Just Acia

Which restaurant (defn: aircon environment, food is served to you) do you get such a bowl of nicely presently curry noodle at an amazing price of S$3.90 nett? Is there even such a place in Singapore? 

Just Acia. Check them out. They offer amazing food at amazing price. For example, go for their set menus, which cost a reasonable S$9 onwards, you get free flow of quality drinks, including quality coffee as well as free flow tub quality ice-cream. They also have soft serve but the attraction is still the tub ice cream which is very, very good.

4 outlets 

@ Sembawang Shopping Centre (above pic)

@ Downtown East

@ Dhoby Exchange

@ NUS

Check out their website

http://www.justacia.com/index.html

McDonald's now extends McValue Breakfast / Lunch to all day

McValue Breakfast / Lunch is now available all day. Breakfast for the whole of breakfast hours instead of just 6am to 9am and Lunch (and hence now dinner too) to be all day instead of 12pm to 3pm.

Expect a more crowded McDonalds in the coming week.

Updates: 6th Feb 2012

Just bought my first McValue Breakfast after the price revision. Here is the menu board:

If it is not clear, here is the breakdown:

Egg Muffin EVM: $4

Sausage Muffin with Egg EVM: $4.50

Fillet-O-Fish EVM: $450

McGriddles with Egg EVM: $5.10

Hotcakes (w/o Sausage): $5.65

Hotcake (w/ Sausage): $6.10

Big Breakfast: $6.30

I note that not all the prices as the same as before. For example, Sausage Muffin with Egg used to cost $4 and now it is $4.50. Big breakfast is $6.30 instead of $5 (or $5.50, not too sure.) 

So if you are those people who buy McValue breakfast every now and then, expect to pay slightly more. If you are those people, like me. who always missed the 9am timeline to buy McValue Breakfast, you will probably benefit. I may not be saving money (as I don't buy if the price is back to its $5.95 original price) but now, I guess i will be eating more McValue breakfast. 

Elsewhere, It will be interesting to see how the other fast food chain reacts, especially close competitors like BK. 

Simple but Good and (not that) Cheap

Bread Talk seems to be able get the combination and ingredients of their bread right every time.

Pork Floss bread, for example. For people who didn't realize, it is not just pork floss and bread. Not only there is a layer of 'cream' (could be butter or mayonnaise or a combination), when you bit towards the centre of the bread, there is a concentration of this 'cream' that make the bread perfect. Not to mention the soft but not overdone bread texture and the taste of the "bak hoo"

Now (actually, it has been around for quite a while), they have the morning, made-before-your-eyes Ham and Egg / Bacon and Egg Sandwich. Choose either one of them, together with Coffee, wait about 3-5 minutes, spend S$3 and you will get IMHO, a perfect breakfast.

Bacon and Egg sandwich.

Ingredients: Slice Bread, Ham/Bacon, Cucumber, Butter, Egg

Simple ingredient but why is it 'perfect'?

I don't know, actually but as with BreadTalk products, the sum just adds up to give a greater whole. The combination of the ingredients that was used just gave a satisfying feeling when eating and even after eating the sandwich.

Costing S$3 with coffee white, it is not exactly the cheapest breakfast around (McDonald's Sausage Muffin with Coffee is S$2.50 and you get bigger cup of coffee) but in terms of satisfaction level, it definitely beat McDonald's hands down. and for a S$0.50 premium, there is no reason why I will choose McDonald over Breadtalk in the morning.

Try it if you have not! Available in the morning only

S$2.70 for the sandwich itself.

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