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Telephone: (65) 6376-8183
Website: http://www.kimgary.com.my/
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There is always a long queue at Kim Gary Restaurant at Vivocity whenever I walk pass, so I've always wondered whether the food here is really that nice. One of my friend suggested having dinner here one day, so the group of us headed for Kim Gary for our dinner. Luckily for us, the queue wasn't that bad and we got seated quite fast.
I ordered the cheese baked rice and was surprised it was in a bamboo steamer when it was served. It tasted good. The rice had the fragrance of the leaf (not sure what leaf is that called, but they laid the leaf on the bambo steamer with the baked rice on it) and the sauce for the rice is nice as well.
Overall, the food is quite good and the atmosphere in the restaurant is quite friendly and warm.
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No queue?? We were surprised when we passed by this place on the first Sunday of May as we have read a lot of reviews regarding the food. We ordered the following :
1. HK Style Pork Chop Cheese Baked Rice ( $10.90 ) –This was a popular dish found in most HK-styled cafés in Singapore. The chicken was juicy and well covered by generous portion of cheese melted on top of it. The rice was fragrant and not so dry. A small cup of soup was also served with the main dish.
2. Stone Grilled Unagi Rice ( $13.90 ) – The dish has unagi ( eel ) well marinated and fried to perfection. The only letdown was that the rice was not whole grain and fluffy but looked like small broken rice grains. Maybe because it was served in a hot stone bowl with an egg on it, it would be easier to stir and mixed the egg with the rice.
3. Deep Fried Chicken With Mushroom Rice ( $6.90 ) – The rice with small strips of mushrooms was well-fried with aromatic olive oil. Though the strips of chicken meat was deep fried, it was moist and not oily.
4. Cold Honey Pamelo Tea ( $3.20 ) – This drink was refreshing and has a small bits of pamelo in a cute jar.
We also saw that they serve instant noodles with luncheon meat. Cannot remember the price but knew that it is rather expensive as this can be a home-cooked meal. Surprisingly we saw the next table ( teenagers ) ordering it. We shook our heads and agreed that maybe nowadays, diners are willing to pay for ambience and convenience.
After paying our bill, we were still pondering why this place is always crowded. Food wise, it was so so only. Maybe we didnt make the right selection but hey, when you looked at the menu, it was so confusing that we saw every diner asking the staff for clarification.
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Hubby and I had always wanted to try the food at this Kim Gary Cafe, after countless times of seeing super duper long queues outside this cafe? Restaurant?
On 6th April 2008, Hubby and I decide to make a trip to vivocity to try their food.
We were a little early and there wasn't many people in the shop. We got a seat there's near the window, but I wanted this seat in the corner that looks very comfortable and cozy. The waiter told us that the table is reserved for their staffs to have their lunch.
Anyway, to cut this review short, hubby and I didn't like our food. The food we ordered and had don't seems to "justify" the queues we saw.
The noodle I had smells really really nice (the onions) but really didn't taste as good as it smells. I ate less than half of it. The meat's a little too tough (overcooked or something), my drink is a little too sweet, even the mini drumsticks thingy was only average.
The only item hubby liked, was his Iced Yuan Yang.
Maybe we ordered the wrong stuffs, will try them again when I'm in better mood.
I have to rant about their service! After we're done with our food, we wanted to go to their counter to pay, but when we stand up, they came to us and say they'll bring us our bill. So we sat and waited for the bill. Waited for quite a while before the bill came. Hubby gave this waitress his credit card to pay for our bill and she went and never came back!!! We waited about 10mins and decide to ask another staff for our bill. We waited another 1-2mins before darling's bill came back to us. -.-
Next time I'm so gonna use the exact amount so I don't have to wait for the change or cards.
(2 and a half stars)
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My friends and I headed for Vivo City on a Monday afternoon and we reached the mall at about 2 pm. We were famished! So we walked around, hunting for the most worth-it set lunch we could find. As we are students on budget, of course.. prices below $15 would be ideal! As almost all restaurants end their lunchtime set meal at 2pm, we were left with not much choices.
Ah-ha! At last, we chanced upon Kim Gary HK cafe! The menu looks surprisingly wide in variety and best of all the prices were within our budget so we immediately decided on this!
We were ushered to our sofa seat where we got a good view of the sea and the place was not crowded thus it was spacious and comfortable. The waiters were polite and patient when explaining the dishes to us.
What we ordered:
- Iced Milk Tea
- Iced Yuan Yang
- Iced Honey Lemon Drink
- French Toast
- Garlic Pork Chop w/ Spaghetti
- Black Pepper Pork Chop w/ Spaghetti
- Preserved Veggie with Fish Noodles Soup
The drinks came first and I was super refreshed with my Honey Lemon drink! It was blended together well and it tasted not too sweet like any other soft drinks. I love this!
My main dish was the Garlic Pork Chop with Spaghetti and sad to say, the spaghetti was undercooked! Me & my friend both commented that the spaghetti was a tad too hard for our liking. The pork chop was alright, for mine, the Garlic sauce was very fragrant and tasted good with the pork chop.
After our main dish, I realised that my French Toast have not come! I told the lady waitress about it and she was very polite and checked for me. I realised that Kim Gary hires many middle-age ladies and they are very kind & polite!
Soon, my french toast came... AND IT WAS SO YUMMY! I totally love this, in between the butter-soaked french toast was a generous helping of peanut butter! This is my favourite dish of the day.
