Saturday, June 11, 2011

Canopy Garden Dining & Bar @ Bishan Park

I love the ambient at Canopy Garden Dining & Bar. It offers a unique dining experience in a peaceful garden setting providing the perfect getaway from the urbanized Singapore.

The Caesar Salad had romaine lettuce tossed with anchovy dressing topped with crispy bacon, poached egg, parmesan and crisp garlic toast. It was light, fresh and refreshing.

Caesar Salad 4.2/5

The Green Curry Pasta with Pepper Chicken came with linguine tossed with spicy homemade green curry sauce topped with peppered chicken, cherry tomato and fresh rocket. The fusion between Thai and Italian was interesting and nice. The pasta was very tasty with the green curry flavour.

Green Curry Pasta with Pepper Chicken 4.2/5

The Lobster Pomodoro was spaghetti tossed with lobster meat and rich vine tomato sauce. Lovely tomato sauce and nicely cooked pasta.

Lobster Pomodoro 4.2/5

To get here, alight at Ang Mo Kio MRT station and walk to Ang Mo Kio bus interchange.
a) Take bus 133 or 136 and alight 4 stops later about 15 minutes, or
b) Take bus 262 and alight 5 stops later about 17 minutes which need not cross the road.


Canopy Garden Dining & Bar
Bishan Park 2
1382 Ang Mo Kio Ave 1
Singapore 569931
Nearest MRT: Ang Mo Kio (NS Line)

Opening Hours:
Weekdays: 9am - 11pm
Weekends: 8am - 11pm

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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)