Plate of ingredients...

This reminds me of the good old days where I used to have my lunch at the market behind my Primary School. (Since there's a long break between the classes, I have to do that especially when the school canteen doesn't have any food left after the lunch hours.) Even though the place doesn't have a air conditional environment but it does have...

'Kway Chap' With a plate of interesting ingredients and a bowl of 'Kway'(Rice Noodles), it can satisfy your taste bud easily. :D

For a start, the bowl of silky 'Kway' is pretty smooth and the flavour soup is pretty good. It gets better and better since they have sprinkle fried spring onions all over the bowl of 'Kway' it.

As for the plate of ingredients, it's kinda a bit too small for me. But there's a wide range of ingredients inside. There's the usual porky stuff like intestines, braised meat, stomach and not forgetting ingredients like braised egg, fish cake, fried beancurd and also salted vegetables. But I do like the chewy intestines and stomach, the tender braised meat and the salty yet crunchy vegetables. Best of all, most of the ingredients have absorbed the nice taste of the braised sauce and it doesn't end up to be super salty. However, as mentioned earlier it would be great if they can increase the portion a bit more O.O... :P

So where can you give the 'Kway Chap' a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Tong Luck Restaurant'(忠乐餐室). It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  05:00 - 12:00 Daily
  (Closed on Mondays - Wednesdays)

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^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get in 'Boon Lay Place Food
  Village'.

Q Duck / Duck Queue?

What can one do if he managed to wake up pretty early in the morning? I'm not sure about the others but as for me, I would go all out searching for delicious food to try. :P And the first item that appears on my 'Have to Wake Up Early to give it try'(ever-changing) list would be...

'Duck Noodles' Though the whole bowl of noodles have been covered with lots of beansprouts, there's a generous amount of duck slices, noodles and a nice mixture of spicy and dark sauce. On top of that, since they have run out of 'Duck Egg', hence I have gone for the extra portion of Noodles and 'Duck Organs'. Even though I have only placed an order for the regular bowl of 'Duck Noodles', with an extra portion of Noodles and ingredients, the portion is big enough to satisfy the stomach of a regular person.

After spending a bit of time stirring and mixing the whole bowl of noodles thoroughly, it's time for the best part of the post. The duck slices ain't too stiff and on top of that, each individual slice of meat is juicy and chewy. And the amount of sauce added into the bowl of noodles is perfect. All the ingredients doesn't end up to be too wet or too dry and on top of that I love the overall spicy and sweet touch of the bowl of noodles. And since there's a good balance of tasty meaty ingredients, noodles and beansprouts, hence there's a good mix of crunchy and chewy sensation in every single bite which is a big (+). Oops, I almost forget about the soup. Pretty much the same as some of the stalls selling good duck noodles out there, the soup that they have prepared over here are pretty thick, tasty and it's not pepperish at all. :D

So where can you give the good 'Duck Noodles' a good try?

The name of the stall would be 'Heng Huat Boon Lay Boneless Duck Noodles'(興發文礼起骨鸭面). It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'. By the way...

This should give you a good idea of the popularity of the stall. Just look at the length of the queue. In fact, I was pretty lucky to be the last few customers of the day at around 10:30am in the morning... =.=""

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  05:00 - 11:00 Daily
  (Closed on Mondays)
• Trust me, unless you are super lucky otherwise please try to make your way down to the stall before 10am in the morning otherwise they might wind up business for the day before 11am in the morning.

* Click here for the location of 'Boon Lay Place Food Village' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get in 'Boon Lay Place Food
  Village'.

I'm not getting the leaf...

Rather than making an empty trip, I decided to give something a try instead.

'Nasi Lemak' Located in the same Hawker Centre, there's numerous stalls preparing and selling 'Nasi Lemak'. And since I have given the infamous 'Power Nasi Lemak' a try, I think I should give the other competitors a try too. Therefore, after spending a few minutes ordering the dishes, I'm sitting in front of a plate of 'Nasi Lemak'. The plate of fragrance rice is a good start. The mixture of peanuts and ikan bilis were both crunchy and delicious. The fried egg was pretty ordinary. But the long beans were fantastic. Not only it's not too soggy, the texture and taste of it were almost perfect. And when I have it with the tasty Sambal Chilli, it have this wonderful sensation. By the way, the Sambal Chilli over here is tasty and not too spicy. However, the biggest drawback would be the Chicken Wing. Although the crispy texture is a (+), but the overall taste of it isn't fantastic enough. I think that there's definitely room for improvement. But as compared to the infamous 'Power Nasi Lemak', the food over here are much more cheaper and not much queueing is required over here, which is a (+). :D

So where can you give the 'Nasi Lemak' a try?

