Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Man lunch #4 hibachi grill at Wisma Atria

The no-thrills chef
Today was Man Lunch #4 with fellow stay-at-home dad John.  It was John's week to pick, but because his daughter had been ill for the past few days he did not have time to do research.  So we settled on the 4th floor food court run by the BreadTalk group at the Wisma Atria mall.  After surveying all the stalls and narrowly escaping the food whores (the greeters at food stalls who won't leave you alone), we choose a Japanese Hibachi grill.

If you are from the USA, you are probably grimacing at the thought of eating at a food court.  Well in Singapore, it's different.  The food courts rock!  The food is all fresh (with the normal exceptions) and made to order.  It's quite amazing and the US food court operators could really learn some things from them.

Interesting practices in Singapore:

  • Food stalls/vendors do not sell drinks.  You get your drinks from either the drink stall or a drink cart that circles around.  
  • Food stalls do not give napkins.  At best, you'll get a dinky drink-sized napkin.
  • To reserve/save your table (which you should do before you get your food), you leave a travel-sized packet of tissues on a table.  This works well in most cases except when you get a tourist who isn't aware of the practice.
Back to lunch....

Set A - Fish, Shrimp and Beef
John ordered the Set A (SGD $15.50) which was fish, shrimp (prawns) and beef cubes.  I ordered the sliced beef meal (SGD $8.50).  Each meal came with miso soup, rice, bean sprouts and bok choy.  The food was a slightly over salted but good tasting.  What I didn't like was that the chef did not put on a show. Usually, the fun of going to an hibachi grill is the chef throwing stuff up in the air and putting on a show.  Today, the chef basically just cooked the food in front of us.  In summary, the food was good, but the experience was average.


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