This isn't Curry lor....

That's correct. This isn't Curry. This is merely...

'Satay Bee Hoon(Rice Vermicelli)' Come to think of it, this is actually a type of fusion food. Especially when one would be dipping the satay stick into the 'Satay Gravy'. Frankly speaking, I don't think the people living in the past would believed that such an delicacy would appear in the modern world.

For a start, the overall texture of this plate of 'Bee Hoon' is slightly a bit too watery. Though it does comes with a light 'Satay gravy', but it's simply not nutty enough. But it terms of ingredients, it does comes with a lot of choices. There's ingredients like 'Kang Kong', 'Cockles', 'Cuttlefish', a bit of meaty ingredients but.... 'Pork Liver' is missing. Though the sweet taste is there, but as mentioned earlier, the nutty sensation is missing. Even though the generous portion of ingredients have make things better but in overall, it's pretty normal only. :|

So where can you give the 'Satay Bee Hoon' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Clementi Hong Kee Villa'(宏記食家樂園). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Tuesdays - Sundays: 09:00 - 21:00
  (Closed on Mondays)

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  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

A bit too pale...

Usually there would be a good mix or colors, but isn't this a bit too pale...???

'Sliced Fish Hor Fun(A type of Rice Noodles)' From the appearance, isn't this a bit too light in color? A usual plate of 'Hor Fun' would have much more brownish in color, especially the gravy, which is even much much more brownish in color. After adding a bit of sliced green chillies and chilli padi, it's time to dig in. Unexpectedly, the sliced fish isn't soggy at all and it still have this firm tasty texture. And the gravy has blend in nicely with all the ingredients, which has added this sweet taste to the whole dish. As for the 'Rice Noodle' itself, on top of the sweet taste, it also comes with a nice fragrance of stirred fried food coming from the wok. And it makes me wonder how many eggs were used in one single plate of 'Hor Fun' over here since they's a good mix of beaten egg in each and every spoonful of the gravy.

So where can you give the food a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Kee Hock'(旗福). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Daily
  Lunch: 11:00 - 14:30
  Dinner: 16:00 - 20:30

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  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Decent and acceptable duck... :)

I love the Hawker Centres in Singapore. That's one of the best places where 1 can find good food at an unreasonably low price. Therefore the journey roaming around the Hawker Centres continues...

'Duck Rice Set Meal' The set meal comes with additional ingredients like 'Braised Egg' and 'Dried Beancurd'. Rather than digging into the plate of rice, I ended up giving the bowl of soup a try first. Unexpectedly, the bowl of soup ended up to be pretty tasty. Not only it has a tasty herbal taste, it's pretty sweet too, which is a (+). On top of that, the 'Chilli' Paste that they are offering are pretty solid too. Not too bad for a start. :)

As for the plate of rice, it's kinda disappointing. Not that it's bad, it just so so happen that the soup is far more interesting as compared to the plate of rice. For a start, the taste of the 'Braised Duck', isn't thick enough. I personally think that the taste of the braised haven't blend into the duck meat completely. Probably it they have spend a bit more time working on it, it might have turned out to be much more delicious. :|

So where can you give the plate of 'rice' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Cheng Ji Lu Ya Fan. Mian. Zhou'(成記滷鴨飯。面。粥). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Wednesday to Mondays: 07:30 - 20:00
  (Closed on Tuesdays)

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  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

1 dessert 2 variation

As far as I can tell, this stall owner really have guts. Though it's a stall selling desserts, but they are selling not 10, not 5, but 1 type of dessert only...

'Ching Teng'(清湯) They are preparing and selling this only. Though it comes in 2 variation (Hot or Cold), but it's still 'Ching Teng'. So what's so special about it? The brownish looking bowl of 'Ching Teng' might appear to be pretty boring, but it does comes with a big variety of ingredients. As I scoop out and savor the bowl of 'Ching Teng', I have spotted ingredients like 'Gingko Nuts', 'White Fungus', 'Barley', 'Dry Longans', 'dry persimmon strips', etc... Regardless of the number of ingredients added, there's a good mix of 'sweet' ingredients, which really helps one to beat the crazy hot temperature.

So where can you give this dessert a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Four Seasons Ching Teng'(四季清湯). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Daily: 09:00 - 21:00

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^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

The killer small bites...

