Vday at New Ubin Seafood

Isn't scary how restaurants are packed on special occasions and how difficult it is to find a decent place to eat? Poor Dear, who surprisingly has a lot of initiative this year and made calls (a couple of days before Vday) to find us a table, was traumatised by the difficulty of it as dinner time looms.

In comes the clever me who saves the day. We have never been big on Vday, though we try to have dinner tog if we can. So, I thought of having a hearty tze char dinner because it is one of the most value for money ways to eat dinner on Vday.

And I have a place in mind. Specifically, I have a dish in mind, and it is something pretty costly and unusual to have at a tze char shop. More about that later. To unravel the mystery, the place we went to was New Ubin Seafood at Sin Ming Industrial estate.

It had a whole shopfront to itself and was bigger than I thought. The place was crowded, I guess it is testimony that the food is pretty decent for people to come and eat in an industrial area.

 

Drumroll: The dish we came for was the grilled Angust beef steak. Minimum order of 500g which means the beef will cost around $50. This price includes crispy french fries, caramalised onions and the yummy beef which is cut for your convenience.

The beef was succulent enough; not tough. But the star of the show was the fried rice, which is part of the order, that was fried with the fats of the beef steak.

Super sinful and addicitive. Dear said it was good. And he seldom uses the word 'good'. The rice tasted like claypot rice but had more depth of the smoky flavour and juicy after being coated by the beef fats.

We may return for the crabs, which we saw loads of people ordering. The beef may not be your everyday tze char dish because of the price tag but it is a good treat. I'm glad that I finally got to try it!

New Ubin Seafood
27 Sector A Sin Ming Industrial Estate