Hi Sassy,
I am currently on a 10 days trial with Mom's cooking.
I find their food ok in the sense of presentation. it wets your appetite when you see the dishes. I do find them expensive which i believe a lot of the cost we are paying goes to the printing of nice paper food containers and their printed plastic bags. They claim that they do not add MSG.. hmm.. i find myself thirsty after dinner though. i will continue till hubby gets back and for the month that he is in town to let him try.. we might drop them and get someone else.. cos they are charging 100% more than market rate.. i dun mind paying if they are really worth it..
I have tried the following tingkat dinner caterers so far recently:
1. Select Catering
- too much MSG.. apart from being very thirsty the whole night after dinner and waking up in the middle of the night kept drinking lotsa water.. my ears swell. think i am allergic to MSG.. if i had too much. my ears swell..
2. Hilltop Hong kong cafe.
- a friend of mine actually went down to try their food before we both commit to their tingkat. although fish were given everyday.. i had 3 nights where the fried fish given was stale..
freaks the hell of out me.. menu repeats after a few days.. 2 - 3 nights in a week.. you will get 2 out of 4 dishes cooked with same sauce.. *faint*
same case.. i felt thirsty after dinner.. they claim that they do not use MSG but use Chicken essense powder.. oh well.. MSG is one of the main ingredients in chicken essense powder though.. Duh....
3. Cafe in Action
was initially impressed by their idea of serving multinationalities tingkat dinner.. sometimes italian, western, korean, japanese and local..
but in my ten days trial.. i had 4 nights of cabbage.. and the menu does not really live up to their ideas..
food comes in platic containers.. sometimes i do receive them in plastic bags ans tied up.. like what we get when we buy Mee pok from food centres.. it kinda puts me off.. lost my appetite after seeing this.
Their staff are really nice and friendly.. tries to accommodate by giving me slightly more food.. the first night.. portion is really too little.. they apologised and give me a free dinner for 2 free.. meaning extend from 10 days to 11 days.
cos i bf.. eat alot.. hahah
*i could not try four seasons cafe.. i use their service 10 yrs back.. and find them not bad.. i was told that they do not delivery to Jurong area.
If memory serves me right, there are a few mummies who have ordered from Neo Graden, you might want to get their feedback.
if i am not wrong.. Neo garden started out from a Zi char stall in Jurong west market.. i ordered from them.. back in 1997.. from my memory .. not as good as Select Catering and four seasons.. so i dropped them.
Bcak then.. MSG is not so bad in Select Catering.. haiz...
there is another one that i want to try.. Ban heng teochew restaurant.. but same thing.. they dun deliver to Jurong as well..