BottleTree Village
I'm really running out of material for the blog, so I'm going just post some pictures of the group outings. I'll also blog about my first In-camp Training experience, which will happen tommorrow!! I was hoping that ICT would never happen for me, but wishing thinking I guess. Anyways, yesterday's outing was pretty big, with a couple of new faces - namely Yuihui (Barry's gf) and Daphne, Denise's sister. The outing was organized to send Ben off, who will be posted to Shanghai for work.
Ben suggested BottleTree Village, an interesting restaurant by the Sembawang coast. He's the foodie (not difficult to tell !!) so we normally agree to his choices. Basically its very difficult to get there without a car, so thankfully we could mobilize 3 cars for the day. I was amazed that the restaurant was fully booked, given the extreme location. But I guess the concept is unique. Apparently the story is that the restaurant owner went to Australia, liked the funnily shaped trees so much, that he decided to import them back for $30,000 each.
Well, the restaurant served seafood, and we ordered quite a huge selection of dishes. We had fish soup, foo yong omlette, chilli crab, hot-plate venison, an interesting goreng pisang dish, prawn balls, veggies, roasted chicken and hot-plate tofu. The only good dishes for me were the goreng pisang and the vension. Chilli crab was a bit disappointing. The other thing that I didn't like was that they served everything almost all at once, so we had to pile up food on our dishes to clear more space for the incoming dishes.
TM in one of his more serious poses
Biggest turn-out in a while
On the whole, the setting is quite nice, although I feel that they could have done more on the Australian theme. So basically, its just a restaurant by the sea, with some funny looking shaped trees. Given its location and quality of food, I guess BottleTree Village is like one of those tourist attractions - go there once to say you've been there, and probably not go back there again.
Ben suggested BottleTree Village, an interesting restaurant by the Sembawang coast. He's the foodie (not difficult to tell !!) so we normally agree to his choices. Basically its very difficult to get there without a car, so thankfully we could mobilize 3 cars for the day. I was amazed that the restaurant was fully booked, given the extreme location. But I guess the concept is unique. Apparently the story is that the restaurant owner went to Australia, liked the funnily shaped trees so much, that he decided to import them back for $30,000 each.
Well, the restaurant served seafood, and we ordered quite a huge selection of dishes. We had fish soup, foo yong omlette, chilli crab, hot-plate venison, an interesting goreng pisang dish, prawn balls, veggies, roasted chicken and hot-plate tofu. The only good dishes for me were the goreng pisang and the vension. Chilli crab was a bit disappointing. The other thing that I didn't like was that they served everything almost all at once, so we had to pile up food on our dishes to clear more space for the incoming dishes.
TM in one of his more serious poses
Biggest turn-out in a while
On the whole, the setting is quite nice, although I feel that they could have done more on the Australian theme. So basically, its just a restaurant by the sea, with some funny looking shaped trees. Given its location and quality of food, I guess BottleTree Village is like one of those tourist attractions - go there once to say you've been there, and probably not go back there again.
posted by Kevin at 11:50 AM
3 Comments:
hey the trees look cool man. how many of these were there at the place? i think i may drop by the place when i have the time, just to look at the trees.
by the way, there are many strange orbs floating about in the last picture you posted. you know what that means right?
Strange orbs....the trees are haunted!!!
wow... didn't know orbs in photos means spirits... oh well as long as they didn't follow us back...
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