salmon belly sashimi

my OPS friend HH hosted a birthday dinner for 11pax OPS friends at tunglok seafood, orchard central on 10.8.2017. ^^

2 other OPS friends, CH & FM also have their birthdays in august! 🙂

it’s an ala carte buffet, menu here. 

sashimi & sushi platter

my friends ordered some starters – small octopus, maki & salmon sashimi.

sashimi & sushi platter

salmon sashimi quite good, very fresh & sweet. maki & octopus were ok average…

salmon belly sashimi

later we ordered more salmon sashimi, & they came with the more fatty cuts of salmon sashimi. very nice! 🙂

sharksfin soup

the sharksfin soup with fishmaw quite ok too. stock was sweet & tasty, not too gluey, overall a tasty soup.

jelly fish & cucumber salad

we had the jelly fish, quite refreshing. 🙂

deepfried fish skin

& the deepfried fish skin, done well too…

saliva chicken 口水鸡

the saliva chicken 口水鸡 was sub-par.

nothing like the excellent saliva chicken 口水鸡  eg at crystal jade lamian xiaolongbao. 

the saliva chicken 口水鸡we had the next day at 東北胖妈春饼店(Northeast Mom Spring Pancake) the next day was also better!

garlic sauce sliced pork with cucumber

the garlic sauce sliced pork with cucumber was average also, garlic sauce was quite nice.

蒜泥白肉 – how it should look like 

quite different from what a good 蒜泥白肉 should look like (above photo) 

prawn dragon beard fritter

prawn fritter was ok with the thai sweet sauce.

mussles in thai sweet chilli

the mussels were ok, quite nice with the thai sweet sauce.

drunken prawns

drunken prawns was quite good standard. nice herb flavoured soup & fresh, firm & bouncy prawns.

cereal prawns

the first piece of cereal prawns i had was a bit soft, so not impressed at first. i took a couple more & they were in fact pretty good.

chili sotong

the chili sotong was a late order. turned out that it was done quite excellently, not overcooked not rubbery…

deepfried egg plant in batter with pork floss

the deepfried egg plant was also done nicely, crispy batter.

egg plants & french beans

the french beans & egg plants were ok.

chilli crab

diners allowed one order of chili crab.

the chili sauce was not spicy & a bit sweet, like more to cater for tourist.

chilli crab

many friends lazy to eat crab with hands, so we didn’t take much of the crab dish. kind of wasted…one friend lamenting that no pepper crab on the menu..anyway can only order this dish once!

buns for chilli crab sauce

we all had our 馒头 to eat with the chili crab sauce!

red tilapia nonya steamed

the red tilapia nonya steamed  was among the best dishes. tilapia is quite fishy & a bit soil taste. so the tangy, slight spicy nonya sauce went very well with the fish. 🙂

2 deepfried seabass 油浸金目鲈

we also had the deepfried seabass油浸金目鲈. usually it is 油浸筍殼魚but the seabass did well too. the oil soaked deepfrying made the fish 脆 crunchy quite flavourful & the light soy sauce was quite a matching condiment.

beef in satay sauce

one dish i didn’t like much was the beef in satay sauce. a bit sweet & for me, spoiled the taste of beef.

spinach

the superior stock for the spinach was quite excellent, very sweet & tasty…

yeemeen 伊府面

the yeemeen = fuyu noodles also not bad, plain & simple & very tasty too. again the stock for braising did the trick.

ice jelly dessert

龟苓膏 guilinggao

we ordered 2 dessert for each pax – the ice jelly & the 龟苓膏.

both were competent…quite refreshing, so didn’t mind the dessert..

paradiso from swissbake hollandv

 i got 2 cakes for the birthday girl.

black gold from flor patisserie

actually i had wanted to get the cake from flor. but i called the day before (too late), needed 2 days to order a large cake. flor only offer 6” cake at all their outlets unless pre-ordered.

so i decided to get their newest cake, the black gold, a chocolate mousse cake, at taka outlet for birthday girl to bring home. she & her daughters like chocolate cakes.

and for convenience, i got from swissbake at hollandv the paradiso, their best selling cake, to be shared after dinner. paradiso has more texture and so popular for most people. the chocolate mousse would be an excellent cake for chocolate lovers! 🙂

all had a wonderful evening with old friends – sharing delicious food, fun & feeling good!

