Eat

Went to this place called eat at rail mall (upper bukit timah road, hear hillview area) for supper. i always get the fishball noodle, i fell that the fishballs are quite alright, has quite a nice bouncy texture to it.

The noodles are quite good too, generally it's better than the average fish ball noodles you get at hawker centres but the price is nearly double too!! If you stay around that area and looking for something to eat late night, you might wanna try this, they are open 24 hrs..



address: 436 Upper Bukit Timah Road, The Rail Mall
contact: 64623034
ambience: 6
taste: 7
service: 4
value for money: 5
overall rating: Quite expensive for coffeeshop food, but taste is acceptable

Five Star Chicken Rice

They have quite a number of branches, can google for the addresses of the other branch, i went to the one at river valley and 3 of us ordered half a chicken and 2 side dishes.. i find the food so so only... nothing fantastic

Half a chicken, i felt that it wasn't tender enough, the savory sasame and suy sauce they had over the chicken was nice and salty.. goes well with the cucumber.
Baby kailan.. not bad. but nothing special.
Deep fried tofu thai style. the tofu was soft and smooth, the thai style sauce is the same everywhere, nothing special.

This meal costs us around $30, the price was fine for a clean and comfortable dining environment, food was decent. maybe i need to try boon tong kee soon, so i can compare these 2.


address: 417 River Valley Rd
contact: 62356760
ambience: 6
taste: 6
service: 7
value for money: 7
overall rating: not very expensive, but food also not that great

Yong Chye Chicken Rice

Have been eating the chicken rice and zi char at this place since secondary school, it's been 17 years since the frist time there. the food here isn't fantastic but the place brings back memories.This plate of chicken rice with veg and char shao cost $3.50, and you get lots of rice, i could only finish half the rice. for those who has huge appetite, and need lots of rice, you musn't miss this.

address: King's Arcade, Coronation Road, opposite Coronation Plaza Shell Station
ambience: 2
taste: 5
service: 7
value for money: 7
overall rating: 6

Bedok Corner Hokkien Prawn Mee

Quite a secluded food centre, at the junction of bedok road and upper east coast road, opposite bedok camp. this stall of hokkien mee always has a long queue at the stall.Always seeing the queue, you will be curious how come so many people are willing to wait for the mee, so we gotta try it out.
This hokkien mee is quite wet, which i personally like, but once it gets colder, it becomes very a little coagulated, then it doesn't taste as good anymore. so when you buy this, eat immediately and don't take too long to finish it up. never buy, put on the table to wait for friends, you are going to regret.

address: 1 Bedok Road, Bedok Corner Food Centre (Stall 29)
ambience: 3
taste: 7
service: 6
overall rating:6

Ya Hua Bak Kut Teh

This bak kut teh place is famous among the cheongsters because it's quite near zouk and usually after clubbing, you'll feel a little hungry and this is quite an attractive item for supper.
Tried the bak kut teh many times and never though it was anything fantastic. in fact i think it doesn't really taste like bak kut teh, taste more like white pepper soup.. i was still asking if we can make the exact same thing by just throwing pork pieces and lots of crushed white pepper into boiling water and let it boil for some time.

address:Blk 27 Outram Park #01-521
contact: 62229610
ambience: 4
taste: 3
service: 3
overall rating: 3

Niqqi's The Cheese Prata Shop

A very popular supper place for nus students, especially those staying in the halls, because it's just within walking distance, it's just because the famous fong seng nasi lemak.
I always order the peng(ice) drinks at prata places, this time, i decided to have the milo peng and it was a bad choice. it is so diluted that i wondered if it's bacause they left an unwanted cup of milo peng somewhere and the ice has all melted before they served it to me topped up with more ice.
Since we are at the cheese prata shop, how can we not order their cheese prata, here's the banana cheese prata.
ok this one is good, very fragrant, at least the prata is not soaked in oil. this is worth ordering. Here's how the prata looked in the inside, delicious
we also ordered their maggi goreng, and it took them more than half an hour to get it done!! and they have easily more than 10 staffs at the shop!! talking about efficiency, very bad service. and the staffs are quite rude too. probably you can go there, try the cheese prata and get out, don't think too much about the service there, nothing to expect for service..

address: 18 Clementi Road (off Kent Ridge Bus Terminal)
ambience: 6
taste: 6
service: 3
overall rating: 4

