Ban Leong Wah Seafood Restaurant (17th Feb 2009)

When friends are in town... they would want to try some famous "Singapore" food. The main thing would be chilli crabs... or crabs of some sort. As my makan kakis are into crabs, so we try to get the better ones in town for my friends.


This was recommended after some rejected my recommendation of another place.

Prawn paste chicken

Baby squid

Butter prawn

Sambal Potato leaves

Herbal Frog leg soup

Chilli Crab

Black pepper crabs

These are the dishes we had. I would not highly recommend this place to my friend. I have another place which I prefer to go to. Why? I didn't like the crabs. I didn't think the crabs were the best in town. But a meal is best only with good company. I think the company was what made this meal great.

Ah Yat Seafood Restaurant (19th Dec 2008)

A flickr fren from Chicago came back to Singapore.... yippeee more new frens to meet :)

so after going for a rather horrible buffet... we tot crabs would be next on the menu... so we went searching for crabs at YCK but was told they would only served at 5 pm....so we ended up having it at Ah yat instead.... :)

we started with some dim sum

Scallop with yam paste
the scallop bits were small to the extent I did not detect its existence... taste more like a meat fillings than anything.

Har Gow (Steamed prawn dumpling)

Cereal Prawns
This was slightly salty. Maybe less salt would make this dish perfect, cause the prawns were quite fresh.

Matrimony Vine with Assorted Egg
one of my favorite vegetable dish... along with some good stock... and several types of eggs *yummy*

Stir-Fried crabs with salted egg yolk
I definitely like this alot :) pity we don't have some buns to wipe the plate clean :D

This is definitely a good place to come for fresh seafood. But fresh seafood, without good cooking skills can be a quite a difficult choice to make. That's one reason why this is only the backup when i do want to have seafoood.