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Swensen's japanese katsu curry baked rice was a hit around the dining table.

The dish features a tender and juicy boneless chicken leg katsu fried to a golden brown crisp on Japanese rice, and covered in a layer of Japanese curry. It is then finished with furikake and pink ginger.

The katsu was enjoyable but the Japanese curry was undoubtedly the star of this dish. We liked that the curry was atypical and incorporated other spices in it. I do wish though that they had added cheese to this dish too but that's me being greedy!

Swensens has introduced new dishes to their range of baked rice!

Their shrimp doria baked rice features a bed of rice topped with three deep fried prawns covered with a creamy béchamel sauce infused with the sweetness of shrimps, and finished with a golden crust of mixed cheeses and a sprinkling of furikake.

The creamy béchamel sauce with the baked golden crust of mixed cheese was the best part of the dish for me. The rice was rather bland and the prawns rather dry.

Got the Spicy Chicken Cheolpan ($8.50) and Spicy Chicken Japchae ($9.50), adding on Curly Fries + Drink for a grand total of $22.80. We liked the Pepper Lunch-esque cheolpan, especially the marinated chicken and the pops of sweetness from the corn. On the other hand, the japchae was just decent, just sweet potato noodles in gochujang-based broth with spicy chicken topping. Overall, nothing outstanding and I didn't think it was worth the price.

Comes with a crispy fish fillet, topped with a zesty and slightly spicy Asam Pedas sauce, fresh lettuce, between two soft toasted buns
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What you get here is normal roti john with a twist in the sauce - cheese tarik, salted egg, black pepper, creamy mushroom.

Very interesting concept across the board. They made a burger joint focusing on tandoori chicken. The crispydoori was better because the chicken thigh was deep-fried and the harissa mayo and cheese went so well with it. The OG has a baked thigh, mint yogurt and lots of raw onion. This made it more Indian, but I couldn't help thinking it's a more common flavour. They use a good brioche bun too. Special mention for the fries, which although thick cut, was oddly airy and very crispy. Its loaded version sorta doubled your meal, because it's topped with lots of the same chicken. The concept goes further with sauces - you can help yourself to mango sauce and "dragon sauce". The former tasted like mango and chilli, while the latter tasted like spicy mentaiko. Finally, you can have slushies for drinks. There's bandung, chai peng and our flavour of the day was chocolate. Quite gimmicky, as these are just $1 drinks selling at $5 because they're slush. I liked the chai peng because it's more unusual. Warning though: the smoke is billowing in a small, aircon space so you'll leave completely stinky.

[Yishun, Singapore 🇸🇬]

Junior Meal (S$9.20++)
Pirates Surf ‘N Turf
Fried dory nuggets, fried country mushroom, chips
Served with Pepsi
Just S$1 with voucher redeemed with 20 points in Fraser app.

The side dishes like the mash potatoes, curly fries etc were all fantastic with the party set.

Very good price for the party set plus Korean marinated chicken. Good quality too!

One of the few Malay stalls you can find at this food centre, with a queue usually forms during lunch time by the CBD workers.

Variety of dieshes to choose from. I ordered the lemak curry chicken with fried egg and okra.

Ordered the beef tataki capellini and the beef was cooked perfectly. It was so tender and easy to eat. The pasta sauce was also a very interesting flavour (similar to green curry). Would come back again to try the other things on their menu

From Munchi
Only $2 for this tasty cut of black sesame filled thick charcoal pancake.