Dewy's Profile

At first, I was skpetical about the buffet spread at Grand Park Orchard. But as other hotels buffet prices are steep, I decided to try it out at Grand Park Orchard. And it did not disappoint me. The spread is not much but the quality of the food is there. I like the concept where you place an order with the station's cook, and they will serve the food to you. There is no need to queue. You can savour other dishes at your table while waiting for your next food to be served. This concept has another advantage. The serving station is less messy. The first station serves roast meat, pork char siew, duck and chicken. I am not a fan of roast meat, but they are juicy and tender, nicely done. The second station serves noodles. They have mee siam, laksa, sichuan and wanton mee. I tried the mee siam and laksa. I prefer laksa as the concoction of coconut milk and spiciness is just right. Mee siam is not so nice to my taste bud. There is a big fresh prawn in the mee siam and laksa. Although they are local hawker dishes, they are cooked to perfection in Grand Park.The third station serves dim sum. The standard har gao, siew mai, bao, lotus leaf rice are delicious and not too salty. The lotus leaf rice could be better though. It looses point when compared to that of Crystal Jade. The fourth station serves pizza. These are freshly baked hand-made pizza. The crust is thin and the ingredients are fresh. We only have enough stomach for a Teriyaki Chicken pizza. It is very nice, unlike those in Pizza Hut. It looks more like those in Skinny Pizza. One such 10' pizza can easily cost $15++. Over here in Open House, you are spoilt with unlimited serving of 4 choices.The fifth station serves claypot dishes. Claypot is a must have here. We ordered assam fish slices. It tates nice but not spicy enough. Perhaps they want to cater to those who cannot take spiciness. Too bad, we are so full that we have no room to try other claypot dishes. The last is a salad bar where you take what you like. The centre is also opening serving type where all the cakes and fruits are. The cakes are of good quality type. I adore the chocoloate mousse cake, chocolate blueberry cake and mango cake. You can help yourself to ice cream too! I think kids will love this. Service wise, they are prompt in clearing your plate and refill your glasses. There is also complimentary car park for lunch buffet including Saturday. For the price of $25++, it is a good deal in one of the high-end hotels in Orchard. I will return. …Read More

My hubby and I are breakfast persons. We like to try out breakfast at different places. Last Sunday we were at Ngee Ann City. We reached before 10am and realised that there were not many choices for breakfast there. We passed by Coffee Bean Bistro, their breakfast set is about $16-18. After walking aimlessly for a while, I suddenly thought of Paul at level 3.The breakfast set is rather simple. It consists of 2 eggs, 2 slices of grain bread, sautee potato (in place of unhealthy harshbrown), cherry tomato and 1 big slice of ham. It costs $9.80 (before GST & service charge).The down side is that, this set does not come with coffee/ tea. I ordered a flat white coffee, cost $5.60. It is rather small cup compare to Starbuck. The breakfast set and coffee appear reasonably priced on the menu. But after GST and service charge, the bill was $29.50. The price is not cheap. But the furnishing and decor of the cafe compensated it. We were given a window seat, so the whole breakfast experience was nice. It makes you feel that you are in overseas cafe. It is unlikely that I will return for breakfast. But I will drop by for some nice french bread if I am around that area. For coffee that price, Starbuck is better.…Read More

I have tried MK several times when I was in Bangkok, and I do like it very much. Unlike Singapore, chinese style steamboat is not so commonly found in Bangkok. MK seems to dominate this market by having outlets in all major shopping malls in Bangkok. I am happy to see MK here in 313. The chicken soup is light but not bland and not oily. I am not sure if it tastes nice because of MSG, I did not feel thristy after the meal. Their own brand chilly sauce is very nice too. For those who like it more spicy, you can spice it up with garlic and chiily padi. We did not order the vegetable platter but ala cart items instead. I find that the vegetable set ($18) a little expensive since it only consists of vegetables, which are very cheap items. We ordered 7 items - 2 meats, 2 mushrooms, 1 Thai fish paste, 1 cabbage, 1 crabstick roll + 2 rice. It cost about $30++ for 2 pax. Price wise, it is reasonable, consider that the restuarant is clean, service is prompt (fast refill of plain water) and location is in Orchard. It depends on what you order really. If you are a small eater, or do not want a heavy meal, MK is a good choice. Personally, I do not like those steamboat outlets commonly found in Bugis area. Though you might be paying $$ for buffet, the food serving counter is messy, jam packed with people, aircon not strong or semi open air dinning. People over indugle in food, there are so much left over on the table. Prawn shells and seafood shells can be seen lying on the floor everywhere. The sight turns me off even before I decided to dine in any one of them. …Read More

Last weekend I walked past Red Sun Bubble Tea shop in TPY and it was closed. The pricing board displayed outside the shop was also taken down. I suppose it was unsustainable due to high rental, stiff competition from Gong Cha and Koi, and low sale. When it first started about half a year ago, I knew it wouldn't last long. The shop space is too big for a newbie whose sole product is bubble tea. The shop is located at a very prominent corner, yet each time I walked pass Red Sun, there was hardly any queue, unlike the nearby Koi, which draws more crowd. It is hilarious for Red Sun to install an electronic queue number board, where it was hardly being used. I bought milk tea from them a couple of times and I quite like the taste of the tea and texture of the pearl. They always gave a packet of tissue along with purchase. Perhaps, they could have survived if they rented a smaller shop space with lower rent. Or maybe they are simply over confident that their tea would be a bigger hit than the strong boys like Koi and Gong Cha. …Read More