell very cheap Thai food comparing to other thai restaurant and their service is good too. They have quite a number of employees and I supposed the manager is the one who took down your name in the waiting list. He could recognize familiar faces too!
I always have their Tom Yam soup, fried calamari, oat meal prawns and pineappple rice.
The Tom yam doesn't taste very nice. Quite spicy for my tongue but my friends love it. There are seafood in the tom yam as well.
The fried calamari and oat meal prawn is nice. A generous serving of oat meal and together with the pineapple rice is very tasty.
I always pay less than $30 for all the dishes. That is so cheap!
I was passing by Toa Payoh after a library trip with my coursemates. This shop in particular has very designs that stood out from the shops beside them so I went to take a look.
They are selling pastries like durian strudel, apple strudel, muffins, chicken puff and the best part of it is they are all made on the spot.
The salesgirl was telling me that the durain strudel is made of pure durain without any cream and all of their stuffs are made inside the shop and they are fresh.
So from what she had recommended me, I bought one durian strudel, one chicken puff and some muffins since it is quite cheap. One durian strudel at $1.80. Chicken puff and muffins at $1.00 each. If I didn't remember wrongly.
I have always had this perception that only bakeries in Starbucks and BakerInz are good. To my surprise, this shop has very fresh and soft muffins.
The muffins has lots of chocolate even on the inside.
And yes, the durian strudel are pure durian without cream and it is cripsy.
The chicken puff has lots of fillings inside at only $1.00.
The salesperson is friendly and they tell me about their products patiently.
I used to love Chomel head to toe. I bought a number of their necklaces and rings - all with blings on them because their designs are great and the prices are affordable.
I love the service at Changi Airport. Perhaps it is not so crowded therefore the staffs seem to be nicer and friendly. The service at Orchard Wisma is not as good. Full attention was not paid when I was asking about something.
Yes, they do provide the replacing of blings when it is fallen but at a policy which I thought was stupid. They only replace 2 blings at a time and the rest of blings you would need to pay at $1 each. The staff told me if I do not want to pay for the 3rd bling then I could bring it to another outlet to replace it. Even though, it is just a dollar but I think it is stupid and make me go to another outlet. Moreover, even after replacing those blings, it came off within 2 weeks so I gave up replacing them. I’m not sure if it is the workmanship of the staff or the quality of the glue they used to stick those blings. Once they need to send my necklace back because they do not have the blings on hand and I have to go down and collect a week later. Summarizing what I have said, the price you pay is the quality you get.
This Hong Kong Cafe is quite a new cafe. I supposed it is opened less than a year ago.
The service wasn't very great compared to the outlet at Marina Square. The food is still acceptable.
I went around 1am last night. This outlet opened till 2am on Monday - Thursday and 3am on Thursday - Weekends, I supposed.
During the night, it is quite peaceful. But the bad thing is that their staffs kept clearing the plates once we are done and that pissed me off. We are chatting half way and they interrupted us by clearing those plates. It seems that they are hurring to get off work.
Anyway, I love the hot milk tea. It has always been the signature drink in most Hong Kong Cafe. Their milk tea is not too sweet and it tastes just nice. My friend had this watermelon ice which he drinks everytime when we visited Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe. It is cooling and it is great during those hot weathers.
We also had Mango Pudding. It is nice. There are fruits inside as well. It is not sweet too! ( I think most puddings are sweet like crazy!)
Except for the service, I might consider to visit this outlet again...
I frequent this place often with my friends for gathering. I love the service they have. I have seen customers who brought wine there themselves for a drink as that place is cosy and nice.
It has Wifi in the store and a book shelves for your access as well!
The food is good too and the price is around there for such a cafe. I used to have the chicken broth or something like this. They changed their menu once a while for new tastes! The boss is friendly, you can enquire about the food when you do not understand the name or the explanations in the menu.
I visit MANY online blogshops and this is definitely one of my faves.
There are SOOOooO many reasons why!
They update often. About twice a week.
Packages arrive well-packed and are prompt. I have not experienced any delays. I also have not gotten any defected pieces from them despite buying from almost every collection.
Each update is done by a different owner. They have 3 owners who all have different tastes and different styles! So the great part is that each update has its own style and there'll be something to suit everyone!
Prices are very reasonable and the quality is good! However, there are one or two pieces which have to be handwashed and I'm soooo lazy.
The owners are very friendly. And on top of that they are customer-oriented. Payments had to be done within 24 hours. But there was once when my pet was very ill and I had to bring my pet to the doctor they were very understanding and waited for me! They even asked about my pet after. :) So sweet right?
They were even featured in the Straits Times National Day edition!
