Tang Shifu

Was running really low on fuel today so decided to go into JB to pump petrol. Had to pay S$10 to top up some petrol along the way first so I wouldn't be in breach of the 2/3 tank rule - the cost was about SGD 1.80 per litre for Shell 95. The cost to pump better quality petrol (Shell 97) in Malaysia works out to be about SGD 80 cents per litre. Of cos with the 2/3 tank rule it doesn't make sense for me to drive from my home in the north-east, queue for 1/2 - 1hr to clear both customs just to pump that 1/3 tank of fuel so to make it worth the while, I do grocery shopping and eat in JB as well.

This time, we decided to have dinner at a different place called Tang Shifu (which translates to Soup Master in Eng) that looked relatively crowded for a weekday night compared to the other restaurants on the third floor of Tebrau City. This is the entrance of the restaurant which is located at the center portion of the third floor of the shopping mall.


The service was good, given the number of staff and that the restaurant wasn't filled to its capacity. We were handed two menus - one setting out the set menus for a fixed number of pax. The cost of each set menu was in the hundreds so we dispensed with that menu. The other menu which was impressively bound set out the cheaper set meals, ala carte dishes, desserts (bird nest soup even) and drinks. The most expensive item in there was less than RM100 if I remember rightly.

We were served with preserved guava as an appetiser but neither of us liked guava so we asked for the dish to be removed (oh no, I forgot to check the bill whether we had to pay for this!). We each ordered a bottle of cold american ginseng tea (top left pic) which came in a bottle and a stone mug for us to pour the drink into. For the dishes, it was easier to pick the set meals and I had the American Ginseng Nourishing Soup Set priced at RM23.80 (bottom right pic) while my eating companion order the mee sua set priced at RM 18.90 (bottom left pic). We also shared a veg dish which was about RM 8.90.

The Slog Reviews: 8/10 for the american ginseng tea drink which was refreshing. 5/10 for the veg dish which was tasteless and overpriced for a few leaves. I can't comment on my food companion's mee sua set meal but he seemed to enjoy the herbal soup well enough. His only comment was that the meal wasn't filling. As for my own set meal, I would give that a 4/10. The brown rice was tasteless, grainy and hard. The black beans and whatever it was next to the beans in the small dish was really not worth eating given how soggy and mashed the beans were. And, as for the soup, the black chicken was overcooked so that the meat was tasteless and hard (there was absolutely no flavor to the meat which should have been the case if the chicken was cooked in herbs for a long time) and worse of all, the amount of meat on the bones was for want of a better adjective, pathetic. The soup was "herbal-tasting" enough but not rich enough in taste unlike the herbal soups that I have drunk before. The price of RM 23.80 which is about SGD 10 for this set meal isn't worth it in short. I wouldn't recommend going to this place for dinner if one is at Jusco - there are better places to spend your money on a meal (and the KFC there is not one of them by the way). The total cost of the meal for us was RM 60 (SGD 25) which I thought was on the higher end for such inferior-tasting food. And it really is inferior tasting - and I don't think it was because I had lunch at Gunthers yesterday (too bad it was lunch with vvvvvips and those who decide my pay/fate else I would have taken pics of the caviar appetiser and my kurobuta pork shoulder slices drenched with truffle juice and the fine apple tart!!!!)

On a side note, Tang Shifu restaurant is part of the premises of a traditional Chinese medicine shop which sells abalone, bird nest, ginseng etc. I didn't take a look at what was being sold after the disappointing meal. One could do better with soups sold at a food court in SG for less the price.

Food Center at 10/5 Permas Jaya

One of the things I really like going into JB for when I go in for gas, is their hawker (food center)'s food which is a fraction of the prices we pay here in Singapore and almost always equally good.

We were looking for pekin restaurant near stulang laut and permas jaya but in the end, I lost my way even with the GPS and we ended up at Permas Jaya. We thought of eating at Nijyumaru but it was impossible to get parking near and around the restaurant. In our bid to find a space to park, we ended up driving right to the end of the road where the open-air food center was. Hungry (it was about 8+), we ended up eating there instead and ended up ordering too much.

