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November 4, 2014 By cheryl

New Ubin Seafood (Singapore): Eating The Dream

New Ubin SeafoodFor months now, I’ve been tortured by Instagram.

Specifically, a seemingly endless stream of Instagram photos from a place called New Ubin Seafood in Singapore. In the middle of the night in Brooklyn, I’d find myself scrolling through photo after photo of gigantic crabs, split open and doused with gravy, wooden platters piled with glistening chunks of steak — and I would think, why have I never been to this restaurant?

Thankfully, I have good friends who wanted to fix this right away. So on a humid Saturday night, I found myself wending the desolate night streets of an industrial estate in Singapore’s Sin Ming neighborhood …

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Filed Under: Asian, Chinese, Meat, Restaurants, Seafood, Singapore, Singaporean, Tales From the Road Tagged With: American, Baked Crab, Bishan, Black Angus Ribeye, Boss bee hoon, Brinjal, Fried rice, Kai Lan, New Ubin Seafood, Noodles, Pulau Ubin, Sin Ming, Singapore, Sri Lankan Crab, Steak

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