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

* 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'.

Where you can get Coconuts and Peanuts...

Stalls that prepare and sell these small bites as a living are getting lesser and lesser. Therefore, every single time I saw a stall preparing and selling these small bites, I just simply couldn't resist it.

"Kueh Tu Tu" Is it me or my eyes are playing tricks on me? Am I getting a 'Kueh Tu Tu' that is actually bending? Hmm... it is actually bending. But that's probably due to the special texture that it has. But how about the taste???

With a texture that is much more fluffy and a higher proportion of ingredients as compared to the snowy texture, the 'Kueh Tu Tu' is actually quite good. Freshly prepared from the steamer, these small bites should be eaten fresh. As compared to the chunky peanuts, I preferred the sweet Coconut filling even much more. In fact, the overall sensation that I'm getting from the 'Kueh Tu Tu' were pretty good, therefore I have managed to finish a full packet of 'Kueh Tu Tu' within minutes.

So where can you give these 'Kueh Tu Tu' a good try?

The name of this stall would be "Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake"(陳家嘟嘟糕). It's located in 'Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  09:00 - 15:00 Daily

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

Chinese small bites for Breakfast...

Sometimes if I managed to get out of bed pretty early, I would go around looking for interesting good bites, before I make my way to the office. And the other day, I decided to go for these small bites...

'Kueh Du Du' Seems that there are quite a few stalls out there that offers a bigger 'Kueh Du Du', as compared with the original size. Though this is big but it's not the biggest that I have come across in Singapore.

But I'm pretty impressed that despite of the long travelling time, the texture of the 'Kueh Du Du' didn't turn into a rock. On top of that the stall owner really push the layer of flour to the limits and the ingredients that are thrown inside are pretty generous and yummy too.

I personally loved the sweet taste of the not so damp 'Coconut' fillings and not to forget about the crunchy diced peanuts too. Which makes me wonder what are we getting, when we mix both types of ingredients into one 'Kueh Du Du'. When I took a bite off the 'Kueh Du Du', there's an immediate outburst of the nice ingredients, which deserves a (+).

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

The name of this stall would be 'Jia Xiang Du Du Kueh'(佳香嘟嘟娘惹糕). This is located inside 'Beo Crescent Market and Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  05:30 - 12:00 Daily
  (Closed on Sundays)

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

2 sizes of Kueh Tutu

But wait, no matter how you look at it, the 'Kueh Tutu' can only be of that size what. How would it be possible to have 2 different sizes of 'Kueh Tutu'. In fact...

'Kueh Tutu' Tada... Here you go, 2 different sizes of 'Kueh Tutu'. Even though the bigger one doesn't have the nice prints on it, but no matter how you take a look at it, it's still a 'Kueh Tutu'. Not only they have the interesting sizes of 'Kueh Tutu', the overall dining experience is pretty good too.

For a start, they really push the fillings to the limits. As you can see, the layer of flour that wraps around the filling is pretty thin. Frankly speaking, not only the proportions of the flour and the fillings are pretty good, I love the sweet taste of the ingredients (Regardless it's the crunchy peanuts or the coconut)too. Time to packet a few home. :)

So where can you give the 'Kueh Tutu' a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Du Du Cooked Food'(嘟嘟熟食). It's located inside 'Jurong West 505 Market & Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  15:30 - 21:30

* Click here for the location of "Jurong West 505 Market & Food Centre" on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that you can find and get around
  'Jurong West 505 Market & Food Centre'.

Nonya delights coming to a place near you...

When I was a kid, it's pretty hard to come across a place selling all your Nonya Kueh or goodies. However, it seems that there's a chain of stalls in Singapore that specialize in preparing and selling these Nonya Kueh.

'Kueh Dadar' Loaded with a big portion of 'grated coconut' and 'palm sugar', wrapped in steamed egg pancake skin, this is a nice 'Kueh' to begin with. The sweetness is something that I like, though it might be a bit too much but I like the taste of coconut and palm sugar. (I got to admit that I have a sweet tooth.)

'Chendol Agar Agar' All the goodness that you are getting in a bowl of 'Chendol' has been remake and recompiled into this small little cube. Though it did bring about all the 'Chendol' goodness, but this small little cube just isn't sufficient to satisfy my crave for a bowl of 'Chendol' especially when I'm staying near 'Tiong Bahru Market'.

So where can you give these 'Kueh' a good try?

The name of this stall would be 'Chinta Manis'. The above shows the outlet located on basement 1 of 'Tiong Bahru Plaza'.

Opening Hours:

• Depending on the location of the outlet, the opening hours varies. For the outlets inside the shopping malls, the opening hours will start from early afternoon to 9pm.

* Click here for the 'Facebook' page of 'Chinta Manis'.
^ Click here to find out more about 'Chinta Manis'.

Yong's Teochew Kueh...

Since I have travelled all the way up to the Northeast looking for good food and instead of leaving the area without a stomach full of food, I decided to give the other stuff a try. While walking around the area aimlessly, I ended up coming across this shop that sells nothing but different types of 'Teochew Kueh'. Therefore...

