Went there for another business lunch that day, turned out to be a nice surprise! We had a special set lunch:
1. Steamed Dim Sum(Steamed Chicken Dumpling with Sharks Fin,Steamed Vegetarian Dumpling "Teochew Style", Steamed Abalone Dumpling with Asparagus,Steamed Prawn Dumpling) 2. Peking Duck 3. Poached Spinach with Fresh Lily Bulb and Wolf berries in Sharkâs Bone Stock 4. Summer Palace Fried Rice 5. Baked Egg Tart and Custard Bun 6. Mixed Fruits Platter Complimentry)
For $297.97 for 11 ladies, I think the selection is excellent.
I've never gotten food in a Chinese restaurant which excels in all I've ordered, let alone one in a hotel (I've always thought they are overpriced for the quality they give), but was happy to re-adjust my thinking after the lunch.
Everything was good. It might seem a bit light on the palette but we thought we might as well veer on the healthier side since we going to eat anyway. The peking duck (the skin) came with too much fat for me, but perhaps others prefer it this way. The soup was delightfully refreshing, and the egg tart was one of the best I've ever tasted.
Someone in the group sang high praises of its Chinese dessert selection so we had to try it, even though we were pretty stuffed from the set. I had this excellent concoction of almond cream with white fungus, steamed in a whole young coconut. The aroma of the coconut blends in surprisingly well with the almond taste, not to mention that it is terribly good for complexion!
Didn't know if being in their private room made a difference but the service was excellent. Good job!
I think Summer Palace beats a whole host of other places like Tung Lok, Wan Hao, or even Summer Pavilion. Don't know if they offer the set on a regular basis, but it is extremely value for $ I feel. Go there!
Went for coffee last night with family, the whole 7 of us. Heard so much about the coffee so was quite excited to finally try it.
Maybe my expectations were raised by the hype surrounding it, but my old town white coffee tasted like, well, your coffeeshop kopi, no doubt a good one. This normal version was also quite thick, so I can't imagine how their 'gao' version would taste. Stay away people sensitive to caffeine!
My bro had the hazelnut coffee which he said was okay, but looked really cute with the heart-shaped foam on top.
Post dinner for us, so we only ordered the garlic bread and ice-cream toast to share. The ice cream toast was done up nicely in a small tower, which I thought was a nice effort by them to dress it up despite the coffee-shop theme.
It was nicely packed on a weekday night, but I think it's thronged with families on weekends, so come on weekdays if you can. Also less noisy than Ya Kun or Toast Box, but then again maybe it's due to the relatively ulu location.
Would probably pop by if I'm in the vicinity or are with friends who drives~
I kind of like this place for tea and munchies rather than proper meals. Its the nearest "coffee place" to my home so I guess also not much choice~
I also like it for the fact that it is 24-hours on fridays and saturdays; makes it alot easier when deciding on places to have a post-meal chat without having to worry about the staff chasing you away upon closing.
Their special HK Milk Tea is not bad, both hot and cold versions. It can a tad bland if you're used to the local teh, but then again I can do with less sugar. Tried also their thick toast with peanut butter, it was terribly messy to eat although quite nice. A tall block of carbs topped with thick gooey peanut better on it (I would have preferred the crunchy kind instead of smooth though). Even with fork and knife, it was quite unglam to eat the bread as was too crusty and crumbs kept falling all over the place and the peanut butter had the sludge kind of consistency that you need to fight with. Taste wise, not bad :D
Tried a couple of their dim sums, it was okay. For desserts, they have a nice mochi thing sprinkled with crushed peanuts, it was delicious! Ice lovers can try their ice desserts, but you have to know they are humongous, so order to share.
Cutlery and napkins are laid out on table, so DIY. Service wise, its really your basic service. Can get quite noisy on weekends and it gets filled up by 9pm so go slightly early. Even better, so slightly early in a group of 4 and grab their comfy booth seats :D
Made a bad choice to come here for dinner under the recommendation of a friend's friend. Bad friend :(
Was hankering after noodles, and saw that their udon selection is quite unique as they serve it flat, like kway chap. Decided on the very light soup udon, and my friend ordered teriyaki chicken set.
The udon soup was very bland (but hot though), and came with the pieces of kway chap with leeks, mushrooms, and 2 pieces of very strange things. Looks like soggy fried beancurd but was utterly tasteless and painstakingly chewy. Like boiled mua chee with no peanuts.
