Another new Japanese Pasta Restaurant -- Shokudo @ Cathay Cineleisure

Shokudo @ Cathay Cineleisure

We spotted this Japanese Pasta Restaurant when we walked from our usual parking place..We were very excited and were thinking this may be the 'replacement' for Waraku Japanese Pasta Restaurant that we frequent. So we waited for it to be grandly opened.. =)

Well, we were totally excited and amazed by the variety of food they have. Thus we ordered quite a lot of food! 1 main dish pasta each, 1 pizza for sharing, 1 salad for sharing and lastly 1 dessert for sharing. WOW...haha..quite alot yay!!

After some waiting, the food came... See below:

Salad

Pasta 1

Pasta 2

How do they look? We were still with high hopes when we saw the dish...Hmm..the dream of having good japanese Pasta was shattered upon eating the dishes..The sauce is not rich enough, not tasty enough. Well, just don't feel right. You can go and try it and you will understand what we mean. Oh ya, provided you have already tried Waraku.. =)

We did not take the rest of the dishes as our morale is much lowered by the blur waitress and the not-so-tasty food..

However however, we will still go back to try their desserts; especially their think french toast as we tried their 'ice-Kachang' with rice balls...NICE! =)

visited in April 2008

Sofra Turkish Cafe & Restaurant

Sofra Turkish Restaurant @

100 Beach Road #02-42/43/44Shaw TowerShaw Leisure Gallery Singapore 189702

The ambience of this restaurant is rather good, especially when you got a window table.

We tried their platter starter that consists of sofra salad, eggplant salad, hummus and vine leaves roll: their hummus is nice...

The main dishes we ordered are as follows:

SOFRA fish; Baked Cream dory in foil, served with bread. The sauce is sour in a very good and refreshing way. The sauce is mainly tomato based. The bread goes very well with the sauce.

Sofra Kebap (Lamb and Beef); The sauce is tomato based and it goes very well with the kebap. The kebap may be a little dry and hard, but the taste is still not bad.

Oh ya, for the drinks, we suggest that ice water is good enough. =)

So far we only visited 2 Turkish restaurant, Sofra and Cappadoccia. Food from both restaurants are nice. But if you want nicer Starter Platter, you may want to go to Cappadoccia. =) We fell in love with the Cacik (cucumber with yogurt)

For people who have not try Turkish food before, these 2 restaurants should be good and decent enough to get started.

Visited in december 2007

Shimbashi Soba @ Paragon

Shimbashi Soba @

the Basement of Paragon

This place serves chilled and hot(soupy) handmade soba. Well, i started to really love Soba after visiting this place. If all along you thought places like Sakae Sushi serves good soba, then you should really go to Shimbashi Soba for a try. I have visited there for 3 to 4 times, taken only a few pictures. Please take a look... =)

Salmon Cappaccio (Appetizer):

Tofu Steak:

Well, the sauce tastes like 'ba jiu' (hokkien), a type of canned food. But the Tofu is very tasty, a little oily though.

Nebaneba soba:
This chilled soba consists of lady finger, a raw egg, some seaweeds, some beans (fermented beans) and so on. For people who dislike sticky slimey food, please don't try. However, it will taste very nice and healthy for those who are ok with food with such texture. =)

Chilled Soba with Vegetable Tempura:

This is very nice..tempura is light, not oily and are very fresh. The chilled soba is heavenly! It springs!!hahah

Kamo Soba:

This is a sliced duck soba with very tasty soup. Well, i think this is under 'special' item, so its not available everytime if i am not wrong. Can check it out yourself ah...

Thats all for now.. =)

Visited on the 10/12/2007

IKOI @ Mirama Hotel

IKOI @ Mirama Hotel

(a small corner near the reception counter)

This is the Japanese buffet place. We are attracted there for the SASHIMI and some other tempura stuff. The cost for each person after taxes is about $35.

