{"id":779,"date":"2006-01-04T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T09:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2006-01-04T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T09:05:44","slug":"island_cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Island Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a few reviews about the newly renovated <b>Island Cafe<\/b> at the third floor of Tangs Shopping Centre, olduvai and I decided to give it a try one afternoon.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/39\/79371571_085063d83f_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Island Cafe Interior 1\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nThe interior was nicely done up in earthy tones, giving it a Balinese resort feel to the place.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/37\/79371573_a444f5fe62_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Island Cafe Interior 2\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nSeen through the glass windows, the canopy of the trees along Orchard Road provided the place with added greenery thus complementing the interiors.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/40\/79371574_823dc5b3a5_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Asian Platter\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nThis is the <b>Asian Platter<\/b> consisting of fried wantons, spring rolls, satay, fried chicken wings and drumsticks, and coleslaw. The food was very forgettable and I&#8217;m really hard-pressed to find anything good to say about it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/42\/79371575_6562973730_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Black Pepper Crab Tang Hoon\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nThe <b>Black Pepper Crab Tang Hoon<\/b> is supposed to be one of their specialties. But we found the tang hoon way too peppery and dry for our liking. The crab was dipped in batter and deep-fried and it didn&#8217;t taste very good either.<br \/>\nWhile it&#8217;s not fair to judge the place just by two dishes, I would only say I&#8217;m very disappointed with the two dishes I had. Perhaps the reviewers had some other dishes and they tasted good. Still, I don&#8217;t think I want to go there for mains. Maybe for tea as it&#8217;s a good place to rest one&#8217;s legs in mid-afternoon after thronging the shops in Orchard Road!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a few reviews about the newly renovated Island Cafe at the third floor of Tangs Shopping Centre, olduvai and I decided to give it a try one afternoon. The interior was nicely done up in earthy tones, giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}