✍1 Dec 2021. I have been following Eastern House of Seafood since 2015 when they were in Chai Chee, then they moved to Geylang and now at the doorstep of Marymount MRT station. All these years, Eastern House of Seafood have the same kitchen crew, so our old familiar favourites are still there plus new items added to their thicker and thicker menu over time.
If you are coming by MRT, use exit B at Marymount station. Once you exit the station, look to your left and you will see MAPEX building at Jalan Peminpin across Bishan Street 21.
Eastern House of Seafood is at B1 of MAPEX building. You can see the entrance from street level.
Eastern House of Seafood's rendition of the Malaysian Bee Tai Mak (rat tail noodles) is so satisfying. The tender chewy noodles were smothered in a thick, heavy, robustly savoury umami sauce laced with lard. This is the best bee tai mak, I can find in Singapore 💪 (Price $12 for small serving.)
Nice Ter Kar Bee Hoon or rice vermicelli stir fried with braised pork trotter. The rice noodles were infused with lardy, savoury flavours from the sauce, pork, fat, skin and mushroom. I could also taste and smell the toasty presence of wok hei. (Price $12 for small serving.)
Eastern House of Seafood's signature Dry Roasted Sotong always hits the spot with robust savoury umami and toasty flavours on tender spongy squid meat. (Price $24 for small serving.)
Assam Fish Head, fresh fish in a mildly spicy sweet tangy curry (price $28).
When you are here, you have to try their Grilled Lamb Cutlet - it's amazing. Rich savoury and nice gamey flavours in the tender juicy meat which come off the bone easily. (Price $13 each, minimum order two pieces.)
This Tea Smoked Chicken blows my mind every time. The tender succulent chicken was deeply infused with savoury salty flavour with smokey tea taste and aroma. Simply amazing. $18 for half a bird - next time, if you are thinking of eating chicken rice, just swing over here for this to go with rice or noodles. It may change the way you eat chicken rice forever.
Homemade Tofu with Chai Poh. The thick slices of fried tofu set in a pool of savoury sauce and smothered with a blanket of fried chai poh. The fried tofu was soft-chewy outside and soft inside. The dish was a mix of savoury and sweet flavours. (Price $12 for small serving.)
Tempura Prawn with Si Ji Dou (French bean). I am not a fan of si ji dou (don't like its green taste). But, battered and fried the way they do at Eastern House of Seafood, I couldn't stop munching the crunchy "fries" 😂 (Price $16 for small serving.)
Qing Long Cai with Bean Sprout. Fresh greens and bean sprout simply stir fried. Well executed, so we get all the vegetable crunch, juice and sweet taste with added savoury flavours from sauce and oil. (Price $14 for small serving)
Another very satisfying visit to Eastern House of Seafood. No frills, just good zhi char with some special dishes, in a clean comfortable environment and all at competitive prices comparable to HDB coffee shops. I'll be back for my favourites and also try other dishes from the menu.
Scroll down to view the dishes we had during our previous two visits. All the dishes are still available in Eastern House of Seafood today 👇
Written by Tony Boey on 1 Dec 2021
✍9 Aug 2020. We met at Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies at Geylang Lor 23 for dinner. The zi char type dishes were delicious, ambiance was great, and the restaurant is less than 5 minutes slow walk from Aljunied MRT station.
Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies is at the ground level of this distinctive building. It has a large field in front and space for parking cars (free). I appreciate the spaciousness and evening breeze while eating here.
Dinner for 5 people - our BYO whisky and durian not in the picture. Also not in picture, grilled lamb chops from the friendly table next to us 😄 Thank you!
Perhaps because of the open spaces, Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy has a sort of kampung spirit and feel about it.
First dish. We were all blown away by Eastern House's Tea Smoked Chicken. The chicken meat was tender and juicy. It tasted savoury smokey sweet with an overlay of pu'er tea flavour and aroma. Even the breast meat was tender and moist. This is a Must Order dish at Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies.
Lobster Hokkien Mee.
The crustacean umami savoury, sweet stock, lardy and toasty wok hei flavours were in-depth. The freshly fried pork lard cracklings add crunch and more lardy flavours to the already flavourful dish. I love this.
KL style fried Hokkien Mee. Nice wok hei with well balanced savoury sweet lardy flavours. The KL imported tai lok meen had a nice tender, gummy bounciness to the bite. I enjoyed this though I have a reckless lust for saltier flavours and no holds barred lardiness in KL Hokkien mee.
Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies is good with noodle dishes.
Dry Roasted Sotong (squid). I remember this memorable dish from my first visit in 2015. The same savoury smokey flavour with underlying sweetness of fresh squid. It's done a little dryer than I remembered it but still tenderly chewy.
Black Pepper Crab. Live crab cooked with well balanced savoury sweet sauce overlaid with mild peppery heat and taste. It's nice.
Prawn Fritters. Tender and juicy sweet prawns wrapped in a crispy crumbly batter.
Broccoli with crispy fried enoki mushroom set on savoury vegetable stew.
Salted Egg Coated on Pumpkin & Bitter Gourd. Crispy rich savoury batter wrapping sweet vegetables. A nicer way to eat pumpkin and bitter gourd.
Eh...? I din taste the fried rice woh... . Should be nice lah, since nobody left anything for me 🤔 I shall come back to Eastern House for this as they do convenient one dish meal promotions for lunch.
Off menu, very nice savoury peppery juicy lamb chops with slight gaminess which I love. With thanks to the friendly folks at the table next to us 😃
We enjoyed our dinner at Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies. The ingredients are fresh or live. The flavours are well balanced and at the right intensity for me. Prices are competitive, especially with promotions. Environment is great for family gatherings. Parking is free and Aljunied MRT station is at the doorstep. Can Bring Your Own liquor.
