K K Beans

It wasn’t really by chance that we found out about K.K. Beans at Ghim Moh Food Centre — this was more of a mention by one of our dining partners who told us about the stall, and us having cravings for Beancurd for such a long time that we decided to have it for dinner instead because, why not? Located in Ghim Moh Market & Food Centre, K.K Beans should be an easy spot, considering how the stall it occupies is along one of the rows that faces out of the food centre itself. The stall does have a social media presence on Facebook, and does seem to be in operation for quite a while considering how there are posts being made on the social media page since 2017 (though the last updates were made in 2021). Being a stall that focuses on their soya bean offerings, K.K. Beans does seem to suggest on the packaging of their soya beancurd products that their creations are freshly-made, and that the soya bean products are made from non-GMO soya beans. The menu does include a variety of fairly standard soya bean-related offerings; the Soya Beancurd category comprising of items like the Traditional Beancurd, Pearl Beancurd, Longan Almond Beancurd and more — also on the menu would be some Grass Jelly offerings, as well as Soya Milk and Other Beverages. Interesting Soya Milk beverages which K.K. Beans offer include an Avocado Gula Melaka Soya Milk, and a Matcha Azuki Soya Milk.

What was mentioned to us by our dining partner was also the item that seemed to stand out to us the most when we skimmed through the menu for what K.K. Beans had to offer — it was no doubt that the Osmanthus Beancurd would be the highlight and the reason for us in visiting K.K. Beans. We were initially rather skeptics in whether they would have any soya beancurd in stock considering that we dropped by K.K. Beans at around dinner time, though to much of our surprise they do have soya beancurd in stock (it also can be noticed that diners seated around the tables nearby that they were having soya beancurd for dinner / post-dinner treat). Watching how the lady behind the counter was preparing our order, she ladles the beancurd and layers it one scoop atop another; this is before she opens up a container that is filled with what seems to be Osmanthus petals that is soaked in some sort of syrup / honey, before dousing the beancurd in sugar syrup again. Digging into the Osmanthus Beancurd, we found the beancurd here to be smooth and silken; a very consistent texture throughout the entire bowl that was really enjoyable without any nasty curdled bits around. While the Osmanthus seems to have been doused in quite a fair bit of sugar syrup, we were really impressed with how the floral fragrance and sweetness really pulled through here — it was certainly distinct, and so good on its own that we nearly ran out of syrup for quite a fair bit of beancurd since we were probably going for more syrup than beancurd at one point of time just to savour those flavours. At $2.10, the Osmanthus Beancurd does seem like it comes with a bit of a mark-up from the Traditional Beancurd (aka plain beancurd) at $1.30 — but we would dare say that the Osmanthus Beancurd is the one to go for if one makes their trip all the way to Ghim Moh Food Centre just for the beancurd here!