Ever since my classmates raved about how great manhattan fish market was, I’ve been dying to try it!
So my parents and I went to dine at the branch in Bishan Junction 8 (Northpoint is opening one soon!)
Now the branch at bishan is quite small and the design rather odd because my parents and I couldn’t differentiate the front of the store and the back of the store. We ended up waiting at the back of the store but was redirected, walking directly through the store, to the front of the store. Sounds complicated?
Trust me, I was half lost in the process!
Because there weren’t seats available, unless we sat outside, my parents and I decided to wait.
Here is where I have to commend them on their SERVICE! While we stood there waiting, they served us free drinks in these mini plastic cups to ensure that we could sort of quench our thirst while waiting.
And this was greatly appreciated by us.
Anyway, we decided on our orders before entering!
We ordered the set meals which would come with a soup of the day and a drink (either peach tea, lemon tea or blah blah blah can’t remember)
Soup of the day!
I can’t remember the name of the soup but I expected it was one those mushroom soups that taste pretty much like Campbell. So I got a shock when I stirred the soup and found SOTONG!!
Though I’m not a big fan of sotong, I have to say that the soup already impressed me because it shows that they aren’t stingy with their ingredients. The sotong was not fresh enough though, kind of like those frozen seafood.
Another proof that they aren’t stingy in the slightest…
GIANT CUPS OF LEMON TEA!
Or peach tea or whatever drink you order! The cup is seriously huge, I mean just drinking that whole cup of drink and you would be full.
So anyway, our main courses arrived soon after!
Seafood Gumbo
Garlic Rice and Bread
For the seafood gumbo, you can choose either garlic rice or chips and we went for the garlic rice.
BEST DISH OF THE DAY! The only right decision we made that day actually!
It costs I think SG$11.90. And the sauce is really cheesy to me and tastes really good with the rice. It comes with prawn, squid, fish, carrots and brocolli!
The ingredients given are alot and I think the sauce really wins anyone over. Coupled with the really extremely fragrant rice, its really the best dish!
Manhattan Fish and Chips
Garlic, mayonaise and chilli sauce
The fish and chips were simple a disappointment! It tasted pretty much like the fish and chips from fish and co.
Which sucks.
I mean the batter is pretty average and the fish has this fishy taste which I hate. I know they use dory fish but then they can’t get rid of that really strong fishy taste.
Though the serving is really huge, in this case it worked against it. Being really huge, it was one big pain in the butt trying to finish the fish and chips.
But its quite cheap at SG$9.90. But it sucks.
Seafood linguine
Can’t really remember the name but I know it costs SG$14.90.
It was pretty average?
Its personally my first time eating linguine and so I have rather high expectations for it, expecting it to be really flavourful and all that.
But for this one, the taste was kind of flat. All of the ingredients were just lightly seasoned with pepper and sort of grilled. I only enjoyed the prawns which were really fresh. But then I enjoyed it because I love its natural flavour.
The portion of the food was good, very filling. But the taste of the food fell pretty flat. Eating the linguine after awhile was like eating plain porridge or something. The taste simply wasn’t exciting enough!
So in conclusion…
THE SEAFOOD GUMBO ROCKS!
Though it doesn’t come with soup of the day but its really the best! And the rice is overthetop nice!
So yea, I would recommend going to the fish mart but please don’t eat the fish and chips! It sucked! and don’t go to fish and co to eat the fish either!
Eat the seafood gumbo or the flaming prawns! It will rock your world! (:
