I visited on opening night, and it was packed. I hope it remains that way.
The music is nothing really special actually, or it could be just me being musically insensitive. But I think it is good dance music. Plus they brought in a live act to perform at 11pm
The crowd demographic is quite diverse, also maybe due to the opening night. Mostly PMEBs.
One of the main draw this place has to offer is the concepts that have been injected. Named The Clinic, the place had a few features that made it look like one. They had bartenders in scrub suits, a room with wheelchairs for seats, a dining area (Aurum) that looked like a hospital canteen and a bloodstained stairwell for a quick exit. Also, the toilets were furbished with stainless steel sinks and cubicle doors to give it a sterile feel. (Yeah, I have to talk about the toilets at clubs after that horror at St James Powerhouse.)
Other than that, there are also rather interesting and cozy rooms to chill at.
It's too bad they didn't serve their drinks in syringes or have their wait staff dressed up as nurses and orderlies. I thought that would have made the place more well-thought out. Or maybe they have done that already.
Think about those tea parties little girls play made elaborate with real china tea sets and real, exquisite food. Put everything in a Victorian interior along with exclusive service and you get The V Tea Room.
Yes, I think this is pretty much a girl thing to be at The V Tea Room and it is just plain Victorian indulgence here.
The food here is in a league of its own and you can tell that there is a certain level of difficulty to prepare them, like their melt cakes which have a liquid chocolate center which will ooze out when you break it open. If you ordered tea, the waitress would set up a little table to put your pot of tea, so that it would not stand in your way on the table.
The takeaway items from here also deserve a special mention, like their Orchard AppleCran Lite Cookies, that are surprisingly taste light yet buttery. But a small can of this will set you back nearly $30.
Of course this level of service and quality comes at a price. Be prepared to fork out around $50 for just cakes and drinks for 2.
As much as the place looked and felt really good, the basic service standard was atrocious.
It was the opening night and the girlfriend and I were unable to get a drink for the 2 hours we were there. All the wait staff either turn their blind eye or lied that they could not take customers' orders. Then I realized that they would only take orders only if you opened a bottle. Opening party is one thing, but cashing in like this is just not right. I have much doubts if they would improve in this area.
Being a Friday night, the amount of clothes were also, well, a little too much. But then again, the invited came straight from work, and in their conservative partying wear/casual work wear. It's a contrast to the ambience with that light-painted wade pool that was expecting frolicking bikini-babes (unfortunately there were none on Friday). So try going on Saturday instead.
The music on the opening night was totally off. Sure the DJs were good in their own right, but shouldn't the place sound and feel like Café Del Mar instead of MOS or Zouk? The DJ's spins were so different from the sample music on the website it felt you entered the wrong place. Plus there wasn't really a decent dancefloor, so I thought it was a major f***-up.
Once again, toilets. There needs to be government intervention on the minimum number of female toilet cubicles for a club. Once again the line at the ladies extended to forever, while there were only a handful of men in the gents. After so many establishments, new clubs ought to know that the ladies to gents ratio should be something like 5 : 1. But yet they would rather the ladies queue up in an orderly manner like some flesh parade... Oh wait, I guess that's the idea.
If I ever visit again, remind me to buy my beverages at the 7 Eleven and finish them before entering.
The colleagues and I came here to celebrate for a birthday boy. I didn't really know what to expect from this Korean restaurant. Previously, I looked at the menu and was really put off by the price. The list of meats for the barbeque ranged from $22 to $28 and they didn't really look like huge portions. On top of that, there was a requirement that you needed to order at least 2 items from that menu if you wanted the barbeque. So that means you will probably part with at least $50 for two, and that's pretty exhorbitant for me. A colleague shared that a meal for two set her back by over $70.
But once the food is served, I realize the price is actually rather reasonable. Apart from the main dishes, the side dishes (about 8 different items) were free flow. So for kimchi lovers, it's all you can eat!
Some said that it felt like re-enacting 大长今 (Jewel In The Palace), but I can't be sure, because I never caught a single episode of the popular show.
Most of the dishes had that characteristic zing of Korean cuisine. And one very memorable ingredient is the onion. Each of us were served a plate of onions. It tasted quite alright and I ate them all, only to be reminded hours later of its effects on the digestive system, but that really felt good.
Service was pretty good here. The staff who attended to us provided very truthful recommendations where portions were concerned. For 9 of us, he recommended to just take 4 portions. There was also the option to have their chefs prepare the food for you instead of doing it yourself, and ending up with the smell of barbeque in your hair and clothes. So it's great for people who are hopeless at cooking.
