Why do we have a new airport?

Is probably what you will be asking yourself when you set your eyes on the newest terminal on the block - T3. We went to visit the yet-to-be-opened terminal earlier tonight (okay so the real reason was a craving for Popeye's but that's another story)

It was about 10pm when we were done with dinner and headed over by sky train from T1, and we were met with an absolute ghost town of an airport.

Strange flaps on the ceiling give it an inverted Esplanade look

Damn we're orderly - even trolleys need to queue

This doesn't look that impressive due to the shitty pic quality, but it's actually a waterfall!

So here we were happily traipsing (wow, never thought I'd ever use that word) the empty hall, a cold, sinking feeling suddenly gripped me as a thought entered my head: "Why are there check-in bags when there's no one here?"

For a split second, images of the "I am Legend" trailer raced through my mind as I momentarily lapsed into a doomsday scenario where everyone had suddenly died because of a supervirus which we were somehow immune to...

"They're dummy check-in bags lah, dumbass," she said, reading my mind.

"-.-"

And so they were - I checked. We really don't spare any expense when it comes to impressing foreignors do we?

DIVERSION!

Jae mucking around with our soon-to-be-released campaign premium!

END OF DIVERSION!

Anyway, it's been a long while since I blogged about food. Of course, that doesn't mean that I've not been eating...


...ok stop laughing already.


No seriously, stop! Alrighty, let's begin with the bad stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sad to say that the standard at Popeye's has fallen. The chicken tastes refried and reeks of overused oil. I know it's a weekend and the crowds are crazy but you cannot expect to compromise your standards right? You're a fast food outlet, dammit, you're MADE to handle huge volumes of people. Deal with it!

Ok, now the better stuff. Hooked on Heads, a restaurant specialising in fish head curry, according to this post by ieatishootipost, was pretty good.

Fish tail curry - $10

You get to choose the part of the fish you want; we had the fish tail, which ironically contained much more meat than the head, which was priced at $18 for half a head. Go figure.

Their other food was alright, though not outstanding. Overall, I'd say this is an okay family restaurant with a decent curry. Good for a visit or two.

Hooked on Heads
Sin Ming Dr (off Upp Thomson Road)

Taste: 3/5
Value: 3.5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5

We also tried the revamped Olio cafe menu a couple of weeks ago. They've set up a branch at HV right next to Harry's. I was feeling adventurous and had the laksa pasta.

Slightly over ten dollars, I can't remember exactly

It was really strange eating this bastardisation of a local dish. If you close your eyes and numb your mind to the fact that you are in fact slurping laska-tasting linguini, I'd swear you'd think it was the real stuff.

Everything is replicated, save the noodle and the excess gravy. Interesting to try, though not something I would repeatedly pay thrice the amount I do for a regular bowl of laksa for.

M had the miso-cream salmon teriyaki faster than I could warn: "too many flavours!"

Olio Cafe
Holland Village

Taste: 3/5
Value: 4/5
Ambience: 4/5

P.S. I want to play football. If anyone is reading this and is having a game, let me know ok ok ok?