We were walking aimlessly one sat afternoon trying to find some decent dessert at the basement of the central mall when we decided to just pick a spot to sit and rest. The snow shaved ice-kacang lookalike dessert attracted me and we ended up here, though the Fried Chicken opposite this outlet tempted us, we held fast to our diet plans and decided something watery and sweet and we could share would be great.
The menu was a confusion of many stuffs with sets and is slightly sticky... So I've decided on the snow shaved ice in black forest flavor (my fav) and while we ordered, we were told the flavors were out only greentea redbean was available. So we ended up having that, a cuppa coffee each. I guess the snacks and double boiled rice sets are nice as we watch our neighbours eating them.
The coffee arrived, it was average machine type, no wow factor but the snow shaved ice is pretty interesting.. Its shaved and its really flaky and soft like as a shaved ice-cream. Creamy and light and does not melt down so quickly like the ice kacang. The red bean is not generous but enough for us, though it gets a little messy eating this, i instantly fell in love with snow shaves...
The seats were tight and not comfy, no cushion thats if you have a bony bum and it does gets a little too noisy when its crowded... Theres only one staff on duty and thus we don't expect much service yet the tables are pretty clean, less the menu which was sticky. Pretty good experience.
We were wondering around for a good dessert to complete the meal and was called towards the colourful display cabinet of tantalizing shelfful of beautiful decorated fruit tarts. Unlike the normal bakery fruit tarts, these are huge tarts sliced into 8-12 portions with mouth watering cross sections full displaying the vivid coloured contents.
It was not nice salivating at the display cabinet as such we proceeded in to seat and view the menu. The menu serves up a good selection of cakes, pastries and tea however without the appropriate pictures, we very much could not relate them with the beautiful tarts at the display, as such we ordered the tarts at the display while we return to the menu for our accompanying tea. They do carry a good array of floral and fruit teas as well as japanese styled fusion tea.
We decided on some flavors that we find best suited to the tarts we ordered as there is a all day long set promo of a pot of tea with a tart. The teas were aromatic, very fragrant yet tasted light and refreshing. The tarts were fruity with layers of cream or custard and thick and crumbly crust. Extremely yummy. We love the pumpkin flavored tart the best. It is tasted of the sweet and rather raw and natural flavor of the pumpkin yet the sweetish custard pairs well with it.
There are ample seats for large groups and though there is always a queue, i'm sure you can find seat amongst the ample space. Service is pretty good, staff is friendly and helpful yet they looked mostly understaffed. Enjoy the great tasting and beautiful tarts and I'm even thinking of having it as a birthday cake one of these faithful birthdays.....
Affliated to the WOOLOOMOOLOO STEAKHOUSE, the chop house is famous for their chops of meat and draft beers. Its a pretty interesting place to dine in, with high tables and chairs as well as romantic tables for two, not forgetting the cool alfresco dining complete with the smell of sea and lasers from Sentosa. I love the setting and the ambience with wooden furnitures smoothened down at the edges with cracks and beside the high table we are settled on is a beer tap with 2 types of brews that can be made available for special occasions. I mean how cool is that to have beer taps right next to your table for you to self-serve.
The menu has got a good variety of carefully grilled steaks, chunks of meat, seafood, pasta and burgers. Something interesting caught my eye, SWEET POTATO CHIPs. Yes, orange, crispy and sweet and of course best eaten when its piping hot from the wok. The other stuffs we ordered are yummy as well such as the mixed grill which is a good portion of steak, lamb, pork chops with some greens. The ingredients used fresh and culinary methods good, retaining the juiciness within while creating a crispy outside.
The beer is beyond anything i've tried, they do have a few flavors for us to try, while if you like something light, they do have one called the PURE BLONDE - which is a low carb brew.. Best for ladies like me and if you like strong, you must try the SCHNEIDER WEISSE TAP 7 which is a wheaty dark brew. Order anything before 9pm is happy hour price which is a good $2 cheaper however, once you start with their artisan crafted beer, its pretty hard to stop at one.
Its a nice place with yummy food and good beer, most importantly it does not stink up your clothes. So if you are looking for a place to indulge in a meaty affair and some good beer, this is where you should go.
Price wise is slightly high and service is attentive and efficient. Seating is good for groups and the place takes noise well so if you are there with some chatty friends, its okay to get high and talk a little too loud.
126 搵到食, is a pretty catchy name for an old-timers dim sum restaurant. I heard alot about it and also the notorious queue that is fending me from visiting the outlet though I love dim sum alot....
So one faithful morning of a public holiday, me and me pals have decided to drop by for a late morning brunch that apparently made us waited for a good one hour before the food arrived.
