With reports about how former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang was deprived of a tasting of Ng Ah Sio's Randoon Rd Bak Kut Teh as it was closed, I thought the BKT is worth the try.

As Rangoon Rd is alittle out of the way, we decided to go to the one at Chui Huay Lim Club, at Keng Lee Road, off Newton Road.

These are what we ordered :

Signature Spare Rib Soup ($9.80)
This consisted of 2 long pieces of spare ribs in a broth. We all find the broth too peppery and salty. 

Signature Spare Rib Set ($11.80)
Same as above, but included a bowl of rice and 2 sides - salted veg and yu-tiao. We don't enjoy the salted veg (has a weird smell), but the yu-tiao is nice, especially when dipped in the broth just before eating.

Blanched Pig Liver ($5.50)
Just done, with a little pink. There a just too few pieces.

Blanched Pig Kidney ($6.00)
Faintly urine smell, adults find it acceptable while the kids shun, because of the slight stench

Braised Duck (1/4 duck, $14)
Unlike the BKT, which were served hot, this dish is a little cold (like it was just taken out from the chiller, gravy heated up & poured over). Meat is however soft & tasty. Gravy is quite robust.

You Chai (Lettuce, $5)
This is nothing extraordinary, ordered for fibre intake.

Portion of rice is pretty small, so even for someone with average appetite, additional orders of rice may be required.

Unlike other BKT stalls, where one would usually ask for a top up of the hot broth to savour (yam tong) after a meal, it is impossible to do so here, as it is peppery & too salty. Coupled with such prices for such small portiown, we will not come back again.

$19.80 7-course chinese set lunch comprising of lobster salad & snow crab ? Sounds like a good deal ? So bought this deal from Groupon.

Lobster Fresh Fruit Salad
Not fresh fruit, but more like canned fruit cocktail, with a few sliced pieces of lobster. 

Braised conpoy fish maw thick soup
The usual thick soup. 

Deep fried Japanese snow crab 
Instead of sweet & succulent snow crab, it was dried up fllesh with a weird smell. Obviously the crab is not fresh. The only good thing I enjoyed was the garlic/dried shrimp/chilli bits that came with the dish.

Steamed Live Fish with homemade chilli sauce
A very small tilapia fish. Chilli is very spicy

Stir-Fried Boneless Chicken with Honey Bean in Homemade Sauce
Some sweet peas stir fried with chilli chicken pieces

Braised Ee-Fu Noodle with Mushroom
A carbo dish to fill the stomach. Not much mushroom pieces. Most restaurants would serve with yellow chives to enhance the taste, but it is absent here.

Fresh Mango Pudding
Not much mango pieces. Served with optional evaporated milk.

Usual price is said to be $33, so this is a purported 40% discount. Honestly, what you pay is what you get, so don't expect too much. There is compulsory order of peanuts, towels and Chinese tea, which works out to $2.40 per pax.

Chanced upon this stall while at Bugis. The brand name is probably now franchised, now that there are so many of this Yu Kee Duck Rice stalls all over Singapore.

While the rice set (with yam rice) looked appetising and wholesome with braised duck, egg and some salted veg, I decided to have duck kway teow instead, as I was not very hungry.

Besides braised boneless duck, the noodle came with afew slices of fish cake. 

The gravy was thick and gooey, like lor mee, but lacking oomph. The accompanying soup was bad news, being so artifically sweet, while the herbal smell is ok.

Now the star of the the dish - braised duck - not so tender, but passable.

The real star, I must say, is the sambal with has ikan bilis bits. It has enough heat, & the ikan bilis (while not alot, scarsely interpersed) lends a nice crunch to the sambal. The sambal is of coure, as usual, oil laden.

Oceans of Seafood is located in Pasar Bella,,Turf City. Fresh seafood from countries other than Japan c, , ,, , like crabs, lobsters, fish, shell fish etc are available here.

We went to the Japanese section has had sashimi.

The Salmon Chirashi ($18++) is really generous with lots of fresh salmon sashimi slices. However, some of the cuts are of not so ideal parts, with tendons.

For an additional $2, you can have Salmon Oyako Chirashi, which includes salmon roe.

The sashimi moriawase cost $25 for 3 types of sashimi. Also tried some sushi and makis. All are very fresh and nice.

Will be back to try other dishes.

Bought a Groupon deal of $33 which comprised of a marmite crab n a choice of marmite pork rib or chicken. Also ordered hokkien mee for carbo .

Marmite Crab
Not fresh. No sweet succulent meat but tasteless crabmeat that was stuck to shell. Very disappointing.

Marmite Chicken
This is deep fried before being slathered in the 'marmite' sauce. I think the sauce for the chicken is very much sweeter than that for the crab, or that the chicken actually absorbed much of the sauce. Too sweet for my liking, that we had to order plain rice to go with it.

Hokkien Mee
This is not the KL style type, but the local black version using round yellow noodles. Again, this dish is TOO SWEET.

Overall, food is below average. Both my husband & myself had stomach runs when we reached home. As we were the only ones who took the achar, we suspected that the achar could be the culprit.

Will never visit the restaurant again.