This is bascially one store that i will never fail to visit whenever i pass my bugis junction. Even if i am real full or just have my meal, i will still grab a stick or two. Very tempting, i can say. hahaha...
This shop is more of a finger food kind of eatery rather than a main course restuarant thus given its location (directly opposite of the basement 1 food court), they can still managed to bring in quite abit of customers.
Tori Q is basically similar as our local satays but with a japanese flavour in it. Personally, i find the cooking method of the tori Q rather amusing. It is not those common kind of cooking method like frying, steaming or stiring.
They basically skew up bits and pieces of meat into individual sticks and will click each stick onto the skewer holder. The skewer holder will then complete the rest of the cooking by doing three things:
1) to cook the skewed pieces meat to its perfection
2) to rotate the meat to ensure thorough cooking
3) to dip the meat into the required sauce
Lastly, the cooked skewed meat will then be dipped into teriyaki sauce before putting on the tray for sale. I was particually impressed on how they can capture the cooking time of the meat soo accuratly. Imagine each of the skew meat will be cooked after completed one cycle. Impressing issn't it?
Their varieties may not be alot but those common ones can be easily found like pork, chicken and beef. I particually like their chicken balls (chicken balls are made up of minced chicken shaped to a ball like shape).
The outer crust of the chicken ball is crispy with abit of burnt smell but the inner layer of the chicken is very juicy with the sweet marinated taste of the chicken. With the additional teriyaki sauce added to it, these chicken balls tasted extremely tasty. I can easily eat 5 sticks at one go. Go on and try them out now, you wont regret!
Was walking along orchard road and suddenly my hunger pangs strikes despite just completed my bowl of noodles. hahaha... Oh well, i decided to walk down to the takashimaya food court and see if there is something light to stop my hunger pangs yet wont be too filling for me.
Theres actually quite a good varieties of food stores selling different flavours of food. Since i just took my lunch and wasn't really interest in the main course, i did not take too much notice of them.
Just as i was thinking if there are anything light enough for me, i stumbled into this particular store. Ok, in fact i saw the long queue and decided to join in the queue thinking that the food must be good (if not who will want to queue?).
This store is called takopachi (typically japanese name) and they sells 3 flour balls for a standard price. You can actually get the entire view on how they prepare the flour balls. Seriously by looking at the way they cook their flour balls really interest me.
First, they will spread one layer of oil onto the special hot plate with lots of semicircles. Next, they will input some flour and add in some ingredients. They have only 3 types of ingredients to choose from which i think its pretty little. These ingredients include prawn, octupos and bacon plus cheese.
They will then procced to fill up the semicircles with more flour and let it cook. Once the other layer is cooked, they will start to turn the flour balls with two sticks till its cooked thoroughly. Its pretty amazing to see how they can use just two sticks and turn the flour balls so smoothly. Rather impressing i can say.
I ordered the bacan and cheese takopachi. Initially, i wanted to try out all three flavours so i asked them if i can 3 different flavours of ball instead. But they refuse to sell it to them. Disappointed.
They added some sauces (taste like mayo and teriyaki sauce) to make the flour balls taste nicer. They also added in some fish flakes which i simply loved their chewy feeling. Alas, they only give a little bit of those.
Was rather disappointed with their flour balls as their outer flour covering is super thick and i can hardly see any ingredients in there. Basically i think i am just eating flour balls. hahaha...
At the price of sdg $2 plus for 3 flour balls does not seems really worth. :(
I have been a Starhub MaxOnline user for many years too. Let's see...at least 7 years? It has been serving me really well, and it's so nice of them to increase their plans' bandwidth for free (then again, it could be that they are holding back their speed and giving us bit by bit).
I'm on the cheapest plan, mainly because I'm the only person at home using it. I don't know if upgrading my plan will help, but whenever I try SingNet at my friends' home, it feels faster. I believe it's the ping time. The same reason why online gamers swear by SingNet. But when it comes to downloading, Starhub seems to excel with really fast speeds.
All in all, I am a satisfied customer. But I do hope they will reduce their pricing. I admit I've been tempted several times to hop to SingNet due to their lower prices.
Sasa is a store known to many Singapore women. It has a wide variety of beauty products, cosmetics and fragrances. :) One stop for your beauty needs.
I read about the Nu Ren products retailing at Sasa and went there over on Monday to see if I can get my hands on the chilli hot slimming gel etc.
I walked in to a shop with 3 assistants and no other customers. It was a Monday afternoon after all. Quite awed and distracted by the array of things I proceeded to browse every shelf. This store is much smaller than the others though thus have less items.
