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       13 Jan 2008 at 12:10 am
    Category: Deli and Cafe
    zihui zihui says:

    Have you been to Courts at Tampines and ate at O'Briens? It's situated, rather awkwardly, in the middle of nowhere at the 3rd level. I've always thought that O'Briens was quite a good place for a coffee and a sandwich. My idea of relaxing, along with a book. Seeing O'Briens out of nowhere and after walking for so long and feeling so bored, I thought it would have been good to get a drink and rest!

    You'd see at the counter an on-going promotion - Mix & Match. It's a choice of 3 salads, one sandwich filling and a can of pepsi at a whopping price of $6.50 only (of course it's cheap considering the cost of eating out nowadays)!

    Unfortunately, not judge a place by the number of outlets it has; nor food by its price. I thought the sandwich was utterly disappointing. I chose the chicken mayo filling and the chicken was awful. It lacked the mayo taste and the chicken bits tasted like instant chicken fillet or something. Not fresh. Neither did the mixed vegetables nor lettuce look fresh. The coleslaw was not cut up into small bits (which I prefer) and had a weird and bitter after-taste. But the portion was quite big and it would have been good enough for a quick lunch or so. And it was a good thing that you get a can of pepsi free! I guess that's a relatively good deal for a $6.50 set.

    Nonetheless, I'd never eat there again. Maybe I'd try O'Briens elsewhere to double-check their standards. But I'd say this was quite an awful experience.


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    1402. Dragon Gate Restaurant   
       13 Jan 2008 at 12:06 am
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    The first time i went to the place did not find it too easily, it is at level 4 of harbour front just beside the car park. The evaluators do not go to level 4, so highly take the lift.

    Similar to wad the previous post Bubblesky has said, Dragon Gate like most Dim-sum restaurants, there is the usual range of dim-sum such as; har gow (shrimp dumplings), char siew baos, siew mai, char siew sou, luobogao (carrot cakes), xiaolongbaos, and many more. There is particularly more deep-fried type of Dim-sum available. The menu also have some dishes like sweet-sour pork, chicken, fried veggies and some other stuff.

    After two rounds of dim-sum ordering, boy was i full. Considering the fact that if you go to a normal dim-sum restaurant ordering dim-sum would be at least $2 per plate. At $12 plus per person, it is a steal for the all-you-can-eat dim sum buffet.


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       12 Jan 2008 at 11:55 pm
    Category: Buffet, Japanese
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Sakura is being located in ommi centre, beside the science centre in jurong. A pretty strange place to locate a restaurant if you asked me. Ommi centre does not have rather much visitors, but when i reached sakura, it is quite crowded despite the place being a little hard to reach.

    The buffet lunch is $20 nett, which i believe is rather cheap for a buffet lunch, and $26 nett for buffet dinner. There are sushi, desserts, fried-stuff, salads, fruits, free flow of drinks. In addition, there is a place serving chicken chops, lamp chops, beef, prawn, fish, all cook on the spot, u'll have to put a clip(which has yr table no on it) at the food that u wan. After which, the chef will cook on the spot, and the waiters will serve it to your table.

    Although the food cannot be describe as heavenly, but i believe at 20 bucks per person, it is considered value for money, after all there are buffets that cost much and taste less


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       12 Jan 2008 at 11:52 pm
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Went to Pepper lunch with a couple of friends a while ago. First impression, it this a fastfood restaurant or is it a japanese restaurant. Well, its both actually.

    The Q was'nt too long, and very soon we ordered our food at the counter.
    I ordeded the set meal chicken which comes at $8.80, while my friends ordered salmons, and beef.

    What was special about the food, was its packaging. The sizzling hot-plates all came with a paper wrapped round it to teach you how to savour its meals.

    Overall, i found the food to be anything but special, that is ordinary. But if you didn't went before, it is worth well going once for the sizzling hot plates. However, be WARNED, the pepper lunch smell will be with you after finishing the meal : )


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       12 Jan 2008 at 11:47 pm
    Category: Seafood
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Having stay in Holland before for about 10 years, i can say i grew up with this coffee shop (cant remember how many years it had opened though), its used to be just below my block.

    Holland V Fish Head Bee Hun, needless to say it is famous for its XO Fish Head Bee Hun. Somehow my family feels that when the store was not so famous, the food tasted better. When the store become more well-known, the boss becomes a bit cocky and proud.

    Having said all that, one of the dish that i liked from the store is its prawn-paste chicken. Its one of the best i had tasted before, so go on try it if you visit the coffee shop.

