Sayur Manis

Stopped by for a casual dinner at Beast’s Hideout since we were already in the Clover Way area. It’s a zi char restaurant with quite a fun menu. The young owners and their friends also really like their cars and modifying them.

We’ve popped by with friends and had other items, like the usual fried rice, fried beehoon, prawns paste chicken wings, salted egg yolk pork, etc. Skip the whole fish. They only seem to have grouper and seabass, both of which I heartily dislike. I think the kitchen isn’t into fish. Tonight they offered us a small red snapper. I wasn’t keen but the man wanted to try it. I said NO to Teochew-style steaming. This red snapper cannot be done that way. Gross. So to steam it in soy sauce it was. Unfortunately, I didn’t taste what I’m looking for in a Hong Kong style steamed snapper. That said, the kitchen can do shellfish, crabs, prawns and squid and the sort really well. 

Tonight, we had different stuff. There was chye poh omelette. I wanted a non-meat protein. Put enough chye poh and don’t over-do the eggs, and most kitchens can’t screw this up. The pig’s trotter beehoon was delicious!

The server recommended “Man-ni 菜” to us, and we said okay. But we had no idea what the heck it was. When I saw it, I laughed. Alamak, just say sayur manis lah! I don’t mind this vegetable at all, but I must have it with some sort of chilli. It was done quite nicely in the classic style with eggs and chilli padi.