1/2 roast London duck – S$32
went with friend for lunch at tunglok signature @ orchard parade on 6.4.2016. ^^
just returned from london last evening. had an excellent family holiday in london, lisbon, porto with wife, son & daughter.
my OPS friend bought me an excellent G7 Sinma frog porridge lunch on 11.3.2016 before my trip.
so my turn to buy lunch. 🙂
garlic steamed razor clams – S$12.80
we started with a steamed razor clam.
clam was smaller than what usually is served in say ah yat, jumbo, long beach etc. the sauce a bit gluey, but overall the taste was still very good. 🙂
i would order this again, also after 50% palate discounts for 2pax, this dish was only S$6.40++.
lie tong 例汤 1/2 pot=S$16
we shared 1/2 pot lie tong 例汤 1/2 pot at S$16 (full pot S$28).
lie tong 例汤 always good here, and at others like imperial treasure etc. for me, a good lie tong 例汤 1/2 (they usually very good la) is better than taking sharksfin (politically incorrect) or even fishmaw soup.
1/2 roast London duck – S$32
& i wanted to let my friend try the roast london duck. ^^
they used irish duck which is fatter & more flavourful.
can’t it’s better than the tea smoked duck at xin cuisine,
but certainly it is better than the very good roast duck at canton paradise.
Rack of lamb – S$15
rack of lamb was good too, tender not too strong gamey taste. but chinese preparation is for me, never as good for this dish c/w with modern european.
we shared one order.
String beans – S$18
string beans was more ex, basically S$18 is a good restuarant kind of pricing for veg.
Garoupa fillet noodles soup – S$12
i had a zhajiangmian variation here with my wife recently.
this time, it was a garoupa fillet noodle soup.
it was good, soup very tasty, garoupa fillet fresh & sweet.
we shared one order.
Very Good CNY Set Lunch @ Char on 3Mar2015
char siew
a fundonate partner organised a lohei lunch at char on 3.3.2015.^^
we had the S$38pax CNY set. it was good!
lohei
some staff were foreigners, so we waited for a chinese speaking local staff to do the lohei.
a friend asked the staff to drizzle just 1/2 the sweet sauce & 1/2 the oil. results was good.
the amount of salmon was puny, unlike what we had for dinner at mitzo. otherwise, i enjoyed this lohei.^^
fishmaw soup
the fish maw & scallop soup was excellent! very very tasty, 1 of the best i had!
3 roasts = char siew, roast pork, roast duck
the char siew with the special sauce (though a bit sweet) was best! 🙂
the roast pork was tasty, not quite crackling skin but skin was edible. the duck was forgettable, very below par.
steamed garoupa
steamed garoupa
steamed garoupa was good, fresh, sauce was excellent with a tinge of sesame oil, fish was fresh, sweet & firm.^^
brocoli with crab meat
brocoli with crab meat
broccoli with crabmeat was good if quite standard fare.
prawn fried rice
prawn fried rice was simple but good too!
red bean paste with lotus seeds
red bean paste with lotus seed was just ok. no 陈皮 old orange peel & lotus seed not cooked enough.
my friends said this place packed in the evening & he usually just call up & order the char siew.^^
c.h.e.f andy
Protected: RI G20 23pax Dinner Get-Together @ Ah Orh on 20Feb2014
Great Teochew Food 23pax Dinner Get-Together @ Ah Orh on 20Feb2014
teochew braised duck
had our largest G20 gathering last evening at ah orh at jalan bukit merah on 20.2.2014. 🙂
it was the handy work of 1 of our friends, with his megawatt smile & shining hallo…lol…especially his ability to ring in the gals. we had 23pax (including 3 ladies) on 3 tables, a meeting (or eating!) record! it was 25, but 1 was held up in a meeting, another was ill.
ah orh had mixed reviews & mostly dated. most thought it was expensive for the food (it may still be probably but it often depends on food ordered). anyhow there was a deal.com offer & the organiser bought 3 vouchers of S$150 worth at S$97.50 each – 1 voucher was allowed for each table. 🙂
some friends went early to order the dishes. we had in total 9 dishes & the cost came to S$23+ all-in (about S$180+ per table) after redeeming the vouchers, so it was in fact very good value-for-money even considering that we did not order the usual teochew pomfret, cold crab etc.
deep-fried fish skin
there was deep-fried fish skin as table starter. pretty good!
teochew braised duck
#1 the braised duck platter (top photo & above) was good – moist, flavourful. i would say as good as imperial treasure teochew & better than muliangzai liang kee & chui huay lim. 🙂 the lor bah (braised belly pork) was good too.
fishmaw soup
#2 fishmaw soup was tasty, but maybe just average. the one at beng thin we had recently was substantially better.
ter kar tan (pig trotter jelly)
ter kar tan (pig trotter jelly)
#3 the ter kar tan (pig trotter jelly) was very good – firm, flavourful. there was also good chilli & “seng ni cho” 蒜泥醋 dip. this was as good as chui huay lim, imperial treasure teochew & crystal jade.
yam basket
#4 the yam basket was i supposed really excellent for this dish – yam was tasty & very crisp outside yet “sang” inside & very good combination in texture & taste with the fillings. a very good dish though yam basket not my favourite. 🙂
kailan with ti poh
#5 the kailan with ti poh was competent. vegetable was fresh & crunchy. the ti poh (a teochew favourite condiment not so often seen) added to the attraction but perhaps the wok hae was kind of lacking a bit.
teck kia fish with bitter gourd in black bean sauce
#6 not sure about this teck kia fish (竹仔鱼) dish, certainly competent but the fish had more bones than meat. at kok sen, they used some fish head & added chunky fish meat which worked well to accompany the black bean sauce & was much better overall by comparison.
hae chor
＃7 hae chor was quite ok, competent, nothing special.
orh luah
#8 orh luah was pretty good, large fleshy oysters.
orh nee
#9 orh nee was better than expected, tasty, i liked it but would have been better with pumpkin though. 🙂
company & fellowship were the key in our get-togethers of course, but we did come to eat & overall the food was quite good & the price of $23pax very reasonable after the deal.com offer, not much different from say muliangzai liang kee, and food we had here were better. 🙂 w/o the offer, it would cost about $30pax which was still not a bad deal, about same as what we had at shin yeh at our last 20pax dinner.
c.h.e.f. andy
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