CityEats! – Roma’s Deli

Last Sunday, we tried Roma’s Deli located on the first floor of Shaw Towers. Actually just by crossing the overhead bridge to the Bugis area, you get access to a wide range of food choices which are not very crowded as well! To get there, you need to walk from Suntec Convention Centre towards the shopping mall, reach Giordano and take the escalator up to the 2nd floor. Then you will walk pass a POSB ATM and a gift shop called TNS. Turn left and viola, you are at the overhead bridge that will bring you to Bugis! :)

Roma’s Deli is a vegetarian café specializing in baked rice and pasta dishes. They are fully vegetarian in that they do not use any meat, eggs, garlic or onion. So if you see dishes like “Chicken Mushroom Baked Rice” and “Bacon Bolognese Spaghetti”, do note that the meat is probably made of starch and not real meat! Their set lunch menu is served between 12-3pm and you can choose either a soup or drink with your main course. At around $7.50 - $7.90 with no GST or service charge, it’s quite reasonable.

Taste-wise, I would say it is quite average. For my “Chicken Mushroom Baked Rice”, I especially liked the mushrooms and broccoli used in the dish. The rice was not the usual long-grain rice and tasted a little like risotto but not as wet. The rest of my members tried various dishes (which I unfortunately did not capture in time!) but the comments overall were the dishes tasted not too bad. Even the self-declared carnivore Robert enjoyed his faux Baked Curry Rendang Rice!

My rating:
Affordability – 4 for its reasonable prices
Ambience – 4 a nice cosy place, looking nowhere like a vegetarian eatery, more like an Italian café! But seats are limited and probably just enough for 1-2 cellgroups!
Appetizing – 3 generally OK

3.7 upon 5 – worth a visit!

Our Japanese fren Yoshi’s last week in Singapore! He was very moved by Alison’s rendition of the Japanese hymn! Anyone has a recording to share? I can’t find it on Youtube! Take care Yoshi and we hope to see you back in Singapore soon!

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Roma’s Deli
100 Beach Road
#01-23 Shaw Towers

CityEats! - Chicking Fried Chicken

Now that church has moved to Suntec, we often need to find food places for lunch fellowship that is affordable, not too crowded and big enough to hold our group of around 10-15 people. Thus, I hope to share with you some food places my cellgroup visited for lunch in CityEats! - a guide to fellowship-friendly places around Suntec! (haha, hopefully I can keep this up!)

How does a place qualify to be fellowship-friendly? Important factors to take note below:

Affordability – preferably less than $10 per person, the most up to $20
Ambience – big enough to hold a cellgroup of around 15 members, nice and comfy for extended conversation without being chased off, relatively easy to get to
Appetizing – food should taste good!

The first in this series: Chicking Fried Chicken located at Marina Square. To get there, you walk towards Esplanade Link, see Coffee & Toast and turn right to the entrance into Marina Square. You will see the distinctive red restaurant quite soon after that.

Chicking was established in the UAE since 2000 and is expanding into South East Asia. It cost $6.50 for a two piece meal with mashed potato, coleslaw and a drink. I got the original flavor and found it very similar to KFC. The chicken pieces were really small comparatively. The mashed potato gravy tasted weird to me, with its dark brown colour. The coleslaw was nothing to shout about.

My rating:
Affordability – 4 for its fast food prices
Ambience – 3 since it’s just a short walk from Suntec, but the place is quite small, and we took up most of the available tables there
Appetizing - 2 CMI!

3 upon 5 - It would have gotten a much lower rating based on taste of the chicken itself but considering it was able to accommodate us and generally affordable enough, it gets a 3 upon 5!

We had a good time of fellowship, especially with our very friendly new fren from Japan, Yoshi! The photos below were all taken by him!

More info here:

InSing Review

The Travelling Hungryboy Review