Foody Galore

As one of our readers suggested for our team to try out this particular buffet, we took on his suggestion and we did not regret our decision!

Today our blog post is all about Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao (Holland Village). If you are a Xiao Long Bao and a steamboat buffet person, you definitely can't afford to miss out this!

Layout of second floor dining

The second floor is only catered to the steamboat buffet guests. Although there are limited space, the floor does feature like a traditional Chinese restaurant where the close ambience is needed.

Sze Chuan Soup and Pig Bone Broth

Our Steamboat with all the "Goodies"

The restaurant features a order basis, unlike other steamboats buffet whereby customers have to gather the ingredients they need. The portion of the ingredients they gave depends on the number of pax on the table. In no time, we have already filled our soup with all the goodies!

The buffet has 3 types of seating, and the pricing is as follows:

5pm - 7.30pm
(Weekday: $22.80 for adults, $16.80 for children; Weekends/PH: $24.80 (adults), $18.80 (children)

7.45 - 10pm 
(Weekday: $19.80 for adults, $13.80 for children; Weekends/PH: $21.80 (adults), $15.80 (children)

10.15-12.30 pm
(Weekday: $16.80 for adults, $10.80 for children; Weekends/PH: $24.80 (adults), $12.80 (children)

The above prices are exclusive of all taxes.

For the above price you pay, you get to enjoy the fresh meats available, free 100g of tiger prawns per guest, all you can eat xiao long bao, fishballs, and even sliced beef and pig intestines and so much more!

The Famous Xiao Long Bao

Xiao Long Bao is a type of soupy dumpling, inside is filled with pork meat, the soup all held by a thin layer of skin. This is best to be eaten in whole, ensuring that the soup, meat and the skin is consumed at the same time! With the endless flow of Xiao Long Baos, customers can be assured to order at least 5-7 baskets of it without feeling the hole in the pocket!

Let the pictures do the blogging instead!

Sliced Beef

Tiger Prawns, Seaweed, Corn and Fried Tofu

Steamed BBQ Pork Bun

Pig's Liver

Mountains of Food waiting to be cooked

Conclusion
Reservations are highly recommended here. If you are thinking of walk-in for steamboat buffet, you are not getting those xiao long baos in your stomach today. Call the number at the end of our post to make your booking today! (At least 2-3 days, bookings are filling up fast!)

The overall service and standards were quite acceptable, just that the serving of food is slower.
The freshness and preparation of food served is applauding. The sliced beef is done nicely, ensuring the thin layer of meat for ease of cooking. The tiger prawns are skewed properly, allowing the guest to consume it easily.

Regardless of which seating you paid for, I personally think it is very worthwhile. Xiao Long Baos you find outside is priced quite high invidividually. Here at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao is unlimited supply? Whats more to say?

Overall Rating: 4.5/5

Address:
Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao
241 Holland Ave
Holland Village
Tel: 6463 0968

Mon–Fri: 11am–10.45pm
Sat–Sun:10.30am–10.45pm





Credits: Mr Lee Xuan Rui for recommending this fantastic place to dine. We now share our joy with our other readers! Keep 'em coming!

Dessert has been always been a sweet tooth for all of us. With today's post, we are introducing chinese style desserts. Ah Chew's Desserts has been in operation for many years and has successfully attracted many satisfied loyal customers since.

Foody Galore team has decided to experience first hand what their magic trick lies to capture the stomachs of the customers.

Ah Chew Desserts Signboard

Yellow Menu Tags

Layout of the store

The ambience of the store is a very traditional type of dessert shop you might find in Hong Kong or Taipei. With the yellow tag menu, chinese paintings on walls and the hardwood furniture, it really makes one feels that he/she is overseas enjoying delicious desserts.

Mango Sago with Pomelo

This particular dessert is one of favourited among customers. The mango and pomelo are freshly picked and cut from the chiller, on top of it were a layer of coconut milk to enhance the taste and fragrance of the dish. The freshness and sweetness of the mango chunks combined with the burst of the pomelo which neutralises the oversweetness of the mango with its slight sourness, what is more to say? 

Mango Sago with Pomelo and an additional Mango Ice Cream!

With the above description of the normal mango sago with pomelo, those with sweet tooth can further add a ice cream of their choice (mango, cookies and cream, yam and others). The ice cream will seep into the dessert, making it an ultimate combination of what is heaven and earth.

A beautiful decorated Pulot Hitam

The beautifully well decorated Pulot Hitam with a pinch of almond flakes makes you feel in a dilemma. The delimma of savouring the beautifully designed Pulot Hitam. The effort and skill that are used to enhance this particular dessert should be applauded. One of the main selling points of a good dish is their appearance and design, in which this dish holds which capture the hearts of many.

Steamed Egg

The Steamed Egg comes in either warm or cold style. We tried the warm version so as we can better taste the texture and the freshness. It is different from the Japanese steamed egg: Chawanmushi. The importance of steamed egg is that it does not have a sour smell and that it is not too filling which allows the stomach to disgest better.

Conclusion
Ah Chew desserts offers a variety of local desserts which is suitable even for tourists. The pricing is not very high for such good quality desserts. It is affordable, and during the lunch hour, be prepared to give up your seats once you're done. It is a small shop and with the crowd coming, you cannot really stay and catch up with your friends as it is not a hang-out place. However, the service is quite efficient and your desserts are being prepared after your order is being taken.

Overall Rating: 4.5/5


Address: 
阿秋甜品 Ah Chew Desserts
Closed on mondays

Call out to all Chocolate lovers out there. 

