We were there for a friend’s birthday. The ambience and the décor were nice, especially the lights. However, the service there was poor although the boss and lady boss were nice and friendly. The waiting time for the food to be served was far too long. We waited for more than an hour and a half for our food to be served. When the food arrived, the serving of our pasta looked pathetically small. And the presentation didn’t look appealing at all. (Refer to the pictures above. A picture says a thousand words.)
Needless to say, the taste was so-so only.

As mentioned earlier, the boss and lady boss there were nice since they kept apologizing to us and gave us complimentary starter, dessert – tiramisu and red wine as well! (although the wine was not strong but diluted. What can we ask since it’s free?)

Was in rather bad mood that day, thus, went to Orchard alone.

Initially, going to have my dinner at Ngee Ann City since i was window shopping there but the food court and the fast food there were too crowded. Instead, I walked over to Wisma Atria and went to Food Republic.

After going one round of the food court and see what's available, I chosed this stall and ordered their Ayam Penyet (or the smashed chicken) since:
a) I was pretty hungry and the serving looked big
b) there were more seat available at this side of stalls, hence no need to walk too far searching for a seat, carrying a tray of food
c) there was a corner with more seats near this stall and it's isolated with only 3 groups of diners (including me) since i need some quiet, personal time.

The service is rather bad. As the menu said it came with ayam, rice and soup, however, no soup was given until i asked for it to another staff (not the one who served me since right after she passed me my rice, she turned her head away). The staff that I posed the question to said, "yes" and asked her colleague (the one who served me). Know what is her colleague's reply?
"No more small bowl."
The staff was a bit embarrassed and quickly took a big bowl and scoop the soup for me.

The appearance (or presentation) of the food was still passable until I started to savour it. The soup was cold (don't they heat up the soup continuosly?). The chicken skin was crispy but there was still some blood that can be seen on the chicken inside. (forgot to take picture of the blood)
It also served with two pieces of fried tofu and they were okay. The chilli was okay too but may be a tad too spicy for those who don't eat spicy stuffs. The rice given was generous but as I mentioned, the chicken was not that well-cooked, hence, I didn't finish them off.

Since I was pretty hungry last Monday, I ordered the BBQ Chicken Set from the stall named Food Korea which cost $5.50. As you can see from the picture above, it was served with rice, bbq chicken, fried ikan bilis, kimchi and soup.

Overall, the serving was pretty big. The chicken was served in hot plate and it taste pretty ok. The meat was quite tender and neither too salty nor spicy. However, the fried ikan bilis were not crunchy, in fact a bit soft and the kimchi served tasted a bit weird to me, unlike kimchi served in other Korean stalls. (Anyway, what should be the taste of an authentic kimchi? I have no idea…)

On the other hand, the environment was quite noisy since it was dinner time and the place was packed with people. Worse, there were flies flying around the table and kept circling my bbq chicken. And I have to keep swatting the flies, preventing them landing on my food. Sigh…

Friend said that he's okay with eating ramen as my treat for his birthday, hence, we decided to try out Yoshimaru Ramen Bar - the outlet at ECP, Playground @ Big Splash.

Since we can't decide what toppings we want and also wished to try everything, both of us ordered their Moridakusan Ramen (All-in) and hot ocha. Once we had placed our order, we were given a pestle and mortar with some sesame seeds inside. We were supposed to crush the sesame before garnishing them into our ramen soup.

Overall, the ramen tasted ok. However, the soup was a bit salty for us. The mentaiko (one of the toppings) was salty too. Although the egg looked a bit like salted egg from its appearance, they were actually normal chicken eggs. The char siew were quite nice.

As we were too busy taking photos of ourselves, we had forgotten to take the picture of the food itself. As such, the ramen photo posted above was a result of cut and paste from our photos. Pardon for the low quality of photo. You can see part of our hands or fingers there too!

After slurping down the ramen, we were full and hence, we did not try out their mini burgers. However, whenever the waiter walked passed us with the mini burgers, I'm so tempted to order them since they looked so cute. Hmm, maybe I shall try them next time.

P/S: To me, ajisen ramen still tastes better.

This was my second visit to Pariss International Seafood Buffet.

First visit was in Sep 2009 and my friends and i left with satisfying stomach and good impression. The staffs were friendly and it was their x? (sorry, i don't really remember) anniversary and we were given free life-time membership which entitle us with 10% discount.

We visited again early this month (why not, since we have 10% discount, right?). However, we are left with disappointment unlike the first visit. Overall, there are lesser variety compared to last year and the portion shrink as well! Especially those oysters and crab!

My favourite corner - dessert were definitely shrink in variety! Gone were thoose nice, appealing cakes that scream "Eat me!". Left were some pathethic cakes that looked dull and not appeatizing at all.

The floor near the dessert section was oily and slippery. Overall, it gave me the feeling that i was walking towards the restroom of some old coffeeshop or worse, market!

Albeit all the disgruntlement above, there was at least an improvement compared to year 2009. Yeay, the plastic that wrapped around the sushi roll are gone! I didn't notice there were plastic around the sushi when i first there (in 2009) until my friend ask, "How come no plastic on your plate? I thought you ate a lot of sushi?" Right at that moment, i felt like vomiting since i had at least 5 sushi which meant 5 non-biodegradable plastic lurking somewhere in my stomach and intestine. Oh, gosh! Although there was a notice informing diners to remove the plastic before eating, how many of us will actually go and read since we were too busy to choose which colourful and nice sushi should we eat? How about those small kids and illiterate uncles and aunties? Do they deserve to eat in all those plastic? Is the plastic used food grade in the first place? Anyway, all these are finally solved with the stop usage or removal of plastic before placing the sushi at the counters for diners. An improvement at least...