But our anticipation for their latest collaboration with Ramada at Zhongshan Park was a letdown.
We order our favourite item from the menu that featured most of their familiar popular dishes - their Hokkien prawn mee. Whilst the colour of the dish looked suspiciously off in front of us, its taste was also no where close to what we remembered from their former outlets. Instead of wok hei, this was distinctly chao da (burnt), both in the noodles and the gravy. It also lacked that rich flavourful consistency in the gravy.
The other dishes we ordered were similarly disappointing. The finishing on the foie gras satay wasn’t enough to give it that nice crust while their pork satay tasted dry although the sauce was good. Fried pork jowl didn’t do it for us too, the miso caramel sauce couldn’t cover the oiliness in the fatty fried pork.
So none of the dishes we had were positive here, albeit new or familiar ones that we’d always order. Service by the staff was good though, much like hotel ones (or were they actually). We felt that standards here weren’t reflective of the tasty food one would taste at the New Ubin Seafood at Bukit Timah. We will definitely return there again; but not here.