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2012-05-21
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Whenever I'm at Ion Orchard and I needed a meal, I will always make my way to Watami, but not this time. Someone recommended that we try out this Chinese Restuarant, and it's probably good cause I have my 92 year old grandma with me, who prefers everything Chinese.Service was fairly good. I was served only after enquiry, and allocated a seat next to the service counter. I suppose that is why service is always fast and efficient. Even when the service counter is that close, refilling of tea was s
Service was fairly good. I was served only after enquiry, and allocated a seat next to the service counter. I suppose that is why service is always fast and efficient. Even when the service counter is that close, refilling of tea was still slow, with most of the time, an empty pot sits on the table. However, ordering wasn't a problem. Service crew did recommend some of their special dishes and desert, but I won't consider that hard selling yet.
Ordered quite a handful of dishes. The first one being the Crab meat fried rice & salted fish fried rice. The crab meat fried rice had a rather common seafood taste. Nothing special, but also not awful tasting. You should also know that crab meat is scarce in this dish. As for the salted fish fried rice, it felt rather oily, and it lacked salted fish in the rice, but at least it tasted quite good. Price was rather high ranging between $12 to $14.80. They only serve small portions, and the portion is lesser than what you will see at a typical zi char stall.
The next dish is dumpling noodles. The noodles and the sauce was very well done. Definately one of the best dumpling noodles I've tasted. The noodles are very Q, but so much that it's hard to break the noodles by biting, and I ended up slurping up a whole chunk of noodle. At $7.30 for a plate, I consider that a good price for something this good.
The next dish is a grouper head chopped into many pieces, cooked in dark sauce and tofu. Like most fish head, there are lots of bones in this one. The meat, which is quite soft and smooth, had soaked up the sauce pretty well, and the taste was just right.
The next dish is deep fried nan ru pork ribs. It's a popular cantonese dish, but unfortunately, it wasn't prepared as well. I could hardly taste the "nan ru" taste in the pork. But good job on the deep frying. It wasn't very oily, and they managed to lock in the juices in the pork. However, I consider this very expensive because $14 only gets 4 pieces, with a heck load of bone.There was other dishes that we ordered such as deserts and the roasted duck, which was well done, and worth trying. Overall, 8 of us spent $188, which was slightly high for an average restaurant. If I were to come again, I'll take the dumpling noodles for sure. =)
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