Salted Egg Crabs in Gelang Patah

A 15 minutes drive through the Second Link leads you to a small town called Gelang Patah and there you'll find Tian Lai, a seafood restaurant which serves pretty good seafood at decent prices. 

Lunch was good and being the first few customers, it was easy parking right in front of the restaurant. 

Greedy us also ordered a traditional steamed fish, frog legs and stir fried clams in chili. 

Tendon

The queue leading up into the restaurant was kind of orderly. Afterall, we are Singaporeans.

Ok. Not quite as there were a number of Japanese in line too.

This means that the food must be pretty good that even local Japanese are willing to wait out for a meal.

Too be honest, I'm not so much of a tempura fan but this one is good. The sauce that was poured over the hot rice and freshly made tempura was surely an experience for me.

Watching the chefs carefully lining up the ingredients in the bowl was fascinating.

Bintan Kelong Restaurant

Went on a trip recently to Bintan for two nights with the family and we once again visited Nirwana's Kelong Restaurant. 

Popular for the sunset (and food too), we chose to start dinner early at 5.30pm local time. 

With the companion of seafood consisting of crabs, prawns and squids to admire the setting sun we spent approximately S$40 per person. 

Momma Kong delivery for a Sunday evening ....

Not the best picture to post but I have to say that Momma Kong's food was pretty good. 

For a set which cost approximately S$180 for a party of 4, it can be too much to handle. 

The highlight of the meal were the three crabs - Butter, Pepper and Bee Hoon soup. (not forgetting the surprisingly good mantou)

At the end of the next week, I recommended it to another group of friends and they too had the thumbs up for Momma Kong.

Erdinger BBQ Prawns

Decided to try a new method of preparing prawns for BBQ and we decided to pour half a bottle of Erdinger into half cooked prawns. 

Surely a good try at creating something new as the finished product ended up quickly in the stomachs of guests and what was best - the hot Erdinger made sweet from the fresh tiger prawns. 

Da Luca Restaurant

It is funny how I chanced upon this restaurant. No intentions to have Italian but dear son who shares the same name of the restaurant instructed me to park the car and enter the restaurant.

At the age of 4, he seems to know how to give his dad commands.

Well, I didn't mind Italian and so I was game for it and decided to give it a try.

Interestingly, the service and food was pretty good.

We ordered 2 set lunches of sea bass, a mushroom and ham pizza and my favourite lasagna.

The lasagna was very well layered and piping hot. Too bad the boy wasn't a fan of such pasta and preferred to keep to his pizza.

Pizza was thin crusted and was quite a big portion so there surely was excess slices to be shared amongst 3 adults.

I struggled to finish my lasagna and ended up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Black Pepper Crab at Still Road ...

Do not be deceived by the shabby looking coffee shop along Still Road, it serves one of the most popular black pepper crab in Singapore.

Famous for its long queue that lines from 4.30pm in the weekends, this restaurant sells a minimum of 2 crabs per order so don't even think of ordering a single shell. Besides the usual black pepper crab, they also have the norms like chilli crab and mee goreng, kangkong etc.

I am sure you will not be disappointed with the food at all but if you are a person who needs the aircon while having spicy stuff, you will have to bear with the heat on a warm day.

Eng Seng Restaurant
247 Joo Chiat Place
Singapore 427935
Tel : 6440 5560