Lai Wah Restaurant

Lai Wah Restaurant

44 Bendemeer Road #01-143

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Lai Wah Restaurant has been around for more than 50 years. My relatives have fond memories where they have patronized the restaurant since young. Apparently, Lai Wah is the founder for Yusheng and Yam Basket. 

This year, they made advance reservation of at least 3 months to secure an indoor seating. 

It is quite interesting how they operationalized the dinner. 

1. There are only two seatings - 5.30pm and 8.30pm. 
2. There are only two types of drinks served- orange juice or tea. 
3. No request for a bowl of rice will be entertained. 
4. All dishes are served together

For the reunion dinner, there are two menus - $438 and $528 (nett).

The key difference is that the $528 set serves abalone. 

For our reunion dinner, we picked the $438 set.

Will I come back?

Definitely, it is very value for money and the food is quite good. 

Typically, the standard during new year period tend to drop. But, I do not feel this way here. 

Yusheng

Shark Fin with Crab Meat

Roasted Chicken

Steamed Sea Bass Fish

Yam Basket

Deshelled prawns 

Crispy Tofu

Scallops, Fish Maw and Vegetables

E Fu Noodles

Almond Logan Dessert

McDonald Prosperity Meal

2012 Chinese New Year is coming soon !

And McDonald has started launching their festive meal. 

The Prosperity Feast comes with the following:

1. Beef Prosperity Burger

2. Twister Fries

3. Pineapple Pie

4. Orange McFizz

And you will get a limited edition red packet set. 

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My Ramblings...

This meal gives me the Chinese New Year mood, mainly due to the Orange McFizz as my family used to stock up on F&N Orange.

The only thing that I would like to change is to remove all the onions in the burger.
The meal will then be perfect. 

Reunion Dinner 2009

Reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve, where the family members gather and have dinner together. My house tradition was to have steamboat for our reunion dinner.

Tofu

Abalones, Clams, Sotong Balls and Pig-shaped fishcake

Pig-shaped fishcake

Clams

Sotong Ball

Fish head

Pig Leg veins

Sea Cucumber

Meatballs

Lots of vegetables

Prawns

Fish Stomach

Fish

Mushrooms... And many more.....


Steamboat

Paired with freshly grounded chilli...

TNP Lifestyle Gourmet Series

Brought my whole family for the Lifestyle Gourmet Series organized by HSBC & TNP for Chinese New Year.

There was a cooking demostration for 3 of the dishes. This was followed by a set lunch and of course lucky draw...


The Chef






Yusheng


This is like my first yusheng of the year. Yusheng is a Chinese New Year dish and can be taken anytime during the 15 days of new year.

Depending on the dialect group, the ingredients may differ. Typically, there will be a few auspicious items like orange rind, carrots, chilli etc. And of course, fish. Salmon is a common fish used nowadays. Plum sauce, oil, crackers, pepper etc will be put in the dish above. For each item, an auspicious blessing will be said.

Next, everyone will surround the table with their chopsticks ready and on cue everyone will start tossing the ingredients. During this tossing, there will be wishes for the new year, i.e. good luck, good health etc. It is said that the higher the tosses, the better it is..

The result of the tossing...

This is mine...

Double boiled scallop soup and stuffed fish maw with minced pork and chestnut soup

Prawns..

Assorted vegetables wrapped with long bean

Pig Trotters mee sua


And, of course dessert. But being the greedy me, I have forgotten to take pictures of it...

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My Ramblings...

I loved the whole experience. Learnt a couple of cooking tips. Of course, if I have won something, that would be great.

Pen Cai

I was looking through the pictures in my phone and I found this...

I have always wanted to try this dish called pen cai, which is available during Chinese New Year. This is a dish where the ingredients are placed in layers. Remember reading somewhere that the layers are arranged in relation to the ingredients used for the dish.

For this new year, I wanted to try this long-awaited dish. Prices ranges from 188 and above. For the cheaper sets, roast meat is typically used instead of delicacies.

And so, the both of us went on this sinful indulgence at Goodwood Hotel Min Jiang. It cost about 388 and it can feed about 6 person or so. Advance booking is required. We finished everything with a bowl of rice, topped up with dessert. .



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My Ramblings...

Interesting to try but it is very expensive. Would never spend that kind of money again. I will put it to better use. Pain...