Asian Delights at Toast Box

After the long walk and exploration at the Garden by the Bay, we decided that it would be nice to have our lunch somewhere nearby and well....as many of us can easily guess, the nearest popular landmark at Garden by the Bay is the Marina Bay Sands.


Well, inside this mall, we have many choices of food outlet and restaurants from western food to Asian cuisines. Finally after a tiring walk of surveying around, we decided to have our lunch at a food outlet called the Toast Box, which has variety of Asian cuisines like the Bak Kut Teh or even the popular food around this region, nasi lemak.

My brother and his girlfriend taking photo at Toast Box

The shop has some of the European design, although it is selling mostly Asian cuisines. It's not really big, should be somewhere one small outlet size, with the kitchen in front, though I'm pretty confident that the hardcore cooking stuff will be done behind before the staff there take out the food to be served and displayed in front.

Food wise, the taste is not extremely good, just good enough to fill my stomach - maybe because I was very hungry and tired after few hours of walk around the Garden by the Bay. Well, my elder sister and I ordered a nasi lemak and it taste like those nasi lemak that I can get from the Old Town Kopitiam joint back in Malaysia and to me, this is a passing mark. At least, they did not cook the nasi lemak with sugar. It's not too spicy for my liking, just slighty spicy, compare to some that we can get back in Malaysia.

Nasi lemak

My brother, on the other hand, ordered a Bak Kut Teh set, and expected, the Bak Kut Teh did not taste as good as what we can get back in Ipoh or the famous Bak Kut Teh in Klang. I suspect because of lesser herbs in the soup, thus the Bak Kut Teh soup did not taste as what we would really like.

Bak Kut Teh set with rice

Bak Kut Teh

Next, my younger sister ordered the laksa set. Laksa is something I find strange as the laksa I had back in Malaysia usually is asam laksa, where as in Singapore when it is call laksa, it usually mean laksa lemak and somehow I find that the laksa in Singapore taste like curry noodle back in Malaysia. Anyway, out of expectation, the laksa did not turn out like laksa lemak. It sure looks a lot like asam laksa, but the laksa soup lack of the sour taste from laksa.

Laksa

My brother's girlfriend ordered the porridge set, in which I did not taste, but from the look of it, it sure looks yummy.

Porridge that I brother's girlfriend ordered. It sure looks yummy.

Overall, I would not rate the food highly, food will probably scored 5 out of 10. The environment and the shop design is worth mentioning and I would probably rate it as high as 7 out of 10. The food pricing is worth mentioning as it is one of the most affordable food outlet around the Marina Bay Sands.