Glory Catering
139 East Coast Road Singapore 428829
Tel: 63441749 Fax: 63465764

Buffet Enquiries & Order
Monday - Friday ( 9am - 5pm), Saturday (9am - 12pm)
Contact Person: Li Huang Tel: 64435395 Fax: 64448438


After Office Hours
Contact Person: Andrew Handphone: 98162106

Webpage: www.glorycatering.com.sg/cateringoutlets.html

This is the Katong outlet and restaurant of Glory Catering which makes a wide range of traditional confections, kuehs, and festive snacks. The shop is a mini-restaurant (air-con) where you can savour nasi padang and curries. The front of the shop displays and sells a wide range of fresh kuehs, agar-agar (seaweed jelly), glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang) and packaged festive cookies and snacks (peanut biscuits, pineapple tarts, egg rolls and tarts etc). All the food is halal including the bakchang, so you only get chicken meat in the meat version of the dumplings.

Halia – Malay for ginger – is located in the 1-ha Ginger Garden of the Singapore Botanic Gardens where over 250 species of gingers with their stunning foliage and colourful flowers thrive.

The construction of Halia was carried out simultaneously with the development of the Ginger Garden. Careful consideration was given to the special park setting, such that architecture conformed to the contours of the land, the dignity of mature trees and the preservation of heritage.

The result is an unobtrusive dining room with full height glass windows, beckoning the greenery indoors, and allowing guests to dine in the Garden whilst still comfortably ensconced in cool surroundings. Decades-old majestic palm trees stand like sentries, guardian-witness to the earthy beauty that is the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

In the heat of the day, guests take refuge in the coolness of Halia’s air-conditioned dining room whilst still enjoying views of the Garden through its full-height glass windows.

Extending from the dining room, a sheltered wooden deck enables sun-worshippers to bask in the sultry warmth whilst enjoying an al-fresco meal.

Come nightfall, Halia is transformed into an intimate and special place, lit only by discreet lamps, candles and the moonlight. A perfect place for a romantic evening, or a gathering of special friends or business associates, guests are surrounded by the tranquility of the Garden and the beauty of the night.

Address
1 Cluny Road, Ginger Garden
(enter via Tyersall Avenue)
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Singapore 259569
Reservations
(65) 6476 6711

Banquet queries & bookings
(65) 6287 0711
elizabethlim@halia.com.sg
julianalee@halia.com.sg
Hours of operation
Monday to Friday
(except public holidays):
11am to 11pm
Saturday, Sunday &
public holidays:
7.30am to 11pm



Meal Service Hours
Weekend Breakfast Buffet
8am to 10:45am

Lunch
12 noon to 3pm



Light Meal
3pm to 5:30pm

English Tea Service
3pm to 5pm (except Sunday
& public holidays)

Dinner
6:30pm to 10:15pm
(last seating at 10:30pm on
Friday, Saturday & eve of public holidays




How To Get There?

By Car

As the Singapore Botanic Gardens has several entrances, we advise diners to enter via Tyersall Avenue (same access to the National Orchid Garden and Burkill Gate).

Public coupon parking is available on the road just at the entrance to the Ginger Garden. Alternatively, coach lots on the road are available for free parking of cars from 6 pm onwards.

From the Ginger Garden gate, Halia is a pleasant 3-minute stroll past a man-made waterfall and lush greenery. Halia is located just at the edge of the Ginger Garden, beside the National Orchid Garden.

Alternative parking is available at the Cluny Gate and Tanglin Gate entrances. From there, it is an equally enjoyable walk of 10 to 15 minutes to Halia Restaurant.

By Bus

Disembark at the bus stop nearest to Tyersall Avenue.
SBS Transit 7, 105, 123, 174, 502
SMRT 75, 77, 106

Label: Manifesto
Year: 1999
Running Time: 71:15

Tracks:

Traveller (Kid Loco's Once Upon a Time in the East Mix)
Dub in Ya Mind (Beach Club Mix)
The Messenger
Homebase
Beautiful (7" Canny Mix)
3.2 Bedrock (Ambient Mix)
Satie 1
Homelands
A Distant Invitation
Existance (Edit)
Oh Home
Les Kid Nappeurs Main Theme
Ill Street Blues
The Look of Love

The last in the series, Jose indicates in the liner notes that he is going to work on other projects than the Cafe del Mar series, ends with a mellow almost 70's feel to it. It certainly is a lot less jazz influenced than the last album whilst retaining that slightly dreamy flow to itself. Only a few tracks really stand out as being noteable in & of themselves (Talvin Singh's 'Traveller', Mandalay's 'Beautiful' and dZihan & Kamien's 'Homebase' ) but the rest work as a whole and the tone of the album is a slightly wistful one, dreaming of past times.

It is a strong, but not blockbuster, end to a series that I will miss greatly. However based on Jose's solo album 'Souvineir' I look forward to his other musical endeavours with interest. Jose is a talented artist in his own right and while I am slightly sad to see the series stop I do want to see what he will produce when unencombered by the demands of compiling. We have seen hints of it with some of compilation discs featuring tracks Jose has either written or remixed. Now it is time for the man himself to come out fully from the shadows and show us what he can do.