A friend & colleague is being transferred to a new job last month, so I invited her to lunch to celebrate her new beginning. I decided to take her to The Clifford Pier at the Fullerton Bay Hotel. The Clifford Pier serves local and international food in a beautiful colonial setting at the site of the old Clifford Pier which the restaurant is named after.
While we browsed the menu, we were served with crackers. There was a combination of fish crackers and brinjal crackers, an Indonesian cracker made with the butter brinjal nuts.
We both decided to have the 2 course Heritage Express lunch which was at SGD31++. My friend had the salad for her starter, while I went for the traditional local fried carrot cake with prawns. The local carrot cake is actually a cake made with radish and rice flour. The carrot cake is then fried with eggs, prawns and sweet dark soy sauce. It was very nice.
For the main course, my friend had the fish of the day, while I went for the Lobster roll. The lobster roll required at SGD18 top-up on top of the usual set lunch price.
The lobster roll was generously filled with lobster meat mixed with mayo in a hotdog bun. It was served with truffle fries and a salad. The lobster roll was tasty. The truffle fries were nice and crisp and had a great truffle fragrance and appropriately salted. Delicious!
One could top up $6 for dessert which was local flavor ice cream. There was a choice of kopi (Malay for coffee), Teh Tarik (an Indian milk tea) or pandan (a fragrant leave) flavored ice cream. I went for the Teh Tarik ice cream which was served with honey comb. My friend gave dessert a miss. The ice cream was pretty sweet but really tasted like the local Indian milk tea. It was appropriate fragrant and went well with the honey comb.
Overall a satisfying lunch if you are willing to splurge. A nice place to bring a foreign friend for some local food flavours, or to conduct a business lunch.