A quiet find, located in a part of the Central Mall's basement, where everything else is Asian, here's one Indie Cafe.

With a section of the cafe selling groceries, the rest of the cafe are seating areas for dine-in customers. Order your food at the counter, get a seat, wait for the food to arrive, savour and pay before leaving the store.
No GST or service charge here.

The food sold here is largely organic; sounds and looks really healthy. Prices are good too. Certainly not over-priced.

Apart from pastas and sandwiches, the cafe sells all-day breakfast, all for under S$10.

Tried out their Blueberry & Bananas French Toast and Sun-Rise English breakfast.

The toast was spongy, soaked with maple syrup, it was delightfully sweet. The sweetness was just right, not over-powering. A thin mashed layer of bananas sat between the two slices of thick toast. Unique presentation and food quality.

The English breakfast had a somewhat different presentation as well. Unlike the usual set that comes with sausages and bacon, the dish here instead had a small baked potato, minus the sausages and bacon. Absolutely loved the slightly burnt mushrooms. It was nice to be able to savour the juices from the mushrooms. I've had experiences eating mushrooms burnt so badly, there were hard and dry.

Finding seating in the cafe was easy. For a relaxing and slow start to a rest day, Real Food is a recommended place to visit!

I remember Waraku used to be the talk of the town when it first started out in Singapore.. starting the Japanese restaurant hype.

When I visited, the place was almost empty. Tables aplenty to choose from. Wait staff all fighting for your service.

Glad too that it was quiet, nice to have a quiet leisurely meal with a friend.

As the name suggests, don't expect anything other than pasta and more pasta. Every dish is accompanied with pasta.

So we have here the Mushroom Chicken Pasta and a Seafood Pasta.

The pasta was alright but the Seafood sauce mix proved too overwhelming - it was too salty. We had to wave the manager over to ask if the dish is usually this salty. "Yes" was the reply. Too bad then. We just had to finish it with no chance of an exchange.

Nothing to shout about about the Mushroom Chicken Pasta. Simple meal.

Rather pricey I must say, averaging S$15 per person.
Won't be back in the near future unless suggested or forced by others.

A similar concept to that of Xin Wang and a typical HK cafe. Selling bread and butter stuff, with the caffeine drinks of Coffee and Tea, there are also the blended drinks and smoothies to cater to the Singaporeans.

The outlet here is rather cramp and seating was a little tough. The staff are also not very attentive to you, it would require some bit of waving to get their attention.

Ordered the Fried wanton noodle meal and the Sardine tomyum noodle soup.

The Tomyum was ahhh.. spicy! It was very much like those you find in Malaysia.. looks mild but, hard on the tongue. Clear soup, it was light though.

The Wanton noodle, as usual, I have gripes about the fillings in local wantons. I feel as if I'm just eating the fried skin, with maybe just a drop of minced meat. Liked the noodles though. It was not soggy and had a light 'spring' to it.

On the 3rd level corner of the shopping mall (new wing), there is a cluster of Japanese stalls, selling a variety of Japanese meals. A buffet concept recently opened up as well, which I have not got round to trying.

The place is rather dark, lighting is dim though the ambience is certainly set apart from the usual foodcourts.

The place is largely run and managed by Chinese. There might be one or two authentic Japanese chefs still, though I cannot quite tell who is who. They are all shouting out Japanese greetings and phrases. To a lesser extent than what you would hear in Japan.

Here, we tried the Pork Belly garlic fried rice. Served in a really hot ceramic bowl, the dish came smelling really fragrant. The food got a little too salty for the taste-buds after a while. The garlic fried rice could have been better, taste wise. It was bland. Lacked the omph.

Like how the Japanese have an electronic scale machine to weigh out their rice. Just press a button (which I assume specifies the portion of rice), have an empty bowl at the collection point and.. wala. Always equal portions of rice for each customer.
Which for Singaporeans, makes it tough to say, "less rice, more rice". The Japanese just takes whatever is served, and, finishes up every morsel!

If you want a choice of Japanese meal without having to walk far or fret that your companion might want something other than what you wish, try, Ishi Mura.

So much reviews and adverts for the place, but, I left disappointed.

Certainly, nothing beats the 'real thing' after having tried them in Japan. Far from it.. although the name claims the Gyozas are hand-made, and authentic from Osaka.

Most of the rice/noodle sets came with a plate of 3 gyozas.
We had ordered a Fried rice set (fried rice + soup + 6 gyozas) and a Pork Cutlet Toji to share.

Food service here is prompt and good. It took a few minutes for the dishes to be served.

The fried rice was very fragrant and very tasty too! Absolutely loved it. I might visit the place again just for the fried rice.
The gyoza, I could not tell if they were really hand-made or mass produced in the factory. There was nothing extraordinary about the taste or presentation or fillings. In our opinion, they were like most gyozas we find in other Japanese eateries around the island.

When the Pork cutlet arrived, we wondered if we had ordered the wrong dish. It was like a bowl of egg soup, with slight sightings of some meat, served in a claypot. It was soupy, wet. A little too eggy for us.

Well, the visit was disappointing as I was expecting slightly more than what I got.