brother delivered dinner on 2.3.2021.^^
crab very sweet, 饺子tasty, nice dinner.
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5pax lunch with sis, bil, chew hwa & wong choon fei @ ming tang 重庆烤鱼 on 1.3.2021.^^
the 重庆烤鱼 is really fabulous, so tasty and flavourful…yummylicious!!!
you can add stuff like eating steamboat…we added belly pork tripe 牛百叶and mutton shabu slices…
& the jellyfish head and 凉拌cloud fungus were delicious, very pang with sesame oil…
5pax S$62 nett after eatigo 50% discounts very shiok!!
sis and bil loved the food so much…
sis said 遗香未了…so we going back for more next week Monday with my brother. …lol!^^
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Ming Tang Spicy Roast Fish重庆烤鱼
Address:
470, #01-03 North Bridge Rd, Bugis Cube, Singapore 188735
Contact:
+6563383405
Opening Hours:
| daily | 11am–2am |
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5pax family dinner @ ah yat grandstand on 28.2.2021.^^
really nice dinner as always…
hk steamed garoupa 港蒸龙虎班 was simply excellent! such a simple preparation with best grade soy sauce, and so tasty and fresh..
deepfried tilapia 油浸尼罗红was very good, almost as good as 油浸笋壳, soon hock of course flesh sweeter and more fine 幼…
while油浸 is an excellent preparation and can make tilapia into a delicious dish…for live soon hock I will always ask for 清蒸to bring out the delicateness and freshness of the fish…so for 油浸preparation, tilapia 1/3 price of soon hock is ideal substitute.
prices were up…already after CNY day15!…hopefully price will return to “normal”
so normally I think tilapia S$28/kg today S$38/kg, and 龙虎班 normally S$38/kg today S$58/kg..
bull frogs still same at S$5.20 each. I ordered 4 frogs, 2 for 宫保 and 2 for 姜葱preparation..both were delicious.
today boston lobster was like S$99/kg instead usual S$59/kg so I did not order…and they did not have razor clams and also did not have the claypot tanhoon with alaskan crab legs we loved…so ordered a medium horfun…and it was S$30 quite ridiculous la…
well ah yat has one of the cheapest seafood, even though today lobster, crab, fish all expensive, and ah yat charges S$2.80pax for tea, nuts and napkins…
in the end it is the overall meal that counts and restaurants need to earn money la…
for the food we had $151nett for 5pax, we still very satisfied, a wonderful dinner nonetheless!
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Ah Yat Seafood @ Grandstand
Address#03-01/02, The Grandstand, 200Turf Club Road, 287994
Reservations+65 6884 6884+65 68832112
Opening Hours
Daily: 11:30 – 14:30
Daily: 17:30 – 22:30
made jumbo prawns alio olio this evening on 27.2.2021.^^
bought some jumbo prawns from Chinatown Wet Market several weeks before CNY. these were huge prawns about 8 prawns to a kg about 130g each. it was just S$20/kg so I bought 2kg.
alio olio is straight forward.
just brown garlic cloves in olive oil, added 1/2 a chilli padi. then add white wine and chicken stock & reduce. can also add prawn stock but I didn’t prepare this evening. 🙂
I made about 100g spaghetti just 1min before al dente…agaklogy lol!
add pasta to sauce, add butter, off fire and toss.
for jumbo prawns, I cut away the legs and sharp spear on the head, cleaned, cut shell & devein and cut the head shell in the middle…seasoned with sea salt, butter, black pepper in the devein flesh..then cook in open pan high then medium fire in a little olive oil in open pan maybe 4-5mins…make sure prawn is cooked..
then plate over the pasta and added sweet basil.
voila!
absolutely delicious! ^^
c.h.e.f andy
had 4pax lunch @ joie (pronounced joy) orchard central with J, GYS & LKC today on 26.2.2021.^^
today is 十五元宵节….my vegetarian day 初一十五
returning to joie, fusion french japanese vegetarian after 4yrs
https://chefquak.com/…/best-vegetarian-meal-i-had…/
looks like food still same from my only visit 4yrs back & just as good
very enjoyable..
icy lemon shooter was refreshing
chef appetiser-salmon sashimi most impressive perfect cured texture, crackers & raspberry were good
mozzarella button mushrooms (escargot) looked as delicious as before.
GYS had kami nabe (paper steamboat).
he found the first piece mushroom a bit tough second piece which i had a slice was ok…
I had charcoal tempura..it was good, or as good as tempura of banana, apple, yam, pencil asparagus and eggplant could be.
on that score i should rate this excellent- look & colour great, like the “escargot” dish, texture great, goma (sesame) dip great..
taste very good too..surprisingly the banana tasted pretty good..so overall actually pretty perfect!
we all had truffle cepes mushroom soup..as good as dozo was eons ago..will try potato cauliflower next time…
& we all had monkey mushrooms “steak” on hoba leaf 朴叶….it was good!
like thick tenderloin, tasty mash & sauce and the deepfried pasta was great..overall quite delicious…i guess as good as a mushroom steak can be lol!
