weiiiird. i didn't expect as many negative reviews on this place as there are!

anyway. i love samy's. i've been going here since i was 14 years old, and it will aaalways be my favourite place to have some tandoori chicke, naan and of course the legendary LIME JUICE!

depending on what you order, the price can vary. i remember once i went with myself and two of my friends and it only ended up being around $30! buut the most recent time i went with just me and my boyfriend it ended up being around $50. i really think this place IS good value for money though - you always end up leaving full!

the ambience is relaxed. people can sit inside the busy dining hall or outside on the patio. the service is quite fast, even on busy nights. a lot of expats seem to like this place too.

so i MAY be a bit biased, but definitely give samy's a try - though it seems out of place in the new up-town dempsey, it is truly is a singaporean favourite.

I dont really fancy Indian food as I cant take spicy food that well.. cos I am brought up with teochew porridge :)

The first time I went to Samy's curry was about 3 years ago. I remembered that was my neighbour's father turned 50 birthday dinner (they are Indian family who are very nice and helpful to us) since I was a child about eight years old, I went to the same primary school with Jeya who is now a lawyer.

Anyways, Samy's curry has done up lots of changes now. I was there again with Jeya and his Chinese girl friend. We decided to meet up after a long time since they moved out.

It was like walking down the memory lane. It was crowded in Samy's. It is much cleaner than before and they must have done some renovation. The staffs were quick in taking orders.The waiter was trying his best to push us to get the fish but we were not sold by his words.We have to order at the counter.My eyes caught the big prawns but it looks so spicy.I decided to take the risk because the prawns really tempted me. Jeya's gf,ML, ordered the chicken which was really huge and Jeya the mutton curry.

We had free flow of bryani rice that was served on a banana leaf.It was really spicy especially the curry that the waiter poured, way too much on my rice. I was struggling to eat.In the end, I had half portion despite the spicyness.Jeya ordered some vegetables and butter chicken. I find that all taste the same.Probably because my tongue was burn by the spicyness that I could taste well.ML said that her chicken was too dry,she didnt finished hers too. Jeya ate all his mutton.

Jeya insisted to pay for the meal.I took a glance on the total bill..it was $70 +++ for 3 pax.Pretty expensive as it wasnt that great. I rememeberd that the briyani at Republic Food court is much better and so much cheaper.

I can only give a credit to the ambience because it has improved alot than before.

This is one of my favourite hang outs for curry. An iconic establishment having been around for so many years, they recently did a revamp to get in-line with its posher surroundings at Dempsey.

I usually go here for breakfast after a really late night, and after the recent rennovations I decided to check this place out. The curry surprsingly goes very smoothly and warms the stomach if you had a dose of alcohol the night before - which is a rarity. The mutton is tender but if you ask me, there is nothing that is really that special other than the very nice quaint setting that is good to chill out at during a public holiday. That makes it a favourite for many foreigners. Thus, one should be prepared to pay upmarket prices.

After weeks of waiting for Samy's to reopen, decided to give the new look restaurant a spin. Well as you may know, Long Beach has opened up next door and it's a big old place as well. In typical style, they forgot to make the car park bigger and so we have two big restuarants with a combined car park for no more than 25 cars. So everyone duly lines up on each side of the narrow road and the whole place becomes a ridiculous mess of badly parked cars and ill-tempered drivers.
Anyway, on to the food. Sammy's has revamped itself with a few modern touches like windows and clean tables....however the food remains the same!! same old classic indians dishes and at approx the same price. ( i think, after all the prices changed by the mood of the waiter previously!), service still as miserable and slow as ever. Only got 1 veg instead of two with the rice but not sure if this is standard now, my question was ignored by the smiling waiter.

So Samy's endures but will it be successful? Probably but guys you need to get the car park fixed!

Walau very not cheap leh! Don't think you will be getting prices like at your neighbourhood prata shop. Imagine our shock when we got the bill and found out one prawn was $5. I was tempted to lick the shells after.

Also our fault la. We didn't think to ask about prices. But still. $5 per prawn leh. I go market and buy can get half a kilo leh.

The fish head curry is rather overrated (I think Gayatri is better). We also had some chilli fish thing that was nice. But overall, too expensive for my liking. And I think they are under renovation now

Atmosphere: nice and oldish but the inside was quite bare. Like they didn't bother with decor.