Thursday, 14 July 2011

Ban Heng

It was the SA 6th anniversary dinner. This event is held annually and this year it was held Ban Heng Restaurant located at Harbourfront centre. If you’re not sure where is it, you could browse through any newspapers and could find them commercializing Dim Sum Buffet at $12.90++..

T. sir, the founder of this club. Wouldn’t further mention out his name to prevent *erhem*.  This is the man who I respect the most, the one that never give up on us even though skipped trainings lots, the one that always scold us but actually is for our own good, the one who shield and help us when we had troubles.Remembering those days when we trained until we can’t even stand still, the blood and sweat that we put into, the extra hours of pt before actual training starts. All these memories I would never forget especially him.

Alright straight to the food.
Ban Heng Five of Cold Dish Combination
Supposedly it stated a 5 combination. But came out to have 4 selections and one duplicate. Nothing much to mention about these as they taste like average snack shop ones.
Braised Shark's Fin with crab meat
The soup taste normal like some restaurant would serve..
Steam Seabass in HongKong Style
Didn’t took pic of the fish but I would its definitely a failure. Well according to their banquet menu, the fish was to be served as the 5th dish but it came out earlier. OMG the fish was like old and had a little of stinky smell. What the shit?!
Steamed Emperor Herbal Chicken
The waitress helped us to cut the chicken as it was served as a whole. The chicken was quite soft and the herbs taste wasn’t quite strong for me. Hmm could give a try on it if you guys ever visit this restaurant.

Steamed Teochew Eight Treasures VegetablesNo pictures were taken for this dish again but not because it’s not nice, but I was so indulge in it that I forgotten about it. Although its just lettuce with mushrooms and some vegetarian mock meat but they were perfectly cooked to the right taste and soft. It’s the only dish that I went for 2nd serving.
Poached Live Prawns

Braised Ee Fu Noodles with Chives & Mushrooms
Normal steamed prawns. Not gonna waste my stomach space for that. Every Chinese banquet there will be one carbo dish which it was noodles. It was bland, kind of oily. Had to eat it with green chillis.

Cream of Sago with Honeydew
Lastly the dessert. The coconut milk was tad strong. I only ate the honeydews and sagos as the cream was totally hell lots of calories.
So now then I know why they kept having promotions. Would never give a try on their Dim Sum buffet even though they are really cheap as who knows, since their banquet food were like this, their Dim Sum would be no further good too.

The F-outing IV - Watami

The 4th outing of the "Fs" happened like weeks ago and now im finally posting it out. HAHA. just realise that I had too many posts to blog. Sorry too lazy to do so. Ok so that day it was our outing day which supposedly we were to visit theFoundry, meeting time 6.30pm at clarke quay mrt BUT F2 went to repair her camera which made us waited for an hour. 7.30pm!! HUNGRY to the max, no energy to travel all the way to mohammed sultan road so therefore we settled down at Watami since F4 said its not bad too.
Crispy Potato - $5.80
For starters, we ordered this. It was totally a letdown. It was just potatoes coated with some flour and fried. Worse of all, the sauces given. They were so bland & tasteless that we didn't even know what they were!!

Mochi Cheese Gratin - $6.80
We thought that it would very cheesy n soft. But my god they are like rubber. Tasteless..went on playing it on the hotplate for the chicken katsu. Haix.
Chicken Katsu Tamago Toji - $9.80
F4 came watami for this only. She simply love it. It consists of chicken cutlet, caramelized onions and egg. The egg was provided seperately for customers to preference how they would wan to cook it. Quite nice, not bad but something I do not like was that half of the chicken were fats. yes ewwwww.
Sapporo miso ramen - $12.80
Was craving for some ramen so decided to try this. Just not my type. The noodles were thick n hard, the soup was totally salty that i had to ask for hot water to add on to it. Asked for chilli paste thinking it would be better n spicy but it just make it more salty n not spicy at all. In the end i just cleared up the vegetables leaving lots of noodles behind. 

Conclusion, for better ramen we should eat at the ramen shops at the Central.