I went for the Clarins Beauty Talk with the OCBC credit card mailer and boy did I not had a wonderful time... While I emailed to make the appointment, the reply was quick and for a slot of max 4 persons, i managed to secure 2 at the time and day of my liking. Its not for free of course, yet its extremely worth it because the amount paid can be fully redeemed with purchase of any product.
I was excited when I approached the counter with my friend for the beauty-talk. We had to make payment first which was quick and were issued vouchers of the entire sum we had paid, then we were offered to seat at a private corner while the friendly staff chat up with us on the daily skin problems we face. After making a mental note on our issues and skin type, we proceeded to start the beauty-talk because the others were late. I silently appreciated this professional act. The staff introduced their beauty analyst who brought with her a large tray of clarin product and offered us disinfected hair bands. This is a hands-on session and we could use all the product available.
We eagerly put on our hair-band and the analyst sprayed a perfume like alcohol sanitizer on her hand while she explained the use of it. Smelled really nice and we felt like princesses. She worked on my friend's face while I work on my own imitating her actions as she knowledgeably explained the functions and ingredients of the products. I love the mask, though we only tried on half our face. The mask is light and foamy yet creamy. Its goes thick yet light on our faces and after we cleaned it off, our skin felt tighter and perkier... Its good result for one application.
As we kind-of completed our applications of the various pampering products, Our faces felt essentially moisturised, light and gives off a pinkish glow. We were also given a starter set that comprises of travel sized items as well as generous set of test packets of their latest anti-aging range of serum and day and night creams. We were wooed to buy more of their products however as we rumbled on the current products we were using, the friendly staff was not overbearing nor insistent about our purchase. We each used up the coupon to purchase some daily products and happily headed home. Though we didn't give them a BIG SALE (as the products are moderately higher priced), the staff were still friendly and professional, as such, i'm sure to go back and give them more business. Excellent character and sales attitude. I am impressed.
The products were great in texture and do really made a difference to my skin, though I'm the regular combination skin with many other issues due to my laziness. I'm gonna try the stuffs in my goodie bag and be sure to go back for more...
I've had a great experience and its totally worth it. The money I used to buy the products, I get a free comprehensive hands-on on most of the products on top of that a very fruitful goodie bag... I'm simply aesthetic....
If you enjoy looking pretty and making other's pretty then the MAKE UP FOREVER ACADEMY have courses to offer you to learn the art of using cosmetics to create illusions. I feel honoured to be invited to attend their open house during the SG Night Festival and am even more excited to see their products.
I was admiring the awesome glittering tattoo on the lady's face when she greeted me at the door with the warmest smile I've ever seen. While I step inside, I am amazed by the rows and rows of cosmetic products in a huge array of colours, hues and textures. The staffs mostly dressed in black, with the most flawless made up faces and funky tattoos happily introduced their products to me. The products are made in a few range, one for normal, another for artistic expressions like body arts with options of high glittering colours and luminous colours. Yes you heard me its luminous and not fluorescent, though they do have fluorescent hues, its the luminous that AWED me.
I was later invited upstairs to view their exhibits whereby mannequins are painted with luminous cosmetic products in the most intrinsically mesmerizing design styles. Its an exceptional experience as we entered a dark dark room, only illuminated by UV tubes of a dark blue hue and the body art of the mannequins simply light up the spaces around them. It looked fantastic, every theme on the mannequins are carefully chosen and expressed in the most illustrative manner. Check out also your teeth and eyeballs, they too glows in this light wave.
After a tour of the exhibits, we headed back down and got ourselves a cool tattoo in luminous body paint. A further explanation of the different courses they offer like bridal make-up courses, diploma courses in make-up, body painting and many other beauty related courses are also available and scheduled.
The visit ended with a good tone and by their individual made up faces as well as their demo of the products, I could find their proficiency in using these professional make up tools and products as such if I have any friends who is interested to learn the art of using cosmetics, I am sure to ask them to take up a course here.
