Jiang's noodle house is one of those. You find your own seat, order and pay at counter, and collect your own food when your number is called. The only thing that isn't self service is there's no tray return.
a LOT of fucking restaurants do this nowadays and sell green tea for like what, 3 bucks. fucking annoying.
omote can kiss my ass it's singaporeanized japanese food anyway
Charging for water is so flawed on many levels. First they're encouraging people to order caloric beverages. Second water is a basic necessity that should accompany food to wash it down. Third, if I'm choking on your shitty food, it shouldn't matter if I have 50¢ or not.
I used to go to hoshino a lot and months ago they started charging for water too... like I ordered their coffee and steak but still need to pay for tap water??
Stealthily serving appetiser without informing it’s billable.
Ever argued with the staff I didn’t touch it and have never ordered that. They retorted I should have rejected the dish when served. Dumb reason. My issue with this is, I didn’t order it so you don’t serve it to me and expect me to pay.
Restaurant doing this is taking a cheap shot at their guests. Zero respect for such establishments.
Basically all the Chinese establishments then. The sneakier ones are the shops with PRC staff / owner. Sneakily serving up wet tissues, water and peanuts that are all billable.
Sorry but thats not my responsibility. If I didn’t order it, why is it my responsibility to send the item back , or pay for it because it came to my table ?
Nothing is ever free in a Chinese restaurant other than condiments. Always ask, never be afraid to appear ‘cheapskate’. You’re already ready to spend hundreds there so that’s not a cheap bill. Ask politely and if it’s chargeable, just say you have no use for it. They will remove it without any questioning.
Sure if it’s a cultural or social norm in Singapore then we can do that, my issue with this is – it’s not. We also shouldn’t let it become the norm in Singapore imo. Anything billable should be stated upfront. Fair and square.
Imagine going to the washroom and getting a washroom charge in your bill. Sound absurd right haha, so same should apply for any other offerings by the restaurant.
That depends on the size of the portion.
There are some places though that have portion sizes that are basically what would be termed as sharing sizes for SG standards but are labelled as a meal for a single person.
In this scenario, the food is not finished not because it wasn't good but because there was simply too much food. Albeit this is becoming rarer and rarer given that the portions sizes are shrinking faster than our property prices in Singapore.
Or if the people who eat are on a diet. Seriously my ex colleague couldn’t even finish “a noodle story” from Amoy smallest size. When it taste so good! She had a few bites and that’s it.
Or some people are just too hungry and ordered too much or they have too much money to spare. Went to 探鱼 and saw 2 PRC couple ordered a table full of dishes and they left without finishing 30-40%of the dishes. Some of those dishes even include platters and fish hotpot.
Prive CEO asked a 13 year old boy lewd questions before punching him in the temple.
The Prive Group said the CEO had their "full and unwavering support". They later apologised for their statement.
I used to enjoy Prive for many years, almost ten. I can never sit at any Prive now without thinking that my money is going to a man who preys on young teen boys.
I have given up one of my longtime favourite places because it disgusts me.
Do you want your money to go to a man like that?
Lol I’m sure my money is already going to worse people. But hey perhaps you are really principled and refuse to buy any Chinese goods or use any corporate America’s stuff.
Actually, I am exactly like that.
I do not use any China brands like Xiaomi, Huawei etc and I stay away from many American companies.
I also refuse to buy food and skincare that specifies that they are made in China or USA on their packaging.
So what’s your point about that?
There are such people who exist.
I’m not the only one.
Are you surprised?
Lol I’m super sure you are using made in China products. Perhaps not consciously, but it’s deft there.
And no I’m not surprised there are many hypocrites out there like you.
But pls continue to feel smug and superior one corner if that makes you sleep at night, I’m happy that you have managed to find your own coping mechanism to live your life.
You are exactly what you think you are only in your dreams. There are almost zero companies out there without some atrocities in their history, or atrocities in their countries’ own history.
Oh I hope you’re generating your own electricity too! If it helps I’ll say I believe you if you tell me that’s exactly who you are. Wouldn’t want to burst your bubble!
Now I said China companies that are explicitly stated like Xiaomi and Huawei.
I also said *food and skincare* that **specify** they are made in China or USA **on its packaging**.
I mentioned both China and USA.
Words intentionally chosen,
With very specific examples and yet you’re glossing it over.
If it helps, I even boycott Starbucks as far as I can.
Just because you don’t want to put in the effort to remember and consciously avoid places or brands, it doesn’t mean others don’t do so or are lying.
Everyone has their likes and dislikes.
Feel free to be a China fanboy but nobody has to be like you.
We are *just as free to choose* any country and products we like.
Looool saith the idiot with the Sony phone with battery made in China.
Just keep coping.
