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The first time we visited the restaurant after the chinese new year period, the food was not too bad even though we found the dishes too oily for our taste.
And the one drawback was that their cutlery is always stained or not cleaned out properly.
However, the second & last time we visited was in May this year. The restaurant served us a stale, stinky fish with very tough flesh. The fish meat was tough to peel off. When we requested for a replacement, they served us another red grouper which had the same stinky taste & fishy smell. The restaurant replaced the item with a toufu dish, which didn't taste fantastic.
The black sauce prawns also tasted really hard & were very small compared to what they served us the first time.
And the restaurant served us a medium sized soup even though we ordered a large. However, there were no mistakes in the billing.
After this incident, we had dropped this restaurant for good. The food was also extremely oily. From our perspective, it was as if the chefs had poured in an entire vat of oil into their dishes.
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Had dinner at Manhill Restaurant, sibling to the renowned Hillman Restaurant at Kitchener Road. One interesting point to note is that both places are owned by the same family and have exactly the same menu.
Located along Pasir Panjang Road, Manhill is hard to miss with its huge neon lighted signboard screaming its presence to passing motorists. Its really hard to imagine a restaurant located at such a nondescript place where housing developments are minimal and factory buildings aplenty. Its even harder to imagine such a huge turnout at the restaurant during the weekends, which essentially means that reservations are almost necessary and mind you, the place can sit close to 100 people! (my estimate).
Chye Sim in Oyster Sauce - A very normal dish. Decent but not fantastic. The vegetables did come across as a tad too soggy though and the oyster sauce seemed a little runny.
Chicken in Paper Bag (Boneless) - As with the Zi Bao Ji at Hillman, this was excellent. Well marinated and cooked to perfection - tender meat with simmering juices encapsuled within the paper bags. Just watch out of the price because it certainly doesn't come cheap.
Crab Meat with Beancurd - An average dish and nothing more. The crab meat was plentiful but of inferior quality and the beancurd was your run off the mill kind.
Pot Roasted Pork with Sea Cucumber - As mentioned in my entry on Hillman, claypot dishes are a specialty at both Hillman and Manhill and rightly so. The Pot Roasted Pork with Sea Cucumber was hot favourite with the sea cucumber being soft yet retaining its firmness and the gravy tasty with all the goodness from the sea cucumber and roasted pork. The roasted pork was a little too fatty for my liking though.
Fried Pork Ribs in Chinese Style - The young chap (who I presume to be the owner's son) was promoting this dish as one of the signature dishes of Manhill, apart from the Chicken in Paper Bag and I should have slapped myself for listening to him. The texture of the pork ribs was a little too soft and moist for my liking and came across as too sweet. And I wasn't the only one who thought so.
We were stuffed up, all 9 of us. Best thing was, it only cost $180. A reasonable price to pay for the quantity and quality of food, if not for the finger licking good chicken and claypot dishes. However I reckon Hillman edges Manhill slightly out in terms of food quality. And its much emptier as well.
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