We also ordered their Kimchi Casserole which was a spicy thick soup with plenty of ingredients. Its full-bodied flavour was very pleasant, though not recommended for people who can't take spicy food.
So I recommend this to people who love authentic Korean cuisine for its spread of side dishes. I also recommend this to people who prefer vegetables to meat. The warning for this place is really the taste of the side dishes, and particularly onions. So come prepared.
Whatever you do, do not order the Portuguese style Beef Brisket Noodle.
Despite the fact that the Portuguese style beef brisket noodle was a chef recommendation, it tasted like a expressway to a heart attack. Beef brisket served with a thick, coconut-based gravy and noodles deep-fried till crispy, there is nothing about this dish worth recommending, but yet it is labelled a Chef's Recommendation. It was a traumatic experience having to shove that dish down my throat. I finally gave up after finishing the meat and half the noodles.
To simply describe how I felt - I was beyond consolation. It was appalling that a brand like Crystal Jade even serves such a horrendous dish. Especially so when everyone else ordered something better tasting than mine. Now I know what horrible food is and what a torture it is to eat it.
Redeeming factors: fast efficient service, pleasant aunties and uncles as wait staff, cozy ambience and the other dishes.
Must Tries: Anything but the Portuguese style Beef Brisket Noodle
You can potentially look younger eating this as the soup is laced with collagen. The place has a good variety of ramen for customers to choose from and the set meals are quite a bargain.
The soup is rich and has a full bodied taste and you can even choose the 'grade' of your soup from normal, spicy or thick.
I would avoid the soft-bone pork ribs ramen because I felt that the meat was not as well cooked as I would have like it. The cartilage could have been softer. But everything else was quite decent.
The place is brightly lit by sunlight during the day, which is quite pleasing. And the seating is spacious and comfortable.
Must Tries: their ramen with the thick or spicy soup option
Egg tarts! My fav hong kong pastries. Leong Sang is at Sago street, off Smith street there. Now the chinatown market is under renovation, so might be a bit diff to spot the shop.
Anyway, chinatown has quite a number of stores selling HK pastries, but i prefer Leong Sang egg tart. Why? To me, the egg tart must have crispy tart skin, once you bite into it, u’ll get a wonderrful feeling. Second, the egg itself must be smooth. Leong Sang egg tart possesses this two main qualities. At $0.80 per tart, it is consider reasonable.
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The one that i went to is a branch located within Queensway shopping centre. To those who often frequent queensway for the cheap sports wear and clothes, u must have seen it before. Went there to buy shoe but didn’t fancy any. O well
It proclaimed itself to be the original Katong Laksa. Anyway, the debate on who is the original Katong Laksa rages on. The Laksa (picture below) main characteristics is that it is made from self-made coconut husk scoop, no chopstick spoon only, short bee hoon, use fresh coconut milk.
Hmm.. the laksa taste quite good, in particular the soup. The soup is quite special, unlike the normal laksa, u can taste egg one, i like!” BUT, the short bee hoon which makes it easier to eat using spoon, is very little. The serving is small, eating one bowl is simply no filling and not enough. The ingredients are small prawn, fish cake and cockles. Cost 3 bucks per bowl, actually 3 bucks is considered reasonable, but the serving is too small.
All in all, the laksa is good, but serving too small not enough. If not being rational, i will have ordered another bowl.
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The famous Ah Koong fishball in Johor, Malaysia. I believed many people from Singapore knows about this store as i always see Singaporeans there, and no doubt their recent debut branch at VivoCity has raised their profile in Singapore. Well, i started eating at Ah Koong a few years back, and since then whenever i go to Johor, it has become one of the must-eat for me. Not a lover of fishballs (i prefer Won-ton mee), but when it comes to Ah Koong fishball noodles, i like! Anyway, for simplicity sake, i will be putting all the dishes in Ringgit (RM), just divided the sum by 2.2 to convert to Sin dollars.
Fried Fish-cake (3.50RM)! No doubt the star of the show, this is Ah Koong speciality and has attracted many people from all over the land to go to Ah Koong just to try this. Die die also must try!
