Ting Tai Fung Restaurant Beef Soup

Ting Tai Fung Restaurant Beef Soup

The sampling of Ting Tai Fung Restaurant's beef soup took place at Tampines Mall where some of you would be familiar with the famous xiao long pao.

 Photograph: Ting Tai Fung restaurant beef soup.

What I like best about dining at Ting Tai Fung Restaurant is their beef soup dish. This bowl of beef soup is filled with a clear broth that reveals large slices of beef.

I took a few bites of this Ting Tai Fung Restaurant beef soup and was pleasantly surprised by the soft, tender meat, that breaks down into more manageable sizes with each chewing action. The beef tasted sweet without the usual overpowering flavour of beef.

The liquid that bathed Ting Tai Fung Restaurant's beef soup was a delicious mix of sweetness and fragrance, with a tinge of spice. 

Recommendation for Ting Tai Fung Restaurant Beef Soup:
Score = 7.5 out of 10.

New York Ribeye Steak

New York Ribeye Steak

I ordered the Ribeye Steak from New York New York restaurant at Downtown East for the first time recently. As is usual for my steak orders, I always ask for the beef steak to be cooked "medium". I chose the mushroom sauce.

Presentation of New York New York's Ribeye Steak was just adequate. The layer of brown mushroom sauce covered most of the beef steak. The side dishes were presented in a simple manner on a clean white plate.

Their Ribeye Steak was cooked to the style that I liked. My first bite revealed the succulent soft beef. The texture was similar to shabu shabu beef, except that these were much thicker slices. Some bits of firm tendon at the edges could be discerned but it did not spoil the smoothness of the steak.

I found the mushroom sauce rather ordinary. It somehow lacked the freshness and taste of fresh mushroom. It's degree of saltiness in the seasoning was a little beyond my usual liking.

New York New York's Ribeye Steak side dishes were a letdown. You can see these side dishes in the photographs. Those potato wedges were coated with too much seasoning. With that much salt, I fear the extra work my kidneys will need to perform to get rid of it from the system.

Anyway, the test of a good ribeye steak dish is always in the beef. Nobody orders beef steak because of the side dishes. Don't you agree?

Restaurant Address:
New York New York Restaurant
Downtown East E-Hub
1 Pasir RIs Close
Level 1

Recommendation For New York Ribeye Steak:
Score = 7 out of 10 points.

Beef Soup, Din Tai Fung

Beef Soup, Din Tai Fung

I sampled this beef soup at Din Tai Fung Restaurant at Tampines Mall tonight and discovered that it was one of the better beef soup that I have tasted so far.

Din Tai Fung's beef soup comes a a white porcelain bowl filled with a clear broth. The beef soup is really tasty, sweet, not too oily and does not have any overpowering beef aroma. I liked the beef soup as it doesn't come with any herbal ingredients to mess up the beef flavour.

There were about 5 thick slices of beef that were succulent, soft to bite and flavourful. The individual fibres of beef could be teased apart easily using my teeth without getting stuck between teeth. The beef flavour was intact and it gave a warm feeling as it glided down my throat smoothly.

Recommendation:
Overall score = 9 out of 10. Perfect score if more pieces of beef and larger sized soup bowl filled to the brim with tasty soup.

Beef Hor Fun In A Western Restaurant

Picture of Beef hor fun taken with my low budget camera phone.

Beef Hor Fun In A Western Restaurant

I tried this Beef noodle / hor fun dish at a western restaurant next to Simei MRT. The western restaurant is called Eatzi Steakhouse and Bistro Restaurant, located inside East Point Shopping Centre. This is a certified halal restaurant that specializes in preparing affordable western dishes.

On this particular visit, I chose to eat their Beef noodle hor fun, as I had stuffed myself silly with fine cuts of cooked meat at several buffets in a row.

Presentation wise, their beef hor fun came in a silver wok-like metallic serving dish with chopsticks and a spoon. The flat noodles or kway teow was coated with a sweet brown soy-sauce-like layer. The hor fun texture was not as soft as the way I preferred. While some will like its fairly chewy bite, I found the noodles unremarkable.

The beef slices came in thick large chunks. Compared to the medium cooked beef done western style, some of these beef slices gave my jaws plenty of exercise. I would suggest they stir fried it more evenly and do it lighter, bordering on medium flame to preserve the softness and taste. I looked for condiments like cut green chilli in vinegar sauce but there was none to improve my appetite.

Nonetheless, because the portion of beef slices was fairly huge, I guess the beef hor fun noodle is priced high at $10 per dish. Yes, there’s cheaper beef hor fun to be had at the local kopitiam for $4 or less. But these usually come with thin, tiny slivers of beef that do not provide sufficient protein or pleasure. While some of you may snort at this price, let’s not forget that you are paying for the ambience and the service of an air-conditioned western restaurant.

Recommendation:Overall score for beef for fun = 6.5 out of 10.

Delicious Beef Tenderloin At Eastpoint Mall

Picture of Beef Tenderloin: cut in bite-sized chunks before I could take a picture with my low budget handphone camera.

Delicious Beef Tenderloin At Eastpoint Mall

Eatzi Steakhouse & Bistro Restaurant is a halal-certified restaurant located at Eastpoint Mall. I sampled their delicious beef tenderloin recently.

Served in a dark metallic tray shaped like a bull, the rising sizzle that announced its arrival at my table was impressive. As I waited for the smoky fireworks on my plate to subside, I could smell the beef calling out to me.

My beef tenderloin was the star in this restaurant dish. Cooked in medium style (with visible redness between the two cooked brown surfaces) the way I ordered it, it was heavenly and really delicious. One slice of this delicious beef tenderloin melted in my mouth and I was hooked. Tenderly soft meat that oozed fragrance and deliciousness, the beef tenderloin was one of the better ones that I had tasted.

The mushroom sauce that came with the beef tenderloin was not outstanding. Side dishes like the corn, peas and carrot mix were just average. The whole baked potato unfortunately could not match the beef tenderloin taste-wise. At this restaurant, they provided dipping sauce that was spooned generously over the potato, with spoonfuls of bacon bits. The bacon was a tad salty but it added more spice to the potato.

Price of dish = S$23 before GST and service charge

Recommendation:
Score for beef tenderloin : 9 out of 10. It would be a perfect score if they provided more protein for that price.