After some time, I realised that no one has tended to me. I then remembered about my slimming gel and turned around to get the attention of the staff since I couldn't see it anywhere. The staff saw me wave but turned away! I had thought that I was imagining things so I milled around again till I saw that another staff was facing my direction and i waved... and she turned to talk to her colleague!
Ambience - cosy with warm lighting, suitable for couples/ families and large groups.
Staff - Warm, friendly, alert and have initiative
Food - Lip-smackingly delicious (list of food ordered below)
Time taken to serve - Super speed
Prices - reasonable
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My companion and I had an hour planned to have dinner at Manhattan Fish Market (MFM) yesterday. Thinking that 1 hour was sufficient, we strolled to MFM only to be confronted by a queue (on a weekday?!!) Sigh... we panicked for a bit as we had a movie in an hour. But the staff assured us that there was enough time so we lined up. We were pleasantly surprised when they handed everyone in the queue a menu so that the process of ordering will be sped up.
Amazingly we were seated in 10 minutes and had our orders taken immediately.
Our Order 2 Soups of the day - Cream of Mushroom Garlic Bread Fried Country Mushrooms Garlic Lemon Mussels Manhattan Fish & Chips Mango Juice
Seeing a full restaurant we were afraid that our food would take some time... but the soup arrived before we could whip out our camera! The soup was fine. Not diluted like some places I know. Just nice for a cream soup but it does not have additional ingredients. The garlic bread which was served just minutes after the soup was great. It was done with real garlic not just the butter kind you find at NTUC. Very tasty indeed.
The Mushrooms and Mussels came next, just 3 minutes after the bread. The Mussels came in a creamy sauce and was served with more bread for us to dip in the sauce. The mussels were fresh and the sauce was just right. Not overly creamy. The highlight was the mushrooms. At first glance, they weren't very much to look at... fried little things... but when you bite down... the mushrooms were SO JUICY! It was amazing! I love mushrooms and would definitely order them if they were available everywhere i go and this is by far the most delicious mushroom dish I've ever tasted. A Must-Order!
Then came our Fish and Chips... One look and I knew it would be good. The light batter melted in my mouth thus wasn't too thick. The fish was a light pink with great texture and no fishy smell. The fries were well seasoned, not just with salt but some other spice which I couldn't make out. And they were the thick sort which I love and were not covered in oil. A great deal at $9.90 really.
Throughout the meal, our iced water was constantly topped up and when we finally managed to whip out our camera, one of the servers magically appeared to offer to take the picture for us. They had smiles on their faces throughout despite being so busy. It was a fantastic experience.
We paid $52 for the two of us (we ordered a lot le), got out of the restaurant in 35 minutes (in good time for our movie).
** My companion was full of praises for this place and mind you he would normally reject 9 out of 10 new places we try. :) Don't I deserve something for such a fantastic review written? hehe
If you like Jazz, Jazz at southbridge is the place to go.
It is just situated above coffee bean near the underpass crossing. You could see a small door and a stairway, walk up and you will reach a beautiful and cosy hall. It really gives you a colonial ambience and the spacious environment with comtemporary interiors designs is hip yet with a tinge of history.
If you are there earlier in the evening, you might want to sit and chill with a pint of ice cold beer while enjoying the top down view watching padestrians straddle along the side walk near the river.
But if you can wait till the band starts, thats where the action really is. The band is usually made up by well known experienced musicians playing as sessionist. The house band is also made up by a group of very experienced and talented musicians. It is really good quality music while you could see the mischievous look on the musician's faces, they are only leisurely JAMMING...
Very good music i should say and wonderful ambience. Be it with clients, friends or loved ones, it is really a very good place to chill out and catch up with them. Tehe beverages are not too pricey and there is no cover charge. The snacks are very good, fresh and crunchy. You might wanna ask for more MARUKU......
Definitely a NONO for big noisy groups.....
Music so good.... It is definitely a MUST RECOMMEND.......
If you like perfume and everything else, you should come to SASA. A mini version of the beauty hall of tangs and robinsons. The carry the most glorious brands like SKII, Elizebeth Arden to HDB tai tai's brand.
The beauty of SASA is that they offer branded beauty products at value for money prices. I always love to shop at SASA, especially during the storewide sales. I realise the prices are much lower then what i can get at the duty free shop in the airport. You can buy not one but various brands of 100ml fragrances at $50.
You will be pampered for choices when you are there...
Various skin care products for your review and trial. The friendly staff can share with you their professional views and introduce you some really good products if you do not know what you are looking for. These friendly staffs are equipped with some good knowledge on skin care products and i find them of good consultation and not pushy for you to buy their products. Unlike some departmental stalls, some counter assitant are very pushy with their product range.
