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.

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.

Hokkaido Sotong Balls At Tampines Mall Atrium

Hokkaido Sotong Balls At Tampines Mall Atrium

EM bought six Hokkaido sotong balls at the Tampines Mall Singapore atrium today despite the long queues. The famous and highly popular Hokkaido Food Festival had been underway since 5 July 2008. This Japanese food festival has been a fixture at Tampines Mall for a couple of years. She tried to purchase some Japanese food on a Sunday but she couldn’t get a toehold in the maddening crowd. Only today did we get a chance to sample delicacies from Japan’s Hokkaido Prefecture.

Six huge solid-looking sotong balls stared at me during lunchtime today. A glassy piece of edible material was laid on top of the pieces with a thick Japanese mayonnaise paste. I bit a little of the this glassy stuff and it melted in my mouth without much taste.

When I chewed onto the sotong balls, the soft paste-like outer layer was mushy to touch with a mild sweetness. Under this layer, the sotong parts were apparent on my tongue, like springy chewing gum with a robust texture. The difference in contrast between the soft out shell and the firmer core made this an interesting bite-sized dish for lunch.

As I enjoyed the morsels of sotong between my teeth, I could imagine the sotongs must have undergone plenty of cardiovascular work out in the oceans off Hokkaido before they landed up in some Japanese fishing vessel to be brought to Singapore for our dining pleasure. The world is indeed getting smaller by the years.