Dessert time after sharing a wonderful bowl of Japanese curry. We went to Cake Spade located along the bridal shops for a slice of dessert to satisfy our sweet tooth. Cake Spade is a small cosy cafe serving many variety of English homemade cakes with the more popular flavours being their cheesecakes and chocolate cakes.
We ordered a slice of pomegranate red velvet cake to try. The slice is big for its $7.20 worth but we were a little disappointed with the taste. Had expected the cake to be soft and fine but it was rather coarse and hard. The overa taste was still delicious and it was great that it is not too sweet.
We will definitely prefer the cake to be a little softer. But we should be back to try their other varieties as definitely one cake can't tell it all. :p
My Overall Ratings:
Food: 3.5/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: 3.5/5
Ambience: 4/5
You can locate them here:
Cake Spade
83 Tg Pagar Rd, Singapore 088504
Fujiyama Dragon Curry is the latest Japanese food chain that has joined the crowd at Orchid Hotel Tanjong Pagar. As the restaurant name states, it focuses on the best curry rice items that could be offered.
Prices ranged from an average of $15.90 to $20. As the portion is huge, we decided to order their All Topping Wild Curry to share. It comes with 1 huge and juicy chicken karaage, 1 pork cutlet, generous portion of pork belly slices, minced pork, cheese and topped with benedict egg. We opted for their healthy grain rice and chose the original spiciness.
The food was served within 10mins upon ordering. Portion is indeed huge and could be shared among 2 with free rice upsize. The curry is thick and spicily delicious. Gives you the punch in taste every mouthful. Simply shiok!
The miso soup tasted very delicious as well. After eating the curry, you can pour in the chicken soup on the table to make curry porridge. It helps to reduce the spiciness.
For $19.80, we found it a very worthwhile dish to share among 2 people. It definitely won over our taste bud as compared to Monster Curry.
We will be back for more curry rice!
My Overall Ratings:
Food: 4/5
Price: 3.8/5
Service: 4/5
Ambience: 3.5/5
You can locate them here:
Fujiyama Dragon Curry
1 Tras Link, #01-03 Orchid Hotel, Singapore 078867 (Tanjong Pagar MRT)
Tel: +65 6444 9260
Opening Hours: 11:30am – 3:00pm, 6:00pm – 9:30pm Daily
Jin Ho Mia is under the same management taking care of Soi Thai and Atmosphere. It recently opened on the 2nd floor of ARC, taking over the previous Atmosphere. It serves healthy bowls, very similar to the poke bowl but offers a wider range.
For lunch, they offer either CTO (Customised To Order) sets where we can choose our own carbo, proteins and vegetables. Carbos range from rice to soba, and proteins from chicken to smoked duck. Customers can choose 2 vegetables and also the sauce they want. If you do not want to configure your own bowl, we can go for fixed bowl choices instead. Each set comes with soup and salad.
The bowls are indeed very healthy, with not much taste. Would definitely go for other poke bowls. They don't taste as good as it looks. Heard from some that the bowls from Jiak Pa Lang is better and cheaper, thus will go give it a try the next time.
The set ranges from $13.90 to $15.90. A little pricey for its portion. Would probably go for their fusion army stew hotpot next round if we are back to try them.
My Overall Ratings:
Food: 3/5
Price: 3/5
Service: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.8/5
You can locate them here:
Jin Ho Mia
Alexandra Retail Centre, 460 Alexandra Road #02-20, Singapore 119963 | Opening Hours: (Mon to Fri) 11:30am – 3:30pm, 5:30pm – 10pm, (Sat & Sun) 11:30am – 10pm | Tel: +65 6352 7725
Fish & Chicks is a popular foodcourt western food stall among the young and old. Located at several neighbourhood foodcourts/hawkers, it offers a range of fish and chicken dishes accompanied with either fries, pasta or rice.
We tried its stall at Commonwealth Koufu. Ordering and payment is done at the counter. We had salted egg pasta fried fish ($10.50) and hawaiian chicken with garlic fried rice ($9.50).
Price isn't very cheap by foodcourt standard but quality of food isn't too bad. The dory fish was very crispily fried on the outside and so tender within. Delicious fried fish but the salted egg pasta could do better. The spaghetti was a little hard and cold. Would rate this dish at 3.5/5.
The hawaiian chicken is very much better. Tenderly grilled chicken topped with hawaiian pizza toppings. Yummilicious! The garlic fried rice was very fragrant as well. Rating: 3.9/5
One thing to note is the long waiting time for food. We had to wait for about 20mins before our buzzer rang. Thus, not for really hungry customers who cannot wait. Would be good if they can speed up on their food preparation time.
A summary of items Ordered:
Salted egg pasta fried fish
Hawaiian chicken with garlic fried rice
My Overall Ratings:
Food: 3.8/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: NA
Ambience: 2.5/5
You can locate them here:
Fish & Chicks
88 Tanglin Halt Road, #01-08 Koufu, Singapore 141088
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Today: 11:00am - 09:30pm
Yum Cha Restaurant first opened its doors in the heart of Chinatown. Yum Cha first started out in 2000 near Temple Street, Chinatown, with the aim of bringing back the dim sum tea house concept in a shophouse setting, with marble tables and wooden chairs for a nostalgic feel. In recent years, Yum Cha has opened its 2nd outlet at Changi Business Park. Besides focusing on dim sum, they are also offering ala carte dishes.
Currently located at Trengganu Street (off Temple Street), the restaurant is located on the 2nd floor of the shophouses. With Fave offer, we bought their $50 worth voucher at $32.50. Dim sum was definitely the main reason that attracted us here. We ordered 5 dim sum dishes in all: braised chicken feet ($4.30), fried carrot cake ($3.80), fried springroll ($3.80), steam beancurd roll ($4.50) and crispy banana red bean ($3.80) as desserts. The dim sum dishes are as nice as before, so delicious and we especially recommend the fried carrot cake and crispy banana red bean. Rating: 4/5
Besides dim sum, we added their recommended stew chicken with gluten and mushrooms. This dish is served in the claypot and the sauce is deliciously done. Would do great with a bowl of white rice. Rating: 4/5
We were glad that the dishes standard is still good over the years although service can be better. Keep it up!
A summary of items Ordered:
Braised chicken feet
Fried carrot cake
Fried springroll
Steam beancurd roll
Crispy banana red bean
Stew chicken with gluten and mushrooms
My Overall Ratings:
Food: 4/5
Price: 3.8/5
Service: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5
You can locate them here:
Yum Cha Chinatown
20 Trengganu Street (Off Temple Street), #02-01, Singapore 058479
Tel: 6372 1717 | Fax: 6323 5375
Email: chinatownatyumcha.com.sg
Opening Hours:
Mon to Fri: 10:30am – 10:30pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays: 9am – 10.30pm
