the wishing well

I only took the photo of this wishing well. The environment is peaceful and like some country side. Though the name of the pub - Toucan is so birdy, this is actually an Irish Pub. The Chinese native waiter spoke a good English which ris herself might not understand either. Well, we had our food order served and I considered the service is good enough. Both wee keong and I had beer battered fish & chip. It was not as oily as the one I had at cineleisure. Bless my waistline!


Date: 2 October 2009
Location: Red dot dempsey
Rating (food): 4/5
Rating (beverage): 3/5
Rating (ambience): 4/5
Rating (service): 3/5
$$ spent: approximately $120

these were what wee keong and goo ordered for their dinner.

a tower of mint beer

and this is mine. Cod fish with cavier and baked tomatoes. This cod fish is fresh! Oh ya, the tomatoes were juicy. Yum yum. At the background is my snow ball cocktail.

this is mine too. The cod fish was digested in a while time and I had to ordered a prawn salad.

Goo munching and calling the waiter at the same time. He and wee keong had a tower of beer and four different flavours of beers. They were in heaven by the time they were done.

white lanterns hanging on the tree branches

the waiter changed and put bulb in the tower. Glowing in the dark..

Big red light balloon

That night, ivin joined our table after her celebration with her colleagues at red dot while lawrence joined us after his lesson (the next day he went to Indonesia for the disaster relief job). Coincidentally, the singer, joel from the live band at red dot turned out to be their colleague (pssst! he is moonlighting). We threw a few dedications to joel and threatened to reveal his moonlight job. haha.

Not forgetting they have two bingo sessions, at approximately 8pm and 10pm. Wee keong wanted to bring Peanut and I over to this place but Peanut thinks this is a tourist trap. Nevertheless, I had a good fun with the bingo though I got no bingo. They gave out 3 $50 vouchers to the winners per session.

Never mind about the voucher, we got a free pizza from the singer. We even had a good chat with the boss who turned out to be from the same army formation as the guys on my table. Duh.

One thing I am not pleased is this foreign waitress who actually gave us a look when we want to order some food. Definitely she was having a bad day. As for those people who kept saying Singaporeans do not provide good service~ I just want to tell you it is not just Singaporeans who do not have a service oriented behaviour. People from other nationality would have such behaviour as well. Dont grumble.

Date: 9 October 2009
Location: Po Pian at Bukit Merah
Rating (food): 3/5
Rating (beverage): 2/5
Rating (ambience): 2/5

Rating (service): 5/5
$$ spent: approximately $60

wee keong doing his po pian

The filling in my po pian

Basically this restaurant is situated at a void deck. Fret not, it is an air conditioned place and mind you, their service is not like those kopitiam. Their staffs are friendly, service oriented and even send us to the doorstep.

There were only 4 tables occupied among approximately 12 tables. Together with wee keong, we ordered 6 po pians, 1 prawn omelette, 1 claypot seafood tofu and 1 plate of prawn roll. We were totally full and we were unable to finish the meal. In the end, we played finger guessing game to force each other to finish it. . .

Date: 10 October 2009

Location: Po Po Le @ East Coast

Rating (food): 1/5

Rating (beverage): 2/5

Rating (ambience): 3/5
Rating (service): 3/5

$$ spent: approximately $25

this jukebox brings you back to the 1970s.

the decor on the wall consisting retro fan, telephone and video camera!

while on the table, there were the plates, bowls and chopsticks from the past.

firstly, tick your orders...

then wait like an idiot.

Forgive me, I did not know I was heading to this restaurant for my lunch. I was basically wearing my adidas top, shorts and slippers. We were having this lunch before heading to Bukit Timah for a hike.

Lionel is forever working...

While he is at work, I am looking here and there. I spotted this dirt on the table cloth, and there were many other stains on the table cloth as well. Duh. But the dirt is not pissing me off.. because of...

the food! We were having crab cake for appeitiser!

Lionel commented that this is good as it is full of craps crab meat..

as for my main, the red snapper fillet in the fish shape, as well as the mashed potato. Though the potato was not well mashed, the taste is definitely buttery potatoish. what a word. The fish was pan fried in a good butter too. Yum yum.

For Lionel, his main dish is this seafood pasta which the prawn is huge and fleshy.

Our dessert, chocolate lava. The vanilla ice cream is so pretty. I decided to order this to taste its royce chocolate.

I did not order any drinks. Only plain water. Thanks~

my usual order - Margarita~

On the margarita is two scoops of yoghurt ice creams.

I have this, Biscotto, bosco and another italian word which I forgotten. Basically the flavours are biscuit, mixed berries and mixed tropical fruits. No sinful ice cream, the biscuit flavour is 97% fat free, while the other two flavours are zero fat! good good~

Lionel was dead beat from the hike. haha.