The range of the products is pretty comprehensive and location really good, near to Armenian street and facilities complete.
The signature green and white cubic table cloth brings back fond memories of celebration lunches and dinners when I was just a little girl. I appreciate the thought of keeping all the Jack's Place restaurants simply designed using natural materials and colours.
When I get to visit Jack's Place during lunch, I will definitely get the SET LUNCHES... because its of a very good value and portion is just right for the big eater me. There's the standard executive set lunches with choices like deep fried dory fish, ribeye steak, t-bone steak or steak and chicken combo while they also do have daily specials for all 7 days of the week featuring real nice sirloin steaks and etc. The daily set lunch menu are different for every outlet, so do identify your favourite set lunch outlet.
For a mere S$12.80, you can get a soup of the day with garlic bread, a main course, a dessert and coffee or tea. Upgrades are also available for drinks, soup and sides, however the standard set works for me.
The soup is a cream of mushroom and its rather watery with bits of mushroom inside, it tasted a tad too salty for my liking however it is clouded with a thick aroma of chicken and mushroom. Garlic bread is ever so crispy and yummy. My main is the fish and chips, fish fried till crispy and juicy inside. I simply enjoy the salad that comes with the fish and chips, concoction of fresh veg and dressing is yummy, juicy and refreshing as compared to the fried fish. Dessert is a light cream cheese cake which is surprisingly yummy and light and i had some singapore blend red tea which tasted extremely local.
I love the baked potato, but I didn't have any, perhaps the next round. The service is prompt though the place is pretty crowded, I get the staff's attention quite easily. The restaurant's location is quite good, next to the restroom and seating arranged in a good manner where everybody gets ample space.
Quite a good environment, value for money food and pretty good service. I enjoyed my lunch :)
I had a staycation recently at Amara Sanctuary Resort (Sentosa). The price was reasonable. About $280 plus per night for a deluxe room.
The room is quite big with separate bath tub, and standing rain shower. Their toiletries are good too - the SPA type. The hotels will provide kacang and signature drinks to welcome you at the lobby. At certain hours, they will have ice cream too.
The roof top pool is quite small. There is no baby pool, so I have to bring my baby to the jacuzzi pool. There was no pool towel or service staff at the pool area.
The breakfast at their all day dinner restaurant - Shutters, was good. A lot of variety to choose from - Tim Sum, porridge, local delights (prata, nasi lemak), western dishes (waffle, wide bread and cheese selections).
What I do not like is that they only have 2 service lifts and they have to do their lifts maintenance at the same time on a Saturday night. So, we have to walk up the stairs to our room. Luckily it's on the 3rd floor and not the 4th.
This La Mian Restaurant is owned by Gao Ji Food Chain.
I ordered from their Lunch Special - $5.90 for selected noodles with upgrade of 1 appetizer and drinks at $3.90 :
La Mian with Crispy Fried Chicken Chop and Dumplings with Hot and Sour Sauce, plus a Plum Juice.
The noodles are Q and just right, not too hard or soft. But the Crispy Fried Chicken Chop is a failure. It's too oily and thin. It's like eating the batter only. The Dumplings with Hot and Sour Sauce are good though. The dumplings are full and the meat are juicy. The sauce is just right. Not too spicy. As for the Plum juice... just the normal plum juice, nothing special.
My first time trying Keisuke's ramen. I was attracted by the 4 seasons' theme soup base.
To my surprise, they give free hard boiled eggs and seasoned bean sprouts! My hubby loves eggs, so he whack almost the whole bowl of eggs. While for me, I am a bean sprouts lover, so I had like half of the bottle of the seasoned bean sprouts (very well seasoned).
I had the Autumn ramen while my hubby had the Summer ramen. Mine - the soup base is Shoyu Tonkotsu. Very oily. Luckily, I had the bean sprouts to balance the taste. I also grind in the sesame to add the nutty taste.
My hubby's ramen was Spicy Shoyu Tonkotsu. Really spicy!
