Sometimes I crave a sandwich. In this case I went to Saybon during my lunch break and ordered the titular sandwich.
With iced tea and broccoli cheddar soup it came to about $13, but considering the quality of the ingredients (which I’m enjoying at the Equator) it was well worth it. Saybon is more known for their crèpes,but their tartines are also delicious.
Great soups, too. Better than The Soup Spoon.
Saybon is in Basement Two of Plaza Singapura.
Saybon, the creperie in Basement Two of Plaza Singapura, is where I get lunch when I’m craving cheese.
It’s $11.80 for the combo meal which is a good deal, considering the quality of the ingredients. They make awesome soups. The broccoli cheddar is one of the best I’ve ever had. The iced tea with lemon comes out of a box, but it tastes fine.
The crepes here are very well done. The shrimp crepe had plenty of plump, fresh shrimp, cheese and mixed greens. It’s served in a cone and it does get messy. It’s wonderful- mouthfuls of melted cheese!
If you like cheese and delicious savory crepes, go to Saybon forthwith!
Last week, I was too hungry to make it to a food court, so I went to Poulet, the Raffles City location of the restaurant chain which serves French bistro fare here in Singapore, albeit without any wine whatsoever.
The roast chicken is delicious. The meat is tender and even a little pink. It falls easily off the bone. The lemon cream sauce is very nice too. Of course, I ate all of the lovely crispy skin.
My complaints are that the portion of sliced baguette is minute and that there isn’t any wine.
I had instead this lemon ‘sangria’, iced tea with fruit in it.
The bread is good, I would just like more of it to sop up the wonderful sauce.
The riz au marron (hazelnut rice) didn’t excite me. I though there would be hazelnuts strewn throughout, but there were only two fragments placed atop ordinary Thai rice.
My appetite has been whetted for real French bistro fare.
As much as I love Asian food, there are times when I desire cheese. Wednesday is not a gym day, so it doesn’t fucking matter what I eat for lunch. It’s kind of expensive ($12.20 SGD) something around $10 USD, but it is made with all natural ingredients. The mushroom soup is better than that of The Soup Spoon, the crepe has fresh avocados, tomato and wonderful, sinful, chewy, delicious bacon along with cheese!
Fuck! That is a great deal near the Equator.
None of those ingredients have been whored out for cheap crap. It is a wonderful lunch experience.
Saybon is located in Basement Two of Plaza Singapura and I will definitely be back
On Sundays, I sometimes just don’t know what to eat. I was too hungry to make it back to my apartment without eating, so I stopped off at Miam Miam. It’s a Japanese cafe, the dishes of which I have seen in my Facebook feed. They had a souffle on the menu and I don’t know if I have ever eaten a savory souffle, so I sat down. The ‘French’ salad, was a Caesar salad with plenty of Parmesan cheese and chicken. Well, at least I ate some vegetables. The souffle, which took about 15 minutes to arrive was excellent, but it was so rich I couldn’t finish it. Under the layer of whipped eggs, which was very light in texture. Underneath were strips of ham, enoki mushrooms and black rice. I thought I was hungry, but I couldn’t eat it all.
As much as I love Asian food, I like to take a break from it and consume Caucasian cuisine. I don’t mean food from the Caucasus region, but white person food. In the third basement of Plaza Singapura, deep underground, there is a crêperie which also serves open faced sandwiches and good soup. It’s called Saybon which is obviously a phonetic transcription of “c’est bon”. The crêpes are good, but the aforementioned sandwiches are healthier and served much faster. There was plenty of smoked salmon on whole wheat bread with a good serving of egg salad, garnished with arugula. The soup tasted like home made, there was cheddar cheese noticeable in the broth and chunks of broccoli. With an iced tea it came to $13.70 Singapore dollars, a good deal considering the amount and quality of the ingredients.
A few weeks ago I went on a date with a woman I met on OkCupid. She was pretty and seemed nice. The only issue was that she lived in JB (Johor Bahru) the Malaysian city just over the Causeway from Singapore. I was supposed to meet her at Sentral, the mall nearest customs and then we would eat at a French restaurant. The idea of a French bistro in Malaysia intrigued me, so I was excited. My first problem was leaving my passport at my apartment. Going there and back added an hour to my journey.
By the time I got to Sentral in JB it was past eight. My date said she would be late because she had to run an errand, so the time we got to the restaurant, it was nine o’clock.
The bistro was a few minutes from Sentral by car, I suppose I could Google the address.
http://www.chezpapa.com.my/usr/page.aspx?pgid=1
It looked like a bistro inside. I didn’t like the paper napkins, but there might not be the infrastructure in Johor Bahru to clean linen napkins or it might be too expensive. It was clean and the service was attentive. The tuna nicoise salad was huge. It was a good version of the classic salad. The mushroom soup looked good, but it had too much sage. Maybe French mushroom soups are supposed to have a lot of sage, but sage is for me how cilantro is to other people, as I can taste small amounts of it. There was a lot of this herb in the soup, but my date seemed to like the soup. Maybe the problem was with me? Anyway, I did eat plenty of it, although it reminded me of my father’s turkey gravy.
The filet mignon was served rare as requested. The demi-glaze was tasty although I think there might have been too much of it. Again, I haven’t eaten French cuisine in some time, so the amount might have been correct. The meat was buttery and soft. The vegetables were roasted perfectly and were delicious. My date had a dish of sole and her dish was better than mine- the fish was cooked perfectly, the breading was light and the accompanying sauces worked well with the fish. There was a remoulade and something else.
For dessert there was Bananas Flambe. Cooked tableside and served with ice cream, this was the best dessert I have had in some time. The sauce was buttery and lemony.
I would definitely go back to this establishment, but I might avoid the mushroom soup because of my aversion to sage.
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