Yesterday ate crab at Melban in Ang Mo Kio. Reached at 6pm and the queue was already long... and the waitress told us they need 1 hour to prepare our food. Yesterday was actually the second time I went there. Was prepared to tried their black pepper crab after trying their milk/cream crab the last time I went there. Heard the black pepper was nicer.
Highlight of this shop is actually their crabs. They were huge and taste as delicious as No Signboard. But yesterday my table ordered 4 crabs but only 2 were solid crabs. They put a declaration "No guarantee solid crabs". Well at least I get 2 good ones. My favourite of the crabs would still be the crab bee hoon. The soup is milky and sweet... and the crab meat taste nice mixing the soup... delicious.
Ranking of the crabs: 1. Crab Bee Hoon 2. Black Pepper Crab 3. Creamy/Milky Crab 4. Chilli Crab
The chilli crab is the basic tomato base sauce. Nothing fantastic. No Signboard still reigns in the chilli crab arena. Haha. Other side dishes are delicious as well. Worth a try. But still it's the crabs that steals the limelight.
P.S. You can even pay by credit card in this zi char store!
Look out for the friendly uncle who sells drinks at the coffee shop. First drinks stall uncle I met that takes order in English!
Blk 232 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 #01-1222 Tel : 6285 6762 Directions: Bus 262 from AMK HUB interchange (counted as first stop) Alight at the 9th stop drop at the 9th stop Opposite Mayflower Secondary school and cross the road
Recommend this song from Bird Thong Chai, a Thai Singer. Song name is Mee Tae Kid Tueng. It means "Miss you, forever". (if i'm not wrong)...
Very touching MV. There is a version of the MV that has a story.. It's a romantic story of 2 villagers. Then the girl went far away to work in the city while the boy stays in the village. According to Bird Thong Chai's website, the girl will write and send the boy a peanut sweet every year on her birthday. Then this girl passed away, but her daughter continued to send peanut sweet to the boy.. Not sure exactly how Bird Thong Chai's role come into play though.. he acts as the photographer who hired this girl's daughter... hmm...
I dined at Morton's for Friday's night dinner. Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel. It was superb! No wonder it is one of the best steakhouses in Singapore and sooo........ expensive.
Every portion is huge and you really need a super big appetite to finish your appetizer, main course, dessert and other sides. Otherwise, it's better to share with your friends, especially for the small eaters. The bread was huge... as big as a Christmas cake. It's very fragrant, but unfortunately you can't take too much of it, otherwise you will be stuffed by the time your main course comes.
The menu is only 1 page, but you can choose seafood, USA beef, Australian beef. What I had that night was a Ribeye USA steak. The beef is very thick and very juicy and soft considered that it was done medium well. That cost $89. You can actually order a steak and lobster tail combination for $169. And of course, you can order the entire lobster.... it's based on market price. But the lobster taste very very sweet! Their oysters are also big and juicy. For non beef eaters, you can try their chicken. But to forewarn, they give you 3 big pieces of chicken, which most probably you will be full by the time you finish the first or second piece. That's about $50. You can also try the Morton's salad. It is pretty good with salad dressings and lots of bacon's bits. Dessert is warm chocolate cake, and it's really one of the best I have eaten. I also had the James Bond 007 wine that day. Not too sure what is the name of the wine, all I know is that it was featured on the latest James Bond movie.
There were people celebrating birthdays in the restaurant. As usual the staffs will come over to your table and wish you happy birthday. But interesting enough, their birthday song goes..."happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday from Morton's, happy birthday to you..." Well, guess they don't have to check your name before they sing the birthday song to you....
