Taiwanese Fast Food in IMM

We were surprised to find that hubby's fav chicken rice stall was replaced by a taiwanese food shop, but thought "no harm trying".

The place was quite empty when we went in at 12noon, and the waitress was very friendly, suggesting we take one of the tables with wooden benches. But since I've always found such tables to be too far for Sam to eat comfortably, I chose a 'normal' seated table instead.

We rejected the grey plastic baby chair since Sam seemed comfortable on the adult chair, then the waitress presented Sam with his plastic bowl & spoon while we were still pouring over the menu. I guess we were lucky: the service standard plunged by the time we finished our meal, with customers having to pick up their own cutlery from the counter when they failed to attract the attentions of the busy waitresses.

This restaurant does it semi-fast food style: the customers complete the order form with the numbers of the dishes in the menu, then go to the cashier to pay. The waitresses would serve it to the table later, thus saving us a 10% service charge.

Hubby selected a Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet Set Meal ($7.90), which came complete with appetisers & soup. He found the soup value for money, but the main course very average.



I ordered an Oyster & Large Intestine Mee Sua ($5.90) for Sam, figuring he would enjoy the soft noodles even if he doesn't eat the ingredients. He ended up finishing most of the large bowl with the peanut & ikan bilis appetiser from hubby's set. The mee sua here surprised me with its length - I had thought the Taiwanese version tends to have the noodles short, so that customers just have to use a soup spoon to eat the whole dish, but the version here has the typical Singaporean wanton-mee-length of mee sua, so I had to spend several minutes trying to cut the noodles short for Sam.

For myself, I got the Deep Fried Pork Chop with Red Wine Marinate ($6.90), to go with a bowl of Braised Pork Rice ($1.80). The pork chop was crispy but nothing special otherwise, while the fatty braised pork in the rice caused me to keep one eye closed, figuratively. It was otherwise not bad.

For drinks, hubby had a Mixed Fruit Tea ($2.80) which Sam loved so much he finished the drink before hubby could get in a last mouthful. So I was left to finish my own Sour Plum Jasmine Tea ($2.80), which was sealed up bubble-tea style.

Overall, not a bad place to lunch if one wants a quick Chinese meal. Just don't expect too much. ;P


Xian Ding Wei
IMM Building #01-47/8
Tel: 6897-2636