Ghim Moh Hawker Centre - Rong Yuan Cooked Food

Freshly-made chee cheong fun, glutinous rice, taro cake... try it before this is gone.  This stall is manned by a senior, whom I suppose who is already in his 60s.  He starts business at 4+am in the morning, serves mainly to the breakfast crowd.  On most days, his closes his stall by 8am.  On lucky days, he will open till about 2pm.  Even for someone who works in the vicinity, I consider it my lucky day if the stall is open during lunch hour.

The freshly made food, limited in variety, but the quality is maintained.  Highly recommended!

Chee Cheong Fun with glutinous rice.  The chee cheong fun is smooth in texture and springy.  Loves the sweet sauce that goes on the cheong fun.  The glutinous rice is soft, not too sticky... on some days, it may be a little dry.  Love the big dried shrimps hidden within the rice.

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Guan Kee Fried Kway Teow at Ghim Moh (click)

Laksa @ Ghim Moh Market

I am lucky, yet at the same time unlucky to have a stall selling delicious curry laksa near my workplace @ Ghim Moh Market (Blk 20 Ghim Moh Road).  Lucky to be able to enjoy a bowl of delicious laksa with thick flavourful gravy.  I hate laksa gravy that is diluted, masked behind the notion of it being healthy.  I say, it is healthy as long as I exclude hum (cockles) =P

Since tou geh isn't my favourable at all, that is always excluded as well. Without both, this laksa can still taste very appetising with the thick bee hoon, tou pok and fish cake and sambal chilli (err, I think there is no prawn in it).  Bottomline is - the success factor depends on the quality of laksa gravy.  Delicious gravies will be thick, savoury yet a taste of sweetness in it. Yummy!  Check it out!

Because of the popularity of their laksa, it is usually sold out by noon time.  So, do be early if you're making a special trip down to Ghim Moh just to try the laksa.  By the way, there are 2 stalls selling laksa in Ghim Moh Market.  The core business for this stall is hotpot noodles (小碗面)... yet their laksa is more popular than the Katong Laksa stall in the hawker centres.  What an irony.  Haha!

Special Shanghai Tim-Sum

Special Shanghai Tim-Sum

Margaret Drive Food Centre

Block 40A Commonwealth Avenue #02-480

Tel: 6474-4803, 9662 3501

12.30pm to 8pm (Close on Mondays)

Located at the 2nd floor of this old hawker centre tugged in the old housing estate.  You can see that this stall is really old from the signage.

The reason why I was there - Shanghainese Dumplings aka Guo Tie.  10 pieces for $4!!  This is very reasonable because each dumpling is quite huge on its own.  The skin is really crispy with fillings such as pork, chives and ham.  Good food being good food, be prepared to wait for 30 to 45 mins.  Otherwise, you can call to order your dumplings before heading down.  Despite the reservation, be prepared to wait for another 15 to 20 mins.

I love this Sour and Spicy soup.  $4 for a serving which can be shared between 2 persons.  Ingredients found in the soup includes seafood, tofu, cabbage and eggs...

The Shanghai fried noodles was a little disappointing.  Give it a miss unless you can't live without noodles.  =P

The stall was featured on Bryan Wong's food programme! Check it out!!

Ghim Moh - Guan Kee Fried Kway Teow

Guan Kee Fried Kway Teow

Ghim Moh Market And Food Centre

Blk 20 Ghim Moh Road #01-12

Closed on Wednesdays and Fridays

The queue seems never ending but fried kway teow lovers do not mind the waiting 30mins to 40mins. The glass stall is plastered with raving reviews, that you can hardly see the elderly uncle manning the wok.

Some say "good things but wait".... but after my 2nd attempt, I guess this isn't my type of fried kway teow. I'd prefer the kway teow to be slightly burnt and with strongly fried kway teow aroma. It was slightly too watery for my liking.

The serving portion for $2.50 was considered small, at least to me.

 

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Rong Yuan Cooked Food - Glutinous Rice, Yam Cake, Chee Cheong Fun (click)

Centre Satay Bee Hoon (AMK Food Centre)

Centre Satay Bee Hoon

Blk 724 Ang Mo Kio Ave 6 Food Centre #01-12

This is one of my favourite satay bee hoon ($3), which I have been eating for the past 20+ years. The stall has been operating at this AMK Food Centre since the 1980s.

What I like about this satay bee hoon:

1) The fine and smooth bee hoon texture

2) The peanut gravy that isn't too dilute or too dry

3) Fresh ingredients esp the prawn and lean meat

Best of all, the quality has remained the same even after so many years.

Hong Kong Wanton Mee (香港云吞面)

It was an immediate decision to check out this wanton mee stall after I read the posting on ieat. I also emailed to my fellow ex-AJCians and shared with them my excitement of finally being able to eat my fav wanton mee again. Some of them do remember the stall vague, some have no recollection of what they had been eating during those 2 years. For me, it was this wanton mee stall that filled my tummy back then.

