Ambush

This is an interesting place, they serve italian food like pasta and risotto, but it's in a food court, at basement 2 of takashimaya shopping centre, you just had to queue up and order and the staffs will arrange seats for you.

Their kitchen is the open concept kind, you can actually stand in front of the galss panel and see how the chefs are whipping up the dishes, i find this quite stressful from the chefs..

Appetizer platter consisting of cheese stick, calamari and fried prawns... totally not worth the price, looks like stuffs you can get from the supermarket and deep fry it yourself at home.. please do not order this

Mushroom soup with garlic bread. the bread was good, they use foccacia for the garlic bread.. the soup was uite tasteless though.

Baked risotto with cod fish, the fish was quite good, but the rice was too watery and the cheese didn't taste good, portion is quite huge, a little too much for 1 person.

Baked risotto with sausage, ham and i think it was bacon. nothing special, i could only finish half of it.

Japanese baby scallop penne in cream sauce with prawn roe. the pasta was not bad, the sauce was interesting and tasty. i should have ordered pasta instead or rice..

Generally i wasn't impressed with the food, i might go again to try out the pasta, this meal for 3 (soup an garlic bread for all) person costs $52, you decided for yourself if it's expensive. portion is large though

address: Takashimaya food court #B2-04-2-1
contact:
ambience: 4
taste: 6
service: 6
value for money: 5
overall rating: not expensive, but the food is not great too

Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits

The first time i saw this fast food chain was when i was in jakarta, but never tried it there. i first tried it around a year ago at changi airport and i totally loved the biscuits. soft on the inside and hard on the outside.I don't get to go there often as the airport is quite far from my home and also from work. but whenever i'm there, this place is always having a very long queue.
The fried chicken is similar to kfc's crispy fried chicken. but i think popeye's have a slightly richer taste. but my fave is still kfc's original. also note that if you want specific chicken parts, you gotta add 50 cents.. hhmm when if i like the small little wings, so if i choose 2 pieces of wings which is so much smaller than the other parts, i still gotta add 50cents?
My favourite item, the buttermilk biscuit. loved the milk and butter taste in it. i can even eat it on it's own. but i feel that the best way to eat it is with the mash potato and the gravy. always feel like having more than 1, but i usually order the chicken and i have no more space for extra biscuits. next time i gotta order just biscuits and mash potatoes.
Mash potato is smooth and soft, gravy is special, with minced meat and some other stuffs. prefer this to the kfc's version.

Coleslaw is a little too sour for me. still prefer the sweeter version at kfc.


I loved this place so much that i almost forgotten what else there is to eat at the airport. whenever i'm there, be it going overseas, sending friends and family overseas etc etc, i'll get everyone to go eat at popeye's, i wonder if they will even open branches out of the airport...

address: Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 1, 3rd floor.
ambience: 5
taste: 5 (7 for the biscuits)
service: 5
value for money: 6
overall rating: nice biscuits you dun get anywhere else

Mini Steamboat Delight

Mini steamboat delight is located at parkway parade, in the basement food court, right beside the drinks stall. i'm not sure if you can make reservation cos while we were queueing, there was this customer who said she called to make reservation and then the staff said she dunno anything about it and then walked away.

They have their 2nd branch at novena, opposite novena square, and i think there's a thrid branch at junction 8.
The sauce the serve is very similar to the one at coca. and i really like the one at coca, every now and then, i'll still go there for steamboat just because of the sauce. so here you have a cheaper option but with service standard much lower.

No buffet available here, everything is ala carte, they have packed all the food items into individual packages and nicely wrapped, when you place your order, they will serve these wrapped items to you, and the rest is up to yourself. including adding more soup. you gotta go get the soup and add it in yourself!! first time i encounter this at any steamboat joint.

One important item in steamboat for me is the pig's liver, their pig's liver is fresh and is sliced very thinly, so it's easy to cook, i like it this way. at some places, sometimes the liver is not fresh and after cooking it becomes very powdery and it contaminates the soup with that powder. sometimes it's sliced too thick and by the time the liver is cooked the layer outside had become too tough.


No complains about the food.. just not happy with the service and the attitude of the staffs. there was only 1 staff who actually smiled and was really courteous when serving us our drinks.

address: 80 Marine Parade Road, #B1-118 Parkway Parade
contact: 63482070
ambience: 4
taste: 7
service: 3
value for money: 4
overall rating: very nice sauce, food quite fresh, poor service.

Chic n Grill

Tried the chicken cutlet at the western stall (chic n grill)in the S11 foodcourt at bishan, according to a friend, this stall has got really good chicken cutlet. and true enough, the cutlet has proven to be quite good. it's tender on the inside and crispy on the outside, fried just nicely. some places have got overfried chicken and it makes the meat very tough. If you stay in bishan and have not tried this, you should go there and try it. personally i still prefer the one at margaret drive..

address: Bishan S11 Foodcourt (Blk 504，Bishan Street 110), Stall 03
ambience: 5
taste: 7
service: 6
overall rating: 7

Riverside Indonesian BBQ

One of the more famous stalls at plaza singapura food court. this riverside indonesian bbq seems to be a branch of the riverside indonesian restaurant whose ad is over televised.
One thing we gotta admit is that the bbq chicken is really good, the sauce they use on the chicken is sweet and taste awesome with the chicken skin, the chicken meat is tender, comes off the bone easily.

address: Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road, Kopitiam #06-15/20
ambience: 5
taste: 7
service: 6
overall rating: 6

Cheng Long Fish Soup

Went to vivo city and decided to take a look at the food court, found this famous fish soup stall called cheng long fish soup. they have branches in plaza singapura and compasspoint, this is their third branch. I heard from a friend that the sliced fish soup or beehoon soup is not fantastic. i tried the fried fish beehoon soup, the fish was fabulous, the soup was tasty. it's the best fish beehoon i have tried so far. tried eating at all 3 branches and i think the one at plaza singapura is still the best.

address: Vivo City Kopitiam (Basement 2), Plaza Singapura Food Court (4th Storey), Compasspoint Kopitiam (4th Storey)

ambience: 4

taste: 9

service: 7

overall rating: Must try the fried fish beehoon soup with milk