Left: 'Soon Kueh' Right: 'Yam Kueh'

'Yam Kueh' For a start, I personally find the overall experience eating the 'Yam Kueh' to be pretty funky. Do not be mistaken, the taste of the 'Yam' itself is there, but the idea of stuffing 'Yam' and 'Mushroom' into a 'Teochew Kueh' just doesn't seems right. Although the 'Kueh' is freshly made but the overall taste of it is kinda weird and funny. 'Soon Kueh' When I was savouring this, I'm pretty surprise that the 'Soon Kueh' still remains to be pretty warm. This simply prove that the 'Soon Kueh' were freshly made and as I was savouring the 'Soon Kueh', the taste of the crunchy turnip mixed with a bit of vegetables just makes it so much more tastier. Topped with some of my favourite ingredients like 'Mushrooms' just simply explains why I couldn't resist the taste of it up till today.

So where can you give the freshly made 'Teochew Kueh' a try?

The name of this shop would be 'Yong's Teochew Kueh'(榮潮州粿). It's located along Upper Serangoon Road.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  07:00 - 19:00 Daily

* Click here for the location of 'Yong's Teochew Kueh' on 'Google Maps'.

For the Nonya snacks...

Basically with a big crazy appetite of mine, it isn't a difficult task for an individual to realise how much I love to snack. It can range from various types of bread, 'Kueh', tidbits, etc... Therefore since I am passing by this place the other day, therefore...

'Mini Dumpling' Although they have this snack the name of a 'Dumpling', but I think that I have been cheated. The overall texture and taste of this 'Dumpling' is pretty much similar to a 'Lemper Udang'. Basically, the main fillings inside the 'Dumpling' are the pale coloured spicy prawns. Well, although I loved the spicy taste of this, but I was expecting a mini Chinese Dumpling that has glutinous rice and mushrooms and such...

'Nonya Dumpling' I have to admit that the overall taste of this 'Dumpling' is pretty nice, especially when most of the fillings inside the 'Dumpling' are mainly, minced meat and Nonya spices. And I also love the somehow spicy sensation that the Dumpling is giving me. But compared to this, I still prefers the other type of Dumplings that comes with lots of mushrooms, mushrooms and ore mushrooms. :P (I wonder which is much more important, the mushroom or ...? Anyway, I'm just being bias over here.)

'Nonya Kueh' Besides of the large variety of 'Dumplings' that they are making and selling themselves, they are also making and selling different types of 'Nonya Kueh' too.

So where can you give all these snacks a try?

The name of this shop would be 'Kim Choo'(金珠). They currently have a few branches island-wide but it seems that all of them are in the East of Singapore.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  10am - 8pm

* Click here to find out more about 'Kim Choo'(金珠).
^ Click here for one of the branches of 'Kim Choo'(金珠) on Google Maps.
~ Click here for the list of delicacies located near 'East Coast Road'.

Having it warm...

Probably if I mention the word 'Kueh' in Singapore, the first few words that might pop up on your mind would be words like 'cold', 'sticky', etc... However...

Left: 'Soon Kueh'(笋粿) Right: 'Png Kueh'(饭粿) This stall really live up to its reputation. The 'Soon Kueh' that I'm getting from this stall are pretty warm. As it was served warm, therefore I don't really find it too sticky. And I really like the ingredients inside it, although I think that most of the ingredients that are included in the 'Soon Kueh' were mostly 'Radish', but I really love the taste and texture of this 'Soon Kueh'. By the way, I think that the chilli blend with the taste of the 'Soon Kueh' much more better than the dark coloured sauce. Usually, I'm not a fan of 'Png Kueh'. The main reason that I gave it a try was mainly due to the fact that I can mix and match the number of 'Png Kueh' and 'Soon Kueh'. As long as I place an order for 3 different 'Kueh' ('Png Kueh' or 'Soon Kueh'), the price will also be S$2.00. So I ended up giving the 'Png Kueh' over here a try. Despite being cold and sticky, I actually enjoy the taste of the 'Png Kueh' pretty much. Probably it's due to the peanuts that was added into the 'Kueh' that have made it much more crunchy. In fact, most of the ingredients that was used in preparing the 'Png Kueh' were mostly stuff that I like. For example: peanuts, mushrooms, shrimps, etc... Though the 'Kueh' over here are slightly a bit small, but they don't really lose out to cakes or buns that you are going to have for Hi-Tea.

The name of this stall would be 'Fatt Soon Kueh'(发笋粿). It's located inside 'Albert Centre Market And Food Centre', which is located near 'Bugis Village'.

Notes:

• They have numerous branches in Singapore. However, it seems that Wednesday is a official off day for all the branches.

* Click here to find out more about the stall 'Fatt Soon Kueh'(发笋粿).
^ Click here for the location of 'Albert Centre Food Centre'.
~ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Albert Centre Market And Food
  Centre'.

Another 'Kueh' place....

Close to a month ago, I had mentioned about a place in Singapore selling 'Kueh'. There is another place that sells cheap and good Indonesia 'Kueh' also.