Next time got gathering, Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies will be among the top of my mind.
Pro-tip: I will get my durian from Geylang 36 and enjoy it in comfort as dessert at Eastern House of Seafood Delicacies.
Previous Location
Address: 46, Geylang Lor 23, Singapore 388375
Tel: 9150 8172 ☏ 9339 0714
Hours: 11:30am - 11:00pm
Non Halal
Date visited: 9 Aug 2020
✍19 Aug 2015. In Singapore, a lot has been said and written about our hawker centres. We are grateful for hawkers and hawker centres for providing delicious food generally accessible for the public. In my humble opinion, another uniquely Singapore institution deserves mention - the zhi char or cze char 煮炒 shops at the foot of our public housing apartments (known as HDB flats in Singapore).
煮炒 literally means "cook and fry", so zhi char shops serves a wide variety of dishes, most of which are not available in hawker centres (where hawkers normally specialise in a single dish). So, a foodie adventure in Singapore would be incomplete if one stops at hawker centres without a visit to a zhi char shop.
Zhi char or cze char 煮炒 shops like Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy lets more people have a chance to enjoy restaurant type dishes at affordable prices.
Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy 东味鲜美食阁 located at the ground level of a Singapore public housing apartment, is bright, clean, cool (in the evening) and well kept. The wait staff is alert, attentive and friendly. Except for its HDB flat location and lack of air conditioning, it is little different from a Chinese restaurant.
Zhi Char shops offer many different dishes and each will have their respective signature dishes. Here are the dishes we tasted at Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy, a good zhi char shop located in Chai Chee estate, a typical residential neighbourhood in Singapore's east.
Curry Fish Head 风味鱼头 (SGD20)
Fresh red snapper fish 紅雞魚 in a savoury slightly tangy spicy sloshy gravy. Simple and nice - I like it that the quite large fish head (half side only) is fresh and the curry gravy's flavours are well balanced.
One of Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy's signature dishes - Dry Roast Sotong (SGD15).
This Dry Roast Sotong is a Must Try.
The fresh squid is marinated overnight with a savoury sweet sauce. When there is an order, the squids are bathed in hot oil till they are browned and slightly charred.
The end result is soft bouncy, still moist squid meat which tasted like grilled jiu her (grilled squid). Actually, I liked it better than the traditional jiu her as grilled squid tends to be dry and chewy. This oil bathed squid has the addictive smokey flavour of jiu her yet it is still juicy.
The best of both jiu her and sotong worlds, if I might say.
Deer meat in "Portuguese sauce" SGD12. Mildly tangy, sweet, spicy and savoury sauce smothering tender thin slices of deer meat.
This big slab of prime ribs is not called Dinosaur Ribs for nothing. It is HUGE.
And, it was delicious.
The savoury sweet sauce is made in the restaurant and it tasted better than those from rib franchises that use bottled BBQ sauces.
I was chewing and enjoying the tender juicy well marinated meat when Alvin (one of the partners) told me the price.
My jaw dropped a little when I heard him said SGD16. That's 50% less than typical restaurant price for the same dish in Singapore.
If you are a rib lover, you ought to regret it, if you come to Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy and didn't order this tasty dinosaur.
Crab cooked with salted egg yolk. This was the most expensive dish of our meal today at SGD45.
It's a meaty live Sri Lankan crab. The pastey salted egg yolk sauce is moist and not overly salty. I could taste the fresh juiciness of the crab meat complemented by the gently savoury salted egg yolk.
For greens, we had this refreshing Green Dragon Vegetable (SGD12) with crunchy juicy bean sprouts lightly fried with a gently savoury sauce made with fermented tofu and a touch of Chinese cooking wine. I like it that the bean sprouts were carefully cleaned of their roots and seed coat, giving us just the sweet juicy crunchy pearly stem.
Fried Bee Hoon with Pork Trotters SGD16.
This is one of those Hokkien family home comfort dishes traditionally made with pork trotters straight out of a can. The bee hoon (rice vermicelli) is wok fried with canned pork trotters infusing its rich deeply savoury flavours into the strands of rice noodles. So, the resulting dish has nicely balanced flavours and the texture of mushy soft pork and even bones. Alvin said the chef used only 50% of the sauce from the can to fry the noodles but it still felt slightly too greasy for me :-p
After dinner proper, we settled down to a couple of beers, wines and whisky. This tempura style French beans 四季豆 and prawns (SGD15) were just the thing we needed for a round of drinks. I especially enjoyed the juicy, crunchy French beans wrapped in crispy batter. Served with mayonnaise dip (which I didn't use).
At Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy customers can BYO (bring your own) wines and whisky. Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy has the proper liquor licences.
Swee swee (just perfect).... the drinks were a good excuse to order another round of this addictive Dry Roast Squid 😄
Eastern House of Seafood Delicacy does not charge GST nor service charge.
If you are visiting Singapore - go local, have a meal at a zhi char shop under a block of public housing apartments. It's one of the best memories you can take home with you about an authentic Singapore dining experience.
Disclosure: Please note that this is an invited tasting.
Previous Location
Address: 46 Geylang, Lor 23, Singapore 388375 (3 minutes walk from Aljunied MRT station on East - West Line)
GPS: 1°18'54.6"N 103°52'53.2"E 🌐 1.315165, 103.881449
Tel: 9339 0714
Hours: 11:00am - 12:00 midnight
Non Halal
Date visited: 17 Aug 2015
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