4 Fingers at ION Orchard

This is as close as I can get to Kyochon Chicken in Seoul.
Argh I miss it so much haha so I had to settle for something similar...

4 FINGERS!

Sorry I was so excited for this I totally forgot to get a picture of the store front.

The food

I'll let the pictures do the talking

18 piece meal with Kimchi Coleslaw (that was really nice omy tian) and seaweed fries.

Honestly I was only here for the chicken because the fries are kinda meh, but the kimchi coleslaw was amazingly good :O:O:O Surprise surprise.

You can have a mix of flavours soy garlic and hot. I personally don't like the hot flavour so I'll stick to the salty soy garlic one nom nom nom. Chicken is considerably smaller than what you'd get from popeyes or KFC but I still think flavour wise this is the best and the closest I have found to taste as good as Kyochon Chicken!!

The Price

This meal cost us $19.95 after a DBS card discount. Kimchi Coleslaw (that tiny container!!) cost us $3.50. So price wise this is really expensive in my opinion but I really like it argh

Waiting time

Queue for food took about 10 minutes, slightly longer coz the people immediately in front of us never ate at 4 fingers before and were blur like sotongs lolx.

Food was came really quickly. Our buzzer rang within 4 minutes O_O Last time I had to wait considerably longer, almost 10-15 minutes. 

The Venue

We braved the Saturday dinner crowd and there was a long queue to buy food and a number of people waiting for seats. If you come alone or in a pair you would probably be able to squeeze and share tables with others coz all the tables are 4 seaters. For a 3-person group like us, I had to wait a little longer and act a little faster in order to grab a seat. 

So if you don't like the crowd, come at a less crowded time! Otherwise, the music they were blasting made my dad really happy. Michael Jackson sia. ahaha

The Visuals

Ahhh my appreciation for good packaging must be mentioned. From the use of red white and black... and the decor of the place... yup I really like it here.

And did you notice the mess tins they served the chicken in? Haha wonder why. 

Details

The branch I visited was at ION Orchard B4, which opens 11am-10pm on Sun to thurs and 11am-11pm on Fri and Sat.

There are outlets at Plaza Singapura, Westgate and Changi Airport Terminal 3 :>

Stuff from Korea

Such a wonderful title haha! xDD
But I thought a title such as "top 5 things to buy" and "top 5 steals " is not a good idea cause these kinda things are subjective, no? And this is not really a haul post because I honestly did not buy much.

Ok... first thing first I must say clearly that I wasn't going for quantity in Korea.
I just wanted to get stuff I really wanted and would use rather than waste money getting lots of stuff which would end up being sold on carousell back in Singapore -.-

Beauty Products
So I didn't get any masks, make up, BB creams, powders, etc.
The ones I bought are all in the picture, save for 1 nail polish that I forgot to put in the picture.
The small samples at the top right and the 2 face masks were all free. Which I already mentioned in my day 2 Seoul post how I got them... and how some of the store ppl were really stingy about lolx.

These blemish clear patches work just as well as the nexcare acne patch sold in Singapore. In fact, they were even thinner than the ones sold in Singapore. And much cheaper. I think this pack of 24 was about S$3? I do regret not getting a bit more haha but it's ok la.
These were from Missha!

Lots of nose strips sold at different brands. I've always liked the face shop ones but I decided to get some from the Saem also... which were no good -_- ah well. Heng I only buy 1 box.

And this interesting thing called the oxygen bubble mask! Something new that came out in the market recently. Where after putting the gel on your face, it starts to bubble and supposedly bubble out all the impurities from your face :O
Eh in anycase, I like this bubblemask very much coz it's fun to use and smells so so so good <3

If I may just say something, yes a lot of things you can't get back in Singapore, but I highly recommend NOT to buy so much (or of a large quantity) unless you guarantee yourself that you would use everything till it's completely used up.

No point going there to get an item which is $10 cheaper than in Singapore, but because you bought too many other things to try, you end up not finishing the product and throwing it away once it expires (you do know that these expire... right? :/)

So as you might have noticed from the post above, I did regret not getting more of some good stuff, but I was also happy I only bought a little, coz it turned out to not be good. But it's all ok, at least I can easily account for each item I buy and assure myself that what I bought I am using well.

With that said, innisfree is not substantially more expensive in SG! Check out their stores at Plaza Singapura and Takashimaya.

Accessories

Ear studs were affordable and pretty there! About $1.20 per pair?
The watch cost me $6 from Gotomall. I didn't like the skull bracelet which my dad bought so I'm selling it huhu.
I didn't buy much accessories cause I really think I have enough at home.
Accessories just never die... Like I barely throw out my accessories :/

Bags

As mentioned in my day 1 post at Ehwa, look out for the 10,000 won bag shops!
I bought these 3 bags for 10,000 won each, or about $12. I really like all of them, and honestly there were a lot more to choose from which I didn't get because they just don't suit my style.

