Holland Village XO Fish Head Bee Hun Restaurant (Dover)

Super shiok to have on a chilly 🥶 Sunday! — A bowl of rich, flavourful and milky XO fish soup bee hoon with a dash of brandy and plenty of fish chunks and wong bok [a.k.a. Chinese cabbage]. Love ❤️ it!

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Been here before but I was really pleasantly surprised that their food quality actually improved! These are the must order dishes here:

XO Fish Soup - their fish soup come with a really robust soup that has the earthy flavours coming from the XO wine, sweetness from the fish broth and richness from the milk. So addictive! The fish chunks are thick and really fresh as well 😍

Fried Prawn Roll - beautifully fried, these were crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside. Not too savoury and accompanies the fish very well!

Prawn Paste Chicken - this is really the star of the show. Extremely light and crispy exterior with strong prawn paste flavours and juicy chicken meat within, this was so addictive! Really a must order.

San Lou Hor Fun - this comes generous with many fresh fish slices and I love how the hor fun itself is still chewy and silky smooth! This dish contains loads of garlic as well which adds alot of flavour to the dish!

Definitely a very good place to eat with friends. Will be back!

Run by a husband-and-wife duo since before 2010, it's said that they loved drinking, and thus decided to add XO (extra old) brandy into their dishes.
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The stall sells a range of zi char dishes, but most come for their fish soup... though be prepared for their gruff, no nonsense, functional service (and don't be undecided).
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The broth is rich and pearl opaque, with a depth of sweet savoury salty peppery spice boozy flavour, the undercurrent of XO brandy and Shaoxing rice wine being distinct. Pairs well with the long silky smooth rice vermicelli noodles with mild grainy sweet notes.
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The crisp cabbage lends vegetal sweet flavour, while the large boneless fillets of toman / snakehead fish are chunky yet tender with sweet savoury peppery spice flavour. Shiok.
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Fish Soup
Holland Village XO Fish Head Bee Hoon
@ 19A Dover Crescent #01-05
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/03/best-of-singapore-hawkers-fish-soup.html

Besides the XO fish head bee hoon, there are 2 must-try dishes — prawn paste chicken [a.k.a. har cheong gai] and prawn roll [a.k.a. hae cho] which we are head over heels in love with. ❤️

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Yay! Sweater weather is back with temperature dipping to between 21 deg C and 22 deg C.

I can finally don my woolly 🧶 sweater again!

At the same moment, I am craving badly for a bowl of sliced fish bee hoon.

We decided to head to this zi char place [previously located at Holland Drive] that I remember fondly back in my younger days where my folks used to bring me to — for their flavoursome XO fish meat bee hoon.

❤️ their rich, milky fish broth with a dash of brandy and copious amounts of fish chunks and wong bok [a.k.a. Chinese cabbage] in it.

It feels absolutely wholesome and nourishing! 😋

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Creamy fish soup with rice vermicelli, fish chunks and cabbage. The first time I tried this was more 20 years ago when they are still located at Holland, standard is quite inconsistent over the past years, but still one of the better one in this area.

Location: Holland Village XO Fish Head Bee Hoon (Dover), 19A Dover Cres, Singapore 131019