You can also find some really cheap and nice nail polish at SASA. Though the colour scale is not that large, but its good enough for the normal working day.
There are also some new products that you can only find in SASA. For example some Korean Beauty Care Brands, and I came across this very interesting the last time i was there. It was called soap sheets....
It looked like a oil blotting paper plastic dispenser but the paper inside are soap sheets. Really good for travellers and children. Matter of fact that oral ingestion is one of the avenue that invited most diseases, why not wash our hands with handy soap.
For good variety and prices... It is tough not to recommend....
Having a bar/cafe in the heartlands has given us another hangout other than 24hr macdonald. It was used to be beside the crocodile farm, and now it has shifted to the opposite side.
They serve side dishes, main course and desserts. Dont miss the brownie when you are there. They serve the brownie warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. Yea, it is the same as other places, but somehow, the ice cream and the brownie blend in so well in the mouth. Gotta try that!
The food is good without a doubt. My favourite in crystal jade has always been their porridge. Its a plain dish yet they can do it so well.
Sadly, the crystal jade in J8 is disappointing. On my both visits (thought we ought to give them 2nd chance), the drinks were served after the food came, and to add to our displease, we waited very long for the food. I dont mind waiting if the place was packed, but we went before the dinner crowd came.
The servers there tend to talk among themselves (right in front of us). During our 2nd visit, we could still see and hear their arguement over the food serving.
The other crystal jade i had patronised (toa payoh & suntec) has no such problems (and the restaurant size is way bigger). If you wish to dine in CJ J8, you may want to think twice.
Mala steamboat ! There are a number of shops along the same street selling similar food. And I have tried some of them, still this one is my favourite.
Firstly, the deco gives me a comfortable feel. Second, the mala soup base is good. Third, its buffet style! The waiter will pass you the menu and all you need is to indicate the no. of plates you want for that item.
The mala soup base comes with fried diced chicken. While waiting for the soup base you may savour the spicy chicken which is crispy on the outside and tender at the inside.
The waiting time (for the food) will be quite long (15, 20min) so is a better idea to order before your first serving is finished. And if you arrive when th restaurant is full, be prepared to wait for 45min to 1hr.
1=SGD 0.0587
This is bascially one store that i will never fail to visit whenever i pass my bugis junction. Even if i am real full or just have my meal, i will still grab a stick or two. Very tempting, i can say. hahaha...
This shop is more of a finger food kind of eatery rather than a main course restuarant thus given its location (directly opposite of the basement 1 food court), they can still managed to bring in quite abit of customers.
Tori Q is basically similar as our local satays but with a japanese flavour in it. Personally, i find the cooking method of the tori Q rather amusing. It is not those common kind of cooking method like frying, steaming or stiring.
They basically skew up bits and pieces of meat into individual sticks and will click each stick onto the skewer holder. The skewer holder will then complete the rest of the cooking by doing three things:
1) to cook the skewed pieces meat to its perfection
2) to rotate the meat to ensure thorough cooking
3) to dip the meat into the required sauce
Lastly, the cooked skewed meat will then be dipped into teriyaki sauce before putting on the tray for sale. I was particually impressed on how they can capture the cooking time of the meat soo accuratly. Imagine each of the skew meat will be cooked after completed one cycle. Impressing issn't it?
Their varieties may not be alot but those common ones can be easily found like pork, chicken and beef. I particually like their chicken balls (chicken balls are made up of minced chicken shaped to a ball like shape).
The outer crust of the chicken ball is crispy with abit of burnt smell but the inner layer of the chicken is very juicy with the sweet marinated taste of the chicken. With the additional teriyaki sauce added to it, these chicken balls tasted extremely tasty. I can easily eat 5 sticks at one go. Go on and try them out now, you wont regret!
Rating given:
Was walking along orchard road and suddenly my hunger pangs strikes despite just completed my bowl of noodles. hahaha... Oh well, i decided to walk down to the takashimaya food court and see if there is something light to stop my hunger pangs yet wont be too filling for me.
Theres actually quite a good varieties of food stores selling different flavours of food. Since i just took my lunch and wasn't really interest in the main course, i did not take too much notice of them.
Just as i was thinking if there are anything light enough for me, i stumbled into this particular store. Ok, in fact i saw the long queue and decided to join in the queue thinking that the food must be good (if not who will want to queue?).
This store is called takopachi (typically japanese name) and they sells 3 flour balls for a standard price. You can actually get the entire view on how they prepare the flour balls. Seriously by looking at the way they cook their flour balls really interest me.
