Welcome to Toa Payoh.

Nice xiao long baos, onion pancakes and har gao (shrimp dumplings)

This pancake stall was opened by a young lady at Toa Payoh, before moving to current place at Geylang East Centre Market & Food Corner.

Opened from early morning, seeing many people would drop by to grab some for breakfast.

Nice texture of pancake with generous peanuts in between.

($6.80) I expected to be so hard and tough texture for bagel but it's quite soft and chewy texture tbh. But it's quite overall nice tbh. I hope that I can try breakfast bagel chicken ham version next time.

The Fish & Chips here is 1 of their signature item, and priced at $17 be4 GST.

The F&C comes with fries(which u can opt for cheese/truffle with additional top up $$), I opted for the cheese sauce, which was served seperately.

The Fish was well Battered and the batter tasted good and it was crispy.

Overall felt this was rather good, but felt it was rather expensive for fish & Chips.

Fancy ccf. The style is more foreign, the way it uses egg and veg. The use of chicken is also uncommon. Don't expect dragon fruit taste.

Shaved chestnut, tea, fresh milk, whipped cream. It's a signature but also expensive. Interesting experience because it's unusual.

Many years haven't eat this. I always suggest to order dry beef noodle, so you get both the sauce and the soup. Here though, the soup is so good I should order the soup version. The balls were good but slightly small. The sliced beef was intentionally undercooked - it's a good idea, but some slices were rubbery, so it takes skill.

Initially known as Waker Chicken, I don't think it would be wrong to say that Jade's Chicken was one of the early pioneers responsible for making Korean fried chicken known and accessible in the heartlands.

Jade has been run by a Korean family when they first started. Business was initially on the slow side when they first started but they soon caught the public imagination with a slew of media publicity. I used to be a regular customer but the queues and wait got so maddeningly long and frustrating that I pretty much didn't really bother. They got so popular that they expanded to various locations in kopitiam and hawker centres but the quality-wise, they could not match the OG. Not long after, the OG became known in its current form as Jade Chicken whilst the expansion outlets retained the Waker Chicken name.

The OG's Korean fried chicken was one of the best in Singapore when I last had it so I was really looking forward to having it. It's still good tbh but the standard seems to have slipped a little. The batter is still shattering crisp but the chicken's marination didn't seem to go through. The sauce also seems a little more diluted these days. Either that or they may have tweaked the recipe a little!

Jade's chicken is still enjoyable and the queue is a lot shorter now. I will definitely be back to support the ahjussi!

You probably find this name in a few places but they all started from this original stall at this food centre, which also gained its recognition recently with Michelin Guide’s Bib Gourmand.

Selling one item which is their signature fishball noodles, all you can choose is the portion and either soup or dry version you want.

Yet the queue is constantly build up throughout the stall still open.

The dry version gets you a bowl of noodles mixed with lots of tomato and sweet sauce. Accompanied by another bowl with the fishballs and soup.

I would say the noodles is very unique for the sauce with tomato. Fishballs definitely chewy texture.

Many residents living in Toa Poyoh should familiar with this food stall for its famous Cantonese style of dishes in the morning.

The queue won’t ends and continue throughout the morning as everyone coming here to grab their breakfast.

There’s many options on the menu, from congee, glutinous rice to dim sum.

I want something lighter and comforting, so went for their signature congee with cuttle fish and peanut. Generous ingredients inside the congee, but wasn’t too impressive yet.

Wanted to eat the claypot hokkien mee but it was closed. Was exploring around to explore this western stall which has a long history.

I ordered the crispy chicken ($8.90) and I like it that it is thinly battered and chicken was moist. They also have free tartar sauce for you to take so it is good alternative other than chilli and tomato which is rare in a hawker.

Toilet around the toilet was surprising clean too which is a first for a coffeeshop

Opened by a trio of sisters from Indonesia, @threebygaramika is an unassuming cafe deep in the heartlands of Toa Payoh, serving traditional albeit subtly refined classic Indonesian dishes such as oxtail and gado gado.
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I tried their Ayam Bakar set, and thought it was good if abit small for the price. Obviously the star is the smoky grilled chicken, which was marinated in a sweet and savoury kecap manis-based marinade that was cooked till deliciously charred in places. The meat itself was still moist and tender. It came with rice, emping crackers, a few pieces of fried tofu, half a hard boiled egg, a tiny dab of green sambal and a rather tasty and delicate chicken broth. I don’t think enough chilli was given though.