First thing first, photos first. :D

Left: Pandan Sponge Cake
Right: Kueh Dar Dar
I am making my way to Tiong Bahru Market and I suddenly
remember the existence of this store near Tiong Bahru Market.
This was probably my 3rd set of breakfast in the same morning. :P
But I just couldn't resist all these cheap and delicious delicacies
especially when these Kuehs were made from Coconut and Pandan,
which were some of my favourites ingredients.

They have some other delicacies also.
For example: Baked Tapioca cake, Onde Onde... etc

The store behind these delicacies would be 'Indo-Asian Delights'.
It has 2 small stalls located in 2 different coffee shops located
along the streets of Tiong Poh Road. And the main branch would be
located near the streets of Little India.

* Click here for the locations of 'Indo-Asian Delights'.
^ CLick here for my posts on 'Kueh'.

I am neither Liu Bei(劉備) nor Zhang Liang(張良) but...

Why did I wrote such a strange title for this post? This is because Liu Bei(劉備), a warlord, military general and later the founding emperor of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, had made 3 visits to the place where Zhu Ge Liang(諸葛亮) was staying before he had an audience with him. Same goes for Zhang Liang(張良), a strategist and statesman of the early Han Dynasty, it took him 3 visits to the same bridge before he was given the book 'The Art of War by Taigong'. Similar to Liu Bei and Zhang Liang, I had made 3 trips to this market, and I finally get the chance to taste this delicious food.:D

As usual... photos comes first.

Woo... the shape looks nice and it looks like a cake. So what is this dish?

This is the one. This is known as a 'Yam Cake'. Although, this is pretty
common dish that you can find in most of the markets in Singapore,
it isn't that easy to find a store that makes it into a heavenly dish.
The 'Yam Cake' of this store was neither too soft or too hard and the
taste of the yam comes with every single bite from the 'Yam Cake'.
And the chilli that comes with the 'Yam Cake' was a +++.

This is the store behind this heavenly dish, besides selling 'Yam Cakes', various
kinds of kuehs that are meant for Breakfast. So where was this store located?
This store is located on the 2nd floor of Taman Jurong Market and Food Centre.

This was indeed a challenge to me, as travelling to and fro the market takes a bit of time.
Especially, when it was a disappointed trip, that makes it even harder for me to continue.
But the achievement was a memorable one. :D

Some notes to remember:

• The store closes at/before 12 noon.
• Try to be there before 11 as the store owner had mentioned that they will close for the day, once all the food had been sold out.

* Click here for the location of Taman Jurong Market and Food Centre.
^ Click here to find out more about Liu Bei(劉備)
# Click here to find out more about Zhang Liang(張良)

A Kueh or two...

The word 'Kueh' or 'Kue' isn't a word that can be found in a normal English Dictionary because it was't a English word in the first place. The meaning of the word 'Kue' in Bahasa Indonesia means cake. But what is so special about these cakes? Though I don't have a sweet tooth, these 'Kueh' were simply irresistible. :P

Us usual let us start with the photos of the good stuff first.

These are some of the stuff that the shop is selling and let us take a closer look.

They were pretty generous with the ingredients used in these coconut and egg tarts.
I took a bite on a coconut tart and it was so good and sweet. Yummy Yummy.

Tapioca 'Kueh' something that you cannot find in normal pastry store. :D

If you have Google the names shown in the photo itself, you probably would have
realise that most of these 'Kueh' had coconut in it. That was used to
add a sweet taste to the 'Kueh' and at the same time made them irresistible.

Left: Binka Ubi - Baked Tapioca cake
Right: Lemper Udang - Sambal Prawn Wrap with Rice and Banana leaves

This is one of my favourites. It's known as 'Kueh Dar Dar'. But I had to
control myself and limit myself with 1 piece per day due to the amount of
coconut that was stuffed inside it.

This shop also sell pastries like Cream Puffs and Donuts.

They also sell 'Kueh' that comes in a box for a group of people to share.

Just look at the color of the Kaya, doesn't it look appealing to you?

They also sell cookies like, Pineapple tart, Almond Green Tea Cookies,
Cherry Cookies, Chocolate Almond Cookies, Cornflake Raisins Cookies, etc...
Some of the combinations looks interesing, don't you think so?

They had set-up a corner for some other pastries. But do not expect too much
from this corner as I personally feel that most of their hard work goes into
the 'Kueh' than the pastries.

Although they sell cakes also, but these cakes were uniquely different from the
common Pasty store in Singapore

Some other 'Kuehs' that they are selling in the store. But mark my words,
some of the items were already sold out by Lunch hour.

The name of the store would be 'Galicier'. It was located near the main
branch of Tiong Bahru Bao and Tiong Bahru Market.
Click on the links below to find the exact location of the store. :D

Even though in Singapore we had shops like Bengawan Solo that specializing in selling various kinds of 'Kueh', cookies, etc. But, in comparison, I personally still prefer the 'Kuehs' at Galicier as it is much cheaper, much tastier and much bigger in size. Probably this is due to the fact that I used to work around that area and I will pop by the shop whenever I have the time during Lunch hours or on my way walking back home. :P

* Click here for the exact location of 'Galicier'.
^ Click here to find out more about Bengawan Solo.