i should be studying by here i am blogging. :X guilty.
caught up on all the episodes of wax and wane. :X guilty.
anyway, wanted to blog about yesterday experience at shuffle at albert king court hotel there.
overall, i got to say it depends on who u going with. why? cause it's based on that experience, i got to say if i take away the company, it's really die. :X out of 5, i give it 1.5 to 2.
Food: 2/5
Atmosphere: 1/5
Service: 4/5 (due to nobody or close to nobody)
Live band: 3/5 (and this is quite high despite the fact that we left early cause of the band.)
so anyway, i went with JAAY and that includes myself since i'm J. hehehe.
the cafe/restaurant/bistro bar is quite dim. we almost had to get our own candle out and lighted to eat. -.- so we requested to change place due to the area very dim. changed to a table away from the front of the band area. we were deciding on what food to order when 3/4 of the menu is alcohol. -.- i got to say the food is really limited. cause it's a double sided A3 menu with one half of it being alcohol and the other being food has a one or two column of alcohol. -.- was trying to decide what food and taking the top 5 food into consideration, we ordered i think 3 of the top 5 items. and on boy was we wrong to order.
food ordered: spam & carrot cake, truffle fries, smoked duck pizza, carbonara, cereal calamari.
(sorry, no photo to show, didn't take any.)
drinks ordered: ice tea, peach tea, cosmopolitan martini, and a mock tail
the first that came was spam & carrot cake. it's not spicy like it stated. but had too much oil on top of the chilli oil. and it's basically because luncheon meat itself is deep fried before mixing together with the carrot cake. I rate it 2.5/5 cause it had too much oil to my liking and not enough chili.
next was pizza. unlike it's rivalry - timber, i got to say i preferred timber duck pizza. both is thin crust pizza but to me, i think the focus for shuffle's version was at the cucumber instead of the duck meat which was quite little. every slice of pizza had a slice of cucumber. i don't mind if it was half the slide of the cucumber but it was a whole circle slice leh. it's too much for me. i only took a slice of the pizza. the pizza was 12" so i recommend it for sharing. hence i prefer timber pizza better. Rating: 2/5
next was carbonara. personally, i was looking forward to this dish cause ever since i tried the carbonara in Australia that authentic Italian restaurant, i never enjoy a lot of the carbonara that was found in Singapore. although it can't be comparable, i got to say i love this sauce. the herbs was intense. (Y) however, i think there was something wrong with the mushrooms, cause it just spoil the taste. Rating: 3.5/5 (the best dish of the night)
then came the truffle fries. we actually can't decide between truffle fries or cheese fries. i should have gone with the cheese fries. damn. but oh wells, the truffle fries at first taste was not bad. but as u eat on, it became too salty for any of our liking. i only took it to chew along with my cosmo. u know how salt is needed for martini. ;) the fries quantity is quite a lot for such place. Rating: 2.5/5
Lastly, the cereal calamari. since alicia don't take calamari cause it's chewy, this was not chewy at all. but in terms of the amount of cereal it used, it was too little, whereas the leaves was quite a bit. it doesn't really taste like calamari, so not bad for people who don't like to eat chewy calamari. (but seriously, want to eat calamari, doesn't everyone go for chewy ones?) Rating: 3/5
shall not reveal the story behind the live band, but seriously, HOW CAN A LIVE BAND NOT KNOW BEYONCE SONGS!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!! that's why we left the bar.
and that's all for now. till next time. (cross fingers - i don't have to go on friday cause of the bad experience and food wasn't worth it. i rather go to it's rival - timber. better food, more worth it.)
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