No Signboard, Jumbo, International, Long Beach, etc. Singapore seafood restaurants are huge. As a matter of fact, I am not into these huge Disney-land type restaurants where bigger is better. This is not snobbism. Then you have place like Sin Huat with great seafood but mediocre service and not up to par ambiance and at times, your patience run out. At least, Matar Rd. Seafood BBQ, is in a food centre where you don't expect any service but end up having great seafood with hawker ambiance and price-I kinda like that, but at times you want to eat seafood at a restaurant. But when you're a restauranteur with passion for food, you don't want a restaurant with 400 covers a day. No thanks to celebrity-oriented high class hotel restaurant either. You don't want to dine at a restaurant where they evidently discriminate you with the celebrities. You don't want to dine at a restaurant where they treat you as if unwanted. I would like to go to a restaurant where you are treated not as a loyalty but like a family -like bistro or trattoria. Restaurant is not just a place to eat. It is a place to restore one's mind and soul, hence the word restaurant (from the word restore). That, to me is an ideal restaurant. If you have a cozy seafood place with not too posh but more like a neighbourhood bistro/trattoria ambiance, I would love to dine there myself -where service staff remember you by name and know your favorites and dislikes. Pics from top: White pepper crab / Chilli crab / Sauted Kailan / Fried fish
Humble Japanese, trying to de-mystify Singapore cuisine and food culture. This is not a restaurant / stall rating blog.
6.18.2008
Seafood @ No Signboard
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I am so happy to find this blog.
I do agree with Shigeki. Huge scale restaurants do not suitable for public local food. Further more it will not be easy to keep the original taste or quality for franchised chain store system.
Actually I visited Singapore last month and had a chance to dropped by a certain seafood restaurant at Dempsey hill close to the botanic garden. What they brought to my table was a Chili Crab that was far from satisfaction. First, chili sauce was mushy but too thick. Added egg was not dissolved into the sauce, yellow belt-shaped half boiled lumps disappointed me. I think it should be enough melted with chili sauce that gives sauce mild and tender taste.
Because the crab shell had not enough chop, the sauce did not soaked into crab meat. I had to struggled with hard shell to crack it, I was almost wounded by shell cracker, phew.
From my experience, Eastcoast Road, the first outlet was okay, but the rest of outlets were not for me.
The Punggol one certainly was a good chili crab, but the Seaside Hotel's chili crab was my best one. Seaside Hotel was a two storey small local hotel, located around Pasir Panjang rd. along the seashore. We enjoyed their Great Chili Crab with over looking the beautiful setting sun view from our outdoor table. It might be my nostalgia, though.
Hey Tetsushi-san, thanks and welcome back to my website. Ohisashiburi desu. I am glad that we're somehow connected in this way. Stay tuned for more of my commentaries on Singapore food.
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