Thursday, October 02, 2008,9:00 PM
went to try 长城粥 @ Chinatown, near Keong Saik St, @ the OH's recommendation. to summarize it all, i wasnt too impressed, so didnt take too many pics.
3 of us had a bowl of porridge each, 1 had century egg porridge, 1 had pork porridge and i had the mixed porridge, and we shared a claypot 姜葱田鸡 and a veg.
my bowl of 杂粥, which consists of 猪肝(pig liver)，炸猪肠(fried pig intestines)，鱿鱼(sotong)，猪肉片(pork slices)，猪肉丸(pork ball) and a pretty "gao"(thick) porridge. the ingredients are normal, nothing to rave abt, except dat the pig intestines tastes pretty bitter, urgh. the porridge is tasty enough, but oso nothing so fabulous. prices ain't very cheap too, cheapest bowl was $3.50. but they open till quite late, so it could be a place to go for a hot supper.
the claypot frog's legs was ok also, the sauce was quite salty, but goes well when mixed into the porridge. meat wasn't too tough. but i feel it was overpriced, $8 for a small portion(probably only 1 frog) and $16 for a big portion(prob only 2 frogs!).
and another complain, the service sux! when 1 of the staff was clearing our table, there was only 1 chair for 3 of us, so i asked him politely if he could get summore chairs for us, guess wat he replied? "椅子在里面，自己去拿!" wah kao!!! lucky it was a coffeshop environment, so i have to lower my expectations, if not i will be fuming man! and the worst thing, we had to pay GST in a coffeeshop!!! sigh.
my bowl of 杂粥, which consists of 猪肝(pig liver)，炸猪肠(fried pig intestines)，鱿鱼(sotong)，猪肉片(pork slices)，猪肉丸(pork ball) and a pretty "gao"(thick) porridge. the ingredients are normal, nothing to rave abt, except dat the pig intestines tastes pretty bitter, urgh. the porridge is tasty enough, but oso nothing so fabulous. prices ain't very cheap too, cheapest bowl was $3.50. but they open till quite late, so it could be a place to go for a hot supper.
the claypot frog's legs was ok also, the sauce was quite salty, but goes well when mixed into the porridge. meat wasn't too tough. but i feel it was overpriced, $8 for a small portion(probably only 1 frog) and $16 for a big portion(prob only 2 frogs!).