Secret Recipe

Secret Recipe
Website: http://www.secretrecipe.com.sg/Default.asp

Secret Recipe has cheesecake, cheesecake and more cheesecakes. They have outlets at Holland Grove Road, Plaza Singapura, East Coast, Suntec City, Vivo City, etc. (check their website for more details).

I like their cheesecake for not having that heavy cheese taste (unlike some places which I shall not name). It’s light and yet cheesy enough so that I can take 2 slices at any one time. A slice of cheesecake will cost you around S$5 per slice and a whole cake goes for S$45.

Personally, I only ate once at a Secret Recipe at Marina Square here. I always get my fix in the City Square (City Square, MB-02, Level B1, JB City Square, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Johor Bahru, tel: 07-2248110, Opening Hours: 10am to 10pm daily) coz it’ll cost me RM5.50 per slice there. Instant 50% discount.

Oh, did I mention that you must try their chicken cornish (RM6.80) too? The spicy one tastes a bit like our curry puff but with more chicken bits. To fill yourself up, you can have a chicken cornish and a slice of cheesecake for a grand price of RM12.30 (excluding taxes and service charges)!

Secret Recipe is well known for their cheesecake and cakes, which means you should never try their main courses, e.g. western food or something. I did try once and well, I’ll stick to their cheesecake.

Puteri Mas Pte Ltd

• 475 Joo Chiat Road
  Tel: 6344 8629
  Opening Hours: 10.30am to 6.30pm, Tuesdays to Fridays; 10.30am to 5pm, Sat & Sun; closed on Mondays


• #01-187B Suntec City Mall
  Tel: 6235 8768
  Opening Hours: 10am to 10pm

Durian lovers unite! And go try these D24 durian puffs (20 pcs for S$9!). The pastry is pretty tasteless but the durian puree is pure gold.

Coca Steamboat

• #04-22 Ngee Ann City, Tel: 6734-7887
• #02-05 International Building, Tel: 6738-2588
• #02-28/30 The Concourse, Tel: 6295-3611

All outlets open between 11am and 11pm daily. Price $16 - $18 per person for buffet lunch; $26 - $30 for buffet dinner, depending on which outlet.

First set up in 1987 in Chinatown, this franchise chain from a Thai restaurant group is most famous for its chilli sauce. It is made from a highly guarded secret recipe from Bangkok, which includes sesame seeds, coriander and a little soya sauce. This chain is also famous for being the first here to introduce “fish glue” – fish paste that turns delightfully chewy when cooked. Its meatballs, made from fish, prawn, beef and chicken, are also hand-made every morning at the outlets to ensure freshness. It offers two types of soup: chicken stock and tom yam.

• If you pay using DBS Amex Card, you get 15% discount on total bill (lunch/dinner). Available only at International Building.

Note: This review was taken from ST Foodies Club.

Yuki Yaki

• #03-2110 Marina Square
  Tel: 6737 9680
  Opening Hours: 12 noon to 9pm daily


• #02-11 Orchard Cineleisure
  Tel: 6737 9680
  Opening Hours: 12 Noon to 10.30pm, Sun to Thu; 12 Noon to 2am, Fri, Sat & Public Holidays


• Website: http://www.sukigroup.com.sg/yuki-yaki.htm

Yuki Yaki introduces the first Do-It-Yourself steamboat, Teppanyaki & Ice Cream Buffet, bringing you into a era of new age dining.

Each table in Yuki Yaki is equipped with two in-built stoves for steamboat and teppanyaki. Diners can enjoy a wide selection of more than 90 mouth watering food items. Seafood items like half shell scallops, mussels, sea cucumber, salmon, prawns, cuttlefish etc. Meat items like beef, chicken, lamb, pork etc. Yong Tau Foo items and fresh vegetables and many more.

After one enjoys its main course, its’ time for deserts! The Teppanyaki Pan is thoroughly cleansed by the service staff and the thermostat adjusted to a cold temperature, ready for ice cream making. Choose from a generous variety of ice cream flavours and your can start enjoying your ice cream. Truly a revolutionized experience.

It sounds fun but the one thing I don’t like about this restaurant is that they impose on me a time frame. 2.5 hours if I order a buffet with ice cream and 2 hours if it’s without ice cream.

• For holders of Diners Club credit card, spend a min. of S$80 and get a S$5 voucher for your next visit; spend a min. of S$150 and get a S$10 voucher for your next visit. This promotion is valid from 15 Aug 2007 to 15 Sep 2007. The voucher is valid until 15 Oct 2007.

Riverside Indonesian BBQ

Kopitiam @ Plaza Singapura
Level 6, Stall 10

From only S$4.30, you can get a grilled chicken drumstick (ayam panggang) OR cuttlefish OR fish. After the marinated chicken leg/cuttlefish/fish are cooked, the grill cook dipped the chicken/cuttlefish/fish into a pot of sweet, black gravy, and plonked it beside the rice (smothered with some coconut curry gravy) AND a slice of plain omelette (as shown in the picture) AND a bowl of plain cabbage soup (I like the plain soup as it is a sharp contrast to the sweetness of the main dish). For another 50 cents, you can add stir-fried cabbage and carrots.

If you’re not keen on chicken or cuttlefish or fish, you can also opt for satay (4 sticks) or fried chicken or curry chicken.

Help yourself to the sambal outside the stall. I love this sambal because it comes with fried ikan bilis and is not that spicy, a bit sweet though.

I’ve eaten at similar stalls at food courts in Raffles City & Tiong Bahru Plaza. Not sure if they belong to the same branch as this, but they’re all equally good.

House of Sundanese

• 55 Boat Quay
  Tel: 6534 3775
• #B1-063 Suntec City Mall
  Tel: 6334 1012
• #02-18 Great World City
  Tel: 6887 5535
• Level 3, Changi Airport Terminal 2
  Tel: 6546 4839
• Website: http://www.sundanesefood.com/
  

This has remained one of my most favourite Indonesian restaurant. When your order has been taken, you will be given a small basket of emping (slightly bitter crackers made from Buah Melinjo) . Ask for the restaurant’s sambal belacan (a malay style chilli mixed with belacan) and dip the emping into it. But be careful, their sambal belacan is spicy!

One dish that I must have when I am there is their Ikan Gurame Goreng (literal translation is fish gurame fried). The gurame fried to perfection and is very crispy and tastes superb with the restaurant’s sambal belacan and warm rice.

Another dish that I love is their taupok goreng isi. What this dish is they take the fried taupok (bean curd skin) and stuff them with scallops, prawns and mushrooms and deep fry the taupok.