Peach Garden

Had my Grandmother's 80th bday dinner @ Peach Garden Novena (the family default for special occasion Chinese dinners)
Here's a v costly set (cos ren shen qi shi gu lai xi! aiya this is probably wrong but it's something like live to 70 v rare already!)
My grandmother is very smart - she will celebrate her Chinese and English birthdays every year, so fun right! got TWO birthdays and you don't age twice as fast either! HAHA I should go and find out when my Chinese Birthday is!

Longevity Buns - hehe we know this person who looks like a longevity bun!
Starter - Fried Egg Plant with Pork Floss

It's very crispy and it's so disguised under the pork floss that nearly everyone said it didn't taste or look like egg plant, which is quite saddening cos i really like eggplant
My fave dish of the day! So exciting! I've hardly eaten suckling pig! And this was a WHOLE suckling pig to the table! So exciting! Actually, I dun like the suckling pig skin. Think of it - it's exactly like LARD. But I do like the sauce and the cucumber and the spring onion and the bread thing. And of course, the deliciously tender meat! It's so juicy and it has this very interesitng taste and smell which is very different from the porky smell that a full grown pig has! Apparently in Phillippines, they don't eat suckling pigs cos it's quite cruel - it's better to fatten up all the Babe lookalikes into those ugly humongous monsters and have a village feast :D I mean if it's so ugly anyway, it doesn't really break your heart killing and eating it...

This is the sharks fin soup - quite normal but cos it's a celebration, must have sharks fin soup.This is the wasibi prawn and salted egg prawn. I love the salted egg prawns! (Salted egg crab is also very yummy too!) The prawns are the crystal kind that spurt their juices out when you crunch into them.Some fish with black fungus and bamboo shoots I think. Braised Spinach Tofu and abalone and spinach. I dunno why this kind of tofu is always so expensive - issit very hard to put spinach at the bottom of the tofu while setting it?? Anyway, the spinach is probably the baby spinach cos it's so soft and not fibrous at all. Eefu noodles with seafood. By this time everyone was so super stuffed already...But of course, there's always space for dessert! My fave Mango Pomelo sago! :D But I think the Liang Seah Street Ah Chew Dessert place beats thsi hands down cos theirs is thicker and creamier
Complimentary dessert - Water Chestnut Cake and Custard Pau. I just realised that this is probably my first time eating waterchestnutcake (ma ti gao)! Oh no I haven't eaten so many things!!!

The dinner cost us about $60 somethign per person which is quite ok I suppose since I got to eat suckling pig yum yum!

Peach Garden (Novena) - UOB 1-1 promotion

UOB has a 1 - for - 1 special at Peach Garden, so we decided to have dinner there. I've been there twice before, and the food was good, even though i don't really like chinese food. I particularly liked the venison.

We had the UOB special set menu, which had 6 courses including dessert.

The starter was Roast Sliced Duck accompanied with Fried Crispy Silver Bait, which, unfortunately, in my hungry state, I forgot to take a photo of :( It was 2 pieces of roast duck and a nice little pile of silver bait. I quite liked the duck but the portion was too small :(

Next, there was Double Boiled Seafood Soup and Bamboo Pith in Golden melon (this is old cucumber). The soup was very tasty and I ate my whole melon cos I was very hungry. I made a hole and a bit of my soup leaked out :S
Then the dish I was waiting for in eager anticipation was the Wok Fried Diced Venision with Black Peppercon.
Sadly, it was a mere THREE pieces of meat, though it was tender and juicy, I was pretty sure by this time the set wasn't going to be filling enough for me. Then again, it was the 1-for-1 menu...

Next was Poached Baby Cabbage in Honshimeji Mushrooms in Sharks Bone Cartilage Soup. The soup was a nice creamy emulsion and I really liked this dish, and it came garnished with wolfberries too. Stewed Noodle with Live Prawn and Scallop in X.O. Sauce. Reminded me a bit of good quality wanton mee. The noodles were fine and tangy, the sauce a bit spicy for my liking (I'm v pathetic with chillies and spicy food) and the live prawn had the live-prawn freshness - the juices exploding in your mouth when you bite down :) yum! (i like crystal jade prawn hor fun and egg cos the prawns are all bursting in juices)
Dessert is Chilled Jelly Royale with Julienne of Coconut. It's just a fancy name for Wu Tao Long (Ice Jelly Cocktail) with strips of coconut, and there was the cheng teng brown things inside too.
Since I had been fasting the whole day to eat at Peach Garden, I was still hungry by the end of my 1-for-1 dinner. So I compensated by eating more dessert! :D

Almond Paste with Seaseme Glutinous Rice Balls (Tang Yuan) - $3.50
I thought the tang yuan skin was a bit hard though.

Pulut Hitam (sp??) with Coconut Icecream in Young Coconut ($6)
The coconut ice cream is really good, but thought the pulut hitam was a bit too sweet. Anyways, it's an interesting dessert.

Mango Pomelo Sago - A definate MUST TRY the mango is really sweet and fragrant, and the dessert is thick and milky and the pomelo is slightly tart to balance out the flavours. It's only $3.50 (before tax) and about the same standard as Ah Chew Dessert at Bugis there. But Peach Garden is soooo much nearer my house. Ah Chew charges $3.80 for the mango pomelo sago.

The UOB Set Menu promotion costs $68++ for 2 person (min. 2 people). It's valid till 31st May and not valid for eve of and public holidays, and Mother's Day. Prior booking has to be made.