Food Review: Bosses Restaurant

Food Review: Bosses Restaurant

After our visit to Madame Tussauds Singapore and Images of Singapore, we stopped by Bosses Restaurant (黑社会) for dim sum because we had long heard about the awesome food at Bosses and had never had the opportunity to try it before. It was just so coincidence that it happened to be the last day of promotion for 30% off all dim sum from 2.30 to 5.30pm due to Chinese New Year period, thus we decided to drop by Bosses.

The dim sum menu was pretty extensive with a lot of unique dishes and there were so much dishes we wanted to try but it was really unfortunate that we could not stuff so much food in our tummies :( Thus we could only pick and try those we really wanted to eat.

After looking at the menu for close to 20 minutes, we eliminated some of the dishes and tata~ presenting to you our dim sum of the day at Bosses!

Har Gau (Prawn Dumpling). The har gau came in big pieces of 4 and the har gau with the big prawn fillings were fresh and succulent. Instantly, two of them went into my mouth as soon as they arrived (and after photo taking of cause! :P)

Pan-fried Scallop Glutinous Rice Shumai - We were looking for siew mai and there were so many different types of siew mai on the menu. As this was indicated as a new item on the menu, we decided to give it a try! This siew mai was pan fried wrapped with glutinous rice and scallop was placed on top of the siew mai for an enhanced taste. It was a good dish for people who wanted to eat glutinous rice yet not too much and a change for something different.

Signature custard lava bun - The star of the menu :D I always loved custard lava bun and I did not manage to have it during my last dim sum visit to Tim Ho Wan as they do not have it in their menu. The skin of the steamed bun was in orangy yellow and the bun was so soft and fluffy, and full of flowy salted egg yolk! The greedy me had two of the buns! It is a must eat dish at Bosses!

Famous Chilli Crab Tart - A very special dish which I immediately wanted to order when I saw it on the menu. Who could have image the combination of chilli crab on tart? The tart was surprisingly crispy when bitten and not wet/moist from the chilli crab gravy. The chilli crab tarts had a distinctive flavour which you would not want to miss it!

Beancurd roll over the bridge - The beancurd roll was fried with the prawns in the wrapping and the taste was super good. The roll was crispy and yet not oily! :D

Our happy lunch! :D

I always love a good dim sum and I will be back again soon! :)

Bosses Restaurant (黑社会)
VivoCity
1 Harbourfront Walk #02-156/157
Singapore 098585

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Food Review: Tim Ho Wan

Food Review: Tim Ho Wan

Saturday saw me out with Ren Cui at Plaza Singapura shopping and having dim sum! I was having dim sum cravings for a while back so explained the eagerness to have dim sum for lunch. I was thinking of having dim sum at Mouth Restaurant or Bao Today at Rendezvous Hotel but Ren Cui suggested Tim Ho Wan instead.

In actual fact, I was not keen to dine at Tim Ho Wan because of the food experience previously at Toa Payoh Branch. I had been looking forward to Tim Ho Wan ever since I had it at Hong Kong and the baked char siew bun had me longing for more. Tim Ho Wan is a Michelin-starred restaurant with very good reviews in Hong Kong. However, after the first experience at Toa Payoh Branch, I never went back anymore. The food tasted horrible, the har gao and siew mai was very dry, the baked char siew bun was not as crispy as what I had eaten in Hong Kong before. I had other dim sum as well but all the other dishes were too plain and so unmemorable that I never came back anymore. I do not understand why people would queue for the food as it was totally not worth the queue. Besides, I am not the type who like to queue very long for food because I will get angry when I am hungry :X A hungry woman is an angry woman :X

Anyway, I wasn't keen to eat at Tim Ho Wan but was thinking if I should perhaps give it another try since PS was the first branch. So off we went to Tim Ho Wan. The hype was also dying thus the queue was not long. after 10 minutes of queuing, we were ushered to an empty seat. The service was quite fast and our food arrived quickly after ordering.

Siew Mai with Quail Egg - We ordered the siew mai from the chef recommendations. I think it was a new kind of siew mai. Does they look cute? :P Most importantly, they taste good too! ^_^

The second dish was the fried spring roll with egg white. This was a dish specially crafted out to suit Singaporeans taste. The egg white taste good when eaten together with the spring roll which made the whole dish stood out. Even though this was a fried dish, it was not oily at all and one could taste the crispiness of the roll :)

Now came the Har Gao. I was not expecting much from this dish because of the previous experience. However, the har gao at Plaza Singapura was surprising good. The shrimps inside the har gao was big, fresh and the har gao was pipping hot and chewy, far different from the dry, sad looking har gaos I had eaten previously before at Toa Payoh. 

Not forgetting the legendary baked Char Siew Bun from the "Big 4 Heavenly Kings". It is a must eat dish when you visit Tim Ho Wan. The baked bun we had was so good, crispy and light :) and I had two! :P The taste was as good and comparable to the ones in Hong Kong.

Overall, I must say that the dining experience was much much better than the one at Toa Payoh and the food was even better than the ones I had Hong Kong IFC branch. Maybe the chefs made a difference as the first good Tim Ho Wan dim sum I had was at Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui Branch. Nevertheless, we did have a great time there and it changed my perspective on the dim sum :D Will I visit again? Yes, definitely back to the branch at PS :P

Tim Ho Wan @Plaza Singapura
Dhoby Ghaut
#01-29A/52

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