I walked past Manhattan Fish Market a lot of times. It’s always long queue. My frenz who tried it before said its very nice. I dun really like Fish & chips, but my Dear Dear loves it.
So by chance, there was no queue at Plaza Singapura’s branch, we went in to have lunch.
Appetizers: Mushroom soup - not too bad. Can still bite the blended mushrooms bits. White Baits with Mayo & Coleslaw - GOOD. Crispy. I love the coleslaw below.
3 kinds of Dippers - Sour Cream, Chilli, and Garlic.
Main Dish: Grilled Norwegian King Salmon Fillet - My Dear Dear skip his fave and ordered this. I m not a fan of Salmon, but my Dear Dear is. I like the fries. It’s fresh as in they fried in clean oil. & I think crispy not soggy fries.
Fettuccine with Fish & Squid - I like fettuccine and LOVE Squid, but not a fan of panfried fish, so I gave the fish to my Dear dear. I like the cream sauce. Thick and flavourful. The ingredients are fresh. :D
Price wise is the standard resturants range. So….. I will love to go there but I need to feel rich then I will go. :p
Our Anniversary, My BF bring me to Braise for Lunch, as he heard that the food was not bad.
I like the place setting, everything looks white. It seems like a grasshouse. It air-con place.
We order 1 Braise Exec Lunch & 1 Braise Exec Lunch Special, 2 glass of Fruit Punch & 1 Ala Clat Cinnamon Apple Tarte.
While waiting for the food to be serve. They gave us complietary bread. The bread taste a bit like pizza. Can taste it has some spices and cheese. Not too hard and it nice.
2 Glass of Fruit Punch $12.00
The fruit punch nothing special but still ok.
Braise Exec Lunch Special $48
1 Appetizer
Pan Seared Foie Gras, Banana Chutney and Chocolate sauce. The Foie Gras were cripsy, a bit oily and salty. It goes well with the sauce. Not sure about the banana as I didn't try. Not bad dish.
1 Main Course
Roasted Pork Belly with Savoy Cabbage and Spiced Port Sauce. I usually don't eat pork belly as I scared of the fats. But, this pork belly was good. It has more meat and less fats. Not too oily too. The cabbage were sweet and nice, there is taste of ham. It goes well with the sauce. Nice Dish.
1 Dessert
Selection of Cheese Platter. It has 5 different flavours of cheese servced with lots of greens, raisins, dry fruits and some biscults. Sorry not too sure what flavours of cheese they served but we both agree that the blue cheese were not nice. I don't really feel cheese platter served as desset.
Braise Exec Lunch $38
1 Appetizer
Pamma ham, Scallops and Rocket Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing. Ham wrap around the scallops. The Ham taste a bit salty but it goes well with the scallops. The rocket salad with honey balsamic dressing were nice too.
1 Main Course
Roasted Cod Fish with Ratatoulie and Basil Dressing. The Cod Fish were fresh. Ratatoulie has lots of vegetables. There is cucumber, green, red, yellow pepper. This dish was not bad. But not really that nice.
1 Dessert
Chocolate Lava Cake with Hazelnut Ice-cream. The Chocolate were served warm it not too sweet taste a bit better. But, when you eat it with the ice-cream it get more bitter. i feel they have served us the coffee ice-cream. But, I still find the dessert is nice. If they served it with vanila or chocolate chips ice-cream maybe it will be much better.
1 Ala Cart Dessert
Cinnamon Apple Tarte with Vanila Ice-Cream. In between the tarte there is apple. The Tarte is cripsy. Cinnammon taste not too strong. It goes well with the ice-cream. Not bad.
Service was not that bad. But, I still feel the price is a bit too high.
Total Bill: $131.85 (Including 10% Service charge & 7% GST)
Went down to Fre(N)sh with my BF on a Saturday for dinner. Have a good experience so we came back for another visit.
Hmm... The price has raise up from $16 nett for set meal to $17.50. We have expected due to lots of stuff price has increased.
