Stewed pork belly - not a fan of pork belly. The sauce is slightly sweetish and the carrots are stewed until soft. Everyone else loved this so I think I'm just an anomaly.
Even though we ate so much, I think the bill was about $30 per person (without alcohol), which I think is a very very decent price considering what we ate. Will definitely come back.
Nirai Kani
177 River Valley Road
Singaproe 179030
Tel 6339 4811
I would highly recommend you to call and make a booking - the restaurant initially looked empty but it was really full by the time we left at about 830pm
Shin Yeh's decor is above the average for a Chinese restaurant. It's supposed to be Taiwan's No. 1 restaurant (or so the poster claims). The menu is very extensive - there's alot of dishes and we had trouble deciding which ones we wanted - cos I was being greedy and wanted to try everything and they didn't have set menus. 
Anyway, we finally decided on Taiwanese Porridge (comes with sweet potato, $1.50 free flow) and a variety of dishes.
Oyster omelette (~$14) had lots of oysters (not extremely fresh, but not stale) and comes with lots of browned crispy garlic and chopped leeks. It's not the kind with potato starch, and the omelette is slightly crispy and quite oily. 
My favourite dish of the day - braised eggplant, minced pork and basil leaves (I think it was about $15, must go check the receipt). The eggplant was perfectly done - cooked through and yet firm and not soggy and oil-logged. They even peel parts of the skin off so it has a striped apperance. Though the sauce is salty, it tastes fine with the plain porridge. 
Steamed minced pork with salted egg (can't remember price I think it's $10) - the pork was quite lean - and the salted egg went well with the porridge.
The only dish I didn't like was the Three Cup Chicken 三杯雞($18). It's supposed to be a Taiwanese dish and it's under the chef's recommendations in the menu, but the chicken was hard, dry and very very tough so I hardly ate this. Plus, it was extremely salty, had to dunk the whole thing into my porridge to make it edible. 
Complimentary dessert - Mua Chee (mochi) which is a popular Taiwanese snack.
Though the restaurant was very crowded, the dishes came very quickly - and nearly all at one go - pretty impressive for a restaurant that's completely full (we went at 730pm)! Though the restaurant is crowded, it's not as noisy as I had expected it to be - probably because of the plush chairs (plush for chinese restaurant standard), and the tables aren't crammed side by side so you get a bit more privacy. 
I'm a complete sucker for Crepes (everytime I walk past a Crepe stall I'll have to buy it unless I'm extremely explodingly full or feeling broke and stingy, especially since the smell of freshly made crepes warfts around everywhere). So I couldn't pass up the opportunity to try Mazazu Crepe. I went to Liang Court for lunch, and while searching hungrygowhere, I spotted the link to Mazazu Crepe. I was very happy cos since I could go there after lunch.
The crepe is super long, and I like the way they put a piece of plastic at the bottom, so the syrupy+melted ice cream innards of the crepe won't soak the paper . Reminds me of the umbrella covers in shopping centres for rainy days.
They have both sweet and savoury crepes, and there was a teatime offer the day I went - $6 for a savoury crepe (with the likes of tuna, chicken, egg etc with lettuce and mayo) and a cup of coffee/tea.
Since they only have one crepe hotplate (or whatever you call that flat round thing), this boy had to wait for his crepe :P
Mazazu Crepe is a franchise from a Japanese Crepe Chain, Mother's Crepe and Cafe. We were served by 2 Japanese ladies, and somehow they missed out 1 of our 3 orders. But they quickly made the crepe they forgot (even though I was nearly done with mine). 
The soup is milky, robust and not too salty. Like most other Japanese ramens, there's 2 little pieces of stewed pork (with lots of soft melty fat in between) and a half boiled soya egg inside. The egg was quite cooked so the yolk wasn't runny and nice. There's also a bit of bamboo shoots and spring onion (or is it leek?). The noodles were springy, chewy and of a fair sized portion. Overall, the ramen was passable - average but not really memorable. I suppose I won't mind coming back for the ramen - but only if it's along the way. 
This is the Kakiage -deep fried vegetables ($12.50) which is worth trying - fried to a crisp and that little piece of white paper at the bottom had minimal oil stains :D According to what I learnt from the tour guide in Japan, the little piece of white paper isn't used for absorbing all the oil - it's to see the skill of the chef - in that the tempura or whatever other deep fried stuff is properly done. The better the skill, the less the oil on the paper. I suppose that compared to all the other normal (not high class) Japanese restaurants I've been to, this must be one of the better dishes I've had.
Yu Sai Shoku
This is my Cheese Pork Cutlet Set, ($19+) which comes with rice, miso soup, pickles, fruit and free flow salad. It was a tough choice between the Mentai (some fish roe which I like) Pork Chop and this. I would probably go back and try the Mentai one soon cos it's a seasonal special ($21++). 
The pork is juicy and tender and doesn't have the porky smell.