I always have noodle soup when i go to Ah Koong, don’t really fancy the dry-version. The soup is good, i guess theres MSG to make it so tasty, but no harms done having some MSG once in a while ya? One bowl of noodles cost 4.50RM (it used to be 3RM when it just started), anyway 4.50RM is still cheap if you convert to Sin dollars, four fishballs, one meat ball and slices of fishcake. I can easily have two to three bowls of noodle at one go. Good!
The same thing as above just that its bee-hoon. I gave it a lower rating cos i just prefer noodles to bee-hoon, but still the bee-hoon is good.
Fried Hu-Kee (those Yong tao fu one) 3 for 1RM
Hmm.. Ah Koong has a few branches now, but their best is still at their headquarter. When it started a few years back, the noodles was just as nice as it is now. But they have reinnovated and came up with many new menu. Cripsy fried prawn cake, fish porridge, abalone noodles and some other stuff. But seriously, their fishcake and fishball noodles are still the best according to me, ignore all the other new items and just try their fishcake and fishball noodles. By the way, don’t go to the Singapore branch at Vivocity, that place is a rip-off man. One bowl of noodles selling at $4.50 i think, and one fishcake cost $2 or 3. Sin dollars yes! Just go over the bridge to enjoy the same menu but better and cheaper twice! Total bill for two person is 21.84RM
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Ajisen Ramen, “The best Ramen in Singapore”, or so they claimed. Started in November 1997, Ajisen opened the first Ramen shop at Bugis Junction. Ajisen Ramen is now the largest Ramen chain in Singapore, with a total of 12 outlets in Singapore in these 9 years.
“ There is something peculiar about Ajisen Ramen and it’s all in the soup. Their Ramen’s Tonkotsu soup can help to prevent aging!
The Japanese Society of Nutrition & Food Science announced in a general meeting, “The intake of collagen contained in the bones and cartilage, etc prevents aging.” Collagen is a protein, mainly found in the skin, tendon, bone, cartilage and other connective tissues. This protein is the essence of life because it easily makes up one third of the 60 trillion body cells. And our Tonkotsu soup has lots of collagen!
What is health without taste? A feature of Kumamoto Ramen is Senmiyu; a rich brown sauce that accompanies the fair Tonkotsu soup. Our unique culinary methods ensure that all the flavors are sealed into the sauce. In fact, Ajisen guarantee that your taste-buds will be bowled over by their Tonkotsu/Senmiyu combination! “
Went to meet my mom for dinner at IMM after Arnold’s celebration, at first wanted to go Secret Recipe for dinner, cos i want to eat their desserts, but my mom wanted to eat ramen, to savour that time she went to Japan and had ramen. Although there was a few Japanese restaurants around, we settled on Ajisen since my mom wanted ramen. The restaurant was packed fully, but there was still space for two-seaters. We took a while to decide on the ramen, and made our orders, suprisingly the ramen came quite fast despite many patrons in the restaurant, mayb its very easy to cook ramen : )
Ramen cost 10 bucks each, but you have the raman set, which consist of a ramen, side dish, and a drink for $13.80. We chose the crayfish ramen (voted most popular), and the soft ribs ramen
Crayfish Ramen
The crayfish ramen was quite special, the crayfish came with a sweet-spicy sauce. Ramen had egg, crayfish of cos, and mushroom. The ramen soup was quite delicious, but i found it too salty, had to drink tons of water after finishing the ramen.
Soft ribs Ramen
Actually every ramen is the same except for the main ingredient that comes with it, for this one is soft pork ribs, the ribs was managed rather well-balance, very chewy. My mom commented that the ramen in Japan was nicer, the noodle was not so thick, much thinner there : )
Chicken cutlet that comes with the ramen set
The sauce for the chicken was nice, but the chicken was a tad too small, o well after all this is the compliment set.
Fried prawn which also come with the ramen set
Fried prawn in Japanese restaurants was always nice, no complains
Simple dinner at Ajisen total bill was $32.49, not very expensive i guess, for the set came with a ramen, side dish and drink. But the quality of the side dishes can be improve i guess, they are not really worth it for the extra $3.80? But then again $3.80 for a side dish and drink, you can’t really complain can you?
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1=SGD 0.0587
Think clubbing in a hospital.
I visited on opening night, and it was packed. I hope it remains that way.
The music is nothing really special actually, or it could be just me being musically insensitive. But I think it is good dance music. Plus they brought in a live act to perform at 11pm
The crowd demographic is quite diverse, also maybe due to the opening night. Mostly PMEBs.
