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Jason Niang Dou Fu is a name that most might find familiar especially if one passes by the Beach Road area often — these folks had been operating there for quite an number of years though it does seem that the brand is currently expanding their operations around the island. They had recently opened a new location at the basement of Sembawang Shopping Centre; they had taken over the former premises of the now-defunct location of Fun Toast there. The location of Jason Niang Dou Fu within Sembawang Shopping Centre marks the brand’s first location situated in a shopping mall — the interior of the space is decked in a rather similar theme to their very first location as well. The style in which the Yong Tau Foo is being served at Jason Niang Dou Fu is the sort where one can pick and choose their desired components with flexibility to choose between a wide variety of sauces / soups to go along with their Yong Tau Foo; they also do offer a wide variety of noodles for patrons to pair with their order as well. Beverages available are limited to the bottled and canned beverages — all that with a number house-made beverages available in a separate fridge as well.
One thing worth noting for the Yong Tau Foo that Jason Niang Dou Fu serves up would be the type of sauces / soups that one can opt for to go with their order. Whilst there are the usual options such as Tom Yum Soup, Laksa, Tomato Soup etc. that Jason Niang Dou Fu serves up apart from the dry variant, there are also options such as the Chili Crab Sauce and Chye Poh Sauce that they do offer. For our order, we went for the Chili Crab Sauce and paired it up with the Mee Sua on the side for our choice of noodles; elements that we had picked included the stuffed ladyfinger, stuffed Bittergourd, eggplant, spinach, Crispy Taro and the Shrimp Vegetable Tempura. One thing worth noting about the Assorted Yong Tau Foo Set at Jason Niang Dou Fu is how the minimum number of pieces of Yong Tau Foo is set at 5 pieces. The highlight for us was the Chili Crab Sauce here — this definitely looked quite like the real deal with the wisps of egg white swirling in the sauce; the sauce also did came thick enough whilst also carrying a sweet, tangy and spicy kick that replicates closely to what one would expect out of an actual Chili Crab dish from a seafood restaurant. This went surprisingly well with all of the Yong Tau Foo elements that we had chosen, though the star amongst the Yong Tau Foo items we had picked was the Crispy Taro — think something of the likes of Taro Dumpling that one can find at a dim sum establishment but with a thicker deep-fried batter encasing the smooth taro paste filling within; the taro paste being smooth and almost akin to that of Yam Paste / Orh Nee with a slight note of earthiness from the yam as well. With its rather interesting take and execution of Yong Tau Foo here, Jason Niang Dou Fu is definitely a spot we would look forward to visiting again another time!