If I can give this place less than 1 star I would.
My sister bought a package at this place 2 months ago but she didn't go for her manicure/pedicure. She figured that it's very near our home and my mom and I can use it which is why she bought the package. The package cost $800 and consisted of 12 full manicures and pedicures and some disinfecting balls.
Last week, I went, thinking that I deserved to relax. I sat down and the lady, Cecilia, started to work on my legs. Just minutes into scrubbing my feet, she started to sell me a special treatment which is suppose to be good for removing corns, which she claimed I had. I have been to so many salons and no one said that I had this problem. But anyway the treatment costs $200 and I wasn't sure if it was good so I refused.
Then with cream on my feet and stuff, she started hard-selling. She refused to continue, saying that if I top up my current package to the one with the corn treatment she can do it right away so that I can experience it right now. THE TOP UP COSTS $2000 ! And that was on top of my current $800 package! I couldn't budge cos my feet were dirty and she refused to continue, though she remained polite all the way. Finally when I said loudly I didn't want because I didn't have the cash for it she continued... not before insisting that I do the $20 scrub. I was so sick of her ranting then I agreed to the $20 scrub.
After having everything painted and my nail art done, I sat at the counter to have my nails dried... then Cecilia came back with a "MORE ATTRACTIVE" package which she claims that I can pay by instalments. She insisted that MY credit card can pay by instalments. Then came the 45 min lecture on why I should take up the package etc... More and more staff came to hound me.
Finally I relented. Only because I know my mom had a corn problem and I thought she could really use it. To say the truth... I was on the verge of tears. I kept saying no... kept saying that I needed time to think about it because it was so expensive... but they surrounded me and kept going on about it.
We went to the machine to pay by instalments... AND IT DIDN'T APPROVE! Can you imagine how embarrassed I felt when they said that loudly? It wasn't even my fault! Then they hounded me more and I paid a deposit of $400 for the package.
Only then did they let me go. The whole process... wasted 3 hours of my time. Have you ever had a 3-hour pedicure? Nope not even with a manicure.
When I was standing there making payment... I saw them do the same thing to an older lady. They hounded her.. until she was so irritated she pulled out her wallet, tipped it over to show that she didn't have any cash on her and didn't bring her cards. After that they left her alone... and I really mean alone as in there wasn't ANYONE serving her at all. They just left her there for about 20 minutes choosing colours and preparing her feet at all.
** the aftermath:
After leaving, I came to my senses. And I realised that they would hard-sell me, my mom and my sister things every time we went... I realised that I CANNOT take up that package. I went back and argued. The $400 cannot be refunded (which I expected) but it is now a credit on the old package which can be used for other things. After the package is up.. I WILL NEVER go back there again.
BTW, my nail polish chipped in 4 days. Faster than if I painted it myself. Sigh.
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For the first time in many years, I ventured into Far East Plaza, known for its very fashionable stores and their wares. I hardly shop there as the clothes are rarely my style and I'm the sort to look for clothing suitable for work.
I stumbled onto this tiny shop tucked away on the entrance level (3rd floor). Small as it was it had plenty hanging on its racks. I took up some of the dresses and was amazed at the quality of the material used. The seams are also well done and the lining for each dress was well sewn.
My excited friend and I spent 3 hours at this shop trying on about 30 pieces of clothing. The salesgirl never once showed a face and volunteered more pieces to try. She gave her honest opinion when some dresses didn't fit too well and tried her best to understand our style, thus not pushing every single piece of clothing to us.
When some of the pieces we liked had an odd button or feature we didn't quite like, she offered to have them removed or altered for free. Any alteration (even tightening of waist areas) was offered for free. If it only required a shortening, it could be done immediately even.
What I liked most was the good quality for a reasonable price. One dress cost about $79 and cost me less than $70 after discount. I washed the dress when I got home and it didn't even require any ironing. Just hang straight and drip dry.
Another top I got cost $34 initially. The salesgirl noticed that there were some makeup stains on the white collar and she took the initiative to look for a new piece even when I didn't notice the stain. Then as there weren't any more pieces, she brought me a black one and told me that I still wanted the white one she would send it to the laundry and have it cleaned for free. How's that for service? That's not all. I told her that I could not afford the time to come down again any time soon and asked for a discount so that I could bring it to the laundromat myself. They agreed and let me have the blouse for $26 with an $8 discount which can easily cover the costs of having it washed.
When we left, it was really late and most of the shops at FEP were closed but they were still all smiles and actually called us by name. It's no wonder I saw a number of Tai-tais buying a large number of clothing from them within the time I was there!
I'm planning to go again!
