Went last Saturday with my wife to celebrate her birthday. Atmosphere nice (as restaurant was very empty) so good for a romantic night out. Food good but overpriced. Portions tiny (e.g., the very good chicken had only 4! pieces, making the relatively cheap looking price of SGD 16 or 18 much more expensive if you consider how little food you get for your money). Service good (pretty fast) but not adequate for the prices (e.g., 2 of the waiters didn't speak English and had to refer us to their colleagues for even the most simple requests, my second glass of red wine was served chilled, not on room temperature as the first one). I spent 213 SGD (after the Amex promotion) incl. 3 glasses of (very good) house wine. Overall not horrible but will look out for other restaurants that offer better value for money.

My Humble House is a culinary contradiction, in that its name in no way reflects the quality of food served. No peasant hoi polloi fare, this. Nor prices, for that matter.

Food: This was another business lunch, so we went for the no-brainer set lunch menu. Think we were all quite busy talking shop so no one really recalled the names, just every dish being really really good. Had the dim sum trio, a delicious consomme (forgot), cod fillet in Assam sauce, the amazing chicken rice and dessert (also forgot).

Service: Quite good. Nice outfits!

Ambience. Chic, classy chinoiserie. Modern jazz invocative of Shanghai perfect compliment to design and decor.

I would so go back.

This is my CNY lunch from boss - 开工饭啦. So the team picked this place with the intention to slaughter his wallet, but he's fine so we r fine too. =)

Most tables had the CNY set lunch and its vibrant on a weekday lunch hour. I am not sure which set I had, maybe its the $169++...

The first dish is Yu Sheng with lobster meat. Instead of fresh salmon (maybe too common) and to display fine dining so raw lobster is chosen. But hor.. too little meat leh! Didn't feel like eating any lobster and I am not the only one commenting, my manager too. And the plate to serve the lobster (seen in picture) has alot of fingerprints on the plate...duh?!
Anyway each of us had a long pair of chopsticks meant to toss the Yu Sheng so this is quite thoughtful. At least your fingers wont feel sticky after that...

Then the second dish...served 20 mins after the Yu Sheng (in the meantime I drank alot of tea) It is shark fins soup. Very good, nourishing. The soup should be boiled for hours and there's a little aroma of chinese herbs, the small red dates.

Third dish should be beef. Very small piece in a big white plate (isn't this what fine dining is all about?). I could have poke my fork on the beef and stuff the whole piece into my mouth but you know, "fine dining" so it has to be cut into tiny pieces and ate as if it is a big piece. Tasty and tender lah, I like the sauce. Has a sense of sourness...

Then comes the abalone. Wa..again small piece. Somehow the boss don't enjoy this delicacy and me being the youngest, I was given his abalone! Haha thank you ah. Usual abalone taste lor so nothing much to comment. Maybe go Ah-Yi better...

I think the next dish is fried rice (picture not featured because limited upload). The serving bowl is those olden days ceramic bowl with a chicken picture so quite unique. The quantity of the rice is OK for a 5th dish but if this is a 1st dish then definitely too little. Fried rice had dried scallop and crabmeat, I think it has little taste so I added alot of chilli sauce =_=

Last dish is dessert - Bird nest in young coconut. Wa this is good. It is served with dry ice so the visual effect makes it appetizing and unique. You think served in dry ice means cold dessert? Nope! This is a hot dessert leh..the bird nest is warm one and quite sweet but I like it.

I think overall is about $1500 and for every $100 spent gets a $10 voucher (I think lah because I sat far away from boss). Yeah the chairs are very high but I think this is for privacy... hard to push away if you need to visit the washroom too often.

Came here last night for a quick dinner b4 a musical. Service was good, I asked them to make sure that we will be on time for our 8pm show and they said ok and indeed managed to serve faster. We started at 6.50pm and ended at 7.50pm. A little rush but ok.

We ordered 2 set dinners with some fancy name about the sky being blue. Ambeince still the same as last time, quite nice and fanciful esp the high chairs. Waitresses have nice sexy (not too sexy though) dresses which expose the midriff. But got to be careful,. i spotted 1 or two who have tummys. so that looks quite bad.

Anyway , food.

1) scallops lightly grilled with some cream based radish sauce. quite nice, small portions but ok. Fresh. Not spectacular though.

2) soup. We had a seafood sweet sour one instead of the prescribed sharks fin since we have decided not to eat it. Interesting, initially the waiter actually said may need to charge more. I told him point blank shark fin obvisouly costs more, are you sure you want to charge more. He took the hint pretty well.

Anyway, the soup was a little too sour. Otherwise quite good. Seafood fresh.

3) Kurabuto pork. Quite ok but it tastes just like normal pork ribs. Decent flavour but again just competent.

4) Some melon thingy with crab roe. Sweet and bland.

5) Chicken rice rolled in ball and lightly fried. This one quite good and unique. Only thing is that we know Swee Kee does the chicken rice ball thingy. So while it was flavourful and yummy as a local I kind of felt like chef copy a kopitiam like that....

6) Coconut icecream dessert with deep fried water chest nut jello thingy. Very GOOD. This one complements really well and is unique enough for a jaded palate. Lucky for them it was dessert, so my overall impression went up alot. Wife loved it too.

Cost was S$165 for 2 pax. No wine.

It was my wife's birthday and decided to treat her to My Humble House.

The 2007 Restaurant magazine placed My Humble House at 94th position (out of a 100). The list is compiled by The Nespresso World's 50 Best Academy, a group of prominent food writers, critics, publishers and commentators, who each represent a different global region and chair a carefully selected voting panel for that region. This ensures a truly authoritative list and one which is becoming more and more globally representative each year.

But.... the basis for its selection remains to be uncovered. Out of a list of 100, Singapore has 3. Iggy's (No. 60), Les Amis (No. 83) and My Humble House (No. 94).

While I have yet to try Iggy's and Les Amis... my impression of My Humble House......... not impressed. I have had the luck to try some of the other restaurants within the list such as Hakkasan (No. 19), St. John (No. 34), Chez Panisse (No. 40) and River Cafe (No. 44). I tell you that these restaurants really deserve the space in the list. Hakkasan shares the same concept as My Humble House but the dishes were still very much chinese (with a fusion twist) and ensures that your stomach is filled at the end of the night. We spent $200+ at My Humble House and came out wondering what flavour of instant noodles should we have when we reach home. Food-wise, we found most of the dishes a tad too oily and can definitely do better in the taste department.

I guess if its chinese food that you're after, there's better restaurants to spend your dollar.