Kreta Ayer, Kingsford

What's better than enjoying food from back home? Enjoying food from back home with new friends made in Australia, and realising that they enjoy it too! On this trip, we enjoyed dinner with a group of my friends.

Food

Ordering food at Kreta Ayer comes DIY fashion. Simply pick out the dish you want from the menu, write the number down and hand the order slip to your waiter.

Bakuteh - This literally translates to "Meat Bone Tea". Bakuteh is pork bone (or sometimes chicken) soup simmered in an array of herbs (star anise, dang gui, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and fennel seeds). This is served normally with deep fried tofu and a side of You Tiao (deep fried dough).





Garlic Kailan - Stir fried broccoli with garlic and ginger.Crunchy kailan in typical home-cooked fashion.


Oyster Omelette - Little morsels of oysters fried in an omelette. I've actually never had this in Sydney before, but this brings memories of my growing up years. Not the best, but good enough!


Hot and Spicy Lala (Clams) - Clams stir-fried in a spicy sauce with bits of broccoli. The clams were fresh. I would consider this dish moderately spicy.


Pandan Chicken - Deep fried chicken wrapped in pandan leaf. The right way of eating this one is with the pandan leaf (so don't unwrap the chicken!). This dish was very delicious - full of aroma and juicy.


Pork Mince Noodles (Bak Chor Mee) - Mince pork, mushroom and fishcakes on thin egg noodles. This is probably not the most authentic version of dry Bak Chor Mee. The egg noodles isn't exactly mee pok (flat egg noodles) or mee kia (thin egg noodles), but somewhere in between. The mince pork was a on the generous side - as in more of pork chunks instead of mince. What was most lacking in this dish was actually the inadequacy of sauce.

Combination Laksa - Thin yellow noodles with prawns, fried tofu. dumplings, bean sprouts, fish cakes and topped off with a spicy coconut broth. Apart from the prawns not being the freshest, this is quite a good dish!

Penang Char Kway Teow - Stir fried thick flat rice noodles with a sweet soy sauce and bits of Chinese sausage.

Blue Swimmer Crab Beehoon - Thin rice noodles in a milky fish broth topped off with an empty crab shell and 2 pincers, hard tofu and choy sum. This dish isn't exactly my favourite. The problem with the dish starts from the broth. Good milky fish broth is made from hours of cooking fish and fish bones creating a rich broth. This broth is more of fish broth with milk added to to get the milky look. 

Overall
Kreta Ayer has some pretty good and authentic dishes. It's definitely worth a try and for Singaporeans, there are some dishes which will satisfy your home food cravings!

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