I AM SO SORRY FOR DISAPPEARING FOR SUCH A LONG TIME!!!
Oh, and a Happy Valentine's Day.
Anyway, haven't got a proper chance to go cheesecake-hunting ever since my school started (yesh, I am still an undergraduate), but i grabbed hold of every single opportunity to get close to a cheesecake whenever possible!
Hence i was at this "restaurant" called............MACDONALD'S! Well, the Tampines branch, right opposite the CPF building, if you ask. It's always packed with students of Anglican High, sometimes Tampines JC, or some other school located within the 5km range.
And everytime I was there, the display of cheesecakes at McCafe beckoned me. Well, the variety's quite limited since Macdonald's "bestseller" weren't the cheesecakes. Still, they had my fav: OREO CHEESECAKE (OCC)!!
Bought it at $4.95. Regretted it at the instant i sank my teeth into that thing. Let me tell you why.
Service
The counter staff was actually rather polite!!! For a cafe of a fast-food restaurant!! God knows how much they're paid. If it were me, getting such pathetic sum of money for my salary, I wouldn't even want to open my mouth to thank the customers for patronising us. But this counter staff -forgot to take note of the name- smiled politely, informed me of the price of the OCC even though the price has been displayed (only idiots will not be able to see it), took the money with both hands and sent me off with a "have a nice day!"
Ambience
What ambience can you get from the most reputed fast-food restaurant in Singapore!? Patronisers do not go there for the ambience or service. We go there for the speed of the delivery of the food, and the price (I do notice that rate of price increment is a lot faster that the rate of food-quality improvement) !
The Cheesecake Itself
Not a single hint of cheese. Is it even a cheesecake!? Even the crust failed my expectations. Bland. The cake? What's that? It was bland bland bland!! Was it meant for the elderly!? At least they made the effort to make the OCC LOOK like an OCC. And it looked good. But it didn't taste good at all. It's the first time i ate an OCC and couldn't finish it simply because I didn't like it.
$4.95 for something like this?! I am sorry but even the Sundae Pie at Burger King's (selling at $2.75, almost half the price of the OCC, but tastes A HELL LOT BETTER) can be called a delicacy if they consider that THING as a cheesecake.
Conclusion of the Oreo Cheesecake
CHEESECAKE
There is no redeeming attribute of the cheesecake itself. NONE.
