thai style curry fish head – S$25 

went with wife & daughter for 3pax dinner at forture seafood at old holland road. ^^

forture seafood @ old holland road 

last time i made a blog post on forture was in nov2015. 🙂

place always crowded in the weekends.

thai style curry fish head – S$25 

all of us love the curry. nice tangy curry, fresh fish head.

thai style curry fish head – S$25 

i drank up the curry everytime!

prawn paste chicken – S$8 

ordered prawn paste chicken.

prawn paste chicken – S$8 

it was nice, but my helper made just as delicious fried chicken wings.

this one does have slight prawn paste flavours. quite well done, this! i don’t remember ordering this here before….

stir-fried thai kailan – $8 

the thai kai lan was good too.

stir-fried thai kailan – $8 

good wok hae like every good zi char place…

seafood hor fun – S$4 

& we ordered a small hor fun to share, S$4 now….

seafood hor fun – S$4 

hor fun here generally nice though once or nice we got the wrong chef…

not much ingredients but quite nice, tasty..

dinner 4 dishes for 3pax was S$45.90. quite ok la i guess.

c.h.e.f andy

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Forture Seafood

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kam long RN$22 fish head curry 

went with friends to JB for one day makan trip + little shopping on 28.6.2016. ^^

kam long fish head curry (near city square) 

our first stop after CIQ was kam long fish head, near to city square.

kam long fish head curry (near city square) 

shop was small, anyway already full.

constant queue at kam long fish head curry 

it was just 10.45am-ish. didn’t stop the long queue.

these people no need work. i guess 80% from singapore?

the queue was constant, i guess until sold out la….

kam long fish head curry 

fish head was small RM$22 medium RM$33 large RM$44.

we had 11pax. there was no large tables. even for 5 or 6pax we probably wait long time even when it reached our turn.

so we broke into 3 tables = 4, 4, 3.

& we ordered 2x small for each table, so total 6 orders of fish heads.

i supposed 2 small gave us more curries, veg & taupok than 1 large? they do top up the curries if you need.

kam long fish head curry 

this like a super efficient factory operation. they do several 100s claypot every day i think.

the fish head did not look super fresh. taste also, but they were fresh & not stale, sweet & firm enough just not super fresh.

this like a RM$22 (S$7) fish head shared by 2 including veg & taupok, so can’t expect everything la…

curry was like ready like huge pot. so just scoop curry & veg into the right size claypot, add the fish head, bring to the back to heat over stove for 5 to 6 mins, top with taupok, and voila! its on your table…

kam long fish head curry 

love the curry…really shiok delicious…yum yum…i basically drank the curry. finished the 2 pots on my table.

slightly less thick & intense as my own (maybe that’s how i should do it), quite similarto the fish head curry at hup choon.

tau pok, veg also very nice.

kam long fish head curry 

fish meat quality couldn’t really complain like i say. still sweet & firm.

not much meat though, so got to take sparingly, got to think of the next guy..next time will order fish head & fish tail.

only that next time don’t know whether want to come here & queue 1/2hr+ or not???

one friend’s bil lived in JB. he came to fetch us to bring 1/2 the group to ksl plaza. he doesn’t go to kam long, maybe most JB-ites don’t only singaporeans..he said there are so many good fish head curries & with aircon…

kam long was a great experience first time la…but of course we need not really eat a RM$22 fish head curry, just a very good fish head curry will do, and if got aircon & no queue better still wad!

kam long fish head curry (near city square) 

factory production may not be poetry in motion….

kam long fish head curry (near city square) 

super efficient system…the economic theory of specialisation in full display, just one menu = fish head…

curry fish tail 

curry fish tail next time (if??)

constant queue at kam long fish head curry 

same long queue before & after our makan.

i will definitely come here for the fish head curry if it’s my first visit!

c.h.e.f andy

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Kam Long Fish Head Curry

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small selections

went with friends (we had 4pax) to try out the june S$100gourmet dinner at lewin terrace on 24.6.2016. ^^

my last 100 gourmet at disgruntled chef @ ang siang hill was very good!

was considering to try the restaurant. the prices for regular lunch & dinner menus on the high side for me though not outrageous. & the june menu with 2 japanese chefs in a modern jap euro restaurant sounded good for a start.

