Saizeriya

I read a recent report that the younger generation prefers to eat out at air-conditioned places. This is not surprising as they have been largely brought up in such an environment. Not only that, coffee shops look a little less clean too no matter what.

In another time for the older generation, there were no such things as shopping malls all over Singapore. Street food started from hawker push carts before they moved into coffee shops and hawker centres. This is why the best food can be found at hawker centres and coffee shops rather than at food courts in shopping malls. Choices were not given to us or we might have ended up the same.

In our teenage years, when we had a little more money and a few of my friends have already started work, we tried and visited "coffee houses" on several occasions. Wow! It was cool as in hip and cool because it was an air-conditioned place and yes we had a "Root Beer float". It goes with the territory and the times and those were times when cars and buses do not have air-con.

It is possible that due to the influx of Western fast food restaurants beginning with A & W at Dunearn Road? Hamburgers, hot dogs, waffles with ice-cream, frosty mugs and the famous root beer or float. MacDonald's, Burger King and the rest soon followed. The taste bud of a generation has changed irrevocably. The mee siam/mee rebus, hokkien mee/prawn noodle, fishball noodle, mee goreng have been replaced by burgers, chicken nuggets, etc.

You see the rise of all kinds of more westernised restaurants taking place. More fusion food too, more East meets West types. So far no one has come up with a North meets South food, so I may create one. So we came to a sort of East meets West restaurant the - Saizeriya.

As expected the crowd consist mainly of young people and family with younger children.

This is a Italian meets Japanese style restaurant so salad and mushroom soup are in the menu. It is a Japanese owned lower price Italian restaurant. 

I do not fancy these chicken wings as I had a piece but can't tell how it tasted like. When I could not remember it is possibly so so. Perhaps I do not know how to enjoy it.

But the potato was good.

I found the stewed beef too dry.

The salmon was a good choice.

I personally seldom have a plate of spaghetti on my own when eating out. It was not my order so I did not get to try it.

But I did the escargot which was alright.

You must remember you are here for lower price Italian food at convenient locations.

We signed off with the Panna Cotta.

Like I mentioned earlier. If you are looking for a convenient location for Italian food that is not too pricey this may be a good place to try.