Dinner at Lu Gang Xiao Zhen – the Asian Kitchen @ Ion Orchard

Had dinner with my family at Lu Gang Xiao Zhen (Asian Kitchen) @ Ion Orchard yesterday evening. Been there once on a weekday lunch with my colleagues and I remembered we queued for quite a while then. So this time round I went there earlier (around 6.30 pm) to queue for a table for dinner. However, when I reached there, I was pleasantly surprised that there wasn’t any queue and I was able to get a table immediately.

Ordered the Herbal Guitar Duck – Small Serving ($11.70). Duck meat was tender and there is a slight herbal taste. But if you compare this to the ones sold at Dian Xiao Er, I would prefer the ones at the latter as the herbal taste is much stronger.

Soup of the Day – Lotus with pork ribs soup – $7.70. It serves approx 2-3 pax. Tasted ok. Would be better if some red dates were added to enhance the taste of the soup.

You Tiao with Pineapple cubes Salad – $5.90. The You Tiao wasn’t that crispy anymore and tasted a bit soft. Perhaps it had been left mixed with the salad dressing for quite a while.

Their famous Eggy Rice with braised meat and chestnut. Tasted like what my grandma would cook. Yum yum yum. $5.90 per serving

Another of their speciality – Stir fried Four Seasons Beans with Salt Egg Yolk. Very nice and crunchy. I really loved this dish.

Total bill for the dinner came up to approx $62 (inclusive of 3 Eggy rice + 1 bowl of white rice + 1 soy bean drink with pearls) for 4 pax. Pretty reasonable.

The soy bean drink doesn’t taste that great. Don’t think would be getting that again the next time I am there. I noticed that the queues started forming at around 7 pm and I am glad that I came earlier to queue.

At the mmoment this restaurant do not accept reservations. It’s on a first come first serve basis. However, I checked with the restaurant manager, he said that perhaps they would accept reservations later on.

Lu Gang Xiao Zhen – the Asian Kitchen
Ion Orchard
#B3-22
Tel: 65091128

Nice and Q Ang Ku Kueh from Bon Choix

The shop had since shut down. Not sure if they had moved elsewhere or shut down completely.

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Decided to get some Ang Ku Kuehs after packing my lunch at Amoy Food Centre after hearing rave reviews about it from my office cleaner auntie.

I decided to get 6 pcs of Ang Ku Kuehs as the stall is having a promo. If you buy 5 pcs, you get an extra pc of Ang Ku Kueh free. Each pc cost $0.60.

I bought 3 bean paste ones (the red ang ku kueh) and 3 bean paste with sweet corn flavoured ones (the yellow ang ku kueh)

See the skin of the ang ku kueh, it’s so thin and the filling is alot !!

The skin is quite nice to chew at. Very easy to bite. Very Q. I only use a plastic spoon to cut open the ang ku kueh. Did it without much difficulty and the skin did not even stick to the spoon.

Not too sweet also. And I love the one with sweet corn as compared to the bean paste one (shown below)

Here’s the address:

Bon Choix

#02-133 Amoy Street Food Centre

Tel : 6862 2180

Fax: 6821190

www.bonchoix.com.sg
Email: sales@bonchoix.com.sg

Other than Any Ku Kueh, the stall also specializes in Egg Tarts and Banana Boat

Nice Western Food @ Tanglin Halt Hawker Centre

Had this really nice western food from Tanglin Halt Hawker Centre.

I love their tender pork chops that cost onloy $4.50. It includes 2 pieces of pork chop, 1 baked potato, some fries and salad. Really value for money.

Other than pork chops, they also sell fish & chips, chicken cutlet etc. Can’t rem the exact stall number to this stall but this stall is easy to find in the hawker centre. The hawker centre is within walking distance from Commonwealth MRT station.

Parklane Fried Wanton Noodles House

This is ED’s fav fried wanton noodles stall. He had been frequenting this stall since his secondary school days. He told me that at that time this stall was located in a coffeeshop at Parklane shopping centre. Due to increasing stall rentals, the stall owner moved to its current location at Sunshine Plaza. The vacant stall at the coffeeshop was taken over by the coffeeshop owner and he started selling similar wanton noodles. Some people who do not know that the authentic Parklane Fried Wanton Noodles stall had moved, continued to patronise the stall operated by the coffeeshop owner.

