Old Chengdu Sichuan Restaurant at Chinatown

Old Chengdu, an authentic Sichuan cuisine restaurant located at Pagoda Street of Chinatown, was featured in CCTV4's "One Belt One Road" documentary for its authencity. 

The restaurant offers a wide range of Sichuan menu which the Sichuan Chinese would recommend and visit if they miss their hometown cuisine. 

The restaurant is just located very near the Chinatown MRT entrance and is managed by a group of bubbly, warm staff.

There are 2 levels, where we were directed to the first floor since there were only the 2 of us. We ordered 4 dishes in total:

1. Cold noodles ($4.50) - 凉面 in chinese. It is cold noodles tossed with shredded cucumber, chilli oil and paste and vinegar. Awesomely good and tasted much like what we had in China. Rating: 4.5/5

2. Pork dumplings in spicy sauce ($7) - 抄手 in chinese. Smooth and silky wantons in spicy vinegar sauce. So good that I could drink the soup with it. Rating: 4.5/5

3. Shredded pork in hot garlic sauce ($12.50) - i do not usually eat bamboo shoots but this dish is so well done and fragrantly cooked that I ate the shoots so happily with the shredded pork and fungus. Goes so well with a bowl of rice. Rating: 4.5/5

4. Garlic dou miao ($8) - nothing too special but very fragrantly fried as well. Rating: 4/5

Portion is generous and we love their authentic Sichuan flavour in every dish. Thumbs up and we will be back!

A summary of what we had:

Cold noodles

Pork dumplings in spicy sauce

Shredded pork in hot garlic sauce

Garlic dou miao

My overall ratings:

Food: 4.2/5

Price: 3.8/5

Service: 3.8/5

Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:

Old Chengdu Sichuan Restaurant

80-82, Pagoda St, Singapore 059239

Restaurant - Chinese

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Lao Jiang Superior Soup at Cheong Chin Nam Road

Lao Jiang Superior Soup is an eatery that specialises Malaysian fish soup and superior Ipoh horfun. Superior soup, being their signature dish, is very well received among the customers.

At $9.50 a bowl, customer can choose between rice or soup/dry noodles. Their 2nd most popular dish is their red grouper fish soup priced at $12. 

We went for the following dishes:

1. Superior soup with horfun ($9.50) - silky ipoh horfun cooked in sweet and tasty broth with generous ingredients in them. There were 2 slices of prawn, abalone, fish maw, pork balls, batang fish slices, mushrooms, fish sticks. All so fresh and tasty. Definitely deserves the thumbs up. Rating: 4.2/5

2. Fish soup with dry meepok ($6) - fish soup usually comes with rice. But one has to top up with $2 to change to noodles. The black dry mee pok has the malaysian noodle flavour, with chilli and pork lard. So springy and delicious. Highly recommended to order with soup. Rating: 4/5

3. Ngoh hiang ($7) - homemade ngoh hiang with chilli sauce. A little mushy in the filling but chilli was good. Rating: 3.8/5

4. Kyoto you tiao ($6) - stuffed you tiao with sotong filling. Crispily fried and topped with sweet chilli sauce and crushed peanuts. Quite well done. Rating: 4/5

5. You mai cai ($4) - blanched iceberg lettuce with oyster sauce and fried garlic. Simple yet delicious. Rating: 4/5

Lao Jiang Superior Soup is tasty and yet not thirsty after drinking. We would definitely be back for more!!

A summary of what we had:

Superior soup with horfun

Fish soup with dry meepok

Ngoh hiang

Kyoto you tiao

You mai cai

My overall ratings:

Food: 4/5

Price: 3.5/5

Service: 3/5

Ambience: 3/5

You can locate them here:

Lao Jiang Superior Soup

2 Cheong Chin Nam Rd, Singapore 599727

Restaurant - Chinese

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Tim Ho Wan at Westgate

Tim Ho Wan has recently introduced several new items to their menu. Menu used to be a paper serving as a placemat on the table but now it has become a menu booklet with more dishes introduced. 

I would like to introduce 3 of their new dishes that we have tried.

