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2012-10-11
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Chinatown does hides a lot of nooks and crannies with plenty of good eating spots. This is one of them, which appears to be unassuming but it's actually quite good. This coffee shop was bursting with people when I arrived with my friends, and we had to wait quite a while before being served a table. The service was quite ... typical busy Chinese restaurant kind of service. Rushing about, scribbling down your orders, trying to recommend some of their signature dishes in hope of you ordering faste
The service was quite ... typical busy Chinese restaurant kind of service. Rushing about, scribbling down your orders, trying to recommend some of their signature dishes in hope of you ordering faster, scribble down somemore, rushing off. None of the fancy frills but also explains their high efficiency.
Then the food came, which include one hotplate tofu, steamed fish, sweet and sour pork and vegetables (which I didn't take photo of because I was too busy eating already :X). The hotplate tofu was disappointing, because the tofu wasn't as soft as I hoped it was. It was more of the dry and hard type, not the jelly-textured egg tofu. The saving grace were the prawns and eggs melted into the dish, which was quite delicious. But they didn't clean the intestines of the prawns, so if you're particular about that, do not order this. Or any other prawn-including dishes. I just closed one eye and ate the them anyway. Good thing is that the prawns do not have the springy effect, which signified that these prawns are not intoxicated with chemicals that make them springy.
Next, the steamed fish. This is surprisingly my favourite dish, given how I don't like eating fish in public. But this fish's flesh is really very, very tender, to the point that it was really quite heavenly. I can't stop eating this fish! It was delicious! Sweet and sour pork... was like normal. As usual the hot favourite, and it was good, but typical of it to be good anyway. Nothing spectacular. The standard type. The vegetables were okay. I don't like vegetables and they didn't change my mind about them after trying a few strands. So I guess it's not very special too. But it was acceptable.
The toilets in the restaurant was surprisingly quite clean, as I imagined that it won't be. There was also a sink. Good facilities. Unfortunately this place is quite inaccessible without a car, so quite difficult to reach. Don't bother coming if you don't have a car, it's not worth the trouble of walking.
NOTE: Closed on Mondays.
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