Haikksun

We went there on Friday night with some friends. We were really hungry, so seeing a Chinese restaurant we had one thought in our minds: it will be quick and it will fill us up. Wrong assumption.
First of all we were told to wait in the lobby for about 5 minutes although the place was almost empty. The menu wasn’t very clear. Some dishes are just named special noodles or fried rice noodles singapore style but you wouldn’t find small print explaining what they contain, not even information whether they’re vegetarian or not. Plus about one third of the dishes from the menu were not available. We had to wait 20 – 25 minutes for our food to come, but probably this is what happens when you have one man to wait, serve the take-​aways, answer the phones and serve the bar.
The food arrived just warm and one of us got the wrong dish (maybe the waiter overheard him asking what the sizzling beef will be and he thought whatever he brings, the customer will take it for granted). My noodles with mixed vegetables weren’t much different from the plain ones the only difference was a few bits of tasteless veg here and there plus bamboo that was as hard as wood. The stir fried beancurd with ginger and spring onion was very good and the sizzling dish in the end was pretty tasty as well (although I just tried the veg and sauce).
The sizes of the portions were OK-​ish, but considering our hunger, it wasn’t enough to make us feel satiated.

I love Li!
In the run up to the New Year and in the drag after Christmas, my flatmate and I decided to get some class and actually have dinner out rather than getting a take away and munching loudly in font of the TV. We walked down the street (Church street) and pondered our choices, after realising that between us we had eaten in all of them apart from this one, decided to try Haikksun — and what a gem of a place it is.
Unfortunately even though I did enjoy myself I have tp give it just 2 stars. The food was nice but nothing that special, the service was slow and the bill was really expensive and without a breakdown so we couldn’t understand why. But I still like this place, it had a nice atmosphere that was friendly and they even put the little heaters on at the back for us to keep us warm.
Li, the waitress was full on entertainment. She slopped the wine into our glasses (and onto our table!) and then entertained us with tales of her shopping troubles, we even swapped numbers with her! Really friendly if a little useless but you have to want this — don’t go there expecting a quite meal. For some reason I will definitely be going back there again soon.