Friday, September 26, 2008
Well, with this, the official food review blog by yours truly, the gerald, is officially launched.
The first place I'm going to talk about, is going to be Dracula Romanian Food. With the name itself, you would probably envision in your mind a dark scary castle atmosphere type restaurant, I know I did. But it was not to be. Maybe the image stuck in my mind hindered me from properly looking for this place, and I had to comb the area before I found it, tucked away in what seemed like just another of those normal kopitiams.
The prices of the food is relatively decent. We ordered the Romanian steak ($10) and the Romanian sour meatbal soup ($4).
I was relatively disappointed with the soup. I expected a soup bursting with flavours, sort of like the Tokyo chicken stew from soup spoon, which happens to be one of my favourite joints. But more on that some other time. The soup came with a few large chunks of meatballs, potatoes and carrots. The soup didn't pack any of that punch I would have expected, and to be honest was kind of bland. The meatball, despite it being big, isn't big on flavour. Grains of rice were inside the meatball to make it that big. With four slices of bread accompanying the soup, along with the large meatballs and the potatoes in the soup, this just makes me think of some poor Romanian family having this soup for dinner. Not something I'll recommend you to order.
The romanian cheese steak was next. An average sized steak, with the cheese sauce and sauteed mushrooms on top, accompanied by two slices of bread with a spread that looks like cooked onions of some form and a salad with, potatoes and olives amongst others. With the bread, and the potatoes again, it seems like they refuse to let you leave hungry. The steak was decent. I personally liked the mushrooms on top. They have a smoked taste and I felt went really well with the steak. I didn't like the bread though. Maybe it was my Singaporean instinct where bread should always go with kaya, but the cold foul smelling spread did not appeal to me. It's hard to describe, but I doubt it's a taste many Singaporeans will like. The potato salad was ok, nothing special. Overall a decent dish, and I think the steak alone would have been worth that money.
I left feeling very full, but not really very satisfied. I wouldn't recommend it to just anybody. You have to be adventourous about your food to like what's being offered at this place.
P.S Future reviews shall come with photos. I forgot to take some!
Posted by Gerald at 9:27 AM