黄埔(庆）街边美食鱼头炉 Whampoa Food Street (Keng) Fish Head Steamboat Eating House

Went to 黄埔(庆）街边美食鱼头炉 (556 Balestier Rd Singapore 329872, Tel : 9769-4451 ), located at the junction of Ah Hood Road and Balestier Road. On the walls in the shop, there are many 8R photos of the boss 阿庆 (in golden hair) with mediacorp celebrities including Chen Hanwei, Lee Nanxing, Zhou Chongqing etc etc.

On my 1st visit there, I bumped into Zhou Chongqing actually. He looks ok and seemed to have recovered well from the recent accident he had.

The fish head steamboat is very similar to 天外天鱼头炉。The thing about such steamboat is that the steamboat continues to be cooking when you are eating it. The charcoal in the boat keeping the soup boiling. What makes 天外天鱼头炉 and 黄埔(庆）街边美食鱼头炉 one of the 鱼头炉四大天王　is that there isn't a fishy taste and the soup is very tasty. However, I am also doubting if they had used MSG to make the soup taste good.

Standard items in the steamboat - a choice of the type of fish, cabbage, green veg, fried yam and a sour plum :)

Noticed that most of the bigger tables are reserved most of the time. So better be kiasu than to be disappointed.

Price of steamboat starts from $20 for 2 pax.

天外天潮州鱼头炉 (Tian Wai Tian Fish Head Steamboat Restaurant)

Went to this place for dinner today. It is located at 1383 Serangoon Road... er... somewhere near Boon Keng MRT Station.

It looks like a rundown coffeshop but it was already quite crowded at 5.30pm. Since it was our first time there, we din quite know what and how to order. We looked ard at what others were eating, they looked pretty standard - steamboat, sambal kangkong, fried chicken, hong shao beancurd or prawn date.

Here's our dishes.

Very delicious. The steamboat is charcoal-cooked. No fishy taste and there is some sweetness in the soup. Besides the fish, there is cabbage, lettuce and yam. The fish is very fresh and cooked till just right.

We also order a sambal kangkong. It could have been spicer....

By the time our fried chicken came, we have already finished our steamboat and veg. So, we tapau-ed it back... :(

Overall, the food is good but service is quite slow. We waited for abt 30 mins for our 1st dish to be served.

Total damage : $35 for 2 persons.