The Slog Reviews: 8/10 for the bak kut teh soup which is really popular (almost all the tables had a bowl). The portion for 2 below, with 2 bowls of rice cost RM 15 (rice at RM1) and the soup which had mushrooms, tau kee and tender meat was tasty though just a bit too salty. The dish at the far end is the Mongolian pork ribs which my fishing shifu introduced me to and comes from the same stall as the sambal kangkong (the store nearest the fishing tackle shop sells such tze char items). The pork ribs sauce was very much like satay sauce but the meat was thick and juicy. As for the kangkong, it wasn't too spicy but then I hadn't asked for it to be extra spicy. Both are worth a try. However, the sambal bbq fish was a disappointment. At RM 16, it tasted bland with the sambal sauce a tasteless watery mash - not that the dish was inedible but it was sub-par even for hawker standards. A far cry from the one I had at this other food center in JB (click here). The address of the place is Jalan Permas Jaya 10/5, just next to Fishingline tackle shop.

Restoran / Restaurant Pekin @ Sutera Utama

Last week, I had dinner at the famous restoran / restaurant Pekin located at Sutera Mall. We didn't make reservations of course, given that it was an impromptu decision to drive to the Tmn Sutera area, but the restaurant was a really large one (much like the banquet halls of our hotels) and we had no problem being shown to a table and served very promptly and politely by the Chinese speaking staff. This is afterall, a Chinese restaurant and a higher-end one at that.


The menus and even the wet towels looked pretty classy (hard-cover menus and towel packets imprinted with the name of the restaurant) and the servers were able to recommend several dishes to us. Of course, the prices there are double the normal prices of similar items served at coffee shops in JB. The restaurant also sells Sharkfin and Abalone dishes which are priced in the hundreds.

We ordered from the chef's recommendation list on the first page of the menu:

(1) Goose Liver Scallops Fried Rice (RM 18 per pax) [ Top left pic]
(2) Veg with Home-made Beancurd (RM 7.50 per pax) [Bottom left pic]
(3) Twin Combinations Beancurd (RM 5 per pax) [Bottom right pic]

We also had the BBQ pork which was priced at RM 15 for a medium-sized portion [top right pic]. The Slog Reviews: 7.5/10 for (1) because while we could find bits of scallops, we didn't find any goose liver at all in the rice (probably all mashed up). The dish however is rather filling as it should be since it is about SGD 8 for one portion. AS for items (2) and (3), I would give them 5.5/10. (3) is slightly worse than (2) which is at least unique, having bits of veg blended with the toufu. (3) is just a really normal toufu dish which doesn't taste the least bit special.


What however, made up for the lacklustre dishes above was the egg dish we ordered on impulse. I can't remember the exact name of the dish which is found under the "egg" section of the menu but it consists of 3 types of eggs. The medium portion which we shared cost RM 15. The Slog Reviews: 8.5/10. For the price (SGD 7), this dish is quite filling and very tasty and full of ingredients like mushrooms etc other than the eggs. A should-try really.

Total cost of the meal above consisting of the goose liver scallops rice and 4 side dishes was just RM 87 which is less than SGD 40! With that kind of price, service and environment, I would say that Restoran Pekin at Sutera Mall is a place to go if one has a craving for Chinese food if one is in JB. The Contact Number of the restaurant is: :607-557 3899, 607-5561768, 551818 and the address is , No 1 Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/4, Sutera Utamabiz Centre, Taman Sutera Utama 81300 Skudai.

Nijyumaru Japanese Restaurant at Johor Bahru

So as I was running low on gas last Thursday before going to Langkawi, I decided to go to Johor Bahru for dinner at the same time. By the way, white cards are required again (started yesterday apparently) by the Msia customs and the new white cards are different from the old ones. I also learnt today that all Touch N Go Cards have an expiry date of 10 years. The cost of one card is RM20 with a stored value of RM10.

I had been wanting to have dinner at Nijyumaru Japanese Restaurant for some time after reading on someone's blog that it is supposed to be one of the best Japanese restaurants in Johor Bahru. The address is at No 24 Jalan Permas 10/5 Bandar Baru Permas Jaya 81750 Johor Bahru, Malaysia and the telephone number is 607-388-9813. If you drive in from JB using the Permas Jaya Bridge, you will pass the BP station on your left and take the first left turn after the station, drive all the way to the end and turn right. They have another outlet at Taman Sutera, Skudai next to Sutera Mall at the row of shophouses near the restoran pekin side of the mall.

