Mouth Restaurant 地茂馆 (China Square Central)

Chanced upon this place a few months back as it was pretty new around my office. Had a group lunch there and this is the 2nd time dining here. The most impressionable dish I would have to say is the Beijing duck and the Buddha jumping over the wall with abalone.

So this time I tried the Peking duck set for 4 ppl. Honestly all was great except for the braised shark fin's with crab meat and fish maw. It was good still only that it was a little too watery for my liking. 

The Peking duck was really good. Beat places like yam cha, tong luk and some. But I guess it's still a bit lacking compared to the imperial Chinese restaurant at crowne plaza changi airport.

Ok back to this place, the dishes were tasty and of standard. Better than most Chinese restaurants like tung lok, chen fu ji and some. Pricing was not too bad, 128++ for 4 ppl. The cream of Mango with pomelo and sago for dessert was the icing on the cake. It was smooth and perfect. Not too sweet and it was frankly, splendid.

I would safely assume the rest of the dishes here would at least be of some standard, so will be popping by try the other sets as soon as next week prob for lunch.

A recommended place for Chinese cuisine and duck lovers! 

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At the birthday lunch at Mouth Restaurant at Chinatown, we didn’t sample the famoussalted egg yolk bun. Out of stock. And Justin Bieber sings, never say never. We didn’t want to rest until we ate it. So we made a quick call to the branch 5 minutes walk away, and reserved 8 buns!

When we got there, we all said, we should have eaten here! The decor is such much more contemporary and chic–White tables and chairs with red beams–than the Chinatown Point main branch although the main branch has an oldschool charm to it.

The service here is about 781 times better than the main branch. They greet you when they see you and when you leave. They pour the tea for you, as should any other Chinese restaurant. And even though we only had 8 buns, we still felt welcome by them.

The salted egg yolk buns! No wonder my friends insisted on coming. There are two kinds, the steamed and baked ones. The steamed ones are like tau sa bao kind, so we got the baked ones. The buns are fresh out of the oven! piping hot and steaming. The buns could only be well-rounded (like my hot a**) if it is hot; it would deflate when cooled. The golden bun consists of melted salted egg, all liquid, with sugared butter, which oozes with each bite. Sometimes it spurts too. The liquid has a viscous consistency and is sweet, kind of like melted butter with sugar on toasted bread. So original, and awesome!! I haven’t eaten anything like this before. Killer combination: salted egg yolk and sugared butter! It gets jelak and excessive with the last few bites, but it’s heaven for the first few bites. If I eat this and die of a stroke (a very likely scenario), it’s worth it! Die die must eat! Eat already can die.

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started off the meal with century egg & shredded pork congee ($4.20) and har gao ($4.40). these two were probably the most "common" dim sum we ordered! haha. the congee was smooth and tasty, albeit slightly salty. the har gao was absolutely delicious! i was really pleasantly surprised, because i'm usually not a great fan of prawns, but this prawn was really soft and succulent, super yummy! (:

the steamed xiao long bao with crab meat ($4.20) was a unique take on the typical xlb. i nibbled on the skin to puncture a small hole and the juicy goodness oozed out (: awesome!

the siew mai ($4.40) here comes with a whole prawn, and again the prawn was wonderfully succulent and fresh :D

the spicy vinegar sauce dumpling ($4.80) was probably my favourite dish because of the sauce! xD i love anything with VINEGAR haha. and the meat inside was wonderfully soft and tasty!

we got cheated by the Mouth's pan fried har gao ($5.20)! it turned out to be deep fried :( but it was tasty and i loved the sweet & spicy sauce that came with it!

a completely unexpected dish was the pan fried rice roll with X.O. sauce ($6). i thought it would be something like the normal chee cheong fun but it turned out looking like fried kway teow! haha. but the X.O. sauce gave this dish a really powerful kick that added lots of flavour :D

the pan-fried carrot cake ($3.40) was just normal. i guess after trying so many interesting dishes, it would take much more to impress me.

the restaurant also has an extensive menu of ala carte dishes, other than the dim sum. i think i'll probably have to make a trip back here again sometime to try out the other dishes! :D the only two dishes we ordered this time were the stewed spicy sakura chicken in chinese wine claypot and a cod belly dish whose name i can't remember. the chicken was tasty with a fragrant sauce and i loved the grilled garlic in it!! the cod dish was absolutely wonderful :D it came chock full of ingredients besides the fish such as pork belly and tofu which were both yummy, but the soft, succulent fish was definitely the main attraction (:

and we really couldn't resist dessert while we were here (: not with the staff taking the time to convince us of the goodness of this special dessert, the cream of purple potato ($4). it is organic sweet potato with the skin removed, blended to a puree, combined with some "special ingredient" (which i think is water chestnut) and served. it's supposed to be good for the complexion! it was like a wonderful drink which was really yummy!

the presentation of the oh nee ($5.50) and chilled pomelo sago with mango ($4.50) were really pretty!! they came in little glass pots with dry ice. so cute! (:

i rated the ambience slightly low because we were assigned pretty lousy cramped seats (we tried to change seats, but there was not much difference). but what i appreciated at this restaurant was the good service at the end, where one of the staff (i assume it's some manager) came out to talk to us and tell us about the desserts, and after that asked us how our meal was. good service always goes a long way! :D