Quentin’s

Among the best meals of my life, and if it wasn’t for the dry pork belly, would have been a full on 5-​stars! I went here with a local colleague and basically left menu choices in his hands, and thus ended up with fabulous food (in the majority) that was just gorgeously cooked and soul-​satisfying.
Between the 3 of us, we ordered Water Spinach dish (Vegetarian), Eggplant dish (vegetarian), Squid Ink sauce with Calamari, Pork Belly (along with rice as an accompaniment) and then to end the meal, we got Sugee Cake as the dessert option. The majority of the food just tasted really awesome and extraordinary, and the only major disappointment was the Pork Belly — this was just so super dry, and a real struggle to chew. In contrast, the eggplant dish was melt in the mouth delicious and i enjoyed the heartiness of the water spinach dish too. My fave dish however was the Squid Ink sauce with Calamari — the squid ink was so fresh, tasted exquisite and the calamari was super tender, plus juicy and savory, with a wonderful, clean seafood taste.
The Sugee Cake was a grand way to finish off the meal — I have never eaten sugee aka semolina or cream of wheat in a cake before, but I am a fan now, and am definitely looking at recipes online to tiger out how i can recreate this dessert in my own kitchen.
I would def recommend this restaurant and would go try other dishes when/​if in Singapore again.

An Easterner’s hidden pleasure.
I almost don’t want to mention this place so that I have it to myself. Which would be selfish. Not that I care, but I do want Quentins to thrive for many more years.
Almost everything is fab. If you are a Eurasian food neophyte, order the weirdest things you can find. You will discover tastes and textures that are unique and awesome.
Call outs: Itek Tim and the corn beef fried rice and the petai. And the siobak. And the… you get the picture.
Additional bonus: you might catch a glimpse of our ex-​President, who lives across the road. Lucky him. Can ta pao easily.

My first time trying Eurasian cuisine and I loved it! The restaurant is in a tranquil part of the east side, and ample public parking just beside the restaurant.
We ordered a lot of dishes and they all tasted great, by and large. Here’s a low down :
Appetizers
Keropok with Sambal balacan– fresh, crunchy as you would expect
Devil’s wings — 3 full wings per serving. Well seasoned and well fried without much residual oil. Wings were a little on the scrawny side but apart from that, no complains.
Meat cutlet — 2 huge fried «begedels» lookalike. Filled with minced meat and potato. Well fried and yet not dry.
Shepard’s pie — comfort food with a homemade taste. Mom in law tasted some lamb inside so watch out if you can’t stand lamb.
Mains
Pot roast beef — sliced roast beef that was a bit tough. I didn’t enjoy this. Cooked with lots of caramlized onions that were delicious.
Fried beef steak — with a delicious black pepper sauce, potatoes and tomatoes. I loved this dish. Beware, it’s a vehicle for rice loading!
Baked fish fillet — a piece of white fish that was fried first before a layer of spicy rempah smothered it all over and baked on banana leaf. Taste wise, this dish really hit the spot. A bit sweet, a bit spicy and sourish. But the fish filet was a little mushy and soft. Either not fresh, or the type of fish didn’t really stand up to the robustness of such a sauce.
Pineapple prawn curry — About 6 large prawns with a sweet and sourish pineapple curry gravy that was deliciously addictive to slurp on its own. Prawns were meaty and fresh but didn’t really absorb the flavor of the gravy. Shame.
Fried eggplant — eggplant was soft and absorbs the taste of the spicy gravy.
Chap Chye — another hit with me. It’s comfort food. Lots of miso (bean paste) and a mix of vegetables. I like that the cabbage isn’t stewed until it’s super soft. That’s a personal preference :)
Desserts
Sago Melaka — not rich enough and the gula melaka is not powerful
Sugee cake — average
Live music starts about 8:30pm and there’s a playroom for kids. Perfect for families !

To tell you honestly I didn’t know what a Eurasian was until I visited Quentin and the Eurasian community house. For those who don’t know, Eurasian refers to people mixed Asian and European ancestry, which I would discover are quite prevalent in South East Asia.
I had very low expectations of Quentin’s coming in. There wasn’t much fan fare on Unilocal and no one in my neighborhood was raving about them. Boy was I dead wrong! Quentin’s patrons are more often than not regulars. Seriously, who would pass up a cuisine where east meets west is a real treat.
My wife and I had the Cambrang Bostador, which according to the restaurant website is «a thick coconut based prawn-​dish in a luscious union with sliced green chilies and a blend of fresh local herb.» Simply, wow! Mixed with the free flow of rice, I was in heaven.
The other dish we tried was the Kristang beef stew. The dish was good, but not memorable.
Overall, Quentin’s has a amazing selection of dishes, especially if you love SPICY food. My wife and I tried to stay away from the Spicy dishes during our first visit for the simple fact we didn’t know what to expect. However, given how good the Cambrang Bostador was, I’m definitely going to be a little more adventurous the next time around!

