Based on my colleague, "The Food Guru's" recommendation, we decided to have a simple lunch at this establishment nearby our office.

Not feeling too hungry, we ordered the a beef, chicken and vegetable dish. Starting with the asam beef, it is not something I would recommend as the beef tasted liked it had gone through some serious rounds of tenderisation and the asam flavours was too light with quite a strong "lemak" finish.

The prawn paste chicken ("har chiong kai") came as expected, nothing much to shout about.

I did however, enjoy the pea shoots (dou miao) which had a strong garlic flavour to the crunchy vegetable.

Overall, I found the food to be okay. The place has more than twenty years of history and has earned its share of followers. Service staff were friendly and helpful.

Fatty's is across the pedestrian street from Sim Lim Square - a notorious place for rip-offs. It seems ol' Fatty himself has been taking lessons from the cowboys there.

Ordered up two main courses to share - firstly, the medium assorted vegetables ($8) was very nice and full of a bunch of different vegetables (to be expected I suppose). Secondly, got the fried kway teow with seafood and gravy ($8) which was pretty spectacular. Picked up a Tiger ($6.40/ lg bottle) and were in and out of there in 30 minutes.

Got the bill, and there is a surcharge for the towels (60c). We didn't use the towels, so I have no idea why they added it to the bill. It is a shame, because this sort of penny pinching just sucks, and where I would have thought about returning to this place - I think I will try something else. If the manager ever reads this, please stop being a cheap bastard and charging for standard dining items.

Salmonella was the outcome.