Of late both Hub and I had been wanting to spend more time with each other. Maybe due to stress, maybe the sense of lesser time with each other with the impending coming of #3, we decided to go for dinner. I was reading a blog and it introduces this place at Ayer Rajah – Timbre +. This place was opened on 1 Apr 16.
The first impression that I had was it is a hawker centre. No air-con and with seats similar to our local hawker centre. As I walked into the place, there are more seats and they are a little more grander than the hawker seats. Some with high chairs and tables, some with timber look alike long table. The building was build with containers. The exterior of the building was spray painted with graffiti. It was pretty cool.
In the evening, there are live band. Cool but the music is too loud for me, so I chose a seat further away from the stage.
There are wide variety of stalls there. Filipino, Spanish, Western, Japanese, French and Indian cuisine were available. There is a wine/beer shop too. There are local food as well, but they don’t seem to be open in the evening or they are not open yet. I like the concept of selling food from caravan. They have proper “shops” and stalls as well. This place is free seating, the smell of food do get “trap” at the centre stage and you may smell of food when you leave the place.
Another interesting thing here is that when you buy food, it comes with a tray and they will charge you for it. But be assured that it will be returned to you when you do tray return service to this “container” with tray return holes (see the cleaner uncle there?). Upon returning, the $1 will be returned to you (see the metal plates above the return hole?). Cool eh? For $1, almost everyone is returning the tray. There are still some cleaners walking about the place to clean up tables and arrange the chairs back but they don’t have to collect trays, plates and cutleries.
The food that 2 of us ate:
The skewers – had a special marination ingredient that gives a tinge of sourness not the turn bad taste but my suspicion is they used lemon to marinate the meat. The Agus beef skewer is plain which they probably add salt and pepper on it only. But still taste good.
The Truffle Fries – a tad too salty but I like the sauce. It’s a little pricey for fries though.
The Pork Ribs – acceptable for a hawker standard of cos there are better ribs out there. The smoke duck salad – simple and nice! Olive oil with balsamic dressing.
Two Wings – tried salted egg wings and original. It is decent and acceptable.
Verdict of this place
My hub felt young and relive those days. The food quality is pretty good and decent, the con is lack of drinks and a little pricey for hawker centre. But for the concept of hippies, maybe it could make up for the price.
This place is really for the young ones not so for family as the music were too loud. The place is a little warm too. The parking is bad unless you park in other buildings around the place. The walking distance from One-north MRT to this place is acceptable.
This place is pretty near to my parent’s place, so Hub and I walked back for about 20 mins in the night. It was really nice after a heavy dinner.
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