Found this excellent lunch/dinner/supper place which I cannot wait to tell you about. An eatery that looks suspiciously like a tourist trap midst our deliberately constructed Chinatown, I will never step into this place without my brother's strong recommendation.
I seriously thought this is just another tourist trap along the row of shophouses selling bak kwa and all. Sichuan Restaurant is located right opposite People's Park Centre, along New Bridge Road and hence difficult to miss. At the end of last night, I realised I was quite wrong.
We were suitably impressed by the level of hygiene at this humble eatery with a spartan interior! Everyone gets a fresh, new set of sanitised utensils. This is what they do in Beijing's restaurants these days I heard!
Star of the night is the innocently named
Shui Zhu Yu (translate loosely to water-cooked fish), $12. But this dish is definitely far from just fish cooked in water. The soup was drown generously in chili oil and sichuan peppercorn - very spicy and numbing indeed! The spiciness is definitely quite toned down in comparison to what I ate in Shanghai. This is quite ironic as our table is the only Singaporeans around on a Vesak Day night. The rest of the customers were all Chinese nationals. To think that I actually used to think of this eatery as a tourist trap. Nope, I am quite sure now is meant for Chinese who miss their hometowns.
La Zi Ji (spicy fried chicken), $16 is another earth-shattering-numb-to-the-max experience. The very boney chicken bits were fried till very fragrant. The rest of the onions, red and green chili, ginger and peppercorns went very well with plain rice. If you know me well enough, it has been years since I ate a whole bowl of rice. Well, I did it last night. Quite a feat for a restaurant to be successful in tempting me to finish my rice!
Pu'er tea is a good option for us to clean our palate before stuffing ourselves with more spicy and numbing fish or chicken!
Another look at the slices of very fresh fish 'swimming' in oily and hot soup. I like oil, especially spicy oil. I like fish, especially freshly sliced fish. The servings here are huge and prices are very reasonable. We had these 2 dishes, 3 bowls of rice and the bill came up to just $30 for 3. All of us were very full at the end of the meal! Love this place. In fact, I am planning to go back to try their other dishes tonight!
Chinatown Sichuan Restaurant
199 New Bridge Road
Tel: +65 6225 2578
8 comments:
oooh it does look pretty good! on my to go list!
wow the food sure doesn't look mild
Wow! They do take hygiene seriously!
harris: yay go esp if you like rustic hearty fare
roy: u must go to find out :)
hungrytrotters: yup I am so impressed
bookjunkie: thanks so much but no lah wouldn't dare to dream about winning. it's great joy to get somehow selected already!
on my family's visit to sichuan, the mala section of the hotpot was so spicy that it was left untouched after cooking a couple of items inside. i'm always amazed at some people's (like you) ability to take spice!
stargirl: i am assuming that those in sichuan will be spicier than the ones in shanghai and beijing. sg's version is a lot milder than shanghai's. so go try it :)
Hello!! Your sichuan posts have made me really hungry!
Was wondering if you know of good Hunan places in SG? Used to love having Shui Jing Nu Rou (beef) in Shanghai but have never found it here. Its broth sounds like the fish you had at CSR. Thanks!! E
Hi E. Hee thanks. So sorry I am quite clueless abt Hunan dishes. However, you may want to try the few eateries along New Bridge Road where CSR is. Their customers are mainly Chinese nationals so there is a possibility of finding what you want. Go try and let me know :)
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