fragrant spicy grilled seabass 香辣考金目鲈

WT bought 4pax OPS buddies lunch at sujiang grilled fish at IMM building on 3.5.2018. ^^

WT fetched me from my place, then fetched M & CH met us at sujiang. 🙂

fragrant spicy grilled seabass 香辣考金目鲈

there was a lunch promo S$38.80 for while grilled seabass plus 2 sides dishes.

WT ordered that plus 2 more side dishes- so we had enoki (golden mushrooms), niang gao (like the korean dok), a bean curd skin 百叶, and another item. 🙂

the fish & the dish was very good in general. taste wise though good, i much prefer the taste at 重庆烤鱼 Chong Qing Grilled Fish (WT also bought dinner that time) 

somehow this fragrant spicy 香辣 flavour here NOT fragrant as i expected for  genuine mala dish…maybe the flavour was adjusted, not the one i expected or thought was genuine mala fragrant spicy 香辣 flavour!

saliva chicken 口水鸡

saliva chicken 口水鸡

the saliva chicken 口水鸡 for me was a failure. looked quite nice but does not have the fragrant mala taste of saliva chicken 口水鸡, more like an adulterated sweet sesame taste, or maybe my tastebuds off today. haha! 🙂

my idea of a good saliva chicken 口水鸡 is that at crystal jade or

at the really excellent lunch at shenzhen on 13.9.2017. 🙂

any case WT & i can make much better saliva chicken 口水鸡!

deepfried eggplant

the deepfried eggplant was good, very competent.

fried long beans

the fried long beans with mince pork was good too.

actually both dishes were really of good standard, though many other restaurants can do the same.

chendol at red ginger level 1 IMM

after lunch we adjourned to red ginger at level 1 of IMM.

CH bought chendol. nice kidney beans & good, thick coconut milk & gula melaka..

it was a pretty good chendol, better than all the hawker centres, better than amoy chendol at chinatown & still better than island penang kitchen also.

we maybe partial but four seasons chendol at toa payoh lor 8 still better la…

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beef & foie gras don S$23  (recycled stock photo from 19.3.2018)

had 2pax dinner with my OPS bro WT @ tanuki raw at level 4 orchard central on 2.5.2018. ^^

WT was away for 2months+, back to shanghai 2 days after our OPS CNY makan & chill at CH2 house on 24.2.2018. 

so catching up with him this evening after my recent trips – OPS sakura trip to kyoto 5-12.4.2018, then my croatia tripw ith wife & daughter 19-30.4.2018.

WT had the foie gras & steak don. he still prefers non sashimi after lots of shanghai japanese ala carte buffet training, lol!

the foie gras & steak don looked really good, maybe i should have ordered that too.

tanuki chirashi don S$24.90 (recycled stock photo from 19.3.2018)

the chirashi don today was not great. i guess all depends on the freshness & cut on the day, but if it is inconsistent, means the retsurant not that great!

(i did not take photo this time so using recycled photos from my last makan here).

afterwards i went to donki at B2 to buy some kagoshima kurobuta & white pork etc

then WT bought coffee at yakun.

i forgot to redeem S$4.80 parking after going donki B2 then yakun ay L5. next time must redeem parking right away la!

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argentine ribeye 

had early birthday lunch for my dear friend CL @ bochinche on 2.5.2018. ^^

i was away this period with wife & daughter & arrived home 7pm+ the evening before..so i googled while overseas to find a good place to go for lunch.

argentinian steak sounded like a good propostion! 🙂

bochinche set lunch

bochinche offers a 2,3 course set lunch.

bochinche 

quite good ambience, parking though was a problem.

i thought i was early, but i chose the wrong route option & took telok ayer street. though it was before 12pm, both telok ayer & amoy streets had no parking spaces & worse, both streets were jammed up & took a long time to get by…after i turned into club street & by that time, no carpark space left on club street, so i had to make a big detour to park at ura open rooftop carpark at mnd building maxwell road.

got to bochinche finallt at 12.20pm!

asparagus with goat cheese 

i took the 2 course at S$32.

got CL to take the 3 course & a white wine.

we both had asparagus (not bad!) & argentine ribeye (very good!)..

aspagragus was ok, goat cheese was a nice dip with added texture of the grated chestnuts…

argentine ribeye 

 

the argentine ribeye was par excellence, really quite a superb steak that is not wagyu & not USDA prime??? or maybe it can be considered USDA prime?

very tender & sweet (very important), and properly charred…we enjoyed the steak very much. 🙂

i asked the waitress what is the ala carte price for the argentine ribeye. she said S$75 for 300g ribeye. our set lunch serving was 190g… 🙂

i asked her if bochinche meant something in argentinian. she went to find out & returned to say it meant something like creating a ruckus? i supposed a lot of fun & fiesta?

strawberry dessert & ice cream

i tried a tsp of the strawberry & ice cream…pretty good…overall a nice dessert.

after lunch we drove to tiong hoe for a nice cuppa…and a good chat!

CL was joining another group of friends for avenger – infinity war movie & another birthday dinner afterwards & i am having dinner with my OPS bro WT…

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