I needed a comfortable place to have Singaporean food with visiting friends from other countries and Old School Delights came to mind. I had the laksa which was a rather large bowl of noodles. The broth is quite good, with the flavours coming off strong. The chilli was also quite hot and my friends who were not used to the chilli had them removed. I like the fish cake though because they tasted quite different from the usual sloppy fish cake that soup noodle stalls often dish out. The hard boiled eggs were normal-tasting.

As far as take-away pizzas go, expectations will often be low. Spizza, however, surprised me by delivering a pretty decent pizza. We had this huge Sofia pizza which comes with squid and some shrimp. The shrimps are rather dismal, but the squid is surprisingly chewy and did not taste stale. The crust of the pizza is decent, with it remaining crunchy even after an hour. I also like the mozzarella cheese which they were rather generous with. All for 24 dollars which is admittedly rather steep.

Ootoya is an established chain in Japan and has a few outlets in Singapore. The service here could have been much better; we had to constantly ask the waitresses to fill up water. But that could be attributed to the busy period where they looked understaffed. The chawanmushi was mediocre unfortunately. It was too soft and had not much taste in it. It is better to order only one set and utilise the free refill of rice for others.

If you like ramen, you can try Daruma Ramen House helmed by a celebrity Hong Kong chef that specialises in Japanese ramen. The menu is not too extensive and the portions are quite small. However, there is an ongoing promotion of 1 for 1 which makes it worth trying. The ramen itself was not too bad and rather springy. We had the BBQ pork ramen and the BBQ pork itself has a Cantonese feel to it, with it being sweet and pretty well done. We will be back to try other offerings.

I was back at this place in just a short span of time. I decided to try something new this time and hey presto, otah bruschetta was what I ordered. This is an interesting take on bruschetta and has much of a local touch. Its novelty didn't hold up too much for me though. The otah was nice and the bruschetta was acceptable. But the combination tasted too weird and more of otah sandwich. The soup was so-so.