I've always like the environment at the East Coast Seafood Center. If you add good food and great company, then it just doesn't get better than that. This makes me jump up and down to tell mom about!!!! (Foxy can't stop rolling her eyes now.)
Naturally, we were pretty excited for this dinner. However, as usual, Jumbo was pretty crowded, so we were placed indoors. Not the best location, but oh well. We ordered the chilli and black pepper crab, sambal kang kong, cereal prawns, and seafood hor fun. Satay was the appetizer - 10 pork & 10 chicken if I remember correctly. Peanut sauce was a tad oily, but tasted really good.
K&A were running a bit late, so we decided to start with the cereal prawns since A is allergic. They were not the usual looking cereal prawns that I am used to seeing. It had much less cereal than I am used to. But the taste was very good. Gats, I believe, was also very impressed with it - his HK-based S'porean friend recommended him to try this when she heard that he was going to Jumbo. I think he was pretty surprised at the unusually sweet taste of the cereal and how it matched perfectly with the prawns.
Go thinks this is the best dish that he tried in S'pore, not wanton noodle, as Stud guessed. Btw, where's my S$100 - you lost our bet, or are you still in denial?
When K&A finally arrived, it was just in time as the rest of the food was served. The sambal kang kong was nice and salty, just the way I like it. The seafood hor fun was well, seafood hor fun - nothing special.
Then we had to wait and wait and wait even after numerous times of asking for our crabs. The black pepper came out first. It was very nice. Not much sauce though. I would prefer it with more sauce next time. Then came the chilli crab. This was fantastic. I especially like the bite sized fried buns. They just go perfectly well with the sauce. I am drooling while thinking about it.
There was another option of steamed bun, which K says goes well with the sauce too....maybe will try that next time. G&G both preferred the black pepper, but only because the chilli crab sauce is similar to another dish they have back home. However, Gats did love the fried bun with the sauce as well.
Overall, this place never seems to disappoint with the food. However, and this is a big one, their service has taken a HUGE step backwards. We were served the cereal prawns quite early, but was only given our crab probably an hour later. And this was because we kept asking for it. We had to ask a number of different people as well as no one seemed to know what was going on.
The lack of service happened during dessert too. We ordered for 6 but only 2 turned up, so the rest had to watch impatiently while they ate, and after much prompting were we finally served. We were even discussing about running off without paying the bill, but had to abort the plan since Foxy wasn't sure if Stud could out-run the wait staff.
Maybe the wait staff heard us, because the bill couldn't come fast enough. Another reminder to Stud, you owe me S$100 here too, for grossly mis-estimating(add that to our dictionary!) the cost. Haven't you learn by now that you ALWAYS lose to me?!
Anyway, if this kind of service continues, then we may have to start looking for alternatives at the seafood center. The food is good, but their service almost ruined the dinner....
Oh yeah, and by the way, we also had frogs legs...Foxy can elaborate more on that as I need to make a trip to the bathroom now...Blah!!!!
Wimp.
Frog's legs were nice and tender, just the way I like it. Go had doubts that it's frog, as the taste is just like chicken, but Gats pointed out that it does looks like frog's legs. I think Gats tried frogs in where he's based, so it's no big deal to him. Go is surprisingly adventurous when it comes to food, and I'd like to think that he enjoyed it...well, he did finish the last few legs.
Stud, on the other hand, had to be force-fed. Tsk tsk.
After dinner, we proceeded to Geylang for fruit tasting. K&A chose 3 really good durians, and the other guys got some fruits - mangoesteen, rambutan, pomelo, dragon fruit, jack fruit and bua chiku (I think). We had to egg Gats on to try durian, which he did so reluctantly. His fav was mangoesteen, which he could not stop eating. Go on the other hand, was game enough to try everything. Good boy!
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