Tony Roma's Singapore I'm sure that Tony Roma's is not unfamiliar to most of you and many would have tried their food with either family or friends. However, today was the first time my wife and I patronised the restaurant. We find that the ambience is pretty cozy; It's like a family restaurant. Their service staff is also very friendly and attentive. Here's what we have ordered:
- Fish and Fries
The Fish is coated with a layer of bread crumbs and deep fried till it's crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. I find that the outer crust is a little too thick and they should improve their batter. A few lemon slices can still do the trick of making the dish appetising.
- Rib Combo (Consist of Half Slab of Original Baby Back Ribs with Southwestern Chicken)
The Original Baby Back Ribs is good, it is very tasty and the Ribs are cooked till it's soft and tender. The Ribs are nicely coated with a layer of their Tony Roma's BBQ sauce which is not too sweet. The Southwestern Chicken is also pretty good. The chicken part used is breats meat. The Chicken goes very well with their Salsa sauce which makes it very appetising. The cheese on the chicken also adds more flavour and texture to the dish.
- Corn on the Cob (Side Dishes)
The corn is sweet and juicy, filled with its own natural goodness. You must definitely order this dish if you are a corn lover.
- Mashed Potatoes (Side Dishes)
The Mashed Pototoes are naturally flavoured, the potatoes are mashed in wholes and that is why you can find the potato skin when you are eating the Mashed Potatoes. Bacon and Cheese is also added to give the potatoes more flavour and texture. You can taste the natural flavour of the potato as well as the condiments that enhance the dish.
- Brownie Sundae
The Brownie is warmed till it's nice and soft, giving it that spongy texture. The chocolate ice cream also goes well with the brownie. The sweet taste and cold sensation is heavenly. It sure was a great way to end the meal.
Overall, I find that the food is pretty good and the restaurant is a nice place for gathering with family and friends. Rating: 7.5/10 (Good, Can Try)
Tony Roma's Singapore
3 Temasek Boulevard
#B1-007 Suntec City Mall
S(038983)
Simei Penang Laksa Speciality (四美特味槟城叻沙) Today, I was at Yuhua Market and Hawker Centre to check out the laksa at this stall called Simei Penang Laksa Speciality. I ordered a bowl of Laksa for S$3.00. The Laksa was delicious, the gravy was very thick and tasty. The bee hoon has goes well with the gravy, making it very tasty, you can find ingredients like bean sprouts, cockles, tau pok and hard boiled egg. The laksa is indeed one of the better ones I have tasted and it will satisfy your craving. Rating: 7.5/10 (Good, Can Try)
Simei Penang Laksa Speciality (四美特味槟城叻沙)
Blk 347 Jurong East Avenue 1
#01-199 Yuhua Market and Hawker Centre
S(600347)
Fine Palate Cafe The restaurant week is about to come to an end for 2012, the second restaurant that I'm checking out with my wife is called Fine Palate Cafe. Here's what we have ordered for the set lunch menu:
- Wild Mushroom Salad
The vegetables are fresh and very crunchy with a tinge of vinaigrette dressing, the mushrooms are sauteed to bring out its natural flavour and it was absolutely fragrant.
- Chicken Liver Mousse
I find that the Chicken Liver Mousse is very rich and creamy, it also has a strong cheesy taste. This dish is not for you if you do not like dairy products.
- Chicken Leek Pie
The Chicken Leek Pie is superb, the chicken and leek was stewed till it is nice and soft. The gravy has the taken the flavours of the chicken and leek making it very rich and tasty. It goes extremely well with the puff pastry.
- Seafood Marinara
This dish is pretty good, the doneness of the pasta is just nice and the ingredients are also fresh. The pasta has a strong seafood taste and you will like this if you are a seafood lover. However, I do find that the pasta is a little dry and it could be better if there are more sauce added to the dish.
- Chocolate Marquise
The Chocolate Marquise is pretty good, it is not too sweet and has a smooth chocolaty taste.
- Citrus Creme Caramel
The Citrus Creme Caramel is smooth and silky. In terms of texture, think bean curd. It goes well with the grapefruit and oranges, giving it a refreshing taste to the palate.
Overall I find that the food here, especially the Chicken and Leek Pie, is pretty good. It's definitely worth trying. Rating: 7/10 (Good, Can Try)
Fine Palate Cafe
51 Waterloo Street
#01-04/05
S(187969)
Oktober Restaurant & Bar Today is the start of restaurant week and at the same time celebrate my wife's birthday. I brought her to this restaurant called Oktober Restaurant & Bar. The restaurant has a nice ambience that is perfect for chilling out. Here's what we have ordered:
- Pan-seared Duck Liver served with marinated Red Onion & Port Wine reduction
The Duck Liver is delicious and the doneness is perfect, the duck liver is so soft and sliky like eating bean curd. It just seems to dissolve in your mouth, it has a nice grilled taste with a tinge of sweetness from the port wine.
- Fresh Chilled Pacific Oysters
The oysters are fresh and goes well with the lemon just the way I like it.
