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I think what we need more is to define to the wider audience, what is not allowable especially on the little ones: like eating a candy, drinking bottled water.... Otherwise, it will just become SMRT getting more income from fines while paying more salaries by engaging more staff (I believe are the retirees/housewife/part-timers, who now have 1 more option than just McDonalds...), and only those, who are caught / who are there when someone else gets caught, gets to really remember....
But there is indeed a good benefit by having more staff around to enforce the fine, as they can double-up to provide any immediate help to the passenger. Currently at the busy stations like Raffles Place and City Hall, we already see more service staff (with their striking red uniform and white gloves) at the platform guiding people to move to the non-busier doors or asking people to give way to outcoming passengers.
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I went near their closing time, and other than reminding me about their last order time, they looked quite happy to serve me even at that late time. It gave me a good feeling as I have my dinner.
We ordered the Steamed Soup Bun, a drunken chicken, a tofu with preserved veg, and a rice ball wine (dessert). The drunken chicken has a relatively stronger wine smell and is served colder than cool – I like it, but don’t think it fits most Singaporean’s choice. For the tofu, it was smooth and cut thinly (1cm) and the preserved veg (with some not-very-spicy chilli bits) is layed on top of the tofu – again, I doubt it fits most Singaporean’s choice. For the Steamed Soup Bun, other than the fun part of drinking the soup from the straw, I actually don’t find it good. I couldn’t make heads or tail of what was the content, as it looked more of veg than of meat. And because the dumpling skin was put in a wide but low bamboo bowl with a piece of veg as the base, I had a hard time trying to pull the dumpling skin away from the bamboo bowl and veg. Or is it meant for me to only drink the soup and eat the fillings?
Guess I will still go back for a least once, since I only picked those “special" items this time round. I saw that they still have noodles, rice and other meat dishes on their menu. And of course, the xiao long bao to give it a try.
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Our orders for the night was crayfish thai green laksa and thai green curry with rice. My laksa was alright, although I thought the green laksa was a bit hotter (just a bit) than the usual green curry I have elsewhere (maybe that's the diff between green laksa and green curry). And they really put the chilli (thick ones) slices into the laksa.
When we finish, one of the staff saw us looking at the promotion signs on the table and intro to us, their inhouse promotion card. It actually allows 10% discount of your meals, on the day you buy the card, along with a few vouchers for subsequent use. What a good deal, if we had come in a big gang.
Oh, the place was big, so although the place looks packed, we could still get a seat fairly easy despite a queue of 3-5 tables before us.
The prices were affordable, but for the feel and decor of the place (more of students hangout place) and the food ingredients, I do think it is a little overpriced.
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11 Jul 2009 at 8:08 pm
We could tell that the staff who took our order, really knows his work. As he could flip (in the dim lounge light) to the right pages of the menu as we asked if they have cocktails etc. The menu is really a lot of choices.
Although I thought it strange for him to politely tell me that they might take a few minutes as they need to freshly squeeze the fruits/veg for the cocktail. For a while, I thought that was going to be a long wait, but it was actually only really a few minutes.
The food was really expensive... For a plate of 6 small springrolls, that cost me $18 before svc charge and tax... although they use foie gras (duck) as the ingredient.... there's a taste in the springrolls, which some may not like...
I also find the cocktails to be fairly expensive, at around $20.... especially given the low alcohol content of it.... But I must say they care enough to put in the many choices....
If you are looking for a place for Friday cosy night, then this is not a bad one, but be careful for your wallet....
By the way, they were testing the lights for the F1 Marina Bay seating gallery when we were there (we could see the lights pole, although at first I thought we were near to the floating platform and they are testing the lights for NDP). We were sitting on the inner side of the lounge, so not sure if this lounge can give a good view of the F1 track.
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Food wise, it wasn't much of a good spread as what we were expecting. Other than the prawns, baby lobster, oyster, dessert, the rest looks non-impressive. It seems more like a normal buffet spread, with more Asian than International. There wasn't even satay which we heard they should have.
Even the asian food, it's not impressing. I only saw roast duck once during the 1 hr I was there, while most of the others look just normal home cooked food. For Jap, there was salmon (smoked & raw) and a little bit of sushi. But no cold noodles or anything more.
To me, their impressive part was having live prawns in a tank, in front of one of the serving counter. And that, was for the drunken prawns with herbal soup. But it doesn't seem to be attracting a long queue, either for its cruelty or because it doesn't suit the patrons who went for a "Friday night buffet at Orchard Rd hotel".
On the drinks, I didn't really get it at first, as my group only took juice. But it seems that can drinks and beer/wine is also included in the buffet menu, as they are placed at a corner where I didn't see them.
On the dessert, there was ice cream (or was it sorbet) which I was too full and didn't try. But the cakes / dessert was not bad, where I tried one with alcohol in it. They also had almond jelly and qian cao jelly.
At the end, there was a little confusion, as the staff didn't count our attendance at the start and hence we had a little dispute over how many "heads" / "chairs" we had. As we had a big gang (near to 30) and we came at several batches (nearly 1 to 2 hour between the first and the last), the staff wanted to count the number of chairs in our area and assume that to be the number of persons in our group. Although in the end they did take our count and didn't charge us exact heads.
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