GYS had coconut & blueberry false cake..i had a slice..pretty good..
rest of us had red wine poached pear..J thought it was not that good..it was ok for me..competent i guess..
drinks included..GYS & i had hawaiian blue -lychee & blueberry..a bit sweet..ok..joel had apple melody..LKC had hot lavendar tea..
nice lunch with good friends 
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Joie by Dozo
Address:
181 #12- 01 Central, Orchard Road, Singapore 238824
Contact:
tel=6838 6966
Opening Hours:
| Monday | 12–3:30PM 6–10:30PM |
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made 5pax family dinner, visited SM, JH & grandson on 25.2.2021.^^
I made-
nice simple family dinner…
c.h.e.f andy
made & delivered HCA Hospice Care 25pax lunch on 25.2.2021.^^
3 nice tasty dishes for the patients. 🙂
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wai mun bought 4pax lunch @ east bistro
dimsum maybe about ah yat standard….not imperial treasure standard..
crispy char siew pao ok tasty but a bit soft..抄手was good..
cheong fun was very smooth & sauce tasty..the best dimsum item of the 3
roast pork was good not near the best..
泡饭with crispy rice tasty soup no ingredients…a ok complementary dish to other dishes not really my favourite..
港蒸笋壳soon hock fish head was very good..very fresh, fish very fine 幼& sweet with tasty sauce..the best dish..
but very ex though at $88 for 1/2 fish head…this price doesn’t make sense to me…can get whole 800g soon hock equally fine 幼at ah eat grandstand at 1/2 the price…
coconut 炖蛋dessert quite nice worth trying $10 each we shared by 2..not quite my favourite dessert..
WM got indisputable reason to buy lunch so cannot fight with him lol!
c.h.e.f andy
son had a 8pax food tasting at south beach marriott for the family on 23.2.2021.^^
food was fine and delicious! 🙂
must say it was well above expectation for hotel banquet food. very good standard indeed.
appetiser trio was good. wasabi mayo was light 7 the nicely glazed prawn looked and tasted great, not likely the 粗dishes in places like peach garden and ban heng…
deep-fried softshell crab a bit heavily fried, nice flavours also with thai basil.
tomato infused with Japanese plum sauce was delightful…
sea cucumber soup was a nice consommé lightly sweet清…
steamed halibut was fine dish, tender, sweet & great soya sauce 港蒸flavours…
the braised 8-head abalone not the best, I had much better abalone texture and also the brown sauce in other places.
roast chicken was a pleasant surprise..tender chicken with a nice sambal-dish sauce, very good and fine dish for a roast chicken, which often mediocre dish at many places …
the passionfruit pudding was like a nice panna cotta and quite refreshing…many thought it was too milky so son decided this an dish he will replace…
overall quite excellent fine dining dishes, better than expected from a hotel banquet…
c.h.e.f andy
my OPS bro WT organised roti prata @ master prata alexandra central mall on 23.2.2021.^^
prata freshly made, crispy & dough tasty..the curry was tasty…love it!
the mysore mutton was tender, still a bit gamey taste but much better than that at sin min roti prata etc…
a place i will come back again.
c.h.e.f andy
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Master Prata @ Alexandra Central Mall
Address-
321 Alexandra Rd, Mall, #01-02 Alexandra Central, Singapore 159971
Contact-
tel=+6582688210
Opening Hours-
| daily | 10am–12am |
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made & delivered HCA Hospice Care 25pax lunch today on 18.2.2021.^^
HCA-
Yummy yummy, thank you Andy.
Wishing you a very blessed Lunar 7th-day Happy Birthday
a fruitful satisfying day…
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made dinner for wife’s brother CCK and sis CYS family – 5pax visitors on CNYday4 on 15.2.2021.^^
8pax visitors a day so had to spread out to several makan sessions with my side family, wife’s side family and vegetarian dinner for niece family..
& aunty bes added a sambal okra
chicken rice and 白斩鸡excellent as usual..
everyone liked the steamed cod, hk steamed garoupa
& also the tanhoon prawns which Ervin arranged so nicely..
the claypot tofu need improvement..tasty enough..sweet peas overcooked, sauce can improve..still dish was finished.
3 egg spinach tasty sauce as always, romaine lettuce ok.
c.h.e.f andy
made 2pax valentine day dinner on 14.2.2021.^^
this year not as good as 2020.
my chawanmushi texture not right…my recipe was doing for 5-6pax…the adjustments not enough for 2pax..so a bit viscous…
flamed jumbo prawn could be better.
donburi though was good, flavourful and the miso salmon belly seared scallops were great! 🙂
c.h.e.f andy
sumin JH & cayden came visiting on 大年初三14.2.2021.^^
wife made nice lunch..great kale salad..
aunty bes made tako calamari, crabmeat pasta
& sulin made excellent wagyu MBS4/5 ribeye steak, delicious!
c.h.e.f andy
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