Fresh+ serves up healthy food, something popular amongst the professionals working in Raffles Place area judging by the length of the queues. The lettuce mix was pretty good, given its crunchiness and sweetness. There is quite a large variety of ingredients to choose from and also salad dressings. When mixed together, my salad combination seemed pretty decent. The egg was however rather forgettable for being much too soggy. The Snapple also seemed rather overpriced. For the medium sized salad, it costs around $7.60 whereas the drink costs around $4.

I was craving for something sweet, i.e a sweet dessert and donuts seemed like a good choice. I settled at J.Co Donuts where there was a queue during tea time. I ordered the Avocado Shake and it was pretty decent and thick as a shake although somewhat too milky. You can ask to tone down the milk if you want. As for the oreo donut, it was pretty decent. Not outstanding but just what an average donut should be: crispy enough with a decent topping of oreo bits. Everything cost around 7-8 dollars in total.

Lola’s café is situated off Simon Road and is relatively simple café that is less pretentious than many new upstarts. We were recommended the chef’s special fish and chips which we found was slightly above average. The batter was good but a tad too oily. We also had the Lola’s big breakfast which was something that can be done at home by most, except that the bacon was excellent because it was fried just perfectly which meant that I could taste the sweetness of the caramelized fats. This warrants a next visit to try out their coffee. Chicken wings was also fantastically good.

I ordered a bowl of Katong laksa (on-going debate over whether this is the real katong laksa aside) to try for myself and see what the hype is all about. It was really quite expensive, given that the smallest bowl is priced at $4.50. No chopsticks are needed here; only spoons are used. The coconut based broth was rather thick and it was mainly spicy was a tinge of sweetness. The creaminess of the broth shone through first which made this a really sinful bowl of noodles. The freshness of the prawns were however suspect. It tasted too hard and much too like frozen prawns.

Irodori Japanese Restaurant has a very extensive selection of dishes for its buffet menu and its buffet is priced at a reasonable $35++, as compared to other more famous Japanese buffet restaurants. The ambience is also rather quiet and they offer lots of special dishes like green tea tofu (which was fantastic) and ebi mentai mayo which was also very good. The sashimi was fantastic because it was clearly very fresh and sliced perfectly without being too thick. Certainly worth a visit!