This kopitiam houses some of the good food that I tried before. The first time visited this kopitiam was when I tried the zi char stall called Jin Hock Seafood. Their menu has various dishes to choose from, and they do Chinese New Year dinner as well.
I wrote about this zi char in one of my food posts here. Their price is reasonable and affordable. The food is delicious and that is why we always go back to this place for our zi char food. I hope to revisit the stall soon.
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It is one of the most anticipated restaurants and I wanted to try their food. Finally, I invited a friend to join me that evening for an early dinner. We were seated as soon as we arrived at the restaurant. There was not much crowd in the restaurant and we could choose our own table. Unfortunately, the restaurant faced west, and I could see the sunset’s sunlight enter the restaurant. It was a bit uncomfortable.
We proceeded to order the food from the menu and waited for the food to be served. We ordered curry noodles, curry rice and toast for sharing.
It is just normal French toast that nothing much I could describe.
Main course
I do not understand why the curry rice was flooded with all sorts of gravy. It consisted the curry gravy and vegetable gravy which diluted the curry sauce. I do not like it. The braised pork was so fatty that both of us did not really enjoy it. However, the braised pork was well-flavoured, the only delicious ingredient in this curry rice.
The curry noodles were delicious too but the cockles and long beans were missing from the bowl. Is it supposed to be part of it?
Overall,
This branch has the highest Google rating, however, I do not find the food is great and gets cold very fast too. I do not think that I will come back for other dishes soon.
Address: 500 Jalan Sultan, #01-09 Hotel Boss, Singapore 199020. Google rating: 4.1 stars (IMHO, I give it 3.5 stars)
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On one of the weekend random visits to the Singapore hawker centre, I chose to visit Bedok 85 Fengshan. It is one of the famous hawker centres in Singapore too because it houses the famous bak chor mee.
I travelled down to this place by taking the bus because it is nearer to where I stay, and the nearest MRT station is Bedok and Bedok Reservoir MRT station. If you are taking the MRT, you need to take a bus to the hawker centre.
Bedok 85 Fried Oyster Omelette (#01-09)
Although the stall is known for its fried oysters, they also serve char kway teow with fresh cockles, carrot cake and fried Hokkien mee. So far, I tried their char kway teow and carrot cake. Both are well-tasted and delicious. The char kway teow was a little oily. The portion was generous, and the ratio of kway teow and yellow mee was balanced too. It came with fishcakes, beansprouts and egg. I opted out of the cockles.
The white-coloured carrot cake was normal to me and I have nothing much to comment on. I have not tried their black-coloured carrot cake (added dark soya sauce) but I think I would not order it from this stall.
It opens in the evening to midnight so cannot have them for breakfast. If I am not hungry but just want to have some food to warm my stomach this porridge is one of the options here. I saw the reviews and photographs on Google and I wondered why the yao tiao was not cut into smaller pieces for me?
Fu Zhou Oyster Cake (#01-39)
It might look quite expensive for a piece of fried delicacy. The oyster cake is stuffed with lots of minced meat, and some oysters. It is full of meat actually. The last time I tried it was in the year 2017 at Maxwell Food Centre. It is rare to see it everywhere. I bought a piece of oyster cake back home, and guess what, the brown bag absorbed most of the oil. Even, though I did not eat it immediately, it remains crispy from the outside.
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I totally missed out on this entry in my blog. Back in late July 2023, I purposely went to the Hong Lim Food Centre for this hawker stall on the day I took my annual leave. It opens on the weekdays so it is hard for me to queue a long time for a plate of delicious curry chicken cutlet noodles. The queue starts before even I reach the food court.
I ordered a plate of fried chicken cutlet that came with wanton noodles, green vegetables and curry sauce on top of it. The portion of the meat and noodles was generous. The chicken cutlet was huge, meaty and tender. I enjoyed eating the chicken cutlet even though it was deep-fried. The chicken was lightly flavoured so it could be paired with the curry sauce. The chicken skin dipped into the curry sauce and absorbed the sauce too. But, it did not turn soggy.
The wanton noodle was cooked al-dente, and it did not turn soggy after leaving it for a while to absorb the curry sauce and mixing some of the chilli paste on the side. Do remember to put some pork lard onto the plate before leaving the stall. It is free flow! The same goes for the sprint onion. I am also a spring onion person. Also, I added spring onion into the small bowl of soup.
Summary,
I do feel it is not enough for my craving. It is not because the portion is small but it is very appetising and making me want to eat more. If this is not always a long queue, it would be one of my frequently visited stalls at this food court during my work days in Chinatown. I think it is still worth the waiting as long as they keep the standard.
There are other foods on their menu which I think I will return and try one day.
Address: 531A Upper Cross St, #02-03, Singapore 051531. Google link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MzA32u59zSKmT9zn6 Google rating: 4.7 stars (IMHO, I will give it a 4.5-star)
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Finally, I managed to try the fishball noodles at this hawker stall but actually, they are famous for their laksa instead according to my colleague. Why I say finally I managed to try this is because it is always a long queue and the queue could move quite slowly sometimes. One reason why it has a long queue is because the price is among the cheapest in this hawker centre. The starting price at $3.50 for a bowl of fishballs, I would say we cannot find it in many places nowadays.
