Botak Jones (Bedok)

This was my first time trying Botak Jones.

We had the - Fish & Chips - Cajun Chicken - Beef sausage - Cheese Burger

The Fish & Chips came with the fries & the coleslaw. The fish was breaded. Ultra thin slices. They were not even full slices. Feels like regular dory sliced laterally. Too thin to feel the texture or even taste anything. Fries were quite normal.. not exactly hot. The tar tar sauce tasted very rich. Too rich & seems like a lot of garlic in it. Didn't use much of that. Generally a disappointing dish. (I must say that Aston's did a much better job on this)

The Cajun Chicken was huge. The top coat was fully covered with mix of sauce & cheese. When you slice it down, it seems to be 2 slices joined together cos it sort of fell apart. I was surprised that its chicken breast. It wasn't totally dry. But I shd say that its fairly successfully cooked chicken breast.

The Beef sausage was the first dish to arrive. We liked the onions that came with it. Like what it is described, it snaps when you slice it. We ordered this as a whole, on its own (told them not to slice it). However, I had to constantly spit out the skin (pork casing). Not too saltish as a whole.

The Cheese Burger looks pretty good. I tasted the patty, it was quite tasty. My friend asked for more fries.. but the amount of fries looked the same as our other 2 dishes.

I personally do not like the coleslaw from Botak Jones. I think they used way too much mayonaise. Very sick of it after a short while. I much preferred what Astons did.

Think because of the amount we ordered, we were Very Full after the meal. I will not have the Fish & Chips again. Its very disappointing. Ultra thin slices.

After hearing soooo much about Botak Jones at AMK (yes there are other outlets, which I only knew of TODAY), I was delighted to hear that there's one at Bedok! ie, very near me (; And so, dragging along a food-enthusiast like myself, we headed down as soon as we could, with much anticipation.

It was almost 2pm by the time we got there. All right, face it, I was disappointed because I thought we'd be seeing a little shop instead of that-stall-at-the-food-court-under-that-block. But that seems to be the trend, somehow. If you heard of, there's Blackboard doing that too.

So anyway, we got a menu each and sat down, trying to decide on what to eat. I must say BJ is trying hard to sound/look cool, but they're trying a little too hard. What with the "dawg"s in the menu and short narratives in Comic Sans, font size 14 words, it was really an eye sore for me. All that effort put in to inject that little bit of "humour" into the menu could have been converted to beautifying the menu which reminds my friend of our school's lecture notes, mistreated.

Eventually, I ordered a Cajun Chicken - supposedly the 2nd most popular meal. It came with a generous portion of Spicy Fries and Coleslaw. To be honest, I didn't quite like the idea of eating from a black plate as it felt as though the plate could have been dirty (but you'll never know). The chicken had a layer of melted cheese and cajun sauce. I thought the portion of the meat was reasonable, only that it was a tad too dry. But it went pretty well with the cheese and sauce, only that I thought they could drizzle more sauce on the chicken (isn't that why it's Cajun chicken?). The coleslaw had a weird, bitter after-taste. The fries were not too bad, just that it would have been better if it were tastier. I paid $7.50 for it.

With the price I paid, I'd say it was rather worth it. Large portion, enough to fill your tummy. Not too bad for the price I guess, but don't go with too high expectations in terms of quality of food. What with all the hoo-ha about BJ, some may probably find it over-rated by the time they've gotten down to trying it. Well, at least I did. (Ah, but I think I'd still rate it a 3.5 / 5 for the price and fairly satisfactory service.)