Cha Kuay Teow @ Margaret Drive

Stall Name: Hai Kee Teochew Cha Kua Teo
Place: Margaret Drive (off Queenstown MRT)
Address: Blk 40A Margaret Drive
Speciality: Cha Kua Teo (Cha Kuay Teow)

Cha Kua Teo with a lot of cockles and good 'wetness'. A must try if you like cockles with Cha Kua Teo.

Comment: Owner says that he has been frying Cha Kua Teo for more than 30 years, thus giving it the authentic taste. Be prepare to wait a long queue if you are there on weeknight; self service.

Website: http://www.haikee.com.sg/
(No, I am not kidding, he really got a website)

Photos:



Photo taken from the Hai kee website. All rights reserved to the owner of the photograph.

You can view them all at his website: http://www.haikee.com.sg/photos.htm

Bak Kut Teh @ AMK

Stall Name: Eng Joo Bak Kut Teh
Place: Ang Mo Kio
Address: Ang Mo Kio Blk 341 Market
Speciality: Bak Kut Teh ($6), Pig Trotter ($5)

Bak Kut Teh is the famous food there although the Pig Trotter and other of the small side dishes are fantastic as well.

The Bak Kut Teh is just fantastic with its soup rich in taste and meat tender and yet not too soft in the mouth. Each bowl is served with meat of Bak Kut and not bones with meat grown around it. Soup is refillable when you dine there and if you take away, they give you a big container so that you can enjoy more of the soup.

For take away scenario, I will away bring the soup home and add a little water to the soup and then boil them together. I find that the soup is always a little salty when take away but adding water, blend them well and boil them gives a smoothing and refreshing taste.

Meat portion is generous with 4-5 pieces of meat with every serving.

Comments:
This stall is famous and have many awards to it. If you look at the wayu they prepare, the man (presuming the owner) pick every piece of meat in each bowl carefully and the soup are mixed in order to give you the perfect experince of Bak Kut Teh. I dont know about other stalls but the overall experience from the way they pick the meat till the way your devour it, it is just fantastic.

Rating:
9/10 - The only drawback for not getting a perfect 10/10 score is that it is not cheap at $6 per bowl in a hawker centre setting. $5 would be perfect.

Food wise, it is one of the best Bak Kut Teh I ever had.

Qing Tian Dessert @ Redhill Market

Stall Name: Qing Tian Hot and Cold Desert （青天冷热甜品）
Place: Redhill
Address: Redhill Market
Speciality: Any kind of desert

Whatever desert you order from the stall, I guarantee that you are satisfied with the taste. The mixture of sweetness and taste is just perfect.

Must try: Ice Kacang, Red Ruby, Chendol, the hot desserts.

Comments:
Beside savouring the desert, I just love the uncle's action who is serving the dessert. It is like watch a performance. The uncle would just execute his synchronised actions while taking the hot deserts or serving your orders to you. It is a queue that I enjoy queuing.

This is the place to go to, not for any specialised desert, but if you cannot decide on what to eat, then go there and order anything on their menu.

Rating:
4.5/5. Almost every desert is nice.

Duck Rice @ Bt Batok (1st Hawker Food Review)

Stall Name: See Picture
Place: Bt Batok
Address: Blk 109 Bt Batok Ave 4
Speciality: Duck Rice

Very traditional and authentic HK style roast duck / roast pork
Duck / Meat is cut in thick pieces
Serving is generous

Comments:
I understand that standard has once dropped few years ago, but the good news is they picked themselves up and has been consistently good for a few years already

Rating:
4.5/5. One of the best duck rice I have ever tasted.

Photos:

Baked Rice @ Upper Thomsom

Restaurant Name: Crab Shack (I think)
Place: Upper Thomson
Address: Didnt get the exact address but it is directly opposite the Crispy Prata Shop
Features: Baked Rice, Fish and Chips
Also Try: Tom Yam Soup, Green Curry, Chicken Frank Salad

An accidental find as was just running out of place for food that day. A first glance, you don't know what this place is selling. There is a Malay stall selling Nasi Lemak at the entrance of the shop, and on the Malay stall glass display, it says "Authetic Thai Cusine". Beside the Malay Stall, there is a digital photo display showing western cusine like Pizza, Baked Rice, Fish and Chips, Finger Food. Then when you walk further in, you see a Wan Ton Mee Stall.