First, they will spread one layer of oil onto the special hot plate with lots of semicircles. Next, they will input some flour and add in some ingredients. They have only 3 types of ingredients to choose from which i think its pretty little. These ingredients include prawn, octupos and bacon plus cheese.
They will then procced to fill up the semicircles with more flour and let it cook. Once the other layer is cooked, they will start to turn the flour balls with two sticks till its cooked thoroughly. Its pretty amazing to see how they can use just two sticks and turn the flour balls so smoothly. Rather impressing i can say.
I ordered the bacan and cheese takopachi. Initially, i wanted to try out all three flavours so i asked them if i can 3 different flavours of ball instead. But they refuse to sell it to them. Disappointed.
They added some sauces (taste like mayo and teriyaki sauce) to make the flour balls taste nicer. They also added in some fish flakes which i simply loved their chewy feeling. Alas, they only give a little bit of those.
Was rather disappointed with their flour balls as their outer flour covering is super thick and i can hardly see any ingredients in there. Basically i think i am just eating flour balls. hahaha...
At the price of sdg $2 plus for 3 flour balls does not seems really worth. :(
Rating given:
I have been a Starhub MaxOnline user for many years too. Let's see...at least 7 years? It has been serving me really well, and it's so nice of them to increase their plans' bandwidth for free (then again, it could be that they are holding back their speed and giving us bit by bit).
I'm on the cheapest plan, mainly because I'm the only person at home using it. I don't know if upgrading my plan will help, but whenever I try SingNet at my friends' home, it feels faster. I believe it's the ping time. The same reason why online gamers swear by SingNet. But when it comes to downloading, Starhub seems to excel with really fast speeds.
All in all, I am a satisfied customer. But I do hope they will reduce their pricing. I admit I've been tempted several times to hop to SingNet due to their lower prices.
Rating given:
Sasa is a store known to many Singapore women. It has a wide variety of beauty products, cosmetics and fragrances. :) One stop for your beauty needs.
I read about the Nu Ren products retailing at Sasa and went there over on Monday to see if I can get my hands on the chilli hot slimming gel etc.
I walked in to a shop with 3 assistants and no other customers. It was a Monday afternoon after all. Quite awed and distracted by the array of things I proceeded to browse every shelf. This store is much smaller than the others though thus have less items.
After some time, I realised that no one has tended to me. I then remembered about my slimming gel and turned around to get the attention of the staff since I couldn't see it anywhere. The staff saw me wave but turned away! I had thought that I was imagining things so I milled around again till I saw that another staff was facing my direction and i waved... and she turned to talk to her colleague!
?! I walked out then.
Rating given:
Manhattan Fish Market at PS
Ambience - cosy with warm lighting, suitable for couples/ families and large groups.
Staff - Warm, friendly, alert and have initiative
Food - Lip-smackingly delicious (list of food ordered below)
Time taken to serve - Super speed
Prices - reasonable
******************************
My companion and I had an hour planned to have dinner at Manhattan Fish Market (MFM) yesterday. Thinking that 1 hour was sufficient, we strolled to MFM only to be confronted by a queue (on a weekday?!!) Sigh... we panicked for a bit as we had a movie in an hour. But the staff assured us that there was enough time so we lined up. We were pleasantly surprised when they handed everyone in the queue a menu so that the process of ordering will be sped up.
Amazingly we were seated in 10 minutes and had our orders taken immediately.
Our Order
2 Soups of the day - Cream of Mushroom
Garlic Bread
Fried Country Mushrooms
Garlic Lemon Mussels
Manhattan Fish & Chips
Mango Juice
Seeing a full restaurant we were afraid that our food would take some time... but the soup arrived before we could whip out our camera! The soup was fine. Not diluted like some places I know. Just nice for a cream soup but it does not have additional ingredients. The garlic bread which was served just minutes after the soup was great. It was done with real garlic not just the butter kind you find at NTUC. Very tasty indeed.
The Mushrooms and Mussels came next, just 3 minutes after the bread. The Mussels came in a creamy sauce and was served with more bread for us to dip in the sauce. The mussels were fresh and the sauce was just right. Not overly creamy. The highlight was the mushrooms. At first glance, they weren't very much to look at... fried little things... but when you bite down... the mushrooms were SO JUICY! It was amazing! I love mushrooms and would definitely order them if they were available everywhere i go and this is by far the most delicious mushroom dish I've ever tasted. A Must-Order!
Then came our Fish and Chips... One look and I knew it would be good. The light batter melted in my mouth thus wasn't too thick. The fish was a light pink with great texture and no fishy smell. The fries were well seasoned, not just with salt but some other spice which I couldn't make out. And they were the thick sort which I love and were not covered in oil. A great deal at $9.90 really.
