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Hob Nob is one of my favorite restaurants in town. The place is small so it can't fit a lot of people. Plus it has an open kitchen so your hair may stink if you sit too close to the kitchen. BUT WHO CARES BECAUSE THEY SERVE THE BEST TOM YUM PASTA EVER. Plus the service is great and the prices are affordable!!!!! The only downfall is their bad location- Far East Shopping Centre- which has much lesser people than Far East Plaza.

Tom Yum Seafood Pasta: This, my friends, is the heavenly tom yum seafood pasta that I often dream about. The secret to this amazing dish is definitely the sauce. Slightly creamy, sour and spicy at the same time, it's a wonder how such different tastes can blend together so well to light up your taste buds like fireworks. Honestly, I was in heaven when I ate this. Plus it comes with generous amounts of mussels and prawns. The prawns are really fresh though the mussels can be a tad bit too dry. Also I love how the pasta's loaded with onions to give this dish an extra punch of flavour. Just simply brilliant.

Fish & Chips: Another winner in the menu, though I feel that nothing can beat the tom yum pasta, the batter is light, tasty and crispy, and the fish is really fresh. Plus it's priced at I think $10 or less. Definitely the second choice after the pasta.

So New Ubin Seafood is your average zi char place with cheap crabs to offer. Their standard of food is decent, not great, but decent, especially with the price you pay. I had to repeat decent twice (now thrice!) for emphasis. And decent does NOT mean not nice. It's pretty close to average but I would say slightly above average. For the price you pay at New Ubin Seafood, it's really a great place to visit. Also, the place was full on a weekday so please make sure you make reservations before going!

We had a Thai visitor so we ordered some of Singapore's classic dishes. Fried rice & Fried baby squid are both nice. Cereal prawns is the best dish in my opinion. Sambal stingray was overcooked and rubbery, yet it was quite expensive - about $14 for a small piece. I think it's frozen seafood too. Crabs are of course the supposed highlight of this place because they always have amazing promotions for their crabs. Ours was buy 1 big (sri lankan, I think) crab and get 2 flower crabs for free. Remember to call and check their crab promotions before heading down as it changes from time to time.

We had our crabs cooked in chili, black pepper and salted egg yolk. Out of the lot, salted egg yolk was disappointing as I felt that the flavour wasn't strong enough and it was too dry. Would have preferred it to be slightly wetter to maximise the flavour of the unique salted eggyolk.

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