mousez muses: The Cathay Restaurant... A Review...

when we stepped into the restaurant, it was rather quiet with only two tables occupied...
and throughout our dinner, there were only one other couple who came in...
my thought on the low patronage could be because of the following:
1. the food is pricey (although it's nice)...
2. The Cathay is surrounded by SMU with mostly students coming to watch movies... and they cannot afford such expensive meals...
3. only about half of the shops are in operation...

the restaurant had rooms for private gatherings / functions...
there were also paintings of the stars of the 50s to 70s...
and they were playing zhou xuan and other oldies throughout the evening...
very nostalgic...

after looking at the three 1 for 1 menus (HSBC @ S$68+++, UOB @ S$78+++ & AMEX @ S$88+++), we opted for the UOB 1-1...

the food is generally very good...
tasty with good presentation...
the shark's fin soup comes with pieces (not shreds) of shark's fin...
while the satay sauce went perfectly well with the pork chops...
and the dessert of sea coconut with bai mu er and apricot was cool and refreshing...
the service was top notch, with the waiter smiling all the time...
however, they did serve the food a little too fast...
before we could finish the pork chops, the toufu was already on our table...

one major flaw was the lime juice that came as sweet as syrup water...
they changed it when the waiter who was settling the bill with us noticed that the lime juice was nearly untouched...
the replacement was too sour for our taste but we still finished it...

besides the food, we did a lot of catching up too...
and throughout the night i was playing the devil's advocate...
something that i've become very good at nowadays...

thank you, Kerry, for a wonderful dinner and the great company, always...
total damage for the 6-course dinner + lime juice + honeydew juice (that costs us S$7) + mango pomelo dessert was S$116...