Duck Rice Kway Chap

Duck Rice Kway Chap
Sin Fong Restaurant
560 Macpherson Road
Opening Hours: 8am to 10.30pm

This stall’s kway chap is unique. It uses more than 10 herbs and spices in its gravy, which is poured lavishly over the stewed food and bowls of kway (flat rice sheets). Before setting up the stall more than 35 years ago, owner Ng Lai Chuan had worked in a medical hall, where he used to put together herbs and spices for kway chap and duck rice stalls. “I was doing it so much, I thought I might as well start my own stall,” he says. He offers more than 20 stewed dishes. But what is also unusual is that every order comes with a few slices of pineapple. He says pineapple offsets the oily taste on innards, so customers can have a respite from the rich flavours of the dish.

Be prepared to pay S$4.30 for 1 person’s portion.

Note: This review was extracted from ST Foodies Club.

Hoe Nam Prawn Noodles

Hoe Nam Prawn Noodles

31 Tai Thong Crescent

(very near to Lao Zhong Zhong Coffeeshop)

Tel: 6281 9293

Opening Hours: 6.15am to 4.45pm, closed on alternate Mondays

Website: http://www.sbestfood.com/hoenam.htm

Look at the list of awards and recommendations that they got from their website.

The two sisters running the stall say they use pork bones and prawn shells, and the tasty soup is a mouth-watering balance of both.

I personally ate there and I had the soupy version not the dry version, so I’m not sure how the dry one tastes like.  I love the tasty soup which has a nice prawn taste.  Try the handmade fish cake too.

Lao Zhong Zhong Five Spice Stall

Lao Zhong Zhong Five Spice Stall

29 Tai Thong Crescent (just opposite the Jackson Centre) #01-03 

Lao Zhong Zhong Coffeeshop

Opening Hours: 12noon to 11pm; closed on alternate Mondays

In Singapore, ngor-hiang, or ngoh-heong, is commonly used to refer to a type of meat sausage made with a thin translucent beancurd skin somewhat similar to caul fat. Stalls selling this normally have a variety of other fried fritters, prawn fritters, beancurd(tau-kwa) and fish-cakes to go with the cut-up rolls. It is common to eat an ala carte selection with a plate of beehoon (vermicelli) together with sweet dipping and chilli sauces. These stalls are very much the Chinese equivalent of the Indian Rojak stalls.

This is the one and only Lao Zhong Zhong Five Spice Stall.  I love to eat the ngor hiang at this stall as they have so many varieties and yet the prices remain very reasonable for good quality food.

Only gripe is that they don’t have bee hoon to go with their wu xiang.

Jian Yu Fried Oyster

Jian Yu Fried Oyster

Blk 79 Circuit Road #01-548

Circuit Road Food Centre

Opening Hours: 5pm to Midnight; closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Oyster omelette is oysters fried with a special flour-and-egg mixture.  What is good is that the dish served here is not too oily. Each plate is topped with loads of coriander leaves and has more egg than starch, which is rare these days. The morsels are very crispy, and for our $3 plate, we got five fat oysters, which is a reasonable number. The chilli sauce is tangy and delicious too.