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2013-09-14
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Food Opera at ION Orchard is a place well-known as "the expensive food court" compared to other food courts like Kopitiam and Food Junction. Little did many know that there are some hidden gems around here besides the Scotts beef noodle store. On a typical weekday lunch, huge crowd of locals, office executives and tourist can be spotted here. So, what is it so delicious here that draws the crowd despite it being "the expensive food court"? No doubt this is one of the cheaper places at Orchard
No doubt this is one of the cheaper places at Orchard ION to fill your empty stomach but it is good to know what's delicious here to maximise the bang for the buck. One of the stores worth checking out is the BBQ Seafood right in the middle of Food Opera. It is impossible to miss this as it is a spectacle to have live seafood enclose within the tanks.Besides having just the 'live' seafood on display, there is a see-through glass partition where you can have a good look how the cooks within are flaming up the kitchen with good o' Chinese 'wok hei' to bring up the delicious-ness of your food.
On the menu, it is filled with typical choices like your neighbourhood cze-char stall. From seafood, vegetables, rice and noodles, you have it all here.
With my Cantonese blood within raging with my hor fun craving, I ordered the Black Bean Paste Hor Fun ($6.90) or also known as "cee zup ow yok hor fun" in Cantonese. After waiting for about 10 minutes, my buzzer sounded off and I got a bowl of aromatic wok stir-fried hor fun doused with a generous, rich and flavoursome black bean sauce with a mild hint of pepper for that extra hint of heat. The beef slices were succulent to the bite and not overly tenderized, complementing the smooth and tasty hor fun.I would say it is surely a "must-try" for this quality of black bean sauce beef hor fun which I haven't been able to taste it at some of the neighbourhood cze-char stores. I will definitely will come back again to try their other rice and seafood dishes with friends in the noisy food court setting which kind of resembles a noisy Hong Kong restaurant! Thumbs up as this store lived up to my Cantonese expectations!!
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