The picture below is of one of the walls of the restaurant which my table was facing ( I had to take off my shoes to step on the platform). The decor of the restaurant is very well done by JB restaurant standards and there are partitions for seperate side rooms (without a door) located off the main dining area. It is advisable to make reservations because I was asked if I had made one upon entering and was apparently only given a table because of the lateness of the hour.

The restaurant has a pretty comprehensive menu with a page dedicated for lunch specials which are cheaper than the other set meal options. There is also a large range of Japanese wine offered together with various types of ramen ranging from RM 13 to RM 16. There is a set meal named after the restaurant which is about RM 38. There are sushi and sashimi options on the menu too which are priced almost similarly to that of a decent Jap restaurant in Singapore. This restaurant isn't the sushi conveyor belt kind of restaurant. Anyway, I ordered the Unagi Tempura set meal per the picture below. The cost was less than RM 30 (I can't remember because I didn't pay). Other than the tempura and unagi, the set meal came with miso soup, 2 small slices of watermelon, tuna and some greens. The Slog Reviews: 7.5/10. Nothing impressive, nothing remarkable unfortunately. The unagi sauce was a tad too salty and the tempura consisted of one prawn and two pcs of veg.

However, I did like the "Sharkfin" Chawan Mushi (RM 10) per the picture below which was chockful of ingredients - mushrooms, pcs of meat, crab stick and "sharkfin". The Slog Reviews: 8/10.
The total cost of the meal for 2 pp was about RM 60 which is SGD 24 at the current exchange rate. It would not be possible to have a meal for the price in a restaurant like Nijyumaru in Singapore so if one happens to be in JB and one likes Japanese food, this could be a restaurant to go to. However,I wouldn't deliberately go to Permas Jaya just for this restaurant, much less drive up to JB for a meal here.

Korean Garden Club Restaurant at Johor Bahru

A few months ago, I was introduced to the Korean Garden Club Restaurant which is situated en route to the Danga Bay area along the road parallel to the Johor Straits. The restaurant is on the right side of the road if you are travelling towards Danga Bay from City Square at Pusat Bandaraya/customs area so one has to look out for its large red signboard to turn in (across traffic in the opposite direction) and go up a small slope to a white bungalow where the restaurant is situated. Parking is free on the bungalow's premises and there is indoor (there is a tv and air-conditioning) and outdoor (one can see the waters of the straits) seating. The address is No. 20, Jalan Skudai, Straits View, Johor Bahru, Johor 80200 Tel: 07-2244733 and the restaurant is opened from 12noon to 11pm.

This time round when I went back, I opted for the set meal for 2-3person priced at RM110. As with most Korean meals, the complimentary side dishes came first. There were 9 side dishes ranging from kimchi, cockles, bean sprouts, mashed potato salad, mushrooms, seaweed, anchoives, green veg and boiled eggs in brown sauce. We could find absolutely no fault with any of the 9 simple side dishes.

There is a cooking area in the middle of each table where the meat is cooked in front of one's eyes by the servers in the restaurants (no, this is not a diy restaurant). And, the meat isn't cooked by the conventional gas flames but by the flames from a charcoal pot. The bottom of the steel pan can be removed and a pot of lit charcoal is placed in the hollow. The picture below is of the first main course we had which was sliced ox tongue. Each piece was so thin and delicate and the server cooking the meat for us cooked each slice to perfection despite the roaring flames from the charcoal pot below.

The second main course we had was the marinated short ribs beef. The steel pan with the ox tongue was removed and replaced with a steel pan containing the short ribs. There are no bones to this thing by the way - it's a large slab of absolutely mouth-wateringly orgasmic slab of beef meat. The server cooked the meat again to just the right tenderness and sliced it into bite-sized portions which he put on a vegetable leaf for us to eat at leisure from.

The next 2 items on the set meal which we ordered were stonepot rice and toufu soup. Another server brought over the two items which came in the black traditional korean stonepots and set it on a foldable table next to our table. Both items were sizzling hot and she mixed/stirred both items in front of us before distributing it evenly in the two bowls.

A close up picture of the toufu soup and stonepot rice in the picture below. The toufu soup was so good that we drained the bowl to the last drop. It was full of veg, mushrooms and soft fresh toufu. The soft toufu contrasted nicely with the heat of the spicy soup in one's mouth and it was a most satisfying soup which did not leave one feeling thirsty. The stonepot rice was so-so.

