Inle Myanmar Restaurant at Peninsula Plaza

Address: Peninsula Plaza Outlet, 111 North Bridge Road, #B1-07 Peninsula Plaza, Singapore 179098
Tel No: +65 6333 5438
Opening Hours: 11am ~ 10pm Daily

Type of Place: Casual Dining

Recommended Attire: No restrictions

Type of Cuisine: Myanmese

Average price spent per pax: $20

Who went with me: Myself, Adrian, Jeff, Doris, Claudia and Joseph

 

Rating (out of 5) –

Food quality: 3.5

Service quality: 3.5

Ambience: 4
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1  = Poor

2 = Below Average

3 = Average

4 = Good
5 = Excellent

Taken from the restaurant's website:

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"The cuisine of Myanmar is heavily influenced by the respective cuisines of China, India, and Thailand. However, in spite of the many influences, Myanmar cuisine has unique preparation techniques and distinct flavours unlike any other. It is richer than Chinese but not as spicy as Thai or Indian.

The methods of food preparation vary depending on the region and ethnicity as the country itself is populated with multi-ethnic diversity. In addition, the influx of Chinese and Indian immigrants in the past has also given birth to a unique flavour of sweet, sour and mildly spicy Myanmar cuisine."



Claudia and I reached at 6pm and I immediately started snapping! Might as well, since there weren't many customers yet.

The decoration is pretty cool! There's this huge sword!! It's a sword, right?

I am personally not a lover of rattan and straw. But the interior of this restaurant gives a homey and clean feel.

The picture above our table.

As we were kinda hungry, we decided to go for the buffet!! It has everything! It's $16.90+++ for weekdays, but no drinks and dessert. We all had iced water.

The 2 chic ladies, Doris and Claudia!

Close up of the ala carte items in the buffet menu. I think we had nearly everything.. tats the good thing about eating in a bigger group :)

Buffet dinner starts from 530pm :)

And here's their opening hours and contact details.

Don't think our leftovers amounted to 500g :)

Pickled Tea Leaves Salad - I have never tried anything like this before, and neither have everyone else. And it's our favourite salad among the lot! It's spicy, salty, appetizing and refreshing. After the first mouthful, you will definitely take the next mouthful. It has nuts inside too. Man, i am already running out of adjectives. and I have like 20 more dishes!

Century Egg Salad. Century egg is the typical SG fare. Both Doris and I sidetracked and decided that Hong Kong's century egg is wayyy better. Anyway. the salad above the egg is quite normal, with a generous serving of onions, which I love.

Chicken Curry - Adrian's comment "very Indian, not spicy but contains a lot of spices".. and he likes it!

Pork in Black Bean Paste - very Chinese dish, flavourful but not very tender.

Penny Wort Salad - our next favourite salad. the leaves has a herb taste and reminded us of the Chinese LeiCha dish. It has plenty of nuts too. A very nutritious appetizing dish.

Left - Fish Soup. Right - Veg Soup. The fish soup did not taste like fish soup at all. Adrian thought it tasted more like mutton soup (?!) It has a rich and heavy taste, slightly spicy. The veg soup was like mild tom yam soup with veg :)

Prawns in Tamarind Sauce - Fakely succulent (treated chemically), so the prawns were crunchy and juicy. The sauce is sour, naturally. Quite Thai, in my opinion.

Fish Fillet with Sweet Chilli - Like Thai Style Sweet and Sour fish, but I do like the kind of batter they used on the fish. Slightly crispy even after all the sauce~!

This, is a item of great debate. This item is called Tofu Fritters.

2 of us said it tasted like sweet potato.

1 person said it tasted like fish cake.

But we all had 1 united comment --> STRANGE DISH.

Gourd Fritters. The batter is quite okay and it's about the only thing nice about the dish. The gourd inside the batter is juicy, crunchy BUT tasteless. The sauce doesn't do much help in enhancing the taste, so it was quite a letdown.

Kang Kong with Garlic. It was strange for me coz I am used to eating spicy kang kong. This tasted too.... GREENY. I tasted too much chlorophyll! haha. Generally, the vegetables are fresh and crunchy.

This, is another item which we all thought was soft shell crab.

IT'S NOT.

It's called Shrimps on Green Net Fritters. What a strange concept. Jeff tasted it and said it was okay, but the rest of us did not like it The vegetable fritters had an earthy taste to it, so it was a bit bitter. =.=

oOh this has to be my ultimate favourite. Fresh Spring Rolls. Vietnamese cuisine has this dish as well, but I haven't tried it before. I had 3 of these!! The skin is translucent with a sticky elastic feel to it. The vegetables were crunchy and everything else in it was great. Very refreshing combination!! It has coriander inside too.

aerial view

close up view xD see how much i like it haha.

mutton curry - everyone liked it coz there wasn't any mutton smell and it was very tender. for me, i prefer it with some mutton smell..if not i wun be able to identify the type of meat..

The bill came up to be 20bucks per person. Okay for a decent meal that burst our pants :)

Doris, Claudia, Jeff, Joseph and Adrian.

Me in the middle :)

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Will I go back again? Probably yes, becos of the pickled tea leaves salad, pennywort salad and fresh spring rolls. I love vegetables :) The staff were very gentle, nice and polite, although the food took quite a while to arrive. One thing to note, do visit the loo first before going into the restaurant, coz the nearest toilet is at the next building, which you go by a short underpass! =.=

Thru the dinner, the air conditioning did not seem to be working very well too. Or maybe we got too heated up talking about the recent political news :) It was a fun time overall, coz we jus couldn't stop eating and chatting!



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!