Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant

Dropped by with 4 other friends for a light lunch on a Saturday afternoon. We ordered Crispy pancake, Seafood dumplings in soup, Beancurd with wolfberry and Beancurd chilli noodles. The crispy pancake with crispy floss and topped with seseme seeds. The plain dough was a good match with the savoury floss, and it was not oily despite being deep fried. The seafood dumplings in soup was disappointing as the 'soup' did'nt taste like it was stock and couldnt make out any seafood in the dumplings. The beancurd with wolfberry was very silky home-made beancurd with plenty of wolfberries in it. There was also no overy sugary syrup to mask the freshness of the beancurd. The beancurd chilli noodles was spicy. It came looking horribly spicy because of the chilli oil, with a dollop of beancurd on it. The only comment I heard of it was 'spicy'. Overall, the food was average.

This was a belated Father's Day celebration. This is a new branch at Park Royal at Kitchener Road Hotel. I was told they just opened on the 15th June 2011. At the moment the place is not very crowded unlike their UOB branch.

The high quality of food matches the nicely done up upmarket restaurant. Prices are of the high end. Small portions are enough for 3-4 persons. They serve Szechuan and Cantonese food.

As we sat down, they serve us with 8 Treasure Tea $3.80. This big cup of special blend of tea consists of 8 dry ingredients: Chrysanthemums, Jasmine, Lily buds, Chinese Wolfberries, Longan, Rock Sugar, Red Dates, and Mai Dong (Lilyturf Roots). The tea help to reduce cholesterol, aid blood circulation and strengthen the body's immune system.

The service was very attentive as they fill my 8 treasure tea cup with water when it was finished without me asking. Halfway during my meal, they also change plate. The very thinly sliced Pig Ear terrains seats on a bed of crunchy sliced Kai Lan stems. This is a very nice spicy appetizer, only thing it is a bit too oily. The Double Boiled Shark Cartilage Soup is served in individual earthen claypot. It is a rich milky soup with soften shark cartilage, crunchy water chestnut with wolfberry. It is high in collagen and good for the complexion. We ordered 3 Combination BBQ Meat of Char Siew, Roast Pork & Duck. It was all nicely done. The roast pork has crispy skin and not too much fat.Mince Meat Long Bean was not bad but I prefer the Crystal Jade version where the long bean are more deep fried where it is more char and shrink.The star is the Braised Pork Belly in Whole Pumpkin. This is the first time I have eaten Dong Po Rou in a Pumpkin. The pork has very little fat and it was very tender. The soft pumpkin eaten together with the pork taste very good with a right balance of sweet and salty. From the dim sum section we tried the Fried Pancake with Floss . It stuffing was slightly sweet like Char Siew Pau filling. We ended the meal with their famous Home made Beancurd & Szechuan Pancake with Red Bean . We order one normal Beancurd and another Beancurd with Wolfberry ($4). The home made beancurd was very silky and smooth. It literally melts in the mouth. The Original beancurd comes with a jug of syrup for you to add according to the taste. While the wolfberry bowl is already sweeten with syrup. The pancake was not bad & does not have very sweet red bean.

At the moment, there is a 30% discount for UOB card member for ala cart food bill until 31st Aug 2011. We paid $152.20 after the discount for 4 persons. Our most expensive item is the soup that cost $48 for 4 serving. You can opt for the daily soup at $16 which can be shared among 4 people.

It is a nice place for celebration and business lunch. It is just outside CBD and has parking in the hotel.

2011-06-25

Celebration: Father's Day

SGD 50