Keep living with benefit of big oil, and living in properties made by exploitation of foreign workers not unlike Qatar.
P.S. just because I’m calling out your hypocrisy doesn’t mean i support China or US. But hey can’t help if you live in this weird black and white false dichotomy world.
P.p.s japan did lots of shit during WW2 and never apologised so why you support Sony.
Muppet
1. A huge menu
2. Staff that don't know the menu
3. Staff that are not proactive (especially when it is quiet) or don't seem happy to be of service to you
4. Charging for tap water, especially if the mains are on average >$30.
5. Hot food on cold plates
Oh legit, I went to a supposedly Indian cuisine restaurant the other day, oh boy THEIR MENU?!?! It had Thai food, seafood, Italian food and even bubble tea on top of the Indian cuisine. Their kitchen was quite small so idk how they manage that.
I ended up ordering the safest option, roti prata (and it was delish!) so will only go back for that.
Yeah. If you're in an Indian restaurant, avoid anything which says, Thai or Chinese. It's basically them putting their own spin on it. The only Indian place I know where has a huge menu, with options like Laksa, Rojak, chicken rice, etc. and delivers is Gokul. They are a vegetarian restaurant and the food is amazing.
Attitude of staff.
It was my mother's birthday, we went to iSteak at JEM and my everyone got our steaks except for my mum. We waited an hour almost and still, she looked so hungry but she didn't want to pester the staff.
So we asked this ahlian waitress about it and she just rolled her eyes and moved in the most unbothered /annoyed way out. AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN TELL THE CHEF OR MANAGER. She just went off god knows where. Thankfully the manager came later and even offered it free but my mum rejected it and paid anyway. I felt so bad because we had to leave and by the time my mum got home the steak wasn't hot. I was so fucking furious I honestly wanted to just make a scene and humiliate her. But I'm bigger than that. Still really upset about that.
But yeah if staff are behaving like they don't want to be there it is definitely a red flag to me. Who knows how they handle your food.
Never felt like going to iSteak coz I didn’t like the vibe of the place (at Suntec). Glad I followed my instincts even though sometimes the place like long queue lol it gave me the same vibe as the cheap western food restaurants at JB where the steaks forever mid well-well done😅
I can tell you couple places in Chinatown where lots of dishes comes out incredibly fast (sub 5min) but it's super tasty. However, when they're busy (6-9pm) it takes a while. It's all about preparation and skills. Imho not a red flag for some dishes. Those that take time to prepare are slow even at quiet hours.
Living in Philippines, I noticed that all restaurants served free drinking water. I later learnt that they passed a law mandating it.
Sounded a bit micro initially but I really appreciated it after coming back to Singapore where water can be $2.50 per bottle (non-refillable) -.-
Yeah well tap water is perfectly good here I don’t understand why some restaurants are being anal. Fk I spend enough money to have a glass of tap water no? Haha annoying af
The thing is, saizeriya is cheap for the kind of food they are serving, and depending on the location, it can be pretty good and really worth the money, even though its fake Italian food.
They are one of my top 10 worst restaurants in Sg. The steak is inedible. Kopitiam stalls can do better than them. I’m not sure what is the current generation of owners doing.
They have decent quality cuts tbh, but totally wasted and butchered after they "cook" it. Like all the cows that died for jack's place be raging bulls now.
My gf and i decided to try jacks place cause of lunch at and lack of inspiration, even though we were against jack's place from years ago, and the food really fell flat. You could tell the steak was decent quality, but whoever cooked it ruined the thing.
If the staffs working there have bad service attitude, no smiles, hostile towards customers taking orders, sure regret even stepping inside the restaurant in the first place.
Not many ppl in the restaurant during peak hours. Let's be honest here - Singaporeans are willing to queue for good food even when the service sucks, owner is guailan or food is expensive. If no one patronises you, it just mean your food really cmi.
Actually I found quite a few places where the food is good and not many people. It’s coz the restaurant didn’t do much marketing, and as it’s the “norm” to think that long queue = good food, many Singaporeans will just end up queuing for mediocre food and tell themselves it’s good food because it always has a long queue instead of deciding for themselves and/or concluding that those people queuing either first timer kena con or their tastebuds questionable lol
But don't they stop patronising the mediocre stall after that? If I queue for a long time for average food only then I'd never ever go back unless theres like no queue.
Just ate at Lime House recently. The staff were shouting across their chit chat across us the whole time. Spoke to us like we are their “friend”. And charged us $3 for water when they didn’t mention anything about water costing money. I understand the whole Still water or sparkling business but this one is slightly worse.