See the pictures;

Complementary Appetizer

Complimentary Prawn 'Soup' with freshly squeezed lime

This is tempura 'Lian O' (in chinese)haha..nice nicey

This is the best part!! Free flow of SaShiMi...

The food is generally nice and worth trying! Especially those who loves 'raw fish' ..haha

Visited 16/10/2007

Dennis Restaurant, just beside Shenton Way PartyWorld

Dennis Restaurant

No.25

Shenton Way, #01-05,

Singapore 068812

Tel: 62233187

Dear all, this is one of the most 'homely' restaurant I have ever been to. The manager and waitress are the best. Whatever you ask for, they will give. Of course it should be something possible. There was once we were there around 10pm having supper.

We ordered tea and we asked for lemon slices, like how the other table (can see that they are regulars) did. They gave us at no extra cost! This restaurant is fabulous. They sell both western and chinese food.

Oh ya, they provide free soup of the day, can be either chinese-styled or western-style or both, all you want to drink ah! Yes they are free-flowing..hahaha...

Latest updates: We ordered the Waffle set (Mighty Waffle) shown below yesterday. As we can't take eggs recently, so we request to change the eggs to salad, basically a few pieces of vegetables. To our very surprise, they gave us 2 individual small plate of salads as good as those 'garden salad' in some restaurant. Wah, we are so touched man..hahah..really good!!!

Editor #1 loves the waffle set especially. =)

Lets take a look at the photos.

Oh ya, get to mention the prices. They are rather reasonable. You can take a preview of some parts of the menu:

Thats all for the photos. Oh ya, the manager noticed that we frequent the restaurant. So he gave us each a membership card! haha..at no extra cost, purely on a friendly account. Isn't it cool..Its a 15% off per visit. Cool cool cool....

We usually visit this Dennis Restaurant for dinner and supper. The place is really quiet and you really can immerse there with your own business. Or you can watch the MTV with live singing by the manager. Nobody is going to give you any wierd look.

Visited very frequently..

Creation Cafe

Creation Cafe @

100 Beach Road #01 Shaw Tower Shaw Leisure Gallery Singapore 189702

This place serves pasta with very special sauce. An example is Seafood Laksa Cream Pasta. Well, the seafood is fresh and really juicy while the cream sauce is rich yet not too gelate. I have also eaten the Tom Yum Cream sauce pasta, which is very interesting, and really excite my taste bud! =)

The Set lunch cost around $11.90. It includes a cooler, a soup of the day and a main dish (pasta choosen from the list). The Set dinner cost around $15.90. It includes a desert (Brownie with a scoup of ice-cream/Apple Crumble with a scoup of ice-cream) on top of what the set lunch serves. Cool Deal!!

Lets take a look at the pictures:

Cooler: Lemon tea, light and refreshing

Soup of the day: Carrot Soup

Main Dish: Seafood Alfredo, Seafood Laksa cream(looks a little off, but trust me, it is nice!! haha)

Dessert: Brownie with Ice-cream, Apple Crumble with Ice-cream

Visited in November 2007

Ricciotti Italian Deli & Pastry

Ricciotti Italian Deli & Pastry
20 Upper Circular Rd #B1-49/50
The Riverwalk S(058416)
Tel: 65339060
email: ricciotti@garibaldi.com.sg

website: http://garibaldi.com.sg/r.htm (the whole menu can be found here)

A view inside the restaurant:

A view from inside the restaurant:

The restaurant is located just beside the Singapore River. Having to sit in the outdoor and to eat the delicious food that they serve, it is definitely fulfilling and real indulgence.

Editors waiting for food and enjoying the peaceful ambience: =)

To date, we have visited the restaurant twice. One visit for lunch and the 2nd one for breakfast. The food here is simply good and tasty. Below is a summary of the food that we had for the 2 visits: Pardon us, we do not remember the name of the dish..

Breakfast:

Chicken Salad with gorgonzola cheese sauce:

($11.00... The dressing is a little too thick. For those who love thick and creamy dressing, this is for you! =))

Srambled eggs-Crabmeat and roast tomatoes :

($11.50...both editors love this dish, must order!)

