Siang Hee Restaurant 双喜菜馆

Read about this place from a few blogs recently, and happen one of our friends suggested checking out this place when we had our dinner at Mellben last week, so decided to pop by today since there seems to be some hype growing at this place.

When we came here at 6+, the place was pretty quiet, with only a few tables occupied. Not sure if it was due to the rain, or we were early, but even when we left, the place wasn't that full as well.

Service seems to be absent from this laid back coffee shop. We've to go to the stall to make our orders (though most zi char will have someone come to ya table to take your orders), and same goes for the drinks. When I was at the drink stall, one of them seems to be even taking a nap there, while another 3 person sitting at a table beside (I believe are helpers) just sit there and give me a blank look.

Ok... doesn't sound like a very good start. Anyway, we ordered some of the recommended dishes like the deep fried pork knuckles, marmite pork ribs, pumpkin butter prawns, their famous toufu and the "four seasons" bean. Total 5 dishes, and 6 plate of rice, total damage was $62, which works out to around $10 per person.

The food here turns out to be pretty good. The dishes are unique compared to the typical zi char places. My personal favourite is the pumpkin butter prawns. I found the pumpkin sauce pretty good! The marmite pork ribs was tender and taste really nice as well, though I'm really hard pressed if there's really any marmite used for the dish, as I dun think I taste any marmite in the pork ribs though. The pork knuckles was good, especially the sauce. However, if the meat would be more juicy instead of dry would be better. It taste like roasted pork actually :). The rest like the toufu and beans were equally good.

Overall, we all found the food here pretty reasonably priced, and food definitely deserves a 3.5 star, though I would prefer the dishes to be piping hot when served though (could be due to the cooler weather due to the rain?). The lacking in service is made by up the pretty decent and reasonably priced food here.

So do check it out soon before too many people get to know about this and make this place really crowded next time :).