A Friday nightout with some of my paddling mates had six of us tai-tais (OK, we just like to pretend that we are but reality is a different story altogether.) checking out some eating spots in the suburbs of Singapore.
For dinner, we headed to a coffee shop at Blk 608 Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 for some cheap Western food at this stall called Botak Jones. Why the name? Because the kitchen is helmed by big, buff and bald white American guy. FYI for non-Singaporeans: “botak” means “bald” in the Malay language.
I had the Giant Chicken Hot Dog, another friend had the Chilli Hot Dog and the other four tai-tais went for the Cajun Chicken. The chunky fries are a little different from the norm in that it’s a little spicy as it’s deep-fried with some chilli powder I think. Portions were pretty substantial for the amount we were paying and the food tasted pretty good too.
Other items on the menu were Fish & Chips (which looked pretty good judging from the plates which other people ordered), Bratwurst hot dogs, steak etc. I forget the rest.
Not too bad a place to head to for some cheap Western food. They have another branch in Tuas too.
After dinner, we decided to go for drinks. At first, we ended up at Wine Flair @Thomson. We thought of going there for some cheap wine (as you can see, our idea of taitai-dom is really quite flawed…), ‘cos really $8/glass is really quite cheap! But on entering the place, we found the place looking so dated, with only old uncles sitting inside. What was worse was the entertainment (or so the management reckons it to be). This greying middle-aged Caucasian was on the stage strumming a guitar singing country songs in karoke-fashion complete with the video screen playing all sorts of cheesy karoke videos behind him.
We couldn’t take it and decided to head off without ordering anything. We were actually seated already but what the heck. We hurriedly made our exit.
We then crossed over to the other side of the road and headed to Liquid Kitchen a restaurant/pub just beside The Long House at Thomson Road.
It was my first time at Liquid Kitchen but I’ve been wanting to check it out for eons as I pass it by so often! The orange and blue colour scheme of the place is cheery and it’s a good alternative to going down to town for a place to chill out.