This is a pretty big restaurant with 2 levels, both levels have different types of food. A word of caution – dun go during lunch time. It was extremely packed. We were lucky to be dining at the upper level (only 2 -3 tables filled), while the lower level was filled. Even then, the queue for food, the jostling, going up and down the stairs.. and very long wait for our food from live cooking stations to come, made the dining experience less than pleasant. Since lunch is only from 12 – 230, you have less time to eat and especially so, when half an hour is gone, just waiting for your herbal soup / pan fried meats / satay to arrive. The toilet condition was the equivalent of C- by food hygiene standards too.. and beware of the slippery floor around the stairs.
Food wise, the standard, variety and quality is about the same as those that I have tried in other Sakura outlets. This outlet seems slightly better because there are more live cooking stations, than the ones I have been to (actually only Tampines Safra and Parkway Parade). What is available in the cook-upon-order items:
Dim Sum – few varieties only. not really cook-upon-order, just there is someone manning this station. I tried one item, not bad. But my colleague’s dim sum wasn’t fully cooked.
Grilled station – I saw satay, octopus and pregnant fish. Alas, after the long wait, u get only 2 sticks of satay / octopus / pregnant fish per portion.
Vegetable stir fries – din try. We could pick from green leafy veg, abalone mushroom and even bamboo clam to do the stir fry.
Pasta station – the cooked pasta was very hard.
Pan fry station – beef, lamb, chicken, dory and salmon. Beef and lamb were good. Salmon was too overcooked.
Herbal soup station – choose from herbal live prawns soup or herbal black chicken soup in paper pot.
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