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Tucked away at one end of Space@Tampines is the latest-to-open outlet of New Ubin. It is located within an al fresco food court and when you visit in the evening, they are the only tenant in operation so seating is plentiful.
The menu planned for the six of us featured a mix of their popular signatures and a few dishes that were new to me.
I found the chargrilled foie gras satay with raspberry sauce tasty and rather novel. It’s a great item to share as a starter. Ditto the caramelised, house-smoked pork collar which was a tad chewy but still enjoyable.
My personal favourite of the night was the green dragon vegetables stirfried in New Ubin’s signature sambal cinchalok and petai sauce. It’s spicy, tangy and in my opinion, shiok to the max.
The platter of USDA “Choice” Ribeye plus potato wedges, sautéed onions and sauces, served with a big portion of “Heart Attack” Fried Rice, was as usual, a crowd-pleaser. Beef and flavourful rice are always a satisfying combo.
It did meet its match in the Ubin Nasi Lemak, the first dish to ever come out from their own test kitchen. Although some parts of the rice we were served was a little hard, there‘s no denying its fragrance. The accompaniments did not fall short either with the ayam bakar and cuttlefish sambal being very tasty. So too the condiments of fried egg, fresh cucumber, ikan bilis and ikan asin (salted fish). The sweetish sambal was addictive and mixed well with the rice.
Unfortunately, the Charcoal Fish Head Steamboat wasn’t quite up my alley as the soup was light and slightly sourish. I prefer the richer opaque style personally.
If you love crabs and are keen to try something different, they do a version of the crustaceans stirfried with whole roasted garlic that‘s pretty decent.
Besides the festive dessert of Christmas stollen, we also had the gula melaka caramelised bananas with housemade coconut ice-cream. I really enjoyed the ice-cream a lot as it had shreds of coconut flesh buried in it