Review of Lei Cha Rice at Thunder Tree @ Vivocity Food Republic by rumblingradishes
I am clearing a lot of backlogs only now because my camera roll is filling up, but let me just preface this post by saying that the message here is you don't know what you have until it's gone. I never actually tried the thunder tea dishes from Thunder Tree when they were still open at VivoCity, Chinatown, or even Bugis (this was from the Bukit Batok branch, which I will get to later). Technically, the only reason I ended up trying this dish was because they were no longer accessible to me, but I jumped on the opportunity to join a rare group buy organised by someone in my neighbourhood who is friends with the family, and this was the only dish available. Since I missed Thunder Tree so much, I decided to order it anyway. As it turns out, I really loved it. Their thunder tea rice is really just that #special, packed full of nutritious ingredients from #tofu to #longbeans to #beans and #carrots. Their #rice was different from normal white rice, and it wasn't brown rice either, which I really appreciated. The 'tea' was also really good and palatable to me, even though I typically dislike the teas in similar dishes. All this is to say that I really regretted not trying the dish years earlier, and to make up for lost time, I even joined a second group buy to get this dish again. That was the last time I ate this dish. Sadly, I highly doubt I'll get to eat this dish again in the near future since it's no longer on the regular menu (and thus I also decided not to list this review under the Bukit Batok branch to not give people false hope). And now, to explain my extended hiatus and backlogs, is another tale of the message that you don't know what you have until it's gone, this time for donations.
