Heard a lot about this place ( word of mouth recommendation ) and decided to check out last weekend.
Being kiasu, we went there at 5pm and were at the car park cruising for a lot when we realized that there was already a short queue at the side of the coffee shop.
When we started to queue, we saw that almost all tables were taken up. Some of the diners were staring at us with mouthful of bee hoon and every table has ordered at least one version of cooking the crabs.
We waited about half hour before we were handed the menu and advised to order while waiting for a table. We chose the highly recommended claypot crab with bee hoon , butter crabs, tapioca leaves fried in sambal and chicken meat wrapped in otah.
The butter crabs were first to be served and at one glance, we wondered whether we made the right choice instead of the usual black pepper or chillie crabs. The crabs were covered with this yellowish cream and decorated with two small corianders. But dipping one small man tou ( deep fried bun ) into the sauce and hmm…the strong butter gravy fried with curry leaves was fantastically sinful but delicious. A class of its own..
The fried tapioca leaves were superb spicy and goes well with the rice. Next, fried chicken meat thinly sliced with otah stuffed in the middle. It was crispy and the combination blended well too.
The main star attraction - claypot bee hoon was finally served. The buttery taste of the soup was unique and flooded with sweetness from the crabs. We totally enjoyed the crabs as they were meaty and surprisingly very fresh and juicy.
Met with friends for buffet lunch at Amirah's Grill at Bussorah Street, its first restaurant.
The daily lunch buffet costs S$9.90 per person. The buffet choices were spiced chicken, fish cooked in gravy (great), beef (tender and delicious), 2 soups (yummy), fragrant rice, steamed white rice, salad, fruits (not sweet), 2 sweet dessert (really teeth-dropping sweet!).
I prefer its ala carte menu. The prices have increased. Love its Lebanese Hummus and warm pita bread! Must try, ok!
I love this little restaurant. I'm thinking of booking this whole restaurant for a Middle-eastern birthday party for myself! All my guests will have to dress up .... ladies in veils and display their belly buttons. hahaha......
14 Bussorah Street Singapore 199435 Tel : 6344 1610
I chanced upon this fun museum on Easter Sunday in Kampong Glam. It was so fun fooling around with the exhibits and taking photos. One of the owners, Harold demonstrated many games and played with us. hahaha.... some kids were amused with these 3 middle-aged grown-up kids!
Remember goli, gasing, bottle caps battles, guns and spinners made using ice-cream sticks? In the old days, many families didn't have much money to spend on toys for their children, so the kids have to create and make their own. The toys entertained them and their friends for hours and years!
Seeing these toys brought me fond memories of my childhood. I'm going to bring my brothers and their families here to have fun.
Go check it out!
S$2 entrance fee per person to cover cost for maintaining the museum. The owners have their full time jobs and it's opened during their lunch breaks (11 am to 2pm) and after work on weekdays..... and on weekends.
I have been to this restaurant a few times and have quite enjoyed the buffet spread during weekends. The variety is wide. Not many places offer vegetarian Dim Sum and this is the place where I could find that offers it.
Portions are bite size so that you get to try out all the food. There are 3 types of soup. The must-try food would be the handroll as they do run out of ingredients sometimes due to the high demand.
This place doesn't just offer the typical bee hoon or fried tofu that is often seen in coffee shops or hawker centre. It offers variety that is less seen.
Price-wise, it's affordable for special occasions. It's recommended to make a booking if there are more than 8 people going.
Went for a small break there while waiting for our movie to start. Wasn't quite hungry so I only ordered the "Ying Yong" (coffee tea) but its too milky for my likes. I prefer my Ying Yong to have stronger taste of tea. The lychee tea tasted great though. With a generous helping of lychee in it. Thick taste of tea.
We also ordered the mango ice. Which was really enormous. Disappointed though as the mango ice here wasn't that great. The ice shavings although great in portion, was not fine enough or pack tight enough. Though we do like the generous helping of mango pieces and jelly.
My friend ordered the "Bo Luo Bao" which she claimed to be very nice. I took a bite and felt it tasted so so. Perhaps I should have eaten it with the butter that came with it. However I do like the way the bun was treated. Real crispy.
Should go and try out other items in the extensive menu next time.
