E-Sarn Thai Cuisine @ Pasir Panjang

I travelled past the restaurant several times and always noticed a crowd at the restaurant. The humble restauarnt painted in exterior green located along Pasir Panjang Road started off as a hawker stall named "Neng's Kitchen" in Farrer Road Market. Now they have 4 restaurants acrossed Singapore.

Check out the humble story of E-Sarn Thai Cuisine by clicking on the link.

I blamed myself for not doing more research before visiting the restaurant. I read so many good reviews about this place but never took note of the dishes to order. I ended up ordering the following dishes.

The Thai Vegetable Omelette with Spicy Thai Blachan was something unique and interesting which I have not tried before. The omelette unfortunately was too dried to my liking. The spicy blachan definitely gave a kick to the palate. My only ??? was Thai cuisine and blachan, how were they associated?

Thai Vegetable Omelettee w Spicy Thai Blachan 3.8/5

The Green Chicken Curry was slightly diluted to me. I would have preferred for the curry to be thicker. The chicken meat was also a bit tough although it came in a decent cut.

Green Curry Chicken 3.5/5

The Three Flavor Tilapia was huge and full of meat. The chef even debone the meat from the fish bone and cut them into large cube shape. It was easy to eat dipping into the sauce. My confusion was where were the three flavor?

Three Flavor Tilapia 4/5

Sauce for Three Flavor Tilapia

E-Sarn Thai Cuisine
130 Pasir Panjang Road
Singapore 118548
Nearest MRT: Pasir Panjang (CC Line)

Opening Hours:
Daily: 1130am - 2pm, 530pm - 930pm
(Closed on Tue)

Phuket Trip Part 3

I have visit Thailand several times but never eaten at MK Restaurant. There is MK Restaurant located at Junceylon Shopping Mall at Patong, Phuket and I decided to check it out for dinner.

To cool ourselves from the hot weather, we have Thai Ice Tea and Pineapple Juice which were very refreshing.

Thai Ice Tea & Pineapple Juice

We settled for the MK Steamboat. I ordered the vegetable platter, meat platter and beef. The platters had a good variety of ingredients and the beef was beautiful. Unfortunately there was no flavour for the broth. It was plain boiling water. I even noticed the tourist couple beside my table pouring soy sauce and chilli into the broth.

Vegetable Platter

Meat Platter

Beef

MK Steamboat

The steam rice came in a little pyramid shape with brown rice and barley on top of it. It gave the rice an additional texture which was nice.

Steam Rice

Olive Vine @ Marina Square

If you are on a tight budget and looking for a meal below $10, you may want to check out Olive Vine. Their mains are under $10 and there are no GST, service charge and MSG in their food. For an additional $4, you can upgrade to a Deluxe Set Meal which comes with a soup, drink and dessert.

The soup of the day was creamy and of decent portion.

Soup of the day 4/5

The drinks were unfortunately very sweet.

Fruit Punch & Ice Lemon Tea 3/5

The mains at below $10 each were definitely value for money with the huge serving.

Crispy Chicken Arrabiata 3.8/5

Pork Steak Agli Olio 3.8/5

For dessert my favourite was the Tapioca cake. It had a nice balance of sweetness and I enjoyed biting into the grated tapioca texture with each bite of the cake.

Tapioca Cake Dessert 4/5

The pastry of the Coconut Pie was nicely cooked and crispy but lacked of coconut flavour.

Coconut Pie 3/5

Overall Olive Vine served value for money food. Food wise I think there are still rooms for improvement.


Olive Vine
Marina Square
6 Raffles Boulevard
#B1-17
Singapore 039594
Nearest MRT: Esplanade (CC Line)

Opening Hours:
Mon-Fri: 10am - 10pm
Sat-Sun: 10am - 11pm