Nice To Meat You

This big ass portion of the three meats was only $18!! 🙂🙂 quality seemed to have became even better since the last time I tried this, especially the roast duck, which has a deep herbal sensibility you can hardly find in hawker stalls.

Used Burpple Beyond for this for two pax, but really, you should save the deals for a larger group because the portions are really intense!! Their Korean fried chicken was so good though, I was stuffed to the brim but still slowly continued to stuff my face.

Chir Chir’s portions are HUUGE; even as half a portion, we took really long to finish this (there’s noodles under that giant pile of bean sprouts too!). It was my first time trying jjimdak, still don’t really get the concept. It was fried chicken simmered into a stew? So if you eat fast enough the skin was still crisp, but after a while it became kinda soggy (but thankfully not too gross). Good for veg intake haha to take a break from all that Korean fried chicken.

No other stall in Chinatown makes me happier than this ☺️☺️☺️ #cheapandgood

Can’t recall which stall this was, but it had 玫瑰油, located far from the cluster of soya sauce chicken copy cats and was awesome 🙃

A delightful assortment of roasted duck and siobak; though there’s a long queue for it.

From the porridge stall which often sees a short but consistent queue of hungry folks. Their porridge is pretty good, but it’s their tender steamed chicken that keeps us coming back for mooore (also the friendly uncle aunty couple 🙂)

Got the bigger portion at 250g, which was quite filling (so maybe save some $ by doing 200g instead), but very very worth it. Done perfectly medium rare; didn’t get the pricier Australian steaks which the cashier claims to be more tender, but this was already pretty darn tender itself.

Skip the rather mediocre lemon & dill fillet and zoom in to this FANTASTICO FRIED CHICKEN! It is rather greasy but makes up for it with juiciness, tenderness and the crispy deep fried goodness. Also it’s $10 only for a huge slab of sin and your choice of 2 sides.

Their prices are slightly cheaper than the typical soya sauce chicken around Chinatown (~$14), which might be the only saving grace sadly. The chicken was decent enough, especially with the price; the accompanying noodles were unfortunately an overcooked mess. Maybe go for the rice instead, or just spend $2 (!!) more for better soya sauce chicken elsewhere (my preference would be Fatty Ox, though I have yet to try the Michelin-starred one)

They also served a pretty typical array of western dishes, like beef stew, mussels in wine, bbq beans, sea bass in saffron sauce, braised mushrooms (I love you mushrooms) etc and super fresh cold prawns.

Also took advantage of their cheese board to taste all of their cheeses! Desserts were just fruits, apple crumble, cakes and panna cotta (which we discovered to be pretty damn great at the last minute when we were about to explode from food).

The Carvery is a hotel buffet that’s (suspiciously) affordable compared to other hotels ($90 for a buffet??), but don’t fret because they don’t skimp on quality here. It’s a rather small space, with much less variety, but definitely enough to satisfy. No one needs 10 cuisines and 100 different types of meat in one setting anyway. Also loved how they hire elderly servers who provide such friendly and attentive service, and the handicapped chef tending the pizza oven and pasta station really impressed; their thin crust pizza was awesome.

The meat selection for sat buffet lunch only had beef, roast chicken, and lamb. Beef was super tender, but was kinda left in the cold :( while the lamb turned out to be our favourite.