    O well, although the boss is a bit cocky and all that stuff, Holland V Fish Head Bee Hun remains to be one of the more famous stores in Holland V


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    1406. Yum Cha Restaurant   
       12 Jan 2008 at 11:43 pm
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Had Business lunch at Yum Cha restaurant, one of the more commonly recognize Dim-Sum restaurant in Singapore probably due to their TV advertisements. The other one which will come to my mind thinking of dim-sum will be Fortunate Restaurant also because of their TV adverts.

    The menu was done up very nicely and shows colorful, attractive pictures of the dim-sum. The place was quite full, so we had to wait a while before the food was served.

    The Dim-sum taste and looks good, price is reasonable i guess, although u cant compare it with a dim-sum buffet. We had cheong fun, carrot cake, xiaolongbao, glutinous rice in lotus leaf, chicken giant bun, steamed bean curd skin roll, steamed pork ribs, har gao, century egg congee, fried vegetarian spring roll.

    Quite a wide range of dim-sum available, too many for you to taste it all : )


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       12 Jan 2008 at 11:41 pm
    Category: Deli and Cafe
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Hmm, came here to "chill out"or rather to have someplace for a drink and chat after we had our dinner at Alaturka.

    We only had drinks there, milo, tea, coffee. Had a quick glance at the menu, quite agree with the previous blurber shu yen that it is quite a rip off. Hot drinks are at $1.20, while ice drinks are at $2.50 and above. I had hot milo, while the ice milo because it has ice cost $1.30 more? Since when did ice become so expensive?

    The menu had quite a variety of Hong Kong cafe food, but the price are rather high. I mean although its a restaurant, but its just selling Hong Kong cafe food which is not really worth that much of a price. Instant noodle with luncheon meat and egg, i can cook that for you at home, i just charge $2? ( : O well, cant really comment on the food because we did not order any


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    1408. Hanoi & Halong Bay   
       12 Jan 2008 at 10:50 pm
    genesis genesis says:

    Melody is right. Halong Bay is nice. Must find the right weather to visit. When we were there, it was raining and slightly misty. If you do decide to go to Halong bay, better to stay one night on the boat like what Melody did. It is a 4 hours journey there and 4 hours back. Total of 8 hours. We were there for a day trip and the traveling time was not the best.

    They bay was calm throughout the journey and along the way we were able to stop by a floating seafood farm to pick out life seafood for lunch. This got everyone excited.

    Another place to visit in Hanoi is Sapa. It is an overnight train trip from Hanoi to Lao Cai and another 1 hour to the mountainous region of Sapa. The train departs at 9pm and arrives in Lao Cai at 5am. it is quite a site to see hundreds of people half awake pulling their luggage off the train, walking in dense darkness across the train tracks. Sort of reminds you of a scene in a movie in Schindler's list or other WWII movie.

    If you do take a train, make sure it is the tourist class train in cabin 2-4 (Livitrans Express). Anything other than that (except the Victorian Express, which is 1st class) is not recommended. Unless you want to experience the WWII feeling. Surprisingly, the train ride was smooth and not as we expected...it was even quieter than the MRT :) That makes it easy to doze off.

    Anyway, the sights in Sapa just makes the train ride worthwhile. The weather was cool (3-10 degrees celcius) and the fresh mountain air was refreshing. If you do visit Sapa, perhaps you should spend at least 3-4 days there to explore the hilly ethnic tribes and visit their homes. Most of the guides bring you to the popular destinations. But if you are the off the beaten track type, you can rent a bike and go exploring.

    The people are generally friendly. Most of the ethnic tribes from Sapa are from the Black Hmong and the Red Hmong. The younger ones speak clear and fluent English, some French and of course Vietnamese. Many European styled houses and food in Sapa, keeping in mind that this town was founded by the French in the 1800s. The Sapa market was bustling with activity with many items imported from China. Yes the Chinese border is just about 30-40km away from Sapa, making it a transit point to Yunnan. Perhaps we will take that road the next time to Dali. But the road trip will be something to contend with.

    Another Market in Sapa is in Bac Ha. Here a different ethnic tribe is dominant, the Flower Hmong. On Sunday mornings, they will dress their best to visit the market where they will buy clothes, household items and food for the week. One word to describe it all - colorful. haha.

    Sapa gave us a different view of Vietnam and Hanoi. The city is one thing but to see the ethnic tribes live in sheer simplicity (with rice as their main source of income) makes you feel that life can be simple and enjoyable. With the influx of many foreigners to the area, the simplicity might be lost one day...and it might come sooner...same with the many other places in China. The tourist dollar is a strong influence.

    The trip was great and the next time who knows, we might be back on our own with a backpack and a map.