We order a 1 Set Meal, 1 Starter, 1 Ala Cart Taritine and a glass of red wine.
1 Set Meal $17.50
1 Glass of Orange Juice
Nothing special about the orange juice but it still nice.
1 Crab Meat Tartine
Toasted bread, salad sauce, filled with lots of crab meats, some brasil leaves, lemon juice and served with lots of fresh greens. As I understand the crab meat were actually from those cans of crab meat but It still taste nice and good.
1 Tramisu.
Top layer filled with lots of Coco powder. Two layer of cakes and two layer of cream. It has a strong taste of coffee. Not all the part have the rum taste. But, overall was still good.
1 Glass of Red Wine $9.80
Sorry, not too sure what red wine is it. To me, I feel is normal.
But, still ok.
1 Starter $8.90
Two type of different flavours bread. Garlic Bread and Chicken & Duck meat Bread. The Garlic Bread were normal to us. As for the Chicken & Duck meat Bread were good. It was not so bad.
1 Foie Gras Tartine $17.90
Toasted Bread served with cold thin slice of foie gras with some black pepper and salt and served with lots of greens. My BF and I though that is the normal piece of pan fried foie gras we had but we were wrong as the foie gras is actually from the block foie gras. It was not that bad but, it better to go with the greens as after having the second slices will feel a bit sick of it. Either you like it or you don't like it. As for me, once is good enough.
The service were not bad. As the waiter were friendly. Cool no service charge and GST.
Looking at this topic and review, the question undoubtedly in your mind is how can you differentiate between branches in a fast food chain?
Well, its basically done through the serving of the chicken, service, speed and the taste of the chicken of course.
Regardless, this branch managed to uphold the regular standards without going above board. Though the crowd is huge, the food is still prepared and served with speed even when the current batch of chicken is exhausted.
Seats are plentiful and you'll find many people clad in swim wear patronizing the food joint.
Service is decent and to the point while extra requests are taken with a smile and request to be patient while they process the request. The special order is then served to the residual table.
Located in Downtown east, i patronized this place some time ago with my gf to have a swim, get a tan and basically get some relaxation into the system from the daily grind.
Ticket charges are at $13.80 for the public and $10.80 for NTUC club members and basically, its a good place to remain half naked for half a day with no weird looks thrown your way.
The attractions include a suspended bicycle, an extremely fast and long slide, a shared 5 person float, a jucuzzi, a meandering pool and a wave simulated pool.
Overall, it wasn't a bad experience at the place but its definitely not enough to spend an entire day in just for the rides.
For what its worth though, the place is well maintained and relaxing with the exception of the floor which is strangely made of prickly stone designs when the majority of the people there are supposed to be walking bare feet. Its rather precarious and dangerous.
Singtel or Singapore telecom has been THE service to turn to since its inception in the beginning of Singapore itself. Started out with the use of land lines only, the service has evolved with time, faced competition and ushered in an era of the mobile phone. Thats what we'll be talking about.
Recently, i've been recommissioned to national service due to this program called Reservist and i was stationed at places so close to the sea and on the fringes of Singapore that its basically a test of how good the service of our "red umbrella" really is.
Well, sad to report, it didn't stand up to the test at all.. Service was intermittent and basically non existent where i stood (Still in Singapore). The service simply kept dislodging itself and even switched to roaming for Malaysia's service instead, which was ridiculous.
General consensus is that the quality of sound is also compromised as compared to the like of M1 service. Seems like it isn't as good as i thought.
Plaza Singapura is a wonderfully located shopping mall being close to orchard road and neighbors to The Cathay. Its central location allows it to be a easy pit stop regardless of which side you are prone to visit and having the Dhouby Ghaut MRT with the north east line converging on it is a godsend for the retailers housed within.
