Tonny Restaurant 利宝饭店

I had heard about Tonny Restaurant from a number of sources but had no impetus to visit the place until 2 of my foodie friends made plans to go. It's at the first storey of 2 shophouses and has the feel of an old school chinese restaurant serving zi char food. Eating with foodie friends is both good and bad - you know they're prepared to spend money ordering whatever, but you also have to eat things you wouldn't normally want to order.

One of Tonny's signature dishes is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ($8 each), described on the menu as "Medley of Lobstero (?) Egg White and Dried Scallop". It came in something like a wanton skin bowl. I thought this was nice but slighty overrated, since Imperial Treasure also has a really nice egg white and scallop dish with pepper and vinegar that costs about one and a half times with twice the amount.
Yam with truffle oil - shredded yam strips deep fried and topped with truffle oil. I can't remember how much this cost, but it really wasn't that exciting either. Interesting but not sure that I'd order it again if I was looking for something special.

Another dish that I wouldn't have ordered normally was the poached sliced beef with golden mushroom ($18). It was very ordinary.

Things started looking brighter when the "Double Egg Spanish (?) with Chicken Broth" ($12) arrived. This was very yummy - we drank up every last bit of the broth.

The other signature dish is the "Full Cream Crab Congee" ($8 per 100 g), or crab porridge. Now, this I found to be extremely amazing. Words cannot describe how rich, how good, how tasty, how heartwarming, how delicious the crab congee was. The milt of the crab was stirred into the porridge, resulting in a glorious blend of crab and congee.

They removed the crabs before dishing out the congee into separate bowls. There was a lot of crab : )

I have no idea what grains went into this congee, but boy was it good.

We also had the roasted spring chicken ($20), which was pretty good.

Dessert was Osmanthus Jelly with Wolfberries, which was nice but not outstanding.

Dinner for 3 persons cost a total of $150. We thought this was extremely reasonable given the crab and the volume of food, which the waitresses had initially discouraged.

Tonny Restaurant

325/327 Joo Chiat Road

Singapore 427582

Tel: 63489298

HP: 98152113

Open daily from 11.30am–2.30pm, 6pm–10.30pm