Maximum number of Soups...

When one has the hunger for a bowl of Chinese Soup, where would be the best place to go? Well if you ask a hundred person the same question, you might ended up getting a hundred different answers. However, what I'm introducing today has something to do with a bowl of soup... :D

'Herbal Turtle Soup Meal' Not sure how the bowl of soup will ended up to be, but usually I will order a bowl of rice to goes with the bowl of soup. I still miss the good old days of soaking the bowl of rice in the tasty soup. :D

Hmm... pretty hard to see what's inside. Let me scoop out some of the ingredients...

Just by taking a look at the ingredients that I'm scooping out of the bowl, frankly speaking, I have difficulty figuring which is which. But one thing that I can easily identify would be the fact that there's a good mixture of different types of turtle meat been added into the bowl of soup. There's the gelatinous bits, the meaty stuff and a bit of boney stuff. Soup wise, I love the thick herbal taste that comes in every single scoop. Even though it's a sunny day, but the tasty sensation that just get better and better as I dig towards the bottom of the bowl. Though it's a bit bitter but there's a nice sweet taste hidden inside the bowl of soup too. Too bad it wasn't a rainy day, else I would have...

So where can you give this bowl of soup a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Very Lucky Turtle Soup'(狀幸運山瑞). It's located inside 'Berseh Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  Thursdays - Tuesdays: 11:30 - 10:30
  (Closed on Wednesdays)
• Besides for 'Turtle' soup, there's 'Duck' soup, 'Black Chicken' soup, etc... Not too bad for a stall.

* Click here for the location of 'Berseh Food Centre' on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can get in 'Berseh Food Centre'.

Another crazy Ice Kacang stall...

When one has no luck with a rainy day, one tend to turn to a good bowl of dessert for a chilling sensation. But this is a bit too....

'Coconut Ice Kacang'(椰糖红豆冰) One might ask, what makes this different from ordinary 'Ice Kacang'? Let me get this straight. They are covering the layer of ice with 'Gula Melaka'(Palm Sugar). And I have listed this dessert as one of those that I would only be having once a month. The extremely POWERFUL sweet taste is a bit too much for me.... TT.TT Besides of overloading the consumer with a complete sweetness, the ingredients that are hidden beneath the Ice Mountain isn't that bad too. Not too bad for a dessert stall.

So where can you give the desserts a good try?

They isn't really a name for this stall. It's located inside 'Berseh Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  Daily: 12:00 - 10:00

* Click here for the location of 'Berseh Food Centre' on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can get in 'Berseh Food Centre'.

Shark eats Pig Trotter Jelly?

Let's face it, eventually we humans were the greediest group of living things that have ever existed. Even if your favourite dish was served for lunch and dinner everyday, you will eventually get sick of it and you will start to keep an lookout for new/possible good alternatives. Therefore...

'Shark Meat'(白牙沙鱼) Why go for the expensive 'Shark Fin' when you can have 'Shark Meat' at a affordable price over here? For a start, the 'Shark Meat' isn't fried or deep fried. I saw the stall owner boiling a large portion of 'Shark Meat' at one go and he only boil the 'Shark Meat' only a short moment before scooping up all the 'Shark Meat' into a tray. This makes it pretty healthy. On top of that, the portion of 'Shark Meat' that was given were pretty generous too. Taste wise, the 'Shark Meat' are pretty fresh, tender and the meat are much more firm than the fish slices that you are getting in your regular bowl of 'Sliced fish Soup'. In fact, this seems to be pretty rare delicacy that you can find in a regular food centre or hawker centre, therefore please give this a try if you have the time. :D

'Pig Trotter Jelly'(猪脚冻) According to all the articles that were available on the internet, the process of making this dish seems to be crazily tedious. For a start, the stall owner has to spend a bit of time removing all the fats and bones from the pig trotter before marinating it using his secret formula and stew for 10 long hours to bring out the gelatin from the pig trotter. After the long stewing process, the mixture will have to be refrigerated for a very long period of time, and once it have a jelly like texture, it's ready to be served. The texture of the dish is pretty interesting. For a start, the dish is pretty chewy, which is caused by the meat and the gelatin of the meat itself. By having it with the chilli sauce or the special blend of sauce that they are offering, you are basically tasting and trying something new and special. Trust me, just the texture of the dish itself, it's pretty interesting already. Taste wise, if you are into the slices of cold pork in a Chinese feast, this will definitely be something that you must give it a go.

So where can you give all these delicacies a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Lao Liang Pig Trotter Jelly Shark Meat'(老兩猪脚冻白牙沙鱼). It's located on level 2 of 'Berseh Food Centre', which is located along 'Jalan Besar Road'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  11am - 2pm Daily
  (Closed on Mondays)
• If you really want to give everything over here a good try, trust my words and get there by 12noon. Otherwise, you might ended up making a wasted trip here.

* Click here for the location of 'Berseh Food Centre' on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can get in 'Berseh Food Centre'.

Eating the Wild Animals...

It seems that ever since my last trip to Japan earlier this year, I haven't been going around Singapore giving all the local delicacies a good try. Therefore since I have the time the other day, I decided to have some soup for lunch. Although it's merely soup, but it can be pretty interesting too.

'Turtle Soup' with rice For a start, the soup itself comes with a pretty strong herbal taste and I'm pretty impress with the amount of work that is required in preparing this soup. The taste of the soup is pretty thick and strong. Despite of the size of the bowl, it have definitely warm me up, which makes this a pretty good alternative when it is a crazily cold day. However, if you try to have this on a pretty hot day, you might be getting unnecessary nose bleed. (If the stall owner has given a bigger portion of soup that day, I think that I might be nose bleed non-stop.) As for the turtle meat itself, there's a mixture of turtle meat and turtle skin. For the turtle skin, the texture are pretty much similar to a jelly but it's slightly a bit more harder and at the same time much more chewy too. As for the meat itself, it's pretty much similar to a herbal chicken, however, the chewy touch of the meat itself reminds me of pork. Anyway, looks like I have found myself a pretty good alternative for a crazily cold day. (:D)

Menu of the stall. Besides for the Turtle Soup, this stall also prepares crocodile soup, chicken soup, duck soup, frog soup, pork ribs soup, etc...

The name of this stall would be 'Fu He Turtle Soup'(福和山瑞). It's located on level 2 of 'Berseh Food Centre', which is located along 'Jalan Besar Road'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  11am - 9pm Daily
  (Closed on Tuesdays)

* Click here for the location of 'Berseh Food Centre' on Google Maps.