This is one of my favourite indian food store for roti prata and teh tarik! Mainly because it is near me and my buddy's home and the roti prata here is pretty nice. But it is usually very crowded and smokers probably won't like this place, as there are only two smoking tables out of the many tables there.
Very unique wild mushroom steamboat. This restaurant specialized in top quality and unique types of mushrooms not available in Singapore. Restaurant has a quiet n nice ambiance.The soup is clear n not not oily at all. Comes in set lunch n dinner. Prices from $26.80 to $36.80 . Other than mushrooms n vegetables, the sets includes poultry such as beef, pork, lamb, chicken n fish. One of the set is suitable for vegetarian also. A must try is the Mushroom Treasure Rice, superb yummy!
Biz Owner: A great fashion buy for all ladies who love dresses. Milly Walker has been receiving great feedbacks from buyers. The quality are good and designs are trendy and stylish. New arrivals are updated bi-weekly and prices are extremely affordable. Postage is free even for SALE items. Each design is very limited and comes only one or two pieces. Milly Walker selects the apparels personally to make sure the quality and uniqueness is there. Visit www.millywalker.blogspot.com today!
We all hear so much about the Swedish meatballs and, well basically Ikea Tampines' restaurant. What about it being bigger, with more tables and food and stuff. Well, I really don't know if it really is that great after all.
To begin with, I must say that they put their creativity into good use when thinking of how to make dining more convenient. As it happens for many when ordering food, usually one tray is not enough to hold all our plates and Ikea has a solution to this. If we can use trolley when shopping for groceries, why not the same for food? With it being my first time there, I was really impressed by the three-tier trolley.
To make dining more enjoyable, Ikea has kindly offered to push your trolleys back for you after you've ordered your food. However, I feel that the place is shorthanded and there are constantly trolleys around that gets in the way.
So, after getting a table, I went to order my food. Despite the horribly long queue, I was surprised to be out of it real soon. The concept of taking your own food and having to make minimum orders was quite a smart idea as the queue moves faster this way.
I ordered their Spaghetti with meatballs ($7 ) and a poached salmon ($6.50). Price sounds fine, but I must say the servings are really small and the quality of the food is not that great after all. The meatballs are actually.. no big deal. It does not go well with the spaghetti, and it does not have any unique taste (or so I was expecting). Kinda overrated I'd say. The side dish for the salmon was bad, literally. The broccoli looked like some withering old plant (you won't want to see it, what more eat it); the potato was really hard.
Having to wait 20min for a table just for this (apart from the free flow of drinks that could be a plus point).. nah, not worth it..
Tired of wearing the same old outfit once every 3 days? Trying to find ways and means to spice up your dull fashion sense?
Look no further! www.sophistix.net is here to help! I first came across this website when a friend introduced it to me. Being a UK14 (plus sized), I am always thrilled to find online stores that cater sizes XL and above.
To my pleasant surprise, So[phis]tiX stocks up on unique casual wear and sizes go up to 3XL for most styles! I quickly browsed through the website and found many designs that I love.
The products include shorts, pants, jackets, casual seperates (my favourite section with lots of VESTS!), skirts and tops.
No trouble about sizing because the owner of So[phis]tiX usually put up the exact measurements of the piece of clothing on the product page for better guaging!
I couldn't wait further for someone to share purchase with me - becuase there's free shipping (within Singapore) for orders abover $50.
I added an item - Alice Shrug - to my cart after signing up for an account. The confirmation email came really promptly and soon I was discussing payment details with the owner, Prab.
Prab was very very friendly and polite in her email replies. She did not hesitate to answer all my queries & doubts on the item I chose as afterall, this is my first time purchasing from this site!
After paying (via fund transfer), Prab took down my address and the package was sent to me via a courier - flat rate of $4 for postage.
I loved the shrug alot as it looks exactly like the picture given on the website and the measurements were accurate.
