This is where the originator of black pepper crabs came from.
Visited Long Beach at East Coast for father's day and my papa's real Bday.
There are 2 branches located at ECP.
The father's day set menu that we avoided because normally they have weird combinations. Plus the cheaper sets don't come with crabs.
We went to the one at UDMC. Which is near all the rest of the other seafood restaurants. There is another near Burger King.
First dish for the dinner is Deep fried baby squid.
The Baby squid is fried till crispy and stirred with a sweet sauce.
A pity is the over fried squid. The sauce taste good but after chewing you feel the rough and dry squid in your mouth with a slight burnt taste.
The chef recommendation dish
With a slight resemblance of salted egg crab, this dish is passable because its a tad too salty.
Prawns are fried till crispy and you can easily bite of any part without difficulty.
Can see some salted egg yolks in it but the rest i really have no idea.
It was fragrant and went well with rice. Portion of large came with about 30 prawns which is quite worth it.
Vegetables selection was pathetic. No special effort to design some more creative vegetables. Just the usual kangkong, kailan. We order 奶白 stir fry in garlic. Nothing special just to get our daily fibre intake.
Finally the crabs. My family can't really take spicy food so we wanted salted eggs but they didn't have it.
Thus this is butter crab.
Crabs at $38/Kg
The sauce is sweet and smelt good. Something i felt out of place was an artificial after taste that was similar to mango flavourings. The sauce weren't exactly enough for us to dip our mantous in.
Steamed crab with chinese wine and chicken stock.
This is a more chinese way of eating. The wine gave a pleasant aroma and brought out the fresh seafood taste. There was a layer of egg white similar stuff at the bottom of the plate to keep the crab in place. Good idea.
The crabs for the day was ok. Not too big because we wanted 2 to be cooked in different sauces.
The meat was sweet, texture also fine. However i think not meaty enough. But it is already lucky given that this Long Beach don't seem to serve very delicious food.
We had some dessert after dinner. During dinner we saw some amazing looking dessert and thought we might want to give it a try because the dry ice is so attention grabbing.
We ordered and realise the dry ice is only for decorative purpose. Doesn't contribute to the taste at all. It was simply placed in a bowl of coloured water with your dessert on top.
We had 3, Black glutinous rice with ice cream, mango pudding and durian paste.
The best was the black glutinous rice. I had eaten it with loads of coconut milk but never will you ever discover that it taste best with vanilla ice cream. Creamy and smooth, the cold dessert melts in your mouth and gives a special texture of the rice husk. Perfect.
The other two was normal. Even when the durian is the specialty it failed to make it worth mentioning.
Overall dinner was bad, the restaurant was obviously understaffed. Servers and waiter, even the Manager had no smiles on their face. We had to wave vigourously before they took notice of us. Had to ask 3 times before they pack our left over. Had to wait for the baby chair. Some waiters even turned away upon seeing your hands (its very obvious they saw me)
Auntie note: no credit card discount, no seats even after you reserve, no smiles, no service, no delicious food, no free parking. Have to pay for tea, have to pay for towels, have to pay for peanuts, have to pay for GST, have to pay for service charge (even though its bad service).
I suggest you visit their neighbours.
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