4 years ago
Timbre plus is the result of jtc screwing over eve...
Timbre plus is the result of jtc screwing over everyone else who works in the area, who previously enjoyed cheap hawker food.
In the day time , half of the centre operates like a typical hawker center. at night it is a non air conditioned pub with more hipster hawker food. essentially, It is a hawker centre with a stage with bands that sing English songs, and a bar that stocks more kinds of beer vs a regular hawker centre with a busker with Tiger Beer with ice cubes.
Drinks:
Go a little earlier before 6pm, and you can buy cheap fruit juices and canned drinks. Other than that, there s a bar that sells a lot of kinds of beer, the cheapest at $10 a bottle.
I went there for dinner in the evening on a week night. It was so so hot, that the beer became warm quickly. I need beer with ice, man.
Food:
There s chinese stir-fry with the crab bee Hoon etc. Also, Thai food, mala, vegetarian food, Taiwanese food, chicken wings, an American grill, fish and chips (halal) and some kind of Indian vegetarian fare right in one corner. Food prices range from $6 for a bowl of noodles to $30 for a wagyu steak.
The Taiwanese street food store seemed really popular, but the bubble tea is really horrible, the sausages were dry and hard.
The new beef noodles is nice, and the mala store is pretty gd too.
The tray return:
It s a really well intentioned but failed system. Every meal with a tray, gets charged an additional $1 as a deposit. You have no choice about it. You are expected to return your tray with your utensils at little windows with conveyor belts. The aunties and uncles working in the receiving room where the conveyor belt feeds to, seemed to be really stressed as the trays pile up on their end. Then, $1 is refunded By an automatic coin dispense, as the tray passes through the entrance onto the conveyor belt....and Guess what! Those $1 coins run out. Ask about it from the Cleaners and you will get shrugs it seems like a very normal occurence . So just mentally add a dollar to all the prices you see, because chances are you won t get it back. At the end of it, you not only returned the tray for free but you paid to do it! So what does timbre do with all these extra dollars they are collecting hmm?
Conclusion :
All in all it s a place you d go if you want some food and you happened to be in the area. it s sweltering, and the hipster hawkers and bar staff look pretty miserable. Right across the road there s cafes and bars with aircon and the food is not that much more expensive too. Go into the building, and there s a Koufu. So I m feeling like the concept of this place is a little strange. Is it a restaurant or a hawker centre? But I guess I m not really into the music.
Also, The live music made it too loud to talk. Don t sit near the stage if your intention is to catch up with friends, there s some sheltered benches on the hawker store side of the complex.