Monday, April 10, 2006
Goodies review diez- Jing Jing Dessert House n Lan Zhou La Mian
At Jing Jing 
Hi, I'm slightly crazy by now. Have to reach the back of my brains to search for information. Yup, on the same day, 02-04-06, me and Star continued our Makan quest. We wanted dessert. I thought of traditional chinese dessert but I decided to give it a miss as I had been eating them recently. Mum cooked them almost everyday for a period. Haha... In the end, I thought of the dessert house which sells 101 type of desserts. Decided to go for it despite getting neg comments of that place from my mum. Damn, should have listen to her.
The 101 desserts store is Jing Jing Dessert House @ 36 Temple Street #01-02. To be simple, it's just situated in Chinatown, along the shop houses. Sure can be found if you're a street-wise. ;)
How disappointed it turned out to be. All the 101 desserts looked relatively similar, just some changes here and there. Sucks man, decieved us innocent consumers who innocently know it only through word of mouth.
I ordered a wheat grass jelly with soursop pulp. Actually, it wasn't that bad. The jelly was not sweet, as the sweetness came from the soursop. Wonder did they add any syrup to the fruit? I hope not. But it's pretty nice. However, it's not special and we could actually prepare them at home, fuss free. Moreover, it costs SGD 4.
Star ordered blueberry sorbet. It tasted like crashed ice with milk and blueberry artificial colouring. Haha.. Yucks that's the worst SGD 5 sorbet I ever tasted. Oh so crashed ice. Haha...
I'm not really going to talk more about it. It just sucks and it's not recommended to go there. Never...
I'm gonna give my jelly 1.5 hmmms, and a hmmm for sorbet.
We settled our dinner in Chinatown. Hmm... Star was well- informed ya... Brought me to this place blocked by those "da pai dang". The food shop is called Lan Zhou La Mian @ no.19 Smith Street. Passed there ample times but just never thought of patronising becos' of the oh so plain decor.
I was full then, so Star ordered a Zha jiang mian and 1 long of xiao long tang bao. All noodles are pulled by a master, shifu. I really can't control myself but to steal a portion of the noodle from star. It's really appealing that time. The zha jiang mian was a bit sticky, and slightly hard to chew. However, the flavour is rounded ( haha, talk as if it's wine). It is not very salty, despite Star commented the opposite. I'll give it a 3.5 hmmms, can't really feel the taste of the noodle when I'm full but it's a confirmation that I'll be back there. :)
The xiao long tang bao comes in 8 pcs for SGD 6. Greedy me wanted to try the taste and in the end, I ate 4 of those. Haha.. Pretty nice, juicy. The good thing is that the skin does not tear when taken from the leaves, hence the soup is properly immersed inside the skin. Haha.. Nice... However, when you suck the soup, it tasted more like hua tiao jiu, believed that they put a lot. 1stly for the juicy taste, 2ndly, to cover all smell of those meat, might be overnight meat, who knows? The tang bao reminded me of mum's colleague's jiao zi. Taste the same in fact. That is why I feel that it's not that fantastic. That's why I'm giving it a 3.5 hmmms too.Cos' I'm craving to go back and try them again. Haha...
Mab
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