Mitzi Cantonese Restaurant - Revisit

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22 Jan 2011

A revisit to Mitzi with family, a restaurant that serve real good Cantonese cuisine. They serve one of the best Fish Maw Soup and Seafood Hor fun.

Fish Maw Soup - S$30.00

Very rich and flavourful broth! Dried fish maw was used instead of the usual deep fried type. Yummy!

Steamed Fishhead in Cantonese Style - S$17.00

Very fresh tasting but the sauce a bit too salty for our palate!

Fried Prawn Paste Chicken - S$10.00

My family like the chicken very much. Very well seasoned & tasty!

Stir Fry Kailan - S$8.00

Simple stir fry green was delicious too!

Seafood Hor Fun - S$12.00

If you dine here, please don't miss this out! A must try! The hor fun texture was very nice, chewy, smooth & thick with so much wok hei!

Mitzi Cantonese Restaurant

62/64 Tanjong Pagar Road

Singapore 079530

Tel: 6222 0929

Opening Hours: 11.30am – 2.45pm / 5.30pm – 10pm

Canto Kitchen

17 Feb 2011

Yuan Xiao Jie traditionally rounded off with another reunion dinner in my family. We had dinner at Canto Kitchen formerly known as Canton Wok by Chef Kang at Joo Chiat Road. I tried once long time ago but didn't find really good but this one at People's Park was highly recommended by my bestie Hwee so we decided to give it a go. The restaurant decor is very Hongkong style where I always see it in HK drama, metal frame red PVC chair with white cloth table and TV on the wall...don't you think so? Service staff is attentive and friendly. Prices are rather reasonable too with an extensive menu and the best of all is no GST & service charge! Overall we are quite satisfied with the food and I can see myself coming back again in the future.

Shark Fin with Crab Roe

The highlight of the day's dinner was the shark fin! Very delicious! Came generously with lots of fin and chunky crab meats in rich and flavourful crab roe broth! A must try!


Steamed Crab with Glutinous Rice

Signature dish - The crab was quite a small one. You may request for sri lanka crab which will be more costly and definitely better than the normal crab. The glutinous rice texture was good, not overly sticky and very tasty.

Steamed Cod Fish Head in Spicy Sauce

Another signature dish - you have to like garlic to appreciate this dish. Very garlicky, slightly sweet and spicy but all of us like it. Quite unique and the fish was so fresh!


Herbal Roast Duck

A popular dish too. Nicely roasted and meat was well seasoned with herbal extracts. The sauce was nice, full of dongkui flavour!


Kailan with Fried Preserved Vegetables (meicai)

An unique way to serve kailan, sweet and savoury meicai complimented the crunchy saute kailan rather well.


Stewed Bee Hoon

The beehoon did not disappoint too. Light yet robust with flavour! Beehoon fried with prawns, scallop, salted fish bits & kailan stem, stewed with premium stock. This dish I love to try cooking at home.


Red Bean Paste with Tang Yuan

Since it's a reunion dinner, we had tang yuan for dessert.

Total we spend about S$140 plus for 5 persons and each cost less than S$30. We felt it was quite value for money!

Canto Kitchen
1 Park Road
#05-01 People's Park Complex
Singapore 059108
Tel: 65360501
Opening Hours: 12.00 pm - 10.30 pm daily

Mitzi Cantonese Restaurant

17th Sep 2010

It's been years since I visited Mitzi, a traditional Chinese restaurant that serve authentic Cantonese cuisine. They has been around for years since 1985, used to be at Murray Street but has since relocated to Tanjong Pagar sometimes ago. I nearly forgotten that there's such a nice place for Cantonese food till my friends sugguested to have dinner there for H's birthday. This is a great place for family/reunion dinner especially with the elderly. I love their cooking, full of wok hei! They have lots of nice tradtional dishes like the Pork ribs, Fish head beehoon, Roast chicken, Shark fin, Claypot beancurb, Xi Chap hor fun/beehoon etc... All very reasonably price and taste excellent.

