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We went on a Friday afternoon, after we finished lunch at another outlet. But the place is still about one-third full (some other restaurants are already near empty by that time).
Our orders were clearly targeted at their desserts – and they have A LOT of choices!! Their edge over other dessert place is that they used a lot of the Japanese-style ingredients, like the gyuhi (coloured glutinous rice cake) and the shiratama (chewy white glutinous rice ball). The other Japanese restaurants tend to either not have as many types of ingredients, or they only offer limited combination choices.
We had 2 ice-cream orders and 1 red bean paste order. The red bean paste order is a cold dish!! with green tea ice-cream and the shiratama and it looks appetising with the 3-colours. The 2 ice-cream orders had different themes and came with slightly different combination of ingredients. For me, I do not like my ice-cream or pastry to be green-tea flavor, so this place is great for me – some Japanese restaurants only serve green-tea (mocha) ice-cream.
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On the wedding day, the restaurant engaged part-timers (the aunties or probably already grannies) to ensure there’s sufficient waitress to serve every table. But from the way they serve our food, we can tell that they had a lot of experience and they were serving us with a welcoming mind. For the pre-wedding food tasting and post-wedding usage of the paid but unutilized tables, it was their foreign waiters who served us, and they were also served us diligently.
The location of this restaurant is also good, just a stone throw away from the Paya Lebar MRT. Although it is not a popular shopping area, so when we went for the pre-wedding and post-wedding, they do not have much walk-in customers.
They have 2 halls, one big and one small. The small one should be enough for most wedding couples nowadays, where it can fit around 20 tables (200 pax), although if another couple happen to pick the same day and uses the big hall, then your guest will have to make their way though the side of the big hall, to get to the small hall – it can get a bit confusing.
On the food, the price includes free-flow soft drinks, beer, wine and whisky, and with the tasty decently-sized food, we definitely find it worth the money paid.
Lobster cold dish = we did get a decent serving of the lobster and abalone (or is that some other shellfish?).
Shark’s fins soup = it came with a big piece of shark’s fins and after the waitress helped served it into bowls, each of us had a good piece in the bowl (see photo).
Fish = I’m not sure what’s the name, but it definitely did not have a fishy taste.
Prawns = We tried the cornflakes style (but didn’t picked it for the wedding dinner) as well as the boiled style (see photo), and we definitely find it fresh, just as the manager told us they only use live prawns.
Duck = we had herbal roasted duck, where the skin is still crispy, although the herbal taste was negligible and we could only use the little herbal soup in the plate to add to the taste.
Chicken = Not many wedding banquet could serve nice roasted chicken but this restaurant did it well, where the skin was crispy and the meat was still fairly tender (thou not perfect).
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30 Jul 2012 at 4:11 pm
What puzzled me is that when we order certain dishes that comes with vegetables, they couldn’t served as they said that “the vegetables are sold out”. No broccoli, no spinach. Ended up the Egg Spinach dish in our set meal had to be cooked with another vegetable that totally cannot create the same effect as spinach in the wet-style dish. The reason they gave us was that lunch was good business and the vegetables finished – how does the chef and floor manager of this outlet do their judgement how much ingredients to order?? It’s only 7pm and we are probably the earlier dinner batch – are they going to tell the later dinner batch that they have run out of all ingredients already?
After we finished our main food, we asked for the complimentary dessert in our set meal to be served. But our intention was to place more orders afterwards, both cooked dishes and other dessert. But even before the complimentary dessert is served, the staff already started to collect away our plates, bowls and even chopsticks!! The staff just blast out the request in one second and the next second the cutlery just got “snatched” away. My mum couldn’t even respond fast enough to stop them. I can understand their purpose – to chase us away so that the next table can come in. But don’t they realize that before they start this action, they should first ask if we want to order again – and give us time to say Yes or No! So, we stop them from taking more cutlery away, and “stubbornly” continue to order 2 more dishes.
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There's another private Japanese language school that I know. In comparison, that school require 14 months of 3 hours per week (not counting the breaks in between each 2-month class) to prepare you for JLPT N4 test (2nd level out of 5 levels) but JCS needs 2 full year (including mid-year and year-end) of 2 hours per week (or 1 year if you go for intensive class of 4 hours per week). But the fees are wide apart too - JCS only $1.2k while that private school is $1.8k.
JCS also organise conversational class and other Jap class (eg preparatory class for JLPT) on non-regular intervals. So if you have more than $1.2k to spare, those classes will help you more towards understanding the language. Or you can also just go for those classes instead of the standard year-long lessons (5-year syallabus).
JCS has mainly lady Japanese teachers. Singaporean teachers form a minority - I do not know about the other private Japanese language schools, but personally I like JCS's availablility of non-native speaker teachers, as I feel it is easier for a beginner to learn from a non-native speaker, as they tend to appreciate your difficulties better and thus can explain the language in a way better for you to understand.
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!I used to learn from a native teacher... wooh! took me so long to get used to her speaking english... before i could understand her japanese teaching!
23 Jul 2012 at 7:47 am
I tried asking a few native speaker teachers when I don't understand, and not all can explain well in English. Either is their English problem, or they just don't understand my problem!
23 Jul 2012 at 9:23 am
I went at 11am on a weekday and yet there is already other customer at Level 1 waiting to buy their products. Guess it was ready a clever idea of Jean Yip to have this all-in-one building so customers can do some retail purchase (of their house brand shampoo etc) while getting there for treatments (massage etc).
It was yet another free invitation that brought me to try out the hair treatment at this outlet of Oriental Hair Solution. The outlet is located on the 3rd floor of this building and they have the elevator in the building to serve the 7-storey building. But probably restricted by the building shape and size, the outlet looks small with all the partition created across the floor, in order to create more treatment seats. On a different tone, it makes the outlet looks less deserted when it is empty (I’m probably the only customer at that time).
The staff gave short explanation of the different products used during my treatment, probably due to me being a “first-timer” to this outlet. But I must say that Jean Yip is not doing a proper job in managing cross-brands, as the consultant (who was trying to sell me packages) do not know what are the hair treatment products sold by Jean Yip. They should know, in order to emphasis the “good” of this Oriental Hair Solution brand, as compared to their own sister brand.
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