Though most of the time, if someone has setup a stall in a Hawker Centre, there's a very high possibility that the stall is going to sell something that is pretty filling. However, there will be exceptions too. For example, there will be stalls selling small bites like these...

'Soon Kueh'

Though the skin is pretty thick, but the crunchy sensation that I'm getting from the ingredients that goes inside it is a (+). The turnip, carrots and mushrooms have also come together to produce this nice fragrance that I like. And do remember to have it with their chilli paste to enhance the overall taste even far more further. :)

'Curry Puff' This might appear to be pretty ordinary, but it's not. For a start, the skin might appear to be pretty solid and tough, but in actual fact, it's not as thick as I have imagined. Once I took a bite off the 'Curry Puff', there's this nice fragrance of spices, topped with the crunchy sensation of the potatoes, and the chewy sensation of the chicken strips and part of a hard boiled egg. And on top of that, the strong taste is a (+) too. And I'm not referring to the spicy taste but the strong taste spices. :D

So where can you give these small bites a good try?

The name of this stall would be "Fond's Dee Curry Puff". It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Daily: 07:30 - 17:30

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  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

When the Wanton isn't their ....

Over here, frankly speaking, I have given quite a few 'Wanton Noodles' stall a good try already. However, probably it's my personal preference but I think that most of the stalls out there have the same problem....

'Wanton Noodles' The springy Noodles are pretty acceptable, it's not as soggy as it appears to be. Though the taste of the dark sauce is slightly a bit salty, but there's also a nice mix of greens and meaty ingredients. The 'Char Siew' for a start is chewy, and at the same time not too dry. And the crispy 'Wanton' isn't that bad. It has a crispy texture and a reasonable load of ingredients wrapped inside the crispy skin. But that isn't the best...

Though the taste of the bowl of soup is pretty normal, but it's the dumplings that I have ordered separately that brighten things up. For a start, the dumplings are wrapped inside this thin layer of dumpling skin. And as I took a bite off the dumplings, the crunchy sensation simple makes things pretty exciting. And the nice mixture of vegetables and meaty ingredients simply makes things better and better.

So where can you give the food over here a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Boon Kee Wanton Noodle'(文記雲吞麺). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Mondays - Saturdays: 06:30 - 16:15
  (Closed on Sundays)

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^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Not for lunch.....

There are meals that are much more suitable to be taken for breakfast as compared to lunch. And here's an example of one of them...

'Vegetarian Fried Been Hoon'(Rice Vermicelli) This appears to be one of the few vegetarian stalls that are located inside this market. How should I put it.... Though the plate of 'Fried Been Hoon' comes with a big variety of ingredients('Mock Meats', 'French Beans', 'chillies') but the portion isn't big enough to satisfy my appetite during lunch time. On top of that, the 'Fried Bee Hoon' is a bit too dry for me, perhaps I'm a bit too used to the 'wet' vegetarian 'Fried Bee Hoon'. My favorite ingredient over here would be the 'Fried Spring Roll' that I have topped up. Not only it's crunchy outside, the good mix of vegetables inside made it pretty tasty too. Best of all, the Spring Roll ain't too oily, which makes it reasonably good. :)

So where can you give the 'Spring Roll' a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Ji Xiang'(吉祥). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Tuesdays - Sundays: 06:00 - 13:30
  (Closed on Mondays)

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^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

A bowl of nothing...?

Regardless of the size of the hawker centre or the food court, there ought to be a stall selling simple stuff that one can digest easily and doesn't involve a lot of frying....

'Chicken Porridge' If you are thinking of ordering something else, you might ended up to be pretty disappointed, because over here they only prepare and sell porridge. Besides for fish porridge, there's pork and chicken porridge too. And I guest it's time to move on to the indulging part...

Over here you are given a choice to have the bowl of porridge with or without an egg. I have decided to go ahead and place an order for a bowl of 'Chicken Porridge' that comes with an egg... But wait where is my egg...??

Rather than adding a century egg into the bowl of porridge, they are actually adding a raw egg into the bowl. Depending on your personal preference, you can choose to mix all the ingredients together or set it by the side of the bowl and let it solidify(becomes a cooked egg). I prefer the method of mixing all the ingredients together. After spending a bit of time mixing the bowl of porridge, it's time to dig into the bowl of porridge. There's a good mix of egg, chewy minced chicken, spring onions and tasty porridge in every single bite. Even though I didn't place an order for the 'You Tiao', or commonly known as the Chinese Doughnut, the amount of ingredients that the stall has thrown in are good enough to turn this simple looking bowl of porridge into something delicious.