It consists of fishballs and a few slices of fish cakes, garnished with spring onions and fried shallot. They give some beansprouts, and a small bowl of soup too, it is considered as a quite balanced meal. The sauce in the noodles is savoury and sweet. I can add chilli to give some spiciness to the noodles. The meepok cooked al-dente.
Summary,
This bowl of noodles is quite filling although the price is cheaper. The portion and the taste are reasonable too. I have not tried the other food on the menu, especially the laksa. I will revisit to try the laksa and minced pork noodles whenever I see the queue is shorter.
Address: 69 Geylang Bahru, #01-70, Singapore 330069 Google link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iMdUvqJ22MRTa7WZ7 Google rating: 4.2 stars (IMHO, I will give it a 4.5 star for the fishball noodles, I will update again after I manage to try the others).
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This is just a random post of the day as I am trying to check what I post or schedule for the next three weeks. Yep, right. I am taking a short break from writing content for my blogs. I will be travelling as well during this break while looking for jobs. The job market in Singapore is not doing good, yes and no. Many layoffs and retrenchments since last year. My chances of getting a job are very competitive since I am in the tech industry.
I hold on to the belief that God is my source for everything in my life and that He will take care of my worries about getting a job contract, paying the bills, getting healthy, and being safe wherever I go.
Singapore is very hot
A Lahaina Noon phenomenon where one’s shadow appears minimal took place at 1.11pm on March 23 in Singapore. Also known as zero shadow day, it is a natural event and objects standing upright such as a stick or light pole will not cast a shadow.
Singapore history
Due to historical reasons, Singapore’s time is one hour ahead compared with the solar time. This means that solar noon does not occur until about 1pm, rather than noon, which also explains why sunrise and sunset times are observed at about 7am and 7pm respectively.
Good time for organizing marathons
Now, Singapore is very warm and hot. It is normal. I remembered last time during this period there were Sundown and 2XU marathons. As I checked their website, there are no updates on when Singapore Sundown 2024 will be held. The Singapore 2XU marathon will be held on April 21. So what happened to Singapore Sundown?
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It is on my Singapore food list, one of the items I wanted to try in Singapore recently. I managed to find two other people to join me as I needed more people to eat dim sum. We went there slightly after 12PM and there was no lunch crowd on that day due to heavy rain.
Without further delay, we started ordering the dim sum through our mobile phones after scanning the QR code. I do not know what the famous or popular dim sum to order here. We just ordered based on what we wanted to try that day,
The steamed chee cheung fun was a little bit thick. The prawns were fresh, crunchy and mostly medium-sized, and the light soya sauce was a good pairing.
Siew mai and har gao
Both siew mai and har gao were just average but I liked the har gao more than the siew mai. My friends preferred the siew mai. The meat portion of the siew mai and har gai was generous and quite flavourful. I found har gao was well-tasted than siew mai which was lightly flavoured.
Salted egg lava bun
Be careful when eating this salted egg lava bun because of the overflew salted egg sauce. My hand got messy with the sauce. It was just a typical salted egg lava bun, nothing special to mention.
Pork ribs
It came with some very soft yam at the bottom, and it was quite tasty. The amount of meat was quite little for this plate of pork ribs. I think it is good too so that we can try other dim sums without overeating. Also, I think you may skip this as it is not something must try.
Egg tart and barbecue pork bun
Both tasted average and two of my friends did not really like the egg tarts. I think egg tarts from other places do better than this restaurant so I think can skip ordering it. The barbecue pork bun is one of the good try, it is something similar to the Tim Ho Wan style. Maybe, the taste was not as good as Tim Ho Wan, and the texture was a little harder. Unfortunately, I did not take a photo to show the ingredients inside the bun.
Summary,
The drink and food were served fast on that day. Overall, the food portion was generous and flavourful. My personal preference on that day was the chee cheung fun, har gao, and salted egg lava bun. They have a wide range of dim sum, both steamed and fried dim sum, but we found their desserts are quite limited and not within our preference to try them that day. They have wanton noodles too which we did not order.
Address: 57 Jln Besar, Singapore 208809. Google link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vjjFexSAtQhM15Z29 Google rating: 4.2 stars (IMHO, I will give a 4.5 star, and will be returning for the next visit)
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I went to google this stall and I found out that it was a Michelin Bib Gourmand stall in 2021 for its Old Airport Road stall. You can refer to the link below to find out more about the history of this stall. This brand has a few stalls in Singapore. Recently, I went to try the fish soup after watching the eatbook.sg’s video. This stall is one of their recommendations. You can check out the list of fish soups recommended by eatbook.sg.