My friend couldnt finish his teriyaki chicken because it was served lukewarm and tasteless too. Looks not bad but didnt score in the taste department at all. Perhaps the chef ran out of soy sauce that day.
Had been eyeing their green tea ice cream whenever I walk past, so I had to try it since I was there. Ordered the dessert duo: green tea ice cream moochi. The ice cream was not too bad, but moochi bland as well. Ugh.
The other thing we tried was this vanilla ice cream with red beans and baked puffs served in a bowl. Not too bad actually because there was a nice contrast of hot and cold, and vanilla ice cream tasted homemade.
Maybe the desserts was not bad because the mains were terrible. Service was nothing to complain about, and price was average, although I did spot their green tea ice cream on a cone being priced as $8.80 on the menu.
Maybe worth buying ice cream to go when you have the cravings, but dont come here for dinner. You'd be better off at the food square :D
Wanted to go to Original Sin for a weekday lunch but they were closed for Mondays:(. Choose Micheangelo's over Au Petite Bistro in the end. Went for the Amex 1-for-1 set lunch, which gives you a soup of the day (fish chowder) or a salad (mushrooms with greens), a main (penne with beef and mushrooms in saffron cream sauce or a grilled chicken), a dessert (tiramisu) and coffee/tea.
Salad was unexpectedly of good portion and tasted quite good. The chowder was a bit watered-down for me, not as thick as I would have liked it. Pasta was nicely al dente, and kudos to them for changing the beef (I don't usually take red meat) to chicken for me :D. They did a pesto pasta for my vegetarian friend, which was excellent! Tiramisu was disappointing though, it tasted more like a nicely chilled chocolate sponge cake than really tiramisu. Coffee was run of the mill for me. Oh, and they don't serve bread :(
I stil have to say their indoor sitting is still quite dark, because they dont switch on the lights and have a candle in each table instead. Makes it very hard to read the menu unless your sitting back facing the door, where you can try your luck at catching the daylight.
Service was nicely efficient with the small seating.
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Went there for another business lunch that day, turned out to be a nice surprise! We had a special set lunch:
1. Steamed Dim Sum(Steamed Chicken Dumpling with Sharks Fin,Steamed
Vegetarian Dumpling "Teochew Style", Steamed Abalone Dumpling with
Asparagus,Steamed Prawn Dumpling)
2. Peking Duck
3. Poached Spinach with Fresh Lily Bulb and Wolf berries in Sharkâs
Bone Stock
4. Summer Palace Fried Rice
5. Baked Egg Tart and Custard Bun
6. Mixed Fruits Platter Complimentry)
For $297.97 for 11 ladies, I think the selection is excellent.
I've never gotten food in a Chinese restaurant which excels in all I've ordered, let alone one in a hotel (I've always thought they are overpriced for the quality they give), but was happy to re-adjust my thinking after the lunch.
Everything was good. It might seem a bit light on the palette but we thought we might as well veer on the healthier side since we going to eat anyway. The peking duck (the skin) came with too much fat for me, but perhaps others prefer it this way. The soup was delightfully refreshing, and the egg tart was one of the best I've ever tasted.
Someone in the group sang high praises of its Chinese dessert selection so we had to try it, even though we were pretty stuffed from the set. I had this excellent concoction of almond cream with white fungus, steamed in a whole young coconut. The aroma of the coconut blends in surprisingly well with the almond taste, not to mention that it is terribly good for complexion!
Didn't know if being in their private room made a difference but the service was excellent. Good job!
I think Summer Palace beats a whole host of other places like Tung Lok, Wan Hao, or even Summer Pavilion. Don't know if they offer the set on a regular basis, but it is extremely value for $ I feel. Go there!
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Went for coffee last night with family, the whole 7 of us. Heard so much about the coffee so was quite excited to finally try it.
Maybe my expectations were raised by the hype surrounding it, but my old town white coffee tasted like, well, your coffeeshop kopi, no doubt a good one. This normal version was also quite thick, so I can't imagine how their 'gao' version would taste. Stay away people sensitive to caffeine!
My bro had the hazelnut coffee which he said was okay, but looked really cute with the heart-shaped foam on top.
