Spring Court Restaurant (Chinatown)

Ever since they moved to the heritage building in Chinatown, I have not paid them a visit till the beginning of this July. I've always been to their East Coast branch a few years back for family dinners and gathering. I vividly remember always going there for their anniversary special peiking duck!

This time round, my family brought me there for my 19th birthday and Spring Court was having their 78th Anniversary promotion - the 78cents peiking duck with every $78 spent.

We booked a table 2 days in advance and although we arrived just about 10 minutes later than our booked time, we had to wait for about 15 minutes before getting our table. Their reception area was so small and squeezy.

There were only 2 chairs available for sitting (while waiting) and I quickly got my grandparents to sit down because I was afraid it would be quite a long wait.

The crowd was really good, many big families were coming and leaving as we waited at the lift lobby for our table. Soon enough, we were asked to go up to the 3rd level as our table was ready.

The ambience was really very traditional, I love seeing big families eating together and having so much good time together!

We ordered these dishes:

- Spring Onion w/ Ginger Deer Meat - Spring Onion w/ Ginger Fish Fillet - Veggies (I forgot the name of our dish!) - Yam Ring - & of course, the Peiking Duck

The spring onion with ginger dishes were a huge disappointment! :( When the dishes came, all I could see was spring onions! The deer meat was served on an oval-shaped hotplate but the meat barely occupied half the hotplate...

However, the Yam Ring was crispy and light - not too sweet and the shrimps were really crunchy! I love the taste of yam with cashew nuts!

The bonus for us - 78 cents peiking duck was nice & crispy (oily too). I really enjoyed it cos it's not everyday that I get to eat peiking duck. The duck meat was chopped (additional charge of $5 to use their knife -_-) and I ate it with lots of sweet sauce.

The bill came up to $119 for 6 persons, quite reasonable I would say for a reputable restaurant like Spring Court. However, my parents commented that it would be more worthwhile to eat Tze Char at normal coffee shops (where we could easily get equally good or better food) because we paid more than $20 for peanuts, tea & wet towels, haha!