Please make reservations!

Somehow I had this mistaken notion in my head that it should be OK not to make reservations at the newly opened Wild Oats at Punggol Park. Like come on, it’s only been opened for a month or so, it’s a stone’s stroll away and it can’t be that difficult to get 3 seats right? And boy oh boy, how wrong was I?!? We had to wait close to 45 minutes for seats to open up! So if you do intend to check the place out, please make reservations!!!

I have fond memories of Punggol Park :) I remember jogging there every Saturday morning before I got married and my mum would accompany me on those days she wasn’t working. She would take a nice stroll around the park while I did my rounds :)

I remember too, dinners there at Bliss Restaurant which is now replaced by Wild Oats. The food at Bliss wasn’t great, but we were there more for the ambience. (Ladyironchef agrees too!)

Unfortunately, we couldn’t enjoy al fresco dining this time round (may I repeat myself, please make reservations!) and settled for the indoor dining area. Not great but we were too hungry and tired of waiting, to protest.

Now, to the food…

Luncheon meat fries! Yum! Especially with the kaffir lime leaf mayo that accompanied it! Very refreshing complement! Seems that Chef Willin Low is quite good at making tasty dips! (Loved the blue cheese dip that came with the chicken wings when we tried out Relish, another one of his many restaurants)

The Sarawak Curry Chicken Cheese Baked Rice – very tasty! You know the curry chicken filling you find in curry puffs? That’s exactly how it tastes like and with rice and nicely baked cheese over it, totally delicious!

Unfortunately, those were the two better dishes out of the four that we had. The HK style instant noodles with sticky braised soy sauce chicken wings were much too salty and the black pepper beef burger was much too spicy! I really hope they fix them after sorting out newly opened blues. The customer service wasn’t quite up to scratch too, probably cos all the servers were overwhelmed by the crowd?

Will I be back? I guess so, not that soon though, and only after making reservations!!! :)

More on Wild Oats and Willin Low,
Soshiok.com >> Wild Oats in Punggol will offer local favourites
The Straits Times >> Maverick Chef

Wild Oats @ Punggol Park
Hougang Avenue 8
68582087