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Im not too sure is it the product or is the product not suitable for everyone. I seem to have the same problem as the person in the first review.
I saw cestnaturel in a magazine long ago and decided to check out its website. It says that customization is its forte and their scrubs are good for eczema. So I ordered one for myself, a customized one.
Honestly it smells quite good and unique. (But there was a short strain of hair that was totally gross but accidents do happen I guess) but after using it for a while, not only did my eczema not gone away, I started to have some rashes over some parts of my body. I thought it was detoxification maybe, since it is shown in a magazine it cant be that bad. So I continued using and the rashes got worst and it was the painful kind of rashes.
I did not want to take the risk anymore and stopped. Very quickly, my rashes disappeared!
Initially I thought it was just not suitable for me. But if the product is not suitable for everyone I think the site should at least state a warning! I followed all the instructions, scrub only once to twice a week, not on broken wounds. I thought the strain of hair was a mistake to be forgiven, but after reading the first review, I cant help but doubt its cleanliness and quality.
Just my opinion, think twice before you try. It may work well for others? I don’t know. But I will never try it again.
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This outlet of fastfood is small and they have pizza together with KFC. You can order both KFC and pizza while sitting there for a meal.
But the service is terrible.
Their tables are not kept clean. Even after the customers who left 10 minutes ago, their trays are still on the table and the staffs didn't even bother to clean up.
Since the place is quite small and it is not crowded comparing to other outlets, I supposed cleaniness is important to a food industry.
I have to repeat 2 - 3 times for my order to this guy and I couldn't catch what he say with his english accent.
I had rather dine in outlet elsewhere, seriously.
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This place is always full during dinner time even during weekdays.
They have a waiting list to register you but you could get a seat in a while.
They sell very cheap Thai food comparing to other thai restaurant and their service is good too. They have quite a number of employees and I supposed the manager is the one who took down your name in the waiting list. He could recognize familiar faces too!
I always have their Tom Yam soup, fried calamari, oat meal prawns and pineappple rice.
The Tom yam doesn't taste very nice. Quite spicy for my tongue but my friends love it. There are seafood in the tom yam as well.
The fried calamari and oat meal prawn is nice. A generous serving of oat meal and together with the pineapple rice is very tasty.
I always pay less than $30 for all the dishes.
That is so cheap!
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I was passing by Toa Payoh after a library trip with my coursemates.
This shop in particular has very designs that stood out from the shops beside them so I went to take a look.
They are selling pastries like durian strudel, apple strudel, muffins, chicken puff and the best part of it is they are all made on the spot.
The salesgirl was telling me that the durain strudel is made of pure durain without any cream and all of their stuffs are made inside the shop and they are fresh.
So from what she had recommended me, I bought one durian strudel, one chicken puff and some muffins since it is quite cheap.
One durian strudel at $1.80. Chicken puff and muffins at $1.00 each. If I didn't remember wrongly.
I have always had this perception that only bakeries in Starbucks and BakerInz are good. To my surprise, this shop has very fresh and soft muffins.
The muffins has lots of chocolate even on the inside.
And yes, the durian strudel are pure durian without cream and it is cripsy.
The chicken puff has lots of fillings inside at only $1.00.
The salesperson is friendly and they tell me about their products patiently.
I will definetely go back again.
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I used to love Chomel head to toe. I bought a number of their necklaces and rings - all with blings on them because their designs are great and the prices are affordable.
I love the service at Changi Airport. Perhaps it is not so crowded therefore the staffs seem to be nicer and friendly. The service at Orchard Wisma is not as good. Full attention was not paid when I was asking about something.
Yes, they do provide the replacing of blings when it is fallen but at a policy which I thought was stupid. They only replace 2 blings at a time and the rest of blings you would need to pay at $1 each. The staff told me if I do not want to pay for the 3rd bling then I could bring it to another outlet to replace it. Even though, it is just a dollar but I think it is stupid and make me go to another outlet. Moreover, even after replacing those blings, it came off within 2 weeks so I gave up replacing them. I’m not sure if it is the workmanship of the staff or the quality of the glue they used to stick those blings. Once they need to send my necklace back because they do not have the blings on hand and I have to go down and collect a week later.
Summarizing what I have said, the price you pay is the quality you get.
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This Hong Kong Cafe is quite a new cafe. I supposed it is opened less than a year ago.
The service wasn't very great compared to the outlet at Marina Square. The food is still acceptable.
I went around 1am last night. This outlet opened till 2am on Monday - Thursday and 3am on Thursday - Weekends, I supposed.