Overall, I had a wonderful experience purchasing from this website. I would love to share it with my friends and I hope to purchase more in the future! :D
Ever since they moved to the heritage building in Chinatown, I have not paid them a visit till the beginning of this July. I've always been to their East Coast branch a few years back for family dinners and gathering. I vividly remember always going there for their anniversary special peiking duck!
This time round, my family brought me there for my 19th birthday and Spring Court was having their 78th Anniversary promotion - the 78cents peiking duck with every $78 spent.
We booked a table 2 days in advance and although we arrived just about 10 minutes later than our booked time, we had to wait for about 15 minutes before getting our table. Their reception area was so small and squeezy.
There were only 2 chairs available for sitting (while waiting) and I quickly got my grandparents to sit down because I was afraid it would be quite a long wait.
The crowd was really good, many big families were coming and leaving as we waited at the lift lobby for our table. Soon enough, we were asked to go up to the 3rd level as our table was ready.
The ambience was really very traditional, I love seeing big families eating together and having so much good time together!
We ordered these dishes:
- Spring Onion w/ Ginger Deer Meat
- Spring Onion w/ Ginger Fish Fillet
- Veggies (I forgot the name of our dish!)
- Yam Ring
- & of course, the Peiking Duck
The spring onion with ginger dishes were a huge disappointment! :( When the dishes came, all I could see was spring onions! The deer meat was served on an oval-shaped hotplate but the meat barely occupied half the hotplate...
However, the Yam Ring was crispy and light - not too sweet and the shrimps were really crunchy! I love the taste of yam with cashew nuts!
The bonus for us - 78 cents peiking duck was nice & crispy (oily too). I really enjoyed it cos it's not everyday that I get to eat peiking duck. The duck meat was chopped (additional charge of $5 to use their knife -_-) and I ate it with lots of sweet sauce.
The bill came up to $119 for 6 persons, quite reasonable I would say for a reputable restaurant like Spring Court. However, my parents commented that it would be more worthwhile to eat Tze Char at normal coffee shops (where we could easily get equally good or better food) because we paid more than $20 for peanuts, tea & wet towels, haha!
Chapter 2 has a concept which is very different from other hair salons.
Firstly, they have lockers for you to place your bags in! You do not have to worry that your stuffs might get missing when you have to move upstairs for your hair services!
They have categorised their stylists into 3 different categories, which means you can choose 3 different stylist to do your cutting, colouring, perming/rebonding! And all these takes place at different levels!
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I went for a trim for my permed hair recently and was served by Celeste. very friendly and chirpy lady! She spent a longer time styling my hair than cutting, and my hair looks like just permed even though its only a trim!
After picking up my friend from the airport, the group of 8 of us were practically starving and running around the Airport for food.
Fish N Co Caught our eye and tummies the moment we saw the outlet. Very nicely renovated! But since it is near Dinner time, there is a long queue, or should i say alot of scattered food patrons waiting for their turn outside.
After a short discussion, we decided to let our taste buds make the decision instead of our growling tummies. Everyone's yearning for the seafood platter!
We were told that it was a 1 hour wait. And fair enough, everyone was waiting and everywhere has long queues. So we parked ourselfs at the railings and waited.
After like 30 mins of waiting, we see a family of 4 just arrived, creating a scene at the reception. The tai tai demanded for a seat first, as her kids are hungry. Well, there is like almost 20 hungry patrons standing outside staring at them. Who's hungrier? And what's more, her kids are all grown up teenagers!
The poor girl at the counter was patiently telling them to wait and join the queue. And she pointed to all of us, and even showed them the waiting list of names. I think she did a good job, trying to be fair. But the family die also stand there and there is a forming queue of new customers arriving to be placed on waiting list, mostly of tourists.
