"Hong Kong Tea House"

My brothers and I went to "Hong Kong Tea House" located on the premises of the old Joo Chiat Police Station.

The place looks simple from the outside and has a poster-stand with local magazine and newspaper write-ups on it.






Glutinous Rice Style Rolls or "Zhu Chang Fen" - $3.50
Served plain, without stuffing or gravy. Chilli and sweet sauces are given on the side
The rolls are flatted and lightly seared like Japanese Gyoza.


Steamed Pork Soup Dumplings or "Xiao Long Tang Bao" - $3.80
Definitely not Crystal-Jade standard, but still passable given that its an eatery.


HK Style Shark's Fin Soup - $3.50


Rice with Stew Beef with Satay Sauce - $5.80
Satay Sauce does not have the taste of satay sauce we know and love (ie, peanut).
Beef is tender, but at the expense of taste - if it was a taste test, no one would know its beef.


Rice with Stewed Beef with Portuguese sauce - $5.80.
Its my first time taking Portuguese sauce so I don't know how its supposed to taste like.
It's not bad, but the beef suffers from the same malady as the Satay Sauce Beef (above).
It's like having marinated 'venison' from your neighbourhood zhi-char stall at the kopi tiam.
Tasty, but you just cannot tell what you are chewing.


Fried rice with minced beef - $6.00
Your standard fried rice with tiny minced bits of beef.


Salted Lemon 7-Up (my fav HK drink), Perfect Match aka Yuan Yang, Honey Lemon 7-up
$3.50 + $2.80 + $3.50

Total Damage inclusive of 5% GST: $39.40
The good thing here is that they don't have service charge! :)
Good to come here with some friends if you are not fussy abt your food.

Our Rating based on taste, presentation and pricing: **/*****

Hong Kong Tea House Pte Ltd
86 East Coast Road, Blk A, #01-01
Singapore 428755.

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From Lucky Plaza foodcourt - you'd be forgiven for thinking this is Cum Soup.


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do chickens really have 3 balls? thought they came in pairs?

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about i-mode

I played with my sister's NEC N600i last night.
Navigating i-mode is a breeze but its wasn't all smooth sailing
- esp when i tried to subscribe to mediacrap's services.
The ability to book GV tickets is cool and at the same time it is easy to use.

The UI of this NEC phone is not as intuitive as those from NOKIA or even SE.
The input is irritating. Have to keep pressing mode to use T9.

I just got my Samsung i-Mode phone today - will be trying more of it later tonight after I charge it up.

My 2-cents on i-Mode at the moment

1. Starhub has to bring in better phones to entice subscribers
2. Local i-mode content has to improve to retain them

It's another chicken and egg situation -- content probably won't grow if subscriber base doesn't.
And SH would not want to cannabalise their own 3G market - I hope they have the sense to position it as the basic mobile-information channel and 3G for the multimedia content.

Will post pics and videos about the two i-mode phones we are using later.

There's a part for everyone..

I just thought it will be good to share these links

http://ds.ecitizen.gov.sg/pa.html
http://ds.ecitizen.gov.sg/ds_agencies.html

It's for contacting the various agencies with your suggestions and stuff.

Eg, you may have info for ISD or some suggestions to MHA or the for enhancing security. Instead of writing to the papers where it might be dismissed, you can send your feedback directly to the respective units.

I hope this will help in making the country safer for everyone.

It's only rubbish..

At Raffles Place MRT Station

I had alerted station staff but was assured that its a rubbish bag that shops always leave outside for collection.

Shops should be discouraged from such practice as anyone with ill intention can easily slip in a bomb among the rubbish and it would escape detection as everyone will think it is a rubbish bag. Bombers can also place multiple bombs in bags outside several shops and possibly no one will suspect a thing.

This is espcially true in shopping centres or integrated transport-cum-shopping hubs.

I've informed SMRT as well as Ministry of Home Affairs on my concerns. I really hope the appropriate advisory can be quickly sent out to the management of these shops.