had lunch here weeeeksss ago, so this is an overdued review. not knowing what to eat, i ordered 2 plates of hokkien mees for me and my friend, vaguely remembered eating it before and at that time felt it was not bad...

The portion is big for me, eventhough i ordered the small plate. The prawns are bigger than the usual prawns you find in other hokkien mees. Although it was troublesome to remove the shells, the prawns were surprisinly fresh. The noodle is just so-so. My no.1 spot still goes to the one at bedok, and 2nd spot goes to the one near kovan mrt. But if you can't decide what to eat at the food republic @ suntec, guess the hokkien mee is still a safe bet.

The first time I tried out the food here was 3 years ago. Liked the place since then, especially for their soup which is neither too creamy nor too watery and taste yummy.

So a few days back, we went there for dinner since we had not been there for quite some time. Ordered the soup of the day which was cauliflower soup, the duck breast and dory fish. We asked for cold water, but realised that water was not free flowing and served in bottles. Weird, it used to be free in the past and it was a glass bottle of water per table sort of thing. So anyway, we ordered ice lemon tea instead. Wrong choice btw, it tasted like it was made from syrup. Think I prefer home made ice lemon tea sold at certain food courts...

Soup was hot and yummy. Waited for a long period for our main courses... When it finally came, I was shocked to see that the duck breast was done medium.....medium duck!!??!? Even suspected that it was not duck but sirloin steak. However, the waiter verified that it was indeed duck, and that they always served it medium. If that was the case, shouldn't the waitress just now asked me how i want it done, just like sirloin etc? Had the waiter took the dish back to the kitchen to have it well-done again. Bloody duck is not very appetising to me.

The dory fish was not bad, pretty soft...duck was not bad too...

For dessert we had the cheese cake, will say it is normal.

Overall, I will say that their service unfortunately has dropped. Gone was the good impression I had of them 3 years ago. Food wise, if you don't mind the service, try out the food which is not bad still.

Haven't been to Marche for a long time, so went there for lunch last week. One thing about Marche is, they haven't changed much since the first time I ate there, which is like donkey years ago. Good and bad:good is , well, I don't have to think too hard over what to eat (which is rosti 90% of the time)...bad is it gets kind of boring as choices are pretty limited and since the menu doesn't change much, I don't have the urge to come here often... thus explained why my last visit here was at least a year ago...

Anyway, my friend had a pretty big appetite that day so he ordered the fried mushrooms, calamari and the pizza. I ordered my usual, which is rosti... saw something new which was the garlic sausage, so ordered that to go with my rosti... assumed that it was new since I have never seen that before, but it could be that my memory is failing too...

I liked the calamari which tasted yummy with the garlic sauce that my friend took from the same stall I assume... liked my rosti and garlic sausage... the pizza and mushroom were alright...

So that concludes my visit to Marche, wonder if it is another year till I come back again...

(Somehow, the rosti pic looks s****y, literally..........)

Came here for the rice ball thing a few mths back...it was my first time then, and i think my last...

Turned out that I am not a big fan of this bally thing. I have never eaten a rice ball before, thus the reason why we came here to try it out, but unfortunately I am not used to eating rice mashed together. The ball looked small, but I barely even finished 1. As for the chicken, well it is...ok. Average... Soup was ok if I remember correctly...keke...

My favourite place for plain prata, during times when I had no cravings for crispy prata and just want the traditional ones to satisfy my tummy. This place is also known as the popular Jln Kayu prata shop.

It has been a long time since I last came back here, so on one recent Sunday when we came here for tea break, we were surprised to see that uncle had became pretty high-tech...using a touch screen just outside the cashier... hmm wonder what the guy behind the cashier do then..just collect money i guess...

Ordered 3 plain pratas, curry chicken and teh tarik...prata was still yummy, teh tarik was not too sweet...and the chicken drumstick, eventhough it costed a whooping $4 bucks, i enjoyed it very much indeed... thumbs up!

Came here for dinner to celebrate bf's birthday, our first time trying out this restaurant. While seated at our table which had a rectangular hotplate in the middle, we were constantly feeling the heat generated from it... kind of uncomfortable, but we were soon cooled down slightly when served with the cold drinks.

The menu looked messy, but still readable. Took a while to understand it, and the friendly waiter helped to recommend some dishes. In the end we ordered the seafood pizza pancake, eggplant with bean paste, garlic fried rice and the baked tofu with cheese.

The first dish to come was the ingredients for the pancake which was to be cooked on the hotplate. We opted to have the pancake made by the waiter instead of by ourselves, which was an excellent choice because I doubt the final product would look edible if handled by me.

Next to come was the eggplant. At first I thought it was slices of it in a black bowl, but I soon discovered the 'black bowl' was actually the skin. As for the eggplant, it was yummyyyyy...

The tofu cheese came next. Read reviews abt how good it was, but I was disappointed to find out that it was just so-so.

Last was the garlic fried rice, which was not too bad...oily too, which is expected of garlic fried rice...

Soon, our pancake was ready... Was pretty good too.... Next time we will try the wet pizza....

Overall, the meal was satisfying. Bill came up to 60 plus, the ambience was good, diners were mainly Japaneses who seemed to be regulars here... Will sit at the outside tables next time where there is no hotplates...keke..wonder if the chefs will still prepare wet pizzas for such tables though...

The best tau sar piah that i tried in Singapore. If you are thinking of getting some new year goodies, or local delights to give your friends from overseas, do check out the pastries here. I personally liked the salty tau sar piah, the sweet one is not bad and has sesame on top. the tau sar piah is round and flat, the skin is soft, not too thick...the filling is soft and yummy... you can't stop at one...

Be prepared to queue for a while though, but you will be guaranteed the pastries are definitely fresh and only just minutes out of the oven... while waiting, check out the working crew in the kitchen and observe the making of the tau sar piah...keke...

And do not go too late too as they sold out pretty early...could be as early as 4pm...

Read abt this place on the "I" magazine, did some googling, and found out that Charco is like kenny roger in a neighbourhood kopitiam, the same style but at a cheaper price... and its location used to be where botak jones was!

So we went to check it out. Indeed, it does resembles Kenny Roger with its range of side dishes which can be served with 1/4,1/2 or whole chicken. Get to choose up to 3 side dishes, no muffins though. It happend to be Monday and there was this promotion where you can get 2 sets of 1/4 chickens+3 sides at $15.90 instead of the usual $17, so we ordered that.

I ordered the egg salad, greek salad (tomatoes, chilli peppers and cucumbers) and potato salad, whereas bf ordered chicken avocado (sliced chicken in avocado sauce), potato salad and cole slaw. Out of all the sides, I liked the egg salad and potato salad. Generous serving too, too much for me though. As for the chicken, eventhough the meat is tender and not dry, it doesn't feel tasty...it was like the sauce is just at the skin and did not penetrate to the meat. Still prefer kenny roger's chicken. But at the price we are paying for this, guess it is still pretty worth it. I guess the next time we will just order 1 set and then order another burger or that kebah-whatever...6 sides are too much for us :P

Lunch for that day was at this seafood market. The restaurant was at the 2nd floor, seem like a common place for tours as we saw rows of long tables with groups of tourists. The first floor sold the local delights, souvenirs, and *drool* fresh seafood!

Our lunch did not include the crab so we went downstairs to choose a crab. Not sure what kind are the crabs actually...alaska crab? Since it is huge and has long legs... nonetheless we started to walk ard the seafood area to check out the crabs.

Finally, we managed to find a small one which cost ard SGD200... we were told then half the legs would be made as sashimi and the remaining parts would be for the steam boat....

So while waiting for the crab to be served, we ate the other dishes which were not bad, mainly fishes... Crab came, and I tried the crab sashimi, but it felt weird...soft and raw...so bf happily ate all the 4 legs since none of us fancied crab sashimi (what a shame :S).... enjoyed the cooked crab more, fresh and tasty... we (4 pax) almost could not finish the crab...

Somehow after this meal, we felt the crab legs we had in later meals did not taste as good as this one...glad we did not give this a miss...

This stall is one of the popular stalls at East Coast Parkway. We were lucky to get the last bowl of beef kway teow soup that night.

I like the soup which is not bad, meat is tender... Portion a bit small... nonetheless is enough for me :)

Pardon the dark pics...using hp without the flash...photo of the store was taken after uncle closed for the day..ops!