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       12 Jan 2008 at 10:39 pm
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Well well, we wanted to try something more exotic because was getting a bit bored of eating chinese, western, and jap food. Alaturka serves a sort of combination of turkish and mediterranean cuisine. I had make a reservation in advance, and they saved their best seat for us, which even had a roof that can be open so that we can look at the sky. So rule number one always make reservation before you go. We took a while before we can decide what to order because all of us did not try turkey food before.

    The kofte ($13.00) which was grilled lamb with rice and vege. Turkey really can cook their lamb, or at least at Alaturka they do it well. 4.5 out of 5

    The Etlipide ($11.50) which was baked bread with chicken. Pretty good, i think its quite similar to Italy pizza, but if you had it as main course, its not really filling. 3.5 out of 5

    Adana chicken Kebab ($13.00), it has grilled chicken kebab with rice and vege. 3.5 out of 5

    The Iskender Kebab ($15.00) chicken with yogut. Hmm, it has lots of chicken, but then being the most expensive dish among us, it has no rice, so ordered one rice pilaf at $1.50. Not too bad, but considering it with the other dishes, the price a bit higher. 3.5 out of 5

    The Kuzupirzola ($14.00) which was lamb chop with rice and vege. Although i do not eat lamb often, but the lamb chop here was good enough for me. Alaturka really do their lamb well service. 4.5 out of 5

    All in all, lamb is well done here, the chicken kebabs are also not bad, quite a number of variety of kebab and Ottoman specials they called it. No air-con, but hey come on, for the reasonable price and good food its worth it. If you want something special, Alaturka is the place for you.

    You are always welcome to visit Ladyironchef for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written above are my geniune feelings expressed in words that may be subjected to my personal distortion or bias. Please do not feel emotional or distress should you have any violent objections. Kindly click the little X at the upper, extreme right of your screen if negative adjectives would be derived. Otherwise, feel free to furnish me with comments, may it be positive or negative : )


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    1410. Waraku (The Central)   
       12 Jan 2008 at 9:58 pm
    Category: Japanese
    ladyironchef ladyironchef says:

    Waraku Japanese casual pasta & cafe restaurant at Central. First impression the restaurant was quite nicely decorated, the staff was enthu, mayb too-enthu for my delight. They will say welcome loudly to everyone who came. And sometimes out of nothing they will shout some jap greetings. I mean it is good to be polite, but isn’t this a little over? Besides, it is all right to say greetings in jap but at least yr jap have to sound nice? Some waitress jap does not sound too good to the ear. Think the management should ask diners comments on this

    Donald had the Kaminabe Wazen ($19.80), kaminabe sounds like some foul word? haha. Anyway, it has sliced beef & vegetables cook with soup in paper pot, fresh salmon sashimi, and deepfried assortment of vege and prawn, rice The sliced beef and vege in spicy soup, the soup is refreshing to drink, donald (beef lover) say the beef is very nice, so it must be nice. Quite special to put it in paper pot.

    The sliced beef and vege in spicy soup, the soup is refreshing to drink, don(beef lover) say the beef is very nice, so it must be nice. Quite special to put it in paper pot. Fried Prawn and vege, looks and taste nice. Onli one miserable prawn, should have give more. I am not really a sashimi eater so cannot judge whether fresh or not. Overall this dish i would give it 4 out of 5

    I had the TonkatsuWazen ($15.50) which is pork cutlet set meal i guess. It has pork cutlet (obviously), salad, rice, pickles seaweed with soup noodles. The main character, pork cutlet, cripsy is the word to describe. At some places after eating pork cutlet you will feel the after-effect of being thirsty and stuff like that, but this one wont. The cutlet is also fried jus nice, not too bland and not too salty. Plus my fav healthy servings of vege to go along with it. The seaweed with soup noodles, one big bowl of it, two person to finish it, Noodles taste all right. Tonkatsu set (pork cutlet) gets 3.5 out of 5 because i prefer donald set. As simple as that

    Overall the whole restaurant feel, donald say is 3.5, but i think i would give it 4 out of 5, pretty decent price and the food is not too bad, jus that i think the management should improve on the restaurant service, too much shouting around is not music to my ears while i am having my dinner. I had a coupon from them after paying the bill, its gives quite a good discount, BUT, the big but, it is onli limited to 1 coupon per table per bill basis. That means i can use coupon but my friend cant?

    You are always welcome to visit Ladyironchef for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written above are my geniune feelings expressed in words that may be subjected to my personal distortion or bias. Please do not feel emotional or distress should you have any violent objections. Kindly click the little X at the upper, extreme right of your screen if negative adjectives would be derived. Otherwise, feel free to furnish me with comments, may it be positive or negative : )


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