One of the main draw this place has to offer is the concepts that have been injected. Named The Clinic, the place had a few features that made it look like one. They had bartenders in scrub suits, a room with wheelchairs for seats, a dining area (Aurum) that looked like a hospital canteen and a bloodstained stairwell for a quick exit. Also, the toilets were furbished with stainless steel sinks and cubicle doors to give it a sterile feel. (Yeah, I have to talk about the toilets at clubs after that horror at St James Powerhouse.)
Other than that, there are also rather interesting and cozy rooms to chill at.
It's too bad they didn't serve their drinks in syringes or have their wait staff dressed up as nurses and orderlies. I thought that would have made the place more well-thought out. Or maybe they have done that already.
Rating given:
How to impress with those "just-a-coffee" dates
Think about those tea parties little girls play made elaborate with real china tea sets and real, exquisite food. Put everything in a Victorian interior along with exclusive service and you get The V Tea Room.
Yes, I think this is pretty much a girl thing to be at The V Tea Room and it is just plain Victorian indulgence here.
The food here is in a league of its own and you can tell that there is a certain level of difficulty to prepare them, like their melt cakes which have a liquid chocolate center which will ooze out when you break it open.
If you ordered tea, the waitress would set up a little table to put your pot of tea, so that it would not stand in your way on the table.
The takeaway items from here also deserve a special mention, like their Orchard AppleCran Lite Cookies, that are surprisingly taste light yet buttery. But a small can of this will set you back nearly $30.
Of course this level of service and quality comes at a price.
Be prepared to fork out around $50 for just cakes and drinks for 2.
Rating given:
Atrocious Service, Wrong Music, Spectacular Disaster
As much as the place looked and felt really good, the basic service standard was atrocious.
It was the opening night and the girlfriend and I were unable to get a drink for the 2 hours we were there. All the wait staff either turn their blind eye or lied that they could not take customers' orders. Then I realized that they would only take orders only if you opened a bottle. Opening party is one thing, but cashing in like this is just not right. I have much doubts if they would improve in this area.
Being a Friday night, the amount of clothes were also, well, a little too much. But then again, the invited came straight from work, and in their conservative partying wear/casual work wear. It's a contrast to the ambience with that light-painted wade pool that was expecting frolicking bikini-babes (unfortunately there were none on Friday). So try going on Saturday instead.
The music on the opening night was totally off. Sure the DJs were good in their own right, but shouldn't the place sound and feel like Café Del Mar instead of MOS or Zouk? The DJ's spins were so different from the sample music on the website it felt you entered the wrong place. Plus there wasn't really a decent dancefloor, so I thought it was a major f***-up.
Once again, toilets. There needs to be government intervention on the minimum number of female toilet cubicles for a club. Once again the line at the ladies extended to forever, while there were only a handful of men in the gents. After so many establishments, new clubs ought to know that the ladies to gents ratio should be something like 5 : 1. But yet they would rather the ladies queue up in an orderly manner like some flesh parade... Oh wait, I guess that's the idea.
If I ever visit again, remind me to buy my beverages at the 7 Eleven and finish them before entering.
Rating given:
Good Service And Free Flow Of Kimchi
The colleagues and I came here to celebrate for a birthday boy. I didn't really know what to expect from this Korean restaurant. Previously, I looked at the menu and was really put off by the price. The list of meats for the barbeque ranged from $22 to $28 and they didn't really look like huge portions. On top of that, there was a requirement that you needed to order at least 2 items from that menu if you wanted the barbeque. So that means you will probably part with at least $50 for two, and that's pretty exhorbitant for me. A colleague shared that a meal for two set her back by over $70.
But once the food is served, I realize the price is actually rather reasonable. Apart from the main dishes, the side dishes (about 8 different items) were free flow. So for kimchi lovers, it's all you can eat!
Some said that it felt like re-enacting 大长今 (Jewel In The Palace), but I can't be sure, because I never caught a single episode of the popular show.
Most of the dishes had that characteristic zing of Korean cuisine. And one very memorable ingredient is the onion. Each of us were served a plate of onions. It tasted quite alright and I ate them all, only to be reminded hours later of its effects on the digestive system, but that really felt good.
Service was pretty good here. The staff who attended to us provided very truthful recommendations where portions were concerned. For 9 of us, he recommended to just take 4 portions. There was also the option to have their chefs prepare the food for you instead of doing it yourself, and ending up with the smell of barbeque in your hair and clothes. So it's great for people who are hopeless at cooking.
