Best description I can give, Piazza Pizza is like the twin sister of Breakfast Club,  both sharing the same floor plan.  Instead of serving Breakfast, it serves lunch dinner. Their menu is also available on the Breakfast Club side.

Piazza Pizza specializes in their Masonry oven pizza. I always have good experience with their pizza, but this is not the reason I come here. Wait – I will tell you soon enough!

I chose the table d’hote, where the price is very friendly, serving salad, coffee/tea, and dessert. Because I forgot to take a picture of the dessert, I’ll say it right away; HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT! Why? it was like a super thin piece of cake and I wasn’t given the choice of which cake I want either! If I knew it was like that, I would have opted for a single dish…

Typical caesar salad, included in my Table d’hote.

Do not order the nachos! It was so badly made…The art of nachos should be that every piece I take should have cheese and a bit of toppings. Not only was the cheese hardened easily, the topping was nearly not there. There were green olives and random broccoli pieces and some other random vegetable pieces. Just weird.

But at least, my main dish is incredibly amazing and the reason why I come to Piazza Pizza!!

Yes, mussels! These are mango cream mussels. Hmmm~ The sauce is so perfect. I had the choice of fries served on the side or pasta, I chose pasta because the sauce is too perfect! First of all, the portion is incredibly generous! A lot of mussels and at least a good 2 portions of pasta! I had enough to pack it for next day’s lunch! The mussels were big too! They just know really well how to cook their mussels. I could taste the bits of mango here and there. Very interesting combination.

I don’t think anyone who likes mussels would be ever displeased. I have yet to taste bad mussels from Piazza Pizza!

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Who knows after my first experience at Shogun in the States from a few years ago I finally stepped my foot into the Shogun right next to my place.

A few bloggers and I were invited for a meal as a token of gratitude to review their salad dressing soon to be available in the market. It was my first time to actually meet other food bloggers. I think Shogun is the perfect spot as it allows no awkward silence and perfectly breaks the ice for you! How is that? Well, Shogun offers great entertainment while preparing the meal right in front of your eyes. The chefs are amazingly entertaining and know how to interact with the crowd. I was very impressed every chef knew how to adjust their jokes accordingly.

The vegetable soup. Oddly, we were explained that the soup base was duck (or was it chicken…or pork…) – my point is it is meat base. How ironic.

Although it was a clear soup, it tasted rather heavy and made me even more thirsty. I wasn’t expecting that at all.

The salad is very basic, but the salad dressing changes everything. Sadly, there was just too much dressing, drenching the cabbage. I wasn’t able to appreciate the salad nor the dressing.

Little note, my opinion on this salad dressing is not conclusive. I will be reviewing it in another post 🙂

This is my favorite dish of the evening. Baked lobster tail with cheese, scallop and crab stick.

And the show began!

I like how the chef can hide nothing from us! we know exactly that goes into our food, which can also be bad sometimes, especially if you are a picky grease eater like I am.

The shrimps. Tasted like over buttered stir fried shrimps, which is basically how they cook the rest of the meal. If you love butter, you won’t mind! It smells incredible, but the amount of butter that was put in it just gave me heart attack (you can just tell but how shiny it is). But I assured myself that most restaurants do the same, but this time, I can simply see it in real action.

Stir fried vegetables. You saw the fire in the picture above. Well, there was a great amount of oil to create that fire, and all that oil was in the onions. Fun to see fire…but I rather not too keen on consuming the onions.

We were given a thick piece of steak! I was extremely excited to try because the chef was explaining how this particular part of the meat (I could not understand which part it was exactly) was especially tender. He seemed very knowledgeable with steaks, explaining in great details how to cook them. However, I was greatly disappointed…

The steak was way too cooked for my taste, but remained very tender. This is especially good for people who love their steaks medium well to well done.

All seafood lovers know that seafood should not be cooked well done, and these scallops were just borderline over cooked. Luckily, I was still able to enjoy the scallop texture.

We finished the course with a very refreshing vanilla and orange sorbet.

Shogun may not offer fancy cuisine, but it really does offer a unique experience unlike others. The staff is very friendly and they know how to personalize every table, so that we feel very special. They even took a picture of our table and then quickly printed the picture for each of us. This is perfect for group diners and birthday parties.