So where can you give the porridge a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Soon Lee'(顺利). It's hidden inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Weekdays: 06:00 - 21:00
  Saturdays: 06:00 - 17:00
  (Closed on Sundays)

* Click here for the location of 'Clementi Market and Food Centre' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Getting a set meal, Sir?

Set meals, set meals, you can get a set meal for Chicken Rice, Sliced Fish Soup, Burgers... But I would never believe that such a set meal would actually exist till the very day that I have actually seen it.

'Rojak Set Meal' This seems to be pretty much similar to the usual 'Rojak' except for a few special ingredients that they have thrown in. For example, there's cuttlefish slices and century egg. Luckily they didn't coat the century egg with the 'Rojak' sauce otherwise the taste might ended up to be pretty funky. :P

Besides for the century egg, most of the ingredients over here were covered in this sweet and thick 'Rojak' sauce. And speaking of it, the ingredients include stuff like 'Cucumbers', 'Pineapples', 'You Tiao'(Chinese doughnut), etc... Though I'm not getting the usual 'Kang Kong' but with the amount of peanuts that goes on top of the delicious spread is enough to open up my appetite big big. :D So what am I going to eat next?

So where can you give the 'Rojak' a good try?

The name of this stall would be "Fong's Rojak"(坊啰惹). This stall is located inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Wednesdays - Mondays 08:00 - 21:00
  (Closed on Tuesdays)

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^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Black Or White....?

And eventually this is a blog about food, not some music promoting blog. And the title has something to do with the food that we are going to write about in this post.

'Beancurd with Red Beans' The red beans over here are pretty big as compared to any other stalls out there. However, I personally don't find the red beans crunchy enough it's slightly a bit soft to my liking. Hidden below the pool of red beans would be the smooth and warm beancurd. And when you mix them together, one would be getting this ultimate sweetness which makes this a very big (+).

'Soya Bean Milk with Glass Jelly' Rather than being a 'Black' or 'White', I'm actually getting a 'Black' & 'White' over here. With the correct mixture of ingredients, I'm actually getting this sweet and bitter taste from this refreshing drink. Not too bad for an affordable drink for a pretty warm day. :D

So where can you give these desserts a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Whampoa Soya Bean'(黃埔豆花). This stall is located inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Daily: 11:00 - 21:00

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  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Seems pretty healthy but does it taste good....

Since my favorite Curry Chicken stall isn't open that day, I decided to give something new a good try. And hence I ended up eating...

'Sliced Fish Soup' which comes with a bowl of white rice. For a start they don't have all the fanciful soups over here. What they have are mainly soups that are filled with seafood ingredients. E.g. sliced fish soup, seafood soup, fish head soup, etc...

As I pull the bowl of soup closer, I could easily identify the types of vegetables that were added into the bowl of soup. There's 'Lettuce', 'Tomatos', 'Bitter gourd', etc... Besides for the vegetables, the portion of sliced fish is pretty generous. Taste wise, the firm and chunky slices of fish are pretty good. Not only it's sweet, it doesn't ended up to be pretty soggy after spending a pretty long time, swimming(?) in the bowl of soup. Best of all the overall taste of the bowl of soup is pretty refreshing and not too salty which makes this pretty fantastic.

So where can you give the 'Sliced Fish Soup' a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Teochew Fish Porridge'(潮州鱼粥)/ This stall is located inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Daily: 09:30 - 21:30

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^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Another Hakka 'Yong Tau Fu'

Since there's a free lunch shuttle bus departing from my office to a nearby food centre on weekdays, I decided to hop onto the free shuttle bus that's going to 'Clementi' last Friday.

