Address: 301 Upper Thomson Road, #01-88 Thomson Plaza, Singapore 574408
Tel: 6451 3233
Fax: 6451 0509

Peach Garden is now my Granny’s favourite Chinese restaurant. She declared this while picking at the food at Kippo (the Tung Lok ala carte buffet place at the Keppel Club) the other day. But that’s another story.

Anyway, I wasn’t there when the filial brood treated Granny dearest to Peach Garden. So, of course, I had to check the place out for myself.

The original outlet is at Novena Gardens, but we went to the one at Thomson Plaza instead.

It wasn’t very crowded. In fact, the entire Thomson Plaza wasn’t very crowded.

Gone are the days when Thomson Plaza was the place to be, with Yaohan, Yamaha, Swensen’s, KFC and assorted places of wholesome family fun all concentrated therein (was that really 20 years ago? Am I growing old … should I wear the bottom of my trousers rolled? That sounds familiar…).

Anyway, half-baked literary references aside (sorry, Mr Eliot), we started with an opening platter of roast pork and wasabi prawns (S$10). This was upon the recommendation of our very friendly waitress (since we couldn’t decide between wasabi prawns and roast meat and she was getting tired of hovering over us with her pen and paper).

I’m not a fan of roast pork, but this was absolutely delicious. The skin was crisp and crunchy and the pork had a perfect balance of glistening fat and tender meat. When dipped lightly into the sharp-tasting accompanying mustard, the explosion of taste and texture was heavenly!

The wasabi prawns did not pale in comparison. The prawns were large and crunchy and came smothered in wasabi-flavoured mayonnnaise and garnished with a sprinkling of salty fish roe.

The next dish was the eggplant with pork floss (S$6). It was pretty decent and passed off as our token vegetable intake for the meal. The crispy batter complemented the softness of the eggplant (which was, needless to say, completely devoid of healthy vitamins, phytonutrients and what-not by now). And, of course, what’s not to like about pork floss?

I also ordered my comfort-soup - Szechuan Hot and Sour Soup (S$6). It was piquant, sour and spicy and lived up to its name.

Finally, we had the pan-fried venison with fried enoki mushrooms (S$8). Again, this was good. The venison was moist and tender. The gamey taste which venison often has was also masked by the savoury brown sauce.

My conclusion? My Grandmother - what a lady…what discerning taste buds (even with almost no teeth). Grandmother truly knows best!