Talking about retailers, the place is packed with them. Carrefour, Giordana, Baleno, Marks and Spencer, Lee Hwa Jewelry, Burger King, Levis, Starhub, Singtel, San Bookshop, Apple Retailers and even Bose. Its a shoppers easy to access location with a huge and extensive selection.
Add to that a movie cinema, a videogames arcade and a Yamaha school for further entertainment and diversity and basically, its easy to see why PS is an acronym alot of youngsters are saying when they go out.
As for myself, the reason i go to PS is because of the location and ease if i take an MRT. There's nothing much to it. Its just easy to reach and hellishly simple to shop there. Thats my take.
After dinner at Sushi Tei, it desserts time. My BF and I went down to Ice3 for desserts...
The place something like 2 sections. Infront has some tall table with chairs, at the side has those normal table and chairs. At the back has sofa seats which the lighting is abit dim...
The place has ice-cream, waffles, brownies, cakes, foundue, crepes, mudpies and drinks.. You get to design your own ice-cream too..
Looking at the menu not sure what to have... As it Tuesday there is 50% for the crepes. After much consider. We decided to have a Apple Crumple & Waffle with Single Scoop ice-cream.
Apple Crumple $7.90
Warm apple crumple served with apple cinnamon ice cream, drizzled with rich carmel syrup and garnished with apple crisps. The apple crumple were served hot, not too sweet just nice. But the apply cinnamon ice cream taste was too strong. Either you like it or you don't. For me, I don't really like it. The apple crisps is a bit not that crispy. But it was not that bad.
Waffle Single Scoop Ice-Cream $7.90
The waffle were big and crispy, it goes well with cookies & cream ice-cream and butterscotch syrup. I like it alot as it not too sweet. Just nice for me.
Overall it not a bad place, nice place to chill out.
Amk Hub is a new addition to the AMK central region and boasts a multitude of stores and parking lots for the main community.
In the beginning, the Hub was highly praised for its excellent melding of department stores, underground passages and most importantly, the synchronisation and incorporation of the bus interchange with a major department store. It still stands as a shining example of space maximization and the combination of various functions into one building.
The hub itself holds numerous restaurants which range from New York New York, Fish and Co to Mcdonald's, and Dian Xiao Er. Which is a great convenience along with a rather big NTUC outlet for groceries and lots of shopping outlets for clothes, computers, video, electronics and even houses 2 banks, DBS and UOB for easy cash withdrawal.
Parking lots are plenty and spacious while the Hub itself is generous with space such that it never feels too crowded.
A good place with all the necessary things you need and then some.
It was a weekday and i met up with my gf for a meal. Unsure of what to have, we proceeded down to Serangoon Garden in hope of having some nice western but the places were filled and thus, we settled for Sushi Tei instead.
The outlet was decorated simply with the conveyor belt that is all the rage with Japanese restaurants. Having had a prior bad experience with Sushi Tei at Big Splash, this was the second chance they needed to get back into my good books.
We ordered a Unagi Yanagawa and Ebi and Yasai Don to share.
The Unagi Yanagawa came in 6 rather big pieces and cost $12 which was a little steep. However, the fresh unagi and nicely done cooking which managed to retain the sweet and slightly springy taste managed to make the dish feel at least acceptable.
The Ebi and Yasai don on the other hand was value for money @ $8 since it came with 8 nicely fried prawns and plenty of fried vegetables as well. Rice is the usual japanese sticky sushi rice which tasted bland but was salvaged by the teriyaki sauce and the accompaniments.
We had a few sushi dishes as well which struck me as rather normal for the value plates of $1.60 and $1.80 plates. However, the more expensive plates served better items but were upwards of $4 to $6. So its really a personal preference for the sushi part. As for me, i'd rather return for the ala carte in future.
Service was respectable and decent.
All in all, this is definitely better then the Big Splash branch.
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I walked past Manhattan Fish Market a lot of times. It’s always long queue. My frenz who tried it before said its very nice. I dun really like Fish & chips, but my Dear Dear loves it.
