Shimbashi Soba @ Paragon Orchard

Orchard Road is Singaporeans and tourists world best shopping district where you can get many exciting and shopping experience right here! Not only that, you can get many varies of food in Orchard Road! From Asian to Western food!


At The Paragon, you can find many food outlets in Bassement 1. There is one Japanese restaurant called, Shimbashi Soba is quite famous for their Ramen!

Simply to say that, Shimbashi Soba serves in Ramen only! They made Ramen on the spot and serve you. They have differences of variety of Ramen for you to choose from! What's more, their menu also have monthly recommendation of their best Ramen in town! If you have budget, you can considering ordering value set as their Ramen is not cheap.


My friend and I visited to Shimbashi Soba. I ordered Value set cost SGD$19.80, which consists of Cold Ramen, Fried Chicken, Fried Toufu, Pawn/Vegetable Tempura and fruits.


While my friend ordered Shoukadou A set cost SGD$24.80, which consists of Ramen, Chicken, Salmons, Pawn/Vegetable Tempura and fruits. The Ramen was very chewing and tended! The soup tasted very satisfying as well.


Rating for Shimbashi Soba The Paragon Outlet:


Locational: 4/5 It takes you about 10 minutes walk from Orchard MRT station and 15 minutes walk from Somerset MRT station. It is not convenience when it's raining heavily. 


Ambience: 5/5 The restaurant is Japanese style. Good seating plan layout.


Customer Service: 5/5 The staff is very friendly and polite. If you know how to speak Japanese, you can speak Japanese with the staff here.


Waiting Time: 4/5 They serves you quite fast despite the restaurant is crowded. Please also take note that due to limit of seat, you need to queue awhile before the staff can serve your seat during Lunch and Dinner hours.


Pricing: 3/5 Although it is very expensive but the Ramen is worth of money! They also issued you loyalty card with every SGD$20 spend, you will get 1 stamp. Collect the stamp to earn rewards. This card can be used in their sister outlets and also accepted at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Outlet as well! 


Card Promotion: -NIL-


FourSquare Promotion: -NIL-


Overall: I would greatly recommend you to visit here and enjoy yourself!


Visit Shimbashi Soba outlet at:


The Paragon
290 Orchard Road, #B1-41
Singapore 238859
Tel: +65 6735 9882
Fax: +65 6735 9883
Website: http://www.sobaworld.com.sg
FourSquare: http://foursquare.com/venue/391352




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Prices are included 7% of Government Tax (GST) and 10% Service Charge.

PS. Cafe @ Dempsey Hill

I am sure that many of you had heard about Dempsey Hill or Tanglin Village and what's great about Dempsey Hill? Well, Dempsey hill was once belonged to Far East British Forces. Then, it became Former Headquarters of the Ministry of Denfence (MINDEF) and the Central Manpower Base (CMPB), where every young men need to report to enlist for the National Service (Army).


After MINDEF and CMPB moved out from Dempesy Hill in the 90's and it became un-vacant. The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) called for tenders in year 2006 to turn Dempesy Hill into Lifestyle and entertainment interest. That is why today Dempesy Hill become so popular to many people to dine and to relax after their hectic work.


Dempsey Hill consists of 8 blocks. Differences block have their own attraction. There one place you should not be missed is PS. Cafe.


PS. Cafe is a lovely place to dine in, having great gathering with your friends and families or order a drink and chit chat with your love one.


When you are outside their premises, you need to walk inside the wooden path before you can see the PS. Cafe. After that, you need to pull the heavy metal door and walk inside before the waiter/waitress can serve you.


During the night, it's crowded and I choose to sit outside as I can see night scenery and enjoy the night breeze. I ordered Dark Chocolate Brownie with ice-cream for my appetizer and Hot Mint Tea for my drink.


I love the appetizer! They have the awesome appetizer and what's more, I feel so refreshing after having hot Mint Tea!! The layout of the cafe is great too! very modern and contemporary design. But, this place always full of crowds and makes it to be noisy if you are dine in inside the premises!


Rating for PS. Cafe Harding Road (Dempsey Hill) Outlet:

Locational: 3/5 Travel to Dempsey Hill is not accessible. You need to drive in or you need to take public transport, SBS transit Bus no 7 from bus stop ID: 09022 Opposite Orchard MRT station and alighted at bus stop ID: 11211 After Peirce Road. After that walk up the hill about 10-15 minutes to reach.

Ambience: 5/5 You can choose to sit inside or outside the premises as it gives you differences ambience and scenery. 

Customer Service: 5/5 The staffs are very friendly and courtesy!

Waiting Time: 2/5 When come to order or payment, you need wait quite a long time (around 20-30 minutes) before they could serve you. Perhaps, it is time for the management to hire more staffs! If you sit outside, you have a greater chance of not able to refill your water due to the crowds and shortage of staffs.

Food Serving: 5/5 Love their appetizer and their drink! Very Awesome! 

Pricing: 5/5 Pricing is acceptable. Value of money!

Card Promotion: -NIL-

FourSquare Promotion: -NIL-

Overall: I would greatly recommend you to visit here and enjoy yourself!

Visit PS. Cafe Harding outlet at:

28B Harding Road
Singapore 249549
Tel: +65 9070 8782
Web: http://www.pscafe.sg
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PSharding
FourSquare: http://foursquare.com/venue/318052





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Prices are included 7% of Government Tax (GST) and 10% Service Charge.

Dining at Billy Bombers, The Central (Clarke Quay)

My friend and I visited The Central which is located at Clarke Quay for our dinner. At Central, there are many restaurants around, so we decided to patronize Billy Bombers Classic for our dinner.