Seeing that raising her voice at the poor counter girl did not help much, the typical singapore tai tai or should i say aunty? resorted to calling for the manager. And guess what the manager do? He let them have the next available table!!!! And you see the aunty smiling proudly back to her son and daughter, and the children grinning back. The husband looked pleased with his wife too. I think if my mum acted like this, i would rather starve!! throw face !!
That created quite a stir since and everyone saw what happened, including tourists. And everyone started to approach the staffs and enquire about their waiting time.
I went up to them to check how much longer do i have to wait too, and was tapped on my shoulder by a foreigner that i should join their queue to be placed on the waiting list. =.=" My name was already on the list 1 hr ago, hello...
When we finally got in the restaurant to our seats. Everyone shot murderous stares at the family, who were almost finished with their food.
On the other note, Servers were friendly and chirpy, and food was served rather fast when everyone proclaimed that we are soooooo hungry. Food tasted exceptionally good, since we are all starving. So i think it would not be fair for me to judge the food in this review.
Service by staffs : Excellent
Service by Manager: Below Average!!!!
The manager should have guts to reject that family for the next table. Because he ended up offending the rest of the waiting list.
But well, for the food, maybe i will patronise them again, when the queue is not so long!
I admit I was drawn to this cafe due to its unique name - Bakerzin. After surfing their website, it made me more determined than ever to give it a try. Thus, I dragged 5 other friends down with me to their Paragon branch for dinner!
Ok firstly we had a hard time finding the place. I had to call up Bakerzin to get directions from a staff working there. After reaching the place, I found myself disappointed with the small space of the restaurant!
They had 2 parts - An interior and exterior dining area. The interior area had only about 7 small round tables that could sit maximum of 4 people. On the outside, they cramped around 10 or so rectangular tables.
We had to join 3 tables together for the 6 of us. Menu was given to us promptly after we were seated. I observed that there were only a few waiters on duty despite the heavy traffic of customers!
Menu was not too bad, we could choose from pasta, pizzas, sandwhiches or appetisers.
We ordered:
- spaghetti with meatballs
- linguini in mushroom cream sauce
- macaroons
- fruit flavoured sodas
FIRST MISTAKE: They do not serve ice water!!!
I detests restaurants that do not serve ice water to their customers. This is an underhand way to make us order drinks from their menu!
SECOND MISTAKE: Unfriendly Service
While waiting for our food, my friends & I went to their cake display to choose our cakes for desserts. There was only ONE waiter inside the cake counter while there were 2 groups of customers choosing cakes.
The waiter was not paying attention to us. He was inside cleaning some utensils, treating us like we're invisible!
After we managed to get his attention, we ordered our cakes by pointing to him. He took what we wanted and put it on a plate after which he placed the plate on the cake display AND TURNED TO ATTEND TO OTHER CUSTOMERS.
Ugh!!! It was like leaving us hanging there!!! My friends & I were so puzzled on what to do next.. so I stretched out my hand wanting to take the plate of cakes back to our table.
However, the waiter turned to me and took the plate away from me saying "No no, we will serve it to you!". I was so embarrased after she said that! After all, it was my first time there so I did not know their service patterns.
The food was average, the cream sauce pasta was too creamy that my friends had a hard time finishing it. The meatball spaghetti I had was tasty enough to pass but not fantastic.
On the whole, I have nothing to rave about this Bakerzin branch. I would like to try their desserts in another branch though!
PS. We even took about 15mins or so to foot the bill because they were seriously short of staff!
My advice: This branch is good for a cuppa tea/coffee and some cakes. Big groups should avoid this branch as it is cramp and not suitable for group meals! :)
I finally got the chance to try this! Let me tell you, their curry puffs are really like nothing I've ever tasted. Regular curry puffs' fillings are "dry", while 1A Crispy Puffs' are filled with real curry! And the crust is absolutely fantastic!
I was never a fan of curry puffs until I tried theirs.
1=SGD 0.0587
This is one of my favourite indian food store for roti prata and teh tarik! Mainly because it is near me and my buddy's home and the roti prata here is pretty nice. But it is usually very crowded and smokers probably won't like this place, as there are only two smoking tables out of the many tables there.
