Kkongdon is located on the first floor of SAFRA Toa Payoh. It is a 5-min leisure walk from Toa Payoh Interchange. The restaurant is not immediately visible upon entering the cold building, one has to walk right in, past the lift lobby and through a pair of glass doors. We were here for dinner after a company event.The interior is dark because of the dim lighting in the middle and the strong lighting hitting against the walls from spotlights. I think that having Japanese katakana on the board below the shop's logo is a bit confusing for people who are not familiar with both cultures.One table sits four people with a big pan in the middle and a smoke vent on top. There is a set of 5 types of sauces on the left and right side of each table. I didn't try them at all because they looked like they're pretty hot. The restaurant's not very spacious but it was still able to accommodate us when we requested for extra chairs around our table.The salad bar was very tiny. There were 8 types of vegetables at first. None are remotely nice except for maybe the super sour seaweed, raw lettuce and boiled lotus root. Later, halfway through our meal, they added big bean sprouts, and luckily it's not weird-tasting like the others! I tried all and only a few were okay, it's quite sad for a veggie lover like me.My colleague and I had Set A. Sweet marinated short ribs and spicy chicken. ($20.80++) The set includes:The raw ribs and chicken.Korean rice cakes.Bean paste stew with tofu.

And rice.The service staff did brush a layer of oil or something on the flat pan but our chicken and short ribs got stuck to the pan pretty badly!! They became charred really easily!! So the bits stuck onto the pan kept getting more and more charred. -_-"

The meat was still sticking to the pan even after the service staff came to brush layers of oil, twice. -_-"

Though the pan was really bad, the meat turned out quite okay. Mainly because of the marinate?

The short rib is tough and hard to separate from the bone. But the marinate makes it taste nice. It's not too salty nor sweet.

The spicy chicken is also tough and true enough, it's hot and spicy but nothing I can't take. However, it's a tad too spicy for my colleague.

The stew is okay, still edible. The tofu is soft and Singaporean market tofu. Didn't notice any meat inside though they're supposed to be there.

As for the final dish, it's the rice cakes. Like.. The colour of the dish is okay and may make one think it should taste nice but it's got no taste actually. Bland. Looks are deceiving.

Overall, it's a very bad dinner, it's the first time in a while for me to have such a disappointing meal. I will never go back to any Kkongdon in the future.

I don't know if it's a case of desperate-for-customers or what, but the woman who served us jumped to the conclusion that we're students and ushered us in telling us that we can get the Student Deals. It was dinner time but the restaurant was far from crowded. Quite a feat for a restaurant located at the basement of Tampines 1 which was facing the exit/entrance of the Tampines MRT Station.Chicken Stew with Olive Rice. $8.

As you can see from the photo, it is ugly. My honest first impression.

However, the taste was okay. The chicken is not very tender but it's chewable. The stew is not spicy, not too salty, but also very bland.

The rice is good because it's very fragrant and smooth. So it makes up for the not-so-good stew.

I think I will never visit BBQ Chicken anymore, thank you very much.

As this restaurant was the one with the fewest people, we went in to settle our dinner. Big mistake. Putting "Crystal Jade" in its name was their mistake. It makes people's expectations much higher than necessary.

While the dish looked pretty good on the menu, it didn't look half as good in real life:Maybe the pan was too big. Maybe they should buy a smaller pan. Or simply, enlarge the portions?

The pasta had no taste, it's very bland even though the brown sauce was all over it. The egg was too dry for my liking. The vegetables were the worst! Half-cooked or did they even visited the wok? Or just dipped into boiling water? I don't know, they're really hard to chew which shouldn't be the case.

The fish, oh, the fish. Not very fresh and tasteless. Again, the brown sauce itself was tasteless so both the fish fillet and the pasta were bland. -_-"

Will never visit it again. Waste of money and space (of Bugis+).

I visited Mad Jack for the first time in NEX and ordered this chicken chop.

I had a good impression when I visited the Mad Jack at Jalan Kayu. The baked rice I had then was good and their sides were yummy too.

However, these impressions did not tally with the chicken chop. The standard was.. non-existent. I was disappointed with the entire dish. The chicken was not tender enough, the sauce was just bad and the service was not very friendly as well. The only saving grace was the fries, but well, it's FRIES! -_-"

Well, I hope it improves the standard of their dishes and services, then maybe I'll visit it again.

That day, I was attending a training session in the CCK ITE. So it was kind of a "no choice" situation that we had to settle lunch in the school canteen called, Matrix.

The chicken chop looks good. However, the taste did not match the appearance. I've never felt that food could taste this blend. It's got no taste. The only saving grace was the cheesy fries.

Well, it's been quite a while, so if it improved its standard, the students and lecturers of CCK ITE should be happy.