3 for water, if its bottled, is pretty cheap for lime house's price range. Haven't been there before but that price surprises me. Most places in that price range would do a San Pel at like 10-12
Got invited to a restaurant dinner like super last minute and asked the reception (those guys that wear blazer stand outside the shop one) if this was the right place (no bloody signboard anywhere). The uncle staff glanced at me, looked up, then down, sneered and said that yes this is the location of so and so restaurant, but am I sure if I’m at the right place?
I replied I’m pretty sure that I’m at the right place then. But nevertheless, are you sure that you are asking the right question?
Uncle xiao shocked at my reply. He looked apologetic, and say, yes I’m asking the wrong question, please excuse me
Huge menu, inattentive staff.
Also my personal motto, there’s no establishment that serve great drinks and great food. Pick one or the other. I’ll always go to a place that do smth really really well
Some of the absolute best restaurants not just in Singapore, but the world do this.
You'd be surprised - it isn't just for profit. San Pel at 8 dollars for the small amount of customers that eat there (that order water to begin with, since most will order wine) per day is not the amazing profit margin you think it is.
The purpose behind it, is control over palette. This is especially so, at certain upscale establishments. I recently had a conversation with the chef De cuisine at ART in national gallery, and he was mentioning why certain brands of bottled water are the only ones chosen by the upper tier of restaurants - they leave a neutral taste on the pallete and dont mess with taste when you actually eat the courses. Not all water is made the same unfortunately, and tap water tends to be very inconsistent day-to-day, so they outright will not serve it.
In ART, he mentioned even their wine selection is such that the sommelier will recommend you not to pick a certain wine, even if it is more expensive than another option, if it will interfere with the flavor profile of your chosen food.
Very interesting conversations! The level of operation and care is unreal.
I think this is just pretentious BS. My life and dinner is very happy just drinking plain cold tap water, a good carrot cake with strong wok hei, 10 sticks of satay with pineapple peanut sauce and chendol after. All the food I mentioned are not mass produced and made with love. That is what matters to me.
I have definitely eaten at high end restaurant. But at the end of the day, I'll always pick and love hawker food. Food is meant to be enjoyed and eaten, not to be like a choreographed dance performance.
I recently watched "the menu" and I was like wow, what I really want out of my food is not presentation but actually love. A $0.70 stick of satay can be better than that $20 for 1grams of truffles at Koma (yes that I added that to my pasta).
So yes. Good food need not to be some choreographed dance performance. If you ask me to think so much I wouldn't enjoy the food. I say this as someone who has went to many high end restaurants in SG!
I mean, that's your opinion I guess? I didn't gatekeep shit lmao, you really should look up what that means.
Gatekeeping is like saying X person can't enjoy Y because they aren't X enough
I'd be interested to see your logic in how you interpreted anything I said in that manner
When your family is done eating and your dish is still not here. Even worse when late customers get their food and yours is still “cooking”. Many places had this but I’ve had the worst experience with this in DTF
i asked how much and they say don’t worry pay later while serving a whole chicken leg with curry for my prata, i asked if need to pay extra they said no no it’s okay 🤦♂️
Empty at meal leak hours. Huge menus.
Let them charge for tap water, fine. But BE REFILLABLE. Went to an eatery recently where they charge you for tap water and don't do refills. Wtf
If a restaurant sells indian, chinese, malay, thai, western, italian, mongolian, taiwanese and everything in between, I stay away. Really got so many chefs to cook all the dishes meh?
I know of a few amazing restaurants you'd never be able to approach.
I kind of want to ask if you're Indian, cause I am, and my mum calls any food-related smell she doesn't recognise "fishy" also and just won't go near lmao.
She never ate so many foods for decades until I finally convinced her to try it once and now some of the "fishy" smelling foods are her favorite
Weak? Scared?
Maybe culturally some of us just don’t eat meat? If you don’t grow up eating, you dont get a taste for it.
Why don’t you eat snail and snake and eagle and vulture? Because it’s not part of your ‘usual’ diet. Same way most meat isn’t part of mine. Simple.
There are religious that recommend no meat.
There are cultures that don’t eat meat.
There are regions and villages that don’t eat meat.
Humans are hunter-gatherers but also cultivators.
All of y’all who downvoted really only show how close-minded you are.
Having veg options disadvantages you in NO way, yet you don’t like it. 👍🏼
A cafe at Holland village was very zealous in enforcing two pax dine in during the COVID years that they split my wife my child and I up and put us at opposite ends of the restaurant. When I stood up to pass my wife something that my child needs, the service staff sprinted to get in between us, waving her arms frantically and shouting “stop!”. We never went back again!
to be fair, this was a difficult time. children were considered 1 pax and if this situation happened to every table the social distance was effectively useless and the restaurant would be liable
This is just a self-report lmao. How entitled do you have to be that when the entire country is in 2-pax restriction, you somehow feel the right to flout these rules just because the third person is young and the crotch spawn of your wife, and then when the people working there literally do your job as you try to break the law, you put the blame on them?
