Halal Eats: Barcelos Review

For our 1st yr engagement anniversary, he brought me for a simple lunch at Barcelos at vivo city.

We ordered a plate of chicken stir fry, 1/2 chicken with a side of fries (his) & grill potatoes (mine) and a can of iced tea and coke each (no more free flow).

Verdict:
- Chicken:: Good but cold inside. Not BRRRRRRRR fridge cold but just room temperature.
- Sides: Potatoes were simple and good (they had mushrooms so heh you can't go wrong there). Fries were disappointing though. I was hoping for some home made goodness but they gave me sad KFC fries.
- Chicken stir fry: I could not get one decent picture of it. It was too embarrassed to take a picture so it's not here. It was sad, salty and had more vegetables chicken and rice put together. It tastes like my 5 mins fried rice that uses the knorr chicken stock. it was SAAAAAD.

It hasn't always been like this though. When I was there a year ago, the food was going down but it wasn't too bad and they still had free flow drinks but if I compare it to the first 5 times I went just after it went halal, the food today had NOTHING compared to what it was then.

We paid $36.90 plus another $4 for drinks (no, they didnt have a set menu). It's a mid-range price to pay for sad sad food. I don't think we'll be coming back here again anytime soon.

PS: Ramen Ten at harbourfront centre is no more! BOOOOOO!

Halal Eats: Laksania

 

So we ventured to NEX today and visited a place I've been missing: Laksania. Simple food, ok pricing, I'll definitely come again.

Ups:
- Singapore Laksa was good. I loved the tau pok and prawns.
- The satay, although only 3 pcs, were extremely worth it. It was nicely spiced and tasty. It was a little dry but I can live with it. The sauce tastes like my mum's pecel (spiced coconut gravy) without the heat. So I don't really get it. But otherwise, it was good.
- I love lemongrass tea and theirs was nicely fragrant.

Downs:
- I didn't really like my sarawak laksa. It smells like ubat periuk but it tastes better than that. Still. Not liking it
- Chicken wings. I expected more. Firstly it's weeny. Secondly its spiced with salt and pepper only. Maybe if I don't cook I'll like it. So I expected more.

All in all it was a nice meal, somewhere I'll bring Mr A. to just so we can try the nasi gorengs they offer.

PS: They do have vegetarian dishes in their menu. I'm not sure if there are any vegan ones though.