Peachy

I was fed up. I was tired of having silly western food all the time. Italian, American, Mediterranean, Mexican, French, I am tired of all of you. I am Chinese by taste and I think Chinese cuisine can kick any other cuisine's butt if it wanted to.

With this in mind, I thought we should have some good Chinese food. I remembered the suggestion from Tasty Bites about going to Peach Garden at Novena Garden. So on that rainy Friday night, I left with my wife for a sumptuous meal at the Peach Garden. I am an East person, so I don't really know the North really well, but I managed to get around to where I need to be because one of my ex-girlfriends lived around that area. We (my wife and I) met at the nearby MRT station and walked for about 7 minutes to the restaurant located across from the Novena Catholic Church.

The setting was more like a western restaurant than an eastern one. They played a bad rendition of all the Jackie Cheung songs with Chinese instruments but I didn't seem to mind it. In fact, I was humming the songs in my mind while my wife was telling me about her day at work. (Sorry Honey!) The menu was surprisingly short. There wasn't much to order I thought. So I went with the particular dishes I was advised to order. The wasabi and mayo prawns, the lobster noodles, my wife wanted some fried tofu with garlic and an order of roast pork.

I know that it seems like we didn't order much, but we felt that it was enough. The wasabi prawns were tasty. I don't know what is this obsession with Mayo in this part of the world but I have to say it was a potent combination. The creaminess of the mayonnaise together with the wasabi paste made the prawns sweet with a kick in the butt when necessary. My wife who doesn't like wasabi liked the dish. So that meant something. The roast pork, an ever simple meat that can be easily destroyed in the wrong hands were delectable. The fried tofu was decent.

The best dish came last. The lobster with noodles. Unlike other restaurants which serve crayfish when the menu says lobster. This restaurant actually serves LOBSTER. Lovely, light, delicate and simple. It was a combination of the broth (chicken stock and Chinese wine) made the this alchemy great. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal. I had been reading some reviews about the restaurant from other sites and I have to say that they were probably taking some crazy pills. The service was excellent. The pacing of the dishes were just right and I would definitely go back there again.

The best part of the night? My UOB card got me a 10% discount making our meal cost only about $60 some dollars. The meal was worth every cent.