Duck leg in dried fruit peel broth @ 名軒美食

Came across their banner showing this duck leg in dark coloured broth, instantly reminding me of the Singaporean version of Pork bone tea, so decided to try it.

As I have never tried it before, I was expecting a strong herb taste like the pork bone dish.

Anyway it turns out, it just tastes like the rice with soup and pieces of wintermelon served in the normal restaurants.

I suppose the duck was nice and soft, and came off the bone very easily, but not the taste I was expecting.

I was also given a duck head with it too, I didn't know whether it was for eating or for fun!!

Also ordered the baked chicken with salt, it just tasted like normal chicken from the chinese roast shops.

Broccoli curry bun @ Panash bakery

I like this bakery as it not only it tastes good, but they have spent revenue and effort into packaging and the layout of the store.

I got the pork chop bun, and a broccoli curry bun.

Pork chop bun:not the usual pork chop sandwiched in between a bun with the lame salad cream, but sliced pork with sauce drizzled over the bun and sweetcorn scattered on it.
the pork was still crunchy and not too greasy.

Broccoli curry bun:Attractively decorated with three pieces of broccoli, and the curry secretly concealed in the bun. The broccoli was not as dry as it looked, slightly crunchy. The curry was not too spicy.

Cream and salmon pasta @ Bubble green

Nice pastas but the pasta is always too soft.

your average chinese-thai chicken @ 泰國人海南雞 Koon Thai Hai Nam Chicken

Ordered the two person set dinner for $96 including their signiature chicken, the set includes 3 satays, plate of chicken, water spinach, soup/dessert and rice.

The rice was quite a big portion, also equivalent to 1.5 bowls of rice, the chicken was tender, however the sauce that came with it didnt taste that authentic, more chili and sugar based.

The soup was the usual wintermelon soup.

The satay, we ordered chicken, but they gave us pork.

The water spinach was boiled for too long and seemed to have gone yellow.

Fried prawns @ 大飽小包 Ippai

Walked past and saw this new restaurant, so decided to try their food.

It looks like fried food from the outside, not quite clear what sort of food they are serving, so I just got two prawn tempuras, both had a sauce each, so I got a cheese sauce and a curry sauce.

Curry sauce: lacked curry taste, also a bit watery.

Cheese sauce: tasted more like salad cream.

I think, it would be fairer to give comments in a months time when their restaurant is fully functioning. Although for the prawns they could at least de-gut them.

 

 

 

 

Good quality dim sum @ 富東粵菜 Fu Tung Gongdong Restaurant

Came to this quiet setting for chinese dim-sum, although it looks expensive, it is not as expensive as it looks.

Beef Tendons:nice and soft, however the sauce was too sweet

Braised ducks feet and mushroom:A bit dissappointing, because the ducks feets were not soft enough.

Gold and Silver egg congeetastes slightly better than the usual thousand egg congee, because of the salted egg.

Fish Maw and dumpling in soupIt reeked of some weird taste, and the fish maw wasnt that soft.

Pork liver rice rollNever tried this before, but it tasted ok, the livers was slightly undercooked.

Prawn dumplingstasted the best, at least the dumpling skin didnt break or stick to the paper.

Dessert was complimentary, purple rice with sweetcorn, tasted ok, not too sweet.

Chewy elastic ice-cream @ Mado

My second returning visit to Mado, their ice-creams are the best, I ordered the Turkish bomb, lovely and chewy, not too sweet, plain ice-cream mixed with pistachios, apricots, and coconut. A creamy full bodied ice-cream just at the right sweetness. It takes a few seconds to get used to, the gooey texture, and the difficulties in trying to spoon it out. The Turkish bomb reminded me of the nougat, chewy but cold, full of ice-cream, and lots of texture, real coconut shreds, and the delicate apricot and pistachio.

The ice-cream owes it texture to the main ingredient “Mastic” a resin cultivated from Mastic trees in Greece. ( For the real greek ice-cream, however in this case Salep)

However they do not the taro milkshake they had before, which was nice.