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| Restoran Lee's signature dish - Carnation milk crab |
Restoran Lee serves crab in many different ways. However, the towkay neo is sure to recommend her signature dish - the carnation milk crab. Since we were there we thought we should try something new and different instead of the usual steamed or BBQ crab (my fave) or pepper crab.
To be honest, I didn't like my crab cooked in milk. The taste of the carnation milk was, in my opinion, too lemak and overpowering. It completely drowned the flavour of the spices and other ingredients used in the dish. The end result of which was none too satisfactory, at least for me. Fortunately, the crab was fresh and meaty.
Anyway, I still walked out of the restaurant a happy man since the other dishes were all good.
Let me start with the Black Pepper Spare-ribs. They came, not in huge pieces, but in little bite-size morsels. Each morsel is coated in a rich dark sauce (which gladly wasn't too sweet) with a healthy amount of black pepper. The taste was sublime to say the least.
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| Black pepper Spare-ribs |
For a Hakka like me, a good meal is incomplete without the wholesome tofu dish. And I must say that Restoran Lee's claypot tofu is one of the best I have tasted. The silken tofu is not sweetened like the ones available in our local supermarkets. The vegetables used in the dish are all very fresh. And the gravy in this claypot dish is not thick and starchy like the way that most cze char stalls in Singapore do it. Darling wife and I enjoyed this dish very much.
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| Claypot tofu |
The last dish we had was voted the best dish by the two ladies (darling wife and daughter-in-law San Kyi). A good vegetable dish can only be as good as the freshness of its raw ingredients. This statement holds true especially for the Ti Wang chye, a vegetable plant that is indigenous to Malaysia. The method of cooking was simple - it was stir-fried in oil and garlic. Yet it satisfied our taste buds far more than the complicated concoction that is their signature dish.
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| Stir-fried ti wang chye |
Restoran Lee
155 Jalan Bendahara (across the street from Bayview Hotel)
Melaka
Service: 6/10
Food: 7/10
Pricing: $-$$
Recommended dishes: Black Pepper spare-ribs, ti wang vegetables stir-fried in garlic, claypot tofu.
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