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Visited during the later part of the lunch hour and was able to get a seat for 2 with ease. Lady who served us had poor service attitude while sitting us and attending to us while the other staffs who came by after were eager to explain the Burpple exclusions and take our orders.

As the Burpple Deal was used, 2 pastas and 2 drinks had to be ordered but coffee selection was limited to only long black or iced black. A top up of $2 is required if you wanted to order coffee with dairy.

We ordered a chilli seafood pasta (front) and a salmon miso pasta (back) for the mains. For drinks we ordered a iced rose mela (sweetened cold brew Earl Grey rose and green apple) and iced lemon tea (not in photo).

Chilli seafood pasta was acceptable but the salmon miso pasta was underwhelming. Maybe it was the expectation I had from the photos of other bupplers content. Although it's salmon miso pasta, there was barely any taste of miso. The large chunks of salmon did not help add points to the dish either. Perhaps we should have ordered the truffle carbonara instead. Over to the soupy chilli seafood pasta. The prawns in the Chilli seafood pasta was juicy and plump while the clams and generous mushroom portion were cooked well. Slight chilli touch to it so those who can't take spice will be able to have this dish.

Drinks-wise, ice lemon tea was nothing special. The iced rose mela was quite refreshing but do better with lesser sweetener and more Earl grey taste.

Overall damage should be about $20 ($13.90 for each of the pasta we ordered).

They had a $4.50 top up deal for a drink and a soup of the day without Burpple which is pretty worth it in my opinion. Not sure if the drinks exclusion will be the same as burpple tho.

Made our way here thinking that we would be able to order Burpple 1 for 1 mains (una-tama Don) with the addition of 1 for 1 drinks but was asked by the server to order from a exclusive menu of "set meals" starting from $25 (without drinks). Drinks are mandatory for the claim of the burpple deal and separately charged ~$2 to $3.50.

Eventually settled with the set meal of $25 (selection of 2 dishes being pork tonkatsu and unagi) along with additional $3.50 for a cup of calpis water. Set meal came with sesame salad side and rice. Portion of unagi was disappointly small considering that we actually came here for the unagi. The tonkatsu had a good crunch though and I would suggest to give the tonkatsu barbecue pairing sauce a miss, it was too sweet for our liking.

Checked the deal when we were going to pay and noted that the deal states "Mains & Drinks". Fine prints and exclusion states that the deal does not include set meals, which in this case is contradictory to what they have asked us to order from.

Checked in with another male server and was shock to know that the boss had been made aware of this discrepancy by other customers but had not done the required actions to ensure the correct terms of sale is reflected on the Burpple page. Felt extremely cheated.

Hope all potential customers are made aware of this before they decide to head down and patronise the shop. We have made the mistake and missed out on another previous customer's review informing of this.