Restaurant | Fine Dining | French

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The blog is a listing of my personal favorite places or stalls to eat. It is not a listing of the "best" place as each one of us has our own individual preferences.
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I am not into fine dining and could easily be satisfied by food at hawker stalls. That does not mean I don’t enjoy the occasional fine dining experience but given a choice, I would rather go to some neighborhood makan places for my gastronomic indulgence. However, Nicolas is a special case and not because the owner/chef and his wife are friends but because I really do like his food.

I brought some friends and colleagues to the restaurant before and all of them commended the food.

The restaurant is usually quite well attended and reservation needs to be made well in advance during the peak season. Sometime, the entire restaurant is booked for corporate lunch or dinner and I was disappointed a few times as I was not able to have a reservation on my preferred date due to corporate reservations.


Nicolas Le Restaurant.
10 Teck Lim Road, Singapore 088386
Tel: (65) 6224 2404
Email: contact@restaurantnicolas.com
http://www.restaurantnicolas.com/

Opened for lunch and dinner except Sunday and Monday.

Restaurant | Value for Money | Steak House

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The blog is a listing of my personal favorite places or stalls to eat. It is not a listing of the "best" place as each one of us has our own individual preferences.
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I will place this steak house in the value for money category.  If you are looking for posh environment to enjoy your steak, this is not the place. Don’t go also if you are expecting Michelin star quality or services but Dolphin is un-pretentious unlike some high end restaurants and this is what I liked.

My family will go there occasionally for dinner where there is no crowd (literally) and we can enjoy our meal without having to worry about seating and how long it will take for the food to come.

The fishes are good. My wife liked the lamb and I liked their steak. Reasonably priced for the portion as it will cost 2-3 times more for a similar order at the Prime Society at Dempsey. However, Dolphine and Prime Society are in seperate category and I would not judged one based on the other for their quality of food or services. I'm using Prime Society only as a pricing reference.

Dolphin Steak House & Restaurant

81 Genting Lane #07-01

Everich Industrial Building

Singapore 349566

Closed on Sunday.

Hawker Stall | Kway Chap

Hawket Stall | Kway Chap

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The blog is a listing of my personal favorite places or stalls to eat. It is not a listing of the "best" place as each one of us has our own individual preferences.
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The following are my 2 favorite Kway Chap Stalls. The dark sauce are great as are the various parts of the pigs, fish cakes, tau-hoo, tau-kua, salted veg and they both have braised pig trotters that are so so… yummy.

1)      源记粿汁 Guan Kee Kway Chap

Blk 210 Lorong 8 Toa Payoh #01-24

(Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Hawker Centre)

Singapore 310210

Business Hours:   Mon to Fri, 11:00am to 8pm

                             Sat, 10am to 8pm

                             Sun, 9am to 8pm

Opening hours were obtained from their name card but they are normally closed on Thurs and Fri and on weekdays, they actually open at 11:30am.

The queue usually will start once the stall is opened. One of the time when I was there, I was the 1^st customer, the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th customer ordered the braise trotters. I thought “is it really that good?” and I ordered one home and yes, it is really good.

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2)      同乐粿汁 Tong Lok Kway Chap

114 Pasir Panjang Road

Eng Lock Koo Coffee Shop

Singapore 118539

Business Hour: 7am to 3pm

Closed on Sun, Mon and PH

This stall really need no introduction going by the number people blogging about it. Discovered it or rather was introduced to it by my colleagues long long time ago when I was working for a Japanese company in Science Park 1. Yes, even my former Japanese boss loved it.

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Hawker Stall | Soon Kueh

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The blog is a listing of my personal favorite places or stalls to eat. It is not a listing of the "best" place as each one of us has our own individual preferences.
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There are probably many places that does good Soon Kueh and Ku Cai Kueh but this stall is by far my favorite not just because of the taste but because it is value for money and near my home and thus a convenient place to get the kueh. The people at the stall are also friendly.

I had a few people asking me for their addresses after having tried their kuek.

They also have mini Soon-Kueh, Rice-Kueh, Abacus Beads or Suan Pan Zi (算盤子) and Ang Ku-Kueh.

大巴窑93 Soon Kuek

Blk 69 Geylang Bahru #01-2797

Singapore 330069

Tel: 6294 8065

Business Hours: 7am to 10pm