What the fish

There are time where a food establishment go forth and conquer new frontier....

But today I found 1 that they should not.

I met my wife for dinner before my first driving lesson.

We decided that we will pay Delifrance in Lot 1 a visit.

I wanted to order the Tuna but it was out of stock....

I got the swordfish instead and my wife felt that its a very bad idea considering that seafood was never their forte.

After some time, this was served



Now, grilled fish is not something that came with spectacular taste or texture. But what came out can only be describe as bland.....mind numbingly bland...That gets me to get the accompanying sauce. I was expecting a spicy laksa sauce but what came through was a light, undistinguished paste which tasted rather weird.

In my so many years eating laksa, I have never come across a light purplish laksa... makes me doubt if this is laksa from France (never heard of) or Mars (Maybe...never tasted it before)

This chef's recommendation has 1 signature characteristics, bland. The sword fish, mashed potato, veggies.....are all bland...I guess the chef ants to recommend this to all the patients out there.....

And I held on to what I put in the suggestion... The chef recommending this to anyone other than a warded patient should be either warded or shot.

Another big no-no which they done was to serve my coffee even before the soup....
I am worried that, as a French -themed establishment, they will really get a very angry Frenchmen giving them a piece of their mind..... Remember, you serve the coffee after the main course, with or after the desert. Not before.

But the redeeming points are that, The lobster Brisque is of acceptable standard and the bread dish which my wife ordered was decent...And from what I heard, the desert is rather acceptable standard as well.

If the have kept to their core business as a Bristro, they are setting the standard there....but as a restaurant, they still have some distance before reaching the standard.

Dump the dumpling

Eventhough I want to restrict myself to talk about bad food which you paid for ready to eat.... however, I did found certain food stuff that I would recommend that you should never pick off the shelf.

In any event, you pass by any of our friendly neighbourhood NTUC and you see a packet of this



Do yourself a favour and leave it on the shelf. do not pick it up.

We first thought that its a great idea to get a packet of this, with some noodle or rice and make a half decent home cook meal.

Nope, that did not have the desired result.....

We had rather decent expectation from it, being from a reputed chain of store and hailed from Korea, we were expecting some rather decent dumpling...The scent raise our hope only for it to be eventually dashed.

A good number of the dumpling disintergrated upon contact with the boiling water.
Those that did survived, do look anaemic at best



Biting into it does feel like biling into skin and air... and the filling thats suppose to be there.. doesn;t seems to fill up too well

Opening up confirm the suspicion that it isn't too well filled up

I guess the korea made chinese dumpling don't have much filling inside.....

We will still try hard not to dump the dumpling for now, but as for those tha thave a choice.... drop the thought and that pack of dumpling.....you will not miss much...

Long John Silver IMM

My wife was so intrigue by the skin on fish promo by Long John Silver that we simply have to go down and try it out.

That we did at IMM and I rest assure you, you can get better.
We ordered a Fish Combo 2 and a grilled fish set for myself.
While the skin stayed on the fish, but thats about the only thing that sticks.

It wasn't thawed properly and that the fish has been pre-prepared instead of being prepared on the spot. The vinegar sauce was also missing. The only saving race was that the fries was still decent.

Not too good if you ask me

The grilled fish for me was plain and noting spectacular........it needs a strong sauce to mask its otherwise bland taste. The rice was hard and despite its look, lacking in taste.

The free clam chowder was served in a styrofoam cup, its only saving grace as it keep the soup warm, I hardly find any shreds of clam inside, which was fine by me as I was told by my doctor to keep away from any seafood with shell.

While we fill our stomach, it wasn't a satisfying experience.

I have only 2 words about the whole experience



This is incase you can't see the written message




For those who wanted to try the skin on.....you better hang on to your wallet..

And in the unlikely event someone from LJS actually read this.....you can have the skin on... in fact, you can have the entire fish cause I won't be bitting anytime soon