I went to People’s Park Centre to buy something and when I was searching for my intended shop, I saw this dessert store and find the shop layout quite familiar. And I saw a familiar staff also! That was when I realize that this belongs to the same chain dessert store which I patronize at Raffles Place! (The staff probably rotated between the Raffles Place outlet during weekdays and this outlet during weekends.) As it was quite some time that I went to the Raffles Place outlet, so I went into this outlet for my favourite Mango Sago.
Compared to other places where the base is usually milk (or coconut milk), this one uses a mango-cream base. So every mouthful is definitely full of “mango”, with also occasional mango cubes. They use shaved ice – the dessert is still thick enough when the shaved ice is mixed in, so you can imagine how “solid” is the mango-cream. (see the "before & after" photos)
Another interesting point about their Mango Sago, is that they use a mix of colourful and clear sago. And its those “bouncy” sago, so as you have every mouthful of the “solid” mango sago, you can have an occasional “pop” feel from the sago.
They have a weekday lunch buffet promo recently and so I decide to go and satisfy my meat-craving. According to the menu, they offer 4 types of soup base. However, I was pretty disappointed that the Miso soup base is only available during weekends!
I choose Kimchi and Sukiyaki. I wanted to use the Sukiyaki soup base to make the “egg rice soup” as mentioned by them (printed on the paper table mat), but a pity eventually I was too full and short of time to do that. But half-way through the meal, I did start to use the raw egg as my sauce for the meat – the whole egg york, with just half of the egg white. It sort of neutralize the sweetness of the sukiyaki base, while the hot meat helped to “half-boil” the egg york.
I had my meat-crave fully satisfied with the sliced beef and sliced pork (I didn’t take the sliced chicken). Although I find my second round of the sliced beef to be not very properly sliced…. they were easily torned and the size is too big, and so I decided to dump in a few slice at a time (rather than cooking each slice separately).
I did only one round of the buffet vegetables / yong-tau-foo-stuff / steamboat-stuff, partly also because the staff picked a big bowl for me and dump it on my table without me realizing! So wanting to have stomach space for the meat, I couldn’t afford to get another round myself… I saw something unique that day (I’ve went to their Tampines outlet before) – it’s the “Devil’s Tongue” which is like hard jelly, and have the “Q-Q” taste when cooked. But that day they didn’t have my favourite “dai-gon” (white carrot, which is on their hanging wooden menu).
I didn’t really take much note of the restaurant, partly because it was a meeting-cum-dinner and also because of the lighting of the place. Despite being a Chinese restaurant, the place had a much “Ang-Mo” kind of style, where dinner is served in the “romantic” mood with little light. The distance between patrons was also far enough for us to have our meeting without disturb (maybe because it was weekday?)
I would say the service is good, as we stayed for quite some time, yet the staff never fails to come and fill up our tea. And one of us need extra paper bags to split some stuff that she bought for some of us, she manage to get from the staff. She got the ones with the Hotel logo, so either the restaurant had it, or the staff went to the hotel concierge to get it for her.
We ordered some items with traditional names, but the dishes were served in a way totally different from what the name suggest. The first dish was Peking Duck (or Suckling Pig? I went quite some time ago, and since what came out looked entirely different, so the name couldn’t register), and it was served on mixed vegetables with white sauce (mayonnaise?). We also have the braised pork belly, which was served on lettuce and came with deep fried buns (em, I recall they call that “Kong-Ba-Bao” but it didn’t come with the usual plain steam buns?).
The overall experience was good, although I wouldn’t really consider picking this restaurant if I wanted a non-business Chinese dinner....
I know that in the East side, this swimming complex in Pasir Ris has slides and thus cost more, but when I finally made the trip, it was very disappointing for an adult user.
The entrance fee for a child is $0.80 for weekday and $1.00 for weekend compared to $0.50 and $0.70 for Tampines swimming complex; for an adult is $1.50 for weekday and $2.00 for weekend compared to $1.00 and $1.30 for Tampines swimming complex. The slides might be longer (and higher up in the air) when compared to Tampines swimming complex, but that’s mainly for kids’ usage and yet they are charging the adults so much extra even for weekdays!! (How many of the weekday adult users are there with kids to reap the benefits of the slides??)
The pools in this swimming looked smaller than the ones in Tampines! Although both swimming complex have 4 pools (according to what I see from the websites), Pasir Ris did not have the Teaching pool but instead have the Toddlers pool, which means that for adults, there’s less space for swimming!! (The Competition pool has deep stretches, while the Teaching pool is standard depth throughout, but both pools can be used for adult swimming.) Even the competition pool looks shorter length to me……
The few good point for this swimming complex is that they have shelter over 2 lanes in the competition pool, which means that for someone who wants to get away from the sun and yet still swim in the mid-day, this place is a perfect choice within the public swimming complexes.
Another good point (to some) (which I consider as bad point) is that they have a separate Jacuzzi pool, which is along the side of the swimming complex, so the trees from outside of the complex lies alongside the shelter over the Jacuzzi pool, giving it a resort-feel (but the leaves dropped into the Jacuzzi pool….!!) But otherwise, the Tampines swimming complex also have Jacuzzi pool (together with its Learner/Wading pool, in a corner).
By the way, for the grannies and grandpas waiting for the grandchild to finish playing, they can go to outside the pool entrance and enjoy some minutes of payable-usage of the massage chairs.
This is the first time I’ve come to this community centre located near Eunos MRT. Compared to other community centres, I find this one to be fairly warming, probably due to the presence of Malay traditional stuff located around the ground floor, such as the traditional games in the glass cabinet front of the registration counter and or the artifacts in the glass cabinet outside the gym room.
