sQue

Recently I was very busy at the office that I needed to come on Saturday to finish up my works. To pamper myself after finishing the works, I purposely looked for a nice late lunch meal near Clarke Quay area.

After looking around, I decided to have lunch at sQue. sQue (pronounced as skew) is a restaurant that have highlights of extensive choices of bottled beers from all over the world. They are proudly claimed that they currently have more than 200 different international beers.

Although this restaurant is famous on their beers collections, it's not the reason why I choose this place and sorry I don't try the beers so I will not review it :p.

I choose sQue because of many good reviews from other food bloggers.

Because of curiosity, I order Half Spring Chicken with honey mustard mashed potatoes.

Spring Chicken contains of Roasted Chicken, Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes (honey mustard or black pepper).

This spring chicken is tasty. It's marinated well with the sauce. This chicken is quite big and it will make you full. So if you come alone, it's better to choose half chicken.

Brussels sprouts is fresh and crunchy. Honey Mustard Mashed Potatoes is also not bad.

Will I go there again? Yes.

Half Spring Chicken S$13.95

 

sQue Interior

Details
Name: sQue
Address: 6 Eu Tong Sen Street - The Central #01- 70
Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

Opening Hours
- Mondays to Thursdays: 11:30AM - 12:00Midnight
- Fridays, Saturdays & Eve of Public Holidays: 11:30AM - 01:00AM
- Sundays: 11:30AM - 11:00PM

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Hakata Ippudo

Looking for a ramen restaurant near Mohamed Sultan Road? You may visit Hakata Ippudo restaurant.

Thanks to my lunch office buddies for celebrating my birthday at this restaurant.

I ordered Akamaru Shin-Aji set lunch. This set lunch comes with a drink and one side dish. They have three different side dish options: Gyoza, Mini Salad & Ice Cream, Karaage. I choose Gyoza for the side dish.

For this set lunch, there is also special combination topping to add on. For just $7, you may get Flavoured Egg, Simmered Pork Belly & Seaweed. Too bad that they served this special combination on separate bowl with ramen bowl. I prefer that they put together on the ramen bowl (especially for the egg).  It's because if they put altogether with ramen, the egg become warm and the meat become tastier.

Akamaru Shin-Aji ramen is not bad. The waiter tells us that this ramen is the most favourites dish.

FYI, This set lunch is only available from Monday - Friday 11:30AM - 03:00PM (last order at 02:30PM).

Will I go there again? Maybe yes.

Akamaru Shin-Aji Set (with Gyoza) $20.00

 

Gyoza

 

 Special Combination $7.00

Hakata Ippudo

 

Details

Name: Hakata Ippudo

Address: 207 River Valley Road, #01-55 /56 (Along Mohamed Sultan Road)

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

 

Opening Hours

- Monday - Thursday: 11:30AM - 03:00PM (Last order at 02:30PM) , 05:30PM - Midnight (Last order at 11:00PM)
- Friday - Saturday: 11:30AM - 03:00PM (Last order at 02:30PM), 05:30PM - 02:00AM (Last order at 01:00AM)
- Sunday / Public Holiday: 11:30AM - 11:00PM (Last order at 10:00PM) 

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Shakey`s Pizza

Today I will share with you about nice pizza restaurant named Shakey`s Pizza. Shakey's Pizza is located at Liang Court Mall.

Shakey`s Pizza is originally from California. Nowadays, this restaurant's branches are spread around the world.

We visited this restaurant to celebrate one of my office lunch Kaki's birthday.

Over there, I ordered Shakey's Baby Back Ribs and Triple Sausage Pizza. 

Shakey's Baby Back Ribs (Half Slab S$14.80)

Shakey's Baby Back Ribs is marinated with special BBQ sauce, served with Shakey's Pizza famous mojos and mesclun salad. The pork meat is tender and the BBQ sauce is tasty. Overall this is a decent dish.
 

Triple Sausage S$19.80

Triple Sausage Pizza consists of chorizo, chicken and pork sausages. This pizza can be shared up to four people. It's not bad either.

Will I go there again? Yes.

Shakey`s Pizza Interior

 

Details

Name: Shakey`s Pizza

Address: #02-32 Liang Court (177 River Valley Road) 

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

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Wine Connection Tapas Bar & Bistro

Wondering which restaurant serves good food with affordable price around Robertson Walk area? You may try having lunch at Wine Connection Tapas Bar & Bistro. At Wine Connection, they have special lunch S$15+ promo.

You will get one plate of pasta (Seafood, Pesto, Bolognese, Arrabiata or Carbonara), one side dish (either Caesar Greek Tuna salad, Onion Mushroom soup, Chocolate Mouse, Crème Brulee, Pannacotta) and coffee/tea.

Lunch sets are only valid from Monday until Friday, 12:00PM – 2:00PM. Not valid on weekend and public holiday. Price inclusive of 7% GST and subject to 10% service charge.

I choose Seafood Penne, Crème Brulle and tea.

Seafood Penne

Crème Brulee



You can find Shrimp, Squid and Mussels in this Seafood Penne. The seafood are fresh enough. I like Seafood Penne so much. It's very delicious.

Crème Brulle is also not bad. It's yummy and the portion is quite big.

Personally, I feel that this set lunch promo is indeed a good deal. Not believe me? Try it yourself :)

Will I go there again? Yes. 

Wine Connection Interior

 

Details

Name: Wine Connection Tapas Bar & Bistro

Address: 11 Unity St, #01-19/20 Robertson Walk

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

 

Opening Hours

Monday - Thursday: 11:30AM - 02:00AM

Friday - Saturday: 11:30AM - 03:00AM

Sunday: 11:30AM - 00:00AM



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Happy eating with maximum $5 at Nur` Ilham June and Family Nasi Padang

Hi all,  I know that many of you have been waiting for my “S$5.00 – Happy eating” post, but so sorry, these days I was quite busy with my stupid current project (Duh, please don’t remind me about that)  Anyway, here is the post that you have been waiting for =P 
 
Nur` Ilham June & Family Nasi Padang
 
I still remember, on that day, the hawker centre near our office was closed. So, there was no other choice, we need to find other place to have our lunch. Luckily we found out Nur` Ilham June & Family Nasi Padang. 
 
For me, founding them is like founding a hidden gem, it’s simple because it’s location.  It's located inside Manhattan House. I’m quite sure that not many of you heard about this place before.  There is no MRT near there (Alamak, I know). 
 
Ok, let's back to the review. Nur` Ilham June & Family Nasi Padang offers many varieties of Malay foods that you can choose to add on with the rice. Every day they will have different special menu for you to try. On the day I was there, they had Nasi Briyani as a special menu.

Without think twice, I ordered Nasi Briyani.

Their Nasi Briyani comes with chicken, acar (pickle), papadam and curry gravy. FYI Papadam is a crispy Indian crackers.

I like this Nasi Briyani so much. The chicken is tender and big enough. The acar is also very delicious.

Will I go there again? Yes.

Nasi Briyani S$5.00

Nur` Ilham June and Family Nasi Padang Interior 

 

Details

Name: Nur` Ilham June & Family Nasi Padang

Address: 151 Chin Swee Road #01-34/35 Manhattan House

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT / China Town MRT.

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Bar Bar Black Sheep

First of all, I want to say sorry to all of you that I have had a long absent from blogging. It's because I am quite busy with other things. But it doesn't stop me to find nice place to eat. It's just that I don't have time to write blog. Hope you understand :)

For the first post after my long absent, I want to show you a nice place to hang out around Robertson Quay. The name of this place is Bar Bar Black Sheep. I believed some of you heard about this place before.

I went to Bar Bar Black Sheep during lunch hour with my colleague. I ordered Blue Cheese Burger because I thought the cheese color is blue (sorry for my ignorance :p), so it would look cool in the picture.

But unfortunately, it was not like the way I expected. The blue cheese color was not blue.  It just has many small blue dot inside the cheese. Never mind, the combination between meat and blue cheese taste were not bad. The meat was also tender.   

FYI, blue cheese is a general classification of cow's milk, sheep's milk, or goat's milk cheeses that have had cultures of the mold Penicillin added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue, blue-gray or blue-green mold, and carries a distinct smell, either from that or various specially cultivated bacteria (from Wikipedia).

Will I go there again? maybe Yes.

Blue Cheese Burger S$15.90

 

Bar Bar Black Sheep Interior

 

Details

Name: Bar Bar Black Sheep

Address: 86 Robertson Quay #01-04

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

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Happy eating with maximum $5 at Wei Sam (Charcoal) Hong Kong Style Roasted

Did you remember I wrote about delicious prawn noodle in Mohamed Sultan area last week? Actually, nice foods around Mohamed Sultan area is not only that one. It's still have other stalls that sells delicious food to satisfy our taste bud. 

The other stalls that I will review today is Wei Sam (Charcoal) Hong Kong Style Roasted stall. This stall is located just beside prawn noodle stall.

Wei Sam (Charcoal) Hong Kong Style Roasted is selling Roasted Chicken, Soya Sauce Chicken, Roasted Duck and Roasted Cha Siew. Those dishes come with either rice, noodle or kway teow.

A little story of mine, this stall is located nearby my office, so I frequently take away my lunch from this stall and eat at office.  I ever try their chicken rice, cha sew rice and chicken kway teow. All the dishes are tasty. 

For the sake of this article, I wake up earlier than usual only to have breakfast before going to work. It's because this place doesn't have a big space and always crowded during lunch time.  It's difficult to find a seat to sit and put my camera bag. 

This time, I order roasted chicken rice. The rice is fragrant and tasty. The chicken is tender enough. This delicious chicken rice price is S$3.30. Quite affordable, right?

Will I go there again? Yes.

Roasted Chicken Rice S$3.30

 

Wei Sam (Charcoal) Hong Kong Style Roasted



Details
Name: Wei Sam (Charcoal) Hong Kong Style Roasted
Address: 219 River Valley Road
Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

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Happy eating with maximum $5 at Delicious Foods

Looking for a delicious Hokkien Prawn Mee around Mohamed Sultan area? You may try Hokkien Prawn Mee at Delicious Foods  food stall.

In this place, they have 4 different portions: teenager portion (S$4.00), queen portion (S$5.00), king portion (S$6.00) and luxurious portion (S$7.00).

I order teenager portion of dry Hokkien Prawn Mee. Although this is the smallest portion that they offer, but it's not considered small portion at all. Don't believed me? You may try yourself :)

Dry Hokkien Prawn Mee comes with a small bowl of soup.

Perhaps you are wondering " where do I get that S$4 cheap?". It's still considered cheap because it's located nearby Robertson quay, Liang Court and Mohamed Sultan road. The second reason is because they give a lot of prawn and the soup itself is rich of prawn essence.

Other than Hokkien Prawn Mee, they also sell Nyonya Laksa, Baba Mee Siam and Meng Nan Lor Mee.

Will I go there again? Yes.

Dry Hokkien Prawn Mee S$4.00

Delicious Foods Stall

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Name: Delicious Foods
Address: 219 River Valley Road
Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

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Daikokuya

Have you ever try ramen at Daikokuya? If you haven't, perhaps you can use this article as a reference.

Daikokuya is a ramen restaurant located at Riverside Village ~ Clarke Quay area. This place is nearby my office. I am having dinner at Daikokuya with my colleagues before going to Dhoby Ghaut to see some events.

Over there, my colleague orders Special Ramen and Teppan Mentaiko Yaki Ramen.
Special Ramen comes with extra Chashu and flavored Egg. The Chashu is big enough and the broth is not bad.

Teppan Mentaiko Yaki Ramen is a pan fried ramen with pork, fishcake and mix vegetables topped with mentaiko sauce. For me, the taste is still acceptable, but my colleague has different opinion. She prefers normal ramen (have broth) than pan fried one. Pity to her, she is regretting to order that one :p

I order Original Miso Ramen. This miso broth is delicious. I like it more than Special ramen and Teppan Mentaiko Yaki Ramen.

Will I go there again? Maybe yes.

Original Miso Ramen S$14.90++

Special Ramen S$14.80

 

Teppan Mentaiko Yaki Ramen S$12.80

Daikokuya Interior

 

Details

Name: Daikokuya

Address: Riverside Village #01-05

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

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Yumeya Japanese Restaurant

My office located at Mohamed Sultan road, which have a lot of nice Japanese restaurants. I worked there around more than 1 year yet haven't tried one of them. Finally I and my colleague able manage a time to try lunch at one of the Japanese restaurants named Yumeya Japanese Restaurant.

Yumeya Japanese Restaurant has an authentic Japanese style decoration. They decorate with many types of sake bottle and even the waitress wearing kimono. I guess they are coming from Japan as I heard they talked to each other’s using Japanese language.

Interested with their set lunch, we ordered Saba Shio Yaki Set and Sanma Shio Yaki Set. This set comes with rice, two vegetables side dishes, Chawanmushi and two slices watermelon.

My colleague said the Saba fish is nice. 

Although Sanma fish has too many tiny bones, it is not bad to try. For the person like me who don't know the technique to remove Sanma fish bone, you need to extra careful so you will not choke by the fish bone.

We are both agreeing that the vegetable side dishes are very tasty. I guess the key that makes these dishes so delicious is their sauce.

The only thing that needs improvement is their serving time. It took quite long time for them to serve the foods. For the taste wise, it's worth to try.

N.B: Set meal only available during afternoon.

Will I go there again? Yes

Saba Shio Yaki Set S$16.00

 

Sanma Shio Yaki Set S$16.00

Vegetables

Chawanmushi

 

Yumeya Japanese Restaurant Interior

 

 

Details

Name: Yumeya Japanese Restaurant

Address: 33 Mohamed Sultan Road #01-01 

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

 

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday: 12:00PM - 14:30PM, 18:00PM - 12:00 midnight 

Saturday & Sunday: 18:00PM - 02:00AM



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Spathe Public House

Last week, I and colleague had lunch at Spathe Public House.

Actually we planned to order their set lunch promo. But finally (after realized that their lunch menu was not worth of the money), we decided to try their normal menu instead.

We ordered Spathe Chicken Klev Style and Chicken & the Sea.

Chicken & the Sea consists of Spanish paella rice, NZ mussels, squid, chorizo, chicken and saffron. The mussels & squid are fresh, chicken is tender and they serve in hot condition. This dishes is very delicious, but the portion is too small.

Spathe Chicken Klev Style comes with green peas and garlic. You need to eat the chicken together with the onion to get the perfect taste. My friends told me that the food is quite nice, but not pocket friendly :P

So if you looking for a cozy restaurant with nice dishes plus don't mind with their price, you should try have your lunch / dinner at Spathe Public House.

Chicken & the Sea S$25.00

Spathe Chicken Klev Style S$18.00

Spathe Public House Interior

 

 

Details

Name: Spathe Public House

Address: 8 Mohamed Sultan Road #01-01

Nearest MRT: Clarke Quay MRT

 

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday: 11:00AM - 11:00PM

Saturday: 10:00AM - 11:00PM

Sunday: 10:00AM - 5:00PM

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