Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Linda Seafood @ Patong Phuket

My brother recommended this place for dinner during our trip in Phuket Patong. It is not too far from our hotel called The Nap and it was beside Club Andaman Beach Resort, along the roadside opposite a 7-11 store. The lady boss was very friendly and keep chit chatting with us in dialect (Hokkien).

We ordered their fresh Oyster. Oyster omelette, Asparagus, BBQ butter prawn, deep Fried Squid, steam Stingray with white rice. I also ordered their Mango fruit juice, it was pure, fresh, thick and sweet do consider giving this a try. The advantage of going in a big group is that you can order more good food :P


Fresh Oyster - Fresh and no stinky smell. Unlike the usual way of  having the oyster with tabasco sauce and lemon the lady boss has her way and it taste totally differently and it was very delicious. She personally prepare the oyster for us, she put some homemade thai sweet and spicy sauce with fresh garlic, fried shallots and a piece of the green leaf which I had no idea what is it called and put everything into your mouth, Wow it was great but it may not suit everyone taste bud but still worth a try :)

BBQ Butter Prawn - Prawn was huge, fresh and succulent The buttery sauce in the prawn was nice but somehow the prawn meat taste a little bland to me.

Steamed Stingray - Our local style of stingray is BBQ with sambal sauce and here they steamed the stingray with lots of garlic, coriander, chilli padi and maybe lime. It taste totally different to what I always ate, the sauce was very good it taste like clear tom yum soup. Thumbs up for this dish.


Fried Clams (LaLa) - Quite common so nothing much to said about this dish. Just one thing, at least is was properly clean and no sandy taste.

Fried Squid - This is nice too my girlfriend was saying that this dish taste like cereal squid. It is crispy, easy to chew and not rubbery.

Asparagus - My brother and my dear said that the sauce in this asparagus was very good and goes well with white rice and my brother even finish up the sauce lolz...Aasparagus was crunchy and fresh, yummy :)

Oyster Omeltte - I wonder how they make the omelette so fragrant and fluffy, overall the omelette taste quite nice too.

Total  bills comes up to $2700 baht for 6 person including beer and drinks, very worth it and very reasonable and I will definitely recommend this restaurant to all my friends and family who intend to visit Patong for their holiday. Do note that there are many stalls next to one another along this street and you will be confused as which to pick, as for Linda Seafood is much further down directly opposite a 7-11 store. Last but not least sorry for the bad photo taken :)

You can find them at: Rat-U-Thid Road, Patong, Phuket

Tel: 085-0375570

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ampang Yong Tau Foo @ Upper Thomson Road

This stall at Upper Thomson Road is always crowded I wonder why. It is next to a Shell station and parking can be quite a hassle. We ordered their set for 2 and a bowl of dumpling soup. The sauce is flavorful, the fried tau kee is a little too salty for my liking and I feel that it doesn't taste as nice as before already. Not much varieties on the yong tau fau as for the soup it just taste very average. 

Total for 2 person is $9. Will keep a lookout for other nicer ampang yong tau fu, kinda of disappointed with the food here....


You can find them at:

Address: 928 Upper Thomson Road

Tel: +65 6452 1801

Opening Hours
9.30am – 7.30pm

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Boon Tong Kee ( Whampoa)

Was here for lunch with my colleagues, I think it was about 5 years already since I last visit BTK. It was a long queue as usually during lunch time. This restaurant was located beside Boon Keng MRT station along those shop houses. Finally it was our turn and we decided to ordered 1/2 white steamed chicken, spinach with century and salted egg and their fried beancurd.

At first I still wonder if their fried beacurd are still the same as usual and it never disappoint me. I love the lightly salted and crispy beancurd skin and the beancurd is smooth, tender and piping hot. My colleague suggested the spinach with century and salted egg, the sauce of this vegetable was thick and sweet, it taste like mui fan sauce to me. The texture of the chicken rice was good it was not too dry or oily and it was very fragrant. Lastly it was the steamed chicken, the thick chunky meat was smooth and tender best to dip with the chilli and ginger sauce.

Overall the bill comes up to $45 for 5 person with a pot of tea and complimentary chocolate. The reason for coming back again I guess is for their fried beancurd.

Steam white chicken

Spinach with century and salted egg

Fried Beancurd

Complimentary Chocolate

You can find them at:

Address: Blk 34 Whampoa West, #01-93
Tel: +65 6299 9880

Opening Hours
Daily: 11am–3pm, 5pm–10pm

Empire State (Iluma @ Bugis)

Square pizza? Yes they serve square pizza here, don't blame me for been a 'sua gu' (geek) is really my first time eating square pizza lolz. I choose Hawaiian flavour for our square pizza, it was slice into 9 pieces just nice for 2 adult and a child. And we saw a few ordering their Roasted Chicken so we ordered a whole chicken to shared. This place somehow remind me of New York New York even their menu are quite similar.

The roasted chicken is huge I should have ordered 1/2 to shared instead. The chicken can be quite bland without going with the sauce and it was served with a generous amount of fries. We like the pizza at least the crust is not so thick that will make us feel so bloated and each slices are just nice and not served in big pieces.

Total bill comes up to $34 after the gst and the service tax. I will come back again to tried their mini burger it is also a nice place for a mini gathering with your friends :)

Square Hawalian Pizza $12.90

Roasted Whole Chicken $11.90

You can find them at:

Address: 201 Victoria Street, #04-03 Iluma At Bugis

Tel: +65 6238 7076

Opening Hours
Daily: 11am – 11pm