Citrus By The Pool at Woodlands

Citrus By The Pool is a Halal-certified cafe restaurant located at Woodlands Swimming Complex. The cafe serves Western and Asian Fusion cuisine whereby diners are able to enjoy the delicious food creations amidst the cosy homely ambience.

 

We did not dine-in today but opted for their delivery option. We ordered their must-try Chicken steak-out ($10.90) and spicy goreng linguine with cajun chicken ($9.80).

 

It was affordable price wise and portion was generous. Chicken steak-out comprises of juicy chicken thigh fillet seasoned with herbs and grilled to perfect tenderness. The sides include fries, calamari and salad with homemade mushroom sauce. We love the unique creamy mushroom sauce.  Rating: 4.2/5

 

The spicy goreng linguine was really spicy and not recommended for those who cannot take spicy food. But overall was a good dish as well. Rating: 4/5

 

 

The food was excellent and would think they would have been better if dined in. At least maybe the fries will be less soggy. We enjoyed the meal and would definitely patronise again.

 

A summary of what we had:

Chicken steak-out

Spicy goreng linguine with cajun chicken

 

My overall ratings:

Food: 4/5

Price: 4/5

Service: N.A

Ambience: N.A

 

You can locate them here:

Citrus By The Pool

3 Woodlands Street 13, Woodlands Swimming Complex, Singapore 738600

 

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What The Fish at Vision Exchange Jurong East

We have always wanted to try their dishes at Tanjong Pagar Complex Food Centre but never got the chance as it is opened only during lunch time and would be closed by dinner. Since we don't work around the area, we could only explore during dinner which means we would miss the food.

We were so glad that What The Fish opened their 2nd outlet at Vision Exchange Jurong East and we do not have to squeeze with the lunch crowd or miss it during dinner time as this outlet is opened till 8pm. 

The outlet is manned by the lady owner herself, Laura where she participated in several food revival varieties to learn how to make food business sustainable. After trying the food, we believe she has succeeded.

We ordered their Mentaiko salmon with spicy cold soba ($11.90), Fried seabass with rice and onsen egg ($8.90) and regular Mentaiko fries ($5).

The fries were served first. Deliciously marinated truffle shoestring fries topped with mentaiko sauce. A little soft but still delicious. Rating: 3.8/5

Mentaiko salmon with spicy cold soba was good. Refreshing cold soba marinated in their homemade spicy sauce and accompanied with torched mentaiko on salmon. Salmon is fresh. Rating: 4/5

The fried seabass on rice was the best. Generous portions of fried seabass pcs drizzled with teriyaki sauce on rice with onsen egg. Definitely value for money! Rating: 4.1/5

The dishes are without gst and service charge. For a quick and delicious fish meal, What The Fish definitely serves its purpose!

A summary of what we had:

Mentaiko salmon with spicy cold soba

Fried seabass with rice and onsen egg

Mentaiko fries

My overall ratings:

Food: 4/5

Price: 4/5

Service: 3.8/5

Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:

What The Fish

2 Venture Dr, #02-42 Vision Exchange, Singapore 608526

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Magusaburo Japanese Western Cafe at Tiong Bahru Plaza

Magusaburo Japanese Western cafe is located at the new wing of Tiong Bahru Plaza and has taken over the previous Three Little Pigs. The restaurant is beautifully and cleanly furnitured with wooden chairs and tables. Service was friendly with young lady servers keeping their smiles all the time when they serve you.

Ordering is to be done via the ipad and we ordered their value sets plus an appetizer for dinner. I had the teriyaki chicken set ($13.80). 

The chicken was tenderly grilled and accompanied with a small side salad, rice, miso soup, onion rings and watermelon. The chicken was awesome and goes very well with the bowl of short grain rice. Portion isn't big thus may not be substantial for the big eaters. Kevin had the pork shogayaki set ($13.80). Its thinly sliced pork with a little fat on the top fried with cabbages. Instead of onion rings, it has onsen egg as sides. The egg was cooked to the right texture and pork slices tender as well. I would rate both sets 4/5.


As appetizer, we has wagyu cheese croquettes ($8.90). 

5 freshly made minced wagyu meat with cheese powdet deep fried to end with a crispy batter outside. Simply delicious with the tonkatsu sauce. Rating: 4/5

With the service and ambience, its a nice place to gather with family and frenz for a meal.



A summary of items ordered:
Pork shogayaki set
Teriyaki chicken set
Wagyu cheese croquettes


My overall ratings:
Food: 4/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: 4/5
Ambience: 4/5

You can locate them here:
Magusaburo Japanese Western Cafe
302 Tiong Bahru Rd, 01-106, Singapore 168732

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Sin Lee Foods at Jln Bukit Ho Swee

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! On such a lovely day, hubby brought me to this cosy cafe cafe at Jln Bukit Ho Swee for Vday dinner. 

The dinner reservation was done via Chope and we were entitled 10% discount. 

Sin Lee Foods is about 10 mins walk from Tiong Bahru MRT. The cafe has limited indoor seats and there wasn't much table space. 

They have outdoor seats which were much more spacious. Food had to be ordered at the counter and will be served. 

We ordered some of their signature dishes as follow: 

1. Beef and grains - 180gm of stirloin steak wonderfully marinated and cooked to the right texture served on japanese orzo rice in gravy and topped with runny sunny side egg and ginger. The overall combination was simply excellent! 

2. Sin Lee fried chicken with waffle - their so called one and only waffle chicken dish but was a tad disappointing to us as the chicken thigh was overly fried and little tough. The waffle was freshly made upon order and tasted quite good. 

3. Aburi broccoli salad - smokey torched broccoli salad with white balsamic, papadam and red sugar. This is a highly recommended side dish to order as the combination is simply awesome! Have never tasted such good broccoli dish. 4 thumbs up! 

For a drink, Kevin had peach lemonade and this was refreshing to quench our thirst and greasiness. 

For its awesome food with no gst and service charge, its no wonder that Sin Lee Foods is so popular among the youngsters and working adults.



Items Ordered:
Sin Lee Fried Chicken Waffle
Beef and Grains
Aburi Broccoli Salad 

My Overall Ratings:

Food: 4/5

Price: 3.8/5

Service: 3.2/5

Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:

Sin Lee Foods

Blk 4, Jln Bt Ho Swee, #01-164, Singapore 162004

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Noodle Bar by Tokyo Latte at JCube

Noodle Bar by Tokyo Latte is a small Japanese/Korean and Western fusion cafe located on the 2nd floor of JCube. 

It is located just beside the clothing shop Kiyo and can be easily spotted once you exit the escalator.

The cafe isn't very packed during dinner time. We were shown to our seats by a friendly uncle who seems to be the owner of the cafe or someone who manages the cafe. 

All the staff are dressed in uniform except him. He helped us with the stuff that we were carrying and ensure that all the things were nicely placed on the chair. 

Our dinner items were as follow:

1. Chicken katsu don - fried tender chicken breast drizzled with mayo and nacho cheese. The don is accompanied with vegetable tempura. The don is mainly filled with food with very little rice. Very good for me who don't eat too much carbo. 

2. Tomato seafood cha soba - fresh seafood ingredients in tomato base soup with cha soba. Portion is not big either but the soup was rather appetizing. Sourish and tasted so much like minestrone. 

3. Ponzu roast chicken - healthy roasted chicken thigh very lightly marinated. Its drizzled with ponzu sauce. 

4. Chawanmushi and side salad - chawanmushi was not as smooth as other restaurants would serve but provides a very homecook taste. Side salad was just minced tomato on lettuce. 

Noodle bar offers affordable, healthy meals good for the old and young. No gst and service charge and ambience comfortable with friendly staff. Do give this cafe a try!


Items Ordered:
Chawanmushi and side salad
Chicken katsu don
Tomato seafood cha soba

My Overall Ratings:

Food: 4/5

Price: 4/5

Service: 4/5

Ambience: 4/5

You can locate them here:

Noodle Bar by Tokyo Latte

JCube, 2 Jurong East Central 1, #02-03, Singapore 609731

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Food Barn and Rocky Master at Alexandra Technopark B

It's lunch time!  This time we ladies decided to go nearer by to Alexandra Technopark B (ATPB) for lunch. There were 5 of us and we were debating to eat Rocky Master or Food Barn. Rocky Master offers a wider range of food, from local delights to pizza to sandwiches to salads and pasta. 

However price range is a little steeper than Food Barn which offers take away sandwiches and salads. Since we all have different preferences, we decided to try both stalls.

From Food Barn, we ordered the following sandwiches:

1. Hot panini with smoked turkey breast - it's basically smoked turkey breast with cheese and tomato and grilled hot. Simply awesome with the sandwich crispiness and cheesiness. 

2. Cold turkey breast sandwiches - this is the typical sandwiches with lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. Healthy!

3. Smoked salmon sandwiches - smoked salmon served with wholemeal bread and lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber. Another lover's choice for the working class. 

All sandwiches are served with potato chips.

Items Ordered:
Hot panini with smoked turkey breast
Smoked turkey breast sandwiches
Smoked salmon sandwiches

My Overall Ratings:

Food Barn 
Food: 4/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: NA
Ambience: NA

You can locate them here:

Food Barn
ATPB (Alexandra Technopark B), 438 Alexandra Road, 119958

Rocky Master

From Rocky Master, we ordered beef stew pottie pie and teriyaki chicken spaghetti. The pottie pie comes with either soup or salad as side. Chew Li ordered with mushroom soup which was thick and creamy. The pottie pie wasn't really fantastic and could do better.

The teriyaki chicken spaghetti was a better choice. Generous grilled chicken portion on top of spaghetti. Chicken was tender but spaghetti taste could have done better as well.

Rocky Master is a relaxing place to visit for the working class during lunch time.


Items Ordered:
Beef stew pottie pie
Teriyaki chicken spaghetti

My Overall Ratings:

Rocky Master 
Food: 3/5
Price: 3.5/5
Service: NA
Ambience: NA

You can locate them here:

Rocky Master
ATPB (Alexandra Technopark B), 438 Alexandra Road, 119958

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Olive Vine Pasta Fusion at Marina Square

Here's a great hang-out place for lunch fellowship and family gathering after church service or bible study session. 

It's not only about the food but also the Christian music playing behind the background and the range of Christian books available on the rack for us to read while chilling out at this fusion cafe.

The staff here are friendly and I must say that the efficiency is 100%. No time wasted at all. Ordering of the food had to be done at the counter. Even before Kevin could sit down, the food were being served. 

We ordered fried fish Alfredo pasta set menu and fried chicken cutlet arrabiatta. 

The set menu comes with a drink, soup and dessert. Kevin chose Ceylon tea for drink, mushroom soup and chocolate cake as dessert. 




The fried fish was served separately from the Alfredo pasta to avoid sogginess. Fish was crispy and fresh. Alfredo pasta was cooked with a homely taste. 

My chicken cutlet arrabiatta was very good. Generous portion of chicken cutlet and pasta. Chicken so tenderly fried and pasta cooked with excellent springiness. 

Soup with the garlic croutons was average but the double chocolate cake was excellent! It was warmed up so that chocolate is melted and not to sweet.

Olive Vine Pasta Fusion is not a place to miss, especially for God's people.


Items Ordered:
Chicken cutlet arrabiatta
Crispy fish with alfredo pasta
Mushroom soup with garlic croutons
Ceylon Tea
Double chocolate cake

My Overall Ratings:

Food: 4/5
Price: 4.5/5
Service: 4.5/5
Ambience: 4/5

You can locate them here:

Olive Vine Pasta Fusion
Marina Square, 6 Raffles Boulevard, #B1-17,Singapore 039594

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Seng Kee by Chef Benny at Bugis

This is another cafe is opened by the owner of Eighteen Chef, Chef Benny. Located beside the taxi stand at Bugis, this cafe serves local delights with a twist of flavour. There are kaya toast set with focaccia or ciabatta, sandwiches with different filling like beef rendang, hae bee hiam and chee cheong fun with different toppings. 

There are rice dishes too like nasi lemak and curry chicken bowl.

We decided to try their beef rendang chee cheong fun, hainanese chicken sandwich and a cup of teh-o. 

The chee cheong fun portion was generous. It is served with a huge scoop of delicious beef rendang on top of soft and smooth chee cheong fun. Taste and combination is good. 


For the sandwiches, one could choose the 4inch or 8inch. The hainanese chicken with chilli in crispy focaccia is another excellent combination. 

In fact the teh-o tasted great at well.

We will definitely be back to try the other dishes like kaya toast, curry chicken bowl etc. No service charge or gst and its a place for frenz gathering with afforfable food.


Items Ordered:
Hainanese chicken sandwich
Beef rendang chee cheong fun

My Overall Ratings:

Food: 4/5
Price: 4/5
Service: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5

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