Gastronomic Ruminations

S, Y and I met up for dinner at Jin Wee Restaurant in Siglap a few weeks back. Don’t be deceived by the name of this dining establishment as it is in reality an old-school Hainanese-run coffeeshop located close to the 24 hour NTUC outlet in Siglap. This place has been around for as long [...]

If you’re a major noodle lover, A Noodle Story‘s a hawker stall worth checking out. Started by a duo of noodle lovers, who trained together at Shatec, the stall is the realisation of their dream to sell a premium noodle dish at an affordable price. Using modern culinary techniques and through re-engineering of classic hawker flavours, the intrepid [...]

Chinese New Year starts on 10 February, have you made your feasting plans yet? From 21 January to 24 February, Park Palace at Grand Park City Hall presents “Golden Treasures of Prosperity“. I was invited to a preview of their offering. Golden Shunde Yu Sheng @ S$88++ In Singapore, no Chinese New Year celebration is complete without [...]

One of my favourite local breakfast food is Chee Cheong Fun (steamed rice flour rolls). They’re usually sold smothered with sweet sauce and chili sauce. As I prefer savoury food to sweet food, I usually opt to omit the sweet sauce and chili.   Chee Cheong Fun 猪肠粉 @ S$1.20   My plate of Chee Cheong Fun draws its [...]

Hainanese Chicken Rice, one of many hawker dishes that has me craving a fix whenever I’m away from Singapore for more than 2 weeks. Although Chicken Rice is often referred to as a national dish of Singapore, it is getting increasingly difficult to find well-prepared chicken rice in hawker centres and foodcourts. Roast Chicken Drumstick [...]

The annual Singapore Food Festival is back for its 19th edition from 13 to 22 July 2012. * All images in this blog post reproduced with permission from Singapore Food Festival 2012   “Seafood Tales of Temasek” is a ten-day multi-venue event featuring a wide array of seafood prepared using cooking methods and flavours hailing [...]

I have been passing the famous Ang Ku Kueh 紅龜粿 store at Everton Park countless times in the past few months on my way to the Singapore General Hospital for therapy. Ang Ku Kueh is the Hokkien name for a steamed glutinous rice flour cake stuffed with a sweet filling. “Ang” means “red”,  while “Ku” refers [...]

I feel sad that hawker food in Singapore has largely lost its soul in the past decade with attention to preparation and flavour sacrificed to expediency and profitability. Whenever I find any hawkers who retain the richness of flavours and techniques from the past, I feel compelled to tell all my friends about these last bastions [...]

Tau Suan (Split Mung Bean Dessert with a porridge-like consistency) has been one of my favourite local desserts ever since I was a child but in the last 8 years, I hardly ate it, largely because the versions sold at most hawker stalls or foodcourts are but a shadow of this humble dessert’s tasty past. [...]

My favourite wanton noodle joint in Singapore has a very interesting name, “Hong Mao Mian Jia 红毛面家” in Mandarin. It’s more commonly known as “Ang Moh Wanton Mee” amongst the regular clients. For the uninitiated, “wanton” are dumplings and “Ang Moh” is a local slang for Caucasians.  On weekends, it’s at least a half hour wait [...]