mitzi

Mitzi (美食之家) or as my mum calls the place 美滋味, is a restaurant along Tanjong Pagar Road serving old style Cantonese food. Although the restaurant had only recently moved here from the nearby Murray Terrace, the mood of the place is unconsciously retro and immanently nostalgic. I'm a sucker for the old chinese restaurant atmosphere, which always brings back much memories of the old Lai Wah Restaurant along Jalan Besar Road that I used to frequent when I was really young. The chrome frame chairs around a round dinner table, promising a night of banter and togetherness. The table setting of a small plate, a bowl, a saucer and a spoon with a pair of dragon-pheonix chopsticks at the side is placed on the starched white table cloth forming a circular array around the lazy susan at the centre of the table. Double happiness serviettes, regardless of occassion, are stuffed into glasses which would eventually be filled with boiling hot tie guan yin (or fizzy orange soft drink if it was a wedding). The flavours too, are familiar and comforting. We had steamed prawns, crispy chicken, braised ginger duck, sweet and sour pork, stir fried kailan, fried tofu and ee-fu noodles. The meal would have been perfect if the dishes were served on little metal pedestals and the meal ended with a bowl of 花生糊 (sweet peanut paste).




Mitzi Cantonese Restaurant
62/64, Tanjong Pagar Road