So by chance, there was no queue at Plaza Singapura’s branch, we went in to have lunch.
Appetizers:
Mushroom soup - not too bad. Can still bite the blended mushrooms bits.
White Baits with Mayo & Coleslaw - GOOD. Crispy. I love the coleslaw below.
3 kinds of Dippers - Sour Cream, Chilli, and Garlic.
Main Dish:
Grilled Norwegian King Salmon Fillet - My Dear Dear skip his fave and ordered this. I m not a fan of Salmon, but my Dear Dear is. I like the fries. It’s fresh as in they fried in clean oil. & I think crispy not soggy fries.
Fettuccine with Fish & Squid - I like fettuccine and LOVE Squid, but not a fan of panfried fish, so I gave the fish to my Dear dear. I like the cream sauce. Thick and flavourful. The ingredients are fresh. :D
Price wise is the standard resturants range. So….. I will love to go there but I need to feel rich then I will go. :p
Rating given:
Our Anniversary, My BF bring me to Braise for Lunch, as he heard that the food was not bad.
I like the place setting, everything looks white. It seems like a grasshouse. It air-con place.
We order 1 Braise Exec Lunch & 1 Braise Exec Lunch Special, 2 glass of Fruit Punch & 1 Ala Clat Cinnamon Apple Tarte.
While waiting for the food to be serve. They gave us complietary bread. The bread taste a bit like pizza. Can taste it has some spices and cheese. Not too hard and it nice.
2 Glass of Fruit Punch $12.00
The fruit punch nothing special but still ok.
Braise Exec Lunch Special $48
1 Appetizer
Pan Seared Foie Gras, Banana Chutney and Chocolate sauce. The Foie Gras were cripsy, a bit oily and salty. It goes well with the sauce. Not sure about the banana as I didn't try. Not bad dish.
1 Main Course
Roasted Pork Belly with Savoy Cabbage and Spiced Port Sauce. I usually don't eat pork belly as I scared of the fats. But, this pork belly was good. It has more meat and less fats. Not too oily too. The cabbage were sweet and nice, there is taste of ham. It goes well with the sauce. Nice Dish.
1 Dessert
Selection of Cheese Platter. It has 5 different flavours of cheese servced with lots of greens, raisins, dry fruits and some biscults. Sorry not too sure what flavours of cheese they served but we both agree that the blue cheese were not nice. I don't really feel cheese platter served as desset.
Braise Exec Lunch $38
1 Appetizer
Pamma ham, Scallops and Rocket Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing. Ham wrap around the scallops. The Ham taste a bit salty but it goes well with the scallops. The rocket salad with honey balsamic dressing were nice too.
1 Main Course
Roasted Cod Fish with Ratatoulie and Basil Dressing. The Cod Fish were fresh. Ratatoulie has lots of vegetables. There is cucumber, green, red, yellow pepper. This dish was not bad. But not really that nice.
1 Dessert
Chocolate Lava Cake with Hazelnut Ice-cream. The Chocolate were served warm it not too sweet taste a bit better. But, when you eat it with the ice-cream it get more bitter. i feel they have served us the coffee ice-cream. But, I still find the dessert is nice. If they served it with vanila or chocolate chips ice-cream maybe it will be much better.
1 Ala Cart Dessert
Cinnamon Apple Tarte with Vanila Ice-Cream. In between the tarte there is apple. The Tarte is cripsy. Cinnammon taste not too strong. It goes well with the ice-cream. Not bad.
Service was not that bad. But, I still feel the price is a bit too high.
Total Bill: $131.85 (Including 10% Service charge & 7% GST)
Rating given:
Went down to Fre(N)sh with my BF on a Saturday for dinner. Have a good experience so we came back for another visit.
Hmm... The price has raise up from $16 nett for set meal to $17.50. We have expected due to lots of stuff price has increased.
We order a 1 Set Meal, 1 Starter, 1 Ala Cart Taritine and a glass of red wine.