My ex-AJCian colleague also remembers this stall but during her time, the stall was famous for their Chicken and Rice.

I check out the stall the next day (it was abt 2 weeks back) but I had just missed their operating hour. I reached at 3pm but they close at 2pm. Had a short chat with the auntie, who said she sorta remembers me, and I promised I'd be back again.

BTW, the stall is now located at

ABC Brickworks Market

Jalan Bukit Merah

(the hawker centre behind Alexandra IKEA)

The stall is located around the centre section in the hawker centre with a bright yellow signboard.

Me finally sink my teeth in the yummy wanton mee and ipoh hor fun again this afternoon. Oh no, did I ate 2 portions of food??

For the record, each plate of noodle is only $2, considered the cheapest you can find nowadays.

The wanton mee comes with a separate bowl of soup & wanton. The noodles are QQ. I like the soy sauce used.

Below is the ipoh hor fun, which I always asked to add fried wanton, back then in AJC.

This plate of 15 wanton only costs $2. The price is just unbelieveable. A little bird whispered in my ears that uncle and auntie are quite well-to-do wor... I just they are really doing something that they enjoy.

The Good Waffle - The Sweet Stone Parad'Ice [Closed]

The Sweet Stone Parad'Ice, a high class dessert hidden in a HDB estate hawker centre (Goldern Mile Food Centre @ Beach Road aka Army Market). Like the header of its website reads, it is an Ang Moh dessert. First, I supposed this is a Belgian specialty and secondly, it is co-owned by a Belgian.

It is located at Level 1 and it will hardly to miss the stall due to its European facet.

(Can you see the Ang Moh boss standing behind the class showcase?)

The delicious part of these waffles is that they are really crispy, and goes well with gelato and thick chocolate dip. However, I find the price a little steep.

For a single set of waffle + choco dip, it costs $2.50.

For a set of 8 waffles + 4 sets of gelato and a pot of choco dip, it costs abt $25....好像很好赚喔！ But again, it is 一分钱一分货。久久吃一次，it is ok :)

The 5 of us shared the set with 8 waffles and had green tea, coffee, chocolate and banana flavoured gelato. For a non-coffee fan, I actually quite like the coffee flavoured gelato.

The business-minded boss even had a reward system of accumulating points in exchange of free waffles. I shall be back to claim the freebies :)

顺发潮州沙爹米粉 (ABC Market)

ABC Market has been famous for its hawker food.

The place has been renovated not too long along.

It is located somewhere behind the old IKEA.

This day, I decided to give the satay beehoon a try.

Satay beehoon is not just beehoon with satay gravy (for the knowledge of those who do not know). There are ingredients including kangkong, prawn, pork, taupok, taugeh, 'hum', cuttlefish and sometimes pig liver.

Since there is a queue all the time, I assume the satay beehoon must have some standard la... I was attracted by the word '潮州' and hence, curious to know just how different it is from other satay beehoon I ate before.

This stall is self-service.
Like my usual order, I will ask to omit the cuttlefish, 'hum' and taugeh. Never like taugeh at all. I requested for additional sauce and that's how it looks.

Overall, it was a little disappointing cos it was a little too blend and the gravy was a little too watery.

Rating :&&&

It is not easy to find a good satay beehoon stall. So far, my fav satay beehoon stall is found in AMK Central Hawker (Blk 724), corner unit, facing a second-hand book shop.

阿里山台湾牛腩面

Urgh! Blogger is playing punk again! My entire original post was lost! :( :(

Anyway, this is about a porridge cum noodle place located at Upper Serangoon Road. I think they are opened 24-hours if I remember correctly.

Wanted to go for the porridge but Ｉ had wanton noodle instead. The wantons were good.

Another dish worth mentioning is the Deep Fried Mango Salad. I suspect they used fresh mango for this dish. It is a ＭＵＳＴ　ＴＲＹ！！！

Char Kway Teow @ Holland Market

Went to Holland Market again and this time I tried the Char Kway Teow.

I would say this stall is quite efficient - good numbering system and fast service. Quality hasn't been compromised much as well, except that noodle was a little soft. Not sure if it was over-cooked. Overall, it was quite delicious. My colleagues were betting if I would finish it up. And yes, I did.

Total damage : $3

Holland Market - Western Food

My colleagues love the western food from Holland Market, located in Holland Village.

Fish & Chips - $5.

Serving portion is quite big. Slightly crispy and not oily. The thing about F & C is that it should not be too cripsy, otherwise it would mean there is too much coating (too much flour) and little fish.

Fried Rice - $3.

I have not tried the fried rice but apparently it is quite good. My colleagues finished every bit of it. You can request for fries instead of egg.