Table At 7 - tastes and tales of Western and Eastern Food in One Restaurant

The name of this restaurant comes from its previous location which had the street number seven. The location is the modern, multi-storey hillside building of Sim (Singapore Institute of Management).

Elegant hallway of SIM. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

If you are waiting for others or a taxi you can play the piano. 

In table at seven towards the end of the meal I heard faint recorded country & Western music. I liked that. When I told a friend about the music, she said that her husband liked Country music, although she doesn't, so she wanted to know if Table at 7 was a romantic place for a Valentine's Day lunch or dinner. 

From the entrance on the 4th floor you can take the lift (Americans say elevator) down to the 3rd floor.

Entrance.

The entrance is amusingly decorated. Lots of corks in big glass bottles.

Crab starter with two tiny hot buns.

Lime juice.

The menu is a mixture of Western and Asian. Business partners Karl Dobler, who is Austrian and Asian chef Eugenia Ong are on older versions of their website. In Feb 2023 when we visited we were told that the pair have separated. Karl, who is Austrian, has gone to a German restaurant. The Asian partner, Eugenia Ong, has stayed on and the menu is similar in style to before. 

Mushroom starter.

We had items from the set menu, which changes regularly, and the chocolate dessert from the main a la carte menu.

Chocolate dessert.

Cappuccino.

Chocolates at table at 7. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Chocolates arrive with the bill. A touch I always appreciate.

What did we like the most? 

What did we like the least? The view of another table laid with a lovely white cloth, supposedly for a booking. But it was not used at lunch time. We had a wipe clean table. 

We went home and changed our own plastic cloth on the dining table for a white cloth.

The other diners did not like the loudspeakers out for a band when we had none. I was not bothered, thought it was interesting to know they were equipped for music. 

Catering

Apparently they do a lot of catering. birthdays and anniversaries or business meetings, or colleague reunions. You can have a dinner party for as few as ten, at a price of maybe from around 100 sing dollars a head for several courses. 

They bring their own kitchen equipment (oven) included, and serve the meal for you, and set up at around 10.30 for lunch at noon. You provide your own glasses, or pay extra for hiring glassware from them. While you are paying your bill, you might check on the latest arrangements and available dates.

Useful Websites

Table at Seven

https://tableat7.com/

http://tableat7.com/restaurant/#menu

SIM at Namly Campus

https://www.sim.edu.sg/

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Dangers Of Low Walls Which Students Sit On - And Selfies

You may have read about people who fell over parapets. Singapore's MRT stations have signs telling you not to sit on walls 'for your own safety'.

I am shocked by the number of buildings which have low walls or low sides to escalators. Low walls  may be within safety regulations, but every year you read of accidents.

At SIM (Singapore Institute of Management) I took a photo of students sitting on a wall. When I looked over the edge, I was horrified to see that there was a sheer drop the other side onto a solid concrete floor.

What could go wrong?
1 You only need one person to start a jovial slapping match, play fighting.
2 Or to dodge an insect,
3 Or lean back against somebody who is sitting on an edge,
4 Or to drop a cap or phone and reach out to try to grab and lose your balance ...
5 Suicides

Time for architects and designers to find ways of designing safer buildings.

Time for students at schools and colleges and polytechnics universities to be given a competition to design cheap but safe walls with views - and places to sit. If they had seats in the corridor against the inner wall, the students would be less likely to perch on the higher wall over the sheer drop.

Deaths from falls take place not just in Singapore but worldwide. A quick search produced reports of falls, usually fatal, in Singapore, China, Thailand, India, Europe, UK, and Central American.

DEATHS & DANGERS

EUROPE
BBC reports Balcony deaths - eleven falls in three months - Magaluf, Spain
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44473177

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australian-couple-fall-to-death-while-taking-selfie-above-beach-in-portugal-a3861516.html

SINGAPORE
Singapore report of place where walls were 1.6m or lower
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parents-seek-answers-after-teen-falls-to-death-from-sky-garden

17 year old dies in Singapore:
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/man-injured-after-falling-from-fourth-floor-of-orchard-central

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/teen-who-fell-death-orchard-central-wanted-video-taken-first-hand-witness

CHINA
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/2-toddlers-fall-to-their-deaths-in-china-mall-after-mother-loses-grip-near-balcony

