Pioneer Seafood Restaurant, Jurong Point (10 Aug)

New restaurant at the new wing Jurong Point called Pioneer Seafood Restaurant (ground floor of the new wing). It has a branch at Mount Faber (if it's still there) which we've tried but I don't remember if the food was fantastic. Since it didn't register very well, I take it that it wasn't memorably great hahaha!!

We had tim sum brunch and also ordered its Sri Lanka crab on promotion - $33 per kg (medium size), which we thought we could try as it was priced cheaper than what is served at one of the coffeeshops in Jurong West/ Nanyang.

皮蛋瘦肉粥 - bad! tasteless!
小笼包 - err.. think it's skin was quite thick and the soup/ meat wasn't very tasty either

虾角 - forget it!
烧卖 - not nice too.. no "tim sum" taste
Blackbeans steam 排骨 - totally cannot make it. tasteless.. and we wonder what happened to the black beans??

Broccoli with minced meat fried with its famed XO sauce - I believe I can make my any dish good with the sauce too what... so no big deal... hahaha!! the restaurant sells its sauce - each bottle costs $9+ I think. Nope, I didn't buy...

锅貼 - not impressive too..

Black pepper crab - also cannot make it haha!

We were very disappointed with the quality of food served at this restaurant. All the dishes were not tasty.. it wasn't saltish which is fine by me since I'm not a fan of salt haha but I felt the chef didn't bring out the distinctive flavour of each dish, be they the tim-sum or the crab!! We ordered the black pepper crab which taste "sweet" and definitely short of peppery taste. Most of all, the crab wasn't flavourful at all and didn't have the "wok taste" (or "wok hei" as the cantonese calls it). The crab taste like plain jane crab meat while the black pepper sauce was on its own outside on the shell.. But, I must admit the meat was not too bad, quite "springy" and I suspect the meat at the end of the pincer wasn't cooked well.

In essence, we still love our Nanyang coffee shop (it's beside the Nanyang Community Club) crabs - they cost $44 per kg but they are huge and tasty! The chef cooked it very well!