For the free eggs and bean sprouts, I will be back to try other seasons. :)
I am a chicken-tarian, which means I eat mostly chicken! So, how can I not try Poulét?
My friend and I shared a couple of dishes:
1) Half Roast Chicken - it's so tender that the meat just melts away. The Mushroom Chardonnay Sauce goes well perfectly with the meat.
2) French Onion Soup - though I am not a beef person, and I know the soup base normally has beef in it, I have to try it. It's flavourful, or I should say, overpower. I find it too salty. I had to add a lot of pepper to blend out the saltiness.
3) Chicken Salad - It's almost a mouthful of chunky chicken breast with fresh lettuce and cherry tomatoes. It's dressing is just right. Not too creamy. The crunchy vegetable goes well with the chunk. :)
Old Airport Road Hawker Centre has a lot of good food. Normally people will go for the wanton mee and the Lao Ban Dou Hua. For me, I go for HOLY GRILL.
It's something like Astons, but cheaper than Astons, and tastier too. The grilled chicken is juicy and the sides are fantastic too. I had the pasta salad which the pasta tastes just right, not too soft or too hard; and the baked potato is with real crispy bacon!
I am a non-beef person, so did not get to taste their steaks. So, who ever did taste it, please post your reviews here! :)
I am a big fan of Jamie Olivier. So when I know that his Jamie's Italian Restaurant is opening in Singapore, I must definitely go and try.
It was said to be affordable Italian cuisine, but I still feel that it's on a higher side. That dinner I had at Jamie's Italian was a treat from a friend. I think we burnt a big hole in her pocket.
The service staff at the front entrance is not very professional. My friend told her that we had a 4 adults and a baby chair for the baby, she argued with my friend that she did not mentioned about the baby and the baby chair. She insisted that she was right and my friend was wrong! Although she did in the end arrange a baby chair for us, we felt super unhappy with her service as she should not had argued with us on a small matter. My friend was super angry, but luckily their other service staff whom served our table were polite and friendlier.
Our Order:
1. CRISPY SQUID - $11.50
Fried squid, garlicky mayo & lemon
2. BAKED MUSHROOMS - $12.50
Swiss browns with crispy “music bread” & smoked buffalo mozzarella
3. WILD MUSHROOM RAVIOLI - $24.50
Filled with garlic, wild mushrooms & soft ricotta, served with a rich mushroom & tomato sauce
4. SEAFOOD BUCATINI - $29.50
Tubular spaghetti steamed in a bag with crab, mussels, clams, squid, scallops, capers, chilli, garlic, white wine & juicy sweet tomatoes
5. GRILLED CHICKEN - $28.00
Grilled garlic & rosemary chicken with a tomato, olive, chilli & caper sauce
6. FRITTO MISTO - $27.00
Fresh fish & shellfish fried till crispy, served with yuzu mayo
7. AMALFI LEMON & BASIL ICED TEA - $15.00
A blend of succulent lemon & basil
The crispy squid portion was quite small. The dip was good, the squid itself was normal tasting.
Baked mushroom was delicious! I like the thin bread.
My main dish is the wid mushroom ravioli. I ordered the bigger portion - 8 pieces. Not too bad. But I find it a bit salty.
The amalfi lemon & basil iced tea was not my cup of tea. I do not like english tea without sugar. I asked for sugar syrup, but their sugar syrup tasted like diluted sugar water.
We held our last 38 auntie gathering at this outlet of the Peach Garden dedicated to a night full of 'yaking' about the everyday topics of family, children, why we must buy la senza lingerie, which store is having a good sale and of course the cute guys we meet through the mundane routine working lifestyle. Nonetheless, we enjoyed a good array of yummy food and the loud culture of a local chinese restaurant, we are kept safe from angry stares and loud SHHHHs.... as you know when there are more then 2 glee ladies on a round table, it tends to get a little out of control.