1. Pork dumplings in hot and spicy sauce ($6.40) - a dish that deserves 2 thumbs up. We call this 抄手 in China and the mince garlic with finely cut chilli added much flavor to the dish. The vinegarette opens our appetite entirely and dish is seriously addictive. Rating: 4.2/5

2. Sesame ball with molten salted egg ($4.80) - this can be served as a dessert dish. Hot and crunchy sesame ball with oozing molten salted egg filling. The skin is thin and crunchy and would define as simply awesome! Rating: 4/5

3. Spicy prawn paste and bbq pork stew noodles ($7) - basically like HK fried noodles. Could not taste its spiciness unlike what the name suggested. Rating: 3.2/5

There are many more new dishes to try like the fried milk custurd, beef noodles etc. So do stay tune for more reviews.

Baked BBQ Pork Buns

Beancurd Skin with Pork and Prawn

A summary of what we had:

Pork dumplings in hot and spicy sauce

Sesame ball with molten salted egg

Spicy prawn paste and bbq pork stew noodles
Baaked BBQ Pork Buns
Beancurd Skin with Pork and Prawn

My overall ratings:

Food: 3.6/5

Price: 3.5/5

Service: 3.8/5

Ambience: 3.8/5

You can locate them here:

Tim Ho Wan

3 Gateway Dr, #01-13/14, Westgate, Singapore 608532

Restaurant - Chinese

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Tempura Tsujiki Tenka at Wisma Atria Orchard

Tempura Tsujiki Tenka is the 1st restaurant by Tokyo Sushi Academy, featuring tempura by chefs graduated from the Academy and exclusively for Japan Food Town at Wisma Atria.

The restaurant serves mainly dons and makis, with their most popular don being their signature Tenka tendon. At $16.80, the tendon comprises of tempura vegetables, prawns, chicken and fish. 
The tempura batter was light, and does not feel too oily. Drizzled with their light tendon sauce, it serves as a great lunch or dinner meal. Flavoring is light as compared to others like Akimitsu. Rating: 3.9/5

I went for their 2nd popular dish, the Aburi salmon mentai don ($12.90). Thinly sliced torched aburi salmon drizzled with sauce on sweet Japanese rice. Not the best aburi salmon don but still above average. Rating: 3.8/5

We ordered chicken tempura ($6) as sides. Rating: 3.8/5

Love their sourish sauce accompanying it. All dons come with mini salad and miso soup. The restaurant is not big so do come early to avoid queue.

My overall ratings:

Food: 3.8/5

Price: 3.8/5

Service: 3.5/5

Ambience: 3.5/5

You can locate them here:

Tempura Tsujiki Tenka

435 Orchard Rd, #04-39/54, Wisma Atria Shopping Centre, Singapore 238877

Restaurant - Japanese

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Collin's at Northpoint City

Wide selection of western food at affordable prices are available at Collin's Northpoint City. The restaurant is opened till 12 midnight and is a popular supper venue for movie goers. 

Queues are expected during dinner peak hours, thus do go early to avoid waiting for too long as the seating capacity isn't too big. We were there for dinner this evening with our buddies.

During weekdays, there is an ongoing promotion of free sides and drinks with every main dish ordered. We went for their chicken drumlets, tuna salad and chicken salad for sides. The sides came very promptly upon ordering. No wow factor for the sides.

As mains, we ordered as below:

1. Seafood risotto ($30) - huge spanish risotto loaded with lots of seafood on the top. This dish could be shared among 2 people. In terms of taste, definitely decent enough. Rating: 3.9/5

2. Fried hardock fish with tempura squid ($17) - crispily fried fish fillet topped with fries and tempura squid. The squid was little overly fried but the fish fillet was good! Sides were salad corn and greens. Rating: 3.8/5

3. Chicken and mushroom aglio oglio ($14) - healtheir choice amongst all. Pasta is a little dry but overall taste still acceptable. Rating: 3.5/5

With no service charge, this place serves a a great variety of food with quality. We will definitely be back for more.

A summary of what we had:

Seafood risotto

Fried hardock fish with tempura squid

Chicken and mushroom aglio oglio

My overall ratings:

Food: 3.7/5

Price: 4/5

Service: 3.5/5

Ambience: 3.8/5

You can locate them here:

Collin's

930 Yishun Ave 2, Northpoint City, Level 1, Singapore 769098

Restaurant - Western

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The Glass Onion at Bencoolen Street

The Glass Onion, a cosy bistro and bar restaurant, is located at the side of Hotel Mi opposite NAFA Arts School at Bencoolen Street. 

