I can say that Jade Palace fulfills my expectations for good seafood, decent service and quite ok ambience.     The place is not extremely spacious like Summer Palace or Cherry Garden or even Li Bai, but one will not feel that one's own space being constantly invaded like in some resturants that I blacklisted for cramped spaces (Lei Garden, Imperial Treasure Ngee Ann City).     The fresh seafood is truly what makes this place worthwhile to go to (this place is called a Seafood Palace for a good reason).  A note: avoid non seafood items, like dim sum, especially the awful tasting century egg porridge (got to be one of the worst I had in restaurants) or fried vegetables, they are poorly executed, resulting in being bland, lacking in the inherent aroma.  Back to the seafood, the ingredients used are fresh, the presentation and the style of cooking are refreshing in the sense that the tastes of the dishes are relatively unique (not the same old dishes cooked in the exact same style that one can find in many other generic Chinese restaurants), yet very flavorful and pleasing to the tastebuds.  The Alaskan crab is a very beautiful dish, mainly in the taste department; the flesh is succulent and soaked with flavor. A big plus is that not only finger washing water was provided, plastic gloves are also provided so that patrons can enjoy the crab without dirtying the hands.  This is a very thoughtful gesture, making this restaurant, the number one place to go to if I want to enjoy eating crabs!

Why ? Well, corkage is free and the friendly male captains are happy to help you finish your bottle - always a good sign of a good restaurant !

What else other than a drinking session ? The seafood is fresh. Especially the fish.

In almost all other Chinese restaurants in Singapore, you can see the fish in the fish tanks. When you order a fish, most zombie captains will recommend the expensive and probably frozen one to you, or the particular fish they want to get rid of ASAP !

At Jade palace, when you order a fish, there is an uncle who would bring the live fish from the tank and show it you in a pail for approval before frying the fella. That is fresh fish. That is how you should order a fish in a restaurant.

Most diners under the age of 35 will not be able to discern the quality and freshness of fish. Remember when you were young - always rejecting fish from your mom ?

So go out and have great fun at this place: Noisy, crowded, good seafood and great fun !

We had a so-called Kurobuta pork char siew.

Said it's from Japan.

It was a complete lie.

The pork didn't even taste like good quality kurobuta from the states.

Let alone Japan.

And we had a scowling manageress attend to our table.

Corkage is free so that's handy.

Fortunately we were also waited on by a waitress Beth who's smart and great.

All 10 service points go to her.