my dear OPS friend WT bought me a birthday dinner recently at element @ amara recently though his birthday is in the same month as mine, so i might as well by buying him dinner. haha! 🙂

anyway tonight’s my chance to return the favour. i had a S$100 e-voucher with chui huay lim expiring this month. came in handy la!

we had a great enjoyable dinner including 2 of my close RI friends at chui huay lim on 28.10.2016. ^^

i have not been to chui huay lim for a while. find the food rather expensive here.

still, it is very crowded on this friday night, something not always common even in good makan joints.

i ordered the pig trotter’s jelly.

wife found it too porky, too strong. i must be influenced. also thought it was not so great.

strange thing it was not served with serng ni chou (minced garlic vinegar), we had to ask the manager for it.

wife said my own pig head’s terrine 猪头冻 is better la. ^^

the prawn rolls & achar were ok.

there was a suckling pig promotion at S$188.

i was asking about fish thinking to order a treadfin tail, a teochew dish. but was told it’s S$10 per 100g & servings are 1kg. S$100 for treadfin tail? & garoupa is served in portions at S$98??

i think the prices just not right!

so it was easy for me to decide on the S$188 suckling pig la. 🙂

& this was very good, among the best i have taken.

certainly far better than the suckling pig we had at ban heng recently!

i ordered a cold crab S$48. 🙂

it had good amount of roe. crab was firm & sweet.

i was telling my friends somehow teochew cold crab was just much nicer than the cold seafood served at restaurant buffets…

the crab was quite enough for 6 of us.

i ordered the braised duck.

duck was good, much better than the goose at ban heng. very pang – tasty!!

they also serve braised goose, of course more expensive.

everyone loved the yellow chives. every nice veg.

the king prawns were very big.

& done well, bouncy, plump, great bite texture & taste.

we were very full actually, especially 3 of us had an excellent lunch earlier.

anyway we could not cancel order of the last dish. the kailan at S$24 was kind of expensive (like c/w the S$18 braised duck), but it was an excellent dish. kailan was crunchy & sweet, nicely done! tipor added special flavours, both the veg dish (the yellow chives as well) had ti por for added taste.

6pax dinner was S$302 nett after S$100 discounts. i guess quite ok considering that the suckling pig alone was S$188++.

c.h.e.f andy

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