100 gourmet menu

for me, this was a very good menu & also a very good dinner (with the exception of dessert).

small selections

the claimed S$180++pax for non citibank card for this quality of ingredients & food would not be outrageous & just their normal menu pricing, though for myself only that would be on the high side for the food.

so for S$100 gourmet (about S$121 nett with some booking admin charges) was for me a very good dinner.

we started with a small selections.

kumamoto prawns

i had kumamoto prawns first but haha…that was a let down la!

i have tried sweet fresh kumamoto prawns. this is not it! not sweet & texture also wrong. this item would be much below par…fortunately the rest were very good!

white asparagus

white asparagus was very good.

white asparagus

very sweet, excellent texture, fine dining restaurant standard.

mozarella pannacotta

the mozarella pannacotta was smooth, flavourful, had some savoury & also citrous combination. very nice!

pork rillette

i like the pork rillette, very flavourful..

pork rillette

i mostly like well done rillette dishes, especially duck rilette, so very “pang”.

one of the best duck rillette i had was at clifford on 27.3.2014. so long liao. must go back la!

yellow tail

the yellow tail with some tobiko (cod roes) was good. nothing special though, like any hamachi sashimi…

broad beans pie

i like this broad bean pie thingy. something different & a different texture to accompany the other doshes.

foie gras with corn veloutte

second course was a foie gras veloutte.

the foie gras was done as a mousse. the yellow top was the corn veloutte, which was less a soup than a sauce.

foie gras with corn veloutte

the whole experience was quite wonderful, very nice, flavourful.

tagliolini – mussels, scallops, safron, bottarga

for me the pasta was excellent!

one friend did not quite it though. he felt this manner of fine dining serving the pasta was cold.

tagliolini – mussels, scallops, safron, bottarga

i cooked very good pasta myself so if i order pasta outside it would be dishes i cannot cook & this would be one of them.

the salted fish roe bottarga is an italian delicacy & made the pasta so tasty.

tagliolini – mussels, scallops, safron, bottarga

the seafood, mussels & scallops etc were small helping but good quality. one fine dish this was!

seabream with lobster veloutte

& the seabream was a very good class fine dining preparation.

seabream with lobster veloutte

very sweet consistent tender fish (probably sous vide) with excellent lobster broth as sauce.

seabream with lobster veloutte

a top fine dining restaurant standard.

kagoshima wagyu

the kagoshima wagyu had to be the best.

i asked, the server said about 75g.

kagoshima wagyu

very marbled melt-in-the-mouth & nicely grilled wagyu.

kagoshima wagyu

not the best wagyu i had but a very good one.

after that i had an excellent, better ohmi wagyu at hachi on 7.7.2016. ^^

miyagi strawberry

the dessert was pretty like a japanese painting.

miyagi strawberry

the white chocolate was a bit better.

the ones of the left side (texture & taste not as good as a good madeleine) were forgettable.

but overall the dinner was quite exquisite for me for S$121pax nett. not overly so. i would say (if not taking account of the fact that this one has kagoshima wagyu) the overall cooking was better at my last 100gourmet at disgruntled chef.

so i was very happy with this dinner!

c.h.e.f andy

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Address:

21 Lewin Terrace Singapore, Singapore 179290

Entrance to Lewin Terrace is thru 23 B Coleman Street next to Singapore Philatelic Museum (Singapore 179807). Enter thru the red gates next to Singapore Philatelic Museum. Main entrance to our restaurant is located up the flight of stairs of Fort Canning Park

Contact:

Tel:63339905

Website: http://www.lewinterrace.com.sg
Email: info@lewinterrace.com.sg

Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday
Lunch: 12:00pm – 03:00pm (Last order at 02:00pm)
Dinner: 06.30pm – 11:00pm (Last order at 09.30pm)