Chao Shan Cuisine 潮山林 @ 17 Phillip Street

Chaoshan 潮山 cuisine is similar to Teochew cuisine, which in turn bears similarity with Fujian cuisine. The restaurant Chao Shan Cuisine is located near Raffles Place MRT and according to Google Map, is about 5 minutes walk away. 

Chao Shan Cuisine restaurant entrance

The noticeable landmark opposite the restaurant, is the Yueh Hai Ching Temple.

Yueh Hai Ching Temple

Seems like the place is popular for cold crabs but unfortunately, it wasn't available on our day of visit. The restaurant seemed popular as the place filled up rather quickly by 730pm. 

interior

cockles 螄蚶

liver roll 肝卷

The cockles sauce was tasty but it was of a smaller morsel. Less shiok. The liver roll was nicely moist and flavourful. No funky taste.

lala 啦啦

The stir fried lala was good too and we were happy with the appetiser. I spied that the other tables had ordered red wine. A peek into their menu revealed that the bottle price was reasonable but we didn't have any.

We made sure to order their braised goose since they didn't have the cold crabs. Very rare to see goose on the menu in Singapore, I think.

braised goose 卤水鹅片

The portion served for the braised goose for a table of 8 pax, seemed rather small. I think ours was defaulted to medium size for all the plates. Goose slice was alright but it didn't have that distinctive goose taste. If you don't say, I'd think it was duck meat except for the thicker layer of fats on its skin.

pork slices in garlic 蒜泥白肉

If you're not a vampire and able to take pork, then the suan ni bai rou (蒜泥白肉) dish may well be a favourite. Lots of minced garlic!

Another definitive Teochew dish, would be the oyster omelette or orh lua. 

orh lua 蠔烙

close up view

Most of the dishes that we ordered seemed to be those that we eat for fun (吃爽) hence, able to order more.

chives with scallops

After having 4 appetisers and 2 mains, we decided we could do another poultry dish and that was the Chestnut Chicken which was added after we've eaten the first 6 dishes.

Chestnut Chicken

Oooh, I like the Chestnut Chicken especially that skin. Its flesh was also well braised, yummy and soft. Plenty of chestnuts to go around too. If we weren't full before, we were definitely there by this dish.

Most disappointing, was the fried noodles. Probably because of the 'kee' or alkaline taste from the noodles.

fried noodles (portioned out)

However, we made the right decision to order dessert. When talking about Teochew cuisine, one can't help but to also try the orh nee (taro paste). We had the one with pumpkin but didn't expect that the pumpkin wasn't melded into the paste, but was just sitting prettily ontop of the glistening taro paste.

orh nee 芋泥

The version here is not shy from sweetness and am satisfied by the dessert. 

Overall, the food had a down to earth kind of feels, and the place seemed to be popular with their regulars. Must order would be the liver roll, chestnut chicken and orh nee.

Chao Shan Cuisine 潮山林

Address: 17 Phillip Street #01-01/02 Grand Building, 048695

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chao-Shan-Cuisine-at-Philip-Street/1846079735621931

Contact:  6336 2390

Business Hours:

Sun - Fri: 11:30am–2pm, 5:30–10pm

Sat: 11:30am–2pm, 5:30–8pm