Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Holland Village

We celebrated our youngest colleague's birthday today during lunch time. We found out he is so young! Usually you do not ask people about their age for no reason, but since we are celebrating his birthday, we get to ask! (hehe...)

We wanted to have Laksa Steamboat initially. We saw from their website that there's a nearer branch at Holland Village, so we went there. We were dissapointed when we found out they have closed this branch! (Arrgh.. don't believe their website!).

We had a choice to either stay in Holland Village or drive to Telok Blangah. Everyone unanimously decided we shall eat in Holland Village. So we walk over to Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao.



The starters were pickles. Chai Por chunks. Delicious! Everyone was happily eating until a colleague mentioned that eating too much of these causes pre-mature balding. Suddenly you see a few chopsticks back on the table. haha...



What we ate, in order of their appearance.
La Mian in Hot and Sour Soup. Like the tangy taste of it. You can choose the different thickness of noodles if you want.



This is the choking fiery La Mian. Be careful on your first mouth!
It was quite nice, but just be careful. :-p



Since we had like 9 of us, we had double portions of Jelly Fish. It's always a favourite.



This is delicious for those who like pork slices. I love the pungeant garlic on top of it. Wrapped inside the pork, cucumbers and carrots.



This is one plate of super tender beef.



We had two portions of this deep fried eel too.



When you are in a xiao long bao shop, you just got to order it! 3 steamers of it.



The other carbo we had for the carbo cravers. Delicious noodles with veg and meat.
(Forgot the name. hehe..)



This is roast chicken with onions. Those are onion bits on top. I like the onion topping more than the chicken.



For those with cholestorol problem, eat more 'black fungus'. The black fungus goes well with Kai Lan.



Last carbo for the meal, seafood fried rice.



As if it is tradition, we went over to Coffee Club for our muddy mudpies.

Happy Birthday Mr Y!

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao
241/241A Holland Avenue
Singapore 278976

Tel: 6463 0968

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Holland Village

This was Saturday's lunch. We brought youngest sis and future BIL to have La Mian. We were deciding which chinese food to try and sis decided on la mian.

For starter, we had white pork wrapped in cucumber and carrots. We thought it was suppose to be a cold dish, but it was hot. Hmm. Anyway, it taste quite OK.



We had the Peking Duck as well. These things are expensive in UK. So, here's a treat for them.

We were amazed at the lady sliced the skin off with a cleaver and at the same time. This is before the duck got 'skinned'.



After being 'skinned', it was wrapped for us.



We had quite a lot of pieces to eat. I am kinda addicted to the sweetish paste. You can see that I spread it on the outside too.



We also ordered the Xiao Long Bao. (This restaurant is called XLB right? )
While we were having this, the next table with a 3 English Ladies sat down and ordered this as well. Sorry to eavesdrop, but the younger of the 3 ladies were speaking quite loudly, playing host to 2 other ladies in their 60s. She must be quite excited to introduce the food to her visitors. She told them, you should try this dumplings and the noodles.

When their XLB came, oh goodness, the younger lady was teaching the two other older ones how to eat. Guess how it was eaten? They took the XLB to their plate and break the skin of the XLB. After that, they drained the soup inside and ate it without the soup. Oh no! Wasting the soup in the XLB. We were like shocked. We wanted to tell the 3 ladies that you are suppose to put the XLB in your spoon, pricked it, drink the soup and then eat the XLB. But we could not bare to embarrass the lady and her guest.

It was quite funny though. She lady was 'wayang-ing' (acting) the whole time, pretending she was the expert. We were quite entertained.



We also ordered the 'red' version of XLB. It's XLB with chilli oil and vinegar. yum...



This is the rest of the Peking Duck. Sis wanted La Mian, so we had Fried La Mian.
While eating we were thinking, maybe we should have asked for the duck drum sticks and wings to be cut out for us earlier. The yummy skin on the drumsticks and wings, where did it go? LOL... Only duck meat stripes were in the noodles.



Have a nice long weekend ahead.

Crystal Jade La Mien Xiao Long Bao @ Holland Village

Sis and her colleague was at Holland Village, buzz me if I wanted to have dinner with them. OK lor. People treat makan, I have to obliged right?

They have already eaten and placed their orders, when I arrived, I just placed order for chicken soup. I love the chicken soup here.




The rest I just eat lah! A veg starter. All my fav vegies are in this plate!



Sis also ordered the Sliced Noodle with Meat.



OK, this is the sinful one. Mei Cai Kou Rou. Haha.. Look at the fat!



Err, in case you think why I have been having so many photos with lard recently. It's just a coincidence.

Hey, our colleagues and I, we munch on carrots sticks the last few days you know! *feeling less guilty now*