Old School

Old chinese restaurant furniture, old chinese waiters, everything is old school about Red Star.

Old, but GOOD!

Where: Blk 54 Chin Swee Road#07-23Singapore 160054Tel: 6532 5266 / 6532 5103
My favourites:

Pheonix Feet (aka chicken feet)

The feet are cooked at the right temperature, and the right amount of time. The feet was soft, but still maintained bite. The sauce was a little spicy, and packed with a lot of punch.





Har Gao is a must have when having dim sum. The har gao here has a whole scrimp inside, unlike at certain places where they mix meat with bits of scrimp. However, I was rather disapointed during my last visit (in oct) as the skin of the har gao was too thick.



I LOVE the fried prawn dumplings! Crispy on the outside, and full of prawn goodness on the inside. Dip it in the salad sauce and gobble it up!


Another must have is the duck! Though a little expensive $12 for a small plate. But the duck's skin is so crispy, like peking ducks skin.
The meat is nice and salty, and not too oily.

These are my top 4 must haves at Red Star, but if you can stomach more, than eat everything you can get your hands on!



Service: In a traditional dim sum restaurant, ladies push trollies around. But here in Singapore, things are a little different. People tend to be impaitient, and instead of waiting for the trolley, they just walk right up to the trolley to help themselves. This causes some confusion, and delays the dim sum ladies.

I strongly encourage you to go on a weekday (non-public holiday), unless you wish to queue for about an hour.

Red Star is a MUST GO for any dim sum lover!

Kim Gary...

I ate at Kim Gary just yesterday. Kim Gary is a chain of restaurants, some of which are Hong Kong Cafes, others serve Korean or other cuisines. They can be found in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

I patronized the one at Vivocity. (Hong Kong Kim Gary Restaurant)

Where? #02-218 VivoCity, 1 HarbourFront Walk.

The food: I had a pork chop baked rice, which was served in a Bamboo basket (those dim sum ones). It was quite tasty, but not my favorite baked rice. The pork was a little tough, had a hard time biting into it. I had one with cream sauce, and the sauce had corn in it, in fact, majority of the dishes on the menu had corn, corn and more corn, wonder why. I tried some of the Black Pepper beef sauce, and did not like it, it did not have a black peppery taste, tasted more like a black bean sauce.

The french toast had peanut butter in between, loads of maple syrup and butter, I felt i was just eating bread soaked in butter, it was too oily but otherwise nice.

My friend had the peanut butter, condensed milk toast, tooooo sweet!

The servers mostly speak mandarin so if you don't know mandarin then .....

Verdict? Just an okay place with okay food.

Cze Cha

My mother can be real lazy to cook at times :P so our family will have Cze Cha(cooked food) For about the longest time, we have been going to a stall called Kenny's C Food. Located behind ITE Tampines, at the industrial area, in a coffeshop. Some where near Jason's Parquet. Not many people there, as there is not much human traffic there.


Good thing is that you can take your time and do not have to worry about people standing next to you waiting for a table (I hate that makes me rush though my meal) Price? much cheaper than many other stalls.


The cereal soft shell crab is very crispy and does not have a fishy smell. Some other dishes I mostly order: Hot plate tofu, lemon chicken, prawn paste chicken, sambal kang kong/sweet potato leaves. Once i had black pepper crab there and it was quite good, however they don't serve that now.





A bad experience: My family and I have always enjoyed going there for dinners. As my dad liked their black pepper crabs, one of the workers asked us to bring our own crabs. We did that once and they charged us $6 which is cheap. The second time, one of the assitant chefs was not happy as he had to kill and clean he crab that he smashed our crabs to bits(literally). And he had the guts to stare at us afterwards. Grrrr.....


However, I still recommend you to try it, it's good.


When we try out other Zhi Char stalls we always compare it to Kenny's C food, and Kenny's is still top my list except for that (I have an attitude) chef :)


Ah Lam Seafood. I just tried it 2 weeks ago, and it was nice. The seafood tofu was something new. The tofu tasted different, I heard they make it themselves. And there was sea cucumber, abalone and other seafood. The prawns in the cereal prwan was huge and fresh, but the cereal was not as nice as Kenny's C food. I liked the Zi Luo Chicken. Don't know what is Zi Luo, but the chicken is fried with some honey so it was sweet but sweet to the right amount.

Where? 18 Kaki Bukit Road 3 Enterpreneur Business Centre #01-16/17 Singapore 415978 check out their website for more details: http://www.sbestfood.com/ahlam_abalone.htm

Thats all for my Cze Cha entry, let me know if you have some recommendations.