c.h.e.f andy

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TungLok Seafood @ Orchard Central

dry wok large intestines 干锅大肠

my OPS bro bought 4pax lunch today @東北胖妈春饼店(Northeast Mom Spring Pancake) on 11Aug2017. ^^

we had most delicious lunch here on 21.1.2017.  🙂 

i have always wanted to come back, so today is my second time. we arranged to go to  duck master 鸭师傅 at peoples park complex, place order for the S$15 roast duck, then have lunch here, and collect the duck after lunch.

quite a perfect plan, i must say… ^^

东北lunch dishes

i ordered quite similar dishes as we did last time. 🙂

the dry wok large intestines 干锅大肠  is the best dish here, so we have to die die order that.

i must try cooking this wonderful dish liao!

potato strips 土豆丝

we had the potato strips 土豆丝. server recommended the 麻辣 style as she said it was more 爽口 tasty!

very niced julienned potatoes.  perfect texture , great taste.

saliva chicken 口水鸡

the saliva chicken 口水鸡  is very nice. far better than what we had at tunglok seafood last evening.

saliva chicken 口水鸡

麻辣sauce very tasty & chicken breast was very sweet.

very nice dish, but this preparation not my favourite. imperial treasure for example will prepare cut chicken like in chicken rice or drunken chicken then add the 麻辣sauce.

this one here was cut into too tiny pieces & had too many bones…

dry wok large intestines 干锅大肠

dry wok large intestines 干锅大肠, the bestest dish.

intestines well cleaned no bad taste, texture was perfect & the flavours were just the best!

claypot ribbon fish 干锅刀鱼

fried ribbon fish with salt was a common dish i had in childhood, hardly sees it now.

claypot ribbon fish 干锅刀鱼

this dry wok large intestines 干锅大肠 dish was done perfectly…fish was nicely fried & flavourful & the gravy/soup was fantastic. so nice!

claypot mutton 砂锅羊肉

last time we had 水煮鱼, which was good.

this time we decided to try the claypot mutton 砂锅羊肉 .

claypot mutton 砂锅羊肉

it was a competent dish.

but mutton had strong gamey taste, & texture not tender enough, a bit tough.

the gravy was good too, though not in the league of the gravy for claypot ribbon fish 干锅刀鱼.

4pax lunch with 5 dishes was S$69, pretty good prices for such superb food.

c.h.e.f andy

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东北胖妈春饼店Northeast Mom Spring Pancake 

S$15 duck master 鸭师傅 roast duck 烧鸭

S$15 roast Duck 烧鸭  at duck master 鸭师傅 making waves… 

my OPS bro bought the duck & brought to my place for us to try at my 7pax homecooked dinner on 28jul2017.  

& it was really quite good. not quite the really superb taste of meng meng roast duck 阿明帝皇鸭 in JB. 

or ya wang, the other great roast duck stall.

still, it was pretty good.

duck master 鸭师傅 roast duck 烧鸭

todayonline reported up to 3 hr queue. it’s easing i guess but still there is queue.

duck master 鸭师傅 roast duck 烧鸭

duck master 鸭师傅 roast duck 烧鸭

my OPS bro arranged to have lunch at 東北胖妈春饼店(Northeast Mom Spring Pancake). he went earlier to order the duck (3 of us ordered 2 ducks each), then we had lunch, and collected the ducks after lunch. so we did not have to physically queue.

so for us, it was quite a breeze. i guess everyone is doing that!

S$15 duck master 鸭师傅 roast duck 烧鸭

happy with my 2 packets of duck master 鸭师傅 roast duck 烧鸭!

it sounds like a great business model – sell whole duck, no chopping, so sell many ducks a day (300 to 400), so sell it very cheap!

i wouldn’t buy it if got to queue, but ordering first & collect later is fine when combined with a nice lunch in the vicinity.

c.h.e.f andy

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Duck Master 鸭师傅

Address:

#01-K99 of People’s Park Complex

Opening hours:

10am – 10pm (Monday to Friday),

9am – 10pm (Saturday and Sunday).