Date Visited: 10/6/2018 (Sun,3:30pm)
It is so much better to come here for lunch than to come here for dinner. Much more relaxing experience.
If you drive, be prepared to wait forever for a parking lot during dinner time. Unless you are luckier than the other 99 cars that are also waiting for a lot. And after that, you still gotta find seats. Challenging if you come in a big group. And after that, your still have to queue for your food.
I ordered the chicken and mutton satay ($0.60 each), plus the ketupat (rice cakes, $0.50 each). I don't think the ketupat is made by them though. They came in plastic wrappers.
The satays are good. Very well-marinated; sweet and savoury. In fact, more sweet than savoury, which is what I like for satay. Chunky pieces of meat and not some minced meat put together. The biggest chunks I had thus far. In Singapore and from other stalls there as well.
Satay sauce is good as well. Looks watery but is not. Sweet, thick, fragrant and not oily!
Love it!
My bro/sis-in-law went to M'sia and bought the coconut buns for us!
I read that Hiap Joo Bakery is 1 of only 2 bakeries left in Johor that still uses a century-old wood fired oven to bake their breads and cakes.
The coconut buns has a matte, slightly charred appearance. It has a very slight hint of charred smokiness if you bite off just the charred part of the bread. Otherwise, the bread itself tastes quite normal/ average.
The coconut filling in the bun is generous! The fresh grated coconut roasted with gula melaka filling was not overly sweet, and this filling is what makes the bun comes alive! The coconut shreds/ filling was delicious and not overly sweet. It wasn't dry, but I wish it was a bit more juicy.
Anyway, that was when I ate the buns at room temperature on the 2nd day. I kept them in the refrigerator on the 2nd night and heated them in the morning on the third day. The bun tasted much better. Could smell the fragrance from the bread and the coconut filling. The coconut filling felt slightly more moist as well.
I like the buns way better when they are (re)heated!
Can't remember the price, but it should be $1.
I bought a few buns from this stall; the classic luncheon meat bun, hotdog bun, butter bun, orh nee (yam paste) bun and the butter cake.
The luncheon meat/ hotdog/ butter buns were ok. Fresh but I would still consider them average despite their slightly more buttery buns. Nothing exceptional.
The butter cake here is the one to get! It is a smaller-than-average piece of cake, but it is so so so soft that it melts in my mouth the moment I took a bite! Holding the cake left me with oily fingers, but this cake is worth every calorie!
Bengawan Solo cakes are also VERY oily (if you notice, more so than butter cakes elsewhere) but they are nowhere as soft. Not even near!
Their butter cake may not be their bestseller, but it is a must-try!
This orh nee (Yam Paste) bun is one of the best I have tried. The orh nee filling is not the smooth, luscious, creamy type used in Poh Cheu yam (ang) ku kueh.
This orh nee filling is so concentrated that it is almost dense, but yet it is so soft. My first mouthful of the filling gave me a shock! So flavourful... So fragrant.
An amazing orh nee bun!
This is my all time favourite place for braised duck rice in Singapore. The duck meat is so tender, while the gravy is gooey and thick with a herbal taste. It is definitely not the cheapest, but definitely one of the best braised duck rice stalls in Singapore!
Date visited: 8/6/2018
Century Square ( 6th June 2018 Onward )
2 Tampines Central 5
#B1-29
Singapore 529509
Bak Chang is no longer a festive food these days though many more people tend to eat it on the rice dumpling/ dragon boat festival (which falls on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar).
Nonya chang (ε¨ζΉη²½) is a version created by the Peranakan community. A Nonya-style bak chang is a sweet and savoury type of bak chang (a tad more sweet than salty, but not overly so) and it is my preferred choice of bak chang as well.
And when it comes to Nonya chang, Kim Choo Kueh Chang comes to mind as they are most well-known for their Nonya rice dumplings.
Their sticky rice is fragrant, tasty and well-cooked; soft with grains that are almost indistinguishable, but not mushy. They diced up the lean pork (filling) for better texture and I prefer this to minced up pork filling. I really like the sweetness level in their Nyonya rice dumplings from the candied winter melon added and the wonderful flavour from the Chinese five spice powder that is used to flavour the fillings.
I used to think that all glutinous rice taste the same until I tried the ones from Daun Rice Dumplings. π€¦π»ββοΈπ
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And btw, Kim Choo Traditional Rice Dumplings is not the same (company) as Kim Choo Kueh Chang!
Kim Choo Kueh Chang's Nonya chang is absolutely delicious!
Date visited: 9/6/2018 (Sat, 12:05pm)
Stall 46, Serangoon Garden Bakery & Confectionery.