The Slog Reviews: 9/10. If you are in Johor and if you want to enjoy a good meal of bbq korean food, this should be the place to go. Good customer service, clean premises and a beef lover's delight. For all of the above and 2 cups of aloe vera juice (1 cup is RM4), the bill came to RM 130+ (SGD 50+) only.

Arashi Shabu Shabu Restaurant at Jusco Tebrau City

I had lunch at Arashi Shabu Shabu Japanese Restaurant at Johor Bahru's Jusco Tebrau City some time ago. The restaurant is fairly new and it is evident that a lot of thought has gone into the decor of the place to make it look more upmarket.


According to the materials on each table, what makes Arashi unique is its sauce bar which a customer having a shabu shabu meal can help oneself to (or pay RM2 if one isn't having a shabu shabu meal). The customer can mix and match the various types of sauces which consist of satay sauce, special sauce, devil sauce, sesame sauce, chinese parsley, tonkatsu sauce, teriyaki sauce, mala sauce and miso sauce.

The cost of a shabu shabu meal starts from RM 16.90 and one has a choice of miso broth or japanese broth. To have the kimuchi or tom yam broth, one would have to add a further RM2. There are no refills for the broth. The types of shabu shabu meals are ostrich meat, beef, seafood scallop, tempura etc. If one does not want shabu shabu, one can choose from the set meal page. The prices for the set meals from RM 19.90 to RM 28.90. We shared one ostrich meat shabu shabu ramen set and one beef shabu shabu ramen set with 2 cups of iced green tea which came in total to about RM 43.

The Slog Reviews: 7.5/10. While the ambiance of the restaurant and service level were above average, the portion of the food served for the price paid could be a tad too little - especially for a restaurant which isn't considered fine-dining. The sauces at the sauce bar are also far from exceptional save for the variety which is more than the norm and the ability for one to mix and match the sauces to a combination that one might enjoy.

Restoran / restaurant Kim Rock at Bukit Indah, JB

We had dinner today at Restaurant Kim Rock which is located near Jusco Aeon Bukit Indah, Johor Bahru. The last time I ate here was about half a year ago (which should tell you something). The reason for choosing this restaurant is because it has air-conditioning and two TVs in the air-conditioned area with Singapore channels. My mother unfortunately, is quite addicted to the Taiwanese drama serial "Love" which has been going on a darn long time every weekend at 7pm and is not willing to miss a single episode of the series. Therefore, when we drive in to JB for dinner, this is the only place which will meet all her needs and my sister's craving for some decent cheap seafood.

Dinner (as was lunch at tea garden which I will write about another time) consisted of 6 dishes: Sambal kangkong (you can see a bit of it at the bottom right pic), claypot seafood (bottom right) at RM30, 1 crab cooked in black pepper (top right) at RM 25, 1 crab cooked in herbs (bottom left) at RM 25, shrimp omelette at RM 10 and the restaurant's speciality, the marinated pork ribs (top left) at RM 22. The cost of all of the dishes, 2 plates of rice and 5 cans of soft drinks was RM 135.

The Slog Reviews: 6.5/10. The standard of cooking definitely has fallen since half a year back. The kangkong was not hot (rather bland in fact) despite our request to make it spicy, the crabs while fresh (we handpicked them from the tank) were not succulent or sweet and the pork ribs were too hard and chewy for our liking. The sauce it was marinated in was neither too sweet or sour, resulting in most of the dish left untouched. The only dishes really worth their price were the shrimp omelette and the claypot seafood which had plenty of mushrooms (that isn't a seafood hmmm), sea cucumber, fish maw and shrimps. The gravy was thick and marginally tasty. As for the service, the food was served quickly, and the staff were very friendly and polite.

Of course, no trip to JB is complete without durians. We polished off two durians in Malaysia and bought back another 3 for RM12/kg. Total cost of the five D24 durians: RM90. The Slog Reviews: 8/10. Good creamy durians but nothing, and I mean, nothing compares to the durians which I had at Sakil last year. I think I shall write about that durian road trip next.

