($16.35 after taxes). The friendly neighbor of mine had been eating every weekend since it opened and hence invited me to enjoy this "Tempura Don" with him. There was free flow of "Japanese salad", served with miso soup, Chawamushi and a main tempura Don. The Chawamushi was pretty tasty, the "tempuras" were well fried, with its shrimps being fresh, chicken tender, mushrooms crunchy, eggs fried to the right state. Overall a pretty good meal with only the fact that the chicken was a bit too bland for my taste buds. A warning though that it is really filling with that amount of rice they provide!
Feeling famished as I skipped breakfast, I took a leap of faith and ordered the most expensive noodles on the menu. It was the pork tendon teochew noodles. I must admit that I was pretty impressed by the value of the noodles; shrimp, fishball, pork ball, minced meat, pork tendon and pork slices. The entire dish overall was above average and what left a deep impression was the pork tendons which were so flavorful that I will definitely eat it again! At $6, it was pretty acceptable for me for having such a satisfied meal!
Another delicacy served by chef Shaun was this awesome plate of popcorn chicken sat on a pool of mentaiko sauce. My fren who worked in the food industry was surprised that the popcorn chicken was freshly fried and of top quality! Personally I liked the mentaiko sauce so much that I ate the rest of my meal dipping even my pasta into that delicious sauce 😁😁😁😁😁
To many people, this might just be a 32-year-old fishball noodle stall in the Clementi Hawker Centre, but this stall has a special place in my heart. When I was around 15 years old (about eight years ago), a friend and I had fishball minced meat noodles for dinner. Afterwards, we went all the way to Taman Jurong, only to realise that we had left a laptop behind at the hawker centre. We quickly took a cab back, and to our greatest relief, the aunty from this stall had been safekeeping the laptop for us when she realised it was left on the chair. Today, I had this bowl of kway teow for dinner again, and she still remembers me (shows that my face really didn't change much)! The smile on her face was so heartwarming, as I thanked them again for keeping my laptop safe all those years ago :) #hawkerpedia
Although many reviews online have mentioned that this stall served its ban mian with a lot of MSG, I did not find the taste too overwhelming. I had this for lunch as I saw a long queue forming in the tampines 1 food court and being a Singaporean I just can't help myself to queue for it. My order was the pork ball with 细面 the thinnest noodles, and I must admit I was kinda taken back by its initial taste. The dark soy sauce was quite different from the usual ban mian stalls and the egg soup was just da bomb! Before finishing my last portion of the noodles I took out the runny egg yolk from the soup and mashed it up with the remaining noodles. That egg-ish noodles is something I will remember for a long time. :)
A similar version but with the choice of peanut, cookie or almond butter. The butters were all locally made by a Singaporean company and I have to admit they are pretty tasty!
Ordered this $6.80 handy sized acai bowl. The acai base topped with granola, fresh fruits, blueberries, bee pollen, cacao nibs, coconut shavings, chia seeds and goji berries. All these healthy food lump together and it was an out of the world experience! Never ever I felt so shiok eating a healthy food, a little pricey but one must definitely give it a try!
The very first time I ended up in this coffeeshop was right after my 24km route march, and my mum brought me here to have brunch. I ate an upsized bak chor mee AND a wanton with dumpling noodles. I think the coffeeshop aunties were looking at me like I was a hungry ghost. As I continued to serve the army, I started having regimental duties, meaning that I would book out late in the morning. To reward myself after a tiring day, I would go to this coffeeshop, which is about four bus stops away from my grandma's house, and try all the good food there. Eventually, I got posted to DB as an MP, and only got to book out once every 3 days, so I came up with this ultimate order to pamper myself — wanton mee pok plus dumplings (shui jiao), two half-boiled eggs, and teh-O siu dai. After that, I would take a long walk home to help digest all the goodies I had eaten. The young daughter of the wanton mee stall owner soon began to recognise me, and I always got extra noodles whenever I wore my uniform! Today, I had it (without my uniform on), and only got extra chilli instead 😂. This stall has been around for over 20 years, and its dumplings are so damn good, the soup so rich — I hope it stays here forever! Also, I always like how the daughters happily help their mum with the business with happy smiles on their faces everyday. :) #hawkerpedia
A hidden gem, always seen this stall but didn't dare to try it out. After eating a similar dish near farrer park, I decided to give this a try. Oh gosh I was insanely amazed by this bowl of noodles. The soup was so rich and had that fragrant smell of that special chinese wine that I just can't seem to identify. The shrimps given were fresh and crunchy, the lala was also dam shiok and had the rich seafood taste. Although the pork slices felt good too but it was packed with MSG. Will eat it again and try their xing Hua beehoon. Yummmmmmmssssss
Basically a gigantic muah chee wrapping a big ball of red bean covered in white flour. Quite tasty and I am sure most people find that one is very much enough.
I ate this to have a better comparison to ichiran's but it was same same but different different. Both are good in their own ways but one just can't find a way to describe it. Ichiran is definitely better with its unique soup taste but this Butao ramen would win with its crazy big pork slices. Their menu options were pretty similar except that one would have more choices in Butao, you are even able to choose whether coriander or cabbage is to used for the ramen! At $85 HKD, this provides a better deal for the wallet conscious as the generous meat and ramen would certainly get one full!
After watching TV In Singapore recommending this place I went ahead against my friend's warning that this was nothing fanciful to try this dish. Boy, I was indeed disappointed, the claypot rice was not even worth taking a photo and this was just oil and oyster. I heard the opposite stall sells the oyster better and I had better listened to people's advice when it comes to oyster!