Cream puffs were sold out by then.
I bought the luncheon meat bun for $1. Prices for breads is alright if you don't compare them to breads from Baker Talent where a good range of their breads are priced within the range of ($0.60-$0.90).
Not many places sell the classic luncheon meat bun these days. Even for those bakeries/ confectioneries that do, they use chicken luncheon meat.
Who would have imagined that the once common simple luncheon meat bun would become this difficult to get these days?
This stall was added to my wishlist when I tried to do a search on Google on places/ bakeries that sell luncheon meat buns and this place is one of the rare places that (still) do.
Anyway, the luncheon meat is legit/ good; not some fake chicken luncheon meat. The thickness is good, not sliced overly thin.
The bun has a distinctive buttery aroma and flavour; it tastes more buttery than sweet. I don't find the bread sweet. I wish it was a tad sweet(er).
The bread is fresh/ freshly made, but I don't consider it incredibly fluffy or super soft. Usually, Asian-style breads tend to have a pillowy soft texture due to the butter and sugar added to the dough. I don't mean that the bread is hard; it is just... 'average-ly/ normally' soft.
A pretty good luncheon meat bun, but certainly not the best i have tried.
I personally prefer the slightly sweeter and softer luncheon meat bun from Boon Keng Bread (Stall #01-44) at Upper Boon Keng Market & Food Centre.
Date visited: 9/6/2018 (Sat, 11:30am)
No queue.
Unlike Lao Ban douhua with their pudding-like textures, the traditional tau huay from Tan Soon Mui is starkly different.
The traditional version is served with sweet syrup.
This is a bowl of soft, silky, smooth tau huay that melts in my mouth!
Amazingly good!
Date visited: 9/6/2018 (Sat, 9pm)
Managed to reach in time to place our order for the grilled set meals before the kitchen closes.
If you come in slightly after 9pm, there's only soup left.
The grilled sets come with two sides; chose buttered corn and potato salad.
The grilled salmon was fresh. Accompanying sauce was alright. Couldn't really tell what type of sauce it was though.
Buttered corn was very oily and rather salty for some parts. I gave up trying to finish the corn after a while.
Potato salad was ok. Potatoes soft, but not mushy. Creamy, savoury but not overly rich. Nice in an average way.
Date visited: 9/6/2018 (Sat, 11am)
Can expect a 20-25 min wait on a Sat morning.
$9 for the plate of ζ (ingredients) and 3 bowls of kway.
Kway Chap here is two notches above your average kway chap. The pig's stomach was good, really tender. But if you prefer those that are more fatty/ chewy, then this may not be for you. The 'loh' (aka ε€ζ±)/ braising chap was good ,but not exactly outstanding. Still very good though. Ingredients used were fresh and that's important.
What I found to be exceptional was the kway! The kway was amazing! The kway was really thin, unbelievably soft, and smooth! I have not come across kway chap with kway this good!!!
Date Visited: 8/6/2018
There are two pancake stalls in the vicinity, both within walking distance from each other. Both are very good.
The more popular one (Granny's Pancake) with a perpetual queue on weekends is located at the Kim San Leng (Tampines); Blk 138 Tampines St 11 #01-148 Singapore 521138, right outside the Tampines Round Mkt's wet market section. Costs slightly more too.
The thin, crispy pancake I bought from 137 Market Pancake, Stall #01-19, also sells the same pillowy kind of mi jiang kueh with typical fillings like peanut, red bean and grated coconut. Costs slightly less too ($2 for 3 mi jiang kueh). More variety of pancakes as well.
I have tried the mi jiang kueh from both stalls and IMHO, they are both (equally) good! Despite the lack of queue at 137 Market Pancake stall, I don't think they lose out to Granny's Pancake stall in any way.
Anyway, back to the thin, crispy peanut pancake I am reviewing today. Even when I was a kid, this type of pancake was hard to come by. I used to have it when I was in my teens; at Bendemeer Food Centre, but that particular stall has since closed down. Have not seen this type of pancake since.
This thin, crispy type of pancake I got today is a little different. The thin, crispy pancake is very subtly sweet. Instead of the typical crushed peanut + sugar mix/ filling that I am used to, this 'filling' is more like a peanut butter type of paste; it was spread very thinly on the inside of the flat pancake and has a peanut butter savoriness which contrasts nicely with the subtly sweet, flat pancake.
A delightful snack really worth trying!
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Available at @sweet.rex
About 10 minutes wait.
Topped with caramel syrup.
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Interesting find during at Mei Ling Hawker Centre.
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