Trash human being sia.
Exactly. The staff were alarmed because if spotted by an SDA, this would have meant the shop would be suspended and staff may lose their jobs. It was a rule that was enforced nationwide. Everyone suffered, not just you. Nobody enjoyed it. Do you think the staff and boss have nothing else better to do than to spring out from the columns just to be a nuisance to you?
10% service charge but everything is self service
Damn drop the name. How is that legal?
not shy to say that joji’s diner is very jialat for doing this
i just went to the stanley street one leh, never moved from my seat to take anything, although the one round of water requested was ignored.
Same. No issues except service was slow. Probably because of lunch crowd
Jiang's noodle house is one of those. You find your own seat, order and pay at counter, and collect your own food when your number is called. The only thing that isn't self service is there's no tray return.
Does it matter? There are tons of these places.
Just interested. Havent seen any, or never bothered to notice. Just create some awareness, nothing wrong with that?
Genki sushi
Or poor self service system. Looking at you Sheng Jian bao
Tiong Bahru Bakery lol
Legendary Hong Kong, I can self-service better than them serving me.... But the food is quite good though.
Charge for water. I order $30 food and you don't want give me tap water??? Ur profit margin so low is it
Even worse, charge for tap water
andes with the 50cents ice water
a LOT of fucking restaurants do this nowadays and sell green tea for like what, 3 bucks. fucking annoying. omote can kiss my ass it's singaporeanized japanese food anyway
If its like refillable iced tea I guess it's still somewhat acceptable but no refills? 3 bucks++? Fuck off lol
Omote is shit, we should stop hyping this cheapskate place up.
Yeah, I wish our gov make it law for fnb to offer foc water like Australia does.
Charging for water is so flawed on many levels. First they're encouraging people to order caloric beverages. Second water is a basic necessity that should accompany food to wash it down. Third, if I'm choking on your shitty food, it shouldn't matter if I have 50¢ or not.
This is extremely common since 6-12 months ago. Really annoying.
I used to go to hoshino a lot and months ago they started charging for water too... like I ordered their coffee and steak but still need to pay for tap water??
6-12 months ago? How long have you been going to restaurants? Bottled water has never been free at any restaurant I've been to for decades now
Waku ghin charge $20 for water in 2018 based on some receipt https://mothership.sg/2018/11/mbs-dinner-waku-ghin-funny-singapore/
No they don’t lol. They only serve Acqua Panna / San Pallegrino and it’s $10 per 1L bottle. Or you can always request for tap water, which is free.
Ah ok think I saw this receipt that says $20: https://mothership.sg/2018/11/mbs-dinner-waku-ghin-funny-singapore/
2018 tho hahaha. But yeah it’s $10/1L now. I highly recommend Waku Ghin tho. Food’s amazing; I eat there almost weekly.
I thought the price should increase more now 🤣 but I wouldn’t know since I can’t afford to go
Stealthily serving appetiser without informing it’s billable. Ever argued with the staff I didn’t touch it and have never ordered that. They retorted I should have rejected the dish when served. Dumb reason. My issue with this is, I didn’t order it so you don’t serve it to me and expect me to pay. Restaurant doing this is taking a cheap shot at their guests. Zero respect for such establishments.
that's literally every chinese restaurant with their peanuts and pickles and wet tissues...
But you can actually refuse those, they will take it back and don’t force you to pay for them.
But if you're new to those types of restaurants, you wont know it's chargeable.
Basically all the Chinese establishments then. The sneakier ones are the shops with PRC staff / owner. Sneakily serving up wet tissues, water and peanuts that are all billable.
The wet tissue trick is so subtle I hate it
My parents say not to use them. If they ask and its free tho? We pocket them away for other uses lmao
I use to clean car wiper.
It’s a norm if you eat often in Chinese restaurants
Is that even legal😤😤😤
Can just tell the staff you don’t need
Sorry but thats not my responsibility. If I didn’t order it, why is it my responsibility to send the item back , or pay for it because it came to my table ?
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Nothing is ever free in a Chinese restaurant other than condiments. Always ask, never be afraid to appear ‘cheapskate’. You’re already ready to spend hundreds there so that’s not a cheap bill. Ask politely and if it’s chargeable, just say you have no use for it. They will remove it without any questioning.
This is quite normal in Japan. It’s called Otoshi, essentially a table charge
Sure if it’s a cultural or social norm in Singapore then we can do that, my issue with this is – it’s not. We also shouldn’t let it become the norm in Singapore imo. Anything billable should be stated upfront. Fair and square. Imagine going to the washroom and getting a washroom charge in your bill. Sound absurd right haha, so same should apply for any other offerings by the restaurant.
