had an excellent 3pax family dinner with wife & daughter at xin cuisine yesterday on 17.3.2016. ^^

restaurant is as usual quiet (7pm on a sunday).

there were actually more customers/tables this evening. 🙂

we were here last in oct2015. as you can see all the food item prices had gone up!

we had 1 order of lie tong 例汤.

at S$12 it’s a very small serving & expensive for a lie tong 例汤.

c/w 1/2 pot (3 to 4 bowls) at tunglok signature orchard parade for S$16.

the lie tong 例汤 was very good, very savoury & tasty with pork & vegetable stock, but of course, so is tunglok’s lie tong 例汤, just as tasty. 🙂

the tea smoked duck is very good here. price has gone up i guess recently from S$28 to S$32 for 1/2 duck.

 

it is different because of the excellent lingering tea flavour, say c/w the very good duck at canton paradise.

the roast london duck at tunglok though is very good, basically a different more fatty Irish duck. 

i like both can’t decide which is better!

and the steamed vegetable 蒸梅菜，茄子，娃娃菜 is very good here, love it! absolutely! the sweet mei cai’s flavours very shoik la!

the lobster noodles (S$25 instead of S$22 previously) looked a bit mushy. it was, but just a bit. taste was good. lobster was just lobster, competent. 🙂

the big prawn crispy noodles likewise. crispy part still crispy, other part just a bit soft.

taste wise it was great!

the few times we took dessert.

the guilinggao 龟苓膏 was excellent here.

such nice, strong flavours…don’t get it in HK even sometimes…

the aloe vera jelly was more ordinary. nice dessert not great.

for 3pax, we had 35% discounts using the amex palate card, all-in S$101, pretty ok la. 🙂

if it were 2pax would have been like S$80.

really quite good for these food at a good restaurant! ^^

c.h.e.f andy

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