- Grilled Wagyu Beef Top Sirloin with Gratin Potato serve with Black Olive Sauce
The Wagyu Beef is tasty and the doneness is just the the way I like it to be medium, I find that it can be better is there some brown sauce to give it a little more flavour. The gratin potato is pretty good, nice and moist.
- Oven Roasted Spring Chicken on Du Puy Lentil & Chicken Jus
The Roasted Spring Chicken is pretty normal, I find that the chicken is roasted till the meat is too dry and it can be better if it was marintated with some spicies to add more flavour to the dish.
- Chocolate and Banana Bread Pudding
The Chocolate and Banana Bread Pudding is nice and soft, it has also been heated up and you can smell the chocolate scent coming from the pudding. This pudding is not too sweet but can be very heavy after a while.
Overall, I find the food is pretty good and a nice place for chilling out...cheers! Rating: 6.5/10 (Above Average)
Oktober Restaurant & Bar
18E Dempsey Road
S(246677)
Singapura Seafood Restaurant It has been a couple of years since the last time I patronised this restaurant called Singapura Seafood Restaurant. Today, I'm back with my family to have dinner at the restaurant. Here's what we have ordered:
- Singapura Cold Crab
The Cold Crab is awesome! It is fresh and the flesh is sweet and thick. The roe is rich and creamy and very satisfying. And it goes marvellously well with the chilli sauce that is served together. Delicious is an understatement!
- Fuzhou Fishball Soup
If you like Fuzhou Fishballs, you will like the meat fillings in the fishball. They added seaweed to give the soup a little more flavour, this dish is simple hence gives you a feeling of home cooked food. But that's about all that I would say, nothing fantastic actually.
- Egg Omelette With Shark Fins
The Egg Omelette is fragrant and tasty, the bean sprouts adds crunch to the texture and there is also parsely to garnish and lighten the taste. The shark fins adds a little more texture to the dish but you can't really taste much of it. I must say that the egg omelette taste good on it's own even without the shark fins. So it is not really worth paying a higher price for the shark's fins that are added to the dish.
- Crispy Roast Chicken
The Crispy Roast Chicken is delicious. The skin is crispy and the meat is tasty but a little salty too. It takes alot of skill to roast the chicken to such crisp and yet not too oily.
- Braised Toufu
The braised Toufu is pretty good, the braised sauce is thick and tasty. You can also find ingredients like vegetables, sliced pork and seafood in it. Certainly a good dish to go with your bowl of white rice.
- Fuzhou Fried Noodles
The Fuzhou Fried Noodles is very tasty. It is like the equivalent of Hokkien Mee cooked with a lot of seafood. If I could name it, I will call it Seafood Flavour Hokkien Mee. You can even taste the seafood sweetness in the gravy. If you are a seafood lover, you will like this dish. There are ingredients like clams, prawns, sotong, sliced pork and vegetables. I find that this dish is very unique and delicious.
- Yam Paste With Gingko Nut
The Yam Paste is a great way to end the meal. The Yam paste, that comes with mashed pumpkin and gingko nuts, is very smooth and the sweetness is just nice. The portion is just nice for everyone to have one bowl but it's so nice I wished I could have a second helping.
Overall, I find that the restaurant serves a wide variety of food and the dishes that we tried are generally good. Definitely worth a try! Rating: 8/10 (Good, Must Try)
Singapura Seafood Restaurant
Blk 9 Selegie Road
#01-31 Selegie House
S(180009)
Sin Heng Noodle I was at Sin Kee Heong Coffeeshop located at Commonwealth Crescent to check out this stall called Sin Heng Noodle. I noticed that they had a newspaper article pasted on the front which features their Special Prawn Noodle. I ordered a bowl of Special Prawn Kway Teow Dry with Extra Chilli for S$3.00. The Prawn Noodle is quite tasty, the chilli sauce reminds me the taste of traditional prawn noodle. The spring onions is very fragrant and adds more flavour to the dish. The soup is sweet with the goodness of the prawns. Overall, I find that the Prawn Noodle is above average and you can give it a try if you are not too fussy about prawn noodles. Rating: 6.5/10 (Above Average)
Sin Heng Noodle
Blk 117 Commonwealth Crescent
#01-711 Sin Kee Heong Coffeeshop
S(140117)
Old Empire Gastrobar Today I was going to check out this restaurant called Old Empire Gastrobar. Heard that they serve over 76 types of beer. I ordered a Marston's Pedigree Pale Ale for a start. Here's what I ordered to go with my beer:
- Tomato Soup
The Tomato Soup is tasty and has a strong taste of the tomato. It is just like drinking tomato puree. This dish is very appetising and goes very well with the focaccia bread.
- Grilled Chicken with Portabella Mushrooms
The Grilled Chicken is very tasty and is grilled to perfection, the skin is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The doneness is one of the better ones I have tasted. The Portabella Mushrooms makes the dish very fragrant. Instead of the usual fries, the pan fried cucumber and baby potatoes makes the dish a healthier choice.
