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| - We come here because we purchased a Groupon tasting menu dinner for 4. Overall rating I would say 3.5 stars but for sure not 4.
The decor is nice but abit dark in terms of lighting. At least dark for me, but fortunately the sun is still up so it's not that bad. The place is clean and neatly decorated and the server is quite friendly! The service is good from my standard.
Ok to the food.... it's the tasting menu so there are about 6 little dishes we get to try. The presentation of each dish is nice but somehow it lacks the WOW factor from the taste perspective. Interestingly enough, besides the 6 dishes, the restaurant also provide two more items as extra as complimentary... ironically, and it's these two items that I liked most. One is the fried pork belly, it's really flavourful and do gives me the WOW yummy reaction... and the other one I think is the palette cleanser- blue berry sorbet, rich in blue berry flavour! Yum...
Back to the tasting menu, the first course is the soup, I think it's pumpkin soup with some chilli powder and a drop of sesame oil- average I think.
Actually I would prefer they skip the sesame oil because as me having the Asian palette, having this soup somehow reminds me the taste from eating instant noodles. Lol.. it's just me, I don't even know how I get this association. Then come the salad, which are all cabbage but made in different ways. Again just average, not much cabbage flavour. Then come the tuna, but the tuna has no fish taste that I expect from sashimi, but presentation is nice. Then come the beef and then cheese plate and then dessert... but u get the idea, average taste for each dish.
From the price point, it's about $50 per person from the Groupon, so maybe it's the price that drive the food quality.. all in all, an average dining experience for me from the food tasting perspective.
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