My Makan Place: Indonesian soul food
Mee rebus hasn't quite been on my foodie radar for quite a while now. The last time I wrote about mee rebus was way back in 2008! My childhood memory of mee rebus was one which my mum used to buy from a macik selling from her flat in Toa Payoh Lor 7. Mee rebus has always managed to conjure up nostalgia but seldom any intense craving, hence the long interlude.
12 Stones Noodle House: 黎三元 Loy Sum Jung’s famous invention: Har Cheong Gai
There is no doubt that Har Cheong Gai is one of the most popular Cze Char dishes in Singapore. If we were to compile a list of the top ten Cze Char dishes, Har Cheong Gai will not only be there but be high up on the list. I have been trying to track down […]
Soulout: A Ulu Place to Chill out
This place is closed Its hard to imagine Singapore having farms, but we do have small pockets of land in our tiny island that has been set aside for agriculture. They don’t produce enough food to feed all of us, but its nice to know that there are places that we can go to that […]
Whampoa Keng Fishhead Steamboat: One Man, Two Wives and Fish Head Steamboat
Pomfret Steamboat (L) $55 Fishhead steamboat. Is this another uniquely Singaporean dish or did it come from China? Doris, the lao ban niang (lady boss) at Whampoa Keng, tells me that she remembers eating this style of steamboat when she was still a kid living in the Char Jung Tao area (lit Wooden Ship Port […]
Union Farm Eating House: Of Spock, Chee Pow Kai and an old Enterprise
The original Chee Pow Kai (Paper Wrapped Chicken) My recent blog about paper wrapped chicken in JB prompted a search for the deep fried version I remember as a kid known as “Chee Pow Kai”. I had just picked up Sylvia Tan’s, Singapore Heritage Foods, and came across the origins of Chee Pow Kai and […]
Ban Leong Wah Hoe Seafood: Good or no Good?
Har Cheong Gai $8 Once in a while I find myself doubting my own tastebuds. This happens when I visit a stall that is highly recommended by many people but come away feeling that I must have gone on a day when the chef has decided to take the day off. I have waitied for […]
Eng Kee Chicken Wings: Wings, Wings and more Wings
It just goes to show that you don’t really need a lot of variety in order to be popular. All you really need is one item that everybody likes. In the case of Eng Kee, they just happen to chance upon a fried chicken wing recipe that people would line up even at 3pm in […]
Arnold’s Fried Chicken: Our very own KFC?
With ijeff, taukwa, holybro, holydrummer, Cactuskit, smart, sumosumo and PK Do you remember the days when KFC was actually Kentucky Fried Chicken and that it was a sit down meal served on plates with proper knives and forks? Those were the days when KFC was first introduced to Singapore. In fact, KFC started in Malaysia […]
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