Swensen's Cafe Restaurant (Holland Village)

we used to visit the Swenson Outlet for their bake rice as they used to be so delicious. Yesterday, out of craving, we revisited the place. It turned out to be a BIG disappointment as the baked rice standards have dropped drastically. We ordered the Fish Baked Rice. It turned out that the baked rice has just four miserable small pieces of fishes fillet with some cheese on top and the rest just rice (seasoned with chicken stock soup). The rice looks like normal white rice. It looks absolutely unappealing. I expected the standards to be better.

Yet another place from my childhood. Together with Jack's Place and Dennys (remember Denny's?), it used to be the place to go for slightly more atas food.

Went with my husband one day for old times sake. We really felt like we were teenagers on a first date. Crowd is made up of mostly families. Which is not bad, but it can get quite noisy.

So nice to see they have added quite an extensive Asian section to their menu too. But I stuck to my all time favourite, fish baked rice. Which was good but not as rich as I remembered it to be. My husband's sourdough 49ers was good! I didn't take it this time round but I've always been a fan of their fish and chips

And of course, the ice cream. All time favourites - sticky chewy chocolate, frosted chocolate malt, ring a ding a ling and coit tower.

Wednesday (7 Nov 07). Met up with JC, AC, NS, QQ, KC and CP for night-time dessert. We arrived after 10 PM and the lower level was still bustling with customers. We asked for a table for 7, and after some moments of wondering where the staff had disappeared to, he finally reappeared and ushered us upstairs. We found ourselves to be the only customers seated upstairs and we had a lot of fun laughing loudly and we did not disturb any other customers.

We each ordered an item, and I had something like a Lime Sherbet Float in Soda. I liked it.

We were feeling very hot and stuffy upstairs, so we asked if the temperature could be lowered further and we were told that the air-conditioning was already at max power. So we had to bear with it.

Was there for a farewell for a colleague and due to our limited lunch hour, we made a reservation and requested that the food be ready by xxx hour to beat the waiting time.

When we arrived, the food (soup, main course) were already all displayed. I just thought this seems a bit strange and exaggerating... would other guests wonder why too?

Anyway, I had curry chicken baked rice. Serving portion quite huge which I only finished the curry chicken. Add a scoup of ice cream which was good, as usual. I think it was old fashion vanilla.

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