Ivin's @ Binjai

I was tossing and turning in bed, and felt a nagging sense of unease (for want of a better word) until I blogged this....so here goes.

If I didn't remember wrongly, I think a few years back, Ivin's had an outlet at Robinson Road. Ok now, Ivin's is a restaurant that serves super yummy Peranakan food that is simply divine. Anyway, I went with a friend and, to say the food was good is really not exactly doing it justice. Well, it has to be.....or why else would I remember it so many years down and try to find it again?

Recently, one of my university friends remarked there is this super nice Peranakan restaurant at Binjai Park, right smack in the middle of an estate in Bukit Timah. So I 'gallivanted' there, and lo and behold, it was Ivin's.

The food is still lip-smackingly good....boy, did I enjoy myself 'pigging out' there. I mean, for an establishment to be located in that area, the prices are rather decent. So anyway, brought 2 other friends there, on separate occasions, and they were suitably impressed with the quality of the cooking and the decent prices as well. In a way, I have managed to redeem myself, as quite a few of my friends seemed to have it in their heads that I am always eating at expensive places. As if! The kind of remuneration package that I get as a Compliance analyst does not really afford me with the luxury of eating at high-end places all the time.

Oh, and I wonder why is it that all the places with nice food are somewhat located smack in the midst of Bukit Timah neighbourhood enclaves? Like there's Ivin's, and there's also Lana Cakes. Lana Cakes is an establishment that seemed to be THE place to get your birthday cake from back in my JC days. And it's chocolate fudge cake....heavenly.