Singapore : Barnacles Sentosa
During out trip to Sentosa Island during our Singapore trip a week ago, we dropped by the Rasa Sentosa Resort for lunch since we just finished touring the Underwater World and it was on the next block.
Silly us, we didn’t know that the restaurant was at the beach front and so we struggled uphill towards the main entrance of the resort (which was 5 floors up!)
Hubby spotted a Mini parked at the front and being car-crazy, insisted that I snap it up (luckily it wasn’t a Ferrari or he’d be drooling all over it already!). FYI, the Mini is sold for $100K-$140K in Singapore (I know, for that TINY car?! I often wondered myself). In Brunei, we don’t get it new but my walking-car-encyclopedia said that we get second hands from Singapore and is sold on the market here for around $40K. Still so (ridiculously) expensive, even for Brunei car market standard!
The hotel foyer wasn’t that impressive. It was in fact very dim. But since we were in a hurry for lunch, didn’t have time to look see and headed straight for the Barnacles, their main restaurant which as I said was on the beach front. We had to go down 5 floors (by lift of course!) and walked a long long way around the huge swimming pool under the hot sun as it was at the far end of the area.
When we reached the Barnacles, it was still empty as most of the hotel guests were still at the pool (at noon time, imagine! I don’t know why they needed tan so bad).
We sat besides the window and it was a quite interesting to see the many ships that plied the area.
I was surprised that their menu was very limited. In fact, they have less than 10 main dish! It’s all western fare and the only thing that interest me was the lamb rack while hubby had the surf and turf, seafood and meat combo.
My lamb was very good. In fact even Eu kept asking for a piece that with that kind of portion, I was not even half full. This is the kind of western food that to me is a waste of time. Looks so pretty but with so little portion, what’s the point? Asian food for me any time!
The do have kids menu but there was no rice dishes and Eu is not the spaghetti eating kid. So I gambled with the chicken nugget as she is partial to fried chicken (skin - one of the rare trait that she takes after me!). It didn’t look appetizing and Eu nearly choked when she took a scoop (with my back turned) of the mayonnaise, thinking it was butter (yes, she loves butter).