THAILAND
https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/thai-student-falls-off-balcony-death-looking-phone-signal/

INDIA
https://www.ndtv.com/bangalore-news/18-month-old-baby-falls-from-escalator-at-bengaluru-metro-station-dies-1984346

UK
https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/03/four-dogs-a-week-fall-30-feet-off-this-low-wall-8004024/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/07/commuter-dies-after-falling-from-an-escalator-at-canary-wharf-tube-station

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10892221/Two-teenage-students-die-after-falling-from-south-London-balcony-while-having-sex.html

CENTRAL AMERICA

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6273793/Pictured-Woman-filmed-falling-death-trying-selfie-27th-floor-balcony.html

USA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20825783 ('falls are common')
https://www.foxnews.com/us/un-diplomat-falls-to-death-from-balcony-in-new-york-after-trust-game-report-says

WORLDWIDE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths
https://www.ranker.com/list/what-its-like-to-fall-to-your-death

With a little more effort, we could reduce the numbers of deaths. We need a change in regulations, balcony heights, windows which cannot open wide enough to climb out, more accountability, and co-ordinated and persistent efforts to bring  about changes to architecture and actions.

REMEDIES
Some well-known accidents and suicide points:
Golden Gate Bridge, USA.

What is already being done?
1 Announcement on the Singapore MRT telling the elderly and people with young children or anybody feeling unwell to use the lifts.
2 Signs in Singapore tell people not to sit on parapets 'for your own safety'.
I suggest adding CCTV, warnings that you are on CCTV, and fines for doing so.
3 San Francisco banned opening windows in hotels after a series of suicides.
4 USA suicide bridge - friend of victim put up notice to save others
5 Prosecute anybody who pushes anybody off a bridge or encourages them to jump
6 Ban videos of dangerous activities (such as jumping from building to building) which give glory to those performing such actions and could encourage others to copy
7 Remember that stunt men and women in film do a health and safety assessment first. Even so, several cases of accidents occur.
8 Telephone lines to help services on Golden Gate Bridge, USA
9 Viktor Frankl, founder of logotherapy, reduced the student suicide rate to zero in the 1930s in Vienna, Austria

For a start:
1 Put up barriers
2 Raise walls
3 Insert warning signs like the ones at accident blackspots listing numbers of deaths
4 fine people for doing dangerous acts,
5 Provide seating away well back from lookout points.
6 Build stepped buildings to minimise external and internal drops
7 Insert glass walls alongside escalators
8 Make plant barriers
9 Ensure balconies do not have ladder type horizontal bars which children can climb
10 Ban the carrying oo unsecured babes in arms on escalators
11 Build lifts nearer escalators so mothers with babies have less far to walk to reach one Offer 24 hour service for spare keys to stop youngsters who lose keys from trying to climb up balconies.
12 Insert 'sleeping policemen' to prevent drunks trying to use surfaces beside escalator as slides.

Oddly, you are not allowed to keep a cat in a high rise building unless you have a high barrier. Yet you can live without a barrier even if have a family with babies, toddlers, teenagers, and homesick maids.

Stay safe. As the British road safety advertisement used to say:
QUOTATION: The life you save may be your own.

Safety measures:
https://www.youngparents.com.sg/family/7-ways-prevent-escalator-accidents/

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SIM sculpture by day of mankind and reaching hands

Now that I have read the plaque the figure is ore meaningful.

The figure is both pure, light, bright white and warm red.

See previous post for analysis of the plaque.

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SIM sculpture's philosophy is so Singaporean

Singapore Institute Of Management'a Striking Statue Illuminated At Night

The statue is wonderful in daylight, or twilight, when you arrive. Floodlighting makes it even more impressive at night.

When I approached it in daylight I saw it as two figures. From the opposite side it looks like one figure with four arms.

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Send your slides to event organizers

The efficient Toastmaster of the Evening at SIM (Singapore Institute of Management) asked me for my word of the day in advance. He made up a slide for me. 

Several advantages.
This saved me time.
It also ensured that my slide matched the style of the other slides shown that evening.
I could not forget.
Saved me last minute stress.
I could not fail to plan a word of the day.

Author, Angela Lansbury B H Hons, ALB, ACG, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Trainer in languages and etiquette.