From one outlet at Sunshine Plaza, it expanded to a few outlets around Singapore. Another one is located at Boon Tat Street.

Quite alot of celebrities patronise this wanton noodles stall. You can see that from the pictures of the various celebrities posing with the owner being displayed on the shop glass window.

Fried Wanton Noodles. I only like the fried wanton but not the noodles as I find that it had too strong an alkaline taste for my liking.

Fried Wanton. $2 per plate. Very thin wanton skin with so little meat inside that you can hardly taste it. But i like the crispyness of this fried wanton. Some people might complain that there is too little filling in the wanton but to me, I find that it’s just nice.

The stall not only sells fried wanton noodles but also char siew rice, pork cutlet rice, chicken cutlet rice and fish cutlet rice. The Sunshine Plaza outlet also sells assorted double boiled soup.

Chicken cutlet rice

Overall I would say the food is ok. Prefer the rice than the noodles. And the double boiled soup is favourful too.

Parklane Zha Yun Tun Mee House

91 Bencoolen Street,
Sunshine Plaza #01-53/85
Tel: 68359212
Hours
11am – 8pm

21 Boon Tat Street
Singapore 069620
Hours
10am – 4pm (Mon – Fri)
Closed on Sat and Sun

Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee

Used to love eating fried hokkien prawn noodles till I developed severe allergies to prawns that I had no choice but to give it up. There is this stall at Tanglin Halt Hawker Centre which sells very very very nice and delicious fried hokkien prawn noodles.

The pic of this plate of noodles was taken at Suntec’s Food Republic. Verdict is… the Tanglin Halt one is much better than this one.

Fried Tofu @ Redhill Hawker Centre

Simply love the fried tofu sold from this stall at Redhill Hawker Centre. It taste heavenly when u eat it pipping hot. It’s basically just tofu that is lightly pan-fried till golden brown and you eat this by dipping it into some chilli sauce with mince garlic.

Most of the tofu are sold out in the late afternoon and the stall is closed on Mondays.

Laksa – Spore Local Delicacy

Laksa is a Singapore delicacy. It is noodles in spicy gravy with slices of fish cake, tau pok (fried beancurd skin), hard-boiled eggs peppered with grounded laksa leaves. Normally either thick bee hoon (thick rice noodles) or yellow noodles are used in this dish.

As it was raining during lunchtime, I wanted to eat something hot and spicy to warm myself up.

Laksa

Also had this fish meat with cabbage wrapped in beancurd skin and deep fried to golden brown. Taste a bit sweet and savoury. Not bad though

Tao Suan – Spore local dessert

This local dessert called Tao Suan is cooked using mung beans. It is a sweet dessert and you eat it with fried dough fritters (You Tiao). The dough fritters add a certain crunch and savoury taste to this sweet dessert.

My dinner at a Zi Char Stall

It is very common for most Sporean families to eat out these days as few people want to cook and wash up after dinner. I had mine at a Zi Char (cooked food) stall at a coffeeshop at Yishun St 11. The food is very nicely cooked and the price is quite reasonable.

 As I am too hungry while waiting for my ordered dishes to come, I ordered a plate of fruits rojak (from another stall) to fill my tummy. Rojak is a local salad where pineapple, guava, green apple, turnip, cucumber slices, toasted dough fritters and fried beancurd skin (tau pok) are mixed with shrimp paste, assam water, sugar, grounded peanut powder, grinded ginger flower and beansprouts.

Fruits Rojak $3

Broccoli with Pork Ribs marinated with honey and orange juice $12

Deep Fried Handmade Tofu Cooked with Broccoli and Braised Mushroom $8

I also ordered a big bowl of Fish Maw Soup cooked with seafood ($6 serving fills up 6 small bowls) and a plate of prawns omelette ($4). I ordered the smallest serving size for all the dishes ordered and it is adequate to feed 3-4 people.

The stall also serves all patrons with a bowl of longan with cube orange jelly on the house. Very good service by the serving staff too. I would definitely go back again for dinner.

Total Bill came up to $31.50. Really worth it

Jin Wei Seafood
Blk 418 Yishun Ave 11
#01-385
Tel: 6757 0127