Post dinner for us, so we only ordered the garlic bread and ice-cream toast to share. The ice cream toast was done up nicely in a small tower, which I thought was a nice effort by them to dress it up despite the coffee-shop theme.
It was nicely packed on a weekday night, but I think it's thronged with families on weekends, so come on weekdays if you can. Also less noisy than Ya Kun or Toast Box, but then again maybe it's due to the relatively ulu location.
Would probably pop by if I'm in the vicinity or are with friends who drives~
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15 Mar 2009 at 1:50 pm
Its co-owned by Mark Lee and someone else I think~
07 May 2009 at 10:27 pm
I kind of like this place for tea and munchies rather than proper meals. Its the nearest "coffee place" to my home so I guess also not much choice~
I also like it for the fact that it is 24-hours on fridays and saturdays; makes it alot easier when deciding on places to have a post-meal chat without having to worry about the staff chasing you away upon closing.
Their special HK Milk Tea is not bad, both hot and cold versions. It can a tad bland if you're used to the local teh, but then again I can do with less sugar. Tried also their thick toast with peanut butter, it was terribly messy to eat although quite nice. A tall block of carbs topped with thick gooey peanut better on it (I would have preferred the crunchy kind instead of smooth though). Even with fork and knife, it was quite unglam to eat the bread as was too crusty and crumbs kept falling all over the place and the peanut butter had the sludge kind of consistency that you need to fight with. Taste wise, not bad :D
Tried a couple of their dim sums, it was okay. For desserts, they have a nice mochi thing sprinkled with crushed peanuts, it was delicious! Ice lovers can try their ice desserts, but you have to know they are humongous, so order to share.
Cutlery and napkins are laid out on table, so DIY. Service wise, its really your basic service. Can get quite noisy on weekends and it gets filled up by 9pm so go slightly early. Even better, so slightly early in a group of 4 and grab their comfy booth seats :D
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Made a bad choice to come here for dinner under the recommendation of a friend's friend. Bad friend :(
Was hankering after noodles, and saw that their udon selection is quite unique as they serve it flat, like kway chap. Decided on the very light soup udon, and my friend ordered teriyaki chicken set.
The udon soup was very bland (but hot though), and came with the pieces of kway chap with leeks, mushrooms, and 2 pieces of very strange things. Looks like soggy fried beancurd but was utterly tasteless and painstakingly chewy. Like boiled mua chee with no peanuts.
My friend couldnt finish his teriyaki chicken because it was served lukewarm and tasteless too. Looks not bad but didnt score in the taste department at all. Perhaps the chef ran out of soy sauce that day.
Had been eyeing their green tea ice cream whenever I walk past, so I had to try it since I was there. Ordered the dessert duo: green tea ice cream moochi. The ice cream was not too bad, but moochi bland as well. Ugh.
The other thing we tried was this vanilla ice cream with red beans and baked puffs served in a bowl. Not too bad actually because there was a nice contrast of hot and cold, and vanilla ice cream tasted homemade.
Maybe the desserts was not bad because the mains were terrible. Service was nothing to complain about, and price was average, although I did spot their green tea ice cream on a cone being priced as $8.80 on the menu.
Maybe worth buying ice cream to go when you have the cravings, but dont come here for dinner. You'd be better off at the food square :D
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Wanted to go to Original Sin for a weekday lunch but they were closed for Mondays:(. Choose Micheangelo's over Au Petite Bistro in the end. Went for the Amex 1-for-1 set lunch, which gives you a soup of the day (fish chowder) or a salad (mushrooms with greens), a main (penne with beef and mushrooms in saffron cream sauce or a grilled chicken), a dessert (tiramisu) and coffee/tea.
Salad was unexpectedly of good portion and tasted quite good. The chowder was a bit watered-down for me, not as thick as I would have liked it. Pasta was nicely al dente, and kudos to them for changing the beef (I don't usually take red meat) to chicken for me :D. They did a pesto pasta for my vegetarian friend, which was excellent! Tiramisu was disappointing though, it tasted more like a nicely chilled chocolate sponge cake than really tiramisu. Coffee was run of the mill for me. Oh, and they don't serve bread :(
I stil have to say their indoor sitting is still quite dark, because they dont switch on the lights and have a candle in each table instead. Makes it very hard to read the menu unless your sitting back facing the door, where you can try your luck at catching the daylight.
Service was nicely efficient with the small seating.
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