For an establishment with such a clear concept (everything except the rice and drinks is literally on a stick) it left me confused. This place was yin & yang, but without the balance.
With the upbeat cheerful male server being the high and the female waitress the definate low. Don't know what her problem was, but her frequent eye rolling was a serious issue. On the other hand, the guy was very agreeable and regularly checked with our group, requiring about our wishes and treating the b-day girl to a glass of champagne during dessert.
The fire being the lamb with sweet ketjap & onions, the chicken teriyaki and 5 spice beef. The overly salty bacon wrapped scallops and bone dry cilantro chicken with mango salsa, however, extinguished it all.
Don't really understand how 1 chicken dish can be succulently (dirty word) good and the other have the texture of shoe soles. Perhaps because they used chicken thighs for the chicken teriyaki and breasts for the cilantro version. But then why not just use thighs for all the chicken dishes?! This is exactly why I'm often hesistant ordering chicken when eating out.
The salmon dishes, jacked potato and gambas with garlic chilli oil were ok, but nothing special. Also the same spicy sweet ketjap sauce was repetitively used on the chicken wings and spare ribs and after already having had the lamb, it became rather monotonous.
While overall quality products were used, nothing tasted really remarkable. When eating out, I would like to say: I can make that or I wish I knew how to make THAT and not leave saying I can do way better than that.
That just leaves me with the name I'm liking about EOAS really.
If it wasn't for the dry chicken, the burned sweet potato croquettes, soggy greasy tempure veggies (tip: when making tempura, don't cut the eggplant the size of tree logs!) but most of all the eye rolling waitress, I would have given 3 ***.
Seriously, when you have to beg them not to bring out anymore food half way through dinner in an all you can eat restaurant, something is terribly wrong. So, you can rolls your eyes at that third star missy! And while you're at it, you can stick... read more