Brilliant Garden @ The Chevrons

Address: 48, Boon Lay Way, (The Chevrons, Warrant officers & Specialists Club), #03-06 Singapore 609961

Tel No: 6795 9339
Email: enquiry@gimtim.com.sg
Opening Hours:

Monday - Friday:

11.00am - 2.30pm
6.00pm - 10.30pm

Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday:

11.00am - 2.30pm
5.30pm - 10.30pm

Type of Place: Restaurant

Recommended Attire: No restrictions
Type of Cuisine: Chinese
Average price spent per pax: $24.80++ per person (weekday dinner ala-carte buffet)
Who went with me: In order, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, hubby, myself

Rating (out of 5) –

Food quality: 3.5

Service quality: 3

Ambience: 1

1  = Poor

2 = Below Average

3 = Average

4 = Good

5 = Excellent

The entrance didn't look very appealing.

The interior looked very empty and bare.

The chilli sauce is nice, 够味！enough oomph, that is :)

We were able to choose the kind of tea we wanted. 4 choices in all. I chose 香片。

here's the 1st page of the menu.

2nd page. Quite standard.

Here's their old-fashioned piece of order paper. After our 1st round of ticks, we used back this same piece for our 2nd round. In order to be clear, we used crosses for the dishes we wanted. 3rd round - we used circles. Save the forests campaign!

You tiao with floss. Not bad! Tasted just right. Crispy, and enuff floss to go around!

This should be the best dish in my opinion. deep fried tofu and chai bor (those you see in Chwee Kueys). The chai bor is fresh and chunky, not the same as those burnt mini bits in chwee kueys.

Vegetables, something light and homely. Good dish after the deep fried stuff!

Jellyfish with smoked duck. I've tried something similar at Zhou's Kitchen (I've posted the review earlier), and I must say that the jellyfish at Zhou's Kitchen is far tastier than the one here. Zhou's jellyfish is spicy and refreshing, which placed a nice contrast to the smoked duck.

Wasabi Prawns. Zhou's Kitchen also had this dish and I do prefer Zhou's Kitchen's prawns!

Shark's fin soup. Quite a good standard, i could see the solid fins, although not big. Ok, i think i sound cruel now. :S

Crisp chicken in HK style. The tiny bits are garlic. We were getting a bit full, hence oily deep fried food was getting on our nerves. The chicken tasted a bit dry, only the garlic was nice. :P

Scallops with white lotus and celery. Yes, I was eating more of this! very lightly stir fried.

Soft shell crab with chicken floss. ANOTHER item with floss. Man.

Steamed red snapper. Too little flesh, in my opinion.

Black pepper venison. TOO SALTY!! I almost died.

by the time we reached this dish, we were stufffffed. I took the veg though. It was fresh and crunchy :)

Yam ring. I did not take the yam (i suspect i have an allergy towards yam) so I just took what was inside. What was inside - a repeat of what we had earlier!! smoked duck, mushrooms etc!!

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We also had the noodles, but I did not eat that, hence can't review. Overall, I would give the food quality a 3.5 out of 5. The word is 'comfortable'. I'm comfortable with the food and its taste.

Ambience - 1. Barely any ambience. I don't remember that there was music.

Service - 3 out of 5. There were only 2 staff on the floor that night - manager and waitress. Their bar/ kitchen entrance/ cashier was right at the other end, hence we couldnt get much prompt attention. My MIL had to call out for assistance on 1 occasion.

For its price, I think it's pretty value-for-money. But it will be better if more people can eat together, then can share the load and try more dishes!