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2015-04-18
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See my full reviews & photos at = http://chefquak.com/2015/04/18/great-value-tasty-food-shinyeh-on-17apr2015/had great tasty food in grey ambience at shinyeh with wife on 17.4.2015. not been to shinyeh for a while. used to frequent here quite a bit because of palate discounts before i started blogging & recording (which is why i blog) in mar2013.last time i came here was when a RI friend organised a 20pax G20 monthly dinner here. nice ambience & we were seated next to the fountain near the front
had great tasty food in grey ambience at shinyeh with wife on 17.4.2015.
not been to shinyeh for a while. used to frequent here quite a bit because of palate discounts before i started blogging & recording (which is why i blog) in mar2013.
last time i came here was when a RI friend organised a 20pax G20 monthly dinner here. nice ambience & we were seated next to the fountain near the front.^^
chives dumplings looked gorgeous. tasted gorgeous too! yum!^^
taiwanese restaurant got to try luroufan卤肉饭la.^^ years ago, when i visited taipei, alone & also with wife, we had the most wonderful luroumian卤肉面at 度小月.
shinyeh’s luroufan卤肉饭 was good. egg was really tasty. braised pork quite good also. i must try this at home. for comparison though, the hong kong steamed chicken feet pork ribs rice, especially at timhowan shamshuipo still better.
wife like this yam pastry. had not taken for many years. still enjoyed it. yam was very good, the pastry though was not crisp & a bit rubbery, so not quite good enough overall.
we had never ordered oysters in black bean sauce. probably new menu too. and it was very good. the distinct oyster flavours (& they had loads of them) was excellent balanced by the slight salty sauce & scallions. this would be easy to do at home, can use yellow onions too.
& the dried sole with chinese cabbage was a great find. menu said 扁鱼sole, so it’s some kind of flat fish. should be able to do this dish at home too, get some proxy for the 扁鱼sole.
the almost stewed chinese cabbage made the soup dish very sweet & tasty. the dried sole texture was like a fluffy gluten, interesting, good texture, some sweetness not much of special taste.
overall it was an excellent dinner. service was also very good, polite, attentive, friendly.
and it only cost S$33 net after amex palate 50% discounts for 2pax. would have been lower but apparently the S$4.20 chives dumplings (a cardboard menu on the table) was not included in the palate discounts. not really right as the restaurant did not state that there were menu items & palate discounts applies to all ala carte items. anyway, chives dumpling was very good, it was just few $ & we were happy with the price for the food we gotten, restaurant also have to make some money la.^^
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