Clean and spacious were the first thoughts that came to me when I first walk into this outlet.
We thought Pastamania changed their system of ordering when we can't find the small small booklet menu on the table. Turned out that they changed their menu to bigger booklets. No one seems to offer us the menu so we just took it from the side table ourselves.
Ordered my usual Mediterranean pasta and garlic bread. The same things I will always order at other outlets. I was way disappointed though as the pasta looked dry and tasted salty and a bit too oily. Only the Garlic bread stayed as tasty and crispy.
My other friends ordered 3 srooms pizza and meat lover pizza. Both were tasted too salty and we had a hard time finishing both pizzas.
I'm not sure whether it pertains to this particular outlets as I went to the one at Causeway point like 2 months before and the quality of food was really great.
Sony Ericsson has vastly improved their quality and standards of their range of phones in recent years since their merger. But it hasn't been the same for the service center.
Located on level 4 of Isetan Wisma, this has to be the place that most users would head to as it is situated in town (the other 2 being situated in Toh Guan and East Point).
Having been a user of SE till now, it is of common nature that phones do become faulty at times. Been there a couple of times and the queue for servicing is horrible. Even though there are many service counters, the average waiting time is about 1-2 hours. (ironically, the fastest time I experienced was 10 minutes)
Shows are shown on TV to keep the customers entertained, but it doesn’t help if they keep playing the same old Mr Bean cartoon over and over again. The displays for their range of phones are not well maintained, being dusty and not updated regularly.
The only good I can say is that they do provide a SMS service which will inform you when it is reaching your queue number. But still, waiting time is horrendous. Of course, collection of phone is a breeze to be fair. (it’s a killer if I still have to wait another 2 hours to collect!)
I remember when TV Mobile first started, I was very disturbed. It was not properly set up and the whole system wasn't stable yet. I don't usually sleep on the bus but I find having some quiet time useful so it isn't really a boon.
At some places, TV mobile will tend to lag and freeze at certain scenes. Occasionally it would leave the actors/actresses in an ugly pose which will send me giggling. People probably think I'm weird then.
Now I think they've lowered the volume and ask people to tune in from the radio station if they wish to hear. But It's kinda like bring your own entertainment isn't it? I think it really defeats its purpose at times. Also very few people carry portable radios these days.
Nonetheless I always enjoy it when the Gags show up. That's my favourite. And I think lots of people enjoy watching it as it usually sends many people into peals of laughter.
TV mobile has a long way to go... meanwhile.. it's back to good ol' MP3.
Went to TCC @ Peranakan Place on Good Friday. Although it was a public holiday, there were only 2 waitress there. The place wasn't like crowded, but it took them some 20 minutes to attend to us.
We went to the couch area right inside the store, and there was something about the air-con. It was blowing exhaust gas from the kitchen! I swear it smelled of onion. Poor us got ourselves (hair clothes) absorbing the pungent smell.
Hua Xia Tai Mao Bi is a little shop in KK hospital which makes chinese brushes from children's hair. Newborns between 3 to 15 mths are brought to the shop to have their hair shaved off and made into chinese brushes for keeps.
I went with my friend's newborn that day and the lady patiently explained the process and let my friend choose the brush she wanted. They had quite a wide range,from fine ones to thicker ones. There were some with more intricate designs and others with simple paintings on them. The cheapest brush was $49 and the most expensive was $500 , I think.
Well the lady was quite gentle with my friend's 3 month old boy while shaving his head. He didn't cry at all and even fell asleep. He had plenty of hair so my friend chose 2 brushes.
The lady kept the enough to make the 2 brushes and returned my friend the rest. They had to go back 1 month later to collect the brushes. I was wondering to myself... how one would know whose hair was on the brush they made. Just purely based on trust I suppose.
Well the brushes DO NOT come in boxes and you have to purchase boxes too... which are slightly over $100...
The total for 2 brushes and a boxes to put both brushes in was $600.. which is a hefty sum I must say... I seriously don't think I would be spending this sort of money.
But I would have to give the lady credit for being so patient and providing such good service. Apparently Zoe Tay had her brushes done there too!
1=SGD 0.0587
Heard a lot about this place ( word of mouth recommendation ) and decided to check out last weekend.
