Hakka Style...

Since my current workplace is located near this gem hidden in a hawker centre nearby, I decided to give it a go. :D

'Hakka Yong Tau Fu'(客家娘豆腐) So what's so special about 'Hakka Yong Tau Foo'? Well for a start, rather than stuffing most of the ingredients with fish paste, they are stuffing the ingredients with meat paste. Hence, besides for the usual bitter gourd with fish paste, they also go all the way out making bitter gourd with meat paste. On top of that, the staff owners have also gone the extra mile frying some of the ingredients. For example: fried capsicum, fried bitter gourd, etc... So basically, although every single ingredient might appear the same, but the filling and the overall taste of the ingredient can differ. What I love best about the food over here would be the soup. Although the clear soup might look ordinary, but the generous portion of green vegetables that was added and the super nice taste of the soup itself have definitely caught my interest. I think that soybean was one of the ingredients that was added into the soup, but it doesn't seems to be so simple. There's simply depth in the soup base, I think. Although I'm not a big fan of rice vermicelli, but the sauces that was added into the bowl of vermicelli have definitely helps a lot. The overall dining experience is pretty nice. The sweet and spicy taste is definitely worth trying. :D (By the way, I think they are making their own sauces, because I don't think the taste of the sauces reminds me of anything out there.)

So where can you give the 'Hakka Yong Tau Fu' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'The Hakka Yong Tau Fu Stall'(客家娘豆腐). It's located inside 'Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  From 08:30am till 14:30pm
  (Closed every Mondays)
• Take note, during lunch hours, the queue at this stall can be pretty crazy. Hence, it ended up to be a matter of either you go there pretty early or you don't.
• By the way, ignore the queue over here. It's probably a 'fake' queue of people crowding around the stall waiting for their food. You should take a bowl of ingredients and pass it to the auntie standing next to the stall and tell her how would you want it to be prepared. She will pass you a piece of paper with a queue number written on it. And you can go around the food centre sourcing for more yummy stuff while waiting for the food. Just remember to pick up your precious bowl of 'Yong Tau Fu' afterwards.

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The Duck, The Roasted Meat or The BBQ Meat

Recently, I decided to have/add a bit more meaty stuff into my meals. So that I can do my part as a blood donor and since I have the time the other day and I really love to explore new eating places, therefore...

'Duck meat' & 'BBQ Meat' Rice(鴨叉燒飯) As for the food over here, for the same price, you can either choose to have 'Duck Meat' or 'Roasted Meat' or 'BBQ Meat' with a plate of rice. By the way, after you pick up the plate of rice from the stall helpers, you can add as many scoops of sauce as you want. However, usually such dark coloured sauces are pretty salty, therefore I would strongly encourage you not to pour too much sauce all over the plate. I personally find the 'duck meat' a bit too stiff. As compared to the 'duck meat', the 'BBQ Meat' were far more tender, juicier and delicious. And the 'BBQ meat' will even taste much more better when you have it with a bit of the sauce and the rice. In fact, I wonder how would the 'Roasted Meat' over here taste like...

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

The name of this stall would be 'Jiu Jiang Shao La'(九江燒臘). It's located inside 'Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  From 10am till 2pm
  (Closed every Wednesday)
• Take note, during lunch hours, the queue at this stall can be pretty crazy. Hence, it ended up to be a matter of either you go there pretty early or you don't.

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  Centre'.

Not to be mistaken for the Fried Hokkien Noodles....

With the increase in the number of food centre or hawker centres, some delicacies were getting more and more common. Therefore, in order to be competitive, more and more stalls are using factory-made ingredients, which kinda make stalls that are making their own ingredients more and more valuable and rare.

