Food review.

Place: Soup Restaurant
Location: Century Square
Food: Samsui Chicken, Claypot Tofu, Mak Chye, Stewed Mushroom with Broccoli and Yong Chow Fried Rice
Drink: Chrysanthemum tea

The Samsui Chicken is the restaurant's signature dish, though the name of the restaurant doesn't coincide with their signature dish. Nonetheless, the deboned chicken pieces which are placed surrounding a ginger dip on a large platter taste really yummy. *licks corner of the mouth* . A stack of nicely trimmed lettuce leaves accompanies it. You simply pick, dip, wrap and eat with the chicken pieces…..hwahhh!!

The claypot tofu, the tofu were coated with flour and some spices and fried, and later transferred into the claypot with a dark brown starchy sauce. I enjoyed the rather distinct taste of it.

The mak chye was nicely stir-fried with small pieces of salted fish and ikan bilis with slices of red chilli to spice up the overall flavor. It tastes differently from how my mom would cook it, and I like the way the chef has bring out the sweetness in the vegetables in this dish.

The stewed mushroom with broccoli is the most simple dish. The mushroom is being stewed to enable all the flavours of the sauce to be absorbed into the mushroom and broccoli is being parboiled and later lightly stir-fried with some garlic and some stock.

The yong chow fried rice is tasty due to the ingredient used to fried it - chinese sausages. I reckon the portion of the rice served is rather too little for the price to pay.

Overall, i feel that this place serves very typical homecooked dishes and the dishes are a version of a upper end 'zi cha'. The food prices are rather pricey for the food serves, but i did enjoyed my dinner.


unspoken words amplified @ 6/04/2005 07:52:00 PM