No more prawn fishing at Jalan Harimau

In my earlier entry on where to go prawn fishing, one of the places I'd found on the net and listed there was No. 10479, Jalan Harimau , Taman Century, 80250 JB. Well, I've taken it off the list now because after work today, I drove all the way up to Johor Bahru, queued a good 30mins at the customs, missed eating at a nice Jap restaurant all to check out the place and....nada. No such prawn fishing place. Maybe there was a long time ago, but there certainly isn't any now. I even asked the hawkers and dvd sellers at Pusat Makanan Centre Point (Medan Selera Food Center on my GPS). What a colossal waste of time.

So I had dinner instead at the hawker center. This hawker center is located behind Grand Paragon Hotel in JB and has a wide variety of food choices from claypot chicken rice to zi cha to satay. Despite that, and despite havinga pirated dvd stall right in the middle of the center, I wouldn't say that this is a must-visit, must-eat-at place. I ordered the sambal bbq fish and kangkong from the stall next to the stall named yummy wanton. The cost was RM23 (SGD 10) for both items. The Slog Reviews: 8/10 for the bbq fish which was fresh and tasty. The sambal chilli on the top of the fish was also delightfully fresh and spicy enough. However, the kangkong was a disappointment as it was pretty much tasteless and too oily. As for the satay which we ordered from the Malay satay stall (there is a Chinese satay stall), the ketupat was too soft and crummy and there wasn't much meat on the satay sticks. Although it only cost RM 6 (SGD 2.40) which is an unbeatable price, I wouldn't advise you spending calories on that.

And of course, no trip to Malaysia is ever complete without durians! The regular durian seller at Jalan Cantik 8 (he is only there in the night, sells out of a van and is parked in a dark spot) was out of XO durians by the time we got there so we settled for Super durians instead. The cost was RM12/kg (SGD 5/kg) for the two durians I bought back (see pic below) and I ate an entire 1kg durian there by myself. :)

The Manhattan Fish Market at Jusco Tebrau City and Durians

My petrol was at the 3/4 mark (anything lower than that, one risks a fine of SGD 500 if caught at the Singapore custom going into Msia) so I decided to go into JB to pump petrol and to make the journey worth-while, have dinner and do some grocery shopping there as well. Thankfully, at 6.30pm, there wasn't the usual jam (that is usually from 7pm to 9.30pm) and I cleared both countries' customs in about half an hour only. There was a jam going to Jusco though, with all the reckless malaysian motorcyclists squeezing and speeding between cars. If one isn't used to driving in Msia, it can be quite intimidating because of these motorcyclists whizzing past noisily on both sides of your car.

I got to Jusco, Tebrau City around 7.15pm...I was so hungry by then (I don't think I had a proper lunch cos I went to the gym at the office) that I went for the tried and tested - The Manhattan Fish Market restaurant. While waiting for the main course, I went to BreadTalk next to the restaurant which was having a happy hour sale (4 pcs of bread at RM 10 only which works out to SGD 1 per pc). I bought 8pcs of bread, most of which the original price was RM 3.90. I'm not sure how the nacho cheese one will taste though but it looks mighty good!


When I got back to the restaurant, our appetiser, Crispy Whitebait, had been served. The cost of the appetiser was RM9.90 only (SGD 4 only!). The Slog Reviews: 3/10. Yeah, it was that bad. Although the whitebait was crispy and not burnt in anyway, there was hardly any taste to the whitebait. The coleslaw at the bottom of the pan was equally bland or sour (if one added the lemon). I would suggest having the fried country mushrooms which is priced at RM9.90 too.


We shared the Manhattan Seafood Platter as our main course. The seafood platter consists of one large slice of deep fried fish fillet (on the left), oysters (4pcs at the bottom), flaming prawns (4pcs), chips, garlic rice and because we didn't want calamari, they gave us more deep fried fish fillet chunks instead (4pcs on the right). The Slog Reviews: 8/10. The cost of this dish was RM42.90 (less than SGD 20 only!) and there was more than enough food for 2 hungry pp. The large pc of fish fillet on the left was soft and fresh on the inside, nicely crisp on the outside and the sauce on top added flavour to the fish. The cream on the prawns was as delicious as ever (they cooked the prawns in front of us), esp when mixed in with the garlic rice at the bottom and the fries firm and not too oily. I don't take oysters so I can't comment on that but my companion had no problem finishing all 4 pcs. The total cost of the appetiser, the main course, a mango juice drink and another drink was only RM 84 which works out to be slightly less than SGD 40. There is absolutely no way one can eat so much for that price in Singapore.