'Fishball Noodles' The 'Fishballs' over here are all freshly made by the stall owner. How do I know that? Basically from the looks of the 'Fishballs'. Rather than being round and circular, all of them are irregular shaped. On top of that, each individual slice of fish cake are irregular shaped too. Taste wise, the bowl of noodles are pretty good. Although I have placed an order for a bowl of '(Dry) Fishball Noodles', but I have come across numerous stalls that have been adding too much sauce to the noodles, which kinda made it super watery and yucky. As for the stall over here, the amount of sauce that was added into the bowl of noodles comes to a perfect balance between spicy and salty taste. In fact, the taste of the bowl of noodles were so good that I emptied the whole bowl of noodles without the help of the fish cakes and 'Fishballs'. :P (There goes my passion for noodles again. :P) As for the taste of the 'Fishballs' and fish cakes, although the looks are pretty bad, but all of them are pretty fresh and bouncy. Therefore as I compare the price that I'm paying and the food that I'm getting, I think that the 'Fishball Noodles' over here have make a good start to the day. :D

So where can you give this special bowl of 'Fishball Noodles' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Thye Hong Fishball Noodles'(太豐魚圓麺). It's located inside 'Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  From 6:30am until the moment when all the fish balls were sold out daily
• (I'm pretty sure that all the fish balls will be sold out before noon. Therefore if you are thinking of giving this stall a try during lunch hours, I think that you can just drop the idea of doing it.)

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  Centre'.

Curry from the Heaven of India?

When you are a small little kid, there ought to be some delicacies that you might have tasted once or twice but at the same time, you still remember the delicacy up till today. And the post today have something to do with this. :)

'Putu Mayam' If I'm not mistaken, the Indian stall in my Primary school used to sell this. The white coloured 'Bee Hoon' or pancake looking food is a mixture of flour and coconut milk. Basically, besides for the pancake looking 'Putu Mayam', you will also be given a small portion of 'sweet coconut palm sugar' and 'grated coconut'. Okay, so you have the dish, but how to eat it? I'm not sure what the best way to savour it, but as for myself, I will tear off a small piece of the 'Putu Mayam' and add a bit of 'grated coconut' or 'palm sugar' to it and throw it into your mouth. You will be getting the super sweet taste of the 'sugar' in one single bite easily. Therefore, I would strongly encourage you not to eat this dish too often. Although the 'Putu Mayam' that I'm getting over here was much more bigger than what I'm getting back then, but I still think that the texture of the 'Putu Mayam' back then were much more fluffy. (:P)

So where can you give this delicacy a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Heaven's Indian Curry'. It's located inside 'Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  6am - 2pm Daily

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More Yam dessert please...

It seems that after giving the dish 'Stir-fried Yam' from 'Pu Tien' a try, I suddenly have a great interest in food that comes with lots of 'Yam'. And on top of that, I haven't been exploring the areas around my current workplace for a very long time, therefore...

'Bo Bo Cha Cha'(摩摩查查) I have been monitoring my sugar level every now and then. Therefore, I have been minimizing the number of bowls of desserts that I can go for each week. And whenever I come across places that serve desserts like 'Power Chendol', that would further reduce the number of bowls of desserts that I can go for that particular week. Therefore when it comes to dessert, some of my favourites would be stuff like 'Chendol', 'Ice Kacang', 'Honeydew Sago', 'Red bean soup', etc... and the list can go on and on. In fact, there was a period of time where I was madly in love with 'Bo Bo Cha Cha'. So what's so special about 'Bo Bo Cha Cha'. 'Bo Bo Cha Cha' is basically a bowl of dessert that comes with a bowl of coconut milk and it will include ingredients like 'Yam', multi-coloured 'Tapioca flour jelly' and 'Sweet Potato'. Depending on the dessert stall owner, he might include ingredients like 'Sago', 'Beans', etc... It's one of the desserts that can be served in warm/cold. So what's so special about the 'Bo Bo Cha Cha' over here? The price for this dessert is pretty reasonable. On top of that, the taste of the 'Yam' are so strong that even by taking a small sip of the 'soup', I can actually taste the 'Yam' and the sweetness of the coconut milk. Best of all, once you started putting a cube or two into your mouth, you can actually feel the taste of the 'Yam' and the 'Sweet Potato' bursting inside your mouth, which is pretty nice. (By the way, because of the amount of coconut milk that was added into this dessert, therefore I would strongly advise you not to have it too often. :P)

So where can you give this dessert a try?

The name of this stall would be '金燕Dessert'. It's located inside 'Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  I'm not really too sure myself. However, this stall seems to be opened during lunch hours on weekdays.

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