1 Set Meal $17.50
1 Glass of Orange Juice
Nothing special about the orange juice but it still nice.
1 Crab Meat Tartine
Toasted bread, salad sauce, filled with lots of crab meats, some brasil leaves, lemon juice and served with lots of fresh greens. As I understand the crab meat were actually from those cans of crab meat but It still taste nice and good.
1 Tramisu.
Top layer filled with lots of Coco powder. Two layer of cakes and two layer of cream. It has a strong taste of coffee. Not all the part have the rum taste. But, overall was still good.
1 Glass of Red Wine $9.80
Sorry, not too sure what red wine is it. To me, I feel is normal.
But, still ok.
1 Starter $8.90
Two type of different flavours bread. Garlic Bread and Chicken & Duck meat Bread. The Garlic Bread were normal to us. As for the Chicken & Duck meat Bread were good. It was not so bad.
1 Foie Gras Tartine $17.90
Toasted Bread served with cold thin slice of foie gras with some black pepper and salt and served with lots of greens. My BF and I though that is the normal piece of pan fried foie gras we had but we were wrong as the foie gras is actually from the block foie gras. It was not that bad but, it better to go with the greens as after having the second slices will feel a bit sick of it. Either you like it or you don't like it. As for me, once is good enough.
The service were not bad. As the waiter were friendly. Cool no service charge and GST.
Total Bill: $53.30 nett
Rating given:
Looking at this topic and review, the question undoubtedly in your mind is how can you differentiate between branches in a fast food chain?
Well, its basically done through the serving of the chicken, service, speed and the taste of the chicken of course.
Regardless, this branch managed to uphold the regular standards without going above board. Though the crowd is huge, the food is still prepared and served with speed even when the current batch of chicken is exhausted.
Seats are plentiful and you'll find many people clad in swim wear patronizing the food joint.
Service is decent and to the point while extra requests are taken with a smile and request to be patient while they process the request. The special order is then served to the residual table.
More or less the whole KFC experience here.
Rating given:
Located in Downtown east, i patronized this place some time ago with my gf to have a swim, get a tan and basically get some relaxation into the system from the daily grind.
Ticket charges are at $13.80 for the public and $10.80 for NTUC club members and basically, its a good place to remain half naked for half a day with no weird looks thrown your way.
The attractions include a suspended bicycle, an extremely fast and long slide, a shared 5 person float, a jucuzzi, a meandering pool and a wave simulated pool.
Overall, it wasn't a bad experience at the place but its definitely not enough to spend an entire day in just for the rides.
For what its worth though, the place is well maintained and relaxing with the exception of the floor which is strangely made of prickly stone designs when the majority of the people there are supposed to be walking bare feet. Its rather precarious and dangerous.
Still, not too bad for a visit.
Rating given:
Singtel or Singapore telecom has been THE service to turn to since its inception in the beginning of Singapore itself. Started out with the use of land lines only, the service has evolved with time, faced competition and ushered in an era of the mobile phone. Thats what we'll be talking about.
Recently, i've been recommissioned to national service due to this program called Reservist and i was stationed at places so close to the sea and on the fringes of Singapore that its basically a test of how good the service of our "red umbrella" really is.
Well, sad to report, it didn't stand up to the test at all.. Service was intermittent and basically non existent where i stood (Still in Singapore). The service simply kept dislodging itself and even switched to roaming for Malaysia's service instead, which was ridiculous.
General consensus is that the quality of sound is also compromised as compared to the like of M1 service. Seems like it isn't as good as i thought.
Rating given:
Plaza Singapura is a wonderfully located shopping mall being close to orchard road and neighbors to The Cathay. Its central location allows it to be a easy pit stop regardless of which side you are prone to visit and having the Dhouby Ghaut MRT with the north east line converging on it is a godsend for the retailers housed within.