Ikea Restaurant

This should be a place that many of us singaporeans are familiar with, because i guess we all have bought some stuffs from ikea for our home, and when you are there, you won't miss this cafe or restaurant. ikea members have got free drinks and discounted meals there too. have been there numerous times, it's always very crowded during lunch time. now that they open another branch at tampines which has a much bigger sitting capacity, hopefully the queue will move faster at peak hours
Swedish meatballs, my favourite dish there. the meatballs aren't fantastic but it taste good with the sauce and the jam, i always ask for extra sauce, it's never enough for the potato as well
Poached salmon, served with broccoli and potato
Egg fried rice with roast chicken, taste like chicken rice, one of the local dish they serve
The princess cake and the punch cake. punch cake taste good, i think there;s liquor in it.
The daim cake, you will like this if you like sweet stuffs. have you tried the daim candy that they sell at the ikea shop? it taste similar with butterscotch and chocolate. couldn't remember the name for the other 2 dessert. dun really think they are nice though

The meatballs is my favourite, but i do hear from people that the standard has dropped, it's not as nice as it was before. any one has got any views about this?

They also serve local specialities like chicken curry with rice, the curry is quite good i must say. of course homemade one by my mum is the best, but if you compare with the chicken curry that you find outside, it's one of the better ones.

address: 317 Alexandra Road / 60 Tampines North Drive 2
contact: 6786 6868
ambience: 7
taste: 7
service: 7
overall rating: food is better than most cafes, a good place for a casual meal

Ubin Seafood

Started in pulau ubin, this restaurant has got 2 branches in singapore, the one we went to is a new branch at bukit timah, at the junction with sixth avenue, near the sixth avenue cold storage, you won't miss it if you travel along bukit timah road towards woodlands direction.Very nice al fresco dining area, but you gotta make a reservation in order to get seats there, we didn't, thus we only got seats in the building itself. Food wasn't as great as i expected it to be. we wanted mainly to try the crabs so we ordered the chilli crab and their famous garlic pepper crab.. here are some of the dishes we ordered
Spring onion deer meat, the deer meat is a little tough, but taste wise it's not bad.
Vegetable with beancurd, very normal dish, nothing spectacular.
Garlic dou miow, another dish where you can get at most zi char stall, average taste.
Ubin fried rice, we got this dish free because they made a mistake and cooked this when we did not order it. i wonder why this fried rice is famous.
Garlic pepper crab. seldom see crab dishes dry, but the garlic pepper is really something special and the 2 different tastes actually blend quite nicely. i'm not a good person to comment on crabs cos i dun really fancy crabs, so if anyone there have tried this, you can probably comment on it better. personally i quite like this dish.
Chilli crab, this is my favourite kind of crab, and you gotta eat it with fried mantou, to me the chilli sauce is so much more important than the carb itself, the chilli sauce here is slightly above average, have tried quite a few better ones.

Here's the al fresco dining area with quite a few fans installed, so you dun have to worry that it's going to be too warm. we went there on a cool evening, so the place was quite comfortable.

address: 797 Bukit Timah Road / Marina Country Club & Resort, Ponggol 17th Ave
contact: 6466 9558(Bt Timah) / 6875 5595(Punggol) /www.ubinseafood.com
ambience: 7
taste: 6
service: 6.5
overall rating: not a must go, you may want to go to confirm my views of the food

Best Ipoh Hor Fun

I loved the ipoh hor fun at river valley and i have never tried any other ipoh hor fun that's nicer than this one. it's actually an old coffee shop but it's called loon seng restaurant. It'a situated at the junction of river valley road and kellock road. a few parallel parking lots along kellock road, or you can just park illegally in front of the coffee shop where you can see you car at all times
Usually the hor fun is cooked by a small sized old uncle that still looks quite healthy, but this time it was a lady, probably his daughter, cooking it. it still taste as nice though. serving is quite small, for those who have a large appetite, you might wanna order more food from other stalls.

Another must try is the kaya and butter toast, i dunno how they can actually slice the bread so thinly to make the toast really crispy(what other word can i use for this case?). and it must be taken immediately after it's served, when the butter melts, it's not as nice anymore. i was also told that the roast duck and char siew rice is very good, but when we ordered it last week, it's was only so so... maybe individual's preference really differ..

Go try it and let me know if you think the hor fun is nice!! .. i was told the hor fun stall was there for very long, a friend's parents actually went there to eat when they were partor-ing!! and it was the same uncle preparing the hor fun then too!

address: 429 River Valley Road
ambience: 2
taste: 8
service: 3
overall rating: just go for the tasty and cheap hor fun

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