Zhong Hua Guo Wang (Bishan)

Spiciness: 中辣 (M) 🌶🌶

Was deciding what to have for dinner & was craving for mala, so I scrolled through Burpple & found this new store that has recently opened nearby.

Took a walk over to find it located within the S11 behind the Bishan Library, just a quick 3 minutes walk from the library.

As the entire coffee shop had recently undergone renovation, everything was new & really clean!

The store had their fridge outside the store and had the usual suspects that you would need to find. At $6.60, I took the following items: oyster mushrooms, shimeji mushrooms, black fungus, Tau gua (beancurd), beancurd skin, potatoes, lotus root & instant noodles. These are my usual orders & I'd usually pay at least $8 outside, but the rates here are really competitive!!

Ordered it & paid easily with favepay (yay), and allow for us to tweak it accordingly to the amount of oil and salt that you'd like.

Waited for about 15 minutes amidst the dinner crowd at 6.45pm and was greeted with a nicely plated bowl of my ingredients topped with peanuts (yay to no parsley). The spiciness for medium was alright, not too spicy, and they really cut down on the oil and salt, which made the bowl much more flavourful!

Possibly one of the cheapest mala I’ve had thus far (excluding the ones at school)! 🤯🤯 Love that we could finally go all out with the meat and ingredients and it was still

Ordered medium spicy (even for a person whi can take really spicy food, medium spicy is just nice) For me, their spice blend have a good mix of spiciness and numbingness which i really like! (FYI: They charge $1.5/100grams for veg, $2.5 for mushrooms and $3 for meat) Paid: $7.80 for 1 pax portion

Fish was tasty, spicy. But way too oily