I know the community centres would have karaoke room especially for the elders, but this is the first time I know that they have specially set up a Malay Karaoke room. I would imagine they have a vast collections of the Malay song, as compared to just a section for those community centres where the karaoke room is shared among the different races.
There is a separate karaoke lounge called the Music Point, which I presume have the Chinese and English songs? They also have dance studio. On the day when I went, they had a friendly mahjong match, where it seems that there is an increasing trend of community centres holding mahjong matches and setting up mahjong interest groups (although I don’t see that this community centre has a mahjong interest group listed).
As for the general facilities, they have the lift to serve the 3-storey building, although I fail to find a water-cooler in the premises.
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Compared to other places where the base is usually milk (or coconut milk), this one uses a mango-cream base. So every mouthful is definitely full of “mango”, with also occasional mango cubes. They use shaved ice – the dessert is still thick enough when the shaved ice is mixed in, so you can imagine how “solid” is the mango-cream. (see the "before & after" photos)
Another interesting point about their Mango Sago, is that they use a mix of colourful and clear sago. And its those “bouncy” sago, so as you have every mouthful of the “solid” mango sago, you can have an occasional “pop” feel from the sago.
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I choose Kimchi and Sukiyaki. I wanted to use the Sukiyaki soup base to make the “egg rice soup” as mentioned by them (printed on the paper table mat), but a pity eventually I was too full and short of time to do that. But half-way through the meal, I did start to use the raw egg as my sauce for the meat – the whole egg york, with just half of the egg white. It sort of neutralize the sweetness of the sukiyaki base, while the hot meat helped to “half-boil” the egg york.
I had my meat-crave fully satisfied with the sliced beef and sliced pork (I didn’t take the sliced chicken). Although I find my second round of the sliced beef to be not very properly sliced…. they were easily torned and the size is too big, and so I decided to dump in a few slice at a time (rather than cooking each slice separately).
I did only one round of the buffet vegetables / yong-tau-foo-stuff / steamboat-stuff, partly also because the staff picked a big bowl for me and dump it on my table without me realizing! So wanting to have stomach space for the meat, I couldn’t afford to get another round myself… I saw something unique that day (I’ve went to their Tampines outlet before) – it’s the “Devil’s Tongue” which is like hard jelly, and have the “Q-Q” taste when cooked. But that day they didn’t have my favourite “dai-gon” (white carrot, which is on their hanging wooden menu).
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I would say the service is good, as we stayed for quite some time, yet the staff never fails to come and fill up our tea. And one of us need extra paper bags to split some stuff that she bought for some of us, she manage to get from the staff. She got the ones with the Hotel logo, so either the restaurant had it, or the staff went to the hotel concierge to get it for her.
We ordered some items with traditional names, but the dishes were served in a way totally different from what the name suggest. The first dish was Peking Duck (or Suckling Pig? I went quite some time ago, and since what came out looked entirely different, so the name couldn’t register), and it was served on mixed vegetables with white sauce (mayonnaise?). We also have the braised pork belly, which was served on lettuce and came with deep fried buns (em, I recall they call that “Kong-Ba-Bao” but it didn’t come with the usual plain steam buns?).
The overall experience was good, although I wouldn’t really consider picking this restaurant if I wanted a non-business Chinese dinner....
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The entrance fee for a child is $0.80 for weekday and $1.00 for weekend compared to $0.50 and $0.70 for Tampines swimming complex; for an adult is $1.50 for weekday and $2.00 for weekend compared to $1.00 and $1.30 for Tampines swimming complex. The slides might be longer (and higher up in the air) when compared to Tampines swimming complex, but that’s mainly for kids’ usage and yet they are charging the adults so much extra even for weekdays!! (How many of the weekday adult users are there with kids to reap the benefits of the slides??)
The pools in this swimming looked smaller than the ones in Tampines! Although both swimming complex have 4 pools (according to what I see from the websites), Pasir Ris did not have the Teaching pool but instead have the Toddlers pool, which means that for adults, there’s less space for swimming!! (The Competition pool has deep stretches, while the Teaching pool is standard depth throughout, but both pools can be used for adult swimming.) Even the competition pool looks shorter length to me……
The few good point for this swimming complex is that they have shelter over 2 lanes in the competition pool, which means that for someone who wants to get away from the sun and yet still swim in the mid-day, this place is a perfect choice within the public swimming complexes.
Another good point (to some) (which I consider as bad point) is that they have a separate Jacuzzi pool, which is along the side of the swimming complex, so the trees from outside of the complex lies alongside the shelter over the Jacuzzi pool, giving it a resort-feel (but the leaves dropped into the Jacuzzi pool….!!) But otherwise, the Tampines swimming complex also have Jacuzzi pool (together with its Learner/Wading pool, in a corner).
By the way, for the grannies and grandpas waiting for the grandchild to finish playing, they can go to outside the pool entrance and enjoy some minutes of payable-usage of the massage chairs.
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I know the community centres would have karaoke room especially for the elders, but this is the first time I know that they have specially set up a Malay Karaoke room. I would imagine they have a vast collections of the Malay song, as compared to just a section for those community centres where the karaoke room is shared among the different races.
There is a separate karaoke lounge called the Music Point, which I presume have the Chinese and English songs? They also have dance studio. On the day when I went, they had a friendly mahjong match, where it seems that there is an increasing trend of community centres holding mahjong matches and setting up mahjong interest groups (although I don’t see that this community centre has a mahjong interest group listed).
As for the general facilities, they have the lift to serve the 3-storey building, although I fail to find a water-cooler in the premises.
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23 Oct 2012 at 9:48 am