Blue Lotus Chinese Eating House

Singapore’s most (debatably) desirable dish comes to Singapore’s most «desirable» address, at indigestible prices. 3 words: Chili Pomelo Crab. Order it.
This is the only Chinese restaurant at the atas (read: posh) Quayside Isle row of restaurants in Sentosa Cove. After passing an entire row of the same old yawn-​inducing «Mediterranean», Italian, and American-​themed offerings, the brightly coloured lanterns of Blue Lotus Eating House first caught my eye, then the interesting menu items.
There is only one dish you should order here, and that is the Signature Chili Pomelo Crab. A twist on the much-​loved local dish, the gravy has a certain zing to it (I tasted lemongrass and tamarind) and enhanced with the refreshing citrus flesh of the pomelo scattered on top. It came with 6 small fried buns. They use huge sri-​lankan crabs (scylla serrata), and the crab weighed in at around 1.6kg. At $ 7.80/100g, the price was not easy on the pocket. (*You* do the math)
Other interesting dishes are the Szechuan style «fish and chips», an appetiser of battered and deep fried fish skin and small fish, and the wagyu beef & foie gras fried rice. The rice had that wonderful «wok hei» aroma with deep fried rice puffs mixed in. However the wagyu beef and foie gras bits were lost in the mixture and their flavour could barely be tasted. What a waste of high end ingredients. The wok fried mussels were also forgettable. The mussels were fresh, but the spicy black bean sauce was meh.
The other minor thing was the use of these fancy decorative dishware. Definitely decorative-​only and impractical. Some of them were kidney shaped and really reminded me of those surgical dishes I see at the dentist or hospital. They barely held any sauce and soon overflowed with crab shells.
Sitting facing the yachts moored outside with the mostly foreign customers milling about inside, I almost felt like I wasn’t in Singapore anymore… then I took Sentosa Bus No. 3 out…