During the night, it is quite peaceful. But the bad thing is that their staffs kept clearing the plates once we are done and that pissed me off. We are chatting half way and they interrupted us by clearing those plates. It seems that they are hurring to get off work.
Anyway,
I love the hot milk tea. It has always been the signature drink in most Hong Kong Cafe. Their milk tea is not too sweet and it tastes just nice.
My friend had this watermelon ice which he drinks everytime when we visited Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe. It is cooling and it is great during those hot weathers.
We also had Mango Pudding.
It is nice. There are fruits inside as well.
It is not sweet too! ( I think most puddings are sweet like crazy!)
Except for the service, I might consider to visit this outlet again...
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I frequent this place often with my friends for gathering. I love the service they have. I have seen customers who brought wine there themselves for a drink as that place is cosy and nice.
It has Wifi in the store and a book shelves for your access as well!
The food is good too and the price is around there for such a cafe. I used to have the chicken broth or something like this. They changed their menu once a while for new tastes!
The boss is friendly, you can enquire about the food when you do not understand the name or the explanations in the menu.
Should try. It isn't that bad!
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I visit MANY online blogshops and this is definitely one of my faves.
There are SOOOooO many reasons why!
They update often. About twice a week.
Packages arrive well-packed and are prompt. I have not experienced any delays. I also have not gotten any defected pieces from them despite buying from almost every collection.
Each update is done by a different owner. They have 3 owners who all have different tastes and different styles! So the great part is that each update has its own style and there'll be something to suit everyone!
Prices are very reasonable and the quality is good! However, there are one or two pieces which have to be handwashed and I'm soooo lazy.
The owners are very friendly. And on top of that they are customer-oriented. Payments had to be done within 24 hours. But there was once when my pet was very ill and I had to bring my pet to the doctor they were very understanding and waited for me! They even asked about my pet after. :) So sweet right?
They were even featured in the Straits Times National Day edition!
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If I can give this place less than 1 star I would.
My sister bought a package at this place 2 months ago but she didn't go for her manicure/pedicure. She figured that it's very near our home and my mom and I can use it which is why she bought the package. The package cost $800 and consisted of 12 full manicures and pedicures and some disinfecting balls.
Last week, I went, thinking that I deserved to relax. I sat down and the lady, Cecilia, started to work on my legs. Just minutes into scrubbing my feet, she started to sell me a special treatment which is suppose to be good for removing corns, which she claimed I had. I have been to so many salons and no one said that I had this problem. But anyway the treatment costs $200 and I wasn't sure if it was good so I refused.
Then with cream on my feet and stuff, she started hard-selling. She refused to continue, saying that if I top up my current package to the one with the corn treatment she can do it right away so that I can experience it right now. THE TOP UP COSTS $2000 ! And that was on top of my current $800 package! I couldn't budge cos my feet were dirty and she refused to continue, though she remained polite all the way. Finally when I said loudly I didn't want because I didn't have the cash for it she continued... not before insisting that I do the $20 scrub. I was so sick of her ranting then I agreed to the $20 scrub.
After having everything painted and my nail art done, I sat at the counter to have my nails dried... then Cecilia came back with a "MORE ATTRACTIVE" package which she claims that I can pay by instalments. She insisted that MY credit card can pay by instalments. Then came the 45 min lecture on why I should take up the package etc... More and more staff came to hound me.
Finally I relented. Only because I know my mom had a corn problem and I thought she could really use it. To say the truth... I was on the verge of tears. I kept saying no... kept saying that I needed time to think about it because it was so expensive... but they surrounded me and kept going on about it.
We went to the machine to pay by instalments... AND IT DIDN'T APPROVE! Can you imagine how embarrassed I felt when they said that loudly? It wasn't even my fault! Then they hounded me more and I paid a deposit of $400 for the package.
Only then did they let me go. The whole process... wasted 3 hours of my time. Have you ever had a 3-hour pedicure? Nope not even with a manicure.
When I was standing there making payment... I saw them do the same thing to an older lady. They hounded her.. until she was so irritated she pulled out her wallet, tipped it over to show that she didn't have any cash on her and didn't bring her cards. After that they left her alone... and I really mean alone as in there wasn't ANYONE serving her at all. They just left her there for about 20 minutes choosing colours and preparing her feet at all.
** the aftermath:
After leaving, I came to my senses. And I realised that they would hard-sell me, my mom and my sister things every time we went... I realised that I CANNOT take up that package. I went back and argued. The $400 cannot be refunded (which I expected) but it is now a credit on the old package which can be used for other things. After the package is up.. I WILL NEVER go back there again.
BTW, my nail polish chipped in 4 days. Faster than if I painted it myself. Sigh.
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