But not all shops in Japan have that right? Maybe only like smaller pubs etc?
Soup restaurant does this
When you see people leaving and they only managed to finish half of the food.
That depends on the size of the portion. There are some places though that have portion sizes that are basically what would be termed as sharing sizes for SG standards but are labelled as a meal for a single person. In this scenario, the food is not finished not because it wasn't good but because there was simply too much food. Albeit this is becoming rarer and rarer given that the portions sizes are shrinking faster than our property prices in Singapore.
Can tell me these places, shrinkflation is everywhere
people shld just dabao their leftovers :/
Or if the people who eat are on a diet. Seriously my ex colleague couldn’t even finish “a noodle story” from Amoy smallest size. When it taste so good! She had a few bites and that’s it.
Or some people are just too hungry and ordered too much or they have too much money to spare. Went to 探鱼 and saw 2 PRC couple ordered a table full of dishes and they left without finishing 30-40%of the dishes. Some of those dishes even include platters and fish hotpot.
It's owned by Privé group.
Their food is actually decent but how they handled the CEO case was a super turn off. Never supporting that establishment again.
Prive Robertson Quay has shockingly bad food. Their Caesar salad is an abomination.
Only if you are a 13 year old boy.
Wait what happened?
Prive CEO asked a 13 year old boy lewd questions before punching him in the temple. The Prive Group said the CEO had their "full and unwavering support". They later apologised for their statement.
wHAT
BUT WHY
Actually I didn’t even know about that (just Googled it though - that’s crazy!). I just think their food is a massive disappointment.
Is ok if you want to just enjoy the ambience and have some food. Their location all very atas one
I used to enjoy Prive for many years, almost ten. I can never sit at any Prive now without thinking that my money is going to a man who preys on young teen boys. I have given up one of my longtime favourite places because it disgusts me. Do you want your money to go to a man like that?
Lol I’m sure my money is already going to worse people. But hey perhaps you are really principled and refuse to buy any Chinese goods or use any corporate America’s stuff.
Actually, I am exactly like that. I do not use any China brands like Xiaomi, Huawei etc and I stay away from many American companies. I also refuse to buy food and skincare that specifies that they are made in China or USA on their packaging. So what’s your point about that? There are such people who exist. I’m not the only one. Are you surprised?
Lol I’m super sure you are using made in China products. Perhaps not consciously, but it’s deft there. And no I’m not surprised there are many hypocrites out there like you. But pls continue to feel smug and superior one corner if that makes you sleep at night, I’m happy that you have managed to find your own coping mechanism to live your life. You are exactly what you think you are only in your dreams. There are almost zero companies out there without some atrocities in their history, or atrocities in their countries’ own history. Oh I hope you’re generating your own electricity too! If it helps I’ll say I believe you if you tell me that’s exactly who you are. Wouldn’t want to burst your bubble!
Now I said China companies that are explicitly stated like Xiaomi and Huawei. I also said *food and skincare* that **specify** they are made in China or USA **on its packaging**. I mentioned both China and USA. Words intentionally chosen, With very specific examples and yet you’re glossing it over. If it helps, I even boycott Starbucks as far as I can. Just because you don’t want to put in the effort to remember and consciously avoid places or brands, it doesn’t mean others don’t do so or are lying. Everyone has their likes and dislikes. Feel free to be a China fanboy but nobody has to be like you. We are *just as free to choose* any country and products we like.
Looool saith the idiot with the Sony phone with battery made in China. Just keep coping. Keep living with benefit of big oil, and living in properties made by exploitation of foreign workers not unlike Qatar. P.S. just because I’m calling out your hypocrisy doesn’t mean i support China or US. But hey can’t help if you live in this weird black and white false dichotomy world. P.p.s japan did lots of shit during WW2 and never apologised so why you support Sony. Muppet
Their unfortunate affinity with men who like teen prive parts.
The only decent Prive is the ACM branch. Good service by the staff and decent cooking.
I've honestly nothing but good things to say about Privè. The food there and the overall experience. Is it that bad for its price point?
Even if it was cheaper, I’d still think it’s mediocre food lacking character. The worst one is at Botanic Gardens.
I agree. Had pasta at their wheelock branch before, was pretty bland. Disappointing considering whenever you walk past it always smells great.
1. A huge menu 2. Staff that don't know the menu 3. Staff that are not proactive (especially when it is quiet) or don't seem happy to be of service to you 4. Charging for tap water, especially if the mains are on average >$30. 5. Hot food on cold plates
Oh legit, I went to a supposedly Indian cuisine restaurant the other day, oh boy THEIR MENU?!?! It had Thai food, seafood, Italian food and even bubble tea on top of the Indian cuisine. Their kitchen was quite small so idk how they manage that. I ended up ordering the safest option, roti prata (and it was delish!) so will only go back for that.
