Saturday Dinner@Ivins Peranakan

This place is just diagonally opposite to Sembawang Hill Food Centre, along Upper Thomson Road. First time there, this should be good food before our mahjong session. Parking seems ample despite we arriving close to 7 pm, but it doesn't seem so after we left.

A look at the menu saw wide selection of food, pricing from $3 to $7, with some items like fish head over $10. It is cheap but portion are small, thus ordering alot and share seems logical. Almost every dish, comes in some kind of sauce, typical to peranakan.

Must try is the yellow coconut rice, brightly colored and taste very good. Assam fish head, fish cake lemak, pork chop in pepper sauce, sambal sontong, long bean titek, sambal kang kong, fried gho hiang, crabmeat and shrimp omelette coming right up.



The fish cake lemak served in a claypot piping hot with fish cake drenched in lemak sauce. The fish cake is very soft, abit different from the ones outside where it is more chewy, the sauce goes well without too overwhelming. The assam fish head is alright, the assam just the right balance of taste but it is the pork chop which is surprising.




The pepper sauce doesn't taste pepper at all, but full of onion taste, so is like drinking onion soup. The sambal sontong, kang kong and long bean titek are mild spicy but have enough mixture of sambal and dried shrimp.




Desserts like gula melaka sago, chendol seems a favourite with many people ordering, and at $1.20 consider cheap for such places though again it comes in real small portion. Decent enough for after meal sweet stuff. I didn't get because I saw a awfully chocolate outlet just up ahead !