Though the queue was short, we still took about half an hour before we could get this crampy seats inside the air-conditioned area. The seating area is comfy and very squeezy HK like with people consistently walking around.. Getting shoved, jabbed and elbowed is a common thing here, however, it makes up for the HongKong like Char Chan Teng culture. Its noisy, aircon pretty strong to keep everybody cool headed and the menu for ordering is thick like a photo album. For a good 8 hungry breakfast goers... we ordered 23 dishes with an assortment of steamed and deep fried stuffs. Drinks came in plastic (Dou Hua) containers and sorry... no coffee or potted tea is served... Tables are tiny yet its kinda cosy and fun.
Ordering took us about 15 mins and we waited for 15 mins before our first order arrived. The fried stuffs came first then slowly the steamed stuffs arrived... The food is pretty nice, ingredients fresh, however filling are just right, though below my expectations... there is no WOW Factor in their food.
Some of the food that we ate and how we liked it.
1) Har Kow & Siew Mai - according to dim sum lovers world wide, these 2 dishes is the must have and the benchmark to gauging if its a good dim sum place. Though the filling is fresh and crunchy, skin thin, yet it lacks the wow factor. It just tasted kinda better then normal.
2) Char siew bao - HK styled of course with the flower topped looked tasted regular only, filling could have been a little more generous
3) Xiao Long Bao - Looked Tiny to me, skin is rather thick and non elastic, and theres no soup in the bao... So its kinda dry and not so tasty.
4) Nai Huang (Salted Egg) Bao - Tasted more like custard to me, the filling is dry and the bao so tiny.
5) Chicken Feet - This is nice and yummy, well braised and skin chewy, pretty well done.
For a group of 8 and moderate eating, the bill came up to be about $95 which is a good price for brunch!
Service is good, I mean for a place like this, we would expect angry faces and loud rude shoves and shouts yet it is not so. Staff is helpful, friendly and extremely efficient. This I am WOWed....
So I'm sure to return though the food is only slightly above average, they made it up with efficient and friendly service.
If you love a good view of greenery while you lunch, then this is the place to be. A new fringe-less concept on unbinding greenery that boost of the breathtaking rusty natural environment of the Rochester Park area with the comfort of the cool air-con, no mozzies and rain free indoor sitting is the best for both comfort and relaxation.
This food court serves up not just a good view, spacious and ample seating areas, it also has a great selection of local and interesting foreign cuisines. The selections of cuisines includes the ever so yummy local chicken rice, laksa, mixed veg rice, fried noodles, also exotic Indonesian and Filipino selections. There is something for everyone and priced at a pretty affordable rate. I've not tried all the food here, but appraising the ones i've tried its normally good with no exceptional WOW- Factors. But the dining environment and cleanliness is nothing but commendable.
Its a great place to lunch with friends or have casual business meetings as the environment holds noise well and have sitting areas that are pretty private. Its well planned and very conducive for large groups of people. One thing I must mention is that the drinks counter serve up an extremely good coffee set. The coffee is aromatic, thick and nice and the toast.. They have this baguette toast which is one of the best I've tasted. The skin roughened and crispy while the kaya and the hard butter makes the most potent combination.
I will mostly just attack the coffee and toast with 2 soft boiled eggs. Its potently delicious. Breath in the beautiful landscape and wisp of cool air-con mixed with the aromatic taste of piping hot coffee, we will realised that Its the simple things that make us happy.
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The menu was a confusion of many stuffs with sets and is slightly sticky... So I've decided on the snow shaved ice in black forest flavor (my fav) and while we ordered, we were told the flavors were out only greentea redbean was available. So we ended up having that, a cuppa coffee each. I guess the snacks and double boiled rice sets are nice as we watch our neighbours eating them.
The coffee arrived, it was average machine type, no wow factor but the snow shaved ice is pretty interesting.. Its shaved and its really flaky and soft like as a shaved ice-cream. Creamy and light and does not melt down so quickly like the ice kacang. The red bean is not generous but enough for us, though it gets a little messy eating this, i instantly fell in love with snow shaves...
The seats were tight and not comfy, no cushion thats if you have a bony bum and it does gets a little too noisy when its crowded... Theres only one staff on duty and thus we don't expect much service yet the tables are pretty clean, less the menu which was sticky. Pretty good experience.
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It was not nice salivating at the display cabinet as such we proceeded in to seat and view the menu. The menu serves up a good selection of cakes, pastries and tea however without the appropriate pictures, we very much could not relate them with the beautiful tarts at the display, as such we ordered the tarts at the display while we return to the menu for our accompanying tea. They do carry a good array of floral and fruit teas as well as japanese styled fusion tea.
We decided on some flavors that we find best suited to the tarts we ordered as there is a all day long set promo of a pot of tea with a tart. The teas were aromatic, very fragrant yet tasted light and refreshing. The tarts were fruity with layers of cream or custard and thick and crumbly crust. Extremely yummy. We love the pumpkin flavored tart the best. It is tasted of the sweet and rather raw and natural flavor of the pumpkin yet the sweetish custard pairs well with it.
