Love Oishi: February 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

E Food and Wine

Had company lunch again! Weee... this time round we went to E Food and Wine located at Dempsey Road. The place is more accessible by car. The place is surrounded by lush greenery and their interior of tropical furnishing gives me a feeling of refreshing and peace.

Chicken Cordon Bleu - stuff boneless chicken breast meat with cheese. Served with bacon cream sauce.

Tuna steak - Seared Tuna with Wasabi sesame seed crust.

Rib-eye Steak - Well, I wanted my steak cook in medium form but ended up with a super well-done form. Not even a single sight of pink.. :x

E Food and Wine

6C Dempsey Road

Tel: 6475 8806

Email: info@efoodandwine.com.sg

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Tung Lok Seafood @ Orchard Central

It's the day where I have to face the music of being 1 year older again hahaha! Throw that aside first, I'm gonna enjoy the dinner feast with my family and get bloated! We went to Tung Lok Seafood yesterday located at the 11th floor of Orchard Central. We had Ala Carte buffet, the menu looks quite decent but if you want more choices, you will have to eat their non-buffet Ala Carte.

Their service was ok but definitely still have rooms for improvements. E.g. Improve on speed of serving, improve on not forgetting our orders again, and improve on... don't make customers repeat reminders can? :P

Food wise, there are plus and minus but overall is still satisfactory.

Crispy Fish Skin with Salted Egg Yolk - This is good, crispy and fragrant.

Salmon Sashimi - we wanted 3 plates, waitress told us will give us bigger portion end up still look the same as 1 serving. -_-"

Pan-fried Shrimp and Pork Dumplings

Salmon Salad Maki

Mini Octopus

Jellyfish with Spicy Sauce

Crisp-fried Shishamo

Steamed Half-shell Scallops with Minced Garlic and Vermicelli (only allows 2 pieces per pax)

Braised Shark’s Fin with Fish Maw

Crispy Soft Shell Crab with Salted Pepper

Deep-fried Marble Goby with Chef’s Special Sauce

Poached Baby Kai Lan served with Chinchalok

Drunken Prawns served with Herbal Soup

Crispy Prawns with Butter and Cereal

Steamed Red Tilapia with Bean Crumbs

Sliced Stewed Beef Brisket with Turnip

TungLok Chilli Crab

Golden deep fried buns that comes with the chilli crab

Chilled Almond Beancurd with Longan

Glutinous Rice Balls with Sesame Filling

Sesame filling oozing out

Ice-cream Puff with Vanilla filling

Tung Lok Seafood

Orchard Central #11-05
181 Orchard Road
Tel : +65 6834 4888
Fax : +65 6834 4266

Opening Hours :

Mon- Sat
Lunch : 11:30 - 3:00PM
Dinner : 6:30 - 10:30PM

Sun & PH
Lunch : 10:00 - 3:00PM
Dinner : 6:00 - 10:30PM

Chef Daniel's Kitchen @ Iluma

Located at the rooftop of Iluma stationed an east-meets-west combination of cuisine by Chef Daniel's Kitchen. Unless you know about this place, I supposed it's quite hard for shoppers to come across as it wasn't that obvious. However, the surrounding was pretty peaceful and comfy on a Thursday evening.

Frankly saying, the taste of the food didn't really impress me much, very ordinary. The place was quite empty yet our order of Foie gras can be forgotten. There wasn't any ala carte menu, we are left with only one set meal.

Corn soup with bread

Boiled Beef Fillet in black pepper sauce with green beans, tomato and sambal dried shrimp - Taste of steak is alright but not as juicy as I thought.

Medium state

Rose-Wine Lamb Shank with roasted vegetable and potato - Taste of lamb wasn't strong, meat quite tender, sauce tastes quite ordinary, resemble the sweet sauce used for pig trotters. :P

Sakura Chicken with potato and coconut flake - I don't really like this dish, it gives a weird taste (don't wish to describe further) :P

This is the dish that was being forgotten to serve in our order, Five spices Foie Gras. 2 tiny piece of creme Foie Gras on some glutinous style rice, with the weird tasting honeydew. I would say it's definitely not worth the cost.

Mango cake with cherry. Texture of the cake on the side was not soft and fluffy enough. The only commendable is the mango creme in between.

Chef Daniel’s Kitchen

201 Victoria Street, Iluma, #07-04/05/06

Opening hours: 11.30am to 10.30pm (Mon-Sun)

OChre Italian Restaurant | Bar

Have not been blogging as it was a really busy week but happy! Able to dine with different batch of friends for dinner as my birthday is here again, yes again. Nevermind, I'm forever 18 by the way hahaha. My birthday has just ended so I can finally lie back and write about what I've eaten so far.

On Tuesday, we headed to Ochre, an Italian restaurant located in Orchard Central, 11th floor. It was pretty pleasant and cozy on a weekday. The place seems like a fine dining place but it has no special rules so we can dine in comfortably.

They had 2 different type of set menu - Uomo and Donna, Uomo in Italian is Man while Donna is Woman. Uomo presents a robust flavours while Donna's a subtle essence. Interesting isn't it? We end up ordering these 2 sets.

My ultimate favourite - Foie Gras! This is being pan-fried to the perfect 'melt in the mouth' effect. So fragrant and delicious.

I cut it and took a shot on the inside. :P

Uomo's Appetizer: Mackerel & Eggplant Terrine Smoked Paprika & Red Capsicum Coulis. This don't really impress me much, the mackerel is cold and it reminds me of my tuna with bread. :P

Donna's Appetizer: Mortadella Ham with Gorganzola Cheese Mousse Semi-Dried Cherry Tomato. This dish looks very artistic where all the items were small and far apart from each other. I had to put them together to take a better shot. :P

Sweet Corn Soup with small piece of Foie Gras on top and some Vanilla oil.

Beef and Mushroom Tomato Pasta - I pretty like the combination of this dish. The sauce they used to cook the beef and mushroom is flavourful.

Have you heard of Risotto? It's actually an Italian dishes of rice cooked in broth to a creamy consistency. This was mixed with burdock and smoked king salmon. I quite like it too.

Grilled French duck breast - I was pretty amazed how tender duck meat can be when I tried this. I can say it's sort of resemble my favourite moo moo meat. Oops.

Hokkaido Scallop and Escolar Fish with squid ink sauce - I wish that fish could be bigger. It was so fresh and tasty! Scallop is just as nice, crunchy!