Mouth Restaurant 地茂馆 (Toa Payoh)

Got a promo voucher from one of the credit cards. Visited the place last weekend.

Very crowded.

Don't visit the place during weekend - last order for the Dim Sum promo is 11.30am (the captain will tell you "no more dim sum")

Dim Sums (siew mai, chicken feet, beancurd roll) are pretty good compare to Fortunate restaurant.

Century egg porridge - avoid ordering this (kind of saltish)

Deep fried carrot cake - cold when serve

Glutinous rice - kind of watery (maybe over-steam with the lotus leaf)

We just went for morning Dim Sum using OCBC 50% voucher last weekend. They have a decent list of items on 50% except for popular items like Deep fry banana with prawn fritters and century egg porridge.

Other than Deep Fry Banana with prawn fritters, there was not a time wehn we can go "wow" for any of the dishes. Other dishes were common and standard.

A ptiy really because we had liked the dishes when we had dinner there (previously).

Amount spent included items on non 50% discount and the usual charges on pickles, tea and wet tissues.

The Mouth Restaurant at Safra Toa Payoh is one restaurant that chooses to surprise and delight its customers with its reinvention of traditional Cantonese fare.

DBS is currently having a one-for-one set menu promotion at Mouth. At $49.80 and with the quality and range of dishes provided, it comes highly recommended as a great value for money meal. The set meal began with a bowl of thick and tasty chicken soup which was full of chicken, black fungus and mushrooms. It came with a side of crunchy crackers that added an addictive texture when added to the soup.

The dimsum appetizers comprised the usual siew mai, ha kao and spring roll. But take the first bite and you find out quickly enough that this is no ordinary coffee shop fare.

The Cui Pi Ji was next to arrive ($13 for half a chicken). This was an additional item we ordered. Not too bad, but I found the chicken a tad too dry. The best I've tried so far is the one at Hua Ting at Ochard Hotel.

We were pleasantly surprised with the Fish in Cream Sauce. Served over a bowl of dry ice, the rich cream sauce was a perfect balance to the lightly salted fish.

I was just wondering if the set came with any rice or noodles when the next dish arrived. It was called Chicken with Pasta and to our surprise, we realised that it was carrot cake generously covered with a savoury mushrooms and chicken pasta sauce. The melt-in-your-mouth carrot cake with its fried, crunchy outer skin was such a innovative substitute to the usual carbo fillers.

Dessert was Yam Ice-cream with Gula Melaka Sauce. Wonderful! The gula melaka gave a delightful kick to the lemak ice-cream.

I couldn't resist ordering the Durian Glutinous Rice Balls ($4). And was I glad I did! The soft skin yielded a rich filling of cold, rich-tasting durian. A fantastic end for a durian lover like me