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A new place to eat

Last weekend, while window-shopping aimlessly looking at such unlikely items as pet houses and wedding bands for men, we came across a new Vietnamese restaurant that we’ve never tried before. What luck! Just when our tummies were growling and it was close to lunchtime.

The waitress was dressed in traditional garb and the themed ambiance was kinda nice. I’ve never been to Vietnam but that’s close enough for me. I love their food especially those cooked with lemongrass and fish sauce. Definitely going back there for another meal soon.

Chicken feet salad

Salads aren’t necessarily a big part of Asian cuisine but among the few that I know and love is chicken feet salad. The name may sound gross to some but if you think of chicken feet as a necessary part of a chicken’s anatomy that it uses for walking, then that’s it. It’s no different than a chicken drumstick or chicken wings.

Separating the chicken feet from the digits is hard manual labor. I wouldn’t do it if you paid me :lol: . But this tangy salad of chicken feet, sliced raw onions, cilantro and chillies is definitely worth its weight in gold coins right there.

Vietnamese dishes we love

We are big fans of Vietnamese food. Many a weekend will find us pigging out at our favorite Vietnam kitchen. This Sesame Chicken is something that’s so easy to make at home. Yet we can never resist ordering it :lol: .

And then there’s Caramel Pork which is new to us but oh so scrumptious. Gotta love pork especially when it’s braised to such tenderness that it practically melts in the mouth. Somewhat high sodium but heck, it’s not like we eat this every day, right?

We love the food but the piped-in music, well, sometimes we like it but sometimes we wish it were a little more vlc media player quality.

Sweet sour yumminess

We really have a thing for Vietnamese food. We inadvertently find ourselves drawn to its yumminess. This set meal of sweet sour pork is our current lunch favorite, if we do get to eat out on a weekday which isn’t very often.

Apparently we’re not the only ones who love this set meal. The servers practically have to wheel them out by the medical cartload. What’s not to love, the fried wontons are yums too.

Lunch @ Mizu

We heard that Mizu has a weekend Japanese lunch buffet and decided to give it a try. The place is cozy (read: small) with barely 3 spreads of food. I guess we’re used to seeing extensive buffet spreads at other restaurants. We started out with these fresh oysters, sushi and salmon sashimi (my favorite).

As we soon learnt, what’s not on the spread, you have to order from a buffet list and it will then be served to you. I’m not sure that’s how a buffet would work in the real sense of the word. Anyhow we were checking off the little boxes for tempura and teppanyaki fare.

The shrimp wasn’t fresh so we had to leave it.

The cawan mushi was on the order list and apparently tasted quite good.

The ice cream was good but as you can see, the single scoop is just one mouthful for the guys. We’re pretty sure we ordered more than this but I don’t think they all arrived.

For such a limited selection, it did not come cheap. With the buffet list, it’s all too easy to lose track of what you’ve ordered especially if you go in a large group, and it’s even easier to lose track of the orders that never arrived. We all agreed we got less than we ordered. So I guess it’s a case of “you lose”.

Considering that the restaurant was less than half full, service should’ve been much better. Instead we were constantly having to raise our hands for green tea refills, extra napkins and to ask what happened to our orders. We definitely prefer the buffets where everything is laid out and we get to help ourselves.

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