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to try Eurasian food. Quentin’s is the best (and one of the handful of places in Singapore) to give it a try!
According to my sources, Eurasian cuisine is a fusion of Portuguese dishes with Malaysian and Indian spices. If you’re into spicy food, you’ll have a lot to choose from.
I can take a little spice, but my husband can’t take too much, so we had to ask our server for recommendations. As the portions are meant to be shared, we tried one seafood and one meat dish.
The Cambrang Bostador are prawns cooked in a coconut curry– flavourful without being spicy! Unfortunately I am blanking out on the meat dish that we had; looking at the picture and the menu, I’m going to guess it was the Kristang style beef stew. (Or was it the oxtail?) Either way, it tasted very familiar… but different. In a good way!
If I had to choose between the two, it’d be a difficult decision, as they are different flavour profiles and both so delicious! But I think I’d go with the prawns.
The free flow white rice is a nice touch. My only feedback is that they might be slightly understaffed. Other than that, the food is amazing and they are close to where I live. They’re getting all 5 stars from me!

I have been to Quentin’s twice for dinner and both times was really impressed with the quality of the food and homey feel of the place. As I understand it, Eurasian cuisine is pretty meat (especially pork) heavy, but we were equally satisfied with the seafood and veggie options on the menu.
Many diners seem to prefer the indoor section with its a/​c, but at night I would recommend the terrace, which has well-​spaced tables, faces out onto a big green space, and is romantically lit with hanging lamps. Families with energetic small children and canoodling couples on wine-​fueled dates seem equally welcome and comfortable here, which is no small feat for a restaurant to pull off.
They seem to be running a weekday discount offer, which I haven’t used, but might be worth checking out for bargain hunters, as it isn’t the cheapest in the area.
Also, parking is usually a big issue in Joo Chiat, but here (I think) they have free on-​site parking for guests beneath the building.

This establishment been around a while and i have been wanting to try it but didn’t go about it until recently.
I happened to see a
voucher for their ala carte buffet and bought a couple of vouchers and got some friends to dine there.
Food was good … One of our favorite for the evening would be the Oxtail Devil Curry. However, the service was rather disappointing.
There were a couple of wait staff that evening and there was one in particular who had really bad attitude.
Firstly, when we wanted to order another round of dishes, since we been told that it takes 15 – 20 minutes of wait time, she rejected our orders and insisted that we need to finish our first round of orders first. So, we left it as that and placed our order with another wait staff.
Towards the end of dinner, we ordered our desserts to end the evening. The same wait staff came over with our desserts and asked if we are done with our food. We said yes and she commented, I am going to charge you $ 5 for wasting food. We were pretty much done with all our dishes except probably the bones, garnishes and sauce. The item she referred to was leftover of the soup that we ordered Salted vegetable and Pork Ribs soup. We left the boney pork ribs in the soup as it was mainly fats and bones. But she insisted that we are wasting food. I would love to see how she eats up the bones!!! So, what we ended up doing in her lurking eyes is each of us took one piece, put on our plates… in a failed attempt to find much meats on the bone.
After that episode, there was another episode, a friend order 1 beer $ 6. Since the meals were paid for, we just need to pay for that 1 bottle of beer. We gave $ 50 to a wait staff and he asked if we got smaller change. We gave him $ 7 and he never came back with $ 1 change! He proceed on doing his own stuff and totally ignore us until we left. He bid us farewell from far with a bid grin on his face.
Seriously, no matter how good the food is, the service will be a big factor to deter us from going back there again.

Quite possibly the only Eurasian restaurant I know of in Singapore. And how fitting it is that its in the Eurasian Association.
The food is as authentically eurasian as it gets. I’ve been here a few times and some of my favourite dishes include the sambal kang kong, curry devil, roast beef and black ink calamari.
I doubt youd be able to find, as eurasian a meal as you can at Quentins, elsewhere. If you’re feeling adventurous or traditional (for eurasians) waste no time and go there now!