'Hakka Yong Tau Fu' For a start, I love the Chilli and Tomato sauce that they are pouring all over the bowl of noodles. As you can see, the sauce itself isn't too watery and in actual fact, when you stir all the sauces and the noodles together, the chewy noodles will ended up to have this sweet and spicy touch. However, I don't find it to be spicy enough. Probably they can try to increase the spiciness of the sauce even much more. :P As for the bowl of ingredients itself, all the ingredients look pretty rich in colour and the taste of all of it are relatively good. All the meat paste that were stuffed into the individual ingredients were firmly wrapped together. You wouldn't be getting the meaty stuff falling apart and best of all, the taste of the meat and the individual ingredients are blending together nicely. As for the sweet clear soup itself, it does come with a nice taste of 'Soy Bean' but it's not strong enough. Probably it would taste much more better, if they have added much more 'Soy Bean' and preferably 'Ikan Bilis' too.

Although most of the ingredients might appear to be pretty much the same as compared to a normal 'Yong Tau Fu' stall, but in actual fact there's actually a major difference. Rather than stuffing most of the ingredients with fish meat, they are actually stuffing it with meat paste, which makes it pretty unique and special.

The name of this stall selling 'Hakka style Yong Tau Fu' would be 'Chen Ji Ke Jia Niang Dou Fu'(陳記客家釀豆腐). This stall is located inside 'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  12:30 - 16:30
  (Closed on Sundays)
• I was eavesdropping the conversations made by the customers standing in front and behind me and they were mentioning that when business is good, all the ingredients will be gone before 3pm. Therefore, if you really want to try the food over here, you should really start queuing before 12:30 when the queue is still super short.

* Click here for the location of 'Clementi Market and Food Centre' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find & get in
  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

An unexpected journey ...?

I have decided to travel to Clementi for lunch last week. After a satisfying meal at 'Clementi Market and Food Centre', I wanted to try one of the 'Soya Beancurd' shops nearby and that's when I came across this new bakery...

I ended up buying 4 different types of buns that day. Initially, I was thinking of bringing them back to the office and have it for 'High Tea'. However, while waiting for the free shuttle bus at the bus stop, my stomach started growling again and I decided to pull out one of the bun and eat it. And this just so happen to be the... 'Custard Bun' For a start, the buns that they are selling over here are pretty fluffy. On top of that, initially I thought that they probably might be cutting down on the amount of fillings that they have added to the buns, but they have proven me wrong. They are pretty generous with all the not so sweet custard fillings. In fact, if you are not careful enough, the custard might flow out of the bun easily. Best of all, since all these buns were freshly baked and most of the tray were emptied within minutes, therefore the fragrance and the taste of a newly baked bun was fantastically great. :D

'Ham & Cheese Bun' This is pretty much similar to the 'Ham & Cheese Bun' out there. However, one good thing about this bun would be the fact that the 'Ham' isn't overcook and it's not melting into the bun thoroughly.

'Butter Bloom' My experience with this is pretty much the same as the 'Custard Bun'. The rich and tasty butter is unbeatable. However, either I am too slow or the fillings were meant to be like this, the butter have blend into the bread completely, which doesn't really matters that much, since it still remain to be pretty delicious.

'Golden Sands Bun'(黃金流沙包) Back then, this seems to be a rare delicacy in Singapore. The salty egg yolk + custard fillings are pretty good. The mixture of both sweet and salty ingredients make this bun a must try for everyone. The taste of the bun gets even much more better when it remains to be hot and milky. Just be careful with this bun and don't let the 'gold' flow out of the bun and get wasted. (Now, it seems that I have found a new place to get my 'Golden Sands Bun' fix. :P) Anyway, my friend was taking and uploading photos of this shop, the day before I went to Clementi for lunch. Luckily she have uploaded photos of this place, otherwise I might have miss something that is affordable and deliciously good. :D

The name of the bakery would be 'Baker Talent'(パン達人). It seems that they have outlets island-wide and the above shows the outlet located behind 'Clementi Mall', beneath Blk 442, Clementi Avenue 3.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  09:00 - 22:00 Daily
• Despite eating 4 different buns with 10 - 15 minutes, I don't find the buns too heaty and probably I should just buy a few more for 'High Tea' the next time round. :P
• By the way, if you are thinking of getting the buns for lunch, you better join the queue as early as possible. Probably it's due to the relatively low price that they are selling the individual buns (all of them are lower than a dollar each) and the taste of it, the queue during lunch hours can be crazily long. The waiting time gets longer and longer when there are customers that buy a big bag of buns at one go. =.="""
• By the way, here's a list of the 'Baker Talent' outlets island-wide.
  • Blk 221 Boon Lay Place Boon Lay Shopping Centre #01-154
  • Blk 303 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4 #01-723
  • Blk 442 Clementi Avenue 3 #01-89
  • Blk 495 Jurong West Street 51 #01-100
  • Blk 964 Jurong West Street 91 #01-1388
  • Blk 261 Serangoon Central #01-11
  • Blk 828 Tampines Street 81 #01-266
  • Blk 415 Yishun Avenue 11 #01-319
  • Blk 846 Yishun Ring Road #01-3633

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  'Clementi Market and Food Centre'.