Panini-PARMA :
($11.00...Parma ham, mozarella and rucola salad)

Indulgence: haha..

Lunch:

Salad-Grilled Vegetables with shaved parmigiano cheese and balsamic vinegar:

($10.50... The grilled vegetables includes red/yellow pepper and etc. The taste is rather special)

Entree-SALSICCIA:

($16.90... Grilled Italian sausage with rosemarry sauce. The mashed potatoes that comes with taste very 'natural'. It is definitely a good thing. I hope you get what we mean.)

Pasta-Fettuccine & Salmone:

($17.90...Fettuccine with salmon and saffron cream sauce.)

The price of the food is slightly slight above average. For both meals we had there, consisting of 1 salad, 2 main dishes, 1 dessert, they cost us about $40-$50 ++. It is not bad at all seriously.. We will definitely go back for more.

Oh Yes.. their desserts are heavenly. There are a lot of varieties for you to explore!! And there is a top secret for the restaurant. Well, it is up to you to go and find out..hahaha...

Drop me a comment if you found out this secret! =)
Visited on the 16 SEP, 15 OCT 2007

Bad experience ahead: "Old Hong Kong Cafe"

Old Hong Kong Cafe

86 East Coast Road, Blk A Katong Village

Open 24 hours

Old Hong Kong Cafe seems like the perfect hangout: it is open 24 hours and it offers awfully cheap parking at $2.14 per entry after 6pm. With the sprouting of so many hong kong cafes, this one seems like a gem as the cafe is also spacious and bright.

We were ushered in promptly the moment we entered and the seemingly crowded cafe still had more to offer but what we didn't expect was that they stationed us near the area where the piping hot food are churning out from the kitchen. So there was quite a bit of movement and to put it bluntly, noise. Thus, the rather uncomfortable editors decided that we need to search for a better seat. Scanning the restaurant, we could see at least 2-3 other empty seats, we shifted immediately and were quite perplexed why they didn't offer us somewhere better.

To our relief the food was served fast but alas, we didn't expect 'utensils-poking' waitresses. The waitresses served our french toast and then placed the utensils on our toast...=_=

ok fine...forget it. Then they served my oven-toasted seafood rice with cheesy mushroom sauce and then poked the fork in.... =_= That was it for me....

Editor #2 ordered curry noodles with turnip and kailan. It was laden with MSG and it wasn't any good. After we finally managed to stuff the food down, the waiter appeared almost immediately and asked if he could clear the dishes. Seriously, what is the hurry chap?

My last agony is that the milk tea is beyond redemption. ALL Hong Kong cafe MUST have fantastic milk tea. The one we had has too much ice and the tea tasted suspiciously similar to some of those we find in any neighbourhood coffee shop.

Now, this is pure disappointment and I am sure this will be our first and last try though we still love the rustic Katong-East Coast area.

Visited on the 9 Nov 2007

Marutama Ra-men

MARUTAMA RA-MEN

#03-90/91 The Central S(059817)
Tel: 65348090

http://www.ma-rutama.co.jp/
Business hours: 11.30am to 10.00pm

This restaurant has quite an authentic Japanese touch.

Although, the variety of ramen available in this restaurant is rather limited, it is still worth a try for that tinge of 'Nippon'. :) There are 3 main type of soup bases available at Marutama. They are 1) chicken soup, 2) spicy chicken soup and 3)'Limited special soupbase'-made from a varieties of nuts and as a bonus, it tastes rather healthy.

Once you have chosen the type of soup-base for your ramen, you can choose the sides you want for your ramen. The price of each side dish varies but they range between $1-$5. Some sides include Aosa (seaweed), 'stew pork', tamago, negi (spring onions) and lemons (I love that slight tinge of sourness).