It looks rather plain when the fish soup is served. Thankfully, the batang fish was fresh and the number of pieces was considerably okay but overall, personally, I do not think it was worth the price if I were to compare it with other fish soups that I had tried before. It was just fish, Chinese cabbage and meehoon. I do not recall if they added a small slice of tomato.
I added some fried garlic and fried shallot to bring up the flavour of the soup otherwise, it tasted mild. The Chinese cabbage is supposed to give some sweetness to the sauce but I did not think it worked here. The portion looked little too and it charged more for additional carbs.
In my personal opinion, I will rate it 2.5 out of 5 stars for the freshness of the batang fish, and the short waiting time. It is not a bad one, just that I know some better fish soup options that sell around the same price. There is much room for them to improve both their food quality and the service. You can check out the fish soup stalls that I liked in the link below.
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These are the stalls that I usually go for fried Hong Kong noodles and they are all located at Tampines. I seldom order fried noodles outside of Tampines, there is no particular reason for it. The flavour, noodles and ingredients portion and noodle texture are about the same. Not much difference between these three stalls.
The reason why I liked the fried noodles is the balanced ingredients; there are shredded barbecue pork (char siew), some imitation crab meat, eggs, cabbage, beansprouts and choi sum. Some might not have char siew which is totally fine as well because I can get the most protein from the eggs.
Address: 477 Tampines Street 43, #01-190, Singapore 520477 Google rating: 3.8 stars
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Besides the mixed rice which is delicious, cheap and always long queues, there are two stalls that I liked their food; the wanton noodles or the chicken rice from the roasted and barbecue pork stall, and the fried rice and noodles stall.
This is a Malaysian style of wanton noodles because it uses dark soya sauce and char siew sauce to mix the wanton noodles. It is a non-spicy sauce, unlike the Singapore style which usually adds some chilli paste or some like tomato sauce. If you want to have sambal chilli or pickled green chilli, you can get it from the counter.
The noodles are cooked al-dente, the portion is good and the dark sauce goes well. The barbecue pork (char siew) is lightly charred and comes with a balanced fat and lean meat portion. I asked for more lean meat before too. If you want to have the char siew to be more charred you can tell them too.
There is a bowl of soup, maybe chicken soup with three small-sized wantons. The meal is complete with some green vegetables too. It is quite recommended to try them.
I ordered their chicken rice with add-on char siew. Both meat portions are generous and come with a bowl of soup too. The chicken rice uses cucumber which I do not really like it. I would prefer to have green vegetables.
They gave some char view sauce on top of the meat which I liked it so much. Also, do take their chicken rice’s chilli sauce. It is a good pair with the char siew sauce or the dark soya sauce if you like it. My personal preference is to go without the dark soya sauce.
The rice is quite fragrant, well-cooked and a good portion. So far, I never encountered rice served with half-cooked rice even on days they have many customers waiting in the queue.
I tried their lotus root soup too. I heard it was a double-boiled soup that boiled for hours. It tasted normal and lightly flavoured, and it did not taste like it had been boiled for long hours. It has some soft bones’ pork ribs inside the soup, with peanuts, and red dates. The price is reasonable but I would not be trying other soups as I think their chicken rice, meats and wanton noodles are better than the soups. They sell ducks too!
Address: 好友记炭火烧腊 Hao You Ji Charcoal Roasted Delights, 66 Kallang Bahru, #01-473, Singapore 330066. Google link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CR2LXnzjmvTqfpgo7 Google rating: 3.4 stars
Fried rice with grilled pork, fried chicken with scallion oil noodles
Besides Din Tai Fung, here I can find a decent, and generous portion of fried rice with prawn, pork chop or fried chicken. The taste is comparable with the Din Tai Fung. Of course, the price is always cheaper here. It took a while to cook the fried rice or even the hand-made noodles. The waiting time is quite worth it because the grilled pork is well-marinated and cooked perfectly. The meat remains tender and it is not dry.
They used medium-sized prawns and so far the prawns were fresh and could feel some crunchiness.
The star is the fried chicken which I feel tasted like KFC. The batter is a bit spicy, and it is fried to its crunchiness. It is a bit oily, but overall, the chicken is well-marinated, tender and juicy.
Address: Hong Style Fried Rice 四哥炒饭(Kallang Bahru Branch), 66 Kallang Bahru, #01-473, Singapore 330066. Google link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6QcqEVjK2UJjyvw88 Google rating: 4.1 stars
Other stalls,
There is a Muslim stall but I have not tried it yet.
Also, there is a Japanese/Korean stall. I will avoid the Japanese/Korean stall because of the small portion. I tried the Kimchi Jjigae once and it did not have many ingredients inside the soup. It looked like having spicy soup with white rice only. The kimchi side dish is neither warm nor cold. The teriyaki fish which my colleague ordered was given half of the fish. I think it is fair enough given that the size is slightly bigger than some other similar stalls.
The drinks here are not cheap either if you want cheaper kopi-o or teh, it would be better to head back to the Geylang Bahru Food Centre.
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