So I am late again and have decided to avoid the enthusiastic newly checked in guest at the lift and I've decided to take the stairs. The Stairs looked grand alright, windy and carpeted, however on the third level I came to a closed door... While i tried to open the door, it was locked yet somebody heard me tugging onto the door and with a swish of the floor lock the door opened up to a new world. The friendly staff told me that nobody comes up by this way thats why the door is locked.. good thing he heard me :)
While I settle into this really large and 'OLD SCHOOL' lavishly designed traditionally chinese styled restaurant, I cannot but notice the old looking wooden doors that leads to every entrance/exit of the restaurant, it kinda mismatched with the overall lavish deco.
Anyway, the lady manager was nice to offer us whats nice on the menu and we decided on their famous Paking Duck and a few other dishes.
Appetizer is some canned wetish nuts and we were served a tea which is fragrant yet the staff ain't sure what it was. The Peking duck was first striped off the skin and wrapped in crepe, served together with spring onion and cucumbers. Though the dark is huge, the veg that comes along with the many slices of skin and crepe is insufficient.
The duck was then de-boned and served on a plate, pretty convenient for us ladies when we yak away, we kinda forgot how large the duck originally was that ended in a small plate of meat. We had "Luo Han Chai" which is a mixture of veg and bean curd skins stuffs in a claypot of braised sauce. The sauce is a double boiled brownish red in colour and it tasted yummy. Veg is cooked just right and savoury yet retains the bright green colour. We also had some longevity noodles which is braised in a similarly brownish red sauce. Noodles are yummy and is of a good portion.
Dinner for 4 ended at about slightly below $80 with the other stuffs ordered, no rice, just all the dishes... and we chat and sat till about 9 where we realised we are the only ones left, The other 3 tables have left and they are packing up. Not crowded and can talk loudly... not that we want too, we just can't help it.... :)
Great place for group lunch or dinner, Price is reasonable and food quality good. Portion is pretty good, staff service a mixture... manager is helpful when ordering yet its hard to get attention from them but when they are free they will drop by to refill your tea... So.. Its pretty above average on the services.
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I went for the Clarins Beauty Talk with the OCBC credit card mailer and boy did I not had a wonderful time... While I emailed to make the appointment, the reply was quick and for a slot of max 4 persons, i managed to secure 2 at the time and day of my liking. Its not for free of course, yet its extremely worth it because the amount paid can be fully redeemed with purchase of any product.
I was excited when I approached the counter with my friend for the beauty-talk. We had to make payment first which was quick and were issued vouchers of the entire sum we had paid, then we were offered to seat at a private corner while the friendly staff chat up with us on the daily skin problems we face. After making a mental note on our issues and skin type, we proceeded to start the beauty-talk because the others were late. I silently appreciated this professional act. The staff introduced their beauty analyst who brought with her a large tray of clarin product and offered us disinfected hair bands. This is a hands-on session and we could use all the product available.
We eagerly put on our hair-band and the analyst sprayed a perfume like alcohol sanitizer on her hand while she explained the use of it. Smelled really nice and we felt like princesses. She worked on my friend's face while I work on my own imitating her actions as she knowledgeably explained the functions and ingredients of the products. I love the mask, though we only tried on half our face. The mask is light and foamy yet creamy. Its goes thick yet light on our faces and after we cleaned it off, our skin felt tighter and perkier... Its good result for one application.
As we kind-of completed our applications of the various pampering products, Our faces felt essentially moisturised, light and gives off a pinkish glow. We were also given a starter set that comprises of travel sized items as well as generous set of test packets of their latest anti-aging range of serum and day and night creams. We were wooed to buy more of their products however as we rumbled on the current products we were using, the friendly staff was not overbearing nor insistent about our purchase. We each used up the coupon to purchase some daily products and happily headed home. Though we didn't give them a BIG SALE (as the products are moderately higher priced), the staff were still friendly and professional, as such, i'm sure to go back and give them more business. Excellent character and sales attitude. I am impressed.
The products were great in texture and do really made a difference to my skin, though I'm the regular combination skin with many other issues due to my laziness. I'm gonna try the stuffs in my goodie bag and be sure to go back for more...
