On Saturday, while lazing in my room and semi dozing off to sleep while my dear was playing MFO beside me, he suddenly turned around and said "Dear, we are meeting Bernard for dinner."
I mumbled something about ok, thinking its another usual outing to Cathy or something, wasn't till we headed for late lunch ( around 2pm for some fried chicken in the food court near my house ) that he said we would be heading elsewhere, not our usual hunt.
Turns out we were to go to meet Max, Danielle and Bernard at... Chilis! It's located at Tanglin's Mall and we walked from Orchard MRT to Tanglin ( talked about exercise before dinner =.=" ).
When we got there, there's a slight queue and we were told to wait for 40 minutes as we did not made any prior reservation. Was fine for me due to the late lunch and I wasn't particularly hungry ( It's near 7pm or 7.30pm ).
Walked around Tanglin Mall ( my dear was telling a joke to Bernard and Max about a hero in DOTA called witch doctor or something, kept on saying "Tanglin Mall!" or sounds like it anyway, and added that the hero is asking them to come here =p ) and saw plenty of shops selling Halloween stuff and even a magic shop at one of the higher floors but we only went down to basement, so I did not get to see what was sold =x
We headed to the watch shop ( wasn't too fascinated except for a compass watch which I have no idea how to read ) and then to the supermarket to see if there's anything nice. Saw jars of truffle infused honey, honeycomb ( yea, its real ) and jars of different varities of caviar. Not a typical supermarket =x
And the main difference was, there's lots of masks, fake plastic cauldrons and decorations all for Halloween, so this concludes... It's a place mainly cater for westerners.
I remember heading to cocoa tree or something and dear said he wanna buy a bar of chocolate to smack me with, I told him I would purchased the most expensive item, which seems to be the basket full of chocolates and trashed him with that.
By the time we headed back to Chilis... The queue became freaking long!!! It snaked around the corner and I swear it was twice as long as before. Bernard headed to the waiter and immediately we were lead to our seats, much to the annoyance of those in queue =p ( Do not get mad at me, make reservation first or go there first~ )
First picture I took. I was sitting like way on the left side so...
I asked Ray dear to take but he said he couldn't and gotten Bernard/Max to do it instead. Thanks guys!
We were looking through the menu ( the first page was all on magaritas!!! )and Max recommanded back ribs, I ain't crazy over back ribs ( the last I had was at Cafe Cartel and it's huge and after sometime I just don't want to eat it cos got sick of the taste ) but decided to share a full baby back ( my dear ordered Classic whereas I wanted Honey BBQ for my half rib ) with coleslaw and Mashed Potato with Black Pepper Gravy. As usual, I ordered tea whereas the rest ordered 2 Mango Iced Tea and BlackBerry Iced Tea and plain water for the lady.
The next one kinda irritated me a bit.
I was looking at the utensils ( I always "examine" the utensils ) and was annoyed that the knife looked so dirty. Then I looked around and noticed everyone's utensils were the same ( They even forgot to give my dear his fork! ). I told Danielle, "I am sooooo gonna post this up on the blog." Tried cleaning it with tissue but to no avail. Gave up and stare daggers at the knife.
Thankfully for the waiter ( I was ready to have evil thoughts forming in my head ), the drinks were brought to distract me a little. ( Speaking of distractions, I don't know why but the whole time while we were there, there's at least 3 times where people started clapping loudly and singing Happy Birthday song. So many people having birthday on the same day, celebrating at the same place??? Ultimate noisy!!! Add a kid constant yelling... Urgh... )
My dear was holding his straw ( still with the wrapper on ) above his drink. He said if he took the wrapper off, the straw won't show up in the picture =x He took a sip and started stirring round and round before taking another sip and exclaimed that the drink taste like ribena ( he had the blackberry ).
Meanwhile, Max and Danielle tried the mango drink and made a face. Ray tasted and said "You didn't stir it!" and the drink seemed to taste better ( syrup at the bottom I think )and they decided to trick Bernard ( he went to shop at a CD shop ) into drinking it without stirring. )
This is the blackberry drink, well stirred. I am not crazy about the drinks but its freeflow~ and for $5.50 only. So was my tea.
I was looking at the spoon and Danielle said "Why does it look like a soup spoon?" and I was wondering the same thing =x Ray soon left to find Bernard and our first dish arrived wahahaha...
Cheese fries~! Max was busy playing a game with the handphone and I was taking this picture and said "Let's finish this and show Bernard and Ray the picture when they come back~" Danielle and Max just laughed =x
This dish was one of the better ones but would be better if the cheese was more gooey ( we waited for the two to be back to start eating so by then the cheese already hardened ). It's served with strips/bits of bacons and slices of jalapeno on top and mayonnaise at the side. Quite delicious, yummy!
A more close up view of it ( was worried the picture may be blurred by the hot steam/mist floating out of the dish ).
Soon the other two guys came back and yea, Bernard was tricked into drinking the mango drink unstirred heehee...
Our Classic and Honey BBQ baby back ribs. I liked the Honey BBQ as it had a tinge of sweet taste to it, but the Classic tasted very bland. Like some kind of corn pork rib soup my mom cooked but left in the pot for a long time that it turn almost tasteless.
Danielle's and Max's baby rib. Honey BBQ and some other flavor with Loaded Mashed Potato. I much prefer the Mashed Potato with Black Pepper Gravy as its much smoother and more savory in taste ( no wonder Bernard's been helping himself to it =p )
Bernard's Mushroom Beef Farjita. Danielle commented it was too salty and judging from the portions that Bernard did not finish... He must have not like it as well...
Taking the back of the chair. A little chilli design. Complaining abit. We had to ask 3 different waiters to serve our final dessert and refill our drinks ( all of our drinks were under the freeflow ). Perhaps our location was way at the corner but it gave no excuse to have us keep on waiting right? And it seemed as though they had forgotten our order and that made me a little irritated.
Was looking around and noticed a wall full of pictures. Then I told Ray dear "Darling, I didn't know you have a picture here."
"Where?" He looked around.
"There." I pointed at a picture with a monkey wearing a white cowboy hat.
Heeheehee... Naturally he semi tickle me for that and claimed that was Bernard not him.
Finally our dessert arrived.
O.o wow.
Comparing it to the normal bottle of Maggie Chilli.
Comparing it to the normal mug.
IT'S HUGE! And ultra sweet. The other table people kept on looking at our Molten Warm Chocolate Cake. The vanilla ice cream with harden chocolate sauce on it, with the yummy spongy chocolate cake and when cut open the cake, warm chocolate sauce came flowing out!
Ultimate sore throat dish =p First I took a bite of the cake. Yummy, reminds me of a chocolate volcano. Then when Ray hon cut open the sauce came oozing out. I had to eat it ( by it I mean the cake and the molten sauce ) with vanilla to counter the overbearing sweetness of the chocolate.
Then I saw something more stunning. Apparently the people at the other table ordered like 5-6 of this dish. Wahahaha, I doubt they can finish it! No wonder they kept on staring. We had 5 people sharing this one dish.
The total bill came up to around $163.40. About $33 per person, which include cheese fries, huge ribs, refillable drinks ( $5.50 each, I refilled twice and the guys refilled 3 thrice ) and the huge Molten Warm Chocolate Cake ( $15 ). Of course there's the service tax and so on but don't ask me how much for I was not the one looking at the receipt...
Not really strongly recommanding this place. Just another place for munching. It had this television with sports channel on, the front is abit bar like but the behind is pretty much like any other restaurant. The spaces are pretty small so one have to try to move about in care or else you might just bump into someone else chair~~~
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