We also ordered their Kimchi Casserole which was a spicy thick soup with plenty of ingredients. Its full-bodied flavour was very pleasant, though not recommended for people who can't take spicy food.
So I recommend this to people who love authentic Korean cuisine for its spread of side dishes. I also recommend this to people who prefer vegetables to meat. The warning for this place is really the taste of the side dishes, and particularly onions. So come prepared.
Rating given:
Traumatizing Experience!
Whatever you do, do not order the Portuguese style Beef Brisket Noodle.
Despite the fact that the Portuguese style beef brisket noodle was a chef recommendation, it tasted like a expressway to a heart attack. Beef brisket served with a thick, coconut-based gravy and noodles deep-fried till crispy, there is nothing about this dish worth recommending, but yet it is labelled a Chef's Recommendation. It was a traumatic experience having to shove that dish down my throat. I finally gave up after finishing the meat and half the noodles.
To simply describe how I felt - I was beyond consolation. It was appalling that a brand like Crystal Jade even serves such a horrendous dish. Especially so when everyone else ordered something better tasting than mine. Now I know what horrible food is and what a torture it is to eat it.
Redeeming factors: fast efficient service, pleasant aunties and uncles as wait staff, cozy ambience and the other dishes.
Must Tries: Anything but the Portuguese style Beef Brisket Noodle
Rating given:
Collagen-laced to make you look younger
You can potentially look younger eating this as the soup is laced with collagen. The place has a good variety of ramen for customers to choose from and the set meals are quite a bargain.
The soup is rich and has a full bodied taste and you can even choose the 'grade' of your soup from normal, spicy or thick.
I would avoid the soft-bone pork ribs ramen because I felt that the meat was not as well cooked as I would have like it. The cartilage could have been softer. But everything else was quite decent.
The place is brightly lit by sunlight during the day, which is quite pleasing. And the seating is spacious and comfortable.
Must Tries: their ramen with the thick or spicy soup option
Rating given:
Egg tarts! My fav hong kong pastries. Leong Sang is at Sago street, off Smith street there. Now the chinatown market is under renovation, so might be a bit diff to spot the shop.
Anyway, chinatown has quite a number of stores selling HK pastries, but i prefer Leong Sang egg tart. Why? To me, the egg tart must have crispy tart skin, once you bite into it, u’ll get a wonderrful feeling. Second, the egg itself must be smooth. Leong Sang egg tart possesses this two main qualities. At $0.80 per tart, it is consider reasonable.
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Rating given:
Janggut Laksa - The original Katong Spoon Laksa
The one that i went to is a branch located within Queensway shopping centre. To those who often frequent queensway for the cheap sports wear and clothes, u must have seen it before. Went there to buy shoe but didn’t fancy any. O well
It proclaimed itself to be the original Katong Laksa. Anyway, the debate on who is the original Katong Laksa rages on. The Laksa (picture below) main characteristics is that it is made from self-made coconut husk scoop, no chopstick spoon only, short bee hoon, use fresh coconut milk.
Hmm.. the laksa taste quite good, in particular the soup. The soup is quite special, unlike the normal laksa, u can taste egg one, i like!” BUT, the short bee hoon which makes it easier to eat using spoon, is very little. The serving is small, eating one bowl is simply no filling and not enough. The ingredients are small prawn, fish cake and cockles. Cost 3 bucks per bowl, actually 3 bucks is considered reasonable, but the serving is too small.
All in all, the laksa is good, but serving too small not enough. If not being rational, i will have ordered another bowl.
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Rating given:
The famous Ah Koong fishball in Johor, Malaysia. I believed many people from Singapore knows about this store as i always see Singaporeans there, and no doubt their recent debut branch at VivoCity has raised their profile in Singapore. Well, i started eating at Ah Koong a few years back, and since then whenever i go to Johor, it has become one of the must-eat for me. Not a lover of fishballs (i prefer Won-ton mee), but when it comes to Ah Koong fishball noodles, i like! Anyway, for simplicity sake, i will be putting all the dishes in Ringgit (RM), just divided the sum by 2.2 to convert to Sin dollars.
Fried Fish-cake (3.50RM)! No doubt the star of the show, this is Ah Koong speciality and has attracted many people from all over the land to go to Ah Koong just to try this. Die die also must try!