Seeing Doubles?

Today I'm going to introduce to you to a Chinese snack that is slow.... Huh...? I know I'm contradicting myself but most of the time, snacks are portrayed to be something similar to fast food, where you can get it fast and finish your food within minutes but this stall had changed part of my opinion for snacks completely.

Introducing...

a Chinese snack known as 'Popiah' or 'Spring roll'.
So what's so special about this 'Popiah'?

What are the common mistake of a 'Popiah'?

• The ingredients are too 'wet' that cause the skin of the 'Popiah' to break easily
• The skin is too thin, hence it breaks easily
• Too much ingredients, hence the skin cannot handle the amount of load in the 'Popiah'

After we have look through the weaknesses of a bad 'Popiah', what makes this 'Popiah' that I have written here so special?
Well, let us take a look at the following picture first.

Have you saw it?
The stall owner is actually using 2 'Popiah' skin to make a roll of 'Popiah'.
By doing it that way, you wouldn't be facing the problem of the ingredients
falling out of the 'Popiah'. O.OV
On top of that, by adding an additional 'Popiah' skin doesn't mean that you will be
eating more flour. The amount of flour used in each 'Popiah' skin is perfect.
On top of that, the 'Popiah' can be considered to be pretty well done, especially
when its neither too wet nor too dry... Perfect!!!

Best of all.... the 'Popiah' is Halal.
So everyone can try and savour it. :D

Where can you find this delicacy?

Here you go. This stall is located near Clementi Market and Food Centre.
As for why this stall changes part of my opinion for Chinese
snacks would be due to the crazy long queue at this stall.
I was queueing for more that 40 minutes for 2 rolls of 'Popiah'....
Where's the crazy part?
Most of the people queueing in front of me
were purchasing 6~8 rolls of 'Popiah' at a time.... @.@""""

* Click here for the address of the stall located near Clementi Market and Food Centre.
  (By the way, the stall is located at the corner of Blk 449 next to the road.)
^ Click here for some other delicacies that you should try at Clementi Market
  and Food Centre.

Hard to choose between Chicken, Mutton or Pork, how about...

Even had the problem of making the decision of thinking what sort of meat you want to have for lunch or dinner? I know that I always had such a problem especially when I always have the problem of having a big appetite. Hence I am going to satisfy your greed with not 3 but 1 dish.

Introducing....

Satay. When it comes to Satay, you wouldn't have the problem
of making a decision between Chicken, Mutton or Pork.
This is because you can always choose all 3 kinds of meat at one go.

But how do you appreciate satay? You can either eat a stick of Satay
either by dipping it into the peanut sauce and take a bite from the
satay stick or take a bite from the satay stick directly.
(This would depends on your own preferences. :D)
After finishing a stick or two, you can start digging into the
cucumber or the rice that comes with a plate of Satay.
Same theory applies to the cucumber and rice, you can choose to
dip it into the sauce first or take a bite directly.

This would be one of the Satay stall that I highly recommend.
It's located inside Clementi Market and Food Centre.
I was pretty disappointed that I couldn't get the Mutton sticks for dinner. :(
Although I couldn't get the Mutton sticks, the Chicken and Pork sticks
turn out to be pretty delicious. The texture of the meat were cooked just right.
It isn't too burnt or too raw. This reminds me of the days waiting for the
Satay man that will be pushing a small trolley around the neighbourhood
of Tiong Bahru almost every single day selling delicious Satays. Another +1
for this store for selling raw Satay sticks so that you can prepare it
at your own pace. But, since you are already in the queue, you might as well
just have the Satays here or buy a few packets of cooked Satays home. :P

* Click here for the address of the market located at Clementi Central,
  near Clementi MRT station
^ Click here for some other delicacies that you should try at Clementi Market
  and Food Centre.