Tan Hui Juan

Sunday, May 26, 2013 @ 12:59 PM

Platypus Kitchen & Eighteen Chefs

Hello everyone!

I've pretty much completed all my assignments for this term so I'm pretty much free for this term! So yeah, time to start blogging again. So today's post is going to be about two western restaurants namely Platypus Kitchen and Eighteen Chefs. Yeah, so let's go!

So last Wednesday, I met up with my Secondary School's CCA clique to have a dinner cause Xuan Kai was heading over to Taiwan to have a mission (he's already there now) for a month. So we got to meet and eat! Qi Shan wanted to try Platypus Kitchen and since I haven't tried it before, so off we go!

Here we are at Bugis Junction. It's located at one corner of the third storey just outside the furthest entrance of Food Junction, which is quite hard to spot!

I just wanted to take a photo of the logo but everyone started running into the frame, so we end up taking a photo with the signage together.

Welcome! Welcome! At first I kind of freaked out by the name cause I thought they sold Platypus meat. But apparently not.

Walking in. It's quite spacious and apparently from their website, it says that there's 150 seats in the restaurant.

Since we have no idea what is nice there, we decided to just try their promoted deals. It's a full day deal, not limited to lunch or dinner, however it says it's for a limited time only.

So here's the promotion menu!

So the meal comes with soup + drink + main course.

Here's Xuan Kai's mushroom soup. It's pretty yummy! Nice, creamy, chuncky!

Tomato soup. Not in the menu but the waiter served wrongly so we just have it anyway. It's quite sour. I don't really like it but Ka Yee loves it!

My pumpkin soup. Pretty nice, quite okay but I still prefer the mushroom soup.

Here is my Mojito Mint Tea which tasted oddly like tooth paste I guess mainly due to the mint. But it tasted kind of like Moroccan Mint Tea from TWG.

Mine is Pressed Pork Belly with Apple Sauce drizzled over. The meat tasted like Baby Back Ribs from Chilli's. The carrots sucks.

If I am not wrong, this is Carbonara that Xuan Kai ordered. Pretty decent I guess.

Wild Mushroom Risotto! Pretty good but the girls cannot really finish it. You have to mix the bacon into the rice else it'll be too hard to enjoy.

Yay, time for dessert! Here's some brownie with three scoops of ice cream and waffle sprinkled by the sides. Pretty decent dessert for a chocolate lover.

Iced Sea-Salt Caramel Cake. It's topped with Popping Candy so you'll feel the "Pop! Pop! Pop" when you eat it. Kind of too sweet for me.

Trying to be all artsy fartsy.

Yeah, so we started cam whoring in the restaurant.

So we totalled to be about $124 for 5 people!

Oh and I saw this life size iron man outside the Action City of Bugis Junction.

Then I took pictures with everybody. Because I want to. HAHA.

Yep. That's basically it for that day. We did end up going to Starbucks and chat our night away. Haha. Yep, so if you decided to give Platypus Kitchen, here is their address!

Platypus Kitchen (Bugis Junction)
200 Victoria Street
#03-29 Bugis Junction
6333 4434

Then on Friday I finally gave Eighteen Chefs a try after hearing it everywhere. Well, I didn't actually plan to eat Eighteen Chefs that day. Just that I was at Tiong Bahru Plaza waiting for my friends and looking for something to eat and I saw it so I go!

So the cool thing about them is you can customize your own food!

Their seating area is quite small actually. I was there quite late (around 9) but there's still so many people.

The menu!

Eighteen Chefs are also known for graciously employing ex-convicts.

The environment is not really a restaurant ambience but kind of like a food court. It's kind of too cramp to my liking.

So you order by writing on an order slip then bring to the counter at the front to order.

I ordered a Pasta with Striploin (Medium). So it came with soup and top up for garlic bread. There's also discount for students, so the total add up to less than $20!

Mushroom soup was pretty normal. Nothing special.

Homemade Iced Lemon Tea.

Garlic bread. They provided a lot more garlic bread than other restaurants.

Finally my main course!

Pasta was pretty already, but it will be kind of dry without the black pepper sauce. But the beef is good!! Not too cooked, not too rare. Just the way I liked it!

So yeah, give them a try! Affordable and decent food. Their staffs are also quite friendly. So yep!

Tiong Bahru Plaza
302 Tiong Bahru Road, Tiong Bahru Plaza,
#02-K1/K6, Singapore 168732
6272 0961

Oh, and I'm just back from my cruise trip and I have so many things to share with you all about. But I'm a little lazy, and I have a paper to sit for on Wednesday, so hopefully I would find time to blog again soon! Tata people!

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