The thing I love most about the Pavilion is its food court. In any shopping mall, the food court is the place where you can find the cheapest and most varied choice of meals, many serving international fare.

Although the Pavilion is an upmarket mall, you can still get a pretty good meal at a fairly decent price at the Food Republic. The best thing is to walk around first before making your selection.

The kids had oven-fresh pizzas. My son, Steev can wolf down this entire pizza down without batting an eyelid. It’s chockfull of franks and a few olives and peppers. But franks, why not pepperoni? They’d make a much tastier topping.

We’ve just discovered the teppanyaki restaurant spread out at one end of the food court surrounded by a ring of diners on high stools.

All their teppanyaki sets come with rice, soup and bean sprouts and mustard green stir-fried with garlic and black pepper. I snapped the two photos below before the chef was done cooking the mustard green so that’s why that’s not in the picture.

This is the beef teppanyaki (above) on an aluminium foil sitting on the metal cooking table to keep it warm throughout the meal.

The lamb teppanyaki (above) offers a nice variation to beef which is more of the standard choice when I think of teppanyaki.

Both the teppanyaki’s were supposed to be spicy but they were so low heat there was really no oomph for me. Remember I’m the Chili Queen and my heat tolerance level is pretty high . Both the meats are very tender though. Look at how saucy it is too. Very nice and goes very well with the plain rice.

The pizza and teppanyaki are not the cheapest items at the Food Republic but we wanted to try something we haven’t tried before on our previous trips there.

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