We had lunch at this new place in the basement of Century Square Mall. Its called Organic Cafe Xperience. Actually, they have quite an extensive menu for being a place that is (at least I would suspect that most of their ingredients are) organic. Do you suppose that they may have only one or two ingredients of the dish that are organic and the rest not, just so that they can call their place 'organic'? Hmmm... Food for thought.
We were there around 10.55am, 5 min before they were due to open. There was a wait staff cleaning tables and another at the counter, busy chatting with someone in the kitchen. We approached Ms Chatty and asked if they were open yet. She replied no and continued her chat. We then asked if we could just be seated first while we wait, but was flatly refused, some stupid excuse about not done cleaning up. Had to walk around CS basement for another 5 min before going back. Sheesh.
Anyways, we had their lunch set, which was the chicken legs in a brown sauce, that came with a Sichuan cold drink (at least I think that is what the waitress said - and anyways, what it the world is a Sichuan cold drink?), their soup of the day (minestrone) and a dessert. We also had the cod fillet brown rice.
Well, I suspected that the drink was going to be spicy hot, but in fact, it was a bit sweet and sour. Nothing special...Actually, couldn't really even tell what flavor it was supposed to be. The soup was your typical minestrone, with some spring onions & alfafa sprouts in it. Boring... Nothing to write home to mom about. (Note to Stud : No more jumping up & down, I see. Getting fat due to too much eating for this food review blog. Hee....)
The chicken was pretty good. It was quite tasty and the portion size was nice. The veges were also not bad - carrots sweet, fries big but a little more salt will be better. This dish had alfafa sprouts on top, for decoration I suppose.
The cod tasted a bit fishy to me, but the brown rice tasted a bit like a risotto complete with parmesan cheese, so that was pretty good. Foxy thought that the sause on the cod tasted rather salty, but Stud LOVES salty stuff, so it's ok. The bad part were the raisins...Hehehe... Just kidding! (Note to stud : Hey! Gimme all the raisins!!!!) Again, there were alfafa sprouts in this dish - hey, I'm getting sick of this type of skinny bean sprouts, give me the fat crunchy ones!
The dessert was a fruity ice cream. It also was pretty good. Basic and simple, but tasty. Next time Foxy wants to try their yoghurt ice-cream, looks yummy in the menu.
Overall, for a low profile type of place, it was actually pretty good in my mind. However, if most of their ingredients are not organic, and I suspect that most are not, then we will need to deduct points. Cannot claim to be something they are not and try to deceive the public.
Not sure if this type of organic place will sustain, afterall not many people in S'pore are really in to organic food yet. Plus you can't really tell if the ingredients used are really organic anyway. Food is reasonably priced here, but there's no reason for non foodies or non health-conscious people to pay more for organic food anyway.
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