This evening, we were heading to try out the Lor Mee at Beach Rd hawker center. We forgot that the hawker center was closed on Mon nights - silly! I won't point fingers but the local Singaporean did not know the hawker center was closed. It was me! :)
Walking back towards the city, we came across Shanghai Xiao Long (Bao) - the bao is in brackets because the english sign does not have the words "Bao", only the chinese. Very odd and perhaps an important sign to give this restaurant a miss. We didn't notice.
We ordered Xiao Long Bao (Shanghai steamed dumplings), rice cakes fried in mushrooms and chinese cabbage, dou miao (veg), minced pork la mian (dry version), mushroom and walnut appetizer, and a hot and sour soup also as an appetizer. Total price S$51.
The best dish on the table is the la mian - it was hot (temperature wise and tasty with springy and nicely textured noodles - the rest was mediocre, especially the xiao long bao. If your restaurant is named after the signature dish, you would think that the signature dish should be excellent and mindblowing, not mediocre.
If you are thinking why we still look so happy with a mediocre meal costing S$51 bucks? Well we always look like that lah... :)
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