What the fish

There are time where a food establishment go forth and conquer new frontier....

But today I found 1 that they should not.

I met my wife for dinner before my first driving lesson.

We decided that we will pay Delifrance in Lot 1 a visit.

I wanted to order the Tuna but it was out of stock....

I got the swordfish instead and my wife felt that its a very bad idea considering that seafood was never their forte.

After some time, this was served



Now, grilled fish is not something that came with spectacular taste or texture. But what came out can only be describe as bland.....mind numbingly bland...That gets me to get the accompanying sauce. I was expecting a spicy laksa sauce but what came through was a light, undistinguished paste which tasted rather weird.

In my so many years eating laksa, I have never come across a light purplish laksa... makes me doubt if this is laksa from France (never heard of) or Mars (Maybe...never tasted it before)

This chef's recommendation has 1 signature characteristics, bland. The sword fish, mashed potato, veggies.....are all bland...I guess the chef ants to recommend this to all the patients out there.....

And I held on to what I put in the suggestion... The chef recommending this to anyone other than a warded patient should be either warded or shot.

Another big no-no which they done was to serve my coffee even before the soup....
I am worried that, as a French -themed establishment, they will really get a very angry Frenchmen giving them a piece of their mind..... Remember, you serve the coffee after the main course, with or after the desert. Not before.

But the redeeming points are that, The lobster Brisque is of acceptable standard and the bread dish which my wife ordered was decent...And from what I heard, the desert is rather acceptable standard as well.

If the have kept to their core business as a Bristro, they are setting the standard there....but as a restaurant, they still have some distance before reaching the standard.

Dump the dumpling

Eventhough I want to restrict myself to talk about bad food which you paid for ready to eat.... however, I did found certain food stuff that I would recommend that you should never pick off the shelf.

In any event, you pass by any of our friendly neighbourhood NTUC and you see a packet of this



Do yourself a favour and leave it on the shelf. do not pick it up.

We first thought that its a great idea to get a packet of this, with some noodle or rice and make a half decent home cook meal.

Nope, that did not have the desired result.....

We had rather decent expectation from it, being from a reputed chain of store and hailed from Korea, we were expecting some rather decent dumpling...The scent raise our hope only for it to be eventually dashed.

A good number of the dumpling disintergrated upon contact with the boiling water.
Those that did survived, do look anaemic at best



Biting into it does feel like biling into skin and air... and the filling thats suppose to be there.. doesn;t seems to fill up too well

Opening up confirm the suspicion that it isn't too well filled up

I guess the korea made chinese dumpling don't have much filling inside.....

We will still try hard not to dump the dumpling for now, but as for those tha thave a choice.... drop the thought and that pack of dumpling.....you will not miss much...

Long John Silver IMM

My wife was so intrigue by the skin on fish promo by Long John Silver that we simply have to go down and try it out.

That we did at IMM and I rest assure you, you can get better.
We ordered a Fish Combo 2 and a grilled fish set for myself.
While the skin stayed on the fish, but thats about the only thing that sticks.

It wasn't thawed properly and that the fish has been pre-prepared instead of being prepared on the spot. The vinegar sauce was also missing. The only saving race was that the fries was still decent.

Not too good if you ask me

The grilled fish for me was plain and noting spectacular........it needs a strong sauce to mask its otherwise bland taste. The rice was hard and despite its look, lacking in taste.

The free clam chowder was served in a styrofoam cup, its only saving grace as it keep the soup warm, I hardly find any shreds of clam inside, which was fine by me as I was told by my doctor to keep away from any seafood with shell.

While we fill our stomach, it wasn't a satisfying experience.

I have only 2 words about the whole experience



This is incase you can't see the written message




For those who wanted to try the skin on.....you better hang on to your wallet..

And in the unlikely event someone from LJS actually read this.....you can have the skin on... in fact, you can have the entire fish cause I won't be bitting anytime soon

Backlogs

No,

I am not shutting this down.
Neither did I had the good fortune not having any bad food during this long hiatus.
The reason was just simply that I was far too distracted to post them here.
well, guess I better clear those backlogs

Ratings

Janet from http://yojanjan.blogspot.com/
had suggested a rating system.

And here I am, putting them into words

It start with those with out cross, which means that I just want to talk about the food and its nowhere near bad...okie.. maybe not perfect, but not bad

Bad


Very bad, you need to be either trained or very hungry to eat them


Terrible, not sure if your dog will eat them, but I will give it a pass


Must be catered for alien if it even gets so bad


This is the ultimate, I guess even aliens will not eat them.

Pork Rib Rice

Stall : Best Seafood
Outlet : Yi Jia Coffee Shop
Location : Lim Bang Shopping Center



This is one of those new meal which combine some favourite meat dish with rice and sometime an extra egg to it.

In this case, Spare ribs in sweet and sour sauce or 排骨王 with rice. Those who knows me will know of my weakness and preference for ribs. This is because ribs are suppose to be one of those tender parts which makes it more chewy than pork belly, but definitely more fat than the lean meat.

However, the first tast of this went terribly wrong. The meat was way oo lean and tough to be that from ribs. Only almost at the last 2 piece of the ribs was there some semblance of tenderness....Its probablt the wrong part and it is slightly over cooked.

The sauce did not taste too well and comes out a bit weird. All in all, if you are picky, avoid this dish.

If you are particular about the cleanliness of the place you dine in, you should avoid it. I actually see a full size cockroach scutter across the floor towards our table and went on its very own way as I was too distracted to capture it at its full glory. While I am not 1 that is that overly concern about how clean a place should be, but please bear in mind that this is Singapore and that at all place, roaches in eatery is a big no no.

The food tasted weird but not that bad so I will say that it is not a total lost (But close enough) and the roach's guest appearance did not help one bit

Verdict : Quite bad

3 Cup wine Chicken

Stall : xx Taiwanes food
Outlet : Kopitiam
Location : Plaza Singaura, 4th Floor

The 3 Cup Wine Chicken, or 三杯鸡 is a poular dish served in Chinese establishment or eatery serving taiwaness cuisine. It has a signature thick, rich sauce that goes well with plain rice or dry noodle.

That's how it is suppose to be.... but not this one. The sauce did not turn out too well, in fact, its way too watery. It is just nothing more than just plain dark soy sauce. The sauce is not thick and the signature taste is not there. The presence of raw onion and carrot just plain spoils it. If you are looking for 3 Cup Wine Chicken, this is definetly not it.

On the side note, the soup was rather horrible as well.

Final verdict : Horrible

Not For Human Consumption

Bo Ho Jia, 不好吃。 Taste Horrible. This are just some of the common and less flowery discription we have for food that is either not to our liking or badly prepared. This blog is not about food we don't like, but about food that's so badly prepared, that even I can cook better. We are not doing this a personal vendetta, more to help those read to avoid food that we found terrible so that you don't have to taste them. And if those who cooked the horrible happened to read this, no, nothing personal, just try to cook better.

Cooking is a matter of passion and skill, without either, people will just shun it.