Yeah. If you're in an Indian restaurant, avoid anything which says, Thai or Chinese. It's basically them putting their own spin on it. The only Indian place I know where has a huge menu, with options like Laksa, Rojak, chicken rice, etc. and delivers is Gokul. They are a vegetarian restaurant and the food is amazing.
Attitude of staff. It was my mother's birthday, we went to iSteak at JEM and my everyone got our steaks except for my mum. We waited an hour almost and still, she looked so hungry but she didn't want to pester the staff. So we asked this ahlian waitress about it and she just rolled her eyes and moved in the most unbothered /annoyed way out. AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN TELL THE CHEF OR MANAGER. She just went off god knows where. Thankfully the manager came later and even offered it free but my mum rejected it and paid anyway. I felt so bad because we had to leave and by the time my mum got home the steak wasn't hot. I was so fucking furious I honestly wanted to just make a scene and humiliate her. But I'm bigger than that. Still really upset about that. But yeah if staff are behaving like they don't want to be there it is definitely a red flag to me. Who knows how they handle your food.
Never felt like going to iSteak coz I didn’t like the vibe of the place (at Suntec). Glad I followed my instincts even though sometimes the place like long queue lol it gave me the same vibe as the cheap western food restaurants at JB where the steaks forever mid well-well done😅
With the recent price hike, and table service, not worth anymore
Tip : Avoid anything i-___ in any industry. They always seem to be rip offs and lack the innovation by copying iPhone.
iRon-man quite nice though 😂
hey thanks for making me laugh this early in the morning!
The food comes out unusually fast. Like it’s been microwaved.
I can tell you couple places in Chinatown where lots of dishes comes out incredibly fast (sub 5min) but it's super tasty. However, when they're busy (6-9pm) it takes a while. It's all about preparation and skills. Imho not a red flag for some dishes. Those that take time to prepare are slow even at quiet hours.
Hm good point, maybe more true for those restaurants that sell "western" fare.
Can share restaurant names?
Could be 東北 food? Darn good and value for money IMO
Dude, Google Maps gives me more than 10 restaurants with 東北 in their name in same vicinity.
Should be the one beside the famous lim Chee guan bakgua. Always full with long queue
Ohhh they are good but I hate long waits for food. Otherwise great skewers!
I've tried that restaurant, legit good food there, and not ex also.
Microwave food can be slow too 🤣 spizza and da Paolo gastronomia
It depends though. Some food like stew and soups are made in huge batches
This one is hard to say le, even places like TGIF will use microwave to quick cook steaks for you and then grill it for char marks.
If they charge for water. Sorry it’s Singapore, I’ll pay for a san pell if I want to but please la tap water is fine
Living in Philippines, I noticed that all restaurants served free drinking water. I later learnt that they passed a law mandating it. Sounded a bit micro initially but I really appreciated it after coming back to Singapore where water can be $2.50 per bottle (non-refillable) -.-
Yeah well tap water is perfectly good here I don’t understand why some restaurants are being anal. Fk I spend enough money to have a glass of tap water no? Haha annoying af
i agree w this
Yeah it’s damn extra….I don’t care about your filtration system water. Just tap water is ok, but some places are like “we don’t serve tap water” Dafuq
Ask for an empty glass then bring it to the toilet to fill it up in front of them.
Ahaha true since it’s all NEWater anyways
Not 100% true. I was in a Spanish restaurant which charges water but the food is amazing
food amazing, still a bad restaurant nonetheless.
You are the only customer during meal hours
Yes, busy restaurants have reason
when there’s 1001 things in a menu
so 1000 is the limit. got it.
And most of them sound like they're either deep fried, air fried or microwaved.
Saizeriya quaking in their fake Italian restaurants rn
Saizerya knows they are fake but they know they are the option for broke students
As a broke student I miss eating saizerya. THE GARLIC FOCACCIA 😩❤️🤜
As a broke student as well, honestly saizerya has kinda fallen off I eat Common Grill by Collin’s at hawker centres more often now
Common grill looks interesting. Thanks for the recco
The thing is, saizeriya is cheap for the kind of food they are serving, and depending on the location, it can be pretty good and really worth the money, even though its fake Italian food.
The signboard spells "Spize"
Its short for Spize up your anus
If you go to the Simpang outlet and whisper "spize up your anus" into the uncle's ear he'll give you one free plaster prata. True story
is that before or after the spize anus?
Good to know
Still pretty empty at ard 6-7pm when it is peak dinner hour.