After dinner, we did some grocery shopping at Jusco supermarket and walked around a bit. I forgot where I parked my car at the massive carpark so we wasted about 15mins walking up and down looking for it. Parking at Jusco Tebrau City is only RM1 for the whole day - its just unbelievably cheap compared to Singapore. The durians were going at half-price after 9pm at the supermarket so I bought back these 2 packets of XO durians at RM27.90 (about SGD 12). The Slog Reviews: 7/10 - The durians were fresh and quite tasty but the seed was very large and meat little. SGD 6 per packet for 3-4 XO durians is a tad pricy.


Customs check on the Singapore side was very strict tonight, all the cars with Msian numberplates were stopped twice and even for my car, the officer rummaged through the groceries, maggi mee, durians and all.

The Manhattan Fish Market, A Lam Seafood Restaurant and Durians

I had lunch at The Manhattan Fish Market today at Jusco Tebrau City, JB. I had my favourite course - The Flaming Platter for one which consists of one piece of grilled fish, rice, chips and three "flaming" prawns. The cream on the prawns is simply delicious, I must say. However, the prawns were quite soggy and tasteless, as were the fries. Still, the cost of this course at RM 27.90 is a steal (compared to SG). The Slog Reviews: 7.5/10.

For the flaming platters courses, the waitress/waiter will bring the dish to your table and use a device which emits blue flames to cook the prawns before you for about 1 min. It's quite a sight to watch and how burnt your prawns end up depend on the skill or mood of the waitress/waiter.


I did my nails (classic manicure and pedicure) at the nail salon (De Unique) on the second floor of the mall. The nail salon is nicely decorated (recently renovated) with proper nail salon chairs (comfy with pull-out sinks), good service and the girl who did my nails was well-trained and professional. However, I didn't like that they didn't have any machines for blowing dry my toe nails, and only for the fingernails. The cost of the classic mani and pedi was RM 82 which I felt was on the high side (compared to the usual one I go to at Nusa Bestari) but then again, this is one of the more popular malls amongst Singaporeans.

After shopping at Jusco, I used my handy compasseo GPS (purchased from Carrefour last year at SGD 235) to locate the famous Orang Asli Seafood restaurant at Tmn Perling.


It was about 9pm by the time I reached there. The street lamps along the main road leading to the restaurant were not switched on and the minor road leading to the restaurant was more like a dirt track without clear road markings, very narrow and mostly unlit. The place still had quite a number of large families at that hour having dinner - most of the tables had crabs and cereal prawns. Like Sedco Square in KK, the fishes, clams, prawns, lobsters, crayfish and crabs were kept live in tanks for customers to pick and choose. We had five dishes in all - kailan veg, small clams (commonly known as lala, see top right pic), lemon chicken (top left pic), steamed prawns and 2 steamed crabs. The cost of the meal was RM 150. The 2 crabs cost RM74 and the prawns, RM 20. The Slog Reviews: 7/10. Nothing special about any of the dishes which though fresh, did not thrill the imagination or taste-buds. The restaurant is also quite a drive away from the city but makes a refreshing change for dining as it is situated facing the Johor Straits. Note the dangers of driving there though because of the road conditions


After I got home about 12 midnight (there was a slight jam across the causeway due to the Xmas weekend), I opened these two durians which I bought from a illegal durian "stall" . An oldish Chinese couple were selling durians from Yong Peng out of their van which was parked in a semi-unlit area along a double-yellow line. This mode of selling durians/other fruits out of a van along a roadside is quite common in Malaysia. The XO durians were selling at RM18/kg and the ordinary ones at RM13/kg and I got one of each for supper.


This is the pic of the non-XO durian which I opened at home. It was about 2.5KG and a tad over-riped.

This is the XO durian - it was very over-riped but oh so bitter which is exactly what I asked for. The bitter bit, that is. The Slog Reviews: 7.5/10. The cost of the durians are on the high-side but then again, it isn't exactly durian season now (that's during June - early Aug).


I also got to try for the first time in my life, this unique fruit found only in East Malaysia. I am not sure what it is called but it tastes rather sweet and very much like our smooth-skined longan. While the skin of the fruit is a strange color (greenish-black) which is rather unappealing, the meat inside makes up for it. The skin is quite thin - if one's nails are long enough, one can use it to pierce the skin. The Slog Reviews: 8/10.