Here's this weekend's food post, JUMBO! every Singaporean knows what Jumbo is, it is THE place to get your crab fix =D so to end my week, we headed over to cellebrate my cousin's birthday!
Address: www.jumboseafood.com.sg/
1206 East Coast Parkway
i'd suggest making a reservation, or risk waiting a long time! about an hour on weekends, weekdays should be alright..
I LOVE CHILLI! and they have great sambal, which is unusual because usually only nice zi-char places have good sambal. so this went really well with, erm, everything. the prawns, the fish, the crab, and even the peanuts.
So the first wave of food finally came, the food wait was alright, though I was getting peckish. Crispy chicken was the first to arrive, which is basically roasted chicken with keropok (fish crackers), to be dipped in the salt and pepper mix. clean, fried but not overly oily. i like how the skin is superbly crispy. now i know why it said 'crispy chicken' on the menu. be careful though! some other chicken thingy on the menu is chicken skin, and not chicken meat but squid! its a wannabe-chicken dish! beware!
Then, was fried baby squid! I always like this, it's crunchy and crumbly, sweet, and has that burnt grilled squid taste!
Third was sweet and sour fish. The flavour is nicely mixed because you can taste the tanginess but isn't really sour. cuts through the sticky sweetness of the sauce, which compliments the fish well. The fish was fresh and juicy, very soft and and the clean freshness definitely went well with the thick sauce.
Cereal prawns! though they are buried under the cereal HAHA! and you can order them deshelled, so you don't have to peel them =) easy eating! the prawns were done just right, springy and juicy while the cereal was light and sweet, one of my favourite dishes.
Lastly, before the arrival of the crabs, was fried rice! The food was sort of filling me up already so the rice was a nice filler-upper before the crabs came since crabs arent really tummy filling. it satiated my appetite so i could slowly enjoy the crabs hurhur! the rice had salted fish in it and was very fragrant, moist but not too oily, which was nice because i tend to get a sore throat if i eat too much oily crap. I don't like the carrots and peas nonsense, which this fried rice didnt have, plus-points ++ there!
Dum-da-dum!
The crabs came! we ordered two big ones, black pepper and chilli crab!
I prefer the black pepper crab because it's cleaner to eat, no messy gravy, the chilli crab usually leaves my hands gravied-out, haha! im a messy eater 'cause i have to eat every little bit. yums! the pepper was definitely strong, which made the crab very tasty, yet the sauce was dry so the meat was firm, moist but not wet, and the meat had a sweet aftertaste, after the pepper flavour wore off =) yums!
Then was man-tou, fried bread thats sweet and crunchy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. I like eating this plain, but my mom likes dipping it in the chilli sauce! =) the chilli crab was slightly more wet and messy to eat, but the gravy was really yummy, infused with the crab essence hehe, i guess it was more like drinking gravy with crab bits in it haha! very chunky. sweet and not as spicy as the pepper crab! but definitely unique.
ALTHOUGH...it was super bizarre. a video of one of the chefs killing a crab and chopping it to pieces as it was still alive and wriggling was very disturbing. the crab looked like it was in such pain! yep. as.we.ate.our.crab. LOL and my mom said she watched the video a bajillion times because it was on a screen infront of her HAHA
So ends the seafood dinner! there wasen't any air con but it was cool and breezy and we could see the sea (see the sea...) from where we were. Was kind of crowded and the service was kind of slow, had to call and ask twice to take order, to get water, and the lady kind of walked away to get whatever it was before we could tell her the second thing we wanted, and the place was so noisy that we were shouting across the table initially, got quieter later on. =)
Overall, good food at a reasonable price! yay!! so full now...
