New Year Gathering @ The Hillside

We spent our first day of 2008 meeting up with old classmates (actually they are James’s poly mates) at Christopher’s house. It’s sort of like an annual gathering for them.

Pam was busy serving us food mostly prepared and cooked by her. Last year, she was pregnant and wasn’t able to prepare as much.

The Hillside condo is one of the best places you want to be. It’s so relaxing and calm just looking at the pananomic view and feeling the breeze.

More pictures.

Terminal 3

On the last day of 2007, we visited the new soon to be opened Changi Airport Terminal 3.

More pictures of T3 & T2.

Survey - Treasure Resort in Sentosa

Dear friends,

I would really appreciate it if you could spend some time (less than 5 minutes) to complete this survey on Treasure Resort (formerly Sijori Resort) in Sentosa, Singapore.

My team has selected Treasure Resort as our subject of study for my Hospitality Marketing Management course assessment project.

The survey was developed for the purpose of collecting and establishing data about interests regarding Treasure Resort in Sentosa; and develops a “Marketing Plan” for the Company.

If you know of friends who have visited the resort, please forward the survey to them so that I can hear their views.

Thanks!

Bi Feng Tang 避风塘

Had New Year’s Eve lunch with ML, LLH & Kat at Bi Feng Tang (避风塘), Century Square.

We ordered the 4 person set at $58.80 which consists of:
- Herbal prawn soup
- Roasted pork with crab meat fried rice
- Veg with mushroom
- Sliced fish with ginger and spring onion
- Crispy chicken
- Trio mixed roasted meat
- Dessert (warm yam paste with sago)

Portable Battery Powered Fan

My portable battery powered fan from Mini Toons, T2 for less than $5.

Tong Shui Cafe (TSC)

New Year’s Eve dinner at Tong Shui Cafe or TSC in short at Singapore Changi Airports Terminal 2 was such a disappointment… so disappointing that James wrote this entry...

Decorated with the antique Chinese 70s look, pictures people of “lin dai yu” era. Even the cutlery holder looks good. They advertised that they are a Halal establishment prominently by placing the cert at the door. It worked, I would say more than 50% of the patrons are Malays.

Seems like a new setup, service staff is still learning the ropes. Heard a few plates breaking while we were there. Menu was priced such that everything is rounded to $xx.88. which means your tea costs $1.88, your noodles cost $8.88, etc. Kitchen also took a while to serve the orders. That also explained the queues at the door.

I had kimchi noodles with seafood. The soup had a fishy smell, and the fish was overcooked. Not very good. She had macaroni with stewed brisket. Also had butterfly wanton and 8 treasure tea. The tea came in a proper flask, but then they gave us just 1 styrofoam cup to pour the drink. So LC…., food was so so only…for the price, I rather hop over next door to have Sake Sushi.

Sequence of serving the food was a bit odd. The main course came first, and when we were almost done, the drinks came, then the appetizer.

What was annoying was that, seeing we were nearly finished, the manager got the waitress to send us the bill without us asking for it. Then he got a big group of customers to be seated next to us, knowing that there wasn’t enough seats. .”very polite” of him to do this. So well, we stood up to leave, and he was just waiting for that, he immediately swooped in to clear our plates. And when we were walking out, he didn’t even bother to say bye….

So in a nutshell, food is not worth it, service sucks, décor is interesting. I wouldn’t go back again.

Metro Expo Sale, Orange Julius

The Metro Expo Sale was disappointing.

Range of products was limited and those items on sale were not appealing and not cheap but we still manage to buy something… chocolates.




















We bought some snacks from Orange Julius and so regretted it.

We bought Triple Berry Smoothy for $4.20, Primo Nachos for $3.55 and added $2.15 for Julius Original Orange juice.

First the good, service was alright. Now the not so good, the smoothy tastes like syrup drink, orange juice was terribly diluted. Imagine when I had the drink when young (many ages ago…), it tasted so great, packed a punch, but now, even the fruit stall at the kopi tiam sells better drinks. The nachos are not worth the trouble, tasteless…