Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Fish Mart Sakuraya @ West Coast Plaza

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Located at B1 of West Coast Plaza. Just walk straight from the entrance near the taxi area and one can see the shop already.

Shop entrance is via the fish mart. Visited on a weekday for dinner and there were plenty of seats available.

menu
small plates

If you're looking for bento sets during dinner time, then you won't be able to find one here. Sushi don is available though.

hitachino nest white ale (@$8.50)

Happy to see craft beer available here. Hitachino Nest White Ale was yum on a warm night. Taste was light and fruitty.

golden fruitty flavour

For mains, my colleague had the salmon don while mine was the chirashi don.

Chirashi Don (@$14)
thin slice of salmon
consistently thin slices

Chirashi Don has three types of fish, all consistently sliced. Rather thin. Ginger was well pickled but the rice felt somewhat lacking.

asari miso soup (@$5), chuka wakame (@$3) and tori karaage (@$6)
must have some greens

Asari miso soup tasted more of miso than clams. The tori karaage was pleasant and tasty. The thigh meat was firm but not dried out. Hint of ginger.

Service was adequate. Requests for an empty bowl, or an extra glass were acceded to. The only difference was, one was delivered with a smile while the other was done with a doesn't-give-a-hoot look. O..k...

Pay at the cashier when you're done. If not using the towels, then just return it to the cashier.






Sunday, June 16, 2013

Imperial Treasure Noodle & Congee House @ ION Orchard (Part II)

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Didn't realize that it has been a year since the last visit. Wow. Ok, was there on a weekend and boy, there was already a queue at 1130am.

ready to order

Ordered some dim sum items and friend wanted the pig trotters pot. Pig trotters for brunch? Hmm, what kind of combo is that??

chinese tea (香片@$2++)

One year has passed, and yes, the patrons are all still seated pretty near each other. Quite a few Japanese diners too.

My must-haves for Hong Kong dim sums are siew mai, beef balls and custard bun. Couldn't find the panfried carrot cake on the menu so opted for steamed yam cake. Keke, ok ok. I admit. It was the lap cheong that made me do it! Turns out to be not bad, with enough lap cheong to carry the taste although panfried carrot cake would've been a much preferred choice.

Beef balls were bouncy and tender, and doesn't have too much of the dried tangerine peel (陈皮). In fact, almost none was detected.

steamed siew mai (@$4.80++)

steamed beef balls with vege (@$3.60++)
steamed yam cake (@$3.60++)
steamed custard bun (@$4.20++)
salty sweet lavalicious~


And my friend ordered his exotic combo. These:

beef brisket rice roll (@$6++)
pig trotters pot (@$14++)


If only the beef brisket was more tender....if only the cheong fun was wrapping tender stewed brisket instead of it being 'kosong' and rolled-up...sighs.

The pig trotters were quite soft and collageney (mostly skins). Had a hint of herb flavours. I seriously feel that no one would order this with their dim sum.

The meal costs about $23 per pax. The rice rolls did a pretty good job of filling us up.

Here's a link to first visit.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

陕西味道 (Shan Xi Wei Dao) @ Minzuyuan Road, Beijing

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Here is the address: 朝阳区民族园路1号唐人街商场1楼(近大润发班车处). Basically, it's located at the Chinatown Plaza, Minzuyuan Road.

inside the shop, order from counter
brinjal rice set (@¥21)
closer view

It does a pretty good version of the 肉夹馍 (rou jia mo). Chose the half/half option where the meat is half lean half fat. Good choice. Nicely juicy with non-dry-out version of the 'bread'.

肉夹馍 (rou jia mo)
half lean half fat

One of our colleague was feeling under the weather, so he ordered chicken soup noodles.

chicken noodles soup set
simple comfort food

But the main attraction of this shop (for us, at least), was a noodle called 'biang biang' noodles. Here's its wiki link. Its name is a word that contain many many words inside. Here's a graphic for illustration as I don't think there's anyone who has the time to write it out...

biang biang noodles
super long piece of mee hoon kueh


 
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