red eggs and angkukueh for grandson 1st month celebrations
zichar dishes for grandson 1st month celebrations dinner
wife’s kale salad
thai style fish head
prawn paste chicken
salted egg sotong
排骨王
鱼香茄子
horn
sambal fried rice
sambal fried rice
sambal Kang kong
stirred baby spinach
Kagoshima A4 wagyu sirloin
kale salad
kale salad
ice vegetables
thai style fish head
horfun
horfun
kagoshima A4 wagyu sirloin
celebrating grandson 1st month family dinner this evening on 4.3.2021.^^
wife made the red eggs & bought angkukueh from everton
& made excellent kale salad, the best!…plus ice vegetables.
i bought –
thai style fish head from forture old holland road
&
prawn paste chicken
salted egg sotong
排骨王
鱼香茄子
sambal fried rice
seafood horfunfrom hk street chun kee
at hk street old chun kee at commonwealth crescent
I cooked 2 vegetables – baby spinach & sambal kang kong…
and SL cooked mirin kagoshima A4 wagyu sirloin steak …very good
SM bought passion fruit meringue from patisserie …haven’t taken this cake for like >10yrs…very nice, reliving old memories birthdays for the children when they were much younger..
grandson growing fast, and asking more attention….
eddie brought 2 champagne 2 reds (real drinkers, respect…jo brought yamazaki, CCG brought vodka (i tried a bit with lime soda) & homemade coffee ice cream
siak brought home made thai tapioca coconut dessert
SCG brought bengawan solo lapis sagu kueh salat ..
&
LYF did the washing up solo…very paiseh..told him dare not invite him next time liao..lol!.
LCH can only arrive 8pm, so we arranged dinner at 8pm and drinks pre-dinner from 7pm onwards, and I got 烧肉 for pre-dinner bite with the champagne and reds…:-)
dishes were all good. friends all loved the 烧肉, pencai 盆菜 and teochew braised trotters 卤元蹄..only cod was a bit salty…still tasty..
really fun evening with RI brothers..wonderful time chat & laughters & all loved the food..
siak-Many thanks Ser Khoon. Food was great and company was fun. fantastic evening
eddie-All, Thanks for the great evening! Ser Khoon, thanks for cooking for us! Wonderful dishes!
LCH-Ser Khoon..thanks for the feast! eddie..the wines were super esp the white and guys thanks for the company! enjoyable evening!
HCK-thanks Ser Khoon for a dinner of dishes, one “not nicer” (cheow ghee patent) than the other. and lots of laughs and good spirits. wonderful evening!
jo-good Sat morning many thanks for the free food & for facilitating the even freer dinner conversation in very good company.
bought 3 pieces ytf and 1 piece fish cake from Sheng shion this afternoon while doing marketing for making some dishes next couple days..also bought packet of meepok..
this my noodles brand handmade meepok really good
no difference from fresh meepok at hawker stalls outside.
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!
c.h.e.f andy
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Ah Yat Seafood @ Grandstand
Address#03-01/02, The Grandstand, 200Turf Club Road, 287994
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..
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!
trio of appetizer-wasabi mayo prawn, soft-shell crab, tomatoes infused with jam plum sauce
menu
wasabi mayo prawn
mayo prawn, soft-shell crab, tomatoes infused with jam plum sauce
softshell crab
double boiled sea cucumber soup
steamed halibut HK style
braised 8-head abalone
braised 8-head abalone
roast chicken
roast chicken
pasionfruit pudding
pasionfruit pudding
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 