It is hard to find a place in Singapore that serves Chicken Corden Bleu. While I do have my own go-to place to settle my cravings for Chicken Corden Bleu, I am always on the search for more places; after all having a few more places to go for a dish surely is better than having less. After I found out that J’s Wok & Grill offera this dish, I had to check them out.The Beef Fillet on Toast was a start to the food disaster. It tasted rather fine, but it was not really the dish described in the menu. Sure enough, there was melted cheese in it, but the beef fillet was more like minced beef cooked in sauce and spread on a piece of bread that was still rather soft overall despite being slightly charred on the top. We only decided to order this side as it was a chef’s recommendation, however it just does not seem worthy of its title.The main star (for me at least) was the Chicken Corden Bleu, but it was another big dissapointment looming. It looked promising until I made the first cut and there was absolutely no cheese oozing out of the chicken breast. A Chicken Corden Bleu should not be called a Chicken Corden Bleu if it is just a deep-fried rolled chicken breast with little amounts of cheese. There was no ham in sight, and the cheese did appear in some parts of the rolled chicken breast but barely tasted there and was absent in the rest of the dish. For a Chicken Corden Bleu lover, it just severely lacked the excitement of getting that flowy and stringy cheese upon cutting the fried chicken breast, and the variation of flavours provided by the chicken, ham and cheese was definitely missing. The chicken was not very tender as well, which did not improve the impression of the dish. What improved the impression of the dish however was the tasty mushroom sauce which had lots of mushroom in it and was very fragrant, and the coleslaw was pretty cold which was nice.

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The other day I was aimlessly walking around Causeway Point and decided to have lunch at Food Republic and a large banner grabbed my attention. As it seems, Gazza Pasta is a newly opened stall within Food Republic at Causeway Point and that they are having an opening promotion of having the second pizza at 50% off usual price if you ordered a pizza for as a first order.I was not particularly interested in pizza that day, and since the stall name had “pasta” in it I decided why not try their pasta instead. The Carbonara's presentation seem pretty for one that came from a food court stall, but the taste was not as outstanding. The sauce looked creamy but was pretty bland while the bacon did give it a hint of saltiness. The noodles are fairly well cooked, but it just didn’t help when the sauce was pretty much tasteless. The garlic bread was not too shabby though; enough garlic spread and being crispy on the outside and fluffy in the middle.

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I am not sure when did Chic-A-Boo Fried Chicken started operations, but I only seemed to have noticed it recently when I was around the area a few weeks back. It’s location within Ang Mo Kio Town Centre isn’t really obvious as it is in one of the coffeeshops that is located at the end of the town centre.There were choices of having it in one piece, two piece, three piece, half dozen, one dozen and family-sized combo meals. I was dining alone, so I went for the two piece Chicken meal which comes with a soup, a side and a corn bread. At $6.90, it’s priced around the same as most commercial fast food joints.The Curly Fries here tastes slightly lighter than both A&W and McDonald’s rendition, which I suppose is healthier but I just thought it was missing the kick that curly fries from those two places have in flavour that makes them so addicting and memorable.The Corn Bread here is meant to be like the biscuits that Popeyes and Texas Chicken serve with their chicken meals. What it is not though is that they are not biscuits, they are bread, but they taste more like cakes. The Corn Bread was crusty on the outside and tasted so much like Madeleines with bits of corn in them, which was somewhat interesting, but the texture was rather bad. For a bread, it was quite dense and mushy on the inside, and it was rather greasy as well so much so it felt like it sticks on the throat somehow.They had never stated what soup was going to compliment the combo meal, so it was quite a mystery until the food was ready and I found out it was Cream of Corn. Unlike other Cream of Corns which often only contain corns, they had added carrots, onions and shredded chicken in this one, which gave it some form of variety of ingredients. The soup’s taste wasn’t really altered by the additional ingredients though, and it just tasted like what it should have been.There are two types of chicken here to choose from, the “Hot & Spicy” and the “Special” one. In simpler terms, “Hot & Spicy” would be “Crispy” in KFC and “Special” would be the “Normal” in KFC. For any combo meal, you can mix the type of chicken, so I had one Hot & Spicy (which is the drumstick) and a Special. The batter used here somehow feels pretty much like the ones from fast food outlets and doesn’t have the “homemade” feel to them, which was quite expected. For the “Special”, the meat also came off from the bones quite easily and they were tender and juicy, though taste wise it’s pretty normal. I would take the “Hot & Spicy” anytime though; it’s got a real spicy kick to it and gives the meat a little bit more taste than the “Special” one though the spiciness does seem to take away part of the chicken’s flavour after a while. The chicken here are also not too greasy.

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The newest branch of Eighteen Chefs provides an environment suitable for teenagers and group gatherings; with all the popular pop music that is playing in the background and the hip and trendy furnishings, it is definitely attracting a lot of attention with teens hanging out in the Orchard area or even those whom had just finished watching a movie within Cineleisure. When we arrived for dinner at near 8pm on a Saturday evening, there was a huge crowd queueing up waiting to be seated, and a lot of other people who were walking past also took notice of the restaurant. While we were waiting for seats, we were asked to read the menu and write our orders on the order chit while given a seat with a smaller table to wait for our table. Once we got our table, we had to proceed to the counter with the order chit to make payment before waiting for food to get served.The Calamari Rings was beyond average; the light batter provided some crispiness while not seemingly too crunchy or hard. The calamari was also quite bouncy and felt pretty good in it’s texture.There were many items on the menu; some oriental while some are western. One of my friends and I decided to go for Build-Your-Own-Pasta, where one would be require to make a choice between the type of pasta/baked pasta/baked rice they prefer, along with the sauces and condiments that goes along with it. I went along with Pasta with Red White Sauce, Chicken Slices and Mushroom, which was a classic combination. The Red White sauce provided a sour tang from the tomato. The chicken slices felt pretty damp and the mushrooms tasted like canned button mushrooms which was a bit of a letdown.The other friend ordered Fish & Chips. According to how it was written in the menu, it was fried with a root beer batter, and that really shows when you have a bite of the fried fish. The familiar flavour of root beer just spreads in your mouth as you bite into the fish; it was a pretty unique flavour combined with the fish, though it seemed a tad adventurous to me and did not really suit my taste buds even if it was really outstanding compared to my pasta. The fries served with this dish seemed a bit too healthy somehow; would like it to be slightly salted as compared to being served as it is from the fryer without any seasoning.

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Their outlet at King Albert Park seemed to be popular amongst students from the schools that lined across Bukit Timah Road as the outlet was filled with students, so it was lucky that we could find a seat that was a distance away to keep ourselves from the crowd. Having came out with many creative flavours that are close to the heart of locals such as Teh Tarik, Chendol, Milo Ping Pong and Pulau Hitam, they have definitely won some of the hearts of their loyal customers.Fresh Bananas is a banana-flavoured ice-cream. Like it’s name, it tastes very fresh and seemingly real. It was also rather smooth as well. Milo Ping Pong is named as such for the marshmallows that are in this Milo-flavoured ice-cream that seemed like ping pong balls. The Milo ice-cream tastes very thick and rich, with the marshmallows giving it quite a chew. However, the flavour was being led down by it’s slightly rough texture where there were ice bits that formed in the ice-cream.