Fried rice with crab meat @ Koufu (Sengkang East Avenue)
Since I started on the obsession of finding a great plate of mee goreng at local foodcourts, it’s been a while since I had a plate of fried rice when we eat out.
Still, it was too much to pass up a “Fried rice with crab meat” offering at the Koufu foodcourt the Saturday evening before the last. One commonly finds seafood fried rice sold at many foodcourts, but the only seafood thing about those offerings are the fishcake, prawn pieces, and crab sticks. But this one really looked like the real thing, and the high price tag of $6 suggested evidence. Even Ling upon one look at the plate when it came was mightily impressed with exclamations “wow real crab meat!”
After all the initial excitement and 10 minutes later with a cleaned out plate, I’ve got mixed feelings. The pluses: it was real crab meat fellas, and rice used tasted very high quality and each grain well cooked. Garnishings while not extravagant were at least consistent with what should go in with fried rice. I mean, some foodcourts put in bean sprouts and carrots into their recipe!
The minuses: I’m just not sure if the crab meat, aside from novelty, really added to the taste. Or, put in other words, this plate tasted slightly better than the usual fried rice fare and just a notch below the United Square foodcourt standard. And of course, there was the problem with the big price tag.
- Food: 7 / 10
- Value: 2 / 5
- Overall: 3 / 5. It looks good, tastes pretty alright. But at $6, this is just too expensive for me.
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