This quintessential Hakka dish is much loved by my family but we hardly ever eat it outside of the domains of home. Well, no one makes one as good as my late grandmother. She makes her own preserved mustard greens and used to give each relative some. Little did I know how much they were treasured till she's gone and my relatives still rave about them. As expected, this didn't come up to mark. It wasn't bad but just not what we are used to.

This may not be worth travelling across Singapore for, but for those who live or work in Jurong West, expect a true bargain for chicken rice at what Tastemaker Fabian Poon says is the area's best kept secret. Tastemaker Emily S paid only $7.50 for a generous set of steamed and roasted chicken rice for two, and the steamed chicken had her waxing lyrical about how tender and silky smooth it is. The sauces, especially the chilli, are great too. If you're in a large group, take Tastemaker Fabian's lead and order one whole chicken (get a combination of steamed and roasted for variety) along with a side of roast pork belly and char siew to share. What will comfortably feed a gang of eight will only set you back $31 — what a steal!
Avg Price: $5 per person
Photo by Burpple Tastemaker Fabian Poon

$4.5 without tofu or meat balls. Add tofu is $1 more, meatballs as well.

The place is nice and clean, food is healthy and delicious but not vegetarian diet because it contains garlic.

It also has cabbage, cowpea, small tofu, peanut, and more vegetables I cannot name.

Pour the green soup (擂茶）into the rice and mix them up, nothing could be better than that.

If I only use one word to describe thunder tea rice: heaven.

I strongly recommend you to try this shop. But that food market is always super crowded haha so maybe around 11 am? Otherwise you may not be able to order that special tofu or find any seats.

Scorch, a Taiwanese-Singaporean cuisine inspired joint, newly opened within the depths of Clifford Centre. Amongst the variety of Nasi Lemak and Lu Rou Fan bowls, they also sling out old school waffles with a thick schmear of your favourite filling.
Featured is the crisp fragrant waffle with a slice of cheddar and copious amounts of nacho cheese sauce sandwiched between. An easy crowd pleaser which is equally easy on your wallets.

2bucks/cheese waffle
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Scorch
24 Clifford Centre
Level 1-12A
Singapore 048621
#FTrecommends #BurppleYoungHawkers

Aka the 52 Grilled Cheese Sandwich and also the name inspiration for Nesuto’s latest takeaway concept kiosk! 52 Sandwich Shack will be up and running starting tomorrow alongside ShuuChoux, taking over Koki Tamagoyaki.

It’s the most ‘basic’ sandwich up on the menu that uses a combination of cheddar, mozzarella and fontina (Chef took 52 tries to get this combi)! Found this to be a lighter mix of flavours, quite a nice snack that’s sufficiently cheesy and not too jelat. I actually thought it could have been even cheesier! Brioche was very buttery and crispy but my only gripe is that the cheese seemed to dry out a little too quickly. If you're not having it straight away, they recommend to warm it up in an oven for a minute!

Cheesy filled pancake with soya bean taste. Really nice experience to try new stuff. Gotta spend more time with this shop for afternoon tea!!!

Was intending to lunch at another stall nearby but the lack of comfortable seats and the pure sight of Lor Bak Rice on the banner outside of the eatery made us dine here instead. Paradise Gastronomy at The Bencoolen serves Taiwanese fare, including Oyster Mee Sua, simple bento sets as well as Taiwanese snacks such as the Sesame Crispy Chicken.

The version here may not be quite as mind-blowing as my favourites (which happens to be Scorch and Eat 3 Bowls), but the bowl here still proves to be satisfying for the folks who work around the area. While the braised meat wasn't quite as chunky as what I would have expected, it's still pretty tender considering they used diced pork belly that's slow-cooked. There's enough sauce and pork to go around the entire bowl, and the sauce was immensely flavourful and savoury; a good balance especially when had with the crunchy pickles at the side that gives an adequately sourness that cleanses the tastebuds. What was particularly interesting with this bowl was how they seemed to have included fried shallots with the braised pork to provide a crunch — something that makes it texturally different from other Lor Bak bowls out there.

PS: the lady that served us seemed to take a lot of pride in the food they have to offer and is pretty friendly given how she is making trips round the eatery to engage with the patrons — she gave us quite a few suggestions on how to have the Lor Bak Rice, including having it with their Chili and giving everything a good mix before digging in. The zingy chili that seem to somewhat resemble those that come with Oyster Mee Sua indeed gives the Lor Bak Rice a flavour burst; not too spicy, yet very uplifting!

If this is cavemen's food, I will hunt for a living! Rustic grill of the gigantic slab of steak with the rib bone weighs a whopping 1.6kg. You can't get more carnivorous than this.

If there's only one thing you can order here, let it be the mac & cheese! You wouldn't regret it. The mac used here is of a longer, thinner, straighter tubular type. The cheese used as expectedly is rich and sticky with a layer of cheddar on top, it will certainly progressed from a side and slowly but surely over take the mains. Served pipping hot (it must be!) in a cast iron pan, the M&C is wet on the inside and stick, chewy, yummy on the outside, and the truffle oil used in abundance, giving it a distinctive characteristic like no others.

Original Cake from Taiwan has landed in Singapore a week ago! Originated from Tamsui, each castella cake is handmade with ingredients such as eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vegetable oil. I could already smell the eggy aroma from afar even before seeing the store. With an open kitchen concept, you could also observe the cakes freshly baked and removed from the ovens, the bakers measuring and cutting into approximately 600g portions. It

Original Cake from Taiwan has landed in Singapore a week ago! Originated from Tamsui, each castella cake is handmade with ingredients such as eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vegetable oil. I could already smell the eggy aroma from afar even before seeing the store. With an open kitchen concept, you could also observe the cakes freshly baked and removed from the ovens, the bakers measuring and cutting into approximately 600g portions. It