Filed under: bukit timah, chinese, dessert, italian, kopi, muslim, under S$10, under S$5
On Sixth Avenue, not exactly mouthwatering but quick and decently priced. 4 people can have a hearty meal for S$24, or if you go the noodle/fried rice route, just S$16. Steer clear of the hot-plate deer meat, though.
The great drawcard is the drinks stall beside it, providing consistently unbeatable miloais and tehais for S$1 or less. The other big plus is the diversity of the other stalls around Xiang Wei: Sixth Avenue Nasi Briyani (real finger lickin’ Indian fried chicken goodness for S$3.50), You Peng (a PRC dumpling stall, 10 xiaolongbaos (soup dumplings) for just S$6), Canadian 2-for-1 Pizza and Pizza da Donato (tiramisu! calzoni!) across the road. Guaranteed to please everyone.
(There’s also the celebrated Brazil Churrascaria, but that, you can’t bring food in/out of.)
Parking is always a problem, but if you leave your car across the road there’s the Venezia gelato parlour and/or the Cold Storage Gourmet to browse through before heading home. Also, a The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf outlet (but I don’t really think much of them).
Xiang Wei has a takeaway menu if you’re in a rush: +65 6875 1847. They close at 11pm.
In Chinatown, 57 Temple Street. Only serves QingDao beer (which isn’t half bad).
S$15.80 per person for steamboat with “over 50″ dishes. We didn’t count them, so I don’t rightly know, but there was plenty. We took half a pot of chicken soup and half a pot of ma la, the latter, definitely not for the fainthearted, or the gweilo palate.
The helpings were generous, and the beef, fish, and chicken sliced correctly (v., v., thinly).
It feels like old school Chinatown in there, bare walls save for a printout quoting Mao Zedong on the evils of waste, and tinny Chinese radio. The only other customers also looked like they’d arrived from the People’s Republic.
XiaoPing’s greatest point of distinction is the sauce concoction they offer. Add desired amounts of sesame oil, soya sauce, and garlic to a bowl of stuff they provide. End result tastes like the peanut gravy that goes with satay, absolutely amazing with the steamboat food.
+65 62260889.
Oh yes, do be warned: the owner doesn’t seem to speak much besides Chinese.
Filed under: chinese, dessert, kopi, local, orchard, somewhat atas, western
The Les Amis group already has a fairly comprehensive website, right here, including their menus: http://www.lesamis.com.sg/webtop/index2.html.
What I can tell you:
- the food isn’t so great (set lunches S$22-24, set dinners S$38), but!
- its really quiet, service is excellent,
- beers are only S$7-8, there’s a great range of wines, tea/coffee between S$4-5, and pretty decent dessert.
But they close by 10pm.
In summary: Instead of hitting one of the ubiquitous second-rate noisy-as-hell coffee joints, try this place: 1 Scotts Road, Shaw Centre #02-10 (just beyond the carpark entrance). Reservations at +65 6333 8966.
Filed under: chinese, clementi, dessert, kopi, late night, local, under S$5
Excellent crushed-ice milopeng, packaged “traditional” desserts (gwei ling gao, etc), sotong balls fantastic if just out of the fryer. They don’t close till 4am, sometimes, not even at 6am.
22 Clementi Road, next to the Kent Ridge Bus Terminal. Note: the Traffic Police love sweeping this stretch of road, though.
