Red House seafood opened its 3rd restaurant at Prinsep street - and as part of their celebrations, they were offering a 50% off their Chilli crab - although it's valid for only 1 crab. For those not in the know, Red House has been around in Singapore for a really long time, since the east coast road days. Now they've got a branch at UDMC Seafood Centre, one at Robertson, and the new outlet at Prinsep.

We started off with baby squid - which was alright, if a bit too sweet. In fact, sweetness seems to be a perennial trend - the chefs seem to be rather fond of throwing heaps of sugar into each dish - as we shall discover later. This was okay, maybe 6.5/10.

Next up was some bamboo clams - these were really fresh, but I wasn't very impressed with the sauce. They could have probably used better soy sauce - but other than that, it was okay. I only ate a bit of this - not very fond of bamboo clams really. maybe 7/10.


The crabs came next - first up was the black pepper crab. Here, the black pepper crab was much too sweet. The crabs were really fresh, but the black pepper sauce had too much sugar in it and probably not enough spice. It could have been far better - this was average really. (6.5/10)

This place doesn't hold a candle to Long Beach - the sauce at long beach's just so delicious that I just want to order more man-tou to dip into the sauce (and apparently it's a closely guarded secret recipe made up of fresh Thai chillis and other kinds of chillis). Red house's version was mediocre at best.
Service was also only so-so ; they were very quick to replenish my plates but were rather unfriendly. Well, I think that's not that big a problem: just solve the food problems first!