Bought these few last minute cake slices for my mom's birthday as we went out for her birthday dinner spontaneously! There is peach, strawberries and kiwi ontop of the fruit cake. A tad sour for me! I guess it depends on your luck to get the sweet ones. The almond flakes at the side added a nice touch to the soft sponge-like texture of the cake! The cream was quite rich as well. I scrapped it off as i felt it was too much.

I prefer the chocolate cake if i had to choose between the two. The chocolate cake had a small piece of white chocolate ontop and is decorated by 2 strawberries. These were a little more sweet than the ones on the fruit cake. The chocolate taste was very rich and it smelt quite aromatic too! It was very soft too.

Tried the squid ink pasta - $5.80 nett. I can only say this dish should be ordered when you're with company that you're very comfortable with. Definitely not a first date food item unless you're going for a quirky date.

The squid ink will stain your teeth and lips and you'll need many many many pieces of serviettes to clean it off.
Luckily, there's a free flow of drinks at a cheap price of $2.80 where you can gurgle it off.

I didn't really enjoy the taste of the pasta and got sick of it after awhile. Plus, ii was busy cleaning the stains of my mouth, very tiring! lol.
The squid was a bit rubbery, took awhile for me to chew it.

I would definitely come back for other items on the menu as the prices are very affordable!
Service is also quite prompt and the food comes quickly. They have a button to press for service, very wise, so patrons dont have to keep waving their hands to call for attention!

This eating place now only allow take-aways as they're going through some renovation work/still in some sort of legal problem over land ownership.

Anyhow, the glory days of this restaurant seems to be of the past as majority of the reviews nowadays are mostly negative and few still recommend this place. A little sad for a place with so much history

I went with my mom and sister once and the food was indeed disappointing.
Oil for them was like free-flow and the i can only imagine the cook to be an amateur, or one who burnt his taste buds away while learning how to cook.

The chicken had more bones than meat and it was like lucky draw trying to get those pieces with full meat in it. I could only taste a wee bit of flavour from the chicken and was turned off by the oil that was dripping away like a spoilt tap. The vegetable was.. edible. Although, again, drenched in oil. You can see the puddle of oil where we tipped the plate to let the oil flown down. Otherwise, it'll be like drinking oil again.

The fried rice was actually OK. Maybe after the disappointing chicken and vege, i've already lowered my expectations. The portion was just nice for the 3 of us as we aren't big rice eaters (luckily.)I hope they do something about the food and not tarnish the name further; really miss the taste of good zi bao ji.

I had lunch here when it wasn't really a lunch period so the restaurant was quite empty. There was only 2 other tables occupied throughout the entire time i was there.

The exterior looked pretty grand for a place in orchard central, the interior was however, very simple and neat. Just chairs and tables around in an orderly fashion. A little disappointing as I was expecting it to have a more Indonesia decor feel.

Upon entering the restaurant, the food can be seen presented like the "cai fan" store (economical rice store), with the dishes laid out and one can just point and order whatever you want. We got seated quickly and went off to order the food, literally just pointing and asking for the food. haha! Hawker concept in restaurant setting!

As it was not the lunch hour, our food was served pretty quickly. Also, the dishes weren't cold (unlike some cai fan stores, after lunch hour the food starts to turn cold). Anyhow, the staff were also very prompt in service (but maybe because it felt like there were more waiters/waitresses than customers). One of the staff kept pushing us to order the drinks too! (Dont like this ): ), but i guess it may be because she felt that the food may be too spicy for us (told her when ordering that i cant take extremely spicy food!) So, i guess, customer service? lol.

Onto the food!

We ordered
1. Sambal udang petai (praws and exotic beans in sambal) - $9.50

I like the prawns! It was very crunchy. The sambal was kind of overwhelming for me. Low threshold for spice ): Luckily, the rice they serve was there to buffer the spiciness.

2. Sambal terong (eggplants in sambal & anchovies) - $7

My love for eggplants didn't die here! yay! I like the squishy, melt in mouth kind of eggplants, and it was perfect for me! However, there was no anchovies taste at all, neither were there any bits of anchovies. I suspect they grind the anchovies into powder form and the sambal had overpowered the taste of anchovies.

3. Rendang daging sapi (beef redang (or cattle meat rendang) - $8

This was one of the chef's recommendation and i can see why. The beef was soft and tender enough and the flavour of the rendang came out nicely. One of the best beef rendang i've eaten before!!

4. Kari Kambing (mutton curry) - $9.50

OK dish. I used the curry for the rice! haha! it was delightful (:

The prawns, eggplant and beef rendang were all chef's recommendation and it was not disappointing at all!

The only gripe i have for this place is that it's a little costly! But if you're willing to pay for good food, this is one of the place to try padang cuisine!

OMG, Outrageously overpriced! For $6 in a hawker centre, i don't think the fish and chips is worth it. Plus, it wasn't that amazing too. There was too much batter which drowned the fish. It felt like there was more flour than the fish itself.
A few of the fries were also a little soggy, felt like there mix a few recently fried one with some older batch.
The coleslaw was a little too sour for my liking.
Garlic bread also felt like it was left out in the open for a little too slow. The sides wasn't crispy ):
I guess the beans were the only acceptable item out of everything on the plate seeing that they can't go wrong with canned beans.

I didn't like that i had to go over to the store to pick it up myself when they had like 3 people in the store (and they didn't need so many) who were practically just standing around doing nothing and one of them had to do everything.

I will not recommend this store as i think the food prices are well too exorbitant and the fish and chips aren't nice at all.

I also noticed that most of their food prices isn't hawker-friendly? They had this spaghetti dish that went up to $11?!?! Unbelievable. I wonder who is willing to fork out that much.. hmm. maybe that dish isn't that bad? They also sell chicken wings which seem to be more popular than the other items on the menu. Perhaps, those would be better than the fish and chips!