Crab Meat & Fish Maw Soup - S$30.00 (S)

Fish maw is one of my favourite and I have found another place for best fish maw soup. This was indeed very well executed, the broth was so rich and flavourful that filled generously with fish maw and crab meat. The portion is enough to serve 4.


Deep Fried Prawn Roll - S$12.00 (S)

This is birthday girl's favourite, it was decent but definitely not the best.


Sweet & Sour Pork - S$10.00 (S)

Usually if I dine with my family, we will never have this but with my friends, this is a must order dish when they have Chinese cuisine. I didn't really like it but their comments were good for this.


Braised Beancurb in Claypot - S$10.00 (S)

It was cooked in the traditional way with a good stock to braise the bamboo shoot, chicken, seafood, vegetables and tofu. A comforting dish and the sauce was very tasty that went very well with rice.


Sliced Fish with Kailan - S$10.00 (S)

Full of wok hei and the sliced fish was thick and fresh.


Seafood Beehoon - S$6.00 (S)

Has not tasted such good wok hei beehoon for awhile already. I think they serve one of the best Seafood/Fish hor fun and beehoon in Singapore.





Mitzi Cantonese Restaurant
62/64 Tanjong Pagar Road
Singapore 079530
Tel: 6222 0929
Opening Hours:
11.30am – 2.45pm / 5.30pm – 10pm

Old Hong Kong Kitchen

7.7.09

Met up with 2 ex-colleagues for dinner last Tuesday at Square 2 to celebrate BY's birthday. Though they had left my present company for almost 2 years but we always will make an afford to meet up once awhile especially on any of our birthday's. Usually we will have lots to talk about, we will update each other about our recent happenings. That evening we decided to have some chinese food and I suggested to try Old Hong Kong Kitchen.

Very nicely decorated interior and service was good. We ordered some of their specialities and pleased that all were above my expectation except for their dessert, not many choices and nothing really special.

Rose Tea - S$8.40

We enjoyed the soothing and fragrant rose tea very much.

Mashed Spinach Soup in "Tai Ji" - S$16.00

Superior stock with mashed spinach and chopped fresh scallops. This was really interesting and surprisingly good. Worth trying.

Fish Maw & Angel Luffas w/Minced Pork - S$18.00

Anything with fish maw just attracted me. I'm a super fish maw lover. Not bad though a bit salty toward to the end when it's start to boil. BY liked it very much.

Saute Chicken Fillet w/Scallion - S$12.00

Chicken leg meat very well seasoned and saute on high heat, serve with deep fried curry leaves. The chicken was very tender and this dish goes so well with rice.

Deep Fried Prawn & Salted Egg Yolk - S$16.00

This was CY's fav. One of their popular dish. Very rich, sinful & high cholestrol!! It was coated with salted egg yolk to deep fry till crispy and the whole prawns with shell can be eaten. I'm not a prawn person but I do like this.

Nai Bai Fried w/Garlic - S$8.00

Simple stir fry vegetables.

Chilled Avocado Cream w/Ice Cream - S$5.00
Mango Pancake Roll - S$6.00

The avocado cream was quite nice but the pancake was nothing special. Just crepe wrap with fresh cream and mangoes.

Old Hong Kong Kitchen
10 Sinaran Drive
#02-00 Square 2
Singapore 307506
Tel: 63977023
Opening hours:
10.30am to 11.00pm daily

Cafe de Hong Kong

Been reading a lot of good reviews about this Hong Kong cafe which offer much more than an usual Hong Kong Cafe. They served zi char and seafood dishes too. We went there for dinner on Sunday. It was not very crowded yet as we were there early. We tried out some of the recommended dishes.

Nam Yu Crispy Roast Chicken (half chicken $17.00)

This was very highly recommended and blogged about. It was served with a nam yu dip instead of the usual 5 spice salt. The chicken was very well roasted as the skin was still crispy when served and the meat was very tender. Nice but I don't like the nam yu dip, maybe I don't like the strong distinctive taste. It's yummy enough without the dip

Stir Fry Red Garouper Slice w/Roasted Sauce ($20.00)

This was recommended by the staff claiming that their Chef used a special sauce for this. It was very nice even though I don't find the sauce very special. But I find it too expensive for that small portion. I think there were only 7-8 slices of fish.

