Soups @ Saizeriya

This time ordered the pasta in ink, prawn salad, garlic bread, minestrone and chowder soup.

 

Pasta in ink:
Always my favourite here, because the pasta is not too soft and al-dente.
There was a bit too much finely chopped garlic than usual, and there were more squid tentacles than the body in the pasta.

 

Garlic bread:
There was a choice of garlic bread with cheese, but I found it was just the same as the cheese one by adding Parmesan cheese powder to it.

 

Minestrone soup:
The menu showed thick tomato soup with lots of pasta in it, hence this was why I ordered it.
However when it arrived, it was watery and it was just vegetable soup and no pasta in it.
Not real minestrone if you’ve had real minestrone soup!

 

Chowder soup:This also didn’t taste nice, it was too sweet especially with too many diced onions.
Asian style chowder soup.

Overall the soups were cheap, the portion was so small, and the amount of soup in the bowl was so shallow, that the spoon hits the bowl when you use your spoon.
Although I didn’t like the soups there, I appreciated the other sweetcorn soup stated how it tasted on the menu.

Saizeriya Italian Restaurant's winter menu

As always the food at Saizeriya is cheap, fast and good.

They have changed their menu, and there are quite a few new items that are Japanese such as spicy whelks, seaweed and the pork belly in black vinegar.

Not a fan of Japanese food but ordered the pork belly, fried chicken, mushroom and cream risotto, spaghetti bolognaise, cherry tomatos and buffulo cheese.
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Fried chicken
The iron plate was covered with oil hence the fried chicken was slightly oily where it had touched the plate.
Apart from that, the coating was thin and the chicken inside was tender and tasty.
The sauce that came with it was the famous sauce they use in their prawn salad.
The sauce was slightly too creamy for the chicken, but luckily the sauce was runny so you can control the amount of sauce you want.
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Pork belly in sweet vinegar sauce
It reminded of the Hangzhou dish called Dongpo pork, a square piece of pork belly with layers of fat and lean meat.
The belly is braised in sweet vinegar sauce, similar to the sweet vinegar and ginger pig's trotters.
I only ate the lean part of the meat , but it was slightly dry and coarse.
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Garlic bread
This is new on the winter menu which replaces the foccacia.
Overall it tastes OK, but I prefer the foccacia.
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Cheese and mushroom risotto
This is my favourite Asian cooked risotto Italian style because it was not too creamy and it contained lots of finely diced onions and parsley.
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Spaghetti bolognaise
This was disappointing because it looked nothing like the product shot, and it did not taste like bolognaise sauce.
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Cherry tomatos and buffulo cheese
The portion size was quite small, but the buffulo cheese was really nice with the olive oil drizzled on top.
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Spaghetti grenovese
Although the sauce was green, it was not Pesto sauce but THAI BASIL!!
It was an interesting dish because Thai basil was used instead of Basil which is commonly used in Italian dishes.
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Garlic foccacia from previous menu
This is no longer on the menu, but it was nice eating it with olive oil.
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creme pudding
It was not too sweet and the texture of the pudding was slightly firm with an eggy taste.
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Saizeriya: www.saizeriya.co.jp