Soon Heng Curry Fish Head, Kinta Road, Singapore

Simon's Short Talk: Triggered by Kelly's post, I'll be turning pink for 3 days.

Updates: Fiqa now have a blog too, just found out about it after she left a comment in Hanis's blog.

Found this restaurant when I was googling for Kinta Road. The purpose I googled Kinta Road is because Nuffnang SG's office is at 33, Kinta Road. So, as planned I took the MRT and stopped in Farrer Park station (NE 8). Suppose to take exit F to go to Kinta Road but it was closed for renovation, so took exit E instead and have to cross the road to Kinta Road.

Locality map in the MRT Station

At last, I found Kinta Road

Soon Heng Restaurant in just around the corner

Don't let the name Soon Heng Restaurant deceived you, it might sounds like a Chinese restaurant but what they are selling there is Indian food just like your banana leaf rice except that they don't use banana leaf and their owner and chef are Chinese. Read from a forum that curry fish head here is good but it's a bit big and expensive for me to eat even a small portion curry fish head which priced at about $22-$24. So I ordered curry fish for 1 person instead.

Curry fish

The curry fish is not those that you found in a typical Chinese restaurant where they use a lot of santan (coconut milk). This one uses assam rather than santan which made the curry a bit sourly, which is good because goes well with the 'fishy' taste of the fish. The fish is smooth and fresh but I found that the curry is a little bland not enough sour. Maybe I'm used to the curry fish head that I used to eat from young in Kepong Baru which is very sour and got a good bit of curry. Nevertheless the curry here is very appetizing, I even have to order an extra bowl of small rice.

Rating: 3.5/5

Indian Fish cake that is quite authentic and kangkung with belacan

Only half way eating that I noticed that each customer have a packet of this.

Yes, you guess it right, it's papadum pack in a sealed plastic bag. I think there's two purpose for this, one is hygienic reason and the other is to keep the crispiness of the papadum. Not like the one you found in some Nasi Kandar restaurant which stored the papadum in a container which will very fast turn soggy. I found that the papadum here is not too oily and very tasty.

Crispy papadum on my rice

I downed my lunch with a glass of refreshing iced lime juice




Guess what's behind the blue door? Answer in my next post.

Address:

Soon Heng Restaurant
39 Kinta Road
Singapore 219108

Tel: +65 6294 7343/+65 6294 6561

Website: http://soonhengrestaurant.com.sg

Also available at:

Hyde Park Cafe
76 Prinsep Street
Singapore 188663

Tel: +65 6336 0983
Fax: +65 6333 1638

Website: http://www.hydepark.com.sg


Btw, I'll be going to Cheesie Gathering tomorrow night. Anyone going?

Hanabi Restaurant, Odeon Towers Singapore

As promised, my dinner on the first night in Singapore. After some direction and mis-direction from Uncle Nic. I've finally able to meet up with him and XLB in City Hall MRT station. We then walked down to Odeon Towers to go for Japanese ala carte buffet in Hanabi Restaurant & Sake Bar. Lucky Uncle Nic made reservation already because the restaurant is almost fully pack.

Hana(Flower) bi(Fire) means Fireworks

For $33 (RM 77) you get to order ala carte from the ala carte buffet menu from 6pm until 10.30pm. Since we only reached the place at only about 8pm (partly my fault of not knowing the directions and a low batt mobile phone) , we got about 2 and a half hour to devour the food. Oh, it comes with free green tea.

The menu, there's front and back. You can imagine the choices that they have.

Uncle Nic's Zaru Soba

Negi toro maki

Buta kimuchi (Pork with kimchi)

Sashimi moriawase (Salmon, yellow tail, octopus, squid, tuna, and white fish)

Salmon sashimi. XLB's KPI for Japanese restaurant.

Agedashi Tofu. Not too bad.

Er..forgot. XLB what's this already?

Shishamo yaki. You can skip this.

Saba shioyaki (salt grilled Mackerel). Recommended.

Unagi sushi. Taste ok but size too small. Well can't expect much from buffet.

Some unagi roll. Sorry, XLB ordered so I don't know the name.

Eel fried rice.

Tofu.

Grilled salmon.

Tonkatsu. (Fried pork with bread crumbs) A bit too thin and dry.

These are just 50% of the food we ate. I literally was 7 month pregnant after the dinner. Some hit and misses here and there but for $33, this is so worth it. There's also ramen, and tataki that I didn't take the picture because there's just too much food on the table. Very lazy to shoot all. Uncle Nic should have more pics. Thank you Uncle Nic and XLB for bringing me to dinner.

Oh by the way, remember there's no ground floor in Odeon Towers. No. 1 means ground floor already. So don't go to the lift and press 1 to go first floor, once you are in the building, you're already on the 1st floor.

Address:

Hanabi Restaurant and Sake Bar

331 North Bridge Road
#01-04 Odeon Towers Singapore 188720
(O) +65 6338 6626
(F) +65 6338 3090
(Reservation is recommended to avoid disappointment)

Google Map


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Uncle Nic (Coming Soon)
XLB (Coming Soon)

Japanese Name Meme

I'm not thanking you Monica for this tag.

For the instructions, add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below. Tag six of your friends and inform them of the tag. Have fun.

TRANSLATION:

A - ka	F - lu	K - me	P - no	U - do	Z - zi
B - tu	G - ji	L - ta	Q - ke	V - ru
C - mi	H - ri	M - rin	R - shi	W - mei
D - te	I - ki	N - to	S - ari	X - na
E - ku	J - zu	O - mo	T - chi	Y - fu

1. OSWALD - moarimeikatate (sounds like america and states. har…. har… har…)

2. CHLOE - Miritamoku — Um…think I still prefer my given name, ha ha

3. GENG – Jikutoji — Actually, I think its cute sounding. Arigato gozaimasu!

4. CONSTANCE - Mimoto arichi katomiku — WOW! Does it sound like an authentic Japanese cuisine? YIKES! I broke it up cos it was quite a mouthful!

5. DORA - Temoshika – Sounds pretty good huh?! Does it mean beautiful woman?

6. Sting - Arichi Kitoji - Sounds like a guy's name but at least it rhymes! LOL!!

7. Amidrin - Karinki Teshikito (I was deciding between Karinki Teshikito or Karinkites Hikito. LOL... still the english name sounds much better.)

8. Osindak - Moari Kitotekame (I sound very Japanese! LOL)

9. Monica - Rinmotokimika (lol, it sounds so funny)

10. Simon - Arikirinmoto (OMG, sounds like Aji no moto)

I'm going to tag Mrs Forest, Ringo, FA, Holly, Sue, and Joshua.