I've had a great experience and its totally worth it. The money I used to buy the products, I get a free comprehensive hands-on on most of the products on top of that a very fruitful goodie bag... I'm simply aesthetic....
Rating given:
If you enjoy looking pretty and making other's pretty then the MAKE UP FOREVER ACADEMY have courses to offer you to learn the art of using cosmetics to create illusions. I feel honoured to be invited to attend their open house during the SG Night Festival and am even more excited to see their products.
I was admiring the awesome glittering tattoo on the lady's face when she greeted me at the door with the warmest smile I've ever seen. While I step inside, I am amazed by the rows and rows of cosmetic products in a huge array of colours, hues and textures. The staffs mostly dressed in black, with the most flawless made up faces and funky tattoos happily introduced their products to me. The products are made in a few range, one for normal, another for artistic expressions like body arts with options of high glittering colours and luminous colours. Yes you heard me its luminous and not fluorescent, though they do have fluorescent hues, its the luminous that AWED me.
I was later invited upstairs to view their exhibits whereby mannequins are painted with luminous cosmetic products in the most intrinsically mesmerizing design styles. Its an exceptional experience as we entered a dark dark room, only illuminated by UV tubes of a dark blue hue and the body art of the mannequins simply light up the spaces around them. It looked fantastic, every theme on the mannequins are carefully chosen and expressed in the most illustrative manner. Check out also your teeth and eyeballs, they too glows in this light wave.
After a tour of the exhibits, we headed back down and got ourselves a cool tattoo in luminous body paint. A further explanation of the different courses they offer like bridal make-up courses, diploma courses in make-up, body painting and many other beauty related courses are also available and scheduled.
The visit ended with a good tone and by their individual made up faces as well as their demo of the products, I could find their proficiency in using these professional make up tools and products as such if I have any friends who is interested to learn the art of using cosmetics, I am sure to ask them to take up a course here.
The range of the products is pretty comprehensive and location really good, near to Armenian street and facilities complete.
Rating given:
The signature green and white cubic table cloth brings back fond memories of celebration lunches and dinners when I was just a little girl. I appreciate the thought of keeping all the Jack's Place restaurants simply designed using natural materials and colours.
When I get to visit Jack's Place during lunch, I will definitely get the SET LUNCHES... because its of a very good value and portion is just right for the big eater me. There's the standard executive set lunches with choices like deep fried dory fish, ribeye steak, t-bone steak or steak and chicken combo while they also do have daily specials for all 7 days of the week featuring real nice sirloin steaks and etc. The daily set lunch menu are different for every outlet, so do identify your favourite set lunch outlet.
For a mere S$12.80, you can get a soup of the day with garlic bread, a main course, a dessert and coffee or tea. Upgrades are also available for drinks, soup and sides, however the standard set works for me.
The soup is a cream of mushroom and its rather watery with bits of mushroom inside, it tasted a tad too salty for my liking however it is clouded with a thick aroma of chicken and mushroom. Garlic bread is ever so crispy and yummy. My main is the fish and chips, fish fried till crispy and juicy inside. I simply enjoy the salad that comes with the fish and chips, concoction of fresh veg and dressing is yummy, juicy and refreshing as compared to the fried fish. Dessert is a light cream cheese cake which is surprisingly yummy and light and i had some singapore blend red tea which tasted extremely local.
I love the baked potato, but I didn't have any, perhaps the next round. The service is prompt though the place is pretty crowded, I get the staff's attention quite easily. The restaurant's location is quite good, next to the restroom and seating arranged in a good manner where everybody gets ample space.
Quite a good environment, value for money food and pretty good service. I enjoyed my lunch :)
Rating given:
I had a staycation recently at Amara Sanctuary Resort (Sentosa). The price was reasonable. About $280 plus per night for a deluxe room.
The room is quite big with separate bath tub, and standing rain shower. Their toiletries are good too - the SPA type. The hotels will provide kacang and signature drinks to welcome you at the lobby. At certain hours, they will have ice cream too.