Anyway, I am taking about Crab Shack, the western department of the shop. By default, if you just sit down, the staff will walk up and serve you and pass you the menu of the western and thai dishes. For the Malay and Wan Ton Mee, you have to walk up and order yourself.

I tried the Crab Baked Rice and the Fish Baked Rice (both $6.80). For me, the thing about baked rice is that it must use the right kind of cheese and have enough cheese. The baked rice is so cheesy that it taste like pizza, the mozeralla cheese just stretches like when you pull the pizza. If you like cooked cheese like those found in Pizza, then you have to try the baked rice. Between the crab and fish baked rice, i personally prefer the fish because the fishes are sliced in bigger chunks. The crab are cut into small pieces and you cant really bite the crab meat.

The fish and chip ($6.80) is the traditional kind, where there is a big serving of fish together with a lot of chips. Fish is crisy on the outside and juicy in the inside. The tartar sauce is not bad either. It is not easy to find this kind of traditional fish and chip anymore, so i will give it to them

Other to try are the chicken frank (Read: Hotdog) salad ($3), tom yam soup ($4), green curry ($4).

I also tried the Nasi lemak ($3 to $4.20 for various sets) from the malay stall and conclusion is that the nasi is great, rest of the items (egg, chicken wings, ikan billis) are just average

Comment:
I think that the western chef is good, so it might be worth while to eat other dishes like Pizza.

Price:
As stated above

Rating:
3.5 / 5 overall. Baked rice is at least a 4/5.

Photos:


Baked Rice


This is the shop from where we are sitting.


This is the shop from far.

What's Nice @ Where - 2

AMK S-11 Blk 711
Rasa Sayang Western Food
Bak Chor Mee
Porridge (at one corner)

AMK Beside Blk 326 Coffeeshop
When you are at BLK 326 or 323, you will see this 2 coffeeshops side-by-side each other. If you are looking at the coffeeshop with a Multi-storey carpark at the back of the coffeeshops, I am talking about the one on your left.
Ice Lemon Tea / Lime Juice
Hokkien Mee
Slice Fish Bee Hoon
Kuay Chap
Western Food
Fried Mee / Bee Hoon from Economy rice stall
(basically everything is nice in that coffeeshop)

AMK Blk 729
Fish Soup with Paper steamboat
Bar Chor Mee
Tze Cha

What's nice @ where - 1

Notice that I have been talking about restaurants and neglected the provider of the good food of Singapore, the hawkers. Nope, not because I am rich so I eat mostly restaurant food, but because it is easier to review restaurants food as they are all cooked to almost the same standard.

Nevertheless, let's start off with a new series What's nice @ where. In this series, I will list down what food is nice at a certain location. NO review will be done, review will be done at a later date when i got my photos.

Here goes:

Chinatown Market
Claypot Rice
119 Fishhead with Bean Paste sauce
Lime Juice with 25 Limes (Somewhere near Claypot Rice)
Yam Cake, Zhu Chang Fen, Fried Mee / Bee Hoon, Fish Porridge, Raw Fish, Dumpling (same store)
Mongkok Tim Sum and Pao (Not sure whether they moved back into the new market)
Ikan Billis Yong Tau Foo
Er Ku Tong Shui

Redhill Market
Ching Tian Desert (Mickey Mouse theme)
Famous Nasi Lemak - Chinese seller - behind the desert
Grilled Stingray - 1st stall from the centre passageway, stall is somewhere in the centre row

ABC Market
Porridge
Wan Ton Mee
Pineapple Juice
Fried Oyster
Western Food - Wow Wow West
Kuay Chap / Pig Organ Soup