Welcome to Bukit Batok.

Tze char all day everyday!

Visited @jb101firewokzflagship for the first time after bookmarking it on my map for the longest time!

They were having some promotion for fried fish at $2.90 only!!

Other dishes we ordered:
- salted egg spare ribs $15
- stir fried tanghoon $6
- charcoal claypot hokkien noodles $8.90

Loved that there was no bones in the pork ribs!
Would have preferred if the claypot hokkien noodles were the wetter kind though.

No GST and service charge here

Relatively wet, fat noodles, briny stock. It's good. But dabao where did my lard go!

Having KFC Cheezy Zinger Meltz and cheese fries 🤩😋
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Established in 2006 by Andrew Khoo, this stall boasts a thick braising gravy made with pork bones and spices, including cinnamon and 5 spice, enhanced with black vinegar, minced garlic, red chili, and spring onions, carrying lovely robust savoury salty sour herbal sweet spice flavour.
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The chewy thick flat noodles have grainy sweet notes, the crisp bean sprouts vegetal sweet notes, and the tender braised pork belly has meaty salty savoury sweet earthy herbal flavour.
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The stars are the chunky 5 spice roll that's crisp juicy with meaty salty savoury sweet herbal earthy nutty flavour, and the super crispy fried dough fritters that crunch satisfyingly.
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Lor Mee
Original Tiong Bahru Lor Mee
@ Bukit Batok West Shopping Centre, 155 Bukit Batok Street 11 #01-324
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2024/09/best-of-singapore-hawkers-casual-dining-lor-mee.html

Bruschetta 2/5
Golden Seafood 2/5
Porchetta Baked Pork Belly 4/5
Eggplant Parmigiana 2/5
Cacio e Pepe 3/5
Sicilian Cannoli 1/5

Have went past Licker many times, but finally trying it recently!

They have very reasonably priced waffles! The waffles only cost $5 (+GST), while each scoop of ice cream costs $3 (+GST)! For premium flavours, there is an additional 80 cents.

The waffle is crispy on the outside, and light fluffy on the inside. A side of honey sauce is also given for your own drizzling. Many unique flavours here to try! We got the watermelon passionfruit and oolong lavender! Between the two, I preferred the sourish watermelon passionfruit! Seems like I prefer sour sorbet kind of flavours nowadays! We also got the MR MAO mao shan wang durian flavour (this is SUPREME flavour, $6.50 per scoop)!

Head here for your late night dessert was they are open all the way to 2am!

(Plus u can use CDC vouchers here!)

Exploring food places in the west brought us to @laifaba 来发吧 !

Visited on a weekend a few minutes right before opening hours, and there was already 3 groups waiting to enter! (We didnt make any reservations earlier as it was an impromptu decision to head there to eat).

This place is famous for their traditional wanton noodles and woodfire-roasted meats! What is special about this place is that you can even choose your meat cut options - lean, mixed or fatty! Seriously, this is the best customisation ever, as I love lean char siew meat! (don't really love the super fatty kind).

The bowl of signature noodle is $12++ though! Kinda expensive if you compare it to coffeeshop/hawker pricing. But if you compare it to tze char restaurant / cafe pricing, this is still relatively cheaper! Springy noodles, sweet caramelised sugar, with crispy fried wanton. The soup also had boiled wantons too! Comes with half a lava egg as well! The chilli sauces are available at each table - normal chilli, extra spicy chilli, or green chilli. Also ordered the taufu meat pocket ($12++) which was quite special!

The restaurant was nicely decked in nostalgic and vintage furniture.

A nice place to come at least once to try out the food!

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✨black truffle - works really well somehow, aromatic truffle with the buttery cake👍
🍅Scallion Cream Cheese & Sun dried tomato - was skeptical but wow even though having it cold, it’s like a cold italian tapas 💯
🍚 Black sesame Mochi - both of the popular flavors combined! rich nutty sesame with chewy mochi bits✨
🌰 Pistachio Raspberry - for pistachio lovers! thick!
🍵 Matcha - all time favorite! the matcha is rich and of quality, still as good as years ago👍
🍫 Valrhona Chocolate - first time trying their classic and surprisingly it’s a favorite of the lot too! it’s like having a mini awfully chocolate cake👌
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Who else loves claypot chicken rice!

On the search for nice claypot chicken rice in the west. Today, our search brought us to Bao Fa Traditional Food 宝发传统小食 at Bukit Batok!

We called 45mins in advance to place our order for takeaway, so there was no waiting time required! This was the medium size portion ($16) which is enough for 2 -3 pax! The chicken meat was tender and well seasoned! However, as it was a takeaway order, the rice seemed to lack some charcoal claypot wok hei taste. The chilli used here reminds me of those used for chicken rice chilli, spicy and with kick!
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📍 283 Bukit Batok East Ave 3, Singapore 650283

Hojicha Kinako Walnut Madeleine ($4.90)

got strong roasted tea w nutty aftertaste.

Matcha & Yuzu Madeleine w Roku Gin Glaze ($4.90)

got strong yuzu taste w matcha but I didn't really taste alcoholic taste.

Matcha Madeleine w Ceremonial Grade Matcha Ganache ($4.90)

got strong matcha taste ever that I have tried tbh for most of the desserts.

Hojicha "Gao" Madeleine ($4.70)

got stronger roasted tea taste.

I felt that she really use fresh ingredients to bake madeleine tbh but you cannot keep too longer for madeleine.

What a visual feast! 🤩 Shoestring fries tossed in truffle oil with a vivacious sprinkle of grated parmesan cheese 🧀.

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I wasn’t a huge fan when we first tried Bao Fa’s Claypot Rice, but it really grew on me over time and now I will have random cravings for this hearty bowl 😂

Chicken drumstick chunks are tender albeit a bit bony, with lap cheong, salted fish and spring onions in well-cooked rice. The queue can get quite long during meal times - but call them 20 min in advance (both takeaway and dine-in) and you won’t have to wait long when you arrive!