Showing posts with label Prawn Roe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prawn Roe. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Devilish beef and interestingly weird combinations

I was not sure what to expect when I went into this shop, all I knew was that it was newly opened.
From the menu It seems they specialise in Curry and beef.

They serve noodles and curry so it should suit the tastes of any locals if they eat Chinese food.
After looking at the menu, I found it quite weird such as having wontons in tomato soup, wontons with liver, rose flavoured pork knuckles!

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Black and white pepper ox tail with rice
Red beancurd and rose pork knuckles
Seaweed and beef bone soup
Dried prawn roe and liver with noodles
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Liver and wontons in tomato soup with flat rice noodles: I ended up picking the wontons in tomato soup with liver but I wanted to pick the noodles with dried prawn roe with liver as well.
The only bad point is that they do not have many choices for the noodle types ie instant noodles nor do they let you change the noodles.
Anyway, I generally do not like flat rice noodles because they are oily and tasteless, however the tomato soup made it more appetizing and I ate more than I usually do.
The liver would have tasted great, but since I have tried the liver at Wai Kee's in SSP, any other liver tastes inferior to that.
However there were a few pieces that tasted nice, the others were over cooked.
The wontons really surprised me because I thought it would taste weird because of the tomato soup and liver but I think they were cooked separately and placed in the bowl when it was served.
I ate the wonton first because it had the lightest taste and I did not want any tomato taste in it, the prawns in the wonton were really fresh and springy too.
If you like spring onions they put spring onions on almost everything.
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Hot ginger and barley drink: This was really nice, the ginger was not that spicy and the drink was not overly sweet.
There were lots of clean barley seeds and chopped ginger in the drink too!
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Stir fried macaroni with luncheon meat: This was delicious, not many places serve stir fried macaroni so when it is available I always order it.
The oil they used was fresh, so on the surface of the macaroni there was soy sauce burnt on the surface which made it really tasty. There was also onions but it wasnt chopped fine enough.
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Curry Beef Belly: The curry here is quite watery with lots of onions but it tastes nice, however it was too salty.
The beef was surprisingly soft and tender.
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Tried this a different day.
Pork liver with noodles sprinkled with prawn roe: It was noodles sprinkled with prawn roe and you get a bowl of liver soup which is nice.
The noodles did not have pork lard on it which was good and it was nice to get liver soup rather than MSG soup.
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Good electric fly zappers that work and sticky tape fly trappers: ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Overall I quite liked this place because there was lots of interesting choices, however they are in their teething stages.
The ordering system can be improved.
Currently they write the orders on a piece of paper which is then entered on the system, so if the person misreads the writing on the paper the Chef gets the wrong order.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Doraemon Ding Dong pasta sets @ BO-LO’GNE

Came with some friends to try their pasta sets with the Doraemon theme.

To be honest I am not a fan of Doraemon and the first time I encountered Doraemon and Hello Kitty characters were at China Town!
Basically there are four different type of pastas that you can choose from, after you have selected the pasta you then have to choose the Doraemon or Doraemi character that is put on the thinly sliced egg.

For the Doraemon and Doraemi characters you can choose bell pepper or seaweed powder because the character is sprinkled on the egg. Bell pepper is red in colour and seaweed is green.

Since all the pasta sets have a piece of toast, a portion of pasta, half a kiwi, some butter and a cherry tomato they have used a white dish to distinguish whether the character is Doraemon or Doraemi.
The Doraemon character has the white dish on the plate which holds the butter and cherry tomato and Doraemi does not.

The four different pastas were: Carbonara, Napolitana Japanese style, Mushroom spaghetti and Mentaiko spaghetti.

We ordered all four flavours.
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Carbonara:
The pasta sauce was rather milky
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Napolitana Japanese style:
It tasted very strong of smoked bacon so if you like bacon you would like this.
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Mushroom spaghetti:
I felt that the sauce was extremely bland and they used canned mushrooms.
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Mentaiko spaghetti:
I felt that this tasted the best but the spaghetti was not hot enough.
The mentaiko was slightly spicy and the mentaiko was slightly salty which gave the pasta flavour.
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Toast that comes with the pasta:
The toast could have been better because the texture was just like normal toast when there should have been more layers in the bread.
The toasts were inconsistent because some you could see the characters clearly and some you could not.
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Egg white:
Initially I thought it was cheese but it turned out to be egg. It was intriging how they cooked the egg white. The egg white was bland but the powder was flavoured so it was easier to taste the seaweed powder.
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Honey icecream with toast:
On the menu it said Honey icecream however when it was brought over it was not honey icecream.
The toast tasted better for the dessert and the quality of the toast was better, it had more layers like a croissant.
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Doraemon plates:
I wonder how they will dispose of them when the Doraemon theme is over?
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After finishing the pasta and the extra dessert we ordered, we paid and left, however on the way out we noticed the Tiramisu being brought out to other tables and realised we should have got one as well, so we asked if our sets included it and he said yes, so we sat down again for the final dessert.
Doraemon tiramisu:
It did not taste like authentic Tiramisu but it was nice, the cookie was very buttery.
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