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I had high expectations for this place, but left disappointed. After all, its located at Capella, our island's new 6-star hotel which charges exorbitant prices for its rooms, and I expected the food quality here to be on par. It turned out to be an assumption which I shouldn't have taken.
We had almost everything on the dim sum menu except a few common items like century egg porridge and lotus wrapped glutinous rice:
Amuse Bouche - dragonfruit, pork belly and mango. Chinese restaurants don't usually serve this so was quite pleasantly surprised when it came. The pork belly stood out as quite freshing, without the oiliness that's usually associated with it.
Steamed Milk Custard Bun with Salted Egg Yolk - Came in a orange-hue and nips that, according to lunch mates, looked home-made. Good for them. Taste-wise, not impressive though.
Deep Fried Spring Roll with Prawn, Garlic and Mozzarella Cheese - Long sticks served in a tall glass, which is a unusual presentation for a Chinese restaurant. Not too bad, although I couldn't really taste the cheese.
Pan Fried Bean Curd Skin Rolls with Chicken and French Foie Gras - I don't eat foie gras but I ate it before I remembered. Didn't taste any , so maybe it was good for me that way.
Wok Fried Carrot Cake with Crisp Garlic in Pi Fong Tang Style - My 'must order' dish when having dim sum. Too much fried garlic paired with the otherwise rather bland carrot cake. A limp way to mask the lackluster effort I thought.
Steamed Barbecued US Berkshire Pork Buns - I didn't have this but according to lunch mates, it was not too bad.
Crispy Prawn Dumplings with Wasabi Mayo - Normal stuff.
Steamed Crystal Shrimp Dumplings with Bamboo Shoot and Celery - Cute presentation but otherwise average tasting.
Deep Fried Thai Papaya Puff - we all agreed this unusual dish turned out pretty well. I was only glad the papaya filling was not annoyingly sweet.
Pan Fried Australian Minced Wagyu Beef Bun with Truffle and Water Chestnut - Not too bad i thought, for someone who don't take beef like me. But it was probably a waste of good beef at the same time.
Steamed Sui Mai Dumplings, topped with Norwegian Salmon Roe - Too meaty for my liking. Roe was too fishy for me and meat strangely crunchy.
Baked Farm Egg Tart - Was okay for me.
Really average food quality at best. $72 for 3 people wasn't too pricey at least; I had expected a higher bill when mentally adding up the items. Plus the fact that it is so ulu, I doubt I would return. Nice cushy seats and posh ambience was a plus of course but not a strong enough bait.
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Headed here for dinner with a big group, so the chatter amongst us shattered whatever romantic feel this place has. Nice soft lightings with amply spaced out tables and attentive service was a good start to the evening.
Because we had to wait for the chairperson who was 45mins late, we had 2 rounds of their gorgeous bread. Fresh, warm, fluffy carb pillows~ Delish either on its own or with the balsamic vinegar set on the table.
So many starters and so many mains amongst us and so many I didn't try but here's what I did try:
Calamari fritti lightly dusted with with a 50/50 mix of plain and rice flour ($14) - Disappointing. Didn't know why the underside of the rings were soggy, but whatever they hope to achieve with the 50/50 mix didnt work at all.
Penne vodka with sauteed fresh prawns, translucent onions, sliced chilli, finished in a creamy rose vodka sauce ($26) - Perfectly al dente with fresh crunchy prawns in what tasted more like tomato sauce instead. I could taste no vodka at all :I It was a pretty big portion too :D
Desserts that were shared amongst us:
Tiramisu ($12) - one of the rare good ones left I think. Came a little de-constructed with chocolate chips on the side but high marks from me nonetheless!
Chocolate Delice ($14) - cold set chocolate caramel ganache on a muesli macadamia cookie dough topped with wild cherry sorbet - We all liked the sorbet but felt the ganache was way too je lat. I think the soury sorbet was supposed to cut the richness but erm, didn't work.
Orange, orange, and more orange ($14) - shot glass of blood orange jelly sided with crepes with grand marnier and orange zest, mandarin sorbet with candied orange peel - came highly recommended by the Executive Chef. Quite a refreshing change but its wasn't 'wow' for me.
Cinnamon panna cotta with girottine cherry garnished with ginger cream ($12) - We all wondered if it was meant to be hard but didnt find an answer. Tasted like your usual fare.
I have to say service was excellent. Plus, the staff were all very friendly and humorous to boot. Good choice for a date actually but erm just avoid nights with big groups like us haha~
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Picked this for a family dinner coz we wanted Chinese. They have a very attractive ala carte buffet dinner for either $34 per pax and $39 , with the former inclusive of one portion of Peking Duck and Sharks Fin, and the latter Peking Duck and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. The choice was $34 in the end.