Throughout the meal, our iced water was constantly topped up and when we finally managed to whip out our camera, one of the servers magically appeared to offer to take the picture for us. They had smiles on their faces throughout despite being so busy. It was a fantastic experience.
We paid $52 for the two of us (we ordered a lot le), got out of the restaurant in 35 minutes (in good time for our movie).
** My companion was full of praises for this place and mind you he would normally reject 9 out of 10 new places we try. :) Don't I deserve something for such a fantastic review written? hehe
Rating given:
If you like Jazz, Jazz at southbridge is the place to go.
It is just situated above coffee bean near the underpass crossing. You could see a small door and a stairway, walk up and you will reach a beautiful and cosy hall. It really gives you a colonial ambience and the spacious environment with comtemporary interiors designs is hip yet with a tinge of history.
If you are there earlier in the evening, you might want to sit and chill with a pint of ice cold beer while enjoying the top down view watching padestrians straddle along the side walk near the river.
But if you can wait till the band starts, thats where the action really is. The band is usually made up by well known experienced musicians playing as sessionist. The house band is also made up by a group of very experienced and talented musicians. It is really good quality music while you could see the mischievous look on the musician's faces, they are only leisurely JAMMING...
Very good music i should say and wonderful ambience. Be it with clients, friends or loved ones, it is really a very good place to chill out and catch up with them. Tehe beverages are not too pricey and there is no cover charge. The snacks are very good, fresh and crunchy. You might wanna ask for more MARUKU......
Definitely a NONO for big noisy groups.....
Music so good.... It is definitely a MUST RECOMMEND.......
Rating given:
If you like perfume and everything else, you should come to SASA. A mini version of the beauty hall of tangs and robinsons. The carry the most glorious brands like SKII, Elizebeth Arden to HDB tai tai's brand.
The beauty of SASA is that they offer branded beauty products at value for money prices. I always love to shop at SASA, especially during the storewide sales. I realise the prices are much lower then what i can get at the duty free shop in the airport. You can buy not one but various brands of 100ml fragrances at $50.
You will be pampered for choices when you are there...
Various skin care products for your review and trial. The friendly staff can share with you their professional views and introduce you some really good products if you do not know what you are looking for. These friendly staffs are equipped with some good knowledge on skin care products and i find them of good consultation and not pushy for you to buy their products. Unlike some departmental stalls, some counter assitant are very pushy with their product range.
You can also find some really cheap and nice nail polish at SASA. Though the colour scale is not that large, but its good enough for the normal working day.
There are also some new products that you can only find in SASA. For example some Korean Beauty Care Brands, and I came across this very interesting the last time i was there. It was called soap sheets....
It looked like a oil blotting paper plastic dispenser but the paper inside are soap sheets. Really good for travellers and children. Matter of fact that oral ingestion is one of the avenue that invited most diseases, why not wash our hands with handy soap.
For good variety and prices... It is tough not to recommend....
Rating given:
Having a bar/cafe in the heartlands has given us another hangout other than 24hr macdonald. It was used to be beside the crocodile farm, and now it has shifted to the opposite side.
They serve side dishes, main course and desserts. Dont miss the brownie when you are there. They serve the brownie warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. Yea, it is the same as other places, but somehow, the ice cream and the brownie blend in so well in the mouth. Gotta try that!
Rating given:
The food is good without a doubt. My favourite in crystal jade has always been their porridge. Its a plain dish yet they can do it so well.
Sadly, the crystal jade in J8 is disappointing. On my both visits (thought we ought to give them 2nd chance), the drinks were served after the food came, and to add to our displease, we waited very long for the food. I dont mind waiting if the place was packed, but we went before the dinner crowd came.
The servers there tend to talk among themselves (right in front of us). During our 2nd visit, we could still see and hear their arguement over the food serving.
The other crystal jade i had patronised (toa payoh & suntec) has no such problems (and the restaurant size is way bigger). If you wish to dine in CJ J8, you may want to think twice.
Rating given:
Mala steamboat ! There are a number of shops along the same street selling similar food. And I have tried some of them, still this one is my favourite.
Firstly, the deco gives me a comfortable feel. Second, the mala soup base is good. Third, its buffet style! The waiter will pass you the menu and all you need is to indicate the no. of plates you want for that item.
The mala soup base comes with fried diced chicken. While waiting for the soup base you may savour the spicy chicken which is crispy on the outside and tender at the inside.
The waiting time (for the food) will be quite long (15, 20min) so is a better idea to order before your first serving is finished. And if you arrive when th restaurant is full, be prepared to wait for 45min to 1hr.
Soup base is charged separately.
Rating given: