East
The East zone comprises many interesting areas. Famous are the Katong and Joo Chiat districts. Major roads in this zone are New Upper Changi Road, which runs through the Kembangan residential estate and Bedok HDB housing estate, and Geylang Road (one-way westwards towards the city) which runs parallel to Sims Avenue (one-way eastwards away from the city).
Categories: Chinese, Duck Rice, Hawker
Located at Cheok Kee Eating House, 520 MacPherson Road. (Opp Caltex Petrol Station)., Singapore 368213
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Categories: Chinese, Steamboat, Seafood
Located at #01-532 Blk 79 Circuit Road, Singapore 370079
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This steamboat stall at this old hawker centre serves range of usual steamboat fare - prawns, fish head meat, tofu, pig liver, beef, chicken, enoki mushrooms(the Chinese call them golden needle mushrooms, 金针菇) and vegetables - and comes with a small pot of satay sauce dip. However, be warned that everything here has very light, if any, seasoning. The soup (and the satay) is quite bland. Then again, the fact that the stall dares keep the seasoning light, does indicate its confidence in the freshness of the food, and you can be sure that they've skipped the MSG and tongue-numbing salt/chilli sauces.
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Located at #01-548 Circuit Road Hawker Centre, Singapore 370079
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Colocated with 建裕五香虾饼.
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Located at #01-672 Circuit Road Cooked Food Centre, Blk 79A Circuit Road, Singapore 371079
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Categories: Zhi Char, Chinese, Crab, Seafood, Halal-Muslim
Located at 303 Changi Road (near Lorong Sarina)., Singapore 419781
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This halal zhi-char (Chinese-style ala carte stir-fried dishes) eatery used to be located at Tampines Telepark building where it had a popular following. They've since moved to this shophouse along Changi Road next to a pet provisions shop. One of the few halal coffeeshop-style zhi-char eating places.
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Categories: Chinese, Wanton Mee, Noodles
Located at Hock Sing Hin Coffeeshop, 128 Tembeling Road., Singapore 423638
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Categories: Chinese, Rojak (Chinese), Hawker
Located at #02-14 Dunman Road Food Centre, 271 Onan Road, Singapore 424768
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With nicely grilled tau pok (fried beancurd) with cuttlefish, fresh vegetables and crispy doughstick fritters, this is one of the most popular Chinese rojak around the east/Katong area (perhaps Singapore as well). Opens from 5pm till late past midnight.
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Categories: Chinese, Cheng Tng, Ice Kachang, Soya Bean Curd/Milk, Dessert
Located at #01-01 Dunman Road Food Centre, 271 Onan Road, Singapore 424768
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Get your big bowl of dessert from this dessert and drinks stall. If you're on a walking tour of the area, remember to ask the owner for the tourist brochures of Joo Chiat as well.
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Categories: Chinese, Popiah, Cakes and Pastries
Located at 95 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427389
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This popiah (spring roll) shop has been in business since 1938. Varieties include popiahs made from turnips, carrots, tau kwa (dried beancurd/tofu) and crab meat. Also has kueh pie tee (a nonya snack made like a crispy little cup with turnip and other ingredients).
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Categories: Peranakan Nonya,
Located at 214 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427482
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Tel:6344-2761. This restaurant is well-known for its Peranakan-Nonya fare and has been operating in Joo Chiat since 1953.
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Categories: Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), Otah, Halal-Muslim
Located at 267 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427521
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This shop is famous for their mackeral otah and banana leaf nasi lemak. Provides more than 8 types of otah including non-spicy(white meat), fish roe, prawn, sotong, Thai (extra spicy), mackeral, vegetarian, big prawn (seasonal) and crayfish (seasonal). Islandwide delivery (free for $60 and above). Tel:6345-5542.
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Categories: Chinese, Soups, Cantonese
Located at 348 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427597
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Tel:6440-8348. This restaurant is set up by a former head of the Pine Court restaurant at Mandarin Hotel, which perhaps explains the reason for the name Emperor.
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Categories: Chinese, Zhi Char, Hawker
Located at 360 Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427605
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Categories: Halal-Muslim, Nasi Bryani, Roti Prata, Teh Tarik, 24hrs, Mutton Soup (Indian Muslim)
Located at 365 Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427610
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This is a cozy Indian-Muslim tea and makan place nestled among the shophouses of Joo Chiat. One of the few roti-prata-teh joints that serve masala tea (chai) in Singapore.
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Categories: Chinese, Porridge, Chow Tau Foo, Noodles
Located at 456 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427669
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This Taiwanese food eatery is set up by a Taiwan-born family. Popular dishes here include beef soup noodle, pork chop rice and chau toufu otherwise known as smelly beancurd (臭豆腐). Tel:6478-1787.
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Categories: Chinese, Hokkien Mee, Seafood, Crab
Located at 37 Joo Chiat Place., Singapore 427761
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This seafood shop is famous for their cheese crab and fried hokkien mee (noodles). Tel:6742-1119.
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Categories: Chinese, Wanton Mee, Hawker
Located at Sin Wah Coffeeshop, 62/64 Joo Chiat Place., Singapore 427785
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Categories: Noodles, Wanton Mee, 24hrs, Chinese
Located at 72 Joo Chiat Place, Singapore 427789
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This stall opens 24 hours everyday and is an alternative option when the original Fei Fei Wanton Noodle shop across the road is too crowded or closed.
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Categories: Chinese, Crab, Seafood
Located at 247/249 Joo Chiat Place, Singapore 427935
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This old shabby-looking single-storey coffeeshop is one of the favourite crab eateries in the area. They are popular for their pepper crabs. You can't miss it when passing by Joo Chiat Place as the queue outside the shop will start forming around 6pm till 7/8pm. The kopitiam is not very small, so the main reason the queue forms, I believe, is due to their limited stock of crabs. The stall opens from 5pm till 9-10pm, but don't be surprised if you find the crabs sold out by 8pm on busy days!
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Categories: Chinese, Peranakan Nonya,
Located at 117 East Coast Road., Singapore 428805
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Fine dining style. Dishes include ayam buah keluak (chicken stew with black nuts), bakwan kepiting (meatball soup), udang masak nanas (prawns with pineapple), Nonya chap chye (stewed mixed vegetables), pulut hitam (black glutinous rice) .Tel:6440-0449.
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Categories: Cakes and Pastries, Nasi Padang, Peranakan Nonya, Malay Kueh, Popiah, Halal-Muslim
Located at 139 East Coast Road., Singapore 428829
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This is the Katong outlet and restaurant of Glory Catering which makes a wide range of traditional confections, kuehs, and festive snacks. The shop is a mini-restaurant (air-con) where you can savour nasi padang and curries. The front of the shop displays and sells a wide range of fresh kuehs, agar-agar (seaweed jelly), glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang) and packaged festive cookies and snacks (peanut biscuits, pineapple tarts, egg rolls and tarts etc). All the food is halal including the bakchang, so you only get chicken meat in the meat version of the dumplings.
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Categories: Cakes and Pastries, Teochew Kueh, Soon Kueh
Located at 150 East Coast Road., Singapore 428837
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This is the Katong branch of the original shop at Upper Serangoon Road (Hougang). Offers a range of hand-made teochew kuehs (cakes) including ku chye kuehs, ou (yam) kueh and glutinous rice kuehs. Tel: 6287-4328.
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Categories: Chinese, Zhi Char, Hawker
Located at 187 East Coast Road., Singapore 428893
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Located at 191 East Coast Road, Singapore 428897
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Categories: Chinese, Cakes and Pastries, Kaya Roti
Located at 204 East Coast Road., Singapore 428903
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Operating out of an old corner shophouse next to Chapel Road. This shop is famous for its puffs, sugee cakes (made with ground almond and cashew nuts) and kaya butter bread buns.
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Categories: Chinese, Yong Tau Foo, Hawker
Located at 225, East Coast Road., Singapore 428922
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Categories: Chinese, Roast Meat (Chinese), Duck Rice
Located at 233 East Coast Road., Singapore 428928
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Check out the roast duck meat here.
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Categories: Chinese, Bak Chor Mee, Noodles, Hawker
Located at #B1 Treats Food Court, Parkway Parade, 80 Marine Parade Road, Singapore 449269
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Chai Chee Noodle Village has set up various branches around the island. This stall in Parkway Parade seems to have kept up its standard. You would have expected good bak chor mee noodles to come mostly from the seasoned hands of a middle-aged or even ah pek, but this stall was manned by a young chap barely out of his 20s who was cool and steady despite the longish queue even at 230pm on a weekday. Quite impressive !
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Categories: Chinese, Cuttlefish Kangkong, Hawker
Located at #01-193 Bedok South Road Block 16 Market & Food Centre, Block 16 Bedok South Road, Singapore 460016
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Closed on Mondays.
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Categories: Chinese, Char Kway Teow, Hawker
Located at #01-187 Bedok South Road Block 16 Market & Food Centre, Block 16 Bedok South Road, Singapore 460016
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Despite all the hype - being recommended by Makansutra and written about by Anthony Bourdain (chaperoned, oops I mean tour-guided by Makansutra's Seetoh, no less) - I didn't find anything outstanding about the fried kway teow on a weekday lunch trip here. No, it wasn't bad at all, it was quite well done - everything fell into place, the ingredients, the hums and stuff. But in the end, I just wasn't impressed. It's worth noting there's another stall named 'Hill Street Fried Kway Teow' in the Chinatown Complex Food Centre which, it seems, is run by the same family. No prizes for guessing how that one fared in my little black book as well. Opens lunch till dinner.
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Categories: Chinese, Fishball Noodles, Hawker
Located at #01-211 Bedok South Road Block 16 Market & Food Centre, Block 16 Bedok South Road, Singapore 460016
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Categories: Chinese, Bak Chor Mee, Hawker
Located at #01-07 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Categories: Chinese, Bak Chor Mee, Hawker
Located at #01-08 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Located at #01-258 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Categories: Chinese, Carrot Cake, Hawker
Located at #01-51 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Occupies side-by-side units #01-49 and #01-51. Also sells fried kway teow, fried oyster (蚝煎) and hokkien prawn mee.
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Located at #01-250 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Also has a unit at #01-210.
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Categories: Chinese, Satay, Hawker
Located at #01-53 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Located at #01-247 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Categories: Hokkien Mee, Fried Oyster Omelette, Char Kway Teow
Located at #01-06 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Cooked by the man Tua Pui (or Fatty) Koon himself, this stall serves the four major fried hawker dishes - fried oyster omelette, carrot cake, fried kway teow and hokkien mee. I slightly prefer this stall to the other stall selling similar dishes a few units further.
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Located at #01-53 New Upper Changi Road Cooked Food Centre, Blk 207 New Upper Changi Road., Singapore 460207
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Categories: International, Western Food, Hawker
Located at #01-08 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
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Categories: Hawker, Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), Halal-Muslim
Located at #01-54 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
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This stall was one of the first competitor to be located close to International Food Stall (IFS). It is diagonally opposite IFS and sells its nasi lemak set for $2 vs IFS's $2.50. I think it's quality is in fact on par with (or even better than) IFS's.
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Categories: Halal-Muslim, Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), Hawker
Located at #1-57 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
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This stall is one of the most popular nasi lemak stalls in Changi Village. Expect long queues during meal times. There are three other competitors within its vicinity of six adjacent units !
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Categories: Hawker, Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), 24hrs, Halal-Muslim
Located at #01-55 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
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Another competitor to International Food Stall (IFS). It is diagonally opposite IFS and next to Sri Sujana, also a nasi lemak stall. The quality of the nasi lemak here is quite good as well, and lunch time sees office staff from the nearby airport/cargo complexes and aviation parks ordering take-aways of tens of packets. $2.50 gets you a rather large bowl-like plate of coconut-flavoured rice and a meaty chicken wing with a generous dollop of fragrant chilli sauce !
The stall is open 24hrs, which seems to be the only one to do so among the Changi Village nasi lemak stalls.
