This zichar place used to be at the open-air coffeeshop located also at the mall. Due to some reasons, the zi char place was moved to the aircon coffee shop. We tried the new zi char that took over open-air coffeeshop. (apparently they had a couple of the old cooks). We also tried the original zi char at the new coffeeshop. Both zi chars has the same kind of famous dishes. The conclusion by our family is dishes wise (yam ring, veggie with beancurd skin and butter squid) the new zichar place is better.. but for crabs, stick to the original! :P! Our family loves the crab bee hoon!!
Ok! Enough of long story! Back to our july's feasting!
My clever husband ordered 12 crabs for just the 9 of us. He claims he can eat 6 crabs by himself (i reckon he was toking about smallie crabs!). Anyway, he wanted to book 10 large crabs! Luckily...the lady say there were no large crabs that day.. only have medium smaller crabs that day. My dear husband wanted to have increase to 15 crabs! Madness! The so-called medium smaller crabs aint small at all. Thank goodness we insisted to stick to 12 crabs.
The crabs are sold at $38 per kg. The 12 crabs are weighed 15.6kg in total! Means its less than $60 for each! Not cheap.. but at least not extravagant! 6 female crabs and 6 male crabs: 4 crabs - crab beehoon, 3 crabs - salted egg (highly recommended by the waitress) and the last 5 crabs - black pepper!
The waitress and cooks knew how to serve the food in right order; first crab beehoon, then salted egg and then black pepper. This allows us to savour the flavour of the crabs properly. The waitress were also prompt with their service.. keep changing our plates as we pile it up with crab shells. Pity.. they served the black pepper crabs so fast.. by the time we tried to finish the rest of the crabs and came to them, it got a bit cold.
The crab beehoon! The best part of the dish? The bee hoon of cos! Absorbing all the sweetness of the crab! Crab was fresh and sweet too!
Enjoying my bowl of bee hoon with the roe I "kop" while scooping the gravy! keke!
This was an excellent recommendation! This was my first time trying it. No strong distinct salted egg yolk taste. Instead a sweet creamy taste feels my mouth!
I think the crab are deep fried in batter first before frying in with the salted egg sauce. There's curry leaves too! Fragrant!
The black pepper dish! Our final round! It was rather cold and I was very full by the time I came to this dish. Was not very enthu towards it but I had this before and thot it was pretty good. The black pepper was not very whelming or over spicy.
My husband deshelling his black pepper crab!
Crab roe overloaded!!
After spending so much, they gave us a complimentary dessert. Longan Sea coconut.. refreshing! Nice way to end the dinner!
Orient Succee Coffee House
Seafood Kitchen Pte Ltd
Blk 623 Elias Road, Elias Mall
#01-01
S 510623
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