Category: Chinese
MYO restobar at Robinson Road Shenton Way
MARCH 24, 2024
Recommended by The Straits Times, and worth coming back. The Kia Hiang Claypot Spring Chicken was heavenly – tender and flavourful with layered and savourtly sauce. The other signature – Crispy Yam Bags with Scallops – was also done very well, fresh with a delightful textural contrast. Everything else was done really nicely. Good Stuff.
Oxley Tower Lobby 1, 138 Robinson Road, #19-01, Singapore 068906, open Sun to Fri 11am to 3pm, 5:30 to 9:30pm, close Sat
蔡林记 Cai Lin Ji – Wuhan Noodles at Jurong Point Boon Lay
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Wuhan 热干面. I have no way of determining the authenticity, but the noodles were not bad, springy, with a good sesame sauce flavour.
Jurong Point, 1 Jurong West Central 2, #03-56, Singapore 648886, open Mon to Sun 8am to 10pm
British Hainan – Hainanese Western at Purvis Street Beach Road
JULY 31, 2023
23 Purvis Street, #01-01, Singapore 188600, open Wed to Mon 11am to 3pm, 6 to 9:30pm, close Tue
Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck – Chinese at Orchard Road
APRIL 30, 2023
Fatty unctuous Peking duck. Exquisite traditional dim sum. Nice.
Paragon Shopping Centre, 290 Orchard Road, #05 – 42/45, Singapore 238859, open Mon to Fri 11:30am to 2:45pm, 6 to 10pm, Sat 11am to 2:45pm, 6 to 10pm, Sun 10:30am to 2:45pm, 6 to 10pm
Milkfish at Millenia Walk
JUN 10, 2020
Recommended by Johor Kaki. Delightful tomatoes marinated in sour plum juice started off the meal. The milkfish soup was milky, rich and rounded, and came with fresh and sweet fish, prawn, clams and minced pork patty. The soup paired nicely with the mee sua, and the grilled milkfish belly was really nice, lightly sweet-savoury and tender with fatty meat and crispy skin. Only the deep fried prawn roll was typical.
Millenia Walk, 9 Raffles Boulevard, #01-106, Singapore 039596, open Sun to Thu 11am to 9pm, Fri and Sat 11am to 9:30pm
Zhang Ji Shanghai La Mian Xiao Long Bao at Alexandra Village
JUN 9, 2022
排了挺长的队。担担面的面条软硬适中而有嚼劲。 酱料微辣带花生酱香，但有一点太多。肉末也很香，增加了面的整体香味。小笼包也挺细致的。汤带甜，肉香嫩，皮够薄。好吃。
Alexandra’s Village Food Centre, 120 Bukit Merah Lane 1, #01-56, Singapore 150120, open Wed to Sun 11:30am to 8:30pm, close Mon and Tue
Enjoy Eating House and Bar at Stevens Road Newton
JUN 5, 2022
Recommended by ieatishootipost. Quite a superb meal. The Chef Joel’s mee kia 2.0 had a solid truffle fragrance and came with a good flavour and texture. The grandma’s te kah bee hoon was hearty and savoury, and full of wok hei and umami. The Hainanese chicken satay was smoky, sweet and tender, with a balanced flavour. The ugly cabbage in fish sauce was crunchy and smoky and savoury with fish sauce at the same time – shiok. The sautéed seafood otah was rich and lemak, with generous ingredients. The only letdowns were the overly fatty BBQ pork cheek, and the bland and LPG tasting crab meat omelette.
Mercure on Stevens, 30 Stevens Rd, #01-07, Singapore 257840, open Mon to Sun 11am to 11pm
Fortune Court – Chinese Cantonese at Pagoda Street Chinatown
MAY 15, 2022
Opened by a group of ex-Peony staff and chef, and recommended by 8 Days. Really quite good. We really enjoyed the crispy and savoury-sweet fried mini squid, the moreish black pepper smoked duck and golden pumpkin fries, the sweet, tangy and crunchy lychee sweet & sour pork, and the very fresh and bouncy scallop with broccoli.
The signature dishes recommended by 8 Days was ok, but perhaps found less favour. The egg white conpoy with crab meat was slightly bland in terms of flavour, the three cup beef was tender and beefy but had an overwhelming basil flavour, and the XO lobster ee fu noodles was simply very pricey at $42.80, with the ee fu noodles not that flavourful and the lobster slightly tough.
Overall still a very good restaurant, but the signature dishes were perhaps overly hyped up for us.
31 Pagoda Street, Singapore 059190, open Mon to Sun 11am to 3pm, 5.30pm to 10pm
Chef Chik – Cantonese at Haig Road
MAY 12, 2022
Recommended by ieatishootipost and various other food bloggers. Serious restaurant quality food at hawker prices, although the price has increased since I read the review on this, as with everything else. The black fungus steamed chicken with a bowl of rice was $13.70; the savoury light soy sauce was very refined, flavourful and moreish, while the chicken and black fungus were cooked just right, with the chicken tender and moist and the black fungus crisp and slightly soft.
Haig Road Market & Food Centre, 13 Haig Road, #01-36, Singapore 430014, open Wed to Sat 11:30am to 3:30pm, close Sun to Tue
BBQ Box – Chinese Skewers at Cheong Chin Nam Beauty World
MARCH 29, 2022
Serviceable, but very similar flavour profiles of cumin and chilli throughout which covered the flavours of the ingredients, and resulted in flavour fatigue. I enjoyed the mushrooms and the potatoes. Beef and mutton were quite chewy. Good for when you miss Chinese skewers like me.
22 Cheong Chin Nam Road, Singapore 599746, open Mon to Fri 2pm to 2am, Sat and Sun 12nn to 2am
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