- Brownie and Ice Cream
The Brownie is warm, soft and not too sweet, it goes well with the vanilla ice cream. What a heavenly dessert to end the meal with.
Overall, I find that the food is pretty good and the restaurant is a nice place to chill out at, especially for beer lovers. Cheers! Rating: 8/10 (Good, Must Try)
Old Empire Gastrobar
491 River Valley Road
#01-16 Valley Point
S(248371)
Tawandang Microbrewery It has been quite a while since I chilled out with my buddy, I made a reservation at Tawandang Microbrewery to chill out that evening. I have been there a couple of times with my wife and friends. I find that their food is pretty good and I especially like their Deep Fried Pork Knuckle. Here's what we have ordered:
- Spicy Tom Yam Soup with River Prawns and Coconut Milk
The Tom Yam Soup is tasty and and very appetising. Even though they added coconut milk, it still taste like the clear Tom Yam Soup. The ingredients are fresh and the prawns are also very succulent. However, for those of you who are not able to take spicy food, this might be beyond your threshold.
- Deep Fried Pork Knuckle Served With Spicy Sauce
The Deep Fried Pork Knuckle is my favourite dish, the skin is crispy on the outside and the meat does not taste oily. This dish goes well with the spicy chilli sauce. Even the side dishes like the radish taste very good, it is well marinated with spices that makes it very fragrant.
Overall, I find that the food is pretty good and it's a nice place to dine and have a mug of beer to chill. Cheers! Rating: 8/10 (Good, Must Try)
Tawandang Microbrewery
Blk 26 Dempsey Road
#01-01
S(249686)
Depot Road Zhen Shan Mei Claypot Laksa Today, I was at Bukit Merah Hawker Centre to have my favourite laksa from Depot Road Zhen Shan Mei Claypot Laksa. It has been quite a while since I had a delicious bowl of laksa, you can always see a long queue at this stall and the expected waiting time is about 20 minutes. I ordered the big Claypot Laksa for S$5.50. The smell of the Laksa was already oozing out from the claypot even before I even taste it. The taste was even better than the smell. The gravy was thick and very fragrant, the bee hoon has aborbed the goodness of the gravy, making it very tasty. The secret to their success is their freshly squeezed coconut milk and fresh ingredients that makes the Laksa taste so good. You can find ingredients like bean sprouts, cockles, shredded chicken, tau pok, fish cake and prawns. The claypot also helps to maintain the temperature of the Laksa so that the customers can enjoy the hot and piping Laksa. I find that the wait was well worth it and it sure was satifying. Overall, this is one of the best Laksa I have ever tasted. You must give it a try or you will regret it! Rating: 9/10 (Die Die Must Try)
Depot Road Zhen Shan Mei Claypot Laksa
Blk 120 Bukit Merah Lane 1
#01-75
S(150120)
Lawry's The Prime Rib Singapore Today, I was with my wife at Lawry's to check out their famous roast prime rib beef. Lawry's well known internationally for their finest quality beef. Every prime rib is specially selected, then aged and slowly roasted for natural tenderness. Here's what we tried:
- The Famous Original Spinning Bowl Salad
The salad is appetising and the vegetables are fresh and crunchy. The ingredients like crisp romaine, iceberg lettuce, watercress, shredded beets, chopped eggs and croutons are tossed with their exclusive Lawry's vintage dressing on a bed of ice. This dish is served with every main course you order.
- Classic Minestrone
The soup is very appetising, you can find ingredients like carrots, tomatoes, kidney beans, leek and onions.
- Cream Of Mushroom
The soup is tasty, it is thick and filled with the natural goodness of the mushrooms. You can even taste the mushroom bits in the soup.
- Yorkshire Pudding
The Yorkshire Pudding is delicious with a tinge of sweetness, it is baked in small skillets till it's puffy and golden brown.
- The Lawry's Cut
The roast beef is absolutely delicious, it is the best I have ever tasted. I asked for the doneness of the beef to be medium and the texture is just perfect. The beef is fresh and does not have any beefy smell even though it does not taste heavily marinated. The beef is also roasted till it's nice and juicy, even the tendons and fats melt and dissolve in your mouth. The beef also goes well with the horseradish. If you like wasabi, you will find the taste heavenly. I find the the Idaho Mashed Potatoes smooth and it goes well with the sauce. The Creamed Corn is very tasty naturally sweetness.
- Champagne Cajun Fish & Chips
The batter is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. The fish is also very fresh and does not have any fishy smell. It also goes well with the vinegar that makes the dish very appetising.
- English Trifle
The English Trifle has a refreshing taste that is not too sweet, the light and fluffy sponge cake is laced with Rum, Sherry, vanilla custard cream, strawberries, and fresh whipped cream. What a way to end the meal.
Overall, I find that the beef is superb and you must definitely try it once in a lifetime or you will not know the goodness that you are missing out on. Rating: 9/10 (Die Die Must Try)
Lawry's The Prime Rib Singapore
333A Orchard Road
#04-01/31 Mandarin Gallery. Mandarin Orchard
S(238897)
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