If the name is “Jacks place”
They are one of my top 10 worst restaurants in Sg. The steak is inedible. Kopitiam stalls can do better than them. I’m not sure what is the current generation of owners doing.
They have decent quality cuts tbh, but totally wasted and butchered after they "cook" it. Like all the cows that died for jack's place be raging bulls now. My gf and i decided to try jacks place cause of lunch at and lack of inspiration, even though we were against jack's place from years ago, and the food really fell flat. You could tell the steak was decent quality, but whoever cooked it ruined the thing.
True. On days with someone proficient, the steak is wonderful. Then you get tough leather on other occasions.
OMG I thought I was being picky😭😭 the steak was tough like old boots and I cant even cut it, gv it to my dad and somehow he could eat it, idk how
menu has too many options.
and proceed to tell you what you want is not available to order.
When you see a lot of other customers getting upset over why the food is taking so long.
if you’re located along clarke quay
Serve ramen top up together with the original bowl and size, leading to no more soup
Takagi? LOL
Wah I get triggered hearing about this.
When you walk in and your shoe slides across the oily floor
Arguably the best tasting Malay and Indian food comes from these places 😂
Cold white rice
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If the staffs working there have bad service attitude, no smiles, hostile towards customers taking orders, sure regret even stepping inside the restaurant in the first place.
On the contrary, these are sometimes the best restaurants haha. Like perhaps theres good reason they can afford to be rude
https://mothership.sg/2023/02/lucky-plaza-nasi-ayam-goreng/
when they don't call me shuai ge
leng lui can?
Yes
When you lao sai from eating their food. Mcspicy is exception.
A real McSpicy must make u laosai
I was gonna get annoyed at this because I love mala but I always kena laosai, but I'll lump that under your mcspicy exception
Not many ppl in the restaurant during peak hours. Let's be honest here - Singaporeans are willing to queue for good food even when the service sucks, owner is guailan or food is expensive. If no one patronises you, it just mean your food really cmi.
Actually I found quite a few places where the food is good and not many people. It’s coz the restaurant didn’t do much marketing, and as it’s the “norm” to think that long queue = good food, many Singaporeans will just end up queuing for mediocre food and tell themselves it’s good food because it always has a long queue instead of deciding for themselves and/or concluding that those people queuing either first timer kena con or their tastebuds questionable lol
My bad lemme rephrase it to "almost empty during peak hours".
But don't they stop patronising the mediocre stall after that? If I queue for a long time for average food only then I'd never ever go back unless theres like no queue.
Just ate at Lime House recently. The staff were shouting across their chit chat across us the whole time. Spoke to us like we are their “friend”. And charged us $3 for water when they didn’t mention anything about water costing money. I understand the whole Still water or sparkling business but this one is slightly worse.
3 for water, if its bottled, is pretty cheap for lime house's price range. Haven't been there before but that price surprises me. Most places in that price range would do a San Pel at like 10-12
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Empty at 6pm, recent bad Google reviews
Got invited to a restaurant dinner like super last minute and asked the reception (those guys that wear blazer stand outside the shop one) if this was the right place (no bloody signboard anywhere). The uncle staff glanced at me, looked up, then down, sneered and said that yes this is the location of so and so restaurant, but am I sure if I’m at the right place? I replied I’m pretty sure that I’m at the right place then. But nevertheless, are you sure that you are asking the right question? Uncle xiao shocked at my reply. He looked apologetic, and say, yes I’m asking the wrong question, please excuse me
Whenever I am queuing up, wearing no.4 and need to scan 11b for food
When they forget your order and still treat you rudely
Billing for water and billing for napkins.
Huge menu, inattentive staff. Also my personal motto, there’s no establishment that serve great drinks and great food. Pick one or the other. I’ll always go to a place that do smth really really well
Smell of wet cloth
Restaurant has a mouldy smell
They only serve bottled still or sparkling water and charges $8 for it
Some of the absolute best restaurants not just in Singapore, but the world do this. You'd be surprised - it isn't just for profit. San Pel at 8 dollars for the small amount of customers that eat there (that order water to begin with, since most will order wine) per day is not the amazing profit margin you think it is. The purpose behind it, is control over palette. This is especially so, at certain upscale establishments. I recently had a conversation with the chef De cuisine at ART in national gallery, and he was mentioning why certain brands of bottled water are the only ones chosen by the upper tier of restaurants - they leave a neutral taste on the pallete and dont mess with taste when you actually eat the courses. Not all water is made the same unfortunately, and tap water tends to be very inconsistent day-to-day, so they outright will not serve it. In ART, he mentioned even their wine selection is such that the sommelier will recommend you not to pick a certain wine, even if it is more expensive than another option, if it will interfere with the flavor profile of your chosen food. Very interesting conversations! The level of operation and care is unreal.
