Bedok Market Place aka Simpang Bedok

Bedok Market Place is one of the food havens i get to know about just quite recently. It is located near Bedok Road. Bedok Market place is like lined up with many eating outlets, serving local delights of roti prata, satay, roti john, zi char, western, etc etc. There’s a whole stretch of tables lined up in front of the shops, and customers are free to seat anywhere along the stretch and order food from any of the stalls, without restrictions, like a hawker center. As most of the stalls are operated by the malay communities, the food here are mostly halal certified, attracting lots of malay folks to dine here with their wide variety of choices. Nevertheless, it also attracts many non-malays to gather there for dinner and sessions of chit chatting. Tables are plenty, and if you can’t find one along the stretch, there is another whole stretch of tables along the other side of the shops.Once you settled down on a table, you will be greeted by the many attendents from the various shops asking you what you want to order. The whole table is filled with 5 or 6 laminated menus, with great looking pictures enticing you to order like you’ve never had eaten anything the whole day. It’s a relief that all the stores are selling almost all different items, and there isn’t much harsh competition, as of what i see.

We ordered roti Prata from New Hawa Restaurant. It’s not really fantastic, normal standard, but good enough. I like the satay, the meat are sufficiently marinated and tender, especially the mutton ones, and there isn’t any mutton odour.  Kopi-chino is way too sweet for me.

There’s this western stall serving very nice and unique western food that you seldom find in normal coffeeshops and hawker centers. I’ll try it next time  when I go there.

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Swee Choon Tim Sum

Dim sum has always been my family’s favourite. After a satisfying meal at Wan Dou Sek days back, we all wanted to eat at Swee Choon after reading on the favorable reviews. My dear and my two princesses were not feeling well, so I guess it’s good time for dim sum. “Agreed.” said our prince. We sat at the little back alley as it was a cool night.

I had come to savour e much raved about fried mee sua kueh. It looked like fried carrot cake on the outside. It tasted pretty good with the crispy outer layer more flavourful to complement the more bland inner mee sua. We liked the carrot cake here as well….. it’s light & crispy &  flavorful with the lup cheong in it.

The lor mai kai is tasty though not the best. The glutinous rice is soft which I always liked it this way. Char siew bao and siew mai didn’t managed to get into my mouth as they were all grabbed up by my 3 darlings!

The fried golden toufu is really good. Doesn’t look special at all but when you bite it, ooh la la. The way that thin layer of batter gives way to tender white tofu as your teeth sinks into it… The batter has a taste like crackers to me. For those who think it may be too bland, there’s a pinch of pork floss atop each cube of tofu.

Xiao long bao is definitely more tasty (at least there is soup in it !) here than at Wan Dou Sek, which is dry. La mian with pork chop and red bean pancake is ok.

Service was very friendly and the food came very quickly. The total bill including 5 grass jelly and wet tissues comes up to only $32.60! Wah, very cheap! We will defintely go back to try out the other items.

Ishi Mura (PoMo Centre)

There’s this Japanese concept food court on the 4th level of PoMo Centre (formerly Paradiz Centre) at Selegie Road. There are stalls to choose from and they have their individual menu varies from Donburi, Pasta, Pizza, to Bento, Omelette Rice, Okonomiyaki and Ramen. The drink stall not only sells drinks, but also Japanese tidbits.

Hubby and boy had ramen which they commented that the soup base is good and the noodles is QQ. Girl had pork stone rice. The meat is wonderfully flavorful and the rice beneath has this burnt crust which resembles from that of claypot rice. My youngest and I ate from the bento stall which is good too. We ordered some sides to share and among that, 10 pieces of crispy salmon skin costs only $1.00! A must eat!

This place is cheap and good!

Guang Ji Bao Zai

Located at ABC Brickswork Food Centre, the char siu bao here at Guang Ji Bao Zai are handmade. The filling is juicy and sweet and you can taste the “chargrilled” flavour of the meat. But it’s a bit small for the price of 60 cents each.

Yong Kee Famous Fish Ball Noodle

Yong Kee Famous Fish Ball Noodle at ABC Brickswork Food Centre opens from 7am to 2am, 7 days a week. The fishball and meatball is handmade! The fishballs are very tasty and has a great bouncy texture. The soup here is quite flavorful but I wouldn’t rave too much about the stall’s mee pok which I find a bit tad hard and the sauce too salty for my likeness.

Hill Street Char Kway Teow

The right amount of sweetness, the right amount of wetness, the right amount of chow ta smell. Quite worth my 1/2 hour run.

Ngee Fou Restaurant (Hakka) Ampang Yong Tau Foo

This stall at Upper Thomson Road is always a cowd puller. Specialities are ampang yong tau foo and dumpling soup. Has several awards and recommendations like Green Book Best Food Awards, Foodie’s Choice 美食包打听, Coffee Talk & Hawker Woks, Makansutra 美食面面观, Life!eats.

Leng Heng BBQ Seafood & Claypot Deluxe

Located near to the East Coast Park seashore, Leng Heng offers a wide array of BBQ seafood dishes.

The specialty of this stall is “Kiam Chye Ah” – Salted Vegetable with Duck Soup. Its piquant salty base is tinged with a bit of spiciness, totally awakening our appetite. I found it to be too salty though, will ask it to be toned down next time. The duck, salted vegetable, ginger, sour plump, tomatoes and chillies were all of high quality. The meat is so tender that we can simply shake off the bone!

Besides this dish, we tried their prawn fritters. It is hand-made with fish meat and water chestnut and then deep fried until it is crispy and golden. One bite and tasted great with the plum sauce they provided! We continue to reach for more pieces. The hong kong style steamed fish head is very huge and fresh! We were so amazed by the size of it and dear commented it could feed our family of 5! We loved the 3 dishes so much that we are already making plans to come back to try their other famous dishes. It’s amazing that so much can be done in such a tiny space. They are truely deserve to be Hawker Legends.

Casuarina Curry @ Thomson

Haven’t dine at Casuarina Curry for quite some time. The crispy prata still maintains it’s standard, much to my delight and I am confident that this one beats the stall at Jalan Kayu. Briyani is so-so only. The fish curry pales to Riyadh Muslim Food at Defu Lane. Won’t mind going back for a quick prata fix.