Two Chefs Eating Place

Recently I had read an article about the Top Zi Char Places in the west and Two Chefs Eating Place was listed. Having published on the strait times in previous years had also contributed some fame to this eating place.

Two Chefs Eating Place

Located next to commonwealth Food Centre and in the middle of the Commonwealth Neighbourhood Estate, it seems like their die hard fans will just join the queue no matter how long it is even during on a Friday evening. The sitting place was somehow a little unusual to me as we are dying at low lying area where the level of my table was equivalent to the level of the road. It was rare to dine in such environment anymore I thought. There were ample of parking lots, thus drivers need not have to worry.

Queues of Two Chefs Eating Place

As my visit falls within the Chinese New Year Season, the given menu was rather compact with few items under each categories and we had the menu turned over, it shows the set meal for large table dining.

Menu

 We were told to place the order before getting our table. We were at an advantage as we were only dining as a pair and smaller tables were readily available.

Environment

The dishes came pretty fast in consistent mode. The first that came to our table was the sliced fish with ginger and spring onion.

Fried Sliced Fish with Ginger & Spring Onion - $10

It's kind of disappointing when we received the dried scallop bean-curd dish. Shreds of scallops can be found in the sauce but was given sparingly. The Toufu was nothing unusual but more towards those prepacked ones from the supermarkets. To make things worse, the green peas that were given tasted extremely raw as though it was uncooked. Though crunchy but it filled the mouth packed full of raw greens taste.

Dried Scallop Beancurd - $10 (Small)

Nothing beats this old school plate of braised Yee Mee. It was flavourful especially with the rich black gravy that coated each strands of the Yee Mee with consistency. If you like KL Hokkien Mee, the taste was pretty close to one. I bet this plate of noodles will beat any neighbourhood Zi Char Stall hands down.

Yee Mee - $4 (Small)

The visit of Two Chefs is never complete without having their Butter Ribs. These sweet fried pork ribs were all covered with milk powder dusts and such concoction had complimented the dish quite well. It's unique and a definite must try.

Butter Ribs - $10 (Small)

I felt that Two Chefs Eating place is over-hyped. Their dishes were pretty average except the Butter Ribs that had given me the Wow Factor. But on the contrary, they are doing well by the look of the snaky queues line up at the 2nd image. Perhaps their style doesn't seems to fit my bill.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Two Chefs Eating Place 双厨菜馆
Location: Blk 116 Commonwealth Crescent #01-129, Singapore 140116
Tel: 6472 5361
Operating Hours: Mon: 5pm – 11.30pm, Tue to Sun: 11.45am–2.30pm, 5pm–11.30pm