It was FIL's birthday. We missed his actual day cos they went overseas. So after a lot of arrangements, finally managed to get a common day to go out for dinner. MIL got some Kitchen Language vouchers from her friend. Since the other cuisines on the Kitchen Language group were pretty exotic (Argentinian and Italian - wouldn't say totally exotic but definitely something my FIL won't like), we settled for the only Chinese restaurant on the list. The address given was 130 Amoy Street. W and me spend 40 minutes pottering around Amoy Street and couldn't find the restaurant. Hubby got lost driving the elder folks there too. Finally he called me to say the voucher say the restaurant is at Far East Square, which is across the road from the Amoy Street cluster and I wouldn't actually consider it Amoy Street. Moreover, the Street Directory app on iPhone directed me to the cluster when I keyed in JuChunYuan. Do not trust these apps completely in future.
With a good ten of us, we were given a VIP room. Good thing, since the elder folks have pretty powerful lungs (ie, they are quite loud sometimes). The menu was actually quite pricey. The soups were going at close to $10 per pax. So you can imagine we can very easily be paying over $100 for soup. They don't seem to have a big bowl common serving for soups, only individual portions. We chose one of the cheapest soup - crab roe with eggdrop or something like that. We also ordered grilled king prawns, spring onion and ginger chicken, broccoli with bai ling mushrooms, eggplant with minced meat, and stir fried frogs with chilli. Not a whole lot of orders, but this was because I know this family doesn't eat too much.
They serve up a absolutely delish sambal chilli. Too bad we didn't order any rice dishes to go with it. I did eat alot of it with my white rice though. The prawns were okay, nothing to pique my interest. The chicken was really good, fragrant and saucy, goes so well with white rice. The eggplant was pretty good too, just a little too oily, but that's the norm for eggplants. The frogs were special in the sense that its not common, with a kick from the spiciness. Broccoli was normal again. They only had a single vegetarian set for hubby to order. He said their vegetarian food weren't too good. Only 2 dishes out the six he was served were okay.
The restaurant serves desserts by individual servings too, so you get to choose your favourite and not everyone needs to eat the same thing. I ordered the yam paste and liked it - it wasn't overly sweet. But I still prefer my yam paste with coconut milk, their's were served dry. The siblings ordered their hashima, and apparently they didn't quite like it. The complain was that the hashima pieces were too small and floated at the top, so it didn't have the texture they wanted. We also ordered some glutinous rice balls which weren't very nice.
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| Crab roe soup with eggdrop |
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| Grilled king prawns |
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| Spring onion and ginger chicken |
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| Broccoli with bai ling mushrooms |
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| Eggplant with minced meat |
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| Stir fried frogs with chilli |
Overall I think the food served by the restaurant was pretty good, but the prices are a little intimidating. If I ever go back, it'll be for the sambal chilli. We were somewhat neglected in the VIP room, with several reminders needed before the waiters return with our rice, extra chilli etc.
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