In fact, I'm heading there right now! :D
Rating given:
Very unique wild mushroom steamboat. This restaurant specialized in top quality and unique types of mushrooms not available in Singapore. Restaurant has a quiet n nice ambiance.The soup is clear n not not oily at all. Comes in set lunch n dinner. Prices from $26.80 to $36.80 . Other than mushrooms n vegetables, the sets includes poultry such as beef, pork, lamb, chicken n fish. One of the set is suitable for vegetarian also. A must try is the Mushroom Treasure Rice, superb yummy!
Rating given:
Biz Owner: A great fashion buy for all ladies who love dresses. Milly Walker has been receiving great feedbacks from buyers. The quality are good and designs are trendy and stylish. New arrivals are updated bi-weekly and prices are extremely affordable. Postage is free even for SALE items. Each design is very limited and comes only one or two pieces. Milly Walker selects the apparels personally to make sure the quality and uniqueness is there.
Visit www.millywalker.blogspot.com today!
Rating given:
We all hear so much about the Swedish meatballs and, well basically Ikea Tampines' restaurant. What about it being bigger, with more tables and food and stuff. Well, I really don't know if it really is that great after all.
To begin with, I must say that they put their creativity into good use when thinking of how to make dining more convenient. As it happens for many when ordering food, usually one tray is not enough to hold all our plates and Ikea has a solution to this. If we can use trolley when shopping for groceries, why not the same for food? With it being my first time there, I was really impressed by the three-tier trolley.
To make dining more enjoyable, Ikea has kindly offered to push your trolleys back for you after you've ordered your food. However, I feel that the place is shorthanded and there are constantly trolleys around that gets in the way.
So, after getting a table, I went to order my food. Despite the horribly long queue, I was surprised to be out of it real soon. The concept of taking your own food and having to make minimum orders was quite a smart idea as the queue moves faster this way.
I ordered their Spaghetti with meatballs ($7 ) and a poached salmon ($6.50). Price sounds fine, but I must say the servings are really small and the quality of the food is not that great after all. The meatballs are actually.. no big deal. It does not go well with the spaghetti, and it does not have any unique taste (or so I was expecting). Kinda overrated I'd say. The side dish for the salmon was bad, literally. The broccoli looked like some withering old plant (you won't want to see it, what more eat it); the potato was really hard.
Having to wait 20min for a table just for this (apart from the free flow of drinks that could be a plus point).. nah, not worth it..
Rating given:
Tired of wearing the same old outfit once every 3 days? Trying to find ways and means to spice up your dull fashion sense?
Look no further! www.sophistix.net is here to help! I first came across this website when a friend introduced it to me. Being a UK14 (plus sized), I am always thrilled to find online stores that cater sizes XL and above.
To my pleasant surprise, So[phis]tiX stocks up on unique casual wear and sizes go up to 3XL for most styles! I quickly browsed through the website and found many designs that I love.
The products include shorts, pants, jackets, casual seperates (my favourite section with lots of VESTS!), skirts and tops.
No trouble about sizing because the owner of So[phis]tiX usually put up the exact measurements of the piece of clothing on the product page for better guaging!
I couldn't wait further for someone to share purchase with me - becuase there's free shipping (within Singapore) for orders abover $50.
I added an item - Alice Shrug - to my cart after signing up for an account. The confirmation email came really promptly and soon I was discussing payment details with the owner, Prab.
Prab was very very friendly and polite in her email replies. She did not hesitate to answer all my queries & doubts on the item I chose as afterall, this is my first time purchasing from this site!
After paying (via fund transfer), Prab took down my address and the package was sent to me via a courier - flat rate of $4 for postage.
I loved the shrug alot as it looks exactly like the picture given on the website and the measurements were accurate.