Being kiasu, we went there at 5pm and were at the car park cruising for a lot when we realized that there was already a short queue at the side of the coffee shop.
When we started to queue, we saw that almost all tables were taken up. Some of the diners were staring at us with mouthful of bee hoon and every table has ordered at least one version of cooking the crabs.
We waited about half hour before we were handed the menu and advised to order while waiting for a table. We chose the highly recommended claypot crab with bee hoon , butter crabs, tapioca leaves fried in sambal and chicken meat wrapped in otah.
The butter crabs were first to be served and at one glance, we wondered whether we made the right choice instead of the usual black pepper or chillie crabs. The crabs were covered with this yellowish cream and decorated with two small corianders. But dipping one small man tou ( deep fried bun ) into the sauce and hmm…the strong butter gravy fried with curry leaves was fantastically sinful but delicious. A class of its own..
The fried tapioca leaves were superb spicy and goes well with the rice. Next, fried chicken meat thinly sliced with otah stuffed in the middle. It was crispy and the combination blended well too.
The main star attraction - claypot bee hoon was finally served. The buttery taste of the soup was unique and flooded with sweetness from the crabs. We totally enjoyed the crabs as they were meaty and surprisingly very fresh and juicy.
All in all, this place is worth the wait…
Rating given:
Met with friends for buffet lunch at Amirah's Grill at Bussorah Street, its first restaurant.
The daily lunch buffet costs S$9.90 per person. The buffet choices were spiced chicken, fish cooked in gravy (great), beef (tender and delicious), 2 soups (yummy), fragrant rice, steamed white rice, salad, fruits (not sweet), 2 sweet dessert (really teeth-dropping sweet!).
I prefer its ala carte menu. The prices have increased. Love its Lebanese Hummus and warm pita bread! Must try, ok!
I love this little restaurant. I'm thinking of booking this whole restaurant for a Middle-eastern birthday party for myself! All my guests will have to dress up .... ladies in veils and display their belly buttons. hahaha......
14 Bussorah Street
Singapore 199435
Tel : 6344 1610
Rating given:
I chanced upon this fun museum on Easter Sunday in Kampong Glam. It was so fun fooling around with the exhibits and taking photos. One of the owners, Harold demonstrated many games and played with us. hahaha.... some kids were amused with these 3 middle-aged grown-up kids!
Remember goli, gasing, bottle caps battles, guns and spinners made using ice-cream sticks? In the old days, many families didn't have much money to spend on toys for their children, so the kids have to create and make their own. The toys entertained them and their friends for hours and years!
Seeing these toys brought me fond memories of my childhood. I'm going to bring my brothers and their families here to have fun.
Go check it out!
S$2 entrance fee per person to cover cost for maintaining the museum. The owners have their full time jobs and it's opened during their lunch breaks (11 am to 2pm) and after work on weekdays..... and on weekends.
Rating given:
I have been to this restaurant a few times and have quite enjoyed the buffet spread during weekends. The variety is wide. Not many places offer vegetarian Dim Sum and this is the place where I could find that offers it.
Portions are bite size so that you get to try out all the food. There are 3 types of soup. The must-try food would be the handroll as they do run out of ingredients sometimes due to the high demand.
This place doesn't just offer the typical bee hoon or fried tofu that is often seen in coffee shops or hawker centre. It offers variety that is less seen.
Price-wise, it's affordable for special occasions. It's recommended to make a booking if there are more than 8 people going.
Rating given:
Went for a small break there while waiting for our movie to start. Wasn't quite hungry so I only ordered the "Ying Yong" (coffee tea) but its too milky for my likes. I prefer my Ying Yong to have stronger taste of tea. The lychee tea tasted great though. With a generous helping of lychee in it. Thick taste of tea.
We also ordered the mango ice. Which was really enormous. Disappointed though as the mango ice here wasn't that great. The ice shavings although great in portion, was not fine enough or pack tight enough. Though we do like the generous helping of mango pieces and jelly.
My friend ordered the "Bo Luo Bao" which she claimed to be very nice. I took a bite and felt it tasted so so. Perhaps I should have eaten it with the butter that came with it. However I do like the way the bun was treated. Real crispy.
Should go and try out other items in the extensive menu next time.
