[49 seats]
Location: Orchard Central Level 8 (Main branch at 49 Kreta Ayer Rd)
This orchard branch definitely is much spacious than the main outlet, with more than 49 seats of course.
Deco: Theme metal. The restaurant uses metal furniture, with wiremesh as wall decorations. Even dish plates & bowls are all metal ones.
Food: Western. Main courses includes a selection of pastas, fish & chips, chicken chop and steak. There's also soups, side dishes & desserts for you to start and end your meal with.
My friend and I ordered Golden Escagots, Tom Yum Seafood Pasta and Cheesy Chicken Chop.
Golden Escagots was served in a small metal bowl. Each escagot is deep fried into a crispy golden ball. Tasted really bland with no dips to go along and each bite into the balls has oil dripping out! Too oily!
Tom Yum Seafood Pasta was quite a surprised choice. The tom yum gravy was really creamy with hint of sour and spiciness that made this fusion Thai + western creation a yummy one! You could see all the tables around ordered this dish
Cheesy chicken chop didn't stand out like the Tom Yum Pasta. Although the meat was well marinated but too much tomato aftertaste. Decent but no wow factor.
We didn't order any desserts because we already made plans to go for Korean Bingsu after 49.
Verdict: Decent food and non expensive prices. But not much of wow factor that will let me come the second time unless my friends wanted to.

【Chick And Ken】
Owners behind Stateland & Honeycomb started another new wings joint opened at Lor Telok to follow the current Korean fried chicken trend.

Last Saturday, I went to try it out with my hubby. First impression already failed us because it's supposed to operate at 12noon but when we walk past the back alley at 12.10pm, chefs were smoking behind. When we stepped into the shop, the lady assistant told us that kitchen wasn't ready and ask us to come back 20-30mins later So we went to have ramen first. Our tummies were almost 80% full before we complete of actual mission of trying out the wings.
At Chick and Ken, the deco is the same as Stateland cafe. We only ordered 4 whole wings, 2 flavours of Salted egg + Yangnyeom, & a drink. No space for other dishes.

From many social media channels, I saw most people like their salted egg wings more. But for me, No WOW factor because my hubby makes better Salted Egg sauce than this 😁
Without the coated sauce, the wings are just bland wings. If only they were marinated...
Compared to the Salted Egg wings, I prefer the red ones, Yangnyeom wings But I prefer them to be more spicy, if possible.
Love the crunchiness of the peanuts & the nuts fragrance aftertaste that stays in my mouth
Probably I won't visit again for their wings, unless jio by friends. But I may come try their bingsu when I'm around this vicinity or if I'm super free

[Song Fa Bak Kut Teh]
Location: The Seletar Mall
My 1st visit at Song Fa although they have have been around in the market for so many years. It was very crowded when my family & I visited this Seletar Mall branch. We queued for 35mins before the waitress showed us to our seats.
Decor: The whole place was decorated like 1970s old nanyang style, with those attap house roof & harbour/jetty wallpaper. Dark walnut colored wooden tables & stools were used in this Song Fa. An old replicated Bak Kut Teh wooden cart stall was also displayed outside the restaurant.
Service: Staff were very attentive. Their speedy service in clearing up the tables after customers leaves, deserves a thumbs up. Customers queuing outside are also given the menu to order food first. Food served once we are seated.
Food: Song Fa BKT serves ribs in peppery broth. Every sip is filled with the pepper and spices fragrant. The meat on the ribs is tender too.
Soaking the dough fritters into the soup before I gulp it down is a "must-do" step as the 油炸鬼 tastes better this way!
The Liver + Kidney soup that we ordered, comes in the same peppery soup as the ribs. Best part is, the liver & kidney are so soft & not overcooked. Yum!
The pork trotters meat are not as tender as what we expect it to be but at least the springy "Q" texture is still in the skin. The intestines "粉肠" that my hubby adds on, is so flavourful. It has already absorbed all the gravy when cooking.
My family & I also ordered some greens to go along with so much meat that we consume. The poached Kailan with oyster sauce and preserved salty vegetable. And after all the fatty food, we put our Song Fa journey to an end by enjoying mini cups of chinese tea to digest some of the oil inside our tummy.. Haha..
Experience: The overall experience was good and my family liked the food also. Although Song Fa BKT is yet the best I've eaten but their standards are definitely above average. Keep it up, boys!

[Honeycomb]
I came across this new ice cream station, Honeycomb, while cafe-ing at neighboring Stateland cafe.
It was quiet with no customers when I stepped in during meal times. Probably not much people know about them yet.
The interiors have displays of old equipments such as old skool telephone, fan, chairs etc but also with added modern items such as Craftholics plush which don't really blend in. There's only 1 lady working & she was busy pasting the logo stickers on every paper cups they using to store the frozen yogurt when I walked in.
There are 5 choices of frozen yogurt combi to chose from. Differences are the toppings which includes chocolate sauce, salted caramel sauce, matcha granola etc. I ordered the classic version, original frozen yogurt with honeycomb & liquid honey syringe. This portion is $6.00
The frozen yogurt texture is smooth, but the piece of raw honeycomb wasn't really tasted. The liquid honey from the syringe is too sweet for my liking also.
Well well, I will continue to search for better frozen yogurt

Macau's famous Pork Chop bun 猪扒包 finally arrives in Singapore. They have chosen serangoon NEX as their first station. Situated just next to the escalator, it's really not easy to missed it. It was a Saturday afternoon when I visited but the shop wasn't crowded.

The shop was not designed to resemble Macau, only with a big pink piggy signage & a lamp pole stating "macau" on it. The place wasn't big also, 30 seaters the most. For the menu, other than their signature bun, they do serve other choices such as pork chop rice/noodle set, curry fishballs, chicken wings, desserts etc. The prices was on the high side.

I ordered their signature 猪扒包 & a pork chop rice. It took them 10mins to serve me my bun & a little longer for my rice set which I think it's too long. The place wasn't crowded also but existing customers got to gather around the pick up area to wait for their food. The staff there wasn't well trained also. Counter staff wasn't very polite when taking orders from me & kept asking me in singlish "no more ah? Only 2 items ah? That's all ah?" 😔 Another auntie was shouting food queue number across the whole place every now & then 😂 

Back to my orders. The bun oni consists of a piece of pork chop & the bun, nothing else so I don't see why the drag. It's $6.90 for your info. The meat slice was thin, abit dry & not flavourful enough. The punch is not there whereas the marinate doesn't give you the wow factor. I wouldn't say it was not nice but just no surprise. Although I can't remember the taste I had in Macau but I think these served locally can be improved. 

The pork chop rice set comes in small portion also. $7.90 with the same type of pork chop slice but with a sunny side up, little rice & accompanied by their curry gravy. It's was too small a portion to feed my hubby. Hahaha.. Sunny side up was overcooked & no runny egg yolk. But I could say the curry gravy saved the day. The curry gravy was thick & fragrant, tastes very different from our usual local nonya curry. It goes really well with the relatively bland pork chop & rice. So I guessed the curry fishballs should be good

I will give this place another try someday, to try other dishes on the menu, especially the pork chop polo bun which was yet to be available when I visited. Hopefully the polo bun version can be the hero! By then, I wished that staff performance can improved too, it's such an important factor for service line.