Merlion Wayfarer's Walking Singapore: Little India

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ParkRoyal Kitchener - Bountiful Spring Culinary Spread Enriched With Treasured Premium Ingredients

6:34 PM Central, Chinese, Chinese New Year, festive, Food, Little India, Seafood

This Chinese New Year, PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road’s signature restaurants - Spice Brasserie and Si Chuan Dou Hua - will tempt diners with a bountiful selection of culinary favourites enriched with the Spring season’s most treasured premium ingredients.

Leap into the Lunar New Year with heaps of auspicious feasting at PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road, as Spice Brasserie presents a buffet line-up of festive local and Peranakan dishes, whilst our signature Si Chuan Dou Hua fine Chinese cuisine restaurant invites diners to lap up delicious Springtime delicacies composed into mouth-watering set menus.

Auspicious Seafood Fare at Spice Brasserie

At Spice Brasserie, the arrival of spring heralds a celebratory buffet spread of beloved Nonya fare such as Live Prawn Assam Pedas, Steamed Seabass Fillet with Nonya Sauce and Peranakan Chicken Buah Keluak. These are served up alongside the restaurant’s hallmark seafood dishes including Spring Onion Steamed Crab, Crispy Fried Sotong with Sweet & Spicy Tamarind Sauce, Crispy Oyster with Teriyaki and Limpet Abalone Congee. Fans of Spice Brasserie’s popular seafood buffet will also be delighted with the Chinese New Year buffet’s live-station offerings that will include freshly-cooked Pumpkin Cuba Lobster simmered in a hot claypot.

Diners booked-in for dinner on 15, 16 and 17 February, priced at $88++, will also be endowed with a Lucky Fortune Set comprising five prosperity-enhancing platters (one set per table). Beginning with the ever-auspicious Salmon Yu Sheng, this tempting set further includes festive specialties brimming with premium delicacies: Braised Abalone with Duck Feet, Braised Sea Cucumber with Roast Pork, Baked Sea Scallop with Mushroom Cheese and Peranakan-style Nanas Lemak Cuba Lobster.

Spice Brasserie’s Chinese New Year buffet showcase is available for lunch and dinner, from 15 to 22 February. Prices start from $58++ per adult, 15% savings applies to payments made with Citibank, DBS, Standard Chartered and UOB credit cards. 

SPRING SPLENDOUR AT SPICE BRASSERIE

Chinese New Year Buﬀet Lunch

16 and 17 February 2018 Adult $68 Child $34

18 to 22 February 2018 Adult $58 Child $29

Chinese New Year Buﬀet Dinner

15, 16 and 17 February 2018* Adult $88 Child $44

18 to 22 February 2018 Adult $68 Child $34

*Diners enjoy one-time serving of Lucky Fortune Set per table, consisting of Braised Abalone with Duck Feet, Braised Sea Cucumber with Roast Pork, Baked Sea Scallop with Mushroom Cheese, Nanas Lemak Lobster and Salmon Yusheng, as well as free ﬂow of soft drinks.

Click here for more information. For reservations, call 6428-3160 or email spicebrasserie.prskt@parkroyalhotels.com.

Saizeriya City Square - Expect Only The Basic

1:15 PM European, Food, French, Italian, Little India, North East

Kitchener Road

North-East, Singapore

August 2015

Merlion Wayfarer made a lunch stop at Saizeriya City Square near Farrer MRT recently.

For this outlet, service is (really) basic:

On entering, you are pointed by a "cardboard man" to the direction where you ought to be seated.
Cutlery and food are placed on your table with a clutter.
Staff can hear you but still walk past. In fact, the recommended way to alert them is still by using the beeper system.
When staff want to clear your table, it is done with gestures. No words will be exchanged.
Food was thrown away before it was finished because the diner was at the Drinks Station.
The Nescafe Allegria machine serves only "Milo", "Milo", "Milo", "Milo", and the labels on the fruit punch machine are so faded that you can only choose the orange-coloured drink or the pale yellow drink.

Sitting near the Drinks Station has its advantages. In the short 30 minute meal, this is what occurred:

A male staff takes a cup and fills it with Milo. Finding it suspicious, he calls his kitchen colleague and makes a phone call to his HQ.
Being the afternoon lull period, a lady staff takes a cup, rinses it thoroughly on the water counter before filling up with the drink she wants.
A young staff wiping the drinks counter washes her dish cloth with the water from the cold drinking water tap.

It was fortunate that the food was really value-for-money. For just S$6.90 (no ++), one gets a simple salad, a freeflow drinks bar, and a main dish (pasta or rice).

Generous Thousand Island dressing on the salad topped with roe...

Authentic-tasting basil pasta...

Merlion Wayfarer really likes Saizeriya for its Italian theme and economical Italian-French food and really hopes its management can get its act together soon.

Deepavali Street Parade 2012 - A Flurry Of Colours, Drama & Dances

8:34 AM Central, Deepavali, Festivals, Little India

Race Course Road

Little India, Singapore

17 November 2012

Deepavali or 'Festival of Lights' is held annually in November to celebrate Lord Krishna's triumph over the evil Narakasura. Since Lord Krishna symbolizes goodness, the festival of lights represents the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil.

Every year, the UTSAV Deepavali Street Parade will be held at Little India. Starting from Race Course Road, the Deepavali Street Parade was held on 17 November 2012. A dazzling extravaganza of colours and cultural diversity, the parade consisted of arts and cultural groups showcasing multi-cultural local and international performances that are an insight to Singapore's festive traditions. Performances by both local and international groups, it is a splendid kaleidoscope of songs and dances culminating in a dazzling array of fireworks.

A rhythmic and grand dance by a Malay cultural group...