Festive love all over.
I always think such festive touches are necessary during christmas.
The Jewel Box used to wow me years back when I
headed there for drinks – at that point, I thought it to be the most
romantic place I have ever step foot on. It could be its location –
perched high on a mini mountain with dazzling lights
and cool breeze that made it highly romantic and possibly the happiest
place to be at.
Jewel Box is home to a few culinary concepts – Opal
Box and The Sapphire serve the same menu. While I was there, the only
occupants were Japanese tourists, methinks packaged as part of a tour
site seeing destination where everyone had the
same dishes.
The multi million dollar view, I was talking about Reflections.
We were given a table hardly cleaned; bread crumbs
all over and water stained cutlery is definitely not the way to start a
good meal.
Complimentary baguettes with butter were ordinary
but these had to be requested and not presented immeditately. One
service glitch to fault on.
Pumpkin Soup
The companion thought it was pretty good.
Caesar Salad
Drenched in sauce, this would have been great without the overgenerosity.
Green Salad
This salad was more like one – greens and a delicious dressing.
Crabcake
Breaded generous chunk of shredded crabmeat without a trace of fishyness. Yum!
Codfish
Decently fresh and succulent. Possibly the most decent of them all.
Chicken Roulade
Simply chicken skin stuffed with chicken breast and minced chicken. Lacking in flavour and hardly wow, this was really subpar.
Pork Belly Confit ($28)
I fell prey to “confit”, brushing aside suspicions
of a braised number. True enough, it was braised and as much as I should
applaud the chef for a job done well, the layers of fat and hardly
crispy skin was a turn off. Plating was not fabulous
either, somewhat slipshod effort.
Seafood Penne Pasta
Ordinary at best, the only consolation is the seafood chunks in this tomato based pasta.
Chocolate Ecstasy
This chocolate dome is not to be eaten alone – rich and ended up being too cloying. I particularly loved the layers in it.
Berry crumble with premium vanilla icecream
A soggy crumble with vanilla bean icecream. Nothing too fancy either.
Chendol
A modern take on a traditional classic – the red beans and green jellies tasted straight out of a can. Jelly was alright.
The toilets are…world class, for sure with a picturesque view of cable cars and lush greens – perfect Kodak moments though the interior of the toilets failed to match up to the posh toilet exteriors.
Opal comes across as one of those places that sells
on view rather than service or food. It could have been the choices
made but it was a really average dining experience.
Black Opal
Jewel Box, Mount Faber
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