Tong Shui Hong Kong Cafe

Last visited: 20 April 2007

Went here with my friends for some chats before my cell meeting. This is the 3rd branch (the other two are at Zion Road and West Coast) and the newest addition to the food places along the Liang Seah Stree, a street famous for its numerous good dinning places. I saw this cafe online and what interested me are their weird combination of food. And I really mean WEIRD. Even their food prices are all ended with S$0.88. What a weird concept! :P

The three of us tried to order the weirdest combination of food that we can find on the menu. There are really lots of variety for us to choose from. Here is a few food that we ate and either we recommend it or...well...there is nothing special about it. So be my guest and read on if you are interested... :))

Location

Tong Shui Hong Kong Cafe

1 Liang Seah Street

#01-05/06 (Opp. Mos Burger at Bugis Junction, and along the Phin's Restaurant side)

Official Website: http://www.tongshuicafe.com/

Ice Cappuccino with Coke （冻咖啡可乐）

The name of the drink really attracts our attention -- Can coffee mixed with coke??? It is just odd as they seem to be just two different beverages in most people eyes. Yet the owner can come up with this idea...zai! :P

Comments: The drink is really drink-able and so far I don't have any upset stomach yet...Praise the Lord! :P Hahaha...juz kidding...lol Well, have anyone tried making Coke float at home by putting ice cream in your coke or anywhere else outside? To me, this drink taste very much like a Coke float with Coffee flavoured ice cream already totally melted into the coke. Hence, you can't really taste the coke taste at all, but a strong, very milky coffee taste. It doesn't sound too bad to me though...so give it a try yourself! *wink* ;)

Ratings (Total of 5 points)

Taste: 3.5 (I quite like it actually... :P)

Presentation: 3.5 (it looks normal in the big glass container)

Price: $$ (S$3.88)

OVERALL: 3.5

Ice Milk Tea with Grass Jelly（冻凉粉奶茶）

There is no more weirder drink other than the Ice Cappuccino with Coke. Hence, I choose what the waiter recommended as a popular drink in the shop -- its Ice Milk Tea. Well, I decided to try the one that goes with Ching Chow, the grass jelly, which just sounds slightly different than the common ice milk tea I guess...hahaha...lol

Comments: Their Ice Milk Tea taste really good. The portion of milk and tea is just nice, in which you can have a balance taste of both. It may taste slightly sweeter with the Ching Chow though. Yet, the presence of the grass jelly enhance the feeling of the milk tea, kind of like drinking the bubble tea with pearl. I like it! :)

Ratings

Taste: 4.0

Presentation: 4.0

Price: $$ (S$3.88)

OVERALL: 4.0

Fried Rice with Wolfberries and Salted Fish （咸鱼枸杞子炒饭）

We ordered this because of the less common food ingredients used in fried rice -- Wolfberries, a traditional Chinese herbs and salted fish, a Chinese style preserved fish that is super salty. It sounds like a very Chinese traditional fried rice to us...kinda interesting...lol

Comments: It tastes like any other Chinese fried rice. The wolfberries don't really carry a very strong taste anyway. Unless you put a piece of the salted fish into your mouth, the rice won't really taste THAT salty at all.

Ratings

Taste: 3.0

Presentation: 3.5

Price: $$$ (S$7.88)

OVERALL: 3.0

Macaroni with Gingko and Sunset Egg （银杏鸡蛋通心粉）

The only that interest me is that it uses Gingko, another traditional Chinese herbs that is normally used on desserts, in its macaroni. Sounds like a Chinese-Western mixed cuisine to me. :P

Comments: The macaroni tastes very normal, like the macaroni soup that most of us can cook back at home. The special thing about it is the presence of Gingko wrapped inside a lump of pork meat. The pork meat tastes a little fattening and oily to me and the Gingko is tasteless. Other ingredients used in the macaroni are winter mushrooms, and the house special fish cake with crabmeat and vegetables in it.

Ratings

Taste: 3.0

Presentation: 3.0

Price: $$ (S$5.88)

OVERALL: 3.0

CCF (Chee Cheong Fun) with Traditional Sauce and Sunset Egg （甜酱蛋肠粉）

This is another funny dish we find -- Egg on the Chee Cheong Fun! :P I mean, you don't really see that in other places, especially when the CCF comes with sweet sauce! They just don't sound right to me. *shrug*

Comments: Either the three of us are quite full, or the CCF is not really very appetising, I found this dish so-so only. The CCF, probably left on the table for some time, taste cold and the sauce has sort of 'solidified'. I guess if you eat it hot or warm, it would taste like any other normal CCF you get at any other places in Singapore. There is actually nothing special about the egg because they serve it serve aside. It's just like you get to choose to eat a fried egg besides your CCF.

Ratings

Taste: 2.5

Presentation: 3.5 (it still looks interesting when it first arrives)

Price: $ (S$2.88; the serving is equivalent of that of a main course)

OVERALL: 3.0

French Toast with Mango, Strawberries, Kiwi and Maple Syrup （芒果草莓奇异果多士）

Well, the first look of it was like "How can fruits go with toasted bread!" But the picture and the food look very appetizing and nice. It is really colourful -- Yellow, Red and Green -- like what you would see on the traffic lights! :P Thank God we ordered this because it is the one that makes our day! :D

Comments: It really looks very attractive and appealing to all of us. The fruits look so fresh and delicious on top of the french toast. I actually tried the bread with each fruit separately. When I took it with mango, both compliments each other very well. Sweet and nice with the maple sauce. As for strawberry and kiwi fruit, probably because these two fruits are sour in nature, it taste not as good as that of the mango, but yet the sourness makes it more refreshing and probably neutralise the sweetness of the mango parts. The bread alone is delicious with the maple sauce. Both of my friends even like the slightly burnt bread, as they say it feels much more crispy. Hahaha...we love it and I think you should give it a try yourself too...thumbs up! :D

Ratings

Taste: 4.0

Presentation: 4.5

Price: $$ (S$6.88)

OVERALL: 4.0

Other remarks: I like the decorations of the cafe, carrying out a very rich Chinese traditional ambience. It is pretty spacious for a small cafe like that, making its customers feel very comfortable and cozy. There is also a plasma TV on the wall playing the old Hong Kong movies, and surrounded by many magazine articles, which are framed up, featured about the cafe. All the utensils used to present the food are made of clear glass. Well, it is quite a cool theme yet a little unsual. For example, it used a big clear glass bowl for my macaroni soup...and it looks just so much like those that used to breed goldfish inside. Hee hee...lol *dots*