Ah Orh Seafood Restaurant is a family-run Teochew restaurant with a longstanding history of establishment. The restaurant has been in business for 97 years, and continues to meet the taste preferences of its loyal customers as well as provide authentic and quality heritage cuisine for all.
Unique to Ah Orh Seafood Restaurant are their yearly, traditional Chinese New Year dishes. For the year 2017, the restaurant will be opened on Chinese New Year eve on 27 January, closing for the first two days of Chinese New Year and will be back running its business on 30 January 2017. The special festive menu is available from 25 January, through the entire 15-day lunar new year period, and ends on 11 February 2017.
Nestia hereby introduces you to a few of the dishes offered as part of Ah Orh Seafood’s Chinese New Year menu.
Teochew Yu Sheng
If you’re familiar with Teochew cuisine, you’ll know that it is characterised by a lighter, more delicate style of cooking. The emphasis is on bringing out the natural flavours of the ingredients of the dish, with lesser use of sauces and oils in the preparation process.
Unlike the Cantonese-style yu sheng which is more common in Singapore, Teochew yu sheng consists of ingredients which are completely different. Instead of tossing shredded red carrots, green radish, pomelo and salmon, Ah Orh makes use of cucumber, lettuce, chrysanthemum leaves, celery, radish, preserved turnip and sai toh fish (wolf herring) which are thinly sliced.
Chilled Jelly Pork Trotter
Pork trotter jelly is a dish unique to the Teochew food culture. With that, it is a sad fact that it is difficult to find them nowadays, due to the sheer amount of effort required in its preparation process.
Likewise, at Ah Orh, the jelly is handmade from scratch by boiling the trotter meat and skin for 24 hours in a broth, before the collagen turns into gelatin and curdles into jelly.
It is recommended to consume the jelly upon serve, as it would melt if it is left in the open for too long.
Teochew Seven Assorted Vegetables
A traditional dish which is also unique to the Teochew heritage, this dish consists of seven different types of vegetables and is typically eaten on the seventh day of the lunar new year in celebration of “ren ri” as well as in hopes of an abundant year ahead.
The seven types of vegetables include milky Chinese cabbage, choy sum, cabbage, bok choy, mustard, spinach, and Chinese cabbage served in stew. Ah Orh offers this signature dish by balancing the savoury veggies with thick pieces of three-layered pork.
Teochew Radish Kway Teow
A unique dish that is included Ah Orh’s Chinese New Year Menu, the Teochew kway teow with radish has a special ‘wok hei’ to it. It is not too greasy and has a fragrant aroma contributed by ingredients such as garlic and spring onions.
Ah Orh Seafood Restaurant
#01-1627, Blk 115 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 160115
Tel: 62757575
Opening hours of restaurant: Daily 11am – 2pm, 5.30pm – 10pm
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