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Food trucks are finally in action right now! And I was able to witness the big fuss at Esplanade Financiere Sun Life which is located at the Olympic Stadium. All the trucks are gathered every first Friday of every month! I’m not sure when this event would end, you can gather more information on the Olympic Park website.

The day I went was one of the worst time to go…it was cold and raining. Because of that, it affected my enjoyment and I had to hold an umbrella so it was difficult to take pictures…

Another thing, I need to point out, which has nothing to do with the weather, maybe I am too accustomed to street food from other countries. I was rather disappointed with the service and the price. This applies to all the food trucks I purchased food from. I expected fast service, cheap eats and user-friendly (as in, easy to eat without needing a table). This would be discussed more below…

La Sandwicherie Zoe’s

I think this was originally La Mangeoire but they changed their concept.

They offered 3 choices in the menu. I chose this one, which is called Cochon sauvage, I believe.

I must admit the pork was unbelievable tender. It was cooked in a way that achieved a texture I never had before, it was very gelatin. I think the cut consisted of mostly fat, which I felt almost guilty. The flavor of the sandwich was very unique – hint of sweet and sourness. The sourness came from capers.

I had the most easy time eating Zoe’s sandwich. Only one hand required. No dripping. No weird shaping after a few bites. All stayed in one piece in this paper bag. However, the waiting time rather long when there was no waiting line. The price was about 9$, tax included. For me…my value for the sandwich is 6.50$, so with taxes, it should be 7.50$. It’s suppose to be street food! But I heard the license is expensive, so I can understand why the price is rather high.

Grumman 78

Ah- the so famous tacos from Grumman 78 and I finally get to taste it, just a bit because Mr.Butter ordered them and as you can see the portion is rather puny, especially when it is 6-7$ a piece. So here is a 13$ meal. Some say it’s worth it…and I say…

It’s only worth it for the first experience. Let’s be reasonable now. I ain’t gonna be full with these 2 tacos, I would need at least an extra one. So add that to the 13$, 20$! What? I find it ridiculous how expensive these food can be… Again, I can understand why they need to put it at that price to be viable…but then, I really wonder if people would think it is worth that $ per taco.

The top taco is Lamb curry and the bottom is Pork banhmi. How did they taste? Very forgettable.

So I have Mr.Butter to describe them to have a better representation…in his words, the tacos were like gourmet meal served on a soft taco and were greatly loved by him (he said it was very saucy, the bit of chilli sauce made the whole experience sky rocket, just thinking about this makes him salivating). Can he be more descriptive?

You go figure how come his experience was so different from mine.

Roux

For my mama, being a very difficult lady that day, I searched high and low for food that will be suitable for her palate.

This is like a long bread shaped, with lettuce, avocado, and fried shrimps. The key here is the fried shrimps, which are super nicely fried. This was about 10$.

My mama said she liked it, but I think she was just pretending to like it because it was becoming too difficult to find something she likes.

This thing was difficult to eat without a table…If I were to stand up, it would be difficult to have a bit of everything in one bite. We were lucky enough to have a table as there weren’t a lot of people due to bad weather

We also had their fries with curry mayonnaise. Their mayonnaise reminded me of Frite Alors! Just as tasty. I think if it wasn’t for the mayo, I wouldn’t have gone crazy for their fries.

I find the fries very pricey, 6$. I like how the staff told me the portion is big. Cough. It looks big because it’s in a cone shape. So really, you’re not getting much in the bottom half of the cone.

Gaufrabec

These belgian waffles are also available at Adonis, although pre-packaged already.

My only complaint with Gaufrabec is their super slow staff. They were so inefficient, that I nearly want to take in charge and speed up the process. How hard is to sprinkle some powder sugar, put whip cream from the bottle or squeeze some chocolate sauce on the waffle?! It should take 5 seconds! Fine, if they were waiting for the waffles to cook then I can understand, but not even! They had a stack of waffles ready to be served! AH! The frustration!

Let’s put that aside. The waffle was tasty. We had the fruits and waffle, which literally means the fruits were inside the batter! The waffle itself was a bit chewy, but nonetheless, still very enjoyable.

My overall experience with food truck is closer to negative than positive. I think it’s still at experimental stage, and they still have a lot to learn from. Sure, I will try out more, merely for curiosity. But, I would never choose it over restaurants.

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