It's my brother's birthday and he heard good reviews about this restaurant from a friend, so decided to have dinner here. We went to the one at UOB plaza. It takes 3 elevator and 1 escalator changes to get the the restaurant at the 60th floor.
We went for the ala carte buffet, which has a good 60 choices for us to choose from. Moreover, UOB had a promotion where 4 dine for the price of 3. The decor of the restaurant was pretty nice, and we were given a round booth table with cushion seat for half of it. Our booth actually had the option of drawing a translucent curtain if we wanted more privacy but we passed.
The tea here is served by a tea master, the kind who pour tea from a teapot with a super long sprout. In this case, they pour hot water into our cups containing tea leaves. Honestly, there wasn't much of a tea flavor so I felt I was just drinking very fancy hot water. But the tea masters were indeed masters. They could pour tea even for those sitting at the inner seats of our cushioned round table booth. Minimum spillage, but lots of splashes due to the high pressure of the water flow. Bro was joking that they are probably the highest paid people in the area since there are bankers and accountants everywhere readily available, but these are probably the only two persons in Raffles Place with this skill.
Now to the food. Since it's an ala carte buffet, we ordered a lot more food than I cared to snap. Let's see what I got...
We ordered some common Chinese food such as sharks fin soup (with negligible sharks fin of course, it's a buffet...), soon hock fish and crispy chicken with Thai sauce. The soup was ok, fish was nice, and chicken I find too sweet because of the plum sauce they used. The Sze Chuan specialties we got included: 口水鸡 (direct translation is saliva chicken), a chicken dish with spicy beanpaste. There was a kind of spice in it I didn't care for, but bro liked it. 锅巴豆腐 (direct translation is rice crust tofu), a tofu dish served over rice crispies. I would have preferred they didn't pour the tofu over the rice crispies upon serving cos by the time I got to it, I was eating soggy rice bubbles. 担担面 (Dan Dan noodles), a classic Sze Chuan noodle dish served with spicy mince pork, they managed to serve a tiny portion so that I didn't get too full. And of course, sour and spicy soup, which was too spicy for my dad. With the Dan Dan noodle served at the same time, he wad drinking tea (water) like nobody's business. I found it alright.
Dessert list surprisingly only had one version of sweet beancurd (Dou Hua), considering it's the namesake of the restaurant. We ordered the red bean pancake cos it's V's favorite and it's hard to find good ones around. Theirs was pretty good. Crispy on the outside, rich, creamy red bean paste inside... Yummy!! We also ordered mango pudding which was so so.
Hubby had two vegetarian set menus to choose from, which made him a little happier compared to JuChunYuan. He said the vegetarian food here was nicer too. His set was served with the sweet beancurd, which he gave my bro, cos he wasn't keen on beancurd with wolfberries, which is the only version they had.
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| Soon Hock fish |
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| Shark's fin soup |
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| Thai style crispy chicken |
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| 口水鸡 - saliva chicken |
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| 锅巴豆腐 - rice crust tofu |
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| Mini 担担面 - Dan Dan noodles |
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| Mango pudding |
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| Red bean pancake |
All in all a restaurant with pretty good food and nice ambience. The UOB deal makes it quite worth it too, especially if there are big appetites among your group.
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