We wished it was more tasty, more spiced by the 15 or so ingredients that is meant to make it rich and flavourful (2.75 rounded up to 3 stars).
Well, let's start with the high point, their popiah, or fresh spring rolls (4 stars). For only 60 pesos, one receives these remarkably subtle-tasting delights that moved us to order another for take-out and for me to bump it up in rating.
Their next feature is that this small place has an open kitchen wherein the likely Singaporean chinese owners carefully cook in sight of customers. Not a bad plan, but it's possibly only about maximizing space.
The owners spend a lot of time and care over their dishes, but the 15 minute wait just didn't make the product taste better.
The small menu only features about 8 items, but...
The laksa (2 stars).
Man, but by the large description of ingredients on the wall, our expectations were high.
Well, the surroundings and kitchen is clean...
But when we got our laksa, one Katong style, the other their seafood laksa, a super let down. Not only just too mild for any featured laksa dish, my bowl was full of chopped noodles and little else! The half boiled egg was, well, boiled egg, but the insipid taste was, well, insipid, bland and boring. My wife's was just as featureless, although the small half-shrimp were fresh and somewhat tasty.
Their feature drags this review down to 3 stars, barely.
Obviously a 'Christian' place, soft christian music offers a muted backdrop: the 186 in their business name likely refers to Matthew 18:6 that speaks of people offending God's chosen people. Hmmm...
Will we return. Maybe for some take-out popiah. That's all.
In spite of the parking problem, Takuri further down Diversion Road was much better.
But the Singaporean laksa kiosk at GT mall's outdoor food emporium was much worse, and troubled my stomach afterwards and my mouth with horrid aftertaste.
But 186?
Ah, what a let-down, but bland and unmoving did us in. read more