So our foody galore team went in search of good chicken rice this time round!!
And this is what we found!!

Situated opposite Novena Church and within walking distance from Novena MRT, Wee Nam Kee Hainanese Chicken Rice is always crowded with people during dinner time, a great place for Chicken Rice & ZiChar with very positive reviews, we decided to stop by for a meal and this is what we found!!

We decided for this visit, we wanted to try Singaporeans all time favourite - Chicken rice.
We ordered a mixture of roasted and steam chicken only.

Roasted and Steam chicken

Chicken rice

However, both the chicken and the rice are a quite oily. The best part of chicken rice is the chili sauce. The chili sauce was spicy enough, however i feel that it can be a little spicier and added lime juice in it will do the trick to making it better!! =) The next condiment to go with chicken rice is the ginger sauce. The ginger sauce however is way nicer than the chili sauce. The ginger sauce is not like the normal that we find at the rest of the chicken rice stores, this however is not watery and its filled with the fragrance of ginger and its a bit like a paste. Despite being so fragrant, its taste is also not overpowering, and it goes well with the chili and the rice.

Location of Wee Nam Kee Chicken Rice & Seafood Restaurant

Who said army camps does not have great food?

Foody Galore here today has brought to you... Seletar Sunset Grill and Pub!

After our arduous journey to search and locate the place, we finally found it! (Vehicles or any form of transportation is HIGHLY recommended)

The entrance of the pub looks like this..

Entrance of Sunset Grill & Pub

Their signature dish - the HOT scale buffalo wings. Why HOT scale? Because their buffalo wings are rated on a hotness scale from 1- 10. More information and pictures on the wings later.

First Dish- BBQ Pork Ribs

Yummy Pork Ribs

Thick and Creamy Clam Chowder

Deep Fried Button Mushrooms

LEVEL 10 BUFFALO WINGS!

You can sense the hotness and spiciness of the wings on your plate even before savouring them. Many customers has gulped chilled milk in order to combat with the spiciness of the wings. If you think you are a chili lover and can withstand the heat and spiciniess of these wings, go ahead. The maximum level is 35 and once you conquered it, you can etched your name at Sunset Grill & Pub's Chili Heads Hall of Fame.

Conclusion
The food was delectable to the palate and some of the dishes were really well done. However the service provided needed to be improved in terms of efficiency. Food was taking too long to be served and there were lack of staff. The location of the pub were too remote and many potential customers were unable to find it. The pricing of the dishes are medium - high, thus only attracting working adults.

Overall Rating: 4/5


Address:
Republic of Singapore Flying Club.
Building 140-B, Piccadilly, Seletar Airbase, East Camp. 
Daily at 4pm, last order at 9.30pm, and is closed on Tuesdays.

Have anyone tried Russian cuisine yet!?

Escargots

Fresh Mushroom Soup

It has an array of food choices - anyone who goes there will be spoilt for choice.

Today we're going to recommend 2 very different food stores in Old Airport Road Market & Food Centre.

The 1st - Sliced Bee Hoon Soup (鱼片米粉汤）
This dish is a bowl of Bee Hoon (rice noodles) cooked together with slice fish slices in a milky broth. Its a healthy and light dish recommended by the Health Promotion Board of Singapore. A locally recognised dish, a must try when in Singapore (for all foreigners visiting Singapore).

It ia a light dish, with tasty broth with fragance of sesame oil and chinese wine (hua diao jiu). Containing a substantial amount of bee hoon and thick slices of fish (fresh); its definately value for money ($4). This dish is also one of their signature dishes sold.

Sliced Fish Bee Hoon

This store also sells fish head bee hoon (鱼头米粉). So what is the name of this store you're asking... Here you go.. The name of this store is Jing Hua Fish Head/Sliced Fish Bee Hoon (金华鱼片/鱼头米粉). This particular store is very popular amongst the locals and one has to queue and wait approximately 15 minutes during peak hour sales. 

Location of Old Airport Road Market and Food Centre

Conclusion

Has any of our readers tried a Hainanese non-spicy gooey curry rice?

Today our Foody Galore team has heard many good reviews on this particular Hainanese curry rice which is known as Scissors -Cut Curry Rice which is the chinese translation of 剪刀剪 which is pronounced as Jian Dao Jian.

Several Hainanese dishes are good, like the famous Hainan Chicken rice and the Yong Tau Foo, but this particular curry rice shouldn't be left out as well!

Few famous dishes are their slimy soft cabbage, braised pork and most importantly the curry!

Braised Pork

Soft Stewed Cabbage

The beautiful concoction of the chilli sauce and curry

Customers can either choose either to separate their dishes or to place them on their rice itself.
The rice itself is not ordinary. They are topped with the mixture of the braised gravy and curry. The combination of both does not crosses out each other but instead they are further enhanced with the taste of the spiciness of the curry and yet the thickness of the gravy.
Of course, customers can either choose to drench their rice full of gravy or not at all! All to each preference.

Several Dishes topped over the rice

Ambience and Layout of store

Conclusion
Overall the experience was sinfully good and the pricing was affordable. The price of each dish for 2 customers ranges from $1- $3. It is not overly priced for such excellent food. There will be a big crowd if you are aiming to eat in during lunch and dinner.

Overall Rating: 4.5/5



Address:
229 Jalan Besar
(Right at the junction of Kitchener Road and Jalan Besar)
Tel: 6296 0069
11am - 3.30 am