BigBang Bulgogi Korean BBQ & Steamboat

Got this $19.90 deal for each adult for buffet dinner from deal.com.sg. Wanted to make reservation for Monday evening  but was told that they are fully booked for this week accept Tuesday, so I just go ahead for it.

I brought my girl along and pay $10.90 (after GST) for kids price. We reach around 7.20pm, the place wasn't very crowded and they even accept walked in but they still can tell me that they are fully booked? Their located next to Courts, seem like newly opened. Restaurant has very poor ventilation or totally no ventilation at all, it was quite smokey that my eyes feel hurts too. Oh ya, don't bath and wash your hair if you intend to dine here lol. After I had my dinner here I can smell the BBQ all over me even in the car and even after I bath!!! Lol....

Variety here are slightly more comparing to Ssikkek at Novena which I went to. Forget about their kimchi, is bland and tasteless. They have 2 types of meat, pork with and without marinate and the beef and marinated chicken wings with other seafood like prawn, sotong and so on. I was too excited grabbing the meats that I missed out the Saba fish  They also have some cooked items like fried salmon which has turn soggy, sushi, korean pancake and korean rice cake.

One thing I like about is that they have both steamboat and BBQ together so you can throw your fishball or meatball or hotdog in and boil and cooked your own style maggie mee  Note: they do not have any choices of soup so create your kind of soup. For me I throw in tomato and prawn which make the soup taste sweet and tasty! And there is free flow of korean tea and iced water! As for the marinate pork, nothing to shout about, is simply marinated with black pepper that's all.

$19.90 for weekday dinner, weekend you need to add another $5 which I find not worth to give the extra just to come on weekend. Original price was $24, think should be before GST. Given the variety and location which is near to my place I will consider coming back here again

You can find them at:

450 Toa Payoh Lorong
6 ERA Centre #01-11
Singapore 319394

Tel: 6255 5711

Opening Hours:

 Mon - Sun: 11:00am - 10:30pm

Oasis Taiwan Porridge @ Toa Payoh

Been here for supper once, is next to Toa Payoh Swimming Complex as for parking wise you may park in front of the complex and walk over. Heard they have another outlet at Kallang but it was closed down already.

They have indoor and outdoor seating but the outdoor are only open in the evening. The pricing of the dishes I will said is quite steep. The teochew porridge is serve in a small pot in regardless how many person you have, you can always ask for another pot if you want to. My friend who had been here a few times told me it depends on your luck on the porridge that you get. If you are lucky you will get a pot of porridge with nice and sweet porridge with soft sweet potatoe inside which they had boil for quite a while if not it will be like me, my luck isn't good I never get to tried the sweet porridge just the plain porridge with semi soft sweet potatoe lols.

And we ordered Sliced Fish with Spring Onion, Braised Pig Intestine with Salted Vegetable and Cold Beancurd with Century Egg to go with the porridge. Total bill comes up to $35 for 2 person with a few dishes which I feel that is kinda of expensive. I think by coming in a bigger group will be more worth it, it will be a nice place to return for supper.

The Menu

 Teochew Muay (Taiwan Porridge)

Sliced Fish with Spring Onion - To me when I heard Sliced Fish it should not have any bones but this does and not just one and also the fish are not fresh, it has a very smelly fishy smell in it.

Cold Beancurd with Century Egg - I like this, the beancurd is smooth silky and chill. The sweet and saltish sauce goes well with the egg and beancurd

Braised Pig Intestine with Salted Vegetable - The pig intestine is properly clean with no stinky smell, is soft and not rubbery, nice.

You can find them at:

Address: 303 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Tel: +65 6346 4418

Opening Hours

Daily: 7am – 3pm; 6pm – 4am

Swatow Seafood Restaurant (Dim Sum)

At first I thought of going back to Excelsior hotel for their dim sum buffet but sadly they have close down already so we went over to Swatow Seafood Restaurant for Dim Sum lunch with my colleague last week. Previously it was called Xin Fu Yum Cha than it was took over by Fortune and now change to Swatow I wonder what next lolz...

The dim sum here was average to me, nothing much to shout about and I find that the price here was kinda of expensive total for 7 person is about $20 each. If you love Yam Paste dessert you may give a try their Yum Paste dessert they serve here was quite nice. The Fried Durian was a disappointment, strong smell of durian but the taste of it was bland.

Like
Char Siew Pau, soft and fluffy
Har Gow, Skin is thin and not sticky
Paper Wrap Chicken, tender but  a little too salty
Yam Paste Dessert ( I never took picture of this)

From top left hand side Char Siew Pau, Colourful Pau with Vegetable filling

Glutinous Rice wrapped in Lotus leaf, Paper Wrap Chicken

Goldfish dim sum, Har Gow, Egg Tart & Yam Paste Tart

Pork Trotter, Century Egg Porridge, Deep Fried Durian & Deep Fried Wanton

You can find them at:

Address: Blk 181 Toa Payoh Lorong 4, #02-602

Tel: +65 6363 1717

 

Opening Hours

Mon–Fri: 8am–3pm (Dim Sum) Sat–Sun & PH: 8am–6pm (Dim Sum) Daily: 11am–3pm, 6pm–10pm (Ala carte)