Overall, I had a wonderful experience purchasing from this website. I would love to share it with my friends and I hope to purchase more in the future! :D
Rating given:
Ever since they moved to the heritage building in Chinatown, I have not paid them a visit till the beginning of this July. I've always been to their East Coast branch a few years back for family dinners and gathering. I vividly remember always going there for their anniversary special peiking duck!
This time round, my family brought me there for my 19th birthday and Spring Court was having their 78th Anniversary promotion - the 78cents peiking duck with every $78 spent.
We booked a table 2 days in advance and although we arrived just about 10 minutes later than our booked time, we had to wait for about 15 minutes before getting our table. Their reception area was so small and squeezy.
There were only 2 chairs available for sitting (while waiting) and I quickly got my grandparents to sit down because I was afraid it would be quite a long wait.
The crowd was really good, many big families were coming and leaving as we waited at the lift lobby for our table. Soon enough, we were asked to go up to the 3rd level as our table was ready.
The ambience was really very traditional, I love seeing big families eating together and having so much good time together!
We ordered these dishes:
- Spring Onion w/ Ginger Deer Meat
- Spring Onion w/ Ginger Fish Fillet
- Veggies (I forgot the name of our dish!)
- Yam Ring
- & of course, the Peiking Duck
The spring onion with ginger dishes were a huge disappointment! :( When the dishes came, all I could see was spring onions! The deer meat was served on an oval-shaped hotplate but the meat barely occupied half the hotplate...
However, the Yam Ring was crispy and light - not too sweet and the shrimps were really crunchy! I love the taste of yam with cashew nuts!
The bonus for us - 78 cents peiking duck was nice & crispy (oily too). I really enjoyed it cos it's not everyday that I get to eat peiking duck. The duck meat was chopped (additional charge of $5 to use their knife -_-) and I ate it with lots of sweet sauce.
The bill came up to $119 for 6 persons, quite reasonable I would say for a reputable restaurant like Spring Court. However, my parents commented that it would be more worthwhile to eat Tze Char at normal coffee shops (where we could easily get equally good or better food) because we paid more than $20 for peanuts, tea & wet towels, haha!
Rating given:
Chapter 2 has a concept which is very different from other hair salons.
Firstly, they have lockers for you to place your bags in! You do not have to worry that your stuffs might get missing when you have to move upstairs for your hair services!
They have categorised their stylists into 3 different categories, which means you can choose 3 different stylist to do your cutting, colouring, perming/rebonding! And all these takes place at different levels!
-----------------
I went for a trim for my permed hair recently and was served by Celeste. very friendly and chirpy lady! She spent a longer time styling my hair than cutting, and my hair looks like just permed even though its only a trim!
I will try the chemical services next time!
Rating given:
After picking up my friend from the airport, the group of 8 of us were practically starving and running around the Airport for food.
Fish N Co Caught our eye and tummies the moment we saw the outlet. Very nicely renovated! But since it is near Dinner time, there is a long queue, or should i say alot of scattered food patrons waiting for their turn outside.
After a short discussion, we decided to let our taste buds make the decision instead of our growling tummies. Everyone's yearning for the seafood platter!
We were told that it was a 1 hour wait. And fair enough, everyone was waiting and everywhere has long queues. So we parked ourselfs at the railings and waited.
After like 30 mins of waiting, we see a family of 4 just arrived, creating a scene at the reception. The tai tai demanded for a seat first, as her kids are hungry. Well, there is like almost 20 hungry patrons standing outside staring at them. Who's hungrier? And what's more, her kids are all grown up teenagers!
The poor girl at the counter was patiently telling them to wait and join the queue. And she pointed to all of us, and even showed them the waiting list of names. I think she did a good job, trying to be fair. But the family die also stand there and there is a forming queue of new customers arriving to be placed on waiting list, mostly of tourists.