There are ample seats for large groups and though there is always a queue, i'm sure you can find seat amongst the ample space. Service is pretty good, staff is friendly and helpful yet they looked mostly understaffed. Enjoy the great tasting and beautiful tarts and I'm even thinking of having it as a birthday cake one of these faithful birthdays.....
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The menu has got a good variety of carefully grilled steaks, chunks of meat, seafood, pasta and burgers. Something interesting caught my eye, SWEET POTATO CHIPs. Yes, orange, crispy and sweet and of course best eaten when its piping hot from the wok. The other stuffs we ordered are yummy as well such as the mixed grill which is a good portion of steak, lamb, pork chops with some greens. The ingredients used fresh and culinary methods good, retaining the juiciness within while creating a crispy outside.
The beer is beyond anything i've tried, they do have a few flavors for us to try, while if you like something light, they do have one called the PURE BLONDE - which is a low carb brew.. Best for ladies like me and if you like strong, you must try the SCHNEIDER WEISSE TAP 7 which is a wheaty dark brew. Order anything before 9pm is happy hour price which is a good $2 cheaper however, once you start with their artisan crafted beer, its pretty hard to stop at one.
Its a nice place with yummy food and good beer, most importantly it does not stink up your clothes. So if you are looking for a place to indulge in a meaty affair and some good beer, this is where you should go.
Price wise is slightly high and service is attentive and efficient. Seating is good for groups and the place takes noise well so if you are there with some chatty friends, its okay to get high and talk a little too loud.
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So one faithful morning of a public holiday, me and me pals have decided to drop by for a late morning brunch that apparently made us waited for a good one hour before the food arrived.
Though the queue was short, we still took about half an hour before we could get this crampy seats inside the air-conditioned area. The seating area is comfy and very squeezy HK like with people consistently walking around.. Getting shoved, jabbed and elbowed is a common thing here, however, it makes up for the HongKong like Char Chan Teng culture. Its noisy, aircon pretty strong to keep everybody cool headed and the menu for ordering is thick like a photo album. For a good 8 hungry breakfast goers... we ordered 23 dishes with an assortment of steamed and deep fried stuffs. Drinks came in plastic (Dou Hua) containers and sorry... no coffee or potted tea is served... Tables are tiny yet its kinda cosy and fun.
Ordering took us about 15 mins and we waited for 15 mins before our first order arrived. The fried stuffs came first then slowly the steamed stuffs arrived... The food is pretty nice, ingredients fresh, however filling are just right, though below my expectations... there is no WOW Factor in their food.
Some of the food that we ate and how we liked it.
1) Har Kow & Siew Mai - according to dim sum lovers world wide, these 2 dishes is the must have and the benchmark to gauging if its a good dim sum place. Though the filling is fresh and crunchy, skin thin, yet it lacks the wow factor. It just tasted kinda better then normal.
2) Char siew bao - HK styled of course with the flower topped looked tasted regular only, filling could have been a little more generous
3) Xiao Long Bao - Looked Tiny to me, skin is rather thick and non elastic, and theres no soup in the bao... So its kinda dry and not so tasty.
4) Nai Huang (Salted Egg) Bao - Tasted more like custard to me, the filling is dry and the bao so tiny.
5) Chicken Feet - This is nice and yummy, well braised and skin chewy, pretty well done.
For a group of 8 and moderate eating, the bill came up to be about $95 which is a good price for brunch!
Service is good, I mean for a place like this, we would expect angry faces and loud rude shoves and shouts yet it is not so. Staff is helpful, friendly and extremely efficient. This I am WOWed....
So I'm sure to return though the food is only slightly above average, they made it up with efficient and friendly service.
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This food court serves up not just a good view, spacious and ample seating areas, it also has a great selection of local and interesting foreign cuisines. The selections of cuisines includes the ever so yummy local chicken rice, laksa, mixed veg rice, fried noodles, also exotic Indonesian and Filipino selections. There is something for everyone and priced at a pretty affordable rate. I've not tried all the food here, but appraising the ones i've tried its normally good with no exceptional WOW- Factors. But the dining environment and cleanliness is nothing but commendable.
Its a great place to lunch with friends or have casual business meetings as the environment holds noise well and have sitting areas that are pretty private. Its well planned and very conducive for large groups of people. One thing I must mention is that the drinks counter serve up an extremely good coffee set. The coffee is aromatic, thick and nice and the toast.. They have this baguette toast which is one of the best I've tasted. The skin roughened and crispy while the kaya and the hard butter makes the most potent combination.
I will mostly just attack the coffee and toast with 2 soft boiled eggs. Its potently delicious. Breath in the beautiful landscape and wisp of cool air-con mixed with the aromatic taste of piping hot coffee, we will realised that Its the simple things that make us happy.
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