I always have noodle soup when i go to Ah Koong, don’t really fancy the dry-version. The soup is good, i guess theres MSG to make it so tasty, but no harms done having some MSG once in a while ya? One bowl of noodles cost 4.50RM (it used to be 3RM when it just started), anyway 4.50RM is still cheap if you convert to Sin dollars, four fishballs, one meat ball and slices of fishcake. I can easily have two to three bowls of noodle at one go. Good!
The same thing as above just that its bee-hoon. I gave it a lower rating cos i just prefer noodles to bee-hoon, but still the bee-hoon is good.
Fried Hu-Kee (those Yong tao fu one) 3 for 1RM
Hmm.. Ah Koong has a few branches now, but their best is still at their headquarter. When it started a few years back, the noodles was just as nice as it is now. But they have reinnovated and came up with many new menu. Cripsy fried prawn cake, fish porridge, abalone noodles and some other stuff. But seriously, their fishcake and fishball noodles are still the best according to me, ignore all the other new items and just try their fishcake and fishball noodles. By the way, don’t go to the Singapore branch at Vivocity, that place is a rip-off man. One bowl of noodles selling at $4.50 i think, and one fishcake cost $2 or 3. Sin dollars yes! Just go over the bridge to enjoy the same menu but better and cheaper twice! Total bill for two person is 21.84RM
You are always welcome to visit ladyironchef for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written above are my geniune feelings expressed in words that may be subjected to my personal distortion or bias. Please do not feel emotional or distress should you have any violent objections. Kindly click the little X at the upper, extreme right of your screen if negative adjectives would be derived. Otherwise, feel free to furnish me with comments, may it be positive or negative : )
Rating given:
Ajisen Ramen, “The best Ramen in Singapore”, or so they claimed. Started in November 1997, Ajisen opened the first Ramen shop at Bugis Junction. Ajisen Ramen is now the largest Ramen chain in Singapore, with a total of 12 outlets in Singapore in these 9 years.
“ There is something peculiar about Ajisen Ramen and it’s all in the soup. Their Ramen’s Tonkotsu soup can help to prevent aging!
The Japanese Society of Nutrition & Food Science announced in a general meeting, “The intake of collagen contained in the bones and cartilage, etc prevents aging.” Collagen is a protein, mainly found in the skin, tendon, bone, cartilage and other connective tissues. This protein is the essence of life because it easily makes up one third of the 60 trillion body cells. And our Tonkotsu soup has lots of collagen!
What is health without taste? A feature of Kumamoto Ramen is Senmiyu; a rich brown sauce that accompanies the fair Tonkotsu soup. Our unique culinary methods ensure that all the flavors are sealed into the sauce. In fact, Ajisen guarantee that your taste-buds will be bowled over by their Tonkotsu/Senmiyu combination! “
Went to meet my mom for dinner at IMM after Arnold’s celebration, at first wanted to go Secret Recipe for dinner, cos i want to eat their desserts, but my mom wanted to eat ramen, to savour that time she went to Japan and had ramen. Although there was a few Japanese restaurants around, we settled on Ajisen since my mom wanted ramen. The restaurant was packed fully, but there was still space for two-seaters. We took a while to decide on the ramen, and made our orders, suprisingly the ramen came quite fast despite many patrons in the restaurant, mayb its very easy to cook ramen : )
Ramen cost 10 bucks each, but you have the raman set, which consist of a ramen, side dish, and a drink for $13.80. We chose the crayfish ramen (voted most popular), and the soft ribs ramen
Crayfish Ramen
The crayfish ramen was quite special, the crayfish came with a sweet-spicy sauce. Ramen had egg, crayfish of cos, and mushroom. The ramen soup was quite delicious, but i found it too salty, had to drink tons of water after finishing the ramen.
Soft ribs Ramen
Actually every ramen is the same except for the main ingredient that comes with it, for this one is soft pork ribs, the ribs was managed rather well-balance, very chewy. My mom commented that the ramen in Japan was nicer, the noodle was not so thick, much thinner there : )
Chicken cutlet that comes with the ramen set
The sauce for the chicken was nice, but the chicken was a tad too small, o well after all this is the compliment set.
Fried prawn which also come with the ramen set
Fried prawn in Japanese restaurants was always nice, no complains
Simple dinner at Ajisen total bill was $32.49, not very expensive i guess, for the set came with a ramen, side dish and drink. But the quality of the side dishes can be improve i guess, they are not really worth it for the extra $3.80? But then again $3.80 for a side dish and drink, you can’t really complain can you?
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” Food is for our mind, health, and body “
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