Nostalgia is what Colbar is all about complete with the dowdy outlook...hardly you'd find places that have wooden planks lining the walls, waiters that hardly mutter a word, and food that's old school. Chin Chin's lost that bit of it to refurbishments, Chin Mee Chin and Colbar's the few left that bears remnants of the past. Sigh, if only Red House wasn't demolished, would've been a perfect place to reminisce, would've been as iconic as Hongkong's cha chan tengs!
Tattered and torn menus
Order number!
Coke
Nothing spectacular but I was amused by Ashley Isham's design.
They serve chinese and western, sounds simple? R and I had a hard time deciding what to eat. A simulation of what too many choices of the same thing can do to you,
Pork Cutlet with mushrooms and chips
Pork Cutlet with peas and chips
Pork Cutlet with peas, egg and chips
Read it more than once, you get lost somewhere.
Pork Cutlet with Mushrooms and Chips
Three over-browned pieces of pork covered in gravy and served with haphazardly cut mushrooms and homemade thick chips. The pork chops were thin but grazed over with a crunchy batter. I defied the healthy diet laws and gobbled the batter sans the pork. The mushrooms were something new, though we all know it's straight out of a can!
Hamburger Steak with chips, egg and peas
I wasn't expecting minced beef patties but should've guessed from the "Hamburger" description. I liked the minced beef patties though. Peas! A rare sight in dishes these days, I only remember Chin Chin's Pork chops having them.
Somehow, I was belly satisfied although the food wasn't fantabulously good. I figure the lack of ambience in some heavily ulu-ated place upped the whole charming experience. Sounds weird saying this but..when the restaurants all get too similar, arriving at an oldschool fussfree, almost like kopitiam place can be quite a treat.
All in $23. Surely not the cheapest around but I'm already planning seconds. :P
Colbar
Near Temasek Club
9A Whitchurch Road
Wessex Estate
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