The waiter was extremely friendly and served us our seat and told us the soup of the day will be Cream of Mushroom.


Billy Bombers Classic restaurant concept is American retro theme. In the restaurant itself, you can find many classic and retro decorate and the open concept kitchen. If the restaurant is not crowded, you can request to sit outside as you can see the Singapore River and the surrounding scenery.


If you noticed that, they played oldie songs. It can make you thought that you are now in the 60's as everything was so retro. The ambience was great.


After the dinner, you can cross the bridge over and take a scroll walk to enjoy the scenery at night or you can rest at the river bank and enjoy the night.


My friend ordered Cream of Mushroom and Burger. For myself, I ordered Fish & Chip.


Soon,  both of our food are served. My friend had double fried eggs and somehow the eggs was badly burnt but the vegetables was fresh!


For my Fish & Chip is rather big portion (consists of 2 Fish & Chip) which I doubt I could finish it. Plus, the salad was fresh too!


Rating for Billy Bombers, The Central (Clarke Quay) outlet:


Locational: 5/5 Directly above Clarke Quay MRT. Near to many established clubs, pubs and eatery outlets.


Ambience: 4/5 You can enjoys the outside scenery if you sit outdoor. I do not like open concept kitchen as I could smell burnt food.


Customer Service: 4/5 The staffs are very observable but they sometime like to chit chatting openly frequency.


Waiting Time: 4/5 Acceptable Waiting Time.


Food Serving: 3/5 The food portion always huge and there will be food wastage!


Pricing: 4/5 Pricing is acceptable but it will be great if more banks can have more promotions and privileges. Oh yea, they also have in store promotion where they will issued you Billy Bombers voucher where you can use it for next visit!


Card Promotion: UOB and Citibank Card holder are entitled promotion and privileges. Please check in store for more information.


FourSquare Promotion: -NIL-


Overall: I would greatly recommend you to visit here and enjoy yourself!


Visit Billy Bombers Classic Outlet at:


The Central
6 Eu Tong Sen Street
#02-78
Singapore 059817
Tel: +65 6534 7827
FourSquare: http://www.foursquare.com/venue/417202




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Prices are included 7% of Government Tax (GST) and 10% Service Charge.

New York New York Food Review at Parkway Parade (Marine Parade)

Darius and I visited New York New York at Parkway Parade for dinner. At the point of visiting, there are not much crowded. The waitress was friendly to welcome us to patron to their restaurant.


We find our own seat and sat down to see the menu. After we decided what to eat, Darius waves his hand and within one minute, one lady in black served us. (if I am not wrong, she might be store supervisor or assistant manager.)


We ordered Breaded Mushroom SGD$9.90, Hot Plate Chicken SGD$13.90 and Hawaii Chicken Chop SGD$14.90. The lady in black was extremely friendly and smiled. She also repeated our order. After awhile, she smiled and served us 2 ice water.


About 10 minutes, Breaded Mushroom was served by waitress in blue color. She seemed to be nervous and the sauce was drooling off and has slight pour into the Breaded Mushroom. But nevertheless, the Breaded Mushroom smell quite tempted.


I took one piece and use a knife to cut it, the juice of the Breaded Mushroom came off and it was hot!! When I ate it with the sauce, it was so heavenly! Very juicy, crispy and yummy!!


About 15 minutes later, I was served by Black shirt lady again. When I saw my Hawaii Chicken Chop, I am very disappointed. Firstly, the food/dish arrangement looked very messy. Secondly, the vegetable was not fresh and in-fact turned slightly yellowish! Thirdly, the chicken looked very small piece.


After awhile, waitress served Darius one plate of vegetable first. After that, Hot Plate Chicken was served by a waiter.


I tasted the Chicken, it was scorched and had a hard time finish it. The Potato Wedges was fine but the vegetable really could not make it!


Now, let's talk about Darius food. His one plate of vegetable extremely not fresh at all! It's very yellowish. According to Darius, he told me that his food is very dry! They put too much of black peppers.


The Spaghetti was scorched. The chicken was not tender enough and too dry to be consumed! The eggs too scorched and dry! And both of us keep on drinking ice water due to scorched food!


Soon, the crowds started coming in and the restaurant was crowded and I guess they are lacked of staffs. We are trying to refill our ice-water but it seem like they are not free to pour it for us! Or perhaps, they are not expecting any crowds that why they did not deploy many staffs.


Then, we asked for our bill and it took about 5 minutes before someone approached us. The lady in black served us again. She's friendly and smiled. Very well manned service.


Rating for New York New York Parkway Parade (Marine Parade) Outlet:


Locational: 3/5 (You need to alight at Paya Lebar MRT station and transfer to bus to reach Parkway Parade)


Ambience: 4/5 (Near to the company sign logo full of carton boxes of drinks and messy. Bad for company image)


Customer Service: 5/5 (They are friendly, polite and courtesy. Bonus, they smiled to every single customers)


Waiting Time: 4/5 (Acceptable Waiting Time but during lunch/dinner crowds should be improved)


Food Serving: 2/5 (Need to give fresh food and try to improve on food as either it's too dry or too scorch)


Pricing: 4/5 (Pricing are reasonable)


Card Promotion: New York New York Membership card entitled privileges ask them for more information.


FourSquare Promotion: -NIL-


Overall: I would likely recommend you to visit it!


Visit New York New York Parkway Parade outlet at:


80, Marine Parade Road, Parkway Parade
#01-10,Singapore 449269
Tel: 63448976
Fax: 63448754
FourSquare: http://foursquare.com/venue/6471949





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Prices are included 7% of Government Tax (GST) and 10% Service Charge.