The Beacon, Marina Square Singapore

Last night Kwan and I went to have dinner, he was enthusiastically recommending a pub/bistro nearby his office and told me they have a great live band. I would definitely follow his decision, since he had been going through for a rough week since Paul was out of town. Last night he was obviously still in blues.

Before we went there, Kwan also told me that Friday night is their oyster night, and he seem excited for the oyster. Ya, why not? it's oyster. When we got there, there seems like having a function that night, and most of the table was reserved, we just literally asked their staff, and they that we can dine in there but we have to leave before 9 as their tables were fully booked, so we took the table as we have more than enough time for a dinner there. They also have 1 for 1 beer offer that night, so we just rapidly placed the beer order right the way.

The environment is cozy and classy, and our table was very near to the stage, everything seems perfect. Soon enough we had placed our order, then patiently waiting for their good food.

First of all, the oyster was served, the size of the oyster was generous and the freshness was unquestionable, with the $5 for 5 oysters; it was worth the money. second order, please..

We were recommended by the staff for the Pollo chicken pizza, it was thin crust, mildly taste; for a heavy taster like me, it was just a decent dish.

And we also ordered some finger food, the watchmen combo, It includes calamari, chicken sausage and chicken wings, and it serves with 3 different sauces: Mayonnaise, Mustard and Thai chili sauce. The portion was big enough to cater 3 to 4 persons. The calamari and chicken wing were nice, they were perfectly deep fried in golden brown, crispy outside and tender inside; but after a few more, I started to feel tiredness and sickness. The chicken sausage was just so so for me, but surprisingly we had finished that first, perhaps it was less greasy compare with calamari and wings.

Finally, we had put quite some effort to finish all the food. Overall, the food was quite ok, it's a bistro; most of the food mainly go with the alcohol, don't expect much from it. Worth to mention is the live band, they did a good job to rock that night.

Menya Musashi Ramen 面屋武藏 at Raffles City

My friends, Kwan and Paul invited me for a dinner together last night, we met each other at Raffles city. As usual, we struggled for what to eat for dinner at the beginning, then we decided to go for Chinese food in a Szechuan restaurant. However, the restaurant was under maintaining of electrical supply. So we end up to have Ramen instead.

The Menya Musashi Ramen, I had tried their Ramen before, but back in years ago in KL. It was a decent experience; I wondered their Ramen in SG should as good as in KL. It was a long queue that time, but we were still required to wait for 5 to 10 minutes for empty table. Apparently, their menu had added plenty of options since my last trial. Of course, they still preserve their White, Black and Red soup choices.

I had ordered the Charshu Ramen in White soup, the soup was thick with strong flavor of pig's bone, simply tasty and satisfy.

Paul ordered the tomato Ramen, it's their new menu item, I forgot to ask Paul about the taste but  it looked fantastic while it was presented to our table.

Kwan also ordered the items, Sakura Ramen. The pink color Ramen just looked lovely, the unique way of the Ramen is the soup was served on separately, it was more like a dipping sauce for this Ramen. we was recommended to pick Black soup. The taste and flavor was even stronger. Speaking of the plain pink Ramen, the taste also different than the normal Ramen, it has an unique fragrant dissolved in your month while you chewed it, I can't tell what fragrant is that, but it was just nice. it's an excellent choice for that dinner.