371. Tawandang Microbrewery

YUM SENG! The last dinner of year 2010 has to be good and it was! Decided to try Tawandang, it's new outlet at Suntec. Woosh! The place was huge.

Pork Knuckle! It was very cripsy and dipped into the special chili sauce, it was heavenly.

Another fried dish and it came with a different dipping chili sauce. It was so nice as well.

Cockles and nah.....I'm not a lover of it. But the rolled vermicelli went very well with the peanutty sauce.

This is a die-die must try dish! I love it!! Squid in a lemongrass soup and as the warmer warms the soup, the juicy squid immersed in the soup makes the soup sweeter. There was also roe in the squid. Yummilicious!!

Pineapple rice was moist and with the raisins and nuts, it went well with the rest of the dishes we had.

Overall, we were all very satisfied with the food we had because we find every dish yummy. However, it was on the rather pricey side. Final bill worked out to approximately $220+ for 4 pax. Singaporeans, always willing to pay more for nice food! I'll be visiting it again soon!

Tawandang Microbrewery

Suntec Convention Centre #01-01

370. Manbok Korean Seafood Restaurant

Salad topped with five-grains goma sauce alike
Pan-chan served at Manbok. I loved the black beans the most!
Tteobokki was very nice except that it was a tad spicy. Yummy!

The pork belly was a little to our dismay. We felt it was not oily and not well-marinated enough. Lacked the fragrance and thus the oomph!

Seafood Pa-Jeon

I didn't like it. The big leeks were a little too much for me. Perhaps the amount of seafood added was a tad too many and thus the middle of the pancake turned out to be mushy like it was not thoroughly cooked.

The beef was good. Well-marinated, tender beef is the one that you should not miss.

The kimchi hotpot makes a good dish for cold weathers like now......rainy seasons. It will just warm your body up. Topped it with ramen and it's woolala.....more pleaseee......

The steamed egg was with compliments from the boss. Steamed egg.....not very much to our liking.

Manbok Korean Seafood Restaurant
63 Tanjong Pagar Road

369. Shashlik

Chicken A La King @$19

Foodies gathering at Shaslik. It was located Far East Shopping Centre and the thought of it being there gave me the feeling that it is old. Heavy wooden doors but there were the old turned yellow see-through window panes just right at the side which gave verification that the place is in operation. The place was very dimly lit which boosted a feel of nostalgic. I thought the feel was quite like Ma Maison and Jack's Place combined except that the former was even dimly lit then Shaslik.

Seldom use my DSLR now as I find carrying a point-and-shoot more convenient and that explains the poorly taken photo. Ordered Chicken A La King and was rather disappointed. It turned out that it was mere chicken chunks cooked in thick chunky campbell soup alike coupled with chick peas mixture. I thought Jack's Place was even better for the price I'm paying. Surprisingly, business was very good.

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Harris, Jer Lin, Daniel, Yuan&Fen, Xin Li

Shashlik

Far East Shopping Centre #06-19

368. Table 66

It was my birthday treat. The buyer suggested Table 66 and I agreed. Have seen many rave reviews about it. Table 66 serves modern European cuisine. All of us had the set lunch which comprises of 1 starter, 1 main course, 1 dessert and a cuppa tea or coffee. Table 66, hidden along the shophouses at tras street which some are pre-conserved war buildings. The other three chose the salad with poach egg as their starter. I tried some and woosh....it was as good as it looked. Yummy.

I had the soft shell crab that was laid on top of a mixture of avocado and diced tomatoes. The mixture had a tangy taste which sort of lessen the greasy feel of the fried main. If you are a fan of soft shell crab like me, you will go for this starter. Prawn linguine. We got to know from the waitress that the dish in the next photo, that is, the chicken, is the recommended dish among the other 2 mains available. Pasta is my favourite and my eyes immediately locked against the two words, PRAWN LINGUINE. This was what I had. Linguine tossed in basil, 6 big tangy prawns and sun-dried tomatoes. Nice!

Grilled chicken if I'm not wrong. Very nicely done and it is no doubt a hot favourite. I tried a mouthful. The chicken was tender and the coating sauce had a nice chargrill taste.

Dessert - lavender panna cotta. I liked their panna cotta because the lavender taste wasn't overpowering and the panna cotta had a creamy thick texture. Completed with a nice berry sherbet to end the meal. Refreshing!

The rest had apple crepe which was filled with apple chunks. Not a bad choice either, I thought.

The set lunch was $29 which I thought was very worthwhile and definitely worth return visits.

Table 66

66 Tras Street

367. Paradise Dynasty

酒酿丸子@$4.20

This was my favourite when I was residing in Shanghai 3 years ago. It's a die-die must have dessert for me if it's available on the menu then. It is a hot dessert. I loved the rice dumplings, especially if they were made small. So easy to chew. But, it was the fragrance of the osthamus that captured my likes. The one at Paradise Dynasty had a nice osthamus fragrance and the rice grains were well-soaked. But, the quantity was too small to satisfy my craving.

Chilled Aloe Vera @$3.50

Nice chilly dessert. If I didn't remember wrongly, there was a nice ginseng taste. Can't remember exactly if ginseng was stated on the menu.

Braised Pork Ramen @$10.80

Mixed Dumplings @$13.80

A colleague of mine was sharing with me the assorted dumplings she had and I was intrigued. In fact, I was more interested in the black truffle and foie gras dumpling after hearing what she had shared. It so happened that these dumplings were also featured on the morning papers and so I decided to have them for that day's dinner. Well, the black truffle taste was there but not really evident. Whereas for the foie gras dumpling, I felt it was a tad overpowering in taste. The dumplings were nice when hot. After a short while, they were chilled and it didn't really taste nice.

Dan Dan Noodles @$7.00

The dan dan noodles was nice! It has a nice peanuty taste and there was a tinge of sourish aftertaste which I liked as it somehow dismissed the greasiness of the peanut sauce. It was a tad spicy which I find it rather different from the other dan dan noodles. Again, I felt the quantity was quite small.

Chilled Sliced Pork @$7.50

Another of my favourite cold dish. Thinly sliced pork topped with garlic mesh. So appetizing, I thought. Never a favourite for people who dislike garlic.

Chilled Assorted Eggs @$6.00

Very nicely done. Every quarter has a fair bit of the 3 different types of eggs, that is, the salted egg, the century egg and the egg. However, me and my company thought it was quite bland despite the salted egg.

Overall, I felt the food was decent. Price looked decent but quantity was quite small for the price stated for some of the dishes.

Paradise Dynasty

#04-12 Ion Orchard