Bakery and snacks @ 天將麵包

On the left there is a bakery and on the right there is a snack shop that serves cooked foods which are both under the same company.

bakery on left, snack shop on right

Anyway, tried the pandan cake from the bakery and a marinated chicken leg from the cooked foods section.

The cake was the usual Chinese chiffon cakes, it was slightly too sweet for me and the egg taste was stronger than the pandan.
I would have liked the pandan to taste stronger, afterall it is a pandan cake!.

As for the chicken leg it was re-heated and it was not as dry as expected.

Nice place for dining, but service has to improve

Situated at the art centres, it has a nice view over looking the sea, you can choose Al-fresco dining or sit inside.

The thing I was most impressed about was their digital menu and ordering system.
It was really good because it contained pictures and information of the dishes, and an ordering list on what you have ordered.

 

When I sat down, I was given a normal menu, the staff briefly said something was not available which I assumed to be updated on their hi-tech ipad.
Anyway, after browsing their digital menu, I ordered four items and passed the digital menu back to the waiter and he said “I told you that item wasn’t available, how could you forget”.
I felt that was a bit rude.

I wanted to get the grilled chicken with mustard, chili and lemon juice but I got the pizza instead.
So I ordered the Buccatini Amatriciana, Tartufo pizza and Spuma di yogurt e anice con coulis di fragola e meringhe.
Buccatini Amatriciana was hollow spaghetti cooked with pork cheek, onion in light tomato sauce.

After ordering, I was served some bread, which came with vinegar and olive oil.

 

Next the pizza and buccatini came.

Buccatini amatriciana:
This was so different to the menu description, instead of pork cheek it was fatty bacon, and the pasta was really oily.

 

Tartufo pizza:
This was pizza with truffle, tomato, mozzarella and fontina cheese and raw spinach leaves.
It looked nice and the truffle slices were big, but the whole pizza was tasteless.

Tartufo pizza

 

After finishing the mains, the same waitor who accused me of being forgetful that an item he said was unavailable asked me if I wanted to order dessert was also forgetful himself because I had already ordered dessert, so I said I already ordered dessert and he said “oh yea”.

Anyway the dessert I ordered was anise flavoured yogurt foam with strawberry coulis and meringue.
It was quite a nice dessert however I found it too creamy and bitter lacking yoghurt taste.

 

 

 

DATE DINED: June 2011

Lunch @ Assaggio Trattoria Italiana

Previously tried this place in the evening and the service was not that good.

Tried it again for lunch and the restaurant was full of people, they seemed to be short staffed hence service was slow.

Although the service was slow, they had knowledge about the food and were able to explain what food it was instead of reading back the dish name when asked.

Ordered the soup for starters and the artichoke risotto for the mains.

Both the food and drinks took ages to arrive and requesting for the bill proved to be a patient task because all the waitors were busy.

Anyway, the soup was basically clear chicken broth with pieces of liver and a few strands of thin tagliatelle.
The pasta was freshly made hence it was very chewy.

The risotto was my favourite, it was very refreshing because it was slightly sour.
However the portions could have been bigger.

Artichoke risotto

The experience dining there was purely an eating experience because the people dining there were so loud that you cannot have a normal conversation.