3.8/5 Went for the last time to East Ocean restaurant today for Winter Solstice meal celebrations. The whole restaurant was super crowded and the staff were busy and hectic. We ordered a combination of dim sum and ala carte dishes. The dim sum were mostly satisfactory but nothing stood out. For the Ala carte dishes, the typhoon shelter roasted chicken was just okay, the scallops asparagus were a little bland and the scallops didn’t have a natural sweetness to them. The seafood vermicelli was decent tasting and the best dish of the meal was the signature garlic and spring onions prawns, they were delicous, fresh and sweet and with a nice savoury kick. The yam paste was good and definitely better than the honeydew sago. We had wanted to order cold crabs but they weren’t available. Perhaps they were really busy but the food standard seemed to have dropped compared to our previous visits. Farewell East Ocean, this decades old Teochew-Cantonese restaurant would surely be missed by many.

The sharks fin is good. Not too salty. Abalone a bit small for the price, probably due to the sea cucumber with it. Not much service by staff as they are all rather busy. Hard to get staff’s attention. They gave us a free dessert after our meal and other tables. Bigger groups have a different dessert. Only 2 of us and when I saw the dessert, I felt like we were given left over pastry from the Mid-autumn festival sale. The pastry is not to our liking.

Very disappointed with the 'last' meal with them. I wished it would have ended on a good note. Came at 5.30 for the 6pm opening. We were the 4th table. 1st of all, no cold crab, no peking duck, no foie gras. Kind of defeat the purpose of eating here. 2nd, all dishes were consistently lacking in flavour. Roast duck, roast pork, char siew all lacking in flavour. The only dish well executed was the beef. Not sure if their taste has been tuned to the elderly crowd here. 3rd, orh nee was overly pureed. It's hard not to make comparison with other longstanding teochew restaurants. Over 200 per pax, did expect better food.

Thank you for the wonderful experience. It’s truly a pity that this place is closing down for good. I wish I had discovered it earlier. I genuinely enjoyed everything, from their lunch (dim sum) to their dinner 💕⭐️

The food was acceptable, but the service was extremely poor and significantly detracted from the experience. The allotted one-hour dining limit felt heavily enforced; we were actively pressured to relinquish our table, even immediately after our food was served. This made the meal feel rushed and unpleasant