When I ventured into Manpuku, I was high in hopes that the food will be nice. I loved ramen so I went to buy ramen at AOBA. I had the salt version of the soup. How I regretted it because it was so salty and I cannot even taste any flavour from the soup although they said that the soup stock was made with pork bones. All I can taste was the salt. As for the noodles, it was not even fully cooked and it was a bit hard that one mouth full was all it takes to kill my appetite. For more than $10 a bowl, I was so disappointed as ajisen ramen was so much better.

Although it does charge sevice charge as it was supposed to be a food court style, it do have the 7%GST. Just one try will do, I will think twice before I try Manpuku again.

We went for a sale at the expo and went for dinner at this outlet of Burger king. There were many people but we managed to find a seat. As it was about 7 plus in the evening, the area became quite dim and sitting under the shade, it was really quite dim. The seats had been polluted by birds since it was outdoor area. There was no sufficient lighting so you can imagine having to have your food in a very romantic way cos quite dark. Perhaps they should have more lightings. The food wise was quite standard. I had mushroom swiss burger set. The beef patty was slightly dry but the mushroom sauce managed to save it. Service was okay but it takes a while before we were served.

After winning the voucher from December's contest, we went to have our lunch at The Diet Butler one Monday afternoon. As we were still early, we were their first customers there.

The environment is quite okay, very simple. The service staff quickly showed us the menu and informed the soup of the day was brocollies soup. At first, I intended to get the grilled salmon with lemon caper sauce but was informed it was out of stock as they had a party the day before and it has been used up. So, I settled for ribeye steak with mushroom sauce. Other main course includes a grilled dory with herb and lime butter. We also order the soup, a mango and sauteed shrimp salad with cous cous, 1 tea (Pot) and 2 coffee.

For the mango and sauteed shrimp salad with cous cous, the shrimp are very fresh and sweet. The mango bite are also quite nice but we were not very used to the cous cous. I will rate it 3 out of 5.

As they have run out of mushroom sauce for the ribeye steak, they recommended another sauce for it that has pineapple blended, so that it is a bit spicy and sour. I like this sauce, very appetising. However, the ribeye steak was overcooked. My medium rare has become medium or even well done. The steak was thus tough and dry. I will rate it a 2 out of 5.

The dory fish was quite good but with the herb and lim butter sauce, you will get tired of it after a while. Luckily with the sauce from my ribeye steak, my friend can have a different taste for her dory. She let me tried some of the dory and I also prefer it with the a little spicy, sweet and sour sauce. The dory was fresh though. 3 and 1/2 points.

The best part will be the soup. The brocollis soup with some fresh cream on top was thick and nice. You can enjoy the blended brocollis in every mouthful. This is the best. I gave it a 4 and 1/2 out of 5.

Coffee and tea was standard although I would prefer my coffee to be more fragrant and have a stronger coffee aroma.

Service was good . Just that some of the food items do need some improvement. But it was good that they can recommend new things when some of the items are out of stock.

There is nothing special about this beverage stall. The drinks that they sell is very normal. I had a cup of coffee. You can taste the aroma of the coffee beans. It was not too thick and the texture was quite smooth. Very easy to drink. Not too sweet although mine has both sugar and milk/cream. The standard is comparable to all other beverage stall in other kopitiam or coffee shop. The staff will walk around and ask for your order.

The standard of this outlet is quite the norm. We decided to dine there because we happened to be there and the store has the item that my sis wants to collect. We had the meal as it is more worth it and comes with a fries and drink. I changed the drink to a hot tea. As for the burger, I had the fish fillet as it was quite nice as the fillet was well cooked. It still retain its moisture in the inside yet quite crispy on the outside. Together with the mayonese sauce, it was really delicious. Just that I always find the fish fillet burger a bit too small. The fries was okay, nothing too special. Service at this outlet was quite good.