Fish & Co.

There was a new restaurant in town, and since my buddy was craving for some fish and chips, I suggested that we go try this new restaurant, which is Fish & Co., which is a pretty big franchise back in my hometown, though not sure where is it originated from.

Location: City Square area, right at the end of the building just after Bakerlyn Cake Shop

Setting: Nice and modern with a pretty cool underwater theme, with a number of cool paraphernalia of sea life (the shark and the huge fish was a nice touch)
Atmosphere: 8/10 (very busy and huge patronage, maybe coz it's newly open and all)
Design: 8.5/10 (design matches the place really good, modern, nice and simplistic and suits the atmosphere)

Some trigger-happy photos of the table setting and the menu

Drinks: Ice-lemon tea (mine) and Coke tonic (my buddy)
Presentation: 7/10 for both of us (looks more or less presentable to us, though this was the first time I've seen Coke tonic though)
Taste: 7.5/10 for mine (not sure how the Coke tonic tastes like, but my ice-lemon tea pretty much taste like those cordial)

Appetizers: Soup of the day (not sure what was it, which pretty much tastes like clam or mushroom chowder)
Presentation: 8/10 for both (looks nice, thick and creamy, with rich colours from the vegs)
Taste: 8/10 (tastes as good as it looks, though they could ease off a little bit on the ungrounded black pepper and stuff)

The whole picture of our food, which we ordered in complete set (that comes with the drink and the soup) just for the sake of reasonable price, since this restaurant specialize mostly in seafood, and the price is a little dear

Food: The Best Fish and Chips (as they call it for mine) and Danish Fish and Chips (my buddy)
Presentation: 8/10 for both of us (very interesting way of serving it in a pan, almost reminds me of that Fish in a Pan franchise in One Borneo--maybe it could've been that, only they changed the name to Fish & Co--and the portion is pretty large, which is satisfying)
Taste: 8/10 for mine and 8.5/10 for my buddy (mine tastes like standard fish and chips, though the batter for the fish and chips is pretty interesting, doesn't taste like it's made from bread or regular flour batter or tempura, and it's very nice and crunchy, and the meat is fresh. My buddy's Danish fish and chips taste a little bit curry-ish, like they've added chili powder into the mix)

It's pretty cool place to try out, and a good place to try a seafood restaurant if you're into seafood without worrying about the non-halal part most Muslims are worried about and avoid from Chinese seafood restaurants, and it's at a slightly reasonable price. Dunno when will the hype die down, as most new restaurants wont to do, but it's good to give it a shot

The Rooster's Crow Restaurant

My buddy and I were not sure what to eat since we didn't plan beforehand, so we decided to be adventurous and surf around town, seeing if we can find something to eat and just wing it, and it led us to The Rooster's Crow Restaurant

Location: In Gadong area, the same row as Ahan Thai and a number of other shops, including a CD shop and a stationery store that I always go to get my drawing pens, the block directly opposite McDonald's

Setting: Typical old school Malay-ish restaurant, with a slight class in it
Atmosphere: 7/10 (nice and quiet, not really because of the lack of patronage, since maybe coz it's a little bit past lunch hour, but still it's a nice atmosphere and peaceful)
Design: 6.5/10 (pretty decent, with a hint of nostalgia and old school in between to make the place look classy, though it's odd that one side of the wall is all Brunei pics while the other side of the wall was all Tiger Woods pic)

Food: Chicken Rice Set B (my buddy's; rice with roasted chicken and sprouts)
Presentation: 7.5/10 (surprisingly big portion and in separate, since we expected it to be part of the rice within)
Taste: 7/10 (the sprouts were nice and crispy, showing that it's fresh, and the chicken has quite the strong coconut milk taste in it)

Food: Chicken Rice Set A (mine; rice with steamed chicken and kangkong)
Presentation: 7.5/10 (same comment for my buddy to mine)
Taste: 7/10 (the chicken is nice, sweet and tender, and the kangkong taste was just nice and juicy crisp, though still not the best kangkong I was really looking for though; I have a set target for that)

Overall, it's a pretty recommendable restaurant, has pretty good potential and the portion is nice and right and filling, and the price is very reasonable too.

Blitz

Would've blogged about this earlier, but I've only gotten these pictures recently from my buddy, since I borrowed his phone camera coz I forgot to bring my own camera, but anyways, it was dessert time after we had our lunch date at Lemongrass few weeks ago, and we ended up going to Blitz to have some frozen yoghurt.

Location: 1st floor of the Supersave shopping mall, Mabohai branch

Setting: A nice, quaint typical yoghurt cafe shop, with a very nice black-and-white piano-ish ying-yang theme to it
Atmosphere: 5.5/10 (it has a nice, welcoming feel to it, but unfortunately, the patronage makes it kinda sad to look at)
Design: 7/10 (the design is really nice though, I'm giving most credits for it)

These are the yoghurt that my buddy and his cousin bought. I wasn't really in a mood for yoghurt coz I was craving for my ice-cream that is waiting in the freezer in my home, so I only took brief shots of their yoghurt. Looks nice and yummy though. The yoghurt itself comes with a few different flavours: one the usual standard yoghurt flavour, then (I think) the vanilla flavour, and two of the "flavour of the day" flavours depending on what day it is in the week.

Technically I've already tried the yoghurt before when I came here for the first time during the debut opening of the newly made 1st and 2nd floor of the renovation and extension of Supersave, and I actually liked the taste. At least it didn't taste as sour as the one in Mochi.

This is a not-so-bad yoghurt shop, and needs quite a bit of patronage, so go ahead and give it a chance and a shot

Old Tiong Bahru Bah Kut Teh

After exhausting all places to eat on a particularly busy weekend lunchtime, our Singapore relatives finally got down to taking us here instead, in Old Tiong Bahru Bah Kut Teh

Location: Within the Tiong Bahru streets, in Chinatown district

Setting: Typical Chinese restaurant, with real China girls as workers there
Atmosphere: 8/10 (very hustle-bustle, good patronage, even though it's already late into lunch hour and people still go for here)
Design: 6.5/10 (standard design, could use a bit more wider space)

Random shot of their wet wipes

We're eating for four, so the bulk of the food here includes:

Cha koi (oily breadsticks)

Broiled tofu skins

Broiled tofu strips

Pickled veggies

...and pig trotters

We ordered two kinds of bah kut teh, one with the innards (spare parts) and one with just the meat. Both of them are pretty similar, the only difference is that this is the first time we've seen bah kut teh served in white soup, because most of the time, the bah kut teh we ate were dark and black in colour due to the herbs, but looks like they cut out the herbs part


A pretty delicious place, and I would rate it an overall 7/10 for this, but it might just be a little dear to the wallet because when our relatives paid for it, they got very little change back, so yeah, even eating in regular kopitiam would cost you an arm and a limb in Singapore... -_-;;