Heng Ji Chicken Rice stall at People's Park Food Centre

Tender Cantonese Chicken with  broken rice fragrant & thick seasoned with shallots & sesame oil    

The Glamorous Mrs Tan ( Mdm Lim ) helming the stall 

This Cantonese chicken rice stall is unique as they serve only steam chicken (white) and the rice used is broken rice.  They serve the rice in tiny bowls so small that those times when we eat at this stall we had to order extra rice. The chilli is unique & delicious you could really stir into the rice to eat with.

Mrs Tan ( Mdm Lim ) took to running the stall from her father-in-law who started this business 60 years ago. She is the second generation to helm this chicken rice stall for the past 30 years. She is a Hokkien girl married into a Cantonese family. Though chicken rice is largely operated by the Hainanese, the Cantonese does a mean chicken with their unique blend & method & ingredients.

She is closed on Sundays, you can look for her 3 pm - 9pm daily (except Sunday)

Tow Kwar Pop at Tiong Bahru Market

This Rojak Stall at Tiong Bahru Market called Tow Kwar Pop serves a respectable Rojak. The Hey Gor used is not too fishy and  tastes not too sweet. Unlike traditional Rojaks, the sauces are served separately from the ingredients and the patrons are expected to dip the sliced ingredients into the sauces. 

Address : 

30 Seng Poh Road, #02-06,

Tiong Bahru Market 

Men-ichi Ramen Restaurant at NorthPoint

Men-ichi Ramen Restaurant has branches in Raffles, Nex & Northpoint. They served a good combination of Ramen & Fried rice for those who wants to have the best of both worlds.

The fried rice used is the Japanese Pearl Rice, fried with eggs, Char Siew, prawn bits, with their Japanese Soya Sauce - deliciously fragrant. The Combo of fried rice & ramen comes together with choice of either the Japanese Gouza or the Chawamushi.

Fried Rice with eggs & Japanese Pearl Rice - Deliciously fragrant 

Ramen - tangy with a perfect soup broth sweet & savoury 

Chawamushi - steaming hot & tender with generous ingredients of mushroom & chicken 

North Point Outlet 

Cafebiz Buffet at Traders Hotel Singapore Part 1

Bob & I took leave today to celebrate his 45th Birthday. He chose Cafebiz at Traders Hotel Singapore that is offering a 1 - for - 1 buffet with UOB card. For that, he invited the 3 most important women in his life to be hi guests : yours truly, my MIL & SIL Grace.

Succulent seafood - prawns & crab claws 

Mussels all laid out in style 

Address: 

Cafebiz, Traders Hotel

1A Cuscaden Road, S(249716)

922 Beng Cheng Restaurant Hakka Ampang Yong Tau Foo at 922 Upper Thomson Road

Last night Bob & I paid a visit to the Ampang Yong Tau Foo Stall along Upper Thomson Road. When we first moved to Sembawang from Simei 6 years ago, I used to drive my van & ferry my Mom to this stall along Upper Thomson Road to feast on the delicious Ampang Yong Tau Foo.

The Stall was operated by Mr & Mrs Pang who learnt how to prepare Ampang Yong Tau Foo from a personal friend who came  from Ampang in China. For 40 odd years the Pang family dutifully prepares the ingredients to make the special sauce & Yong Tau Foo.

Then just last year Mrs Pang retired and passed the baton to her son & her daughter who now operates 2 separate stalls along Upper Thomson Road. The one that Bob & I went to last night was operated by the daughter Mdm Pang Nyuk Lin, married to Mr Soh Chiang Ngang. She has been helping out in the family business for more than 30 years and is currently in her 50's though she looks very young, as if  in her 30's.

The Yong Tau Foo comes in different varieties, and is served dry with a special sauce drizzled over the dry ingredients.

The various varieties can be seen below:

Deep fried Fish - ball

Quail's eggs 

 Tau Pok 

Tau Kee

Tau Kee 

Bitter Gourd sliced stuffed with minced meat 

Deep  fried Wan Ton with minced meat 

Lady's Fingers stuffed with fragrant minced meat 

Tau Hoo 

Mdm Pang Nyuk Lin 

Tong Ji Ah Heng Duck Rice Stall at Hong Lim Food Centre (I)

Braised Duck (Whole)

Braised Tau Hoo & Hard Boiled Eggs

Braised Pork Loin

Stall Specialty Chilli 

Uncle Yang & his wife used to operate their traditional Dark Soya Sauce Teochew Duck rice stall from Hill Street Food Centre 2nd Floor in the 1980- 90's before the Hill Street Food Centre was demolished. I used to eat at his stall when I was working at Christian Bookstore Ebenezer at Funan Centre from 1988-1990 during my varsity vacation holidays.  Uncle Yang has operated Duck rice stall business for 60 years since he was a teenager. 

I remembered very well the special potent chilli sauce that Uncle Yang used to make - it goes perfectly well with the duck & I use to mix it into my white to eat. 

After he was evacuated from Hill Street he moved to Tekka Market, but has since left it to set up stall at Hong Lim Food Centre.  Now that I have reunited with this Duck Rice Stall I'd be sure to feast here for as long as I can for Uncle Yang serves out a mean Teochew flavour true to his Teochew roots! 

Address : 

Tong Ji Ah Heng Duck Rice Stall

Hong Lim Market & Food Centre 

531A Upper Cross Street, S(051531)

River Valley Nasi Padang at 55 Zion Road

Delicious Pineapple cucumber Salad 

Tempeh & Long Beans                       Ladies Finger                                    

   Red Curry Chicken 

   Bittergourd                                     Fried Tau Gay

  Red Curry Chicken             Yellow Chicken Curry                                                      

  Brinjal                                                Sayor Lodeh                                            

Right after our yearly visit to the Garden Of Remembrance to commemorate my Father-in-Law's home-coming & my Mum's tomb at Lim Chu Kang  Christian Cemetery, it is the usual lunch at our favourite haunt at River Valley Road "Nasi Padang"

The lunch of ayam green curry, ayam red curry, assam fish, sayoh lodeh, begerdel, beef rendang, sambal sotong set us back by S$42 for 5 pax. 

Address : 

River Valley Nasi Padang,

55, Zion Road, S(247780)

Chicken Chop at NUS Science Canteen "Salad Bar"

Chicken Chop 

Onion Soup

NUS Science Canteen's "Salad Bar" Chef cooks a commendable Chicken Chop for only S$3.00, served with 3 sides, choice of : poached carrots & long beans, mashed potatoes, baked beans, french fries, coleslaw, hash brown, butter corn. 

You can also add soup of the day : beef with onions, pumpkin, minestrone, water crest, etc for S$1.20 or S$1.00.