Both editors are in love with the stew pork and tamago. All the essence and gist can be tasted from these 2 sides. They are flavourful but not overpowering!! The tamago is a real treasure.It looks like any hard-boiled egg. But but but... when you cut the egg open, the egg yolk which is in semi-liquid form oozes out and teases your tastebuds. So the tamago is a must-order for ramen lovers out there. =)

Take a look at the food:

Special limited Ra-men (chicken soup with a mixture of 7 nuts):

Spicy chicken soup with stew pork:

Side dish: Tori Dango

(minced chicken ball with some minced ingredients)

The soup is super rich!

Well, the above 3 dishes cost us $49.90. We find it overpriced. However, we still think it is worth trying as it is not really easy to find ramen with very 'sincere' soup-base in Singapore. =) At the very most, don't visit this restaurant so often in order to keep your pocket from emptying... haha....

Have a wonderful weekend! ^___^

Visited on the 9 Nov 2007

RomanKan Yokohama

Romankan Yokohama

#B2-04 Takashimaya

Editor#1 has been suggesting to dine at this place, but I am not sure why i just did not feel like trying it in the past until last nite.

Wow..the food is really good and is comparable (or even better) to Curry Flavour.. I can't help wanting to introduce this place to all of you. =)

1 set meal cost about $14 nett.

Lets take a look at the good food below:

Set #1: Rosu Katsu Ni

This dish came with the Rosu katsu with a half-cooked egg. There is also a generous serving of cabbage. Really not bad..

Set #2: Katsu Curry

This dish came with the Katsu and a good portion of curry sauce. The curry sauce is very rich and you can actually find bits of meat. That is how rich it is..

Quick go and try!

Visited on the 4 NOV 2007

Cappadocia Cafe & Restaurant

Cappadocia Cafe & Restaurant

11 Unity Street #01-12, Robertson Walk.

On the entrance glass door, there is this very attention seeking poster saying; '食载好吃' with Kym Ng as the poster girl. For those who know, this poster does tell something.. =) Well, after an experience at Sofra (another Turkish restaurant located at Shaw Tower), introduced by Editor #1, I have grown more adventurous and interested to explore more Turkish food. =)

Cappadocia is quite simply docorated but it does give a 'turkish' feeling..hahah..just take a look at the picture below:

Well, how do you think of the ambience?

Lets check out the food!

Starter: Karasik Meze Tabagi

This is a perfect sampler for 2

Main Dish #1: Imam Bayildi

Sliced eggplant stuffed with crunchy chopped veggies served with Pilaf rice

The juice was literally oozing out from the eggplant...And the sauce is very rich, very tears inducing..haha

Main Dish #2: Anada Iskender

Minced beef wrapped on a flat skewer served on a bed of pide bread toped with special tomato-yoghurt sauce

The beef is a little hard, but when eaten with the sauce which consist of the tomato sauce and the yoghurt, you will forget all the 'toughness' -__-

For those who don't really fancy tomato sauc, this is really worth trying..And for those who like tomato based sauce, this is a MUST...this is really nice!

The above 3 dishes cost around 55 bucks...

So what do you think of the price? =)

Visited on the 30 OCT 2007

Da Paolo Pizza bar...*Celebration*

da paolo pizza bar

-44, Jalan Merah Saga, #01-46, Chip Bee Gardens, Holland Village.Tel: 6479 6059

On the outside, Da Paolo has a reasonably pleasant ambience. Something like an indoor al fesco. The "moo" skinned ceiling was kind of attractive really. Vey tribal *heh* However, the service can be improved. The waitresses were rather aloof and a warmer reception will make the food alot more appetising. Although we enjoyed the food, it will be another story if we go back there often enough. =)
Let's take a look at the food:

Starter - Salad: Avocado with shrimps salad

Main - Pizza: Avocado with Chicken Pizza

By now, it is avocado overload.

Wah...Meatballs!!Whohooo...*thumbs up*

She mentioned before;

"We must try out all the calamari everywhere.".. right? =)

That is all for now. What is your take? :)

Visited on the 16 June 2007