You can pick your dishes from quite a comprehensive selection of combination platter, seafood, vegetables, meat, noodles / rice, and desserts. Here's what we ordered:
Peking Duck - Very dry egg crepes with more duck meat than skin.
Sharks Fin Soup - Clear chicken soup with a pinch of fakey fins.
Corn and chicken soup - campbell-ish thickened with starch
Meat platter - Not good
Spinach with 3 treasures (egg) - very bland although healthy
Cereal prawns - surprisingly not bad but prawns seemed abit tempura than deep fried.
Chilli crab, white pepper crab, and steamed with chinese wine - came in mini-size crabs with each flavour. One of the better dishes of the evening.
Braised abalone - fakey abalone with chinese lettuce in light soya sauce.
Kung Pao chicken - mediocre
Steamed fish - Fresh but normal otherwise
Salmon sashimi - strange selection in a chinese buffet but quite refreshing for the palette.
Only the prawns and crabs were worthy of mention. Tung Lok really really really needs to buck up. Even the rather nice interior couldn't help lift up this review.
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Heard so much about Oriole, especially the fact that nothing on their menu is over $15. Actually, it is true. Just that they have 'specials' that are written on their glass panes instead, including pastas and other mains. Adds quite a nice feel to the whole place actually.
It actually feels a little like a place for drinks than dinner, with the small seating and warm lightings used. The very prominent bar right smack in the middle of the place helps too (you can adjourn to the bar seats after dinner for cool drinks :D).
The menu is a simple one pager, with the drinks on the other side of it. Reminds me of that of PS Cafe actually. Small selection of mains and more starters in fact.
Mushroom-on-toast ($10.50) - open face thick toast with poached egg. Came in a surprisingly big portion with many many nicely sauteed brown button mushrooms atop a huge square of toasted bread. A wobbly poached egg tops this all off. The combination tasted great! There's something I find very comforting about egg bread :D
Fish & Chips ($15) - lightly battered snapper loin with home-made chips. I had just a small bite of these but it tasted not too bad too. Home-made chips have that 'raw' taste which frozen ones just can't match up to.
My english breakfast came in a small presser which was pleasantly refillable. The other mocha milkshake we ordered tasted more ice-blended than milkshake actually.
The place seemed a little overstaffed with the small patronage, which is always better than being under-staffed I guess. A good alternative to the noisy crowd at Cineleisure. A small bird actually warned me it sucks but hey, maybe I ordered the right things :D
Oh, and go early to get the plushy booth seats.
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I booked a room to rest for a weekend event which had 16 overseas guests flying in and staying there as well, so I thought it'd be convenient.
The location of the hotel was excellent, with a passageway accessible from the 4th floor that leads right to Marina Square the shopping Mall. Marina Square itself have sheltered access to other nearby malls like Suntec City and City Link Mall, so for the shopaholics, you can still get tons of shopping done while staying dry when it pours.
The only gripe is its a fair walk from the nearest MRT station, Cityhall. Takes about 10mins if you walk briskly, and the walk can seem to be abit too long when you need the showers after a long day.
Loved the design of the hotel, high ceilings with a circular design to compliment the shape of the building itself. From every floor of the hotel, you get a full view of the hotel lobby on the 4th floor and hear birds chirping every morning and evening (I heard they bring in the birds especially on these 2 timings each day so guests can feel closer to nature; nice touch!).
The room itself was very clean and spacious enough to warrant the SGD269 per night I paid for. Comfy beds, plasms TV, and bright clean bathroom. My event lasted until 5am and I had to wake up the next day at 7am so I didn't have a chance to try what channels were available for entertainment. The only thing I felt they could have thrown in was the buffet breakfast, which cost an additional SDG40 per person at Aquamarine.
Check-in and check out were efficient, even a last minute request for a 40-seater coach to send my guests to the airport was met promptly.
The only thing I noticed about some of the staff is that they tend to greet tourists with a smile while us the locals, even though we were hotel guests as well, were ignored. I have encountered this many times and it still irritates me that some of them practice such discrimination.
My overseas guests had a ridiculous experience with the hotel staff that ended up with the hotel staff ordering my guests to return to their rooms and demanding them to flash their key cards to prove that they were indeed hotel guests. An experience which led to my overseas guests vowing they would never return and us the local hosts embarrassed that a 5-star luxury hotel could do such a thing.
But then again, I thought I needed to give an objective review of the locations and rooms itself, that explains my entry. I'll leave it to your discretion but if you ask me, better service and cheaper rates for the same convenience and standard of rooms can be found at Pan Pacific Singapore, right across the street.
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