The roof top pool is quite small. There is no baby pool, so I have to bring my baby to the jacuzzi pool. There was no pool towel or service staff at the pool area.
The breakfast at their all day dinner restaurant - Shutters, was good. A lot of variety to choose from - Tim Sum, porridge, local delights (prata, nasi lemak), western dishes (waffle, wide bread and cheese selections).
What I do not like is that they only have 2 service lifts and they have to do their lifts maintenance at the same time on a Saturday night. So, we have to walk up the stairs to our room. Luckily it's on the 3rd floor and not the 4th.
Rating given:
This La Mian Restaurant is owned by Gao Ji Food Chain.
I ordered from their Lunch Special - $5.90 for selected noodles with upgrade of 1 appetizer and drinks at $3.90 :
La Mian with Crispy Fried Chicken Chop and Dumplings with Hot and Sour Sauce, plus a Plum Juice.
The noodles are Q and just right, not too hard or soft. But the Crispy Fried Chicken Chop is a failure. It's too oily and thin. It's like eating the batter only. The Dumplings with Hot and Sour Sauce are good though. The dumplings are full and the meat are juicy. The sauce is just right. Not too spicy. As for the Plum juice... just the normal plum juice, nothing special.
Rating given:
My first time trying Keisuke's ramen. I was attracted by the 4 seasons' theme soup base.
To my surprise, they give free hard boiled eggs and seasoned bean sprouts! My hubby loves eggs, so he whack almost the whole bowl of eggs. While for me, I am a bean sprouts lover, so I had like half of the bottle of the seasoned bean sprouts (very well seasoned).
I had the Autumn ramen while my hubby had the Summer ramen. Mine - the soup base is Shoyu Tonkotsu. Very oily. Luckily, I had the bean sprouts to balance the taste. I also grind in the sesame to add the nutty taste.
My hubby's ramen was Spicy Shoyu Tonkotsu. Really spicy!
For the free eggs and bean sprouts, I will be back to try other seasons. :)
Rating given:
I am a chicken-tarian, which means I eat mostly chicken! So, how can I not try Poulét?
My friend and I shared a couple of dishes:
1) Half Roast Chicken - it's so tender that the meat just melts away. The Mushroom Chardonnay Sauce goes well perfectly with the meat.
2) French Onion Soup - though I am not a beef person, and I know the soup base normally has beef in it, I have to try it. It's flavourful, or I should say, overpower. I find it too salty. I had to add a lot of pepper to blend out the saltiness.
3) Chicken Salad - It's almost a mouthful of chunky chicken breast with fresh lettuce and cherry tomatoes. It's dressing is just right. Not too creamy. The crunchy vegetable goes well with the chunk. :)
The pricing is reasonable and affordable.
Rating given:
Old Airport Road Hawker Centre has a lot of good food. Normally people will go for the wanton mee and the Lao Ban Dou Hua. For me, I go for HOLY GRILL.
It's something like Astons, but cheaper than Astons, and tastier too. The grilled chicken is juicy and the sides are fantastic too. I had the pasta salad which the pasta tastes just right, not too soft or too hard; and the baked potato is with real crispy bacon!
I am a non-beef person, so did not get to taste their steaks. So, who ever did taste it, please post your reviews here! :)
Rating given:
I am a big fan of Jamie Olivier. So when I know that his Jamie's Italian Restaurant is opening in Singapore, I must definitely go and try.
It was said to be affordable Italian cuisine, but I still feel that it's on a higher side. That dinner I had at Jamie's Italian was a treat from a friend. I think we burnt a big hole in her pocket.
The service staff at the front entrance is not very professional. My friend told her that we had a 4 adults and a baby chair for the baby, she argued with my friend that she did not mentioned about the baby and the baby chair. She insisted that she was right and my friend was wrong! Although she did in the end arrange a baby chair for us, we felt super unhappy with her service as she should not had argued with us on a small matter. My friend was super angry, but luckily their other service staff whom served our table were polite and friendlier.
