Crispy Fried Fish @ Astons Specialities

 They call it Crispy Fried Fish but if you order it with a side of french fries, you can very well call it Fish and Chips. *ignore me, I'm sleepy*

It's huge fillet of fish breaded and deep-fried served with a wedge of lemon, tartar sauce and your choice of two side dishes. As usual, I had the baked potato and coleslaw. I really should get other side dishes next time...

The fish was cooked perfectly through while still maintaining it's crispiness and wasn't as oily as other fried fish dishes out there. For this visit, they served a really big fillet that I was only able to finish two-thirds of the thing. Very filling for SG$7.50.

Note: Excuse the picture please, I took this shot when I was already into my second bite. ;-)

Astons Specialities
371 Beach Road
#01-07 KeyPoint
Tel : 6295 6026



Opening Hours:
11:30 to 22:00 daily

Stir Fried Fish with Green Pepper @ Beerthai House Restaurant

Another Monday with a trip to Beerthai House Restaurant. This time I ordered their Stir Fried Fish with Green Pepper while my lunch buddy ordered their Kailan with Seafood.

The Stir Fried Fish with Green Pepper was basically fish fillets in a spicy red curry-like sauce. It was mixed with some red chilies, green vegetables and herbs that I really didn't recognize. The verdict is it was delicious as always in this restaurant but a tad bit oily looking.

As I mentioned above, my lunch buddy ordered their Kailan with Seafood. Actually, the original dish is supposed to be Kailan with Roast Pork but the people at the restaurant obliged us by taking the pork out and replacing it with seafood. The kailan was served with big sliced red chilies, prawns, squid, fish balls and some odd nuts here and there. It was perfectly seasoned with the sauce very yummy.

Note: We're going to try everything on the menu at this place so expect more entries from this restaurant. And frankly, it's the most decent place to have lunch near our office. I really don't like the food in the hawker centres in the area.

Beerthai House Restaurant
Golden Mile Complex #01-96
5001 Beach Road, (S)199588
Tel: 63922491

Grilled Black Pepper Fish @ Astons Specialities

I thought the fish would be flavored with black pepper but in reality it was just grilled fish topped with their "versatile" black pepper sauce. I say versatile with quotation marks because it's a sauce they use over everything else that has "black pepper" on the menu. Before I became pescetarian, I used to enjoy their black pepper chicken -- yep, it's the same sauce. But I'm not complaining, still works well with the fish.

As Astons Specialities is known for, every dish (or most) comes with your choice 2 side dishes. They have a good selection of them divided into: (1) hot side dishes and (2) cold side dishes. You can choose from mashed potatoes or baked potatoes, garden salad or potato salad, to corn on the cob to side vegetables. I personally prefer their baked potato (topped with butter, no other choices) and coleslaw -- as you can see in the photo above. You can have both cold side dishes or both hot side dishes if you want, it's your choice. The main dish costs SG$7.50 which isn't bad at all.

Astons Specialities
371 Beach Road
#01-07 KeyPoint
Tel : 6295 6026

Opening Hours:
11:30 to 22:00 daily

Grilled Cod Fish @ F.I.S.H

Grilled Cod Fish

A selection of salads from the buffet at F.I.S.H

Okay, I totally spaced out and forgot the exact name this dish was called. All I know is that it was grilled cod fish and had what I think was lemon + butter + herb sauce.

F.I.S.H (man, that's annoying to type!) is Fish & Co.'s new concept restaurant. The draw is that when you have their value set meal it includes an eat-all-you-can buffet of salads (weirdly enough, they had nachos). Their salad buffet has a good enough range of choices. I tried their Chili Crab Salad - basically shredded crab stick in Singapore's famous chili crab sauce. I also tried their Papaya Salad (shredded and slightly pickled papaya), Seafood Salad (mixed cold squid, fish and prawns), Potato Salad (sliced potatoes, slightly grilled) and Tomatoes & Basil (tomato wedges mixed in fresh basil and olive oil).

As for the main dish I chose, it was a good sized cut of Cod fish topped with lemon butter herb kind of sauce and served with grilled potatoes and tomatoes. The fish and sauce were nice. The potatoes were overcooked and cold. The tomatoes I didn't eat because I already had my fill of tomatoes from the salad buffet.

It was my second visit to this restaurant and my first try at a value set meal - with the salad buffet. I probably won't do the value set again. I ended up already half full with the salad (I only had one round of samplers in one little plate) by the time the main dish arrived. I ended up not finishing the dish which was a shame.


F.I.S.H
313@Somerset
313 Orchard Road #B3-37/38
Singapore 238895
T: 6634 0478
www.fish-co.com


Opening Hours:
11.30 am to 10pm daily

Provence Herb Baked Fish @ Josh & Joey's Rotisserie Grill

I had planned to grab lunch at Aglio Olio but at the last minute decided to try Josh & Joey's Rotisserie Grill which was just along the way to Aglio Olio.

They have a pretty decent selection of seafood dishes -- several salmon dishes, fish & chips and baked fish. For my first try, I ordered their Provence Herb Baked Fish. It was a good-sized fillet of fish that had herbs encrusted on top served with baked potatoes and vegetables (tomatoes, onions, string beans). The dish was also served with a slice of lemon and tartar sauce.

This particular dish was one of the four set lunches they offered. A set lunch comes with soup and iced tea. That day their choices of soup were minestrone and cream of mushroom. I opted for their cream of mushroom which was surprisingly good. It was creamy and velvetty (almost like Soup Spoon's mushroom soup). For a $1 upgrade, you can change your iced tea to a canned softdrink.

Josh & Joey's Rotisserie Grill
8 Shenton Way #B1-19
Singapore 068811
T: 6327 9818

Opening Hours
Mon–Fri: 11.30am – 8.00pm