Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road – Outram, Singapore

Tang Restaurant And Bar located along the highly dense street of restaurants and eateries is owned by Zoe Zhang. It was re-branded from Tang Steamboat Restaurant. The restaurant specialises in Szechuan Hot Pot.

 

We understand from them that the objective of creating this restaurant was to provide a more refined Szechuan Hot Pot where the expat and foreigners would enjoy.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Interior

 

With that objective in mind, you will observed that the interior design of Tang Restaurant and Bar is classy and elegant. The space isn’t big, in fact, I would describe it as relatively tiny. It could occupied only a maximum of 40 diners.

The space is divded into 2 section. First section, at the entrance is the bar where diners could enjoy a glass of wine or any drink before or after the meal with some bar snack such as the Deep Fried Enoki Mushroom.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Deep Fried Enoki Mushroom

 

The latter section is the dinning area where diners get to enjoy the piping hot pot. Tang Restaurant and Bar is also thought to provide private dining rooms for guests too. There are 2 rooms which has a removal centre partition to make it one big room that can occupy a total of 14 diners.

 

 

The Hot Pot

 

It was certainly an experience to dine at Tang Restaurant And Bar. I felt the experience is equivalent to fine dining. The service crew will dish you the first bowl of soup before you start the meal. And all food will be cooked by the service crew too.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - First bowl of Soup

 

There are about 3 soup based served at the Tang Restaurant And Bar. We have the Mala and Signature Golden Imperial Broth. Beside these, there were Tomato Soup which is also very popular among their regular guests. Diners could choose 2 out of the 3 soups for $21.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Signature Golden Mala & Imperial Broth (S$10)

 

The Signature Golden Imperial Broth was boiled for more than 8 hours with Pig’s bones, Fish bone, Old Hen and together with over 10 herbs till it is whitish in colour. The Mala soup is also worth a mentioned. The ingredients used to boil the Mala Soup was in consultation with traditional Chinese Physician to ensure that all herbs and spices are in the perfect harmony by Chef Zou Bin who helmed the kitchen of Tang Restaurant And Bar. This avoids having excessive heat, diarrhea, stomach pain and other ailments after having spicy soup especially in huge amount. Importantly, the soup are free of MSG.

 

The soup are generally light in flavour so if you have a light palate, this is perfect for you. I truly enjoyed the soup at the end when lots of ingredients wer cooked in it and it created even a sweeter and richer flavour tone.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Sliced Fish ($22 for 12 slices)

 

We started off with the Translucent Sliced Fish ($22), since fish has a lighter taste among the rest of the ingredients we ordered.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Sliced Fish Cooked in Signature Broth

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Sliced Fish Cooked in Mala

 

The service crew will help to cook the sliced fish in both the Signature Broth and the Mala Soup. Though the sliced fish was so thin till it was translucent, nonetheless, I could still enjoy the flavour and texture of the fish.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Minced Seafood Paste

 

Various homemade minced meat paste were served at Tang Restaurant And Bar too. The noteworthy items were the Minced Seafood Paste, Minced Fishball and top selection the Homemade Meatballs. I enjoyed the meatball as in it there are cilantro to provide the herb fragrance and chestnut to provide the crunch texture.

All the minced meat paste were chewy to the bite. It was certainly excellent.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Minced Fishball

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Home-made Meatball

 

For meat selection, the Beef Sliced and the Iberico Pork Sliced are two of the must ordered hot pot ingredients.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Beef Sliced

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Iberico Pork

 

One other ingredients which all of us enjoyed so much till we ordered the second portion is the Homemade Dumpling. This dumpling is made using Zoe’s mother recipe. The dumpling skin was so smooth and in it there are some, I think were black fungus to provide the crunch. Should the dumpling skin be thinner, it would certainly be perfect.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Homemade Dumpling

 

Even though I am not a beancurd fan, I would want to miss having the Deep Fried Beancurd especially with the Mala Soup based.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Deep Fried Beancurd

 

Mushroom fans, great news, there are assorted variety of mushroom to go along with the hot pot.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Assorted Mushroom

 

For those like me who need greens, there are quite some good selections at Tang Restaurant And Bar too. There are Chinese Cabbage, Spinach, Lettuce and Kai Lan.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Chinese Cabbage

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - More Greens

 

If diners need to turn to some carbohydrates, a good recommendation is the Cold Noodle ($7). This version has lots of vinegar and lightly spice in it.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Cold Noodle ($7)

 

At the end of meal, a complimentary bowl of dessert, Snow Fungus was served to each guest.

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar at Keong Saik Road - Complimentary Dessert, Snow Fungus

 

We enjoyed the lightly sweet and a little jelly like texture of the dessert.

 

 

NAHMJ Verdict

 

After dinning at Tang Restaurant And Bar, NAHMJ felt it was a fabulous dinning experience. It is highly suitable for a small group dinning, perhaps with your best family or a small family of 4 – 5. It would be a little tough to settle for large group unless you opt for the private dinning room.

If you don’t like doing your own cooking of hot pot and preferred to be served, Tang Restaurant And Bar is the place to turn to.

 

 

 

Tang Restaurant And Bar

25 Keong Saik Road, Singapore 089132
Tel: +65 6222 7708 / 8727 5881

FBhttps://www.facebook.com/TangRestaurantBar/

 

Opening Hours:

 

Sunday – Wednesday  1200 to 1430, 1700 to 2330 (Last order 2200); Thursday – Saturday  1700 to 0000 (Last order 2300); Closed on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month

 

Getting There

 

By MRT:

  • Northeast Line, East West Line – Outram Park station

 

By Bus:

  • alight opp Blk 333 along Kreta Ayer Road   80, 145
  • alight before the Pinnacle @ Duxton along Neil Road   61, 166, 197
  • alight at Pearl’s Center along Eu Tong Seng   54, 124, 143, 147, 166, 190, 851, 970, CT8, CT18, CT28
  • alight opp Pearl’s Center along New Bridge Road   2, 12, 33, 54, 63, 124, 143, 147, 190, 851, 961, 961C, 970, CT8, CT18, CT28

 

Rating: 7/10