We started off the lunch with Yu Sheng for Lo Hei purposes. The server (PRC lady) prepared the dish before us by adding in the various ingredients for us and uttering the appropriate Chinese phrases. And then the 6 of us "Lo Hei-ed" with great gusto, wishing for everything to get bigger/higher/better, from the stock market to advancements in career. That's the point of the dish - using a pair of chopsticks to toss the ingredients and lift each "chopstickful"of ingredients as high as possible. For the wishes to come true, one should always eat some of the yu sheng after it has been tossed. The Slog Reviews: 8/10. I'm not a Yu Sheng fan but this dish didn't taste too bad with the fresh sliced fish platter mixed in.
We had to ask the server to clean the table for us before she started serving the rest of the dishes (she was quite ready to put the plates down on the table shrewn with ingredients!). One of my colleagues did the ordering so I can't give any information at all on the prices and items on the menu. The first dish that came was sambal kangkong which was passable, being fresh and not cooked too soggy. The next dish was the beancurd. The Slog Reviews: 8.5/10. I really liked this dish which was full of butter mushrooms, sliced Chiense mushrooms, deep fried beancurd, pork slices and vegetable in a light gravy. The dish came topped with a layer of egg white which made the dish just the right amount of gooey to have with rice.
We also had pork ribs/pork chop. The Slog Reviews: 6.5/10. I wouldn't recommend this dish at all. The meat while soft enough didn't taste very nice and it seemed like the awfully thick and too-sweet sauce was used in excess to mask the tastelessness of the meat. The meat certaintly didn't taste as if it had been marinated long enough in the sauce for the sauce to permeate the meat, resulting in one having the separate taste of the meat and sauce in one's mouth at the same time. Not good.
On the other hand, the cereal prawns were excellent. The Slog Reviews: 9/10. The prawns were extremely fresh and cooked so well that the meat was firm yet sweet and wasn't stuck to the shell. The cereal was very tasty of course, even on its own eaten with rice. I can't give this dish a 10/10 because cooked this style, the prawns are meant to be eaten with the shells on but it was not possible for our meal given how hard the shells of the prawns were.
We ended the meal with black pepper crabs. The Slog Reviews: 9/10. The black pepper sauce was just the right fiery spicy and I thought the crabs were rather fresh. The meat didn't stick to the shells. The only thing I disliked about this dish was that all the eggs had fallen out of the top shell and was mixed in with the black pepper sauce making it almost impossible to fin
The total cost of the meal was about SGD 150 for 6 of us inclusive of drinks (my boss gave us a treat). While this place is a far cry from Long Beach, No SignBoard etc, it still does pretty decent seafood for really reasonable prices. And, the service isn't too bad - you just have to speak up loudly to be heard and the dishes do not take a long time to come either.
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