Welcome to Raffles Place.

Originally established as Polar Café in November 1925 by couple Hinky Chan and Shum Shui Yu, this Singapore heritage brand is today known as Polar Puffs & Cakes Bistro, with multiple outlets across Singapore.
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Most outlets are pure takeaway kiosks, but those under Polar Puffs & Cakes Bistro are sit-down outlets for a quick bite.
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The Curry Puff (SGD $2.60) features a crisp flaky puff pastry filled with chunky boneless diced chicken, tender potatoes, and crunchy red onions, marinated in a thick blend of 9 spices. Warm and satisfying, each bite gets you a bold buttery bready starchy savoury salty spice sweet flavour kick.
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The Tuna Puff (SGD $2.80) features a crisp flaky puff pastry filled with flaky tuna fish flakes, bouncy button mushrooms, and crunchy red onions. Carries lovely buttery bready meaty savoury vegetal earthy sweet flavour, without any unpleasant fishy taste, so nice. Good amount of filling too.
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The Chicken Pie (SGD $3) features a crisp flaky puff pastry filled with chunky boneless diced chicken, tender potatoes, bouncy button mushrooms, and juicy corn kernels. Has enticing meaty sweet vegetal savoury bready buttery flavour.
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The Black Pepper Chicken Puff (SGD $3.20) features a crisp flaky puff pastry filled with chunky boneless diced chicken, mixed with generous black pepper. Has mild meaty savoury peppery spice bready buttery flavour, nice though I wish this was more intense in taste.
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The Chicken Sausage Puff (SGD $2.80) features a crisp flaky puff pastry stuffed with a classic chicken sausage, tender and snappy. Has mild meaty salty savoury bready buttery flavour. What I really like about this is actually the puff pastry itself.
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Polar Puffs & Cakes Bistro
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Using the same brioche toast; spread with a layer of creamy burrata cheese; topped with avocado, smoked salmon, dills & pickled red onions; ingredients are fresh & light on tastebud; common but well-executed sandwich worth a try..

Thick brioche is fluffy inside & well-toasted to lightly crisp outside, not too buttery; came with 4 pieces of crispy panko prawn (tempura prawn), avocado, pickled daikon, cabbage slaw & bulldog sauce; the pickled daikon & cabbage slaw helps to balance out the greasiness; love how well the ingredients complement 1 another; worth a try..

Would recommend trying their one-of-a-kind deep fried Kang Kong ($16) when here! Lightly battered crunchy greens without overpowering the natural vegetable flavour, enhanced by the tangy spicy sauce. Also included crisp and succulent chunks of fish, and 2 generously sized deep fried prawns.

Hearty and satisfying traditional charcoal Mookata at decent prices. We went for the Mookata set ($69.90) that’s good for 3-4 pax. Enjoyed the sweet-sour and mildly spicy Tom yum soup. All the meats were well-marinated and tender. One can choose to have them in the soup or charcoal grilled for a smoky finish. Our favourites were the marinated and Tom yum chicken, pork belly, and marinated pork collar.

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This is probably one of the nicest Middle Eastern cuisines that I have tried, and I really love their complimentary starter when you order their set lunch menu.

It includes homemade hummus and baba ganoush with pita bread. I love their pita bread, which is so soft, and dipping it in the hummus, which is smooth like butter, absolutely won my palate.

I went for a safer option this time, which was their Arabic Grilled Chicken Set. I have to say, it will suit anyone’s palate, as the grilled chicken is tender and pairs perfectly with the saffron rice.

Rating:
🤤: 4.5/5
💰: ~$30/pax
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After being introduced of this place, decided to go again but this time with another friend. Had the 8 times spiciness white ramen with fried karaage chicken ($14.90). Ramen was delicious along with its soup. My favourite would still be the fried karaage chicken

This stall located at 2nd floor of this hawker centre and you can find it all the way to the end of the place.

Serving delicious various ingredients to go with their nasi lemak, or simply choose one of the sets available here.

I decided to choose the ingredients instead so I can get what I like to have. Which included the fish fillet, hash brown and fried egg.

Noodles were striaghter and harder than normal. Char siew was dry and somewhat tough. Sauce was weak, chili was not the normal but basic. Wantons were average

Ckn claw was mainly just salt

Overall no way in hell this is worth braving the office crowd for. It's an average wanton mee

[Raffles Place, Singapore 🇸🇬]

1-for-1 Bagel + Drink
Using deal in Burpple beyond membership through Burpple app
Quite letdown by the amount of drinks although both tasted not bad.
The outlet was more for takeaway ‘cos only got counter seat for 2 pax.

Shrooms Melt (S$10)
Sautéed mushroom, caramelised onion, green, Swiss cheese
Great combination

Ham Egg Cheese (S$9)
Sunny side up, Turkey ham, Swiss cheese, honey mustard

Taro Latte (S$5.50)

Chai Latte (S$5.50)

Whiskdom
Address 🛖 : 1 Raffles Place, # B1-06 One Raffles Place, Singapore 🇸🇬 048616
Open 🕰️ : Mon - Fri : 9am - 8pm
Website 🕸️ : https://whiskdom.com
MRT 🚇 : Raffles Place (NS26/ EW14)

Decided to forgo the usual HDL/BITP and go with a classier Hotpot place recommended by friends. Ambience was brighty-lit, quiet, and very 'polished'. Service was also friendly and attentive. Went with the Pickled Chinese Cabbage with Pork Rib Soup ($38) - huge portion with lots of pickled cabbage and more than 10 pieces of pork ribs. The sour soup is an acquired taste though. Added on the Beef Platter ($28), Chinese Cabbage ($6), and the waitress said the Japanese Black Pork ($18) was 50% off for the day so of course we had to get that too. Saw reviews saying the Spicy Stewed Rabbit ($18) was good so we tried it as well, but it was nothing to write home about; tasted like tougher pieces of chicken. Overall, definitely fresh and quality ingredients but perhaps we should have gone with a different soup base because I found the meal to be pretty normal. Get the Tong Xin Special Drink ($3) though, it was sweet and tart and refreshing and perfect to wash everything down. Sauce bar was $4 per pax and I found it to be slightly lacking compared to HDL/BITP was they do provide some sort of fried kway tiao which was good. Total damage was ~$131 for 3 pax which was reasonable and we were bursting at the end.