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I have only tried Cafe 100% once and I got the food to go, so I haven't sampled the dishes at their best.
My order:
I got 3 dishes for 2 people to go knowing it's probably more food than we could eat in one meal, which turned out to be correct. Value in terms of proportion to cost: decent/pretty good. I had the Taiwanese popcorn chicken, the smoked salmon and oyster rice pizza, and the much loved on Instagram: oven baked ham and chicken spaghetti.
My final verdict: meh!
It looks way better than it tastes, meaning: it looks pretty amazing but only tastes average. Not worth a detour but it will fill you up if you do decide to go. You can get some nice Instagram pics here if that's any consolation! ;p
On takeout:
I had to wait quite a while! Not sure if it's the pasta baking or just a slow service day but all the food came out hot, so no harm done. The packaging was standard and neat, got a load of napkins, individual chopsticks and plastic spoons. The dishes held up pretty well in transit. It was a short trip but nothing fell apart or leaked or got soggy etc. Good job on the takeaway!
The popcorn chicken:
This was the best! Mainly because the salty spice mix covering the deep fried chicken was pretty tasty. The chicken itself was kinda dry but certainly edible. Not bad.
The smoked salmon and oyster rice pizza:
It is on a crust so you can pick up the slices and eat it like a pizza. Points for a creative dish but the flavour didn't live up to the idea. Presentation is top notch with this one. Zigzag drizzled mayo and okonomiyaki sauce (that's what it tasted like anyway), bonito flakes on top, and a pop of colour with the green onion. This looks really good! Flavour wise... not sure if there were supposed to be any actual oysters in the rice, or just a lightly oyster sauced rice. Either way the oyster part was completely lost in the dish. The rice was fine and the salmon was visible and tasted ok but overall for a sauce covered pizza this was pretty bland and flavourless! Rather disappointing!
The Unagi rice pizza is the Instagram favourite (yes I do pick some of what I eat because of Instagram,) so I'll try that one next time. I'm sceptical if it'll be much better but it's always worth a try.
Finally the baked pasta:
I rather liked the chicken in this! The meat itself was better than the popcorn chicken, it wasn't dry and had decent flavour, but the rest was again bland. This reminds me a lot of boiled plain pasta coated in butter and seasoned with cracked black pepper! You know, those lazy, late night bowls; or for some, that much treasure childhood favourite!? Anyway, all the baked spaghetti was missing was the black pepper! (So it got half way to amazing.)
For a baked pasta dish covered in cheese, stuffed with a decent share of ham and chicken and a few mushrooms, how did it turn out only ok?! There's only a creaminess but none of the chicken, ham, mushroom or even any real cheese flavour made it into/onto the sauce and noodles! Even if you get a bit of everything in the same bite it's still only meh! How can this not turn out amazing!? It's stacked with craveable ingredients but hey, you really are better off making butter and pepper pasta at home!
Again, Overall:
Meh! (???)
It's good enough to eat, the cost is fair, but the taste is nothing special. Even some of their more creative dishes fall flat on flavour. If you're in the area and the shawarma place across the parking lot is closed or too busy, go ahead and eat here! It's not bad but I wouldn't go out of my way for this place.
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