Which restaurant to choose at the Tanglin Club? For lunch with friends, no booking, just walk in early, I like the
Tanglin Club's lovely food in The Tavern. The jolly bar is where people gather for a drink.
Coffee In The Lounge
Afterwards at lunch time you could have coffee in the ground floor coffee lounge overlooking the pool, almost next door as the lounge and Tavern are both on the ground floor. They serve cakes and scones and macaroons. In the evening after about 8 pm the prices are halved if you want to take home some leftovers but you have to be quick.
Story
The Chinese are very kiasu (which means one-upmanship, getting ahead, first in the queue, beating rivals. If you see ten pieces of chocolate cake and there are ten people in the queue (Americans say line up), chances are the first, Chinese, customer will take all ten pieces of chocolate cake. If you want chocolate cake you'll feel a bit peeved.
However, that's fine if what you wanted was the cheese cake. I recall standing, watch a Chiense lady emptying the entire shelf. She took all the chocolate cake, the all the scones. By some miracle she left the last lonely piece of cheese cake for me.
The Churchill
Across the spacious hall is the grand rather pricey restaurant called The Churchill.
Look closely and you'll find a picture of Churchill.
Peak in and its off-puttingly large and formal although they now allow people to dress down and admit children on Sundays.
It delivers great food on themes for special occasions, sometimes with music from a live band on stage, but is too big to be cosy. There is a bar at one end.
Tang Yun Chinese
Tang Yun the Chinese restaurant upstairs is just right. The decor is perfect, original and colourful. Flowing lines on the ceiling. Whites and flower patterns. Table cloth in white or cream and napkins keep the noise level down, as does the jolly red carpet with curling pattern.
Nuts on the table whilst we are waiting to order. Water comes up straight away, fast.
Every dish a delight.
My starter was something fishy, salmon with truffle. Not a strong flavour but very pleasant. For my main course I chose chicken with cashew nuts. Enough for me to have it wrapped up to go. I'm told the crab was good.
Dessert a surprise.
Reasonably priced sparkling wine. However, nowhere in the building has yet got a sweet dessert wine because they claim there's no call for it. I can't understand why a place this size with four restaurants can't manage what almost any pub and restaurant in the UK can provide in terms of range of drinks.
What else did I miss? Some special ending to the meal, delight for the eyes and tastebuds, such as a chocolate or tiny chocolate and almond biscuit.
Toilets are elegant, specious, with good gel for washing and big mirrors, all spotless.
Photo by Trevor Sharot.
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