Lokkee - 11th Sep 2017
If you are in Plaza Singapura, you may like to check out
this fun Chinese restaurant called Lokkee. Why I say fun? Besides the comic
artwork on the walls, the place settings includes a packet of wet towel that
looks very much like a famous brand of condom. There is also a saying on a menu
that a wise man once said, “man with one chopstick go hungry”. Thankfully we
didn’t experience this!
For starters, we had the fish skin coated with salted egg
and garlic. This came out freshly fried and it was so good. I mean fried fish
skin alone is good but coat it with salted egg and it is on another planet
altogether! For the dishes, we mainly stuck to the recommended dishes which
included, mapo tofu. The tofu comes our plain in its own bowl and the waitress
proceeds to pour the mapo sauce on it. You have a choice of beef or pork mince
and we went with beef. The slightly spicy and numbing sauce was delicious
especially on the freshly made beancurd that was smooth and light.
Fried Fish Skin with Salted Egg
I had to decide between the flaming pineapple beef and the
Mongolian beef. I went with the Mongolian beef as I figured the strips of angus
beef fillet would be more tender for my children. And tender it was with a
savoury sweet sauce that went very well with the beef and with rice. This came
with lots of onions and scallions. Another meat dish however this time for the
adults was the firecracker chicken nest. This is delicious pieces of chicken
seasoned, coated with flour and deep fried. It is served with lots of dried
chillis and Szechuan pepper for the flavour. Thankfully they do not go
overboard with the Szechuan peppers but just enough to get the flavour and a slight
hit. There are four egg yolks served with the dish which actually turn out to
be palette cooling mango puree in spheres. We also shared a serving of half
Irish duck. This normally very fatty duck is well cooked so that most of the
fat has melted off but yet remains moist, tasty with a nice skin.
Szechuan chicken with mango puree
Irish roast duck
We had a serving of the stir-fried kale. This superfood was
given the Chinese style of stir frying with chopped garlic and a light sauce.
Simple but a good change from the usual kai lan or dou miao (pea shoots). The
X.O. sauce crab meat fried rice was a winner. The super tasty fried rice had
shreds of crab meat, egg and spring onion. The x.o. sauce went very well with
the fried rice without being too overpowering. We also had the chow mien which
was noodles stir-fried with chicken and mixed vegetables and served in a
typical Chinese takeaway box that you see mostly in Western countries. The
beauty about serving in this box was that it retained the heat of the noodles
very well.
Chow Mien in a takeaway box
Fried rice
The dishes at Lokkee may seem a little bit cliché and
typical of Chinese restaurant in western countries. However the dishes are
executed well and the taste was very agreeable with the whole family. The price
point was also good especially for the quality of ingredients. The best part
though (more for my kids) was that we all got a fortune cookie at the end of
dinner, something you hardly see of nowadays in Singapore.
