Having heard a friend mentioned that it's nice and there is free flow ice cream and drink, I decided to check it out. This branch at Dhoby Ghaut MRT has a unique layout, being split into 3 section along the direction of the pedestrian lane. I thought that I could explore other eateries and walked along it, but saw it's Just Acia again. However, despite the large spread, it's quite crowded with youngsters.

The dinner is simple and the dishes are actually quite healthy. Not salty to the extent, I feel it's a little plain. However, for my mom, it's good. She complained later that it doesn't feel full.

They have a wide selection of hot drinks and cold drinks. The queue is however for the ice-cream. The girls just queued up for many rounds of it. There were 6 to 8 tubs of different flavour - from choc, vanilla, coffee, banana, etc - and almost all were finished within the hour I had my dinner. The hot fav seems to be choc, though I prefer the coffee.

Simple and okay for me. Falls into "let's move on to my tasks" category.

i got a little hungry at the Buona Vista MRT station and needed a snack. Having checked out the soya bean drink so often, I decided to venture into trying the bean snacks at Mr Bean. After all, they are the bean specialist, right?

They have small packets of beans in the display counter. At $2 each, it looks good for me and my mom. She picked the BBQ one over the spicy one. Taste: The beans are quite small, and lightly sprinkled with salt - which is fine. However, I couldn't taste much of the bean at all. She ate some, passed to me, I ate some, passed back to her.

Okay, we finished half and the other half is still lying around in my snack box at home. Verdict: can do without. As a after thought - maybe it goes well with the soya bean drink (which we didn't buy)?

I was driving along the singapore polytechnic when I thought hey, how is the food there like? NUS and NTU have each a few good stalls. How about SP? I went in and saw a small queue for Asian Delights - which sells japanese food mainly (though there is nasi lemak type of food). After all, NUS/NTU has also upgraded the food stalls, so this may be good.

Well, I like the part that the dish ($3 or 4 ) was hot - both rice and chicken. However, the owner put too much sauce - so it was too salty. I left the last 20% of rice untouched.

Someone pls tell me if there is any yummy food there? In other canteens? The one I went to is at T1.

When I first saw the queue, and maybe I was attracted by the wooden hut like outlook , I joined the queue. There was a little "lobby"-like waiting area and it was warm. So we went out after getting the number. After 15mins, we went back.

Finally the number was called. We were hastily seated and shoved the menus. Okay, we thought, this was casual dining. The ambience is not too bad actually, a little dimmed down, but the waiters were talking loudly and there was a lot of clunking from the plates. The food was so so - I mean it's casual right? I mean I am comparing what I ordered vs food court's. Okay, the variety is more (don, bento, etc), but the food? Not sure if the quality is there.

It was late, so we thought we should be the last group and hence, the crowd and din should thin out. Well, the crowd yes, but not the noisy. The waiter kept "rushing" to clear the plates, almost in a demanding manner (before I can finish my food). I don't know what's the hurry, as there is no additional incoming consumers and it's still some time to closing hours.

Finally, it was time to pay. Patiently I waited behind a short queue (again). I saw the cashier swiping the credit card in an almost furious manner, apparently frustrated with the machine. I asked what happened, but she refused to answer, choosing to stare angrily behind her small counter for the signal for another swipe. The customer in front was helpless too, but didn't offer any help. I chose to go to the washroom in the meantime. When I came back, she was still trying to swipe.

Common sense, lady. Hence, I suggested for her to collect cash for customers who have them.

I paid mine in cash and left quickly.

Notice I didn't comment too much on the quality of food. The name of the restaurant did say it all - casual. Maybe the food was authentic or whatever, but I was busy filtering out the noise and defending our plates with food from the waiters. The only part I like was - we did find our ways to enjoy - chatting amidst all the cluttering. Just that you need to be louder.

The peace is restored when we step out. it's a relief.

I was at Park Mall shopping for furniture when I chanced upon this hidden on the 4th floor. Hungry, we just stepped in. After all, the name is so familiar, named after the famous mongolian warrior Hu Bi Lei. They had well advertised few years back. We wanted to try for novelty.

Type of food: They have a widespread - from mongolian, to japanese cuisine, seafood cuisine, chinese cuisine.

Ambience: I call it classical chinese. Read: a little old outdated. However, there is a central kitchen with glass panel where they cook for you the mongolian food. You choose the meat (eg pork, chicken, mutton), and some vege, and they fry it on a hotplate.

There are chinese nationals eating and talking loudly, seemingly having just knocked off from work.

Taste: there is nothing really special. The mongolian meat is a little salty. I don't remember the taste now - which speaks volumes. The japanese and seafood cuisine helped me fill my stomach. The rice is cold. The seafood is still okay, with large bright prawns.

Cost: Not cheap. $30++

Overall experience: Not a delightful experience. I didn't even feel the atmosphere of a mongolian restaurant at all. How should it be? Ahh, that's the problem, they couldn't even convey this. Much is missing. It's like a normal buffet which is in this case not well done.

Kinda of boring and feel it's a waste of money.