One evening when I met polar bear, she had to get some stationery and also satisfy her craving for pasta from Eighteen Chefs. So, in order to satisfy both her criteria’s I brought her to Eastpoint at Simei!
When you sit at the table, you will notice that the entire menu is plastered onto the table itself. Its cool since you don’t have to flip through dog-ear menus which may tear anytime.
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| Menu on Table |
They even have specials for Students!
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| Student Meal Offer! |
So since I am still a student, in poly, I got the student meal! Totally worth it.
Before I continue, a little fact about Eighteen Chefs. The workers working there all have a conviction background. Meaning, they had some kinda trouble with the law. So this place gives them a new hope and a job so as to kick start a new life. No need to fear dining there, they are all nice people.
Moving on, the ordering can be a bit of a challenge and the first time I was there, it took me quite a while to understand the ordering style. But no worries, now they explain it all on the menu table top. But for your convenience, I shall explain it to you now.
“First you indicate whether you want cheese baked rice, pasta or cheese bakes pasta. Then choose your sauce. There are 8 different types of sauce!! Thirdly, choose your main ingredient. (Take your time on this because there are 13 to choose from, ranging from meat to vegetarian and all the way to seafood!) Lastly, choose your top up ingredient unless you only want one ingredient in your pasta”
Talk about spoilt for choice! With so many to choose from, I took quite a while to decide on what I wanted to eat.
So I chose the Student meal where I took my favourite Red and White Sauce (tomato and cream sauce mix), with pasta not baked, and I chose 3 ingredients namely, Chicken Sausage, Salmon and Chicken Slices.
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| Koala's yummy pasta! |
I love the red and white sauce, it has a good mix and its not too salty. The chicken sausage is not something special, its just part of the student meal. The salmon was good, it was crispy on the outside but soft on the inside, It absorbed all the pasta flavour and was enjoyable. The chicken was also very fresh.
Polar well, doesn’t qualify for student meal, too old. Haha! So Polar had White Sauce (cream sauce), Minced Beef and Prawns on Pasta not baked.
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| Polar's yummy pasta! |
Polar’s pasta was good as well. The cream sauce wasn’t too creamy and the mince beef was really awesome! The beef taste blends in extremely well with the sauce and the prawns were very fresh. Just that the prawns were $3 for 3 pieces!
Did I mention their Ice Lemon Tea is homemade and is AWESOME! It is one of the best ice lemon tea I ever had!
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| Ice Lemon Tea, Love the cup! |
We also ordered their Potato and Fruit Salad.
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| Fruit and Potato Salad $2.50 |
Looks good? Well, don’t be fooled. It was SALTY! It tasted so salty like everything including the mayo was blended with salt. It was the worst thing ever! I complained and the manager changed a new salad for me and it was still SALTY! So I complained again. And they gave me a refund. (:
Overall, I love the pasta there. Don’t expect the quality of a five star restaurant, the taste of the pasta is really up to standard and for the price they offer, it’s a steal. It is usually pack every evening so don’t hesitate to call and book a table before going down. Click here for their website.
Ratings:
Freshness – 4.5/5
Quality – 4/5
Taste – 4/5
Total – 4/5
Eastpoint Mall
3 Simei Street 6,
Eastpoint Mall, #01-36,
Singapore 528833
(Located beside POSB)
(click
here for a list of their outlets)
photo from google search.
Koala Signing off....