Rating given:
Clean and spacious were the first thoughts that came to me when I first walk into this outlet.
We thought Pastamania changed their system of ordering when we can't find the small small booklet menu on the table. Turned out that they changed their menu to bigger booklets. No one seems to offer us the menu so we just took it from the side table ourselves.
Ordered my usual Mediterranean pasta and garlic bread. The same things I will always order at other outlets. I was way disappointed though as the pasta looked dry and tasted salty and a bit too oily. Only the Garlic bread stayed as tasty and crispy.
My other friends ordered 3 srooms pizza and meat lover pizza. Both were tasted too salty and we had a hard time finishing both pizzas.
I'm not sure whether it pertains to this particular outlets as I went to the one at Causeway point like 2 months before and the quality of food was really great.
Rating given:
Sony Ericsson has vastly improved their quality and standards of their range of phones in recent years since their merger. But it hasn't been the same for the service center.
Located on level 4 of Isetan Wisma, this has to be the place that most users would head to as it is situated in town (the other 2 being situated in Toh Guan and East Point).
Having been a user of SE till now, it is of common nature that phones do become faulty at times. Been there a couple of times and the queue for servicing is horrible. Even though there are many service counters, the average waiting time is about 1-2 hours. (ironically, the fastest time I experienced was 10 minutes)
Shows are shown on TV to keep the customers entertained, but it doesn’t help if they keep playing the same old Mr Bean cartoon over and over again. The displays for their range of phones are not well maintained, being dusty and not updated regularly.
The only good I can say is that they do provide a SMS service which will inform you when it is reaching your queue number. But still, waiting time is horrendous. Of course, collection of phone is a breeze to be fair. (it’s a killer if I still have to wait another 2 hours to collect!)
Rating given:
I remember when TV Mobile first started, I was very disturbed. It was not properly set up and the whole system wasn't stable yet. I don't usually sleep on the bus but I find having some quiet time useful so it isn't really a boon.
At some places, TV mobile will tend to lag and freeze at certain scenes. Occasionally it would leave the actors/actresses in an ugly pose which will send me giggling. People probably think I'm weird then.
Now I think they've lowered the volume and ask people to tune in from the radio station if they wish to hear. But It's kinda like bring your own entertainment isn't it? I think it really defeats its purpose at times. Also very few people carry portable radios these days.
Nonetheless I always enjoy it when the Gags show up. That's my favourite. And I think lots of people enjoy watching it as it usually sends many people into peals of laughter.
TV mobile has a long way to go... meanwhile.. it's back to good ol' MP3.
Rating given:
Went to TCC @ Peranakan Place on Good Friday. Although it was a public holiday, there were only 2 waitress there. The place wasn't like crowded, but it took them some 20 minutes to attend to us.
We went to the couch area right inside the store, and there was something about the air-con. It was blowing exhaust gas from the kitchen! I swear it smelled of onion. Poor us got ourselves (hair clothes) absorbing the pungent smell.
bad bad experience...
Rating given:
Hua Xia Tai Mao Bi is a little shop in KK hospital which makes chinese brushes from children's hair. Newborns between 3 to 15 mths are brought to the shop to have their hair shaved off and made into chinese brushes for keeps.
I went with my friend's newborn that day and the lady patiently explained the process and let my friend choose the brush she wanted. They had quite a wide range,from fine ones to thicker ones. There were some with more intricate designs and others with simple paintings on them. The cheapest brush was $49 and the most expensive was $500 , I think.
Well the lady was quite gentle with my friend's 3 month old boy while shaving his head. He didn't cry at all and even fell asleep. He had plenty of hair so my friend chose 2 brushes.
The lady kept the enough to make the 2 brushes and returned my friend the rest. They had to go back 1 month later to collect the brushes. I was wondering to myself... how one would know whose hair was on the brush they made. Just purely based on trust I suppose.
Well the brushes DO NOT come in boxes and you have to purchase boxes too... which are slightly over $100...
The total for 2 brushes and a boxes to put both brushes in was $600.. which is a hefty sum I must say... I seriously don't think I would be spending this sort of money.
But I would have to give the lady credit for being so patient and providing such good service. Apparently Zoe Tay had her brushes done there too!
Rating given: