Dinner at Ah Loy Thai Shaw Tower

I personally find this place over-hype.
The food mostly cooked sweet based, so if you are not into sweet stuff, you will it them overwhelming.
Luckily I got sweet-tooth.

Ah Loy Thai

Menu

The shop

Our order for 3 pax - in the end curry was sold out

We recommend 
1. Pandan Chicken
2. Tomyum soup

These 2 dishes are quite excellent.

Here is a look at some of the other dishes we ordered.

Mango Salad - we wondered why there is so much sauce

The hot red milk tea is not hot at all and very sweet

Recommended

This tofu is pretty tasty too

Very sweet Pad Thai

Veg is very raw

Butter calamari ordered based on recommendation but see most people ordered the normal fried calamari

Also very raw

Nice!

Do note that they only accept cash payment.
You need to go to the cashier to place order.
They only take reservation for 10 pax at 6:30pm.
The rest are walk-in, do not bother to call if you do not have 10 or cant make it at 6:30pm. It is difficult to get a response from them. Either no one picks up, went to voice mail, or no reply to sms.
When we were there, they rejected customers at 7:55pm onwards.
NO Service Charge & GST could be the biggest draw

Birthday Celebration Lunch with BFF

Causeway Point
First Time trying Watami since there is no queue.
We were served almost immediately after keying in our request at the system outside the restaurant.
We had a nice lovely quiet seating place. It was not very crowded at 1:40pm on a Sat.
I think partly due to the slightly higher pricing in this restaurant.
However, I personally think the food quality is pretty good.

Hi-tech queuing for seat system

Fresh

This is very nice, pork dish

This is also nice :) beef curry

standard must-have in jap restaurant

Pizza Hut - Cheesy 7 Pockets Pizza

Verdict :- If you are a cheese lover, yes you will love it.

The 7 types of cheeses are

Romano
Parmesan
Provolone
Cream Cheese
Monterey Jack
Cheddar
Mozzarella

We ordered the tropical hawaiian where the ingredients are placed in the centre as shown on the picture. I personally find the 'pockets' part very yummy where as the ingredients portion has its own unique taste.
I will order the original the next time thou the price difference is only S$1.

You can do add on with cheesy 7 pockets order, like sweet n spicy drumlets, one of our must-have at pizza hut @ at reduced price.

Canton Paradise @ StarVista

All day dim-sum menu
Even though we were sitting somewhere in the middle of the restaurant, away from the entrance, we were feeling quite hot in the middle of the meal.
The serving of the food was very fast, such that we were unable to match with our speed of eating, making some steam dishes very cold in the end.

 Wonton soup was so-so

 Porridge ok

 By the time i tried this, was way too cold.

 Char siew bun was good

 Egg tarts were yummy

Newly open Dian Xiao Er @ J8

Good points

• Very friendly staff;
• Aircon was just nice unlike previous tenant;
• Yummy chilli

Improvements:

• Rice with soup was served a good 8 mins before any dish was ready. By the time the first dish arrived, both rice and soup were cold. At least the waitress was alert and changed the soup for us.

• Our dining table was unbalance and shaking when we had dinner. We informed the staff but no action was taken. Given that it is new, we are quite disappointed

 

Points to note:

• Water is chargeable
• Wet tissue is chargeable
• Tea is $2.20 per pax
• Peanuts is $2.00 per plate
• All subject to 10% service charge and 7% GST. Equivalent to additional 17.7%.

Dining in Singapore no longer has free supply of water and wet tissue. Inflation!!!!

Duck salad from Beng Thin

A truly unique appetizer with rock melon, honeydew, cucumber, peanuts, honey...

 

Grub @ Bishan Park

A very cozy eating place right in the middle of the lovely Bishan park.
Bishan Park is very well maintained and spans across quite a big area from Bishan Road (which is one street from CTE AMK 1 exit to Upper Thomson Road.
Grub is situated on the park which is nearer to upper thomson side.

Verdict: Food is average, not especially delicious. Had better waffle before. Come for the different feel of the environment.
No queue if you are willing to sit non-aircon alfresco dining. Come early if you want indoor seating.