No Queue = Big Queue?

This stall might appear to be pretty harmless at first but once you hand your orders over, you will be surprise with the number of invisible customers that are standing ahead of you... =.="""

'Yong Tau Fu' For a start, each individual ingredient over here is S$0.60. This is relatively high as compared to all the other 'Yong Tau Fu' stalls out there. However, besides for the normal stuff that you can get at a normal 'Yong Tau Fu' stall, they have specially made ingredients too. In the end, I'm ended up with this.

For a start, they have separated the ingredients nicely. Once you started mixing all the noodles and the ingredients together, the heavenly sensation is a big (+). Every single bite comes with a nice mixture of chewy and crunchy ingredients topped with a nice blend of spicy and sweet sauce. Best of all, the ingredients that were separated into the bowl of noodles are mostly ingredients that will end up to be soggy when it's served in a bowl of soup. In fact, I ended up finishing the whole bowl of noodles + ingredients without even touching the bowl of soup + ingredients. :P

As for the bowl of soup, it comes with a strong and nice taste of soya beans. The original taste of the soup is pretty sweet, which is something that I like. However, it would be great if I can add a bit of small sliced green chillies to spice up the overall taste of the soup a bit more. :P As mentioned earlier, the choice of ingredients over here are pretty good. The ingredients that were added into the bowl of soup didn't end up to be pretty soggy and the sweet taste of the soup can blend with the ingredients nicely.

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

The name of this stall would be 'Rong Xing Yong Tau Fu'(榮興酿豆腐). It's located inside 'Tanjong Pagar Market and Food Centre'.

Opening Hours:

• 07:00 - 14:30
  (Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays)
  
• Things can get pretty scary when there are more than 20 invisible customers that are standing in front of you. So either you have to be pretty early or you have to endure with the long queue... :P(Although it's a bit costly otherwise I couldn't imagine how long the queue will ended up to be if the price of each ingredient has been lowered... =.=""")

* Click here for the location of 'Tanjong Pagar Market and Food Centre' on 'Google Maps'.

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'.

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.

* Click here for the location of 'Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre' on 'Google Maps'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Ghim Moh Market and Food
  Centre'.