Eating Malacca: Restoran Keng Dom

From our weekend trip to Malacca, a bulk of it was eating. Uncle D picked his favourite restaurants and dragged all of us there. This was our first stop when we reached Malacca.

Without a doubt, the old men were all making jokes about it being a restaurant that serves condoms.

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Restoran Keng Dom serves steamboat, and not just any steamboat. They are known for their beef steamboat, where most other places serve the typical seafood or chicken soup based. We ordered plates of beef and gouged ourselves silly. The vegetables were thrown in to appease our stomach’s conscience.

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SO. MUCH. BEEF.

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a bowl of beef soup keeps your sorrows away.

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The restaurant is also known for its thick pork curry. I’ve never eaten beef steamboat before, neither have I had pork ribs curry. Instead of the usual bread rolls, they served puff pastry along with the curry. Dip the pastry into the curry and it’s better than any prata I’ve ever eaten out there.  THE FOOD WAS SO GOOD.

Sun Dining Restaurant

We celebrated Sunitha’s birthday at one of my favourite Japanese restaurants Sun Dining Restaurant. over the years, the menu has changed somewhat, with the addition of seasonal menus from time to time.

Pork Loin Teppanyaki with ginger miso sauce. VERY GOOD!

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Enoki mushrooms bruschetta. interesting starter to the meal.

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bacon sushi. interesting flavours.

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Salmon carpaccio. finely sliced pieces of fresh salmon drizzled with vinegar and olive oil. every morsel was a dream.

total bill was $100 for 2 persons. but the meal was worth it.

For the love of soup!

 

 

it is by sheer chance that we discovered this soup stall Soup Master 老火汤 at Funan IT mall. It was on a hunt for a document scanner that we decided to eat at the food court Food Junction at Funan. There I spotted a stall selling double boiled soup in large vats. The stall owner very nicely offered us a sampling of his soups and we picked the pear and apple double boiled soup. it’s savoury with a slight sweetness to it and it’s VERY VERY yummy. seeing that we were sharing a bowl of soup, the owner gave us another half bowl more soup at no extra charge. i’m in love with this stall already.

 

I LOVE double boiled soups and I have to thank my mom’s Cantonese heritage for introducing me to the love of soups. my favourites range from watercress soup, old cucumber soup, chicken claw with black bean soup, lotus root soup and now, pear and apple soup. If I could drink soup every day, I would be the happiest person on earth.

Soup master can also be found at Gourmet Paradise @ Toa Payoh HDB Hub, Food Junction at Next Serangoon, Bishan Junction 8 food court, Marina Square food court and Bugis Junction food court.