Food: Miam Miam

Food: Miam Miam

There has been quite a recent influx of eating places entering Singapore these days and there are a few that tries to infuse flavors together to give them the winning edge over their competitors.

Miam Miam is one such place that tries to infuse Japanese food with French cuisine! The usual offerings in its menus especially with regards to its main courses are the offerings of about 8 different types of spaghetti which incidentally is supposed to be a Japanese thing, and a few more selections of baked rice and baked Mac and cheese. Apparently Japanese spaghetti is supposed to be thinner than the usual Italian type of spaghetti according to the fun facts on its menu.

So how did the food from this unique place fare? how about its overall feel?

Food 3/5

We ordered two dishes for our dinner there, one of which was the Mac and cheese and the other was some long French word that we obviously cannot pronounce. You will see the name later.

In the case of the Mac and cheese, it's first winning point was that it was served directly from the plate it was baked in. This means that everything was sizzling hot and for cheese this is a great plus point. The pasta texture was just right as in cooked but still springy and the right type of pasta was selected for the cheese because the clam shaped pasta will just directly scoop up the cheese for your eating pleasure. There was also plenty of melted cheese to create the fun cheese strands when you lift the pasta up.

How it looks initially

How it looks after digging in

 The taste was good but being calculating you would find the grand sum of about 5 slices of meat here and maybe about 9 or 10 mushrooms in total! Yep thats the level of details we can go into!
Of course overall its the taste from the cheese and overall i guess you could say it was just filling enough but they really can put a bit more meat into it..

This was the 2nd dish we ordered with the name Souffle De Nuage

Look it looks like some bread

But its really not! its baked rice inside a top of egg that was beaten into some kinda fluff

So this dish, the top layer is actually egg and inside its some bubble or fluff thingy that probably is still the egg with rice right at the bottom. Its interesting that the staff actually came by to remind us to scoop up the rice from beneath and to eat together with the top because that is all there is to this dish. The fluff part was interestingly like eating bubbles which is nothing I have ever eaten before.

Overall, would say that these dishes are not those kind strong in taste with sauces and stuff and is rather mild in flavor. Its more of an experience kind of thing but I would say overall, not so much a tasty kind of thing. Not particularly great in variety also.

Atmosphere 3.5/5

The store floor area is pretty big and the seats are pretty comfortable with good spacing from one place to another. Some sad parts of the experience includes, slight waiting time. The Nuage came about 10 minutes after the mac and cheese. IT was good however that the staff did inform us of the waiting time and even recommended us to share it. You could use the button on the table to tell the staff you had some requests which is good instead of the usual wave hand like idiot method of getting the attention of the waiter.

I did ask the staff for some cheese and tabasco sauce when the mac and cheese came but unfortunately the items only came after i finished eating up the entire mac and cheese. Also another place that charges for water which I still feel is strange in this time and age in Singapore.

Overall, you can see the staff are trying to make the atmosphere here better for the customers but the effect is not significant. Kudos for effort though.

Price 3/5

Why do you charge for water??

So that was our expenditure for the meal which for 2 main courses is pretty ok. Its definitely not cheap, but the amount given is just alright bordering on a bit little. They are cooked and presented in a more unique way then usual so I wont say the price is exorbitant yet but it does not really taste that it is worth the premium overall.

Of course they do have the spaghetti choices for you that might be more worth the money but for the meal we had there this is the opinion.

Accessibility 4/5

There wasn't much of a queue when we got there and we got to our seats pretty quickly. It is also centrally located at Bugis which made it very convenient to get there by MRT and just find the escalator up there.

All in all its a good place to go if you are looking for some baked food or spaghetti and you can just get there, sit for a bit, eat your food and leave. 

Overall

Food: 3 (Definitely unique, but wont say that it was totally tasty, but is edible surely)

Atmosphere: 3.5 (Good attempts by staff to be helpful and attentive, but still lacking in areas)

Price: 3 (Paying for uniqueness, not for taste, nor for volume.)

Accessibility: 4 (Easy to get there and get in)

Overall: 3.4 (Fair enough score to indicate that its a place that you can go once in your life or a year or something to that effect. The food won't make you feel miserable and you probably will enjoy the experience. But like what i said to the waitress when she asked for my comment, the food was interesting, to which she replied "that means it wasn't nice?". You probably can get an answer about the overall experience there. Go ahead go and try it once, but after that it will be mostly up to the individual to consider if you will come back again.)

Try it out yourself and see if you agree with my comment!

Here is the website which is strangely short address name, if you wanna find out more about this place.