Someone got me a voucher for two to Tom Yam Goong for my birthday, and so I headed down to Bedok for dinner on Thursday with a friend. Bedok is such a food haven, with all the halal stalls out in the open. Price good, food good. The only thing you need is time to travel down there :)
Made reservations for 7pm and we reached early. But we didn't wanna go in first because I was fasting.
Exterior of the shop
There were about 26 dishes on the menu, of which, there were 6 dishes that you could only order once. So here are the 6 'special' dishes. Btw, you can have your choice of Steamed Rice or Pineapple fried rice if you want.
1. Tom Yum Soup (prawns)
Love the fresh prawns! Be warned though, that this is thick and authentic tom yum, and is very spicy!
2. Seafood with Basil leaves
This was quite unsatisfying. The term seafood with basil leaves implies that seafood is the main thing of the dish, but there was actually more vege in the dish! Still yummy, though, if you could ignore the misleading fact.
3. Stuffed chicken wing
Oooooooooh this is yummy! They stuffed the chicken with.....chicken? I think... But it was yummy, really. The outside is grilled and goes well with the inside. Do ignore the weird shape of the chicken though.
4. Pandan chicken
Unwrapped pandan chicken
I can honestly say that I've tasted better pandan chicken, but the taste wasn't bad. Still, I did expect something bigger. Look at the piece to the left. I ate it all up at a go.
5. Thai Chicken Satay
I know you can't see it, but this was actually on satay sticks, hence the name. Hmm, it was slightly sweet. Not unpleasantly sweet, mind you. Just a tang of sweetness plus some other flavours.
6. Prawns with garlic
Lol yes, the portion served were rather small. Tastes good though! I just realised that apart from the Tom Yum soup, these are all non-spicy. Most of the other dishes here were spicy, and my poor friend couldn't take spicy food!
The rest of the food listed below are the other dishes in the buffet that could be ordered twice. And they were definitely spicy!
Mango Salad
THIS IS YUMS. It's like an explosion of flavours in my mouth. Sweet and spicy!
Spring roll
Just like any normal spring roll. Delivered nice and hot though! One of the non-spicy stuff.
Chicken with cashew nuts
I love the cashew nuts added. It adds in a new flavour altogether. The chicken meat was tender and yay no bones. My friend said that this was spicy, I didn't find it so.
Penang Curry chicken
Oooh! Yumz really! :D For some reason though, the chicken were rather...flat. As in, literally flat like ayam penyet.
Anyway! Tom Yam Goong charges for wastage of food. But the tom yam soup was too spicy to drink up. So we didn't finish it. The tom yam soup was the first dish to come out, and one of the last dishes to be collected. They collected all our empty plates but refused to take that way. So at last I took out the spoons and put it on the other empty plates to hint that we were done.
Also, the service of the staff were rather lacking. We got free flow of drinks from the buffet. But they took a long time to refill our lemon tea. So my friend was dying from spiciness half the time. I know that they're busy serving us and other people food. But a more efficient system could have been set up.
Minced chicken with basil leaves
This tastes like chicken with soya sauce plus cili padi. Spicy.
Fish fillet with 3-flavour sauce
Just a typical fried fish fillet with sweet chili on top.
By the end of all this, we were so full that we only ordered one desset, which is Red Ruby. Apart from that, the buffet also offers fresh fruits and tapioca with some sweet sauce on top of it.
Yup that's the end of my dinner on Thursday! We spent 1 1/2 hours eating there haha! The food service was fast and good. The waitresses needed to be talked to slowly, I repeated my order about three times everytime. And the service for drinks were bad.
If you're a big eater, coming here would be quite worth it because you have quite a lot of dishes that you can order more than once. However, if you can't eat spicy food, and not much of a big eater, then perhaps trying out their set meals would be a smarter choice :D
Buffet cost: $18 per pax
Where: 351 Bedok Road
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