Talking about retailers, the place is packed with them. Carrefour, Giordana, Baleno, Marks and Spencer, Lee Hwa Jewelry, Burger King, Levis, Starhub, Singtel, San Bookshop, Apple Retailers and even Bose. Its a shoppers easy to access location with a huge and extensive selection.
Add to that a movie cinema, a videogames arcade and a Yamaha school for further entertainment and diversity and basically, its easy to see why PS is an acronym alot of youngsters are saying when they go out.
As for myself, the reason i go to PS is because of the location and ease if i take an MRT. There's nothing much to it. Its just easy to reach and hellishly simple to shop there. Thats my take.
Rating given:
After dinner at Sushi Tei, it desserts time. My BF and I went down to Ice3 for desserts...
The place something like 2 sections. Infront has some tall table with chairs, at the side has those normal table and chairs. At the back has sofa seats which the lighting is abit dim...
The place has ice-cream, waffles, brownies, cakes, foundue, crepes, mudpies and drinks.. You get to design your own ice-cream too..
Looking at the menu not sure what to have... As it Tuesday there is 50% for the crepes. After much consider. We decided to have a Apple Crumple & Waffle with Single Scoop ice-cream.
Apple Crumple $7.90
Warm apple crumple served with apple cinnamon ice cream, drizzled with rich carmel syrup and garnished with apple crisps. The apple crumple were served hot, not too sweet just nice. But the apply cinnamon ice cream taste was too strong. Either you like it or you don't. For me, I don't really like it. The apple crisps is a bit not that crispy. But it was not that bad.
Waffle Single Scoop Ice-Cream $7.90
The waffle were big and crispy, it goes well with cookies & cream ice-cream and butterscotch syrup. I like it alot as it not too sweet. Just nice for me.
Overall it not a bad place, nice place to chill out.
Total Bill: $17.40 (Including 10% GST)
Rating given:
Amk Hub is a new addition to the AMK central region and boasts a multitude of stores and parking lots for the main community.
In the beginning, the Hub was highly praised for its excellent melding of department stores, underground passages and most importantly, the synchronisation and incorporation of the bus interchange with a major department store. It still stands as a shining example of space maximization and the combination of various functions into one building.
The hub itself holds numerous restaurants which range from New York New York, Fish and Co to Mcdonald's, and Dian Xiao Er. Which is a great convenience along with a rather big NTUC outlet for groceries and lots of shopping outlets for clothes, computers, video, electronics and even houses 2 banks, DBS and UOB for easy cash withdrawal.
Parking lots are plenty and spacious while the Hub itself is generous with space such that it never feels too crowded.
A good place with all the necessary things you need and then some.
Rating given:
It was a weekday and i met up with my gf for a meal. Unsure of what to have, we proceeded down to Serangoon Garden in hope of having some nice western but the places were filled and thus, we settled for Sushi Tei instead.
The outlet was decorated simply with the conveyor belt that is all the rage with Japanese restaurants. Having had a prior bad experience with Sushi Tei at Big Splash, this was the second chance they needed to get back into my good books.
We ordered a Unagi Yanagawa and Ebi and Yasai Don to share.
The Unagi Yanagawa came in 6 rather big pieces and cost $12 which was a little steep. However, the fresh unagi and nicely done cooking which managed to retain the sweet and slightly springy taste managed to make the dish feel at least acceptable.
The Ebi and Yasai don on the other hand was value for money @ $8 since it came with 8 nicely fried prawns and plenty of fried vegetables as well. Rice is the usual japanese sticky sushi rice which tasted bland but was salvaged by the teriyaki sauce and the accompaniments.
We had a few sushi dishes as well which struck me as rather normal for the value plates of $1.60 and $1.80 plates. However, the more expensive plates served better items but were upwards of $4 to $6. So its really a personal preference for the sushi part. As for me, i'd rather return for the ala carte in future.
Service was respectable and decent.
All in all, this is definitely better then the Big Splash branch.
Rating given: