Pinoy in Singapore

Salted Fish Fried Rice

Mixed Vegetables

Black Pepper Crab

Since we’ve been here, our place has been like a bed and breakfast for relatives and friends visiting Singapore. We’ve had guests every month, and some months guests arrive by the week.

During the first few months, we treated our guests to Chinese restaurants like No signboard Seafood Restaurant or Jumbo Seafood Restaurant both or which are okay but we eventually found it to be very expensive if we wanted to treat everyone who were visitung us there. We’d spend more than a S$100 easy on our usual order - cereal prawns, white/black pepper crab, seafood fried rice etc.

But now we bring our guests to a new place we discovered which is very much cheaper, much more delicious, and it has got a more “exciting” ambiance.

Bayshore Delicious seafood used to be located at the now-being-demolished-as-we-speak/write Jackson Hawker Centre along Macpherson Road. Since Jackson Centre’s been condemned, they’ve moved to the adjacent building which make them now nearer to Upper Serangoon Road (parallel to Macpherson).

The auntie who mans the place already know us because we bring our guests to her place to eat. Auntie also probably remembers us well because she refused to sell me black pepper crab a few months back after noticing that I just had chicken pox (yup, after all these years I had to get it when we moved to Singapore). It’s a chinese belief that people who just had chicken pox shouldn’t eat dark food for six months otherwise the marks will get darker. Instead, she recommended that I just eat porridge and drink barley for the next six months which would probably have driven me crazy.

All of the guests we bring there to eat are much more satisfied than the guests we bring to Jumbo Seafood whose service, based on our last 2 visits, sucked big time. Plus you get to try more food for much less! Also, their black pepper crab tastes different from the pepper crab of Jumbo Seafood and No Signboard.

My food recommendation: Salted fish fried rice, black pepper crab, crispy baby squid, cereal prawn, and baby kailan to counter all the bad for-your-health-but-good-for-your-taste-buds stuff that chinese food comes with.