Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tung Lok Restaurant @East Park














Tung Lok Seafood 同乐酒家 (East Coast Parkway)








Address: 1000 East Coast Park, 2F Marine Cove, Singapore
Tel: +65 6246 0555

Opening Hours
Mon–Sat: 11.30am–3pm, 6.30pm–11pm
Sun: 10am–3pm, 6pm–11pm
任点任吃 Ala Carte Buffet
Monday to Sunday
Adult @ S$33.80++
Child (Below 10 yrs) @ S$23.80++
最少四位 Minimum Four Persons
 Lunch  : 11.30 am - 2.00 pm
• Dinner : 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm









厨师长特别介绍
Chef's Special Recommendation 


1. 迷你佛跳墙 (每位只限一份)
Mini Monk Jumps Over The Wall
(one serving per person)
or
黄焖鱼鳔翅 (每位只限一份)
Braised Shark’s Fin with Fish Maw
(one serving per person)

(任选一样 Choose One)

2.京式片皮鸭 (每人只限两片)
Beijing Roast Duck
(配于青葱, 青瓜及甜酱 served with Spring Onions, Cucumber & Sweet Sauce) (two slices per person)

3. 鲜虾 (每位只限一百克)
Live Prawns (Limited to 100g per person)

Menu can be found at this link:  
http://www.tunglok.com/paramount/print/menus.html


This restaurant was introduced by one of my friends, and we went down for her Birthday Celebration.  I had been to this restaurant couple of times before this but its my first time having their a-la carte buffet. It is definitely one of the better buffets in town. We went there for the dinner buffet and they had a great variety of food, majority chinese cuisine with a little touch of Japanese cuisine. The ambience of the restaurant was warming welcome, with comfortable and premium settings. Take a look at some pictures below which I took during this visit, my friends and I had a great time there and definitely be back for more.
Overall Taste: 3.5/5  
Ambience: 3/5  
Value for money: 3/5  
Service: 3/5  
Carpark: 1/5 (always packed, small carpark hence difficult to find a lot) 
HALAL: NO 
*Please note that the ratings and comments are personal opinions of mine and is just for reference. 




The Live prawns (Limited to 100g per person)...
Taste: ***

The Char Siew and chicken...
Taste: **



Mini Monk Jumps Over The Wall (one serving per person)...
Taste: **










Chilly Crab (We didn't order, but i think its kinda their signature dish 
but sadly it didn't represent them well i feel..)
Taste: 0


Chilly crab +BUNs (the BUNs tasted great, outshine the crab, hahaha~)..
Taste: 0


Salmon Sashimi and maki (the salmons are fresh, but not the right place for it)
Taste: *


Deep-fried Marble Goby Fish with Chef’s Special Sauce 
Taste: **


We ordered another plate of Char Siew and chicken…because we had a pure 'carnivore' with us..
Taste: **


French Style Beef Cubes with Black Pepper Sauce...
Taste: ***


Dont quite remember the name of the dish but its not bad...
Taste: **


Batter fried prawns fritters...
Taste: *



"Dong Po" meat… (we requested a small portion because everyone was full, yet they say its the min. for 4 paX)
Taste: *



Fried Baby squid...
Taste: **


Stir-fried Fried squid +Peas...
Taste: *

Ice Cream Puff 
Taste: *


Ice Cream Inside the Puff 
Taste: *

Sweetest way to end the day, Mango Sago~
Taste: ***

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Kublai Khan Mongolian BBQ Restaurant@ Parkmall

Restaurant Address:
9 Penang Road #04-01, 
Park Mall Singapore 238459
Tel : 63344888 , Fax : 63342324

Dinner Operating hours are Dinner: 6.00pm ~ 10.00pm


What are the prices?
Dinner Costs are as follow :
Mondays – Thursdays:
Adult — S$28.00 *Child — S$15.00 Student – S$23.80
Fridays – Sundays and Eve of/on Public Holidays:
Adult — S$29.80 *Child — S$16.00 Student – S$25.8

This restaurant was one of the worst I have tried. I was really disappointed with this restaurant, my friends and I had high expectations as the pictures on its website looks really appetizing and simply freshness. We went there for the dinner buffet and they had a great variety of food as advertised but the first thing that irks me there was their plates. It  was so dirty, kinda 9/10 were unacceptably dirty. The dinner buffets starts at 6pm but we manage to arrive only about 7pm and most of the dishes were almost empty and they didn't bother to replenish them. Then, my friends commented "The food was Pathetic" (Her exact words). Take a look at some pictures below which I took during this visit but the pictures definitely looks better than what it tasted like. When we  were almost done with our meal, our plates were not empty and we were told by the staff to finish the food but our reply as a group (6pep) told him to try the food himself, the food was simply horrible. My friends swear that they would never step into this restaurant again, just imagine that.


Overall Taste: 1/5
Ambience: 1/5
Value for money: 1.5/5

Service: 1/5
Carpark: 1/5 (Very old car park with tight parking lots, coming out will be outta CBD)

HALAL: YES
*Please note that the ratings and comments are personal opinions of mine and is just for reference.


The Bar you choose your mix for the Stir-Fry...

The Bar you choose your mix for the Stir-Fry...(zoom-in).. Beef, Mutton, Chicken.


The Chef is stir-frying our Mix on this FLAT wok and just 2 round rods...


The Final product of the mix... 
(Taste Varies depending on the choice of items, lotsa onions is recommended else it would turn out rather bland)


The Sushi Bar. (Chef told me to use wooden chopsticks to take the sashimi but nothing of such instructions was written to guide the customers)

The Sushi and sashimi was just acceptable only.
Taste: 0

The Sushi and sashimi was just acceptable.
Taste: 0

The Seafood. The mussels and scallops were not cleaned properly and can still taste of mud and sand.
The prawns and crayfish were acceptable and bland.
Taste: 0

The Seasoned Seafood plate. Scallops was with ketchup-.- and cheese spread on the mussels. on the right, thats prawn paste chicken. Ketchup scallop was detasteful. The cheese baked mussels wasnt fresh. The prawn paste chicken seems edible.
Taste: 0


On the left, we have baked rice which my friend thought it was pineapple rice because it tasted sourish=X
Batter fried silver fish and mini crab were just average.
(Baked rice)                    Taste: 0 (they are luck 0 is my baseline, else this would look ugly..)
(Batter fried silver fish)  Taste: 0
(Batter fried Mini crab)    Taste: 0


The drinks luckily did taste normal as those of fast food restaurant, coke/7up. Beside it is a chawanmushi.
(Chawanmushi) Taste: 0 

This plate here was voted by all "THE BEST DISH HERE" haha! dont play play!~
(Golden Mushroom) Taste: *
(Abalone Mushroom with Kai lan) Taste: *


This bowl here is kway tiao soup with peeled prawns, the soup tastes as plain as it looks.
Taste: 0


Finally, DESERT and we are done. We cant wait to finish this meal of horror. haha! They didn't even have the most basic flavour chocolate. Strawberry didn't taste like strawberry ice-cream but the Chocolate mint, chocolate chip and vanilla taste ok.
Taste: 0