Kurobuta Pork Chops ($10.00)

Another highly recommended dish. It was not bad almost similar to korean BBQ pork.

Vegetables w/Salted & Century Eggs in Soup ($10.00)

Our vegetable dish and it was quite nicely done up and the stock was quite rich & flavourful.

Lup Mei Fun ($32.00)

The 'Lup Mei' are all homemade so it was quite lean and fresh. I think the meat was too much and we don't really appreciate this dish. We still prefer the normal type of claypot rice with fresh chicken & salted fish.

Fragrant Fish Roe Fried Rice ($10.00)

This fried rice was yummy with bits of crunchy fish roes and sufficient "wok hei". A must try!

French Toast & Tea Set ($4.80)

The toast and milk tea were super and I think was one of the best I had so far. The tea was very fragrant and milky yet sweetness just right for me. As for the toast, was light and fluffy and i can easily finish up a piece by myself and still crave for more...

Dessert - Cold Black Sesame Paste ($2.50) & Mango Pudding ($3.50)

Tried 2 of the dessert. Just ordinary not very fantastic.

We enjoyed our meal in this cosy family restaurant and their service was adequate too. We will definitely go back again to explore this little treasure hut.

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Cafe de Hong Kong
586 Balestier Road #01-01
Eastpac Building
Singapore 329898
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Tel: 6255 3865 Fax: 6254 6500
Email address: cafedehongkong@gmail.com
Business hours: 11.30 am to 3.00 pm, 5.00 pm to 12.00 mn
Monday Close except PH (then the next day after PH will be closed)

Canton Wok by Chef Kang

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I finally got a chance to visit this restaurant after hearing & reading quite a few good reviews about them. This restaurant was quite a hit 2 years ago when they were at HDB heartland - Serangoon Central. Then they had shifted to Joo Chiat, a refurbished pre-war Peranakan bungalow, not much ambience to rave about as it's interior was just a typical old fashion chinese restaurant decor. Recent reviews on them was fair only and standard had dropped. I think so too after going there with high expectation. Even their signature dish - Steam Crab Glutinous Rice did not really impress me except that the crab was very fresh.

I was there on Thursday with my boss and a few colleagues for lunch. It's a treat from my boss. My boss chosen a set for 6 of us at S$188.00 w/20% disc.

These are the dishes served in the set:

1) Sharkfin & dried scallop soup in whole pumpkin

The stock was rich and tasty but too little fin and too much dried scallop. Please don't ever try scrapping the pumpkim flesh to go with the soup, we tried and the pumpkim actually taste funny not cooked.

2) Baked King Prawns with White Cream Sauce

This was quite good, the prawns were coated with batter, deep fried till crispy and baked with the cream sauce.

3)Steamed White Patin Fish

The fish was fresh except that the skin a bit chewy and the sauce too salty.

4) Boiled Spinach w/3 Eggs & Garlic

I would prefer this dish to cook with chinese spinach or nai bai. This was so so only. I think my aunt cook it better. haha...

5) Peking Duck w/Goose Liver Sauce

This was quite creative to me. The Chef deep fried thinly sliced mantou till biscuit crisp, spread it with goose liver sauce & top with a slice of roast duck skin.

6)Steamed Crab w/Glutinous Rice

This is their award winning signature dish. However it's not a 'wow' dish to me except that the crab was really very fresh. The glutinous rice was precooked with dried shrimp and chinese sausages then steam with the crab.

7) Braised Ee-fu Noodles

This was normal but I quite like it as it was piping hot when served. It's taste real good with their fresh balachan chilli.

8) Double-boiled Papaya w/White Fungus & Seacoconut

The dessert was too sweet for my liking and I didn't finish it.

Overall dining experience was so so only and I don't think I will revisit again. However, their set menu is quite value for money...


Canton Wok by Chef Kang
382 Joo Chiat Road
Singapore
Tel: 62856919 / 63486919
Operating Hours:
Tues - Sun: 11.30am - 3pm, 5.30 - 10.30pm