Through Eatigo, we were entitled 40% discount on all ala-carte dishes on the menu excluding drinks. As the restaurant name indicates, The Glass Onion is supposedly to be good for their onion dishes. 

The staffs were friendly and were enthusiastic in recommending some of their dishes.

1. Ikayaki ($13) - grilled squid marinated overnight with sake. The squid was tender and very fragrantly grilled. Although we could not taste the sake, it still deserves a thumbs up. Rating: 4/5

2. Norwegian salmon fillet ($22) - panfried salmon fillet with homemade tangy sauce on top of fresh greens and potato pcs. Portion was generous and food tasted great! Rating: 4/5

3. Crab salad ($13) - freshly shredded crab flesh with tangy sauce tossed with greens. Refreshing and healthy. Rating: 4/5

4. Glass onion rings ($10) - fresh onions deep fried in homemade batter accompanied with garlic mayo. Heavenly tasting and its definitely one of the best onion rings we had! Rating: 4.2/5

Service was great but the food serving was a little messed up as repeated dishes were served to the tables. Other than this, The Glass Onion is definitely a good place to catch up with frenz.

A summary of what we had:

Ikayaki

Norwegian salmon fillet

Crab salad

Glass onion rings

My overall ratings:

Food: 4.1/5

Price: 3.8/5

Service: 3.8/5

Ambience: 4/5

You can locate them here:

The Glass Onion

41 Bencoolen Street, Singapore 189623

Restaurant - Western

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Lao Zhong Zhong Ngoh Hiang at Tai Thong Crescent

Lao Zhong Zhong is indeed so reputable with its ngoh hiang. It is definitely one of the best ngoh hiang eaten in Singapore.

There is no sweet sauce with this ngoh hiang but just comes with sourish chilli sauce topped with crushed peanuts. No smelly oil taste and the must order items are its red sausage and fried beancurd. So fresh and awesomely delicious. 

Ngoh Hiang

Within the same coffeshop, there are other stalls selling congee, satay beehoon, braised duck etc. We tried the braised duck which also deserves a thumbs up for the chilli and yam rice. The congee was neutral.

Braised Duck

Congee

Opposite Lao Zhong is another coffee shop just selling prawn noodles. The soup base was sweet and rich with prawn flavour and tasted so good with the dried chilli powder and dark sauce. Not the best prawn noodles but still worth a try.

Prawn Noodles

Tai Thong Crescent definitely has great food and its a place worth exploring. We will be back for more so do stay tuned!

Ngoh Hiang

Congee

My ratings:

Ngoh hiang: 4.3/5

Braised duck: 4/5

Congee: 3.2/5

Prawn noodles: 3.8/5

You can locate them here:

Lao Zhong Zhong Ngoh Hiang

29 Tai Thong Crescent, #01-03, Singapore 347858

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Rolling Rice at Marina Square

Rolling Rice, a Korean concept restaurant, is now newly opened at the food gastronomy area in Marina Square. It serves a wide range of food from street snacks to other mains. Prices of food ranges from as cheap as $4.90 to $14.90. 

Ordering is self service at the cashier and prices are subjected to GST but no service charge. Just like many other korean restaurant, there is free flow of salad, kimchi, radish, seaweed soup and water as sides.

We were there today with our bunch of lovely frenz and ordered 5 mains in total. For spicy food lovers, we would recommend the rabokki, which is ricecakes with noodles and fish cake and soft tofu stew. 

Very well done dishes and the spicy level could send some perspiring non-stop.

Next will be the hotplate pork whose portion is worth sharing amongst 2 people and the bulgogi gimbap. 

Deliciously rolled gimbap that tasted so good!

The last spicy chicken dish was ordinary but still very much acceptable. 

We will definitely be back to try their many other dishes and hopefully the food standard still maintains as what it is today.

A summary of what we had:

Spicy Pork Hotplate

Spicy Chicken

Bulgogi Gimbap

Rabokki

Soft Tofu Stew

My overall ratings:

Food: 4.1/5

Price: 4/5

Ambience: 4/5

Service: 3.8/5

You can locate them here:

Rolling Rice 
6 Raffles Blvd, Marina Square, Singapore 039594

Restaurant - Korean

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