What attracted me to Tasty House was as we were walking out of another restaurant on the same street, there poured a bevy of suited men (office suits, not the hazmat kind) smiling, laughing and generally patting each other on the back for having had a wonderful dinner with great company. And I thought to myself that any restaurant that could elicit such joyful response from guys after a hard days' work battling office politics and still stuck in their monkey suits is worth a try!
We ordered the XO Pipis with Chinese Doughnut (for an additional $1). There were not many chinese doughnuts but what we had were crispy and tried their best to soak up the abundance of sauce at the bottom of the plate. I loved the pipis - they were plump but too bad that the sand had not been purged enough. I could still taste the grittiness of the sand in between mouthfuls. The sauce was fragrant, but it did not taste like the familiar XO sauce with the fragrance of dried shrimp and scallops.
Dry egg noodles with 2 roast combination - I chose roast duck and pork sausage combo. The roasted meats is the main drawcard for this restaurant. Given I do enjoy a good Cantonese roast duck, it was natural that I should order this dish. The meat was tender and well cooked. I just wish I was there when the ducks had just finished roasting.
The restaurant also serves the usual BBQ pork and roast pork, and there are other exciting dishes on the menu that I would have to come back for, like noodles with Singapore chilli prawns.
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