Forest Restaurant: Chinese New Year Menu at Resorts World Sentosa

Chef Sam Leong is one of the most celebrated local chefs around. Always known for innovative use of ingredients and beautiful plating of Chinese dishes, he set up his own restaurant in Equarius Hotel in Resorts World Sentosa.

I was invited for a tasting of the new Chinese New Year menu. And typical of Chef Sam's meals, it is themed...this tasting seemed to be around the coconut.

We started with the Four Treasures Soup

Zoom in, the soup looks coyingly sumptious. 

The superior chicken stock is used to braise the fish maw, sea cucumber, crab meat, Hokkaido dried scallop and served in a young coconut. The taste is mild, allowing the ingredients to shine, and shine they did. Very delicious tasting, thick, filling and satisfying soup, with a light hint of the young coconut.

Next Boston Lobster

Fresh Boston lobster, wok fried with green chive juice and fresh lily bulb. Magnificent. The lobster meat was tender, sweet, and the done-ness just right to be slightly crunchy. The lily bulbs provide a more hearty crunch, as did the vermicelli bed the concoction lies on. Delicious!

Next, a slightly western twist, Sakura chicken roll

Again, using the superior chicken stock as a base, the Sakura chicken is tolled up with dried oyster and black moss and served with yam puree. I found the chicken to be delectable, with a very light, mild chicken flavour...mind you, not the offensive type found in frozen chicken, but a delightfully beautiful aromatic chicken flavour which permeated and harmonized with the black moss and dried oyster. A sprig of asparagus provides an able counterpoint. 

And for desserts, chilled coconut jello

Home made coconut juice jello, served with aloe vera and sea coconut topped with popping candy. Magnificent. The jello was incredibly smooth and supple, and had a light taste of young coconut, and went superbly with the sea coconut and aloe vera. The popping candy providing some fireworks...wonderful way to end a meal.

Truly superb cuisine, And I have to take my hat off to Chef Sam Leong for creating such magnificent dishes.

Forest Restaurant

Resorts World Sentosa

Phone:6577 7788

Ramen Play

Ramen Play is a chain store purveying Japanese cuisine in Singapore. Typically chain stores reak of chain store quality...which most of the time means yucks. But I have sampled the food at several Ramen Play outlets, and they have held up to the standards pretty well.

This dinner, I sampled the Butariki Ishinabe.

The serving is rather small, but delivered to the table, on a sizzling hot stone pot. Very aromatic. Premium Japanese Niigata rice is used, and in the pot, the pan fried and barbecued pork, spring onion, seaweed is laced on top of a raw egg. A sauce is drizzled onto the pot when the dish is served, and the entire ensemble mixed up. The flavours are very good. The pork retained a very nice smokey, slightly charred aroma, and crisp texture. The rice, also charred after a while has the wonderful burnt rice flavour. Very nice.

The ramen is also quite good. Yakiniku beef on a hot bowl of ramen

The broth was thick, flavourful, and very nice. Not too salty, as Japanese ramen tend to be sometimes, but magnificent umami. The ramen was slightly over cooked, but still rather springy, and tasty. The beef was quite gorgeous. Nice beefy flavours, good marinade.

We also tried the garlic chicken

Quite good too. The chicken is crispy, but still juicy. Judicious use of fried garlic flavoured the meat very well....not for those who do not like garlic, but I am a certified garlic lover, so it went very well for me.

Overall, a very nice chain store, reasonable quality of food.

Ramen Play Chinatown Point
133 New Bridge Road
#01-04
6543 6686
(11am - 10pm) Sun to Thu
(11am - 10.30pm) Fri, Sat and eve of P.H.
*Last order: 30 mins before closing