CNY holiday leaves us with few few options especially so on the first and second day of new year. The Japanese restaurants that I called were closed till at least the fifth day which rules out substantially the choices. Surprisingly, the recreational clubs are open! We headed back to a childhood favourite – Cricket Club. Heaps of memories came flooding back – the first grazing on the knees to going from table to table to usurp the skimmed milk capsules to getting lost in the basement toilets that somehow resembled those on a cruise. I suppose that is what time does, change. Hardly resembling what it used to be – without any of their long serviced waiters and cooks, the place lost a bit of the nostalgia.
Once upon a time.
History speaks. Since 1852.
Missed them milk capsules.
The Oval and the Verandah simply refers to interior and al fresco.
Gunner, a watered down version that could pass off as a fizzled out soft drink.
With any order of a beverage, baskets of nibbles are served up. Who cares if these are off the pack crisps?
Salted nuts too!
Decent coffee.
Soup of the Day ($6)
Grilled Portobello Mushrooms ($13.80)
Arugula, Parmesan, Garlic
Steak Sandwich ($12.90)
Lettuce, Tomato, Mustard, Mayonnaise, Fries
Mom says this is my
childhood favourite and for that, I ordered it to reconnect with the
past. Crinkle cut fries were replaced with thick cut ones which proved
to be too dense and lacking in potato flavour. Steak
was a tad rubbery snuck in baguette that was too soft.
Club Sandwich ($11.90)
Chicken, Bacon, Egg, Lettuce, Tomato, Fries
Spaghetti Pasta with Prawns Aglio Oil ($18)
First time was
forgotten, the second order was wrong and when it arrived, the table
completed their courses. A lacklustre bland effort from the chef.
Nasi Goreng Ikan Bilis ($9.60)
Fried Egg
Well flavoured spicy rice with a myriad of ingredients that makes eating one both colourful in sight and taste.
Mee Goreng ($9.60)
Yong Chow Fried Rice ($9.60)
Best of the three mini
woks, best of the whole table. Fried rice executed so well – the control
of oil is amazing and packed with enough wok hei to put a Cantonese
chef to shame (I’m assuming the chef isn’t one!).
We all could not stop stealing bites of this amazing dish – truly, one
that befits the memory we have of yonks ago.
Sticky Toffee Pudding ($9.80)
Caramel sauce, icecream
A decent presentation
and rendition of this modern favourite, the steamed brown sugar cake was
moist and a lovely contrast to the icecream.
For old time’s sake, I would return. Yet sometimes never change – the orders that get forgotten or mistaken.
The Oval
Cricket Club
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