The name of the stall would be 'Banana Leaf Nasi Lemak'(香蕉葉椰漿飯). It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  10:30 - 21:30 Daily

* Click here for the location of 'Boon Lay Place Food Village' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get in 'Boon Lay Place Food
  Village'.

Not a must to be oily...

We tend to link deep fried food with oily and greasy stuff. However, that isn't the case over here.

'Ngoh Hiang'(五香) Probably I have picked and ordered too much ingredients, therefore the helpers of this stall thought that there's at least 2 of us sharing this big plate of 'Ngoh Hiang'. Therefore, she almost gave me 2 plates of 'Fried Bee Hoon' and 2 plates of special 'Chilli Sauce', on top of the big plate of ingredients that I have ordered. Luckily she corrected the mistake herself else I will be staring at 2 big plates of 'Fried Bee Hoon'.

Yes, I do agree that the plate of warm 'Fried Bee Hoon' do taste and smells good while eating, but it doesn't have the 'WOW' factor as compared to the...

plate of ingredients. I have given ingredients like 'Prawn Cracker', 'Century Egg', 'Ngoh Hiang', 'Chinese Sausage', 'Fried Prawn' and 'Fried Cuttlefish Roll' a try that day. Most of the deep fried goodies over here have this nice crispy texture that isn't too oily. Probably they have a oil filtering machine that helps them to filter out all the excessive oil. On top of that, I love the taste of the fresh ingredients, especially the chewy 'cuttlefish'. Anyway, the plate of 'Chilli sauce' that comes with it is a (+) too. They have also added peanuts into the sauce that gives you this spicy, sweet and crunchy sensation as you dip the ingredients into the sauce before you pop them into your mouth. :D However, the biggest drawback over here would be the price. It can easily go beyond S$10 or more if you are not careful enough.

So where can you give the 'Ngoh Hiang' a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Xin Sheng Gor Hiong Prawn Cracker'(新生五香虾饼). It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  11:30 - 23:30 Daily

* Click here for the location of 'Boon Lay Place Food Village' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get in 'Boon Lay Place Food
  Village'.

Penang Prawn Noodles...

It seems that every single food centre out there will have at least 1 or 2 'Hard To Get' stalls. So what's a 'Hard To Get' stall? It's the type of stall that will only be opened for a few hours. Therefore, if you really want to give it a try, you really have to 'fight' for it. For example...

'Penang Prawn Kway Teow'(Dry) This stall specializing in preparing and selling 'Prawn Noodles' and 'Century Egg Porridge' only. However, seems that all the customers are going after the 'Prawn Noodles'. The soup itself comes with a nice and sweet taste and fragrance of 'Prawns'. Even though the taste isn't too thick, but the overall taste is appealing.

However, it's the bowl of 'Kway Teow' that have caught my attention. First of all, the sauce in the bowl is black in colour. On top of that, ingredients like 'Bean sprouts', 'Prawns', slices of 'Fish Cake', slices of lean meat and a bit of 'Vegetables' have been added into the bowl. After spending a bit of time mixing all the ingredients and 'Kway Teow' thoroughly, it's time for me to dig into the bowl of 'Kway Teow'. The bowl of 'Kway Teow' ended up to be spicy and sweet. With the generous portion of vegetables and ingredients added, each bite comes with a nice mix of the chewy 'Noodles' and meaty ingredients, topped with the crunchy 'beansprouts', which makes this a hearty meal for lunch. :D One other point that I would compliment about the bowl of 'Prawn Noodles' over here would be the of sauce added is almost perfect, since the 'Kway Teow' didn't end up to be too dry or too soggy. :D

So where can you give the 'Penang Prawn Noodles' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Penang Hokkien Prawn Noodles'(檳城福建蝦麺). It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  04:00 - 13:00 Daily
  (Closed on Thursdays)
• Their business seems to be pretty good, especially on the weekends. Due to the good business, they would close the stall at around noon during the weekends. Therefore, if you really want to give this a try, you really have to wake up very very early...