Our Order:
1. CRISPY SQUID - $11.50
Fried squid, garlicky mayo & lemon
2. BAKED MUSHROOMS - $12.50
Swiss browns with crispy “music bread” & smoked buffalo mozzarella
3. WILD MUSHROOM RAVIOLI - $24.50
Filled with garlic, wild mushrooms & soft ricotta, served with a rich mushroom & tomato sauce
4. SEAFOOD BUCATINI - $29.50
Tubular spaghetti steamed in a bag with crab, mussels, clams, squid, scallops, capers, chilli, garlic, white wine & juicy sweet tomatoes
5. GRILLED CHICKEN - $28.00
Grilled garlic & rosemary chicken with a tomato, olive, chilli & caper sauce
6. FRITTO MISTO - $27.00
Fresh fish & shellfish fried till crispy, served with yuzu mayo
7. AMALFI LEMON & BASIL ICED TEA - $15.00
A blend of succulent lemon & basil
The crispy squid portion was quite small. The dip was good, the squid itself was normal tasting.
Baked mushroom was delicious! I like the thin bread.
My main dish is the wid mushroom ravioli. I ordered the bigger portion - 8 pieces. Not too bad. But I find it a bit salty.
The amalfi lemon & basil iced tea was not my cup of tea. I do not like english tea without sugar. I asked for sugar syrup, but their sugar syrup tasted like diluted sugar water.
Rating given:
We held our last 38 auntie gathering at this outlet of the Peach Garden dedicated to a night full of 'yaking' about the everyday topics of family, children, why we must buy la senza lingerie, which store is having a good sale and of course the cute guys we meet through the mundane routine working lifestyle. Nonetheless, we enjoyed a good array of yummy food and the loud culture of a local chinese restaurant, we are kept safe from angry stares and loud SHHHHs.... as you know when there are more then 2 glee ladies on a round table, it tends to get a little out of control.
So I am late again and have decided to avoid the enthusiastic newly checked in guest at the lift and I've decided to take the stairs. The Stairs looked grand alright, windy and carpeted, however on the third level I came to a closed door... While i tried to open the door, it was locked yet somebody heard me tugging onto the door and with a swish of the floor lock the door opened up to a new world. The friendly staff told me that nobody comes up by this way thats why the door is locked.. good thing he heard me :)
While I settle into this really large and 'OLD SCHOOL' lavishly designed traditionally chinese styled restaurant, I cannot but notice the old looking wooden doors that leads to every entrance/exit of the restaurant, it kinda mismatched with the overall lavish deco.
Anyway, the lady manager was nice to offer us whats nice on the menu and we decided on their famous Paking Duck and a few other dishes.
Appetizer is some canned wetish nuts and we were served a tea which is fragrant yet the staff ain't sure what it was. The Peking duck was first striped off the skin and wrapped in crepe, served together with spring onion and cucumbers. Though the dark is huge, the veg that comes along with the many slices of skin and crepe is insufficient.
The duck was then de-boned and served on a plate, pretty convenient for us ladies when we yak away, we kinda forgot how large the duck originally was that ended in a small plate of meat. We had "Luo Han Chai" which is a mixture of veg and bean curd skins stuffs in a claypot of braised sauce. The sauce is a double boiled brownish red in colour and it tasted yummy. Veg is cooked just right and savoury yet retains the bright green colour. We also had some longevity noodles which is braised in a similarly brownish red sauce. Noodles are yummy and is of a good portion.
Dinner for 4 ended at about slightly below $80 with the other stuffs ordered, no rice, just all the dishes... and we chat and sat till about 9 where we realised we are the only ones left, The other 3 tables have left and they are packing up. Not crowded and can talk loudly... not that we want too, we just can't help it.... :)
Great place for group lunch or dinner, Price is reasonable and food quality good. Portion is pretty good, staff service a mixture... manager is helpful when ordering yet its hard to get attention from them but when they are free they will drop by to refill your tea... So.. Its pretty above average on the services.
Rating given: