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We were going to be at Lucky Plaza this morning, and I was looking forward to the Nasi Lemak there. It was the famed River Valley Nasi Lemak located in the basement of Lucky Plaza. It has been there for quite some time actually, and I’ve eaten there several times previously. It was quite good. But it seems standards have dropped tremendously since. The rice wasn’t fragrant. The egg was dry and hard. The chicken was tough. The fish was was tasteless. There was not enough ikan bilis (the peanuts were plentiful but the ikan bilis were a rarity). Even the chilli wasn’t nice either.

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It’s Sakae Sushi’s latest special. At least at the outlet in Junction 8. Warm Sushi. We dropped by this evening for dinner and were surprised by their new sushi servings. First it was one plate that we plucked off the conveyor belt. Our teeth felt a warm sensation as they sank themselves into the sushi. Hmm. The second plate we plucked off the conveyor belt had the same warmness. We weren’t the least pleased with the new sushi. I wonder, had the sushi been going around the conveyor belt since lunch time?

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I was at the famed ABC market and food centre recently for lunch. There’s quite a lot of good food to pick from in there. When we found an empty table to sit at, I noticed this stall whose signage says they serve North Indian Pakistani Food. Sounds interesting. It seems they are a branch of the Al-Musafir Restaurant located at Kitchener Road. I’ve not not of them either, actually, but it makes them sound “good”. They sell Briyani, one of my favourite, so I decided to order that.

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We haven’t come to this restaurant for some time, so we were quite pleasantly surprised that they have remained quite the same as before. Same ambience, the same food, same pricing, and about the same promotions too. It’s a quiet little Japanese fusion restaurant situated in a corner of the 2nd level of Bugis Junction, but they can get quite crowded. Service is good and the staff are friendly.

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Lunch time came, during my whole day meeting at NUS Bukit Timah Campus recently, and everyone was thinking about where to eat. We were told Black Angus was closed (surprising isn’t it?), and we didn’t fancy BK’s version of Black Angus. So I suggested Casa Verde, a place I’ve come to visit from time to time ever since my wife suggested the place for breakfast a long time ago. It’s a restaurant at the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre.

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There are these two Hainanese Chicken Rice stalls at the Dover Food Centre, just separated by one stall in-between them, that have been pretty well known and are typically quite crowded. Yes, both of them, in the past. But some time ago, when I was there and patronized the corner stall, I was sorely disappointed with the quality of the serving, apart from also not being told in advance that they had run out of the century egg.

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I thought they’ve all but disappeared from Singapore, but they just opened an outlet not too far from where I stay, in a shophouse along Chun Tin Road. They describe themselves as “the world’s no. 1 pizza delivery company”, and “the pizza delivery experts”. They deliver in 30 minutes too! They are all about pizza delivery, not about the pizza themselves. It struck me as a little unusual that they are focusing on the delivery experience when they aren’t a courier service like DHL or Fedex.

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We were recently at Astons Specialties for lunch. This is the branch at Cathay. We were there at about 12:30pm on a Sunday, and there was a moderately long queue formed up outside the restaurant. I was slightly surprised, because I didn’t consider Cathay to be such a frequented area. But anyhow, we didn’t have to queue very long, because a big group left and a lot of tables were freed up.

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In a recent lunch at Megabites Cafe in NUS, I noticed they had a promotion for Cheese Fries. It’s $2.50. I thought why not give it a try, order a portion to share. I was surprised that the portion turned out to be quite sizable. The cheese was nice, and the fries was just merely passable. The issue I have with it is that the serving was not hot enough. In fact I would consider it barely warm. I think it would have been so much nicer had the cheese fries been still hot. It’s not something I will recommend unless you’re sick of all the usual foods in NUS and need to try something new.

Some time ago, a friend introduced me to this nice little cafe restaurant, Buddy Hoagies, located in a quiet shopping centre, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. This is one of the kind of place that you’re never going to find on your own, unless someone tells you about it, and perhaps even having to bring you there. It’s located in the basement, and even though it can be accessed directly from outside the shopping centre, it is below road level so you’re not going to see it unless you’re walking around looking out for it.

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