Filed under: clementi, dessert, kopi, late night, local, under S$10, under S$5, western
Opens late, 3, 4 am, and they’re still going strong.
All standard Western fare available (S$5), including mushroom and/or cheese omelettes (S$3), and a less “battered” dish called Blackened Fish. The Chicken Wrap with Cheese is really q. yummy, and comes on a bed of french fries.
Tommy’s also serves a variety of one plate tze char (Chinese stir fry, essentially) dishes.
Drinks are not too bad, though I prefer next door’s Fong Seng Nasi Lemak’s better. Sharing Tommy’s space is relative newcomer Chong Pang Nasi Lemak. The drinks stall sells fruit, and some traditional iced desserts.
Beside the Kent Ridge Terminal. Remember that the police aren’t likely to be kind to your car if you park illegally.
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.
This place is really, really quiet. They don’t pipe in music, and they don’t believe in air-conditioning. But they do serve beer, and pretty decent fish and chips.
The cream dory, at the cheapest on the list, is just S$6.50. Add a soft drink for S$2. Perhaps we aren’t great connoiseurs but the deep-fried, batter-laden fish seemed to all taste alike to us, so the more expensive possibilities (like monkfish?) didn’t really seem worthwhile.
I always think of fish and chips as a thoroughly blue collar sort of dish anyway. :].
The fish arrives in a basket with either (fries [crispy] or chips [just fried]) and there’s a range of sauces, mayonnaise, tartar, malt vinegar, honey mustard. Ask the (somewhat grim) counter girls. Coleslaw, though, is a rather exorbitant additional S$2.50.
From Riverside Point, walk towards Clarke Quay, and then down New Bridge Road to reach No. 27. If you’re lost there’s always the phone: +65 6532 6468.