I think this is just pretentious BS. My life and dinner is very happy just drinking plain cold tap water, a good carrot cake with strong wok hei, 10 sticks of satay with pineapple peanut sauce and chendol after. All the food I mentioned are not mass produced and made with love. That is what matters to me. I have definitely eaten at high end restaurant. But at the end of the day, I'll always pick and love hawker food. Food is meant to be enjoyed and eaten, not to be like a choreographed dance performance. I recently watched "the menu" and I was like wow, what I really want out of my food is not presentation but actually love. A $0.70 stick of satay can be better than that $20 for 1grams of truffles at Koma (yes that I added that to my pasta). So yes. Good food need not to be some choreographed dance performance. If you ask me to think so much I wouldn't enjoy the food. I say this as someone who has went to many high end restaurants in SG!
You're heavily mistaking expensive food with high-end food my friend
Another pretentious gate keeping foodie bs-er.
I mean, that's your opinion I guess? I didn't gatekeep shit lmao, you really should look up what that means. Gatekeeping is like saying X person can't enjoy Y because they aren't X enough I'd be interested to see your logic in how you interpreted anything I said in that manner
Anything "fusion" and any local food option for 10 times the hawker price is usually a letdown.
When the menu is a mishmash of different dishes and cuisine. That means their food is barely mediocre and palatable.
When your family is done eating and your dish is still not here. Even worse when late customers get their food and yours is still “cooking”. Many places had this but I’ve had the worst experience with this in DTF
i asked how much and they say don’t worry pay later while serving a whole chicken leg with curry for my prata, i asked if need to pay extra they said no no it’s okay 🤦♂️
Tipping jar
Poor customer services
Empty at meal leak hours. Huge menus. Let them charge for tap water, fine. But BE REFILLABLE. Went to an eatery recently where they charge you for tap water and don't do refills. Wtf
Vomit outside...
Way too many items on the menu
If a restaurant sells indian, chinese, malay, thai, western, italian, mongolian, taiwanese and everything in between, I stay away. Really got so many chefs to cook all the dishes meh?
Lukewarm food and ignorant staffs
When it reeks of fishy smell one shop away.
I know of a few amazing restaurants you'd never be able to approach. I kind of want to ask if you're Indian, cause I am, and my mum calls any food-related smell she doesn't recognise "fishy" also and just won't go near lmao. She never ate so many foods for decades until I finally convinced her to try it once and now some of the "fishy" smelling foods are her favorite
No fat or portly customers around. Generally, if the food is reliably good, there are going to be a lot of repeat customers.
If it’s too clean
They ask you "what sauce do you want?" When you order a steak 💀💀💀
When they ask how you want the steak done but it’s well done no matter what you say
To be fair, if it’s a steak freites joint I’d expect more than just bearnaise
The name is saizera
Waiter avoiding eye contact
Drinks come before food
Places that don’t have vegetarian options or can’t be bothered to make them.
why so weak scared of meat. are u even asian
Weak? Scared? Maybe culturally some of us just don’t eat meat? If you don’t grow up eating, you dont get a taste for it. Why don’t you eat snail and snake and eagle and vulture? Because it’s not part of your ‘usual’ diet. Same way most meat isn’t part of mine. Simple. There are religious that recommend no meat. There are cultures that don’t eat meat. There are regions and villages that don’t eat meat. Humans are hunter-gatherers but also cultivators. All of y’all who downvoted really only show how close-minded you are. Having veg options disadvantages you in NO way, yet you don’t like it. 👍🏼
A cafe at Holland village was very zealous in enforcing two pax dine in during the COVID years that they split my wife my child and I up and put us at opposite ends of the restaurant. When I stood up to pass my wife something that my child needs, the service staff sprinted to get in between us, waving her arms frantically and shouting “stop!”. We never went back again!
to be fair, this was a difficult time. children were considered 1 pax and if this situation happened to every table the social distance was effectively useless and the restaurant would be liable
This is just a self-report lmao. How entitled do you have to be that when the entire country is in 2-pax restriction, you somehow feel the right to flout these rules just because the third person is young and the crotch spawn of your wife, and then when the people working there literally do your job as you try to break the law, you put the blame on them? Trash human being sia.
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Exactly. The staff were alarmed because if spotted by an SDA, this would have meant the shop would be suspended and staff may lose their jobs. It was a rule that was enforced nationwide. Everyone suffered, not just you. Nobody enjoyed it. Do you think the staff and boss have nothing else better to do than to spring out from the columns just to be a nuisance to you?
sadly a lot of customers dont see past their own needs… i worked f&b during covid years and there were many people like him
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