Seeing that raising her voice at the poor counter girl did not help much, the typical singapore tai tai or should i say aunty? resorted to calling for the manager. And guess what the manager do? He let them have the next available table!!!! And you see the aunty smiling proudly back to her son and daughter, and the children grinning back. The husband looked pleased with his wife too. I think if my mum acted like this, i would rather starve!! throw face !!
That created quite a stir since and everyone saw what happened, including tourists. And everyone started to approach the staffs and enquire about their waiting time.
I went up to them to check how much longer do i have to wait too, and was tapped on my shoulder by a foreigner that i should join their queue to be placed on the waiting list. =.=" My name was already on the list 1 hr ago, hello...
When we finally got in the restaurant to our seats. Everyone shot murderous stares at the family, who were almost finished with their food.
On the other note, Servers were friendly and chirpy, and food was served rather fast when everyone proclaimed that we are soooooo hungry. Food tasted exceptionally good, since we are all starving. So i think it would not be fair for me to judge the food in this review.
Service by staffs : Excellent
Service by Manager: Below Average!!!!
The manager should have guts to reject that family for the next table. Because he ended up offending the rest of the waiting list.
But well, for the food, maybe i will patronise them again, when the queue is not so long!
Rating given:
I admit I was drawn to this cafe due to its unique name - Bakerzin. After surfing their website, it made me more determined than ever to give it a try. Thus, I dragged 5 other friends down with me to their Paragon branch for dinner!
Ok firstly we had a hard time finding the place. I had to call up Bakerzin to get directions from a staff working there. After reaching the place, I found myself disappointed with the small space of the restaurant!
They had 2 parts - An interior and exterior dining area. The interior area had only about 7 small round tables that could sit maximum of 4 people. On the outside, they cramped around 10 or so rectangular tables.
We had to join 3 tables together for the 6 of us. Menu was given to us promptly after we were seated. I observed that there were only a few waiters on duty despite the heavy traffic of customers!
Menu was not too bad, we could choose from pasta, pizzas, sandwhiches or appetisers.
We ordered:
- spaghetti with meatballs
- linguini in mushroom cream sauce
- macaroons
- fruit flavoured sodas
FIRST MISTAKE: They do not serve ice water!!!
I detests restaurants that do not serve ice water to their customers. This is an underhand way to make us order drinks from their menu!
SECOND MISTAKE: Unfriendly Service
While waiting for our food, my friends & I went to their cake display to choose our cakes for desserts. There was only ONE waiter inside the cake counter while there were 2 groups of customers choosing cakes.
The waiter was not paying attention to us. He was inside cleaning some utensils, treating us like we're invisible!
After we managed to get his attention, we ordered our cakes by pointing to him. He took what we wanted and put it on a plate after which he placed the plate on the cake display AND TURNED TO ATTEND TO OTHER CUSTOMERS.
Ugh!!! It was like leaving us hanging there!!! My friends & I were so puzzled on what to do next.. so I stretched out my hand wanting to take the plate of cakes back to our table.
However, the waiter turned to me and took the plate away from me saying "No no, we will serve it to you!". I was so embarrased after she said that! After all, it was my first time there so I did not know their service patterns.
The food was average, the cream sauce pasta was too creamy that my friends had a hard time finishing it. The meatball spaghetti I had was tasty enough to pass but not fantastic.
On the whole, I have nothing to rave about this Bakerzin branch. I would like to try their desserts in another branch though!
PS. We even took about 15mins or so to foot the bill because they were seriously short of staff!
My advice: This branch is good for a cuppa tea/coffee and some cakes. Big groups should avoid this branch as it is cramp and not suitable for group meals! :)
Rating given:
I finally got the chance to try this! Let me tell you, their curry puffs are really like nothing I've ever tasted. Regular curry puffs' fillings are "dry", while 1A Crispy Puffs' are filled with real curry! And the crust is absolutely fantastic!
I was never a fan of curry puffs until I tried theirs.
It is a must-try!
Rating given: