I went to Illuma some time ago and realised that it was kinda empty.. most of the shops were still vacant, and the clothes shop were either selling clothes that were auntie-ish or for males... Well, nvm I thought, I could still go to Illuma for food??

Ha, after trying 3 places, I decided perhaps not.... *Pondering*

First, I went to Empire State. The monkey-theme really attracted me, but the food menu wasnt really fantastic. In fact, it seemed like a copied version of New York New York, the usual stuff of pizza, salad, burgers, shakes and blended drinks etc.

But what really put me off was the service. It was not the attitude of the staff, in fact, they were quite friendly. However, when we tried to order the food, most of them were not available. Mind you, it was still before dinner time and most of their food were out of stock??

If so, they should have told us when we were at the entrance or when we were seated. Instead, they waited until we had "happily" browsed through the menu and finally decided on what to eat, then they told " this was not available, that was not available". What a damper! Humpt...

Teriyaki Pizza - $12.90

Consists of grilled chicken, shitaka mushrooms, sweet onions and cheese

Anyway, we settled for just a pizza so that we could check out the other eateries. Well, might as well mah....keke

The pizza was quite nice, with lotza cheese... I like! But hor, we could not taste or find any shitake mushrooms in the pizza even though the menu said so. Most likely, the shitake mushrooms were out of stock AGAIN? Ha...

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So how? Based on the pictures, would you order these dim sums? If you do, then I must have done a very good job in "glorifying" the food because they tasted... horrible...

For those with weak stomachs, perhaps you wanna skip the following photos, i.e the "remains" of our orders ... they were really quite disgusting.... hoho

This was the prawn & mango roll's skin. As you can see, we only ate the filling coz the skin was too thick and oily. Either they were using overnight oil or they were using really poor quality oil, tasted so much of stale oil... yucks!

I ordered this because I had such good memories of those sold at Crystal Jade. For those who never try custard buns before, I will recommend you to try those at Crystal Jade, especially those with sweet tooth. The skin was soft and the custard was just the right sweetness! Really nice! ^_^

Anyway, it was still okay here, meaning I can still stomach it. However, it was far from my expectation. The weird bun skin colour dint help also. Keke

So overall, we left the place with a table of food. At first, we thought the waitress would probably ask why dint we finish it, so that we could feedback mah... Alas, she just cleared the table nia, dint really do the extra mile....

* Shrugged*

I will definitely not be going back there man...

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Cheeky Frozen Hot Chocolate - $5.90

Frozen hot chocolate ice blended, served with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and shavings

This was damn jerlat! If you are chocolate lover, you most likely will like it! But hor, it was definitely not thirst quenching hor... so thick!!!! But no worries, they served water here... heng ar... =p

Caramelized Banana Delights - $8.90

Caramelized banana slices wrapped in 2 crepes, topped with dark chocolate sauce and a scoop of chocolate ice cream