江苏饭店 Jiangsu Restaurant — Restaurant in Singapore

I’m Jiangsu native, and we eat Huaiyang food from childhood, and there is only one word after eating the food: dissatisfied; if I could use two words to describe, that would be dissatisfied and disappointed. I gave 1 star because there is no option to give negative points, if I could, would rate it as negative five.

We brought my mom for her birthday lunch having the thought of letting her enjoy the native food and found the overall rating is 4.8 which is too much deceptive. There are no customers in the restaurant around 12:45pm on Saturday noon time. We ordered four dishes with two bowls of meat ball (狮子头）. The 1st dish is 猪皮汤 (fried pig skin soup) with some 猪肚丝 (pig stomach slices), fishballs and 鹌鹑蛋 (quail egg), pig stomach a bit smelly (not fresh), really so so; the 2nd dish is 文思豆腐汤 (the sensational silk beancurd soup), no flavour at all, the chef must have forgotten to put salt even a little tiny bit, the soup contains the silk beancurd and some luncheon meat; the 3rd dish is the 红烧鳝鱼 (eel fish), taste a bit burnt （微微烧焦的味道），the chef must have overcooked with sugar (炒糖色的时候炒焦了）; the 4th dish is the 青菜炒肉渣 (fried vegetable with crispy pork lard), flavor reasonable but not impressive; lastly is the two small bowls of 狮子头 (meatball), must be the frozen meat balls used, not tender inside at all. If you are 淮扬 native, you know what I mean by tender as all things should be tender (嫩的) and fresh.

Nobody is satisfied with the meal, including my mom who is 淮扬 native, nor my husband who is non-淮扬 native from Shandong. Actually I was even angry that this simple meal cost us 220+ SGD, which is the similar level of Putien or Imperial Treasure! Huaiyang food, which depends very much on the freshness of food or the skills of the chef can be pricy in Singapore which I reasonably understand, but this is far far far below expectation and the food quality is not matching up to the high price at all.

Out of the four dish + 2 small bowls of meatball, the eel cost 58 dollars which is fish, okay fine. What else can lead to a price of 220+? Is it the beancurd? Or the pork lard? Or the small pieces of luncheon meat? Or the fried meat skin? Really ridiculous.

And the restaurant have a smell of 烟味 (not sure whether it’s the customers or staff that smokes around), and the restroom is only available in the 包间 (private room), and we have to carry the 1yr old baby all the way to the 3rd floor to get her hands washed before meal. Baby seat is too big for one year old to sit straight or sit properly (which is a very simple thing for other restaurants and we’ve been taking our young baby out for lunch many times and this is the 1st time that the baby cannot even sit properly in the baby chair).

We didn’t take pictures as we don’t normally do Google reviews. The experience is too bad that I have to make a fair review here: In general, not recommended, to anyone who is looking for hearty hometown food. And please don’t charge such high price if your food quality is not up there — that will set wrong impression of Huaiyang food and even Jiangsu people in general. Please,...

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