A lot of satchels, cute sling bags, and other clutches. Nice but I won't use soooo I didn't get any of those. I love the clutches I bought! Got studs and slings and look like snake skin buahaha

Shoes

First Birkenstock look-a-like shoe is from a brand called Le Bunny Bleu at Lotte Mall, Seoul Station. My goodness I walked in, saw the pink and black shoe and I immediately wanted to get it. Hehe.
It cost about 39,000 won after discount, which is pricey la but I like it a lot. I've been wearing it a lot but it's not as hardcore durable as I'd like (how to fight with sneakers, which I live in).

The second pair is a canvas sneaker shoe with heels, very common in Korea. Cost me about 30,000 won and again it was pricey but I liked the shoe!

Hence my conclusion... SHOES IN KOREA ARE EXPENSIVE! WHERE ARE THE CHEAP SHOES WHERE? Ok fine there were some at gotomall selling for 20,000 won but they looked really...... urgh nvm.

Yeah so I ended up buying some shoes in Seoul cause the designs were much nicer than all the shoes I see in Singapore. I convinced myself that if I didn't spend about $50 for a pair of shoes that I liked in Seoul, I'd come back to Singapore and not get any shoes, coz I don't like the designs I see in SG (which btw, shoes are not cheap also).

Artbox
Haha... I'm sure there are other stationery shops around but I seem to only be able to find Artbox everywhere. I think I went into the shop at least 4 times, making purchases each time? Haha

From mousepad to stickers to letterwriting materials to post-its to notebooks.. THIS MUST BE MY DREAM JOB if I ever wanted to work in retail. I had to avoid buying the whole shop. Coz every item $1.20... it adds up one hor T.T

I bought a ton of letter writing materials because I write that many anyway. A bit more pricey than the ones sold in Daiso but THE QUALITY BETTER LEH

Stickers used to be cheaper in the past so I'm not sure how come it became more expensive this time I went to Seoul.

Food/Snacks

I'll end the post with this pathetic, opened soft candy bag. Hehe when you're there just buy lot of food to try ok? Eat loads and just have fun trying food.

Also... don't waste your luggage space buying seaweed. It takes up a lot of space actually. I bought 24 packs and then felt I was very stupid to waste the space coz Singapore also sell the seaweed what... AND DOES IT TASTE DIFFERENT SAM? DOES IT? NO RIGHT? haiz okok. Singapore does have some good korean stores that sell things from Korea so just go and buy la :/

I wanted to get kimchi for a friend but I'm so noob I really couldn't find it at all:/

Alright that's all for the Korean Series for now!
I do have 1 more post I want to do but I will upload it when I have the time to sit and blog again.
Thanks for reading!
Try lots of new things when you go to a new country, and enjoy yourself!

A quick blog against.... "changing the terms and conditions without prior notice"

We all know that when we get certain cards or certain promotions and benefits there is always this clause that allows the company to change the terms and conditions whenever they feel like it without prior notice?

I'm well aware that under the law they are allowed to
But companies who actually do it are IMMEDIATELY not gonna be patronised by me ANYMORE.

And to the Resorts World Sentosa Invites Card, this blog post is for you.

Thank you for telling me earlier this year that weekend all day parking is $5.
And then when my family's car exited the gantry a month ago, the parking amounted to $20.

Le mum called the hotline and asked is there an error and if not what are the new fees like.
She then proceeded to ask if there was an email to state the difference in parking prices that she had missed.

Well Mr who answered the phone, thank you for very proudly saying to my mum that "in the terms of agreement we have mentioned that we reserve the right to change it without prior notice to the customer". So sassy please. You think that clause protects you from everything?

Yes I may not be able to claim anything under the law. But I dare say there is certainly no business sense and customer service sense. Could we not have been informed beforehand? I would have appreciated that a lot more. Clearly they could have balanced their legal right and their desire for good customer service BUT NO LOOK AT HOW THE SERVICE HOTLINE PERSON REPLIED TO MY MOTHER IT WAS RUDE AS MUCH AS IT WAS RIGHT.

with that said...

CUSTOMER LOST.
If anything and everything also can change without notice, then I think what's next is that the vouchers I am supposed to have are also gonna turn up to be invalid. Whee. I've no intention to use the card anymore btw.

May this post serve as a warning for you guys intending to drive into RWS, even with that invites card. Beware of the parking coz this clause will be flashing in your face should you choose to question the change in fees.

With that said, there are other companies which I have boycott for a really long time because of their unfair change of terms and conditions without any prior notice to me, leaving all the points I've accumulated before to become invalid and wasted.

There's more I wish I could say, but sadly we consumers have so little bargaining power in these kind of standard form contracts. So how? Too bad lor.

All thoughts are mine, all rants are mine, all opinions are on my side as an aggrieved customer, who feels like the company just wants to do whatever it wants and then wave this clause at you should it need to. Pfft. I'm just another person boosting the economy right? Another person at the mercy of marketing tactics and such clauses? Haiz.