* Click here for the location of 'Boon Lay Place Food Village' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get in 'Boon Lay Place Food
  Village'.

Fried Rice or Prawn Noodles...

Usually, a normal stall preparing and selling 'Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee' would either be selling 'Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee' only or it might be preparing and selling 'Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee' and 'Fried Kway Teow' or 'Fried Carrot Cake'. But as for this stall it's preparing and selling 'Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee' and 'Fried Rice', which makes it very different from the rest.

'Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee' The end product looks kinda wet and it's covered with ingredients like 'Prawns', 'Squid', 'Beansprouts', a bit of 'Fried Egg', 'vegetables', a piece of lime and also a small portion of 'Chilli'. By the way, usually a plate of 'Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee' will come with a plate of 'Noodles' and the thicker type of 'Rice Vermicelli', as for this plate, it seems that they have added much more 'Noodles' than the 'Rice Vermicelli'.

After spending a bit of time squeezing the lime all over the plate, it's time to mixed everything together. Hmm... after a few bites, it seems that though this dish might appear a bit wet, but in actual fact, rather than been soggy, they have managed to retain the chewy touch of the 'Noodles'. And at the same time, you can also taste the not too spicy 'Chilli' paste and the refreshing taste of the lime almost in every single bite. Well, basically the 'Chilli' could also blend with the ingredients nicely and the ingredients are pretty fresh and chewy too. But being one of the 'Top 10 favourite Fried Prawn Noodle Mee' in Singapore, I think that they have to improve their current recipe further in order to keep their reputation for another year.

So where can you give the 'Noodles' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Ho Huat Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee'(和發福建炒虾面). It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  09:00 - 23:30 Daily
  (Closed on Sundays)

* Click here for the location of 'Boon Lay Place Food Village' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get in 'Boon Lay Place Food
  Village'.

The infamous Power Nasi Lemak...

I think that I haven't been doing a lot of exploring over the last few weeks, therefore I decided to go all out and travel all the way to the west not knowing what I might end up eating...

'Power Nasi Lemak' After making 2 big rounds looking at all the possible options located in this market, I have finally decided to give the 'Nasi Lemak' over here a try. As for why, the reason is pretty straightforward, this seems to be one of the stalls that has a consistent queue... =.=""" They are offering 2 different base set of 'Nasi Lemak'. Both set include ingredients like 'Ikan Bilis and Peanuts', 'Fried Egg', 'Cucumbers' and not forgetting the thick 'Sambal Chilli'. The biggest difference would be the 'Chicken Wing' that comes with the 'Chicken' set and the 'Fish' set comes with the 'Fried Fish', or more commonly known as 'Fried Ikan Kuning'. But if neither of the set managed to catch your interest, you can always customise your own set meals. Well, as for the other day, I ended up trying the 'Chicken' set topped with an extra serving of 'Otah'.

For a start, even though the 'Sambal Chilli' isn't too spicy, but the thick texture of the chilli could blend with all the ingredients nicely. And the taste of the chilli is so shiok that it keeps you going on and on, craving for more. The taste of the 'Otah' is pretty good too, but the taste and the texture will be even much more better if they have cooked it a little bit more longer. Been a big fan of 'Peanuts' I love the crunchy sensation that I'm getting from the 'Ikan Bilis and Peanuts' combination. (By the way, the 'Ikan Bilis' isn't too salty at all.) As for the 'Fried Egg', if you are into half boiled egg yolk, you will definitely love this a lot. As I split up the 'Fried Egg' into 2, the egg yolk were making their way covering and adding an additional flavour into the 'Nasi Lemak Rice' too. The texture of the 'Chicken Wing' over here were very crispy indeed, but the taste of it isn't that fantastic. I'm wondering is it because they are reusing the same cooking oil to fried all the other ingredients, therefore the taste of the 'Chicken Wing' is kinda funky to me. By the way, the non-sticky 'Nasi Lemak Rice' over here have this nice fragrance and the taste of the 'Coconut Milk' is pretty good too. :D

So where can you give the 'Power Nasi Lemak' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Boon Lay Power Nasi Lemak'. The actual name of this stall is much more longer but most people recognised it as 'Boon Lay Power Nasi Lemak'. It's located inside 'Boon Lay Place Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  17:00 - 02:00 (The following day)

* Click here for the location of 'Boon Lay Place Food Village' on 'Google Maps'.