I will go back to Kim Gary for the Unagi stone grill rice! Their stone grill rice is their newest addtion to the menu.
I would recommend this cafe for all budget customers!
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Popped by Vivocity to settle some stuff at Standard Chartered so decided to try my luck at Hong Kong Kim Gary, one of the places that I've been meaning to try, but never had the chance to because of the long queues. Well today I was in luck and I got a seat of my choice without any difficulty. Probably because its only 1215pm?
A friendly waitress showed me to my seat right at the end of the restaurant, which offered an unobstructed view of Sentosa through floor to ceiling windows (well there was this staircase...). As with many other Hong Kong Cafes, the ordering system is somewhat similar. You tick your order on an order menu and pass it to the waitress. I had the set menu B($7.50) of Fried Egg and Minced Beef Rice with a cream soup and Yuan Yang (coffee mixed with tea for an additional 30 cents) as well as an additional order of French Toast.
The soup came served in a cup which I had some trouble adjusting to because I simply can't get used to drinking soup right out of a cup without a spoon. The soup was rather bland and diluted, which didn't really bode well for the upcoming dishes.
Fried Egg and Minced Beef Rice - I had a minor shock when I saw this dish. In my mind I was wondering if they had made a mistake because I couldn't see the beef. However, upon closer inspection, I realised that the beef was minced up and scattered together with the thin layer of tomato sauce, which looked rather pathetic. Imagine my surprise when it actually tasted quite good. The tomato sauce was quite thick and mildly sweet, with the minced beef adding a wee bit of bite to the sauce. The only bummer was that there was no evident beef taste and that portions could have been bigger. As for the fried egg, how bad can a sunny side up get?
I like my French Toasts quite a bit and Kim Gary's rendition was not too bad, but certainly not as good as the one at Hong Kong Cafe. The toast itself was a little on the wet side and the exterior wasn't as crispy as I would have liked it to be. However, the sticking point was the peanut butter filling which I felt was totally unnecessary given that French Toasts don't come with peanut butter. Granted, the peanut butter was smooth, but it masked the "eggy" taste of the French Toast.
Lunch cost $11.30, which is comparatively cheaper and more value for money than the other Hong Kong Cafes that I've tried. The Yuan Yang was decent and the service was not too shabby. Overall, an above average dining experience and I personally feel that the dishes do show more promise than the other Hong Kong Cafes around. I will probably be back again, but not with the long queues.
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This is one of the Hong Kong cafes that pops up out of no where and it is always crowded as well. The queue there used to be longer, however I know their off peak hours and Had a few tea breaks there and found the food there quite good.
1. Mini drumlets: Came in a hot plate, with the meat of the drumlet pushed to the front, so that the bone can be used to hold. It is very tasty yet not really oily. The seasoning of the drumlets is done to prefection, not to sweet and not too salty and all the seasoning went into the meat.
2. HK style cheese bakes rice with chick chop: I personally dun really like cheese, but this dish is a bit surprise for me as it is not that cheesey and the rice is all soft and not hard from the baking. The cheese is soft and hot when served, it does not really harden up when I am eating as well. They got a layer of sauce that is on top of the rice which is quite good.
3. French Toast: I used to think this is sinful as it is deep fried, so full of oil! However this is not oily, and it came in a very thick piece, with a layer of peanut butter inside! Very nice! The thickness of the toast did surprised us at first, as this is the 1st time we saw such thick piece. The combination of the peanut butter in the toast is a very good one! Tasty!
4. Fresh Lemon Honey with Aloe Vera: I loved anything with aloe vera and have to say this is refreshing. The aloe vera are cut in big cubes, very crunchy, it is not bitter at all. For the drink itself it is not too sweet.
The service there is ok but my last visit they served a few dishes to our table which we did not order. Hee.... Should have accpeted it.
If not their service are quite ok, once ur hands are slightly rasied, they will have at least 2 people rushing to your table as well. Once seated they will also served the curtlerys in a small little tray.
The seats arrangement can be quite squeezed at times, close enough to hear what the other table is talking about. However they also got seats are are isolated as well. A bit nosiy when the palced is packed and at times have kids running ard as well. Dangerous though, dunno what the parents are thinking anyway.
I think I will only go to this place if I am ard vivocity and in the mood for some hongkong food, would prefer them to expand their menu to include more dim sum though.
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Just by looking at the queue outside this shop, one cannot deny the fact that it can be considered as one of the most popular resturant in vivo city. Luckily i was early that day so i only need to wait for 15 mins before i am welcomed into the shop.
Recently there are quite a few hongkong cafes springing into singapore and i should considered this as one of them. The arrangement of this restuarant can be considered as rather packed. Take for example, the person who is sit next to me has only the amount of space to place her two laptop bags.
As for their menu, they mainly sell stuff that are commonly found in the rest of the hong kong style cafe. For example, will be those popular toast and 'maggie mee'. After looking through the menu, i decided to order the macua pork bun and pork chop baked rice.
For the baked rice, one can request for a corn sauce or a tomato sauce. This is find it rather special as most of the time one is not allow to choose anything at all.
The baked rice arrived quite fast after i have ordered them and to my surprise, it comes in the form of bamboo container (like those container that stored dim sum). A rather interesting way to keep the food, i guess.
I simply loved their pork chop baked rice. First is the cheese that was spreaded across the entire top geneously. Hidden below are large pieces of pork chop, which are real soft and fragrant.
Their macua pork chop bun was equally nice, although same type of pork chop was being used.
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