Greasy food @ Grass house

Previously missed their all-u-can-eat promotion, so came for their night session at $38 per dish.

The menu selection was not the full range as shown on their window outside.

Tried the ducks blood with chives, duck with taro, beef in "gingdoll" sauce, oyster omlette, and Chiuchow style noodles.

Ducks blood with chives: tasteless
Duck with taro: taro on top of fish patty, no duck in it, was told by chiu chow people that chiuchow people are poor so they use cheaper ingredients to imitate the duck.
Beef in peking sauce: this was neither chinese nor chiuchow cuisine, and it didn’t taste vinegary at all, but the beef was ok.
Chiuchow noodles: this was very similar to the noodles in the Taiwanese oyster thick soup.
However as we ate the late session, I felt the noodles were abit too greasy, and the oil used to fry them was old.
Oyster omlette: same as the Taiwanese oyster cake, with the gunge mixture in it.

It seems that chiuchow food is very similar to Taiwanese food, and being told that Taiwan is close to chiuchow, it explains it.

wheres da chicken @ 雞記潮州麵食

The shop is called chicken something, so I thought it was a chicken specialist or something related to chicken.
It turns out to be chiu chow cuisine.

Ordered noodles with fried cuttlefish balls with seaweed, and fried olive and meat roll.

All the food was good, but not memorable.
I felt that it was slightly overpriced because the food was just noodles, fish balls which is inexpensive.

Anyway the fried meat roll with olive was nice, although the olive wasnt strong, on the outside it was wrapped in beancurd skin.
The sauce that went with it, was garlic vinegar, I would have preferred chili sauce , ketchup or sweet and sour sauce.

The cuttlefish balls were good too, especially it differentiates it from other restaurants with seaweed init.
The broth version of cuttlefish balls would have been nice too, much softer.

 

Over priced with hidden charges @ 潮家海鮮酒家

Went to some gathering, hence the location wasnt selected by me, and I didnt know what place we were going to eat, so I couldnt check on OpenRice for comments.

Arrived there pretty early and there were no waitors at the entrance, so we had to walk into the middle of the restaurant to ask for a table, and the waitress reluctantly gave us a table.

The waitors asked what tea we would like, so asked for the Jasmine, but they gave us Pu Erh. What a great start.

Ordered the set dinner which includes steamed prawns, chicken, soup, sugar snap peas and ostrich meat, fish and dessert.

As we were early and it was the winter solstice, they tried to get two rounds of tables by serving us the food fast.
However, we sat down at 5.55 and all the dishes arrived except for the fish at 6.15, so we finished all the dishes around 6.40.
There was a long gap between then and the last dish.

The amusing thing was that three different waitors came 5 minutes after each other to check if only the fish was to come.
It would have been amusing if I had filmed it, having three waitors ask the same question but no follow up.

What was worse, the tables that came after us got the fish first, while we were bored we started playing with the soy sauce and found a floating thing in it, so used a toothpick and found out it was a tiny insect, the worst thing was that we had already dipped the prawns in that sauce.

We told the waitors and the reaction was " oh yes" let me check it and pretended nothing happened.

After waiting an hour, the fish finally came, slightly undercooked because the fish stuck to the bone.

Food:
All tasted ok, one of the prawns was weird it had some white stuff on the head.
some stuck to the shell and were not fresh.
All the food was a bit under portioned.

THE SET DOES NOT INCLUDE RICE, AND THE MENU STATES THERE IS A 10% SERVICE CHARGE WHICH I EXPECTED, BUT IT DID NOT STATE CHARGES FOR THE PEANUTS N CHILI SAUCE.

AFTER THE MEAL, FOUND OUT THE NAME OF THE RESTAURANT AND SAW THAT THERE WERE ALOT OF NEGATIVE REVIEWS WHICH IS TRUE, HENCE OPENRICE IS A RELIABLE SOURCE!