Long Beach Seafood

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.

Desserts at $4.50 each.

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.

Happy Birthday to Dear Mum

Mother's day and mummy's bday is always a few days apart. So we always celebrate the two important events together. By the way mummy of the 4 proud daughters. Luckily the cake got no candles. Hehe......
So, off to the northern side of Singapore we go to a vegetarian restaurant..... Greenland restaurant..... The place is air conditioned, it looks like the olden kind of 酒楼, with huge round tables and the table cloth on top. reminded me of bday celebrations i had when i was younger with my grandparents. those days were the best as kids were always treated like kings and queens by the elders.

First up is soup of the day

We have lotus roots and peanut soup. This soup is suppose to be good for the elderly as lotus roots are good for joints and peanuts are good for brain. Older people tend to experience strain in their knees especially, thus the soup can let them absorb the required nutrients. Peanuts on the other hand is to prevent dementia....

Mock glazed pork

The imitation pork was fragrant, chewy, bouncy and full of juice. meat is nicely done with a tinge of sweetness. they manage to fry the imitation meat to absorb the flavours of the sauce which can normally be absorbed by real meat if you simmer it long enough.

Mock Sweet and Sour Fish.
Anyone who has tasted mock fish will agree with me that the beauty of the fish lies with the many layers of beancurd skin being compacted together and the use of seaweed to wrap it up thus acting as the skin of the real fish. From young i like to eat mock fish as the texture is different from other imitation products. The sauce added blends well with the fish seeping in thru the folds and is soft to bite.

This is a big disappointment of the day.... tofu with special mushroom sauce. i guess the chef may have forgotten to add salt? because it was rather tasteless. even thou tofu was smooth it did not manage to save the dish.....

This is 菠菜 stir fry with mushroom. this is a common chinese new year dish because i don't know why..... vegetables are soft but not overcooked till it turns yellow, this retains the nutrition of the vegetable. the mushrooms are added to add a distinctive mushroom taste that only dried mushrooms offer.

this is a special dish that people who aren't vegetarians may not know. its 猴头菇. This is a species of mushroom and not some kind of monkey head as the name suggests. The mushroom is named after the monkey as it looks a bit hairy on the top.... this was stir fried with ginger and parsely with cashew nuts. i would say not the best way to deal with the dish. I have eaten once that mushroom was deep fried and stirred with sweet sour sauce, and it was heavenly.

auntie note: free parking is available at the temple abt 2 buildings away, i guess its a collaboration.

There is service charge :(

Rice is 80 cents a bowl. pickles at $3, towels at 40 cents, chinese tea at 1.30. i feel all these were overcharged.

For 8 adults, the total cost was $131.80 after taxes

Greenland Vegetarian Restaurant
791 Upper Serangoon Road

6282 8022