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2013-03-17
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Bai Jia Cafe is a rare gem deep in the heart of the Jurong West community, a restaurant serving uniquely-concocted and delectable dishes! A particular bonus for NTU students - Bai Jia Cafe is only located across Yunnan Gardens, only a short walk away from Canteen B. If you're bored of the usuals, why not try Bai Jia Cafe? It is really more affordable than you think! No GST/Service Charge/MSG - they already took care of all my dining pet peeves. There're really many savoury dishes available here
Bai Jia has many signature dishes, one of which is their Bai Jia Curry Chicken! The curry base and chili are personally compounded by the lady boss herself. It is spicier than my normal threshold, but then again I'm not someone who indulge too much in spicy food. The chicken itself was quite tender and generally tasty. It would be good for them to allow their customers to choose the level of spiciness (like Nando's) as everyone likes different levels of spiciness
The Bai Jia Laksa surprised me with its softer spicy texture with more coconut milk. I liked this dish a lot because I think that the curry base blend is perfect. The noodles were also springy and complements the curry base nicely. Definitely one of the dishes worth ordering again.
The Bai Jia Curry Fish Head is the signature dish of the restaurant. Their fish supply is renewed daily to ensure its freshness, so no worries about the freshness. However, I do find that it pales in comparison with the laksa because the fish could be more tender albeit its freshness. It was a little tough to the bite. Even so, the traditional asam curry base fits in well.
For something usually mundane as Fries, they added a little seasoning to spice it up a little - it reminded me of the pepper/chilli powder in Shihlin Chicken Cutlet. Quite a special dish due to the different seasoning.
The Chicken Cutlet is one of the few western dishes Bai Jia offers, which I find was pretty good but not spectacular. If you're not in the mood for the local dishes then I think this is the best option out of the western dishes.
Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables - another dish that pleasantly surprised me a lot! I thought it was going to be super oily - but no it's really NOT oily and fattening. I really enjoyed this dish. It's another one that's worth ordering again - but only if I'm going with a group of friends that want to share this.
Their Signature Dish Tofu is also something really unique from anything I've eaten. Usually the sweet and sour mixture you see is paired with fish, but tofu? It actually works beautifully too! I would like it better if they used the egg tofu which is softer and smoother.
Ironically, I can't remember the name of my favourite dish. But I really like it a lot because: 1. It's not spicy hahaha.
2. It has a LOT of ingredients inside and it makes me happy when I eat it - there's black fungus, prawns, some random vegetable and some other random things but it feels like it's packed with things.
3. I actually found an entire prawn inside. Whoa.
Okay all in all this is the most memorable dish out of everything and I will definitely order this when I go back to eat (it's so near to my school!).
The best part - while you're at a queue that snakes for about five metres from the stall at Canteen B why not take a ten minutes to this air-conditioned restaurant which sells really affordable and yummy food?! There's also a 15% discount (excluding desserts & drinks) for NTU students, just flash your matriculation card!
Directions from NTU: Cut across Yunnan Gardens, take the overhead bridge and walk into the HDB cluster to your right. You can't miss it, it's quite prominent.
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