A change of cooking style (Thai )

This is another backdated article which should have been profiled somewhere in February. Like the saying goes better late than never!

This was a visit to the Rama Thai Sharkfin Restaurant which is located near the Tanjong Pagar MRT station. People tell me that the shark fin is their speciality item and the been hoon fried with crab was supposed to be excellent.

The above photo is the entrance to the restaurant. We noticed that all the customer that went for their meal that had ordered the shark fin soup. Guess must be good. :)

Therefore we ordered the shark fin soup and a few dishes as shown below.

The first dish to arrive is the shark fin soup. It comes together with a bowl of bean sprout and coriander leaves. This is the Thai style of preparation of shark fin. You will place the bean spout into the boiling hot soup to let it absorb the flavour and the coriander leaves are added to enhance the flavour. The soup was really very good and the quantity of shark fin was substantial. There were also crab meat and black mushroom in the soup. The bowl was quite big and if you are a small eater, this bowl would have filled you up.

The next dish was the fish cooked in Thai style. For this dish, personally I did not find anything special about the dish, the sause that was used as a bit too sour for my liking.

The above was the deep fried chicken. This on the other hand was very good and more than offset my disappointment with the Thai style fish. The chicken was marinated with a special type of flavouring which enhance the taste. The skin was very crispy and the interior still is able to be tender and juicy. This was really very good!!

The last dish was the bee hoon fried with prawns as we did not like to eat crab. What made this dish very good is the taste of the bee hoon which was flavoured richly with the prawn as well as the garlic at the base of the plate. The taste was heavenly. However the prawns were a bit tough mainly I guess due to the size of the prawn.

It was quite a change to try a different cooking style. Next I will be profiling this cafe where we had curry rice. Hope it doesn't take me months to write again.