Earth Kitchen

Earth Kitchen recently revamped its menu. The designs of its menu now look more classy and matches its interior. The inside of this restaurant is pleasing, as hanging lights with ornate designs decorate its ceiling. On its walls are intricate Chinese carvings. Its seats are black plastic chairs. Seating areas near the kitchen can be smoky. I will not say it is posh, but for a causal dining place it does stand out from its rivals.

An added bonus is that there are no service charge and GST, yet it is not a self-service restaurant. The waiters do come to your table to take your order and serve you your food. However, the waiters do not wear uniforms and most of them are China nationals. Hence there maybe a language barrier, and some of them serve the foreigners and working executive better than the locals. Discrimination! Also occasionaly, the waiters take the wrong order, but they will correct it.

This restaurant faces Tanjong Pagar MRT entrance/exit point at the street level. It opens really early at 8am and is open till 9 or 10pm.

In the morning, it sells breakfast such as Chinese rice cakes, and a few other traditional Chinese breakfast fare.

For the rest of the day, you can order any items on its menu, prices start from $5 to about $10. But avoid the evening as most of its food are sold out.

It offer set meals (available all hours) such as Chicken rice (white or roasted) with soup and vegetables @ $6.30. It comes with chilli but unlike Chatterbox, you won't be given ginger and black sauce is only offered if you ask for it. Other sets includes Pork chop, curry chicken, herbal chicken, preserved vegetables and etc.

Besides the set meals, there are individual dishes like vegetables, sweet & sour pork, mango puff etc. Also, Yong tau foo with bee hoon, honey chicken with noodles and other Chinese fare are available.

You can have a sweet ending to your meal by ordering from its variety of desserts (over 20 types of desserts). Both hot & cold are available. Common local delights like Chendol, Bo bo char, durian ice cream, almond & seasame paste are available besides others.