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2012-02-25
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Reservations available only for parties of 6 or more, but if you arrive at around 12:30pm, you will be seated quite quickly. (per Loyal)Environment:We got an upstairs four-seater booth at a corner next to the window. It was pretty spacious, laterally, but the ceiling was quite low and it was rather noisy. Food:Baked Pork chop rice set lunch $86+soup and bread + drink First impressions do matter. The cream (of whatever it is...bits of pulsed corn?) soup was absolutely horrific. It is regrettable
Environment:
We got an upstairs four-seater booth at a corner next to the window. It was pretty spacious, laterally, but the ceiling was quite low and it was rather noisy.
Food:
Baked Pork chop rice set lunch $86+soup and bread + drink
First impressions do matter. The cream (of whatever it is...bits of pulsed corn?) soup was absolutely horrific. It is regrettable I did not photograph the object. It was unpalatable. Bland, too thick, lumpy, no substance whatsoever. Probably worse than Campbell soup. I think I tasted bits of corn that weren't even whole kernels. I ordered the Baked pork chop rice. It looks semi-decent, but because I don't like runny egg, I was turned off by the wobbly egg yolk and emptied the contents onto another plate before devouring the egg white. I would have preferred my baked pork chop rice more burnt on the surface. The sauce was runnier than I liked, and a bit too tart. I believe it didn't do enough time in the oven. I think the layer of sauce should be much thinner. After all the main point should not be in the sauce. It should be the balance between delicious fried rice with a bit of tomato sauce - the sauce should not overpower the egg fried rice. The dish was not hot enough and the interface between sauce and bowl was not scarred. The veggie was not caramelized and were completely smothered in tomato sauce - losing its original flavour. The egg fried rice hiding beneath the tomato sauce was oily and quite dry.
The baked pork chop was quite fatty and I had to remove the fatty bits before eating the chop, which meant I had to remove a substantial bit. I don't like biting into lumps of fat. The chop was well-crumbed, and the crust wasn't too thick. I am not pleased about the meat quality but then you can't expect much I suppose. The piece of pork was quite large. But please be warned that much of it is too fatty.
Hainan Chicken rice + Chinese soup + drink ~$95
Everyone else ordered this item. I foolishly neglected their advice and went for the Baked Pork chop rice. This set was much more reasonably priced for its quality. Chinese soup is substantial and I could see plenty of bone, meat and lotus root swimming inside the soup. I had once forkful of rice and it was quite fragrant - but could do with a BIT more chicken grease flavour. But the chicken itself was excellent - plenty of meat, and was tender and oily. Conclusion:
All in all I believe I would have derived greater utility devouring a $3x 'Brother #1 Baked Pork Chop rice' at Cafe de Coral/Fairwood than eating the only marginally better equivalent at Loyal Dining, and paying so much extra to make it a set, none of the items which were enjoyable. I will NOT come again for baked pork chop rice. I've heard friends saying good things about the dimsum - maybe i'll come back for that.
张贴
