We went for dinner at crystal jade xiao la mian at ngee ann city. After last week's Ding Tai Feng, we promised to bring Deanie to try crystal jade - which tastes much better and is much cheaper! Also, i have a $20 voucher which i redeemed using my UOB rewards points.
We've all along felt that crystal jade xiao la mian' stuff are very cheap. With a $20 voucher today, we ordered like nobody's business.
i would say the xiao long bao is quite on par though i personally prefer crystal jade's one. I LOVE the tea smoked egg and i tink im the only one. Its a cold dish. n i love love love it! But cannot eat too much of it. The sauteed egg and fishmeat is not bad... Steve's favourite.
Steve asked to order the hua diao chicken without realising its a cold dish. Deanie din like the fact dat it was cold. haha.. i quite liked it though.
Deanie insisted on ordering the double boiled chicken soup to compare against the Ding Tai Feng one. Results are.. the crystal jade one is much nicer. The taste is stronger.
Coming onto the noodles, without a doubt crystal jade's la mian is much nicer. Be it the noodles or the soup base. The stewed beef la mian is POWER!!!!
I was the one who ordered the fried rice. N the 3 of them kept insisting dat Ding Tai Feng's fried rice is better. Its not that Crystal Jade's one is not nice just dat they feel dat Ding Tai Feng's one is tastier. *bleah*
dessert wise, at Ding Tai Feng we ordered some layer cake which was very lousy. Erica and i loveeeeeeeee crytal jade's crispy red bean paste though!
we actually ordered another bowl of knife sliced beef noodles, beijing xiao long bao and french duno-wat xiao long bao. But duno why the pics din turn out.
Talking about xiao long bao, im sure most people should koe, to eat xiao long bao, its impt to ensure the skin doesnt break with all the soup inside drained out before you have your first bite. So you gotta be skillful when you use ur chopsticks to pick it up. So Steve was trying to 'teach' Deanie how to do it...
whereas Erica, the true master of xiao long bao, .......
indulges in her xiao long bao in silence!
oopz... Steve caught me suaning him. hee... no la.. i where got?
n as usual, Steve was siao kianing the aunties.... haha...
today, these aunties were especially responsive and amused by him. Especially the second aunty.. kept coming back to serve us. Whereas the CUTEST auntie is the last one. Shes so cute! Shes obviously amused by Steve and each time she comes round she'll be gently smiling away. Her smile very very cute oki!! hee...
We finally ate till we were all so damn full....
this is roughly how full we all were. haha..
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