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Categories: Halal-Muslim, Teh Tarik, Cakes and Pastries, 24hrs, Sarabat
Located at #01-68 Changi Village Market & Hawker's Centre, Block 2, Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
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Not exactly 24 hours, but this stall opens around 4am everyday till late at night. A fishball noodle stall opposite them is one of the few other food stalls at this hawker centre that were open at 5am when I visited on a weekday.
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Located at BLK 826, Tampines Street 81., Singapore 520826
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Categories: Chinese, Lor Mee, Noodles, Hawker
Located at #02-10 Hainan Garden Market and Food Centre, Block 205, Hougang Avenue 1., Singapore 530105
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This stall serves up lor mee with gravy that isn't too sticky, unlike what you find at most other stalls. The gravy isn't overly starchy and is good enough to slurp till the last drop. Yum yum :) The stall, which moved to the Old Airport Road Hawker Centre during the upgrading (of the Hougang Avenue 1 one), is quite generous with their portions of braised meat and other ingredients.
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Categories: Chinese, Beef Kway Teow, Hawker
Located at Block 203 Hougang Street 21, Singapore 530203
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This stall used to be good and popular, lunch times saw long queues forming here. But it nows seems to have been handed over to employees or third party operators who continue to use the same name. Feedback has been that the standard has dropped much.
Update: I finally got round to eating this recently. Well, I've tried the previous version years back, of which I wasn't a big fan to start with, and found the latest quality to be quite good actually. I think the beef may not be as fresh (think pinkish-red) but the overall taste was in fact better than Ang Mo Kio Block 233's Hong Heng which I last tried not too long ago. I especially like the cincalok (fermented shrimps in brine) with shallots and lime/vinegar which you hardly find served by other such stalls. Lastly, the soup had a slight bitter tinge which I suppose comes from some of the herbs used.
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Categories: Chinese, Wanton Mee, Hawker
Located at #01-57 Hougang Street 21 Block 209 Market And Food Centre, Singapore 530209
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Categories: Chinese, Western Food,
Located at Kopitiam, Block 210 Hougang Street 21. (Near 7-Eleven / VideoEzy shop)., Singapore 530210
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Tucked away in a corner of a laid-back Kopitiam coffeeshop is this unassuming western food stall that is probably Hougang Kovan Central's best-kept makan secret, mostly known only to local residents and students. Prices are reasonable and you don't have to wait too long for your food.
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Categories: Hawker, Mua Chee, Cakes and Pastries
Located at #01-346 Blk 682, Hougang Ave 8, Singapore 530682
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Categories: Halal-Muslim, Teh Tarik, 24hrs, Roti Prata
Located at 536A Upper Serangoon Road., Singapore 534552
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Categories: Chinese, Nasi Lemak (Chinese),
Located at Ponggol Nasi Lemak Centre 榜鹅椰浆饭中心, 965 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534721
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Categories: Chinese, Porridge
Located at 1008 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534746
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This is one of the better ala carte dish porridge options that is giving the nearby Teochew porridge shops a run for their money. It's a shame since this part of Upper Serangoon Road is in Hougang - a Teochew enclave that should really be seeing much better Teochew food shops - and the crowds seem to have voted with their mouths for the Taiwanese. Costs $5-10 per person depending on the dishes ordered, with the unlimited porridge/rice servings for $0.50 per person. Opens 11am till late (or should it be early morning ?) at 2am.
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Located at 1010 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534748
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Located at 1022 Upper Serangoon Road., Singapore 534760
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Offers a range of hand-made teochew kuehs (cakes) including ku chye kuehs, ou (yam) kueh and glutinous rice kuehs. Tel: 6287-4328.
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Cheok Kee Duck Rice 作记鸭饭
Cheok Kee Eating House is located along Macpherson Road opposite the Caltex petrol station.
Cheok Kee Duck Rice occupies a shophouse along Macpherson Road.
Cheok Kee has one of the most nicely braised ducks that I know of - not over-done nor salty. Under the skin is a layer of fat to seal in the flavour of the duck meat
One of the more delicious braised duck meat eateries around. Try their other dishes like lotus root soup as well.
Categories: Chinese, Duck Rice, Hawker
Located at Cheok Kee Eating House, 520 MacPherson Road. (Opp Caltex Petrol Station)., Singapore 368213
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Tanglin Tong Huat Seafood Satay Steamboat
Tanglin Tong Huat Seafood Satay Steamboat offers fresh healthy fare at affordable prices with no-frills alfresco seating
An order of about 10 dishes ranging from beef to cockes and enoki mushrooms (enough for 4 persons) cost $46.
Categories: Chinese, Steamboat, Seafood
Located at #01-532 Blk 79 Circuit Road, Singapore 370079
Show me on mapThis steamboat stall at this old hawker centre serves range of usual steamboat fare - prawns, fish head meat, tofu, pig liver, beef, chicken, enoki mushrooms(the Chinese call them golden needle mushrooms, 金针菇) and vegetables - and comes with a small pot of satay sauce dip. However, be warned that everything here has very light, if any, seasoning. The soup (and the satay) is quite bland. Then again, the fact that the stall dares keep the seasoning light, does indicate its confidence in the freshness of the food, and you can be sure that they've skipped the MSG and tongue-numbing salt/chilli sauces.
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建裕蚝煎
Categories: Chinese, Fried Oyster Omelette, HawkerLocated at #01-548 Circuit Road Hawker Centre, Singapore 370079
Show me on mapColocated with 建裕五香虾饼.
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妙善素食小吃 Miao Shung Vegetarian Food
Categories: Chinese, Vegetarian (Chinese), HawkerLocated at #01-672 Circuit Road Cooked Food Centre, Blk 79A Circuit Road, Singapore 371079
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Kampong Chai Chee Restaurant
Kampong Chai Chee Restaurant is at a shophouse along Changi Road opposite the junction with Telok Kurau.
It actually occupies 2 shop units, one of them being air-conditioned.
Across the road, there is no lack of eateries as well. One of the more well-known, for Indian curry fish head, is Thondamans Restaurant.
Kampong Chai Chee Restaurant's generous serving of fried calamari (sotong) rings
Categories: Zhi Char, Chinese, Crab, Seafood, Halal-Muslim
Located at 303 Changi Road (near Lorong Sarina)., Singapore 419781
Show me on mapThis halal zhi-char (Chinese-style ala carte stir-fried dishes) eatery used to be located at Tampines Telepark building where it had a popular following. They've since moved to this shophouse along Changi Road next to a pet provisions shop. One of the few halal coffeeshop-style zhi-char eating places.
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Wantan Mee
To get to the coffeeshop, take the left turn at this junction into Tembeling Road from Koon Seng Road (coming from the direction of Joo Chiat Road). In the background is Haig Girls' School.
Categories: Chinese, Wanton Mee, Noodles
Located at Hock Sing Hin Coffeeshop, 128 Tembeling Road., Singapore 423638
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Lau Hong Ser Rojak
Dunman Food Centre is located at the junction of Onan Road and Pennefeather Road.
Lau Hong Ser Rojak is just after the front stairs on the upper deck of Dunman Food Centre. Don't go in the day as they only open after 5pm till late. Closed on Sundays.
Categories: Chinese, Rojak (Chinese), Hawker
Located at #02-14 Dunman Road Food Centre, 271 Onan Road, Singapore 424768
Show me on mapWith nicely grilled tau pok (fried beancurd) with cuttlefish, fresh vegetables and crispy doughstick fritters, this is one of the most popular Chinese rojak around the east/Katong area (perhaps Singapore as well). Opens from 5pm till late past midnight.
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Ken's Delights 真好吃
Dunman Food Centre is located at the junction of Onan Road and Pennefeather Road.
Ken's Delight is located at the basement (unit#01-01) of Dunman Food Centre.
Get this bowl of chendol for $1.50.
...or this bowl of cocktail jelly ($1.50).
Categories: Chinese, Cheng Tng, Ice Kachang, Soya Bean Curd/Milk, Dessert
Located at #01-01 Dunman Road Food Centre, 271 Onan Road, Singapore 424768
Show me on mapGet your big bowl of dessert from this dessert and drinks stall. If you're on a walking tour of the area, remember to ask the owner for the tourist brochures of Joo Chiat as well.
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Kway Guan Huat
Kway Guan Soon (popiah) is opposite the Masjid Khalid (mosque) and about 5 minutes walk in from Joo Chiat Complex.
Categories: Chinese, Popiah, Cakes and Pastries
Located at 95 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427389
Show me on mapThis popiah (spring roll) shop has been in business since 1938. Varieties include popiahs made from turnips, carrots, tau kwa (dried beancurd/tofu) and crab meat. Also has kueh pie tee (a nonya snack made like a crispy little cup with turnip and other ingredients).
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Guan Hoe Soon Restaurant
Guan Hoe Soon Restaurant right near central part of Joo Chiat Road near the Joo Chiat Lane junction.
Consider parking at Ceylon Lane pictured here.
Nearby are two Hotel 81 budget hotels, Sakura and Opera (photo).
Categories: Peranakan Nonya,
Located at 214 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427482
Show me on mapTel:6344-2761. This restaurant is well-known for its Peranakan-Nonya fare and has been operating in Joo Chiat since 1953.
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Nam San
Nam San Mackerel Otah
Nam San Mackerel Otah
Most of the otah varieties cost about $1 each.
Categories: Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), Otah, Halal-Muslim
Located at 267 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427521
Show me on mapThis shop is famous for their mackeral otah and banana leaf nasi lemak. Provides more than 8 types of otah including non-spicy(white meat), fish roe, prawn, sotong, Thai (extra spicy), mackeral, vegetarian, big prawn (seasonal) and crayfish (seasonal). Islandwide delivery (free for $60 and above). Tel:6345-5542.
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Emperor's Soups 御用汤之家
Emperor's Soup Restaurant
Categories: Chinese, Soups, Cantonese
Located at 348 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427597
Show me on mapTel:6440-8348. This restaurant is set up by a former head of the Pine Court restaurant at Mandarin Hotel, which perhaps explains the reason for the name Emperor.
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Joo Heng Restaurant 裕兴菜馆
Joo Heng Restaurant is situated near the central part of Joo Chiat Road.
Categories: Chinese, Zhi Char, Hawker
Located at 360 Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427605
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AB & ABC Restaurant
AB & ABC Restaurant is at a corner shophouse of Joo Chiat Road and Duku Road.
You can get a range of Malay-Indian food and snacks here.
Not your usual teh tarik - try the masala tea (teh masala or masala chai) which is made with a blend of spices including cloves and cinnamon.
Categories: Halal-Muslim, Nasi Bryani, Roti Prata, Teh Tarik, 24hrs, Mutton Soup (Indian Muslim)
Located at 365 Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427610
Show me on mapThis is a cozy Indian-Muslim tea and makan place nestled among the shophouses of Joo Chiat. One of the few roti-prata-teh joints that serve masala tea (chai) in Singapore.
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Peng Lai Ge Taiwan Delight
Peng Lai Ge Taiwanese Restaurant is opposite the Joo Chiat Community Club.
Peng Lai Ge Taiwanese Restaurant advertises their 'authentic Taiwanese' smelly tofu (chou doufu) on their front signboards.
Categories: Chinese, Porridge, Chow Tau Foo, Noodles
Located at 456 Joo Chiat Road., Singapore 427669
Show me on mapThis Taiwanese food eatery is set up by a Taiwan-born family. Popular dishes here include beef soup noodle, pork chop rice and chau toufu otherwise known as smelly beancurd (臭豆腐). Tel:6478-1787.
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Kim's Place (Seafood)
Kim's Place seafood coffeeshop is located at the junction with Tembeling Road.
Categories: Chinese, Hokkien Mee, Seafood, Crab
Located at 37 Joo Chiat Place., Singapore 427761
Show me on mapThis seafood shop is famous for their cheese crab and fried hokkien mee (noodles). Tel:6742-1119.
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飞飞云吞面 Fei Fei Wan Tan Noodles
Fei Fei Wanton Noodles is found at this old coffeeshop near the junction with Everitt Road.
Categories: Chinese, Wanton Mee, Hawker
Located at Sin Wah Coffeeshop, 62/64 Joo Chiat Place., Singapore 427785
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Fei Fei Wantan Noodles
Fei Fei Wanton Noodles at 72 Joo Chiat Place occupies a corner coffee-shophouse at the junction with Everitt Road.
This bowl of noodles costs $2.50. It has nothing much to offer other than a few slices of charsiew and some small meat dumplings (wantans).
Errr these aren't the biggest wantans (meat dumplings) I've eaten). Looks like it's a lot more noodles than wantons and charsiew for me !
Categories: Noodles, Wanton Mee, 24hrs, Chinese
Located at 72 Joo Chiat Place, Singapore 427789
Show me on mapThis stall opens 24 hours everyday and is an alternative option when the original Fei Fei Wanton Noodle shop across the road is too crowded or closed.
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Eng Seng Restaurant
Eng Seng Restaurant is an old kopitiam located at the junction of Still Road and Joo Chiat Place
Categories: Chinese, Crab, Seafood
Located at 247/249 Joo Chiat Place, Singapore 427935
Show me on mapThis old shabby-looking single-storey coffeeshop is one of the favourite crab eateries in the area. They are popular for their pepper crabs. You can't miss it when passing by Joo Chiat Place as the queue outside the shop will start forming around 6pm till 7/8pm. The kopitiam is not very small, so the main reason the queue forms, I believe, is due to their limited stock of crabs. The stall opens from 5pm till 9-10pm, but don't be surprised if you find the crabs sold out by 8pm on busy days!
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True Blue Cuisine
True Blue Cuisine is along East Coast Road near the junction with Joo Chiat Road.
The restaurant has a policy of not allowing children below 10 years old.
Categories: Chinese, Peranakan Nonya,
Located at 117 East Coast Road., Singapore 428805
Show me on mapFine dining style. Dishes include ayam buah keluak (chicken stew with black nuts), bakwan kepiting (meatball soup), udang masak nanas (prawns with pineapple), Nonya chap chye (stewed mixed vegetables), pulut hitam (black glutinous rice) .Tel:6440-0449.
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Glory Catering
Glory Catering's restaurant outlet at Katong near the junction of Joo Chiat Road and East Coast Road.
The shopfront displays a wide range of kuehs, agar-agar, coconut pastries and snacks.
Categories: Cakes and Pastries, Nasi Padang, Peranakan Nonya, Malay Kueh, Popiah, Halal-Muslim
Located at 139 East Coast Road., Singapore 428829
Show me on mapThis is the Katong outlet and restaurant of Glory Catering which makes a wide range of traditional confections, kuehs, and festive snacks. The shop is a mini-restaurant (air-con) where you can savour nasi padang and curries. The front of the shop displays and sells a wide range of fresh kuehs, agar-agar (seaweed jelly), glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang) and packaged festive cookies and snacks (peanut biscuits, pineapple tarts, egg rolls and tarts etc). All the food is halal including the bakchang, so you only get chicken meat in the meat version of the dumplings.
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Yong's Teochew Kueh
Yong's Teochew Kueh at its Katong branch shophouse.
Categories: Cakes and Pastries, Teochew Kueh, Soon Kueh
Located at 150 East Coast Road., Singapore 428837
Show me on mapThis is the Katong branch of the original shop at Upper Serangoon Road (Hougang). Offers a range of hand-made teochew kuehs (cakes) including ku chye kuehs, ou (yam) kueh and glutinous rice kuehs. Tel: 6287-4328.
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Sin Hoi Sai Eating House 新海山菜馆
Sin Hoi Sai Eating House opens from 5pm till past midnight
Categories: Chinese, Zhi Char, Hawker
Located at 187 East Coast Road., Singapore 428893
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Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice 五星海南鸡饭
Categories: Chinese, Chicken Rice, HawkerLocated at 191 East Coast Road, Singapore 428897
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Chin Mee Chin Coffee Shop and Cakes Shop (Confectionery)
Chin Mee Chin Cake Shop is at this corner shophouse beside the Church of the Holy Family Katong.
Categories: Chinese, Cakes and Pastries, Kaya Roti
Located at 204 East Coast Road., Singapore 428903
Show me on mapOperating out of an old corner shophouse next to Chapel Road. This shop is famous for its puffs, sugee cakes (made with ground almond and cashew nuts) and kaya butter bread buns.
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Ampang Niang Tou Fu 安邦酿豆腐
Ampang Niang Tou Fu is in a shophouse along East Coast Road. Opens from lunch onwards.
Categories: Chinese, Yong Tau Foo, Hawker
Located at 225, East Coast Road., Singapore 428922
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Mei Yuen Restaurant
The roast duck and meat stall in Mei Yuen Restaurant, a shophouse coffeeshop along East Coast Road near the Esso petrol station.
Categories: Chinese, Roast Meat (Chinese), Duck Rice
Located at 233 East Coast Road., Singapore 428928
Show me on mapCheck out the roast duck meat here.
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Chai Chee Noodle Village 菜市肉脞面
Chai Chee Noodle Village (Parkway Parade) is at the basement Treats food court
This bowl of minced meat noodles costs $3.50
Categories: Chinese, Bak Chor Mee, Noodles, Hawker
Located at #B1 Treats Food Court, Parkway Parade, 80 Marine Parade Road, Singapore 449269
Show me on mapChai Chee Noodle Village has set up various branches around the island. This stall in Parkway Parade seems to have kept up its standard. You would have expected good bak chor mee noodles to come mostly from the seasoned hands of a middle-aged or even ah pek, but this stall was manned by a young chap barely out of his 20s who was cool and steady despite the longish queue even at 230pm on a weekday. Quite impressive !
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Wah Kee Cooked Food 华记鱿鱼蕹菜
Bedok South Block 16 Market and Food Centre
Categories: Chinese, Cuttlefish Kangkong, Hawker
Located at #01-193 Bedok South Road Block 16 Market & Food Centre, Block 16 Bedok South Road, Singapore 460016
Show me on mapClosed on Mondays.
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Hill Street Fried Kway Teow
Bedok South Block 16 Market and Food Centre
Hill Street Fried Kway Teow
Hill Street (Bedok) branch's lacklustre fried kway teow was a disappointment
Categories: Chinese, Char Kway Teow, Hawker
Located at #01-187 Bedok South Road Block 16 Market & Food Centre, Block 16 Bedok South Road, Singapore 460016
Show me on mapDespite all the hype - being recommended by Makansutra and written about by Anthony Bourdain (chaperoned, oops I mean tour-guided by Makansutra's Seetoh, no less) - I didn't find anything outstanding about the fried kway teow on a weekday lunch trip here. No, it wasn't bad at all, it was quite well done - everything fell into place, the ingredients, the hums and stuff. But in the end, I just wasn't impressed. It's worth noting there's another stall named 'Hill Street Fried Kway Teow' in the Chinatown Complex Food Centre which, it seems, is run by the same family. No prizes for guessing how that one fared in my little black book as well. Opens lunch till dinner.
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Hock Seng Choon Fish Ball 福成春鱼圆果条面
Bedok South Block 16 Market and Food Centre
Categories: Chinese, Fishball Noodles, Hawker
Located at #01-211 Bedok South Road Block 16 Market & Food Centre, Block 16 Bedok South Road, Singapore 460016
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Xing Ji Ruo Cuo Mian 兴记肉脞面
Xing Ji Ruo Cuo Mian is next to the other famous Seng Hiang bak chor mee stall
Categories: Chinese, Bak Chor Mee, Hawker
Located at #01-07 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Seng Hiang Food Stall 成香食摊肉脞面
Seng Hiang is next to the other famous Xing Ji Ruo Cuo Mian bak chor mee stall
Seng Hiang's bak chor mee
The minced pork is served in the soup rather than with the noodles
Categories: Chinese, Bak Chor Mee, Hawker
Located at #01-08 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Chan BBQ
Categories: Chinese, Seafood (BBQ), HawkerLocated at #01-258 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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勿