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I walked out of the place with my tastebuds confused actually. Went for a food outing with LIC and a whole lot of other people for a Saturday lunch, but er i guess my tastebuds didnt really agree with the menu.
Buffet line -this is part of the $20nett per pax buffet spread of appetisers and desserts which we had too, on top of our special set menu. Tried the mushroom soup and DIY rojak: mushroom soup was more the Chinese kind than western style, with a very strong taste of the dong gu. Rojak was okay, and I have to mention that their ingredients were very fresh. I didn't actually try the desserts coz there were already 2 disapproving faces before I made my way there haha.
Hainanese chicken rice salad with crabcake - best dish of the day. The dish contains all the flavours of chicken rice without the calories, to quote the owner, and bingo! Poached chicken strips with crunchy greens and a slightly spicy dressing, topped with puffed rice. It was thumbs up all round the table. Crabcake was nice and deep fried nicely, was good altho the salad was much more interesting to us :D
Laksa pesto pasta and Ba Bao risotto - liked the pasta more than the risotto. Al dente pasta with (i think) too much pesto but still nice. The ba bao risotto tasted of only truffle haha, it way overwhelmed whatever else of the 7 ingredients. I later found out it had 3 mushrooms, two nuts, chinese sausage, parmesan cheese in it.
Tenderloin with otah and balamic carrot cake - the strangest dish of the day :I I passed my tenderloin to the happy Leroy at my table so can't comment on that. The carrot cake....sigh....was chao sng. Or so we thought. Because there was no print out menu of what we were having, we all seriously thought it was chao sng. Until the owner came over and explained, then came the voices of "ooorrhh". But still, we felt this dish was seriously confused. The otah was served in a creme brulee dish but a bit watery, and also salmon with green curry, which tasted almost exactly like the otah.
Fruit tart - store bought tartlett which was way too sweet. Nothing fusion about this. Disappointing.
I concluded that perhaps I like less confusing food haha~ Quality of food was below my expectations, and I feel the $20nett we paid for per pax was, although the quantity was good, quality-wise was not. Don't understand the food? Its fusion la.
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Came to realise Crystal Jade is still one of the safest bet for a family dinner, it can never go too wrong~ These dishes may be very familiar but I'll still run through some of them la:
Deep fried beancurd with pepper and salt ($6) - very delectable squares of fresh toufu coated in a cripsy batter with salt & pepper, served with the insides still soft and hot. Yum~~
Fried rice with dried canpoy and carb meat ($11.50) - tastes much better than it looks, with obvious crab meat pieces and plenty of wok hei.
Stew Chicken Claypot ($13.80) - thisis called San Bai Ji on the menu, and my favourite dish here :D Fragrant pieces of fresh chicken stired fried with onions and sitting in a deelish dark brown sauce. Quite a waste of the sauce if you dun have rice to mop it up though.
Deep fried garlic prawns ($18) - the pricest thing we had. Think cereal prawns but substitute the cereal for garlic. Nice initially but the rawness of the garlic gets to you after a while. Prawns were less fragrant than I thought as well, maybe I was distracted by the mountain of garlic on the plate.
Baby Kailan stir fried with garlic ($9.80) - Disappoiting especially for crystal jade standard. Although crunchy, the greens were absolutely tasteless :(
There were other stuff which was run of the mill like dumpling noodies and congee with preserved egg & meat. No ambience to speak of, because its afetrall a family place. Noisy family chatter with avergae service, but if you're like us seated right in a corner it can sometimes be hard to catch the staff's attention.
Oh, and their 'pickles' served when you are seated has been changed to endamame :D
The bill came to about $133 for the 7 of us, which was quite reasonable for the variety we had.
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The 7 of us seated in here took up almost half of the seating here. This place is really tiny and the tables are elbow-unfriendly :I was after dinner so we decided to share these:
Triple chocolate cheese cake ($8) - not as jelat as I thought it will be; and the cheesecake and chocolate were nicely proportioned. Nothing spectacular though.
Foret Noire Log cake ($7.50) - I have to admit I ordered this because it looked so cute :D Cute aside, this is rather good. A very nice spin on the black forest; and the brandied cherries on the inside cuts the richness of the chocolate very nicely.
Crepes Exotique ($12.50) - crepes with bananas and a sorbet on top. drizzled with chocolate. The bananans were, well, just bananas. I couldnt make out what flavour the sorbet was but I think it had mango and passionfruit stuff in it. Taste for price, I think this is not worth it actually.
Cannele ($1.50) - I lurve caneles, so ordered one for them to try. But erm apparently, this rum vanilla concoction is an aquired taste, and my sis, dad, and auntie all havent acquired it yet.
Coffee macaroon ($2.30) - my little bro tried this so I can't quite comment on it.
We all had different verions of coffee: ice mocha, americano, cappuncino. I had the latte but the coffee was disappointingly thin with badly-foamed milk. Ugh.
The bill was $62 for 7 of us, which was avergae I feel. But I'll definitely not have coffee here again. I'll go back to Nectarie for that.
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Decided to go there precisely because they were offering a 50% off ALL ala carte items. EVERYTHING, except drinks but good enough for me :D
Since the big wheel stopped turning, business here has been really really, really.....bad. Choosing a Monday evening made the isolated place seem really sad, with a few specks of people strolling around and F&B service staff either earnestly standing outside trying to grab your attention with promotional flyers or chatting amongst themselves to kill time.
2 girls with a huge appetite to try out this less costly version of Senso made us order a starter, 2 mains, 3 desserts, and of course coffee.
Salad nicose ($12) - Chose this over calamari because we thought since we are bingeing, we might as well err on the healthier side (haha). The tossed combination of the tuna, beans, greens, and eggs were surprisingly good, especially paired with the slightly tart vinegrette dressing. Good start to the evening.
Crab ravioli ($18) - Pieces of fat and flavourful parcels tossed with fresh tomato sauce and seafood bits. The pasta tasted home-made (although I can be wrong) and the seafood very fresh.
Pizza Parma Rucola($18) - I'm always distracted my this favourite when choosing pizza, and I lost again, haha. Classic italian style with parma ham and rucola greens on top. The plain carbo base went very well with the salty ham, but the greens looked a bit limp I thought.
Creme Brulee ($8) - I don't usually order this but since well its 50% anyway. Plus the pastry counter looked really unattractive. Creamy sweet gooey stuff, but they should have burnt the top layer a bit more.
Tiramisu ($8) - came in a mini tower form on a big plate. Tasted better than it looks but still the sponge fingers were too dry; it was also too soft and not chilled enough.
Panna Cotta ($8) - Came in a cute martini glass but strangely green in colour. There was no flavour so we didnt know what the colouring was...maybe it was just a visual thing. Usual stuff.
Coffee ($3) - So many places do coffee so badly I just had to ask them to please make sure mine was pressed properly. Didn't disappoint me in the end.
Latte ($4.50) - Didn't try this but shouldn't be too bad given the quality of the coffee.
Quality of the food surprised me, given the fact that they have probably not had a customer for a very very long time. Throughout my dinner, there was at max 3 tables including us (we were the first to walk in and last to step out).
Service was friendly and attentive, and they kept coming over to ask how's the food. Ambience was actually quite nice; you can see the sea through the glass panels at the side, and if you choose alfresco, it's actually right under the wheel. Quite a romantic vibe if you go with the correct person.
If not for the walking distance, I would really love to come back a few more times. To take advantage of the 50% while it lasts. Not sure when, but it will be as long as the big wheel doesn't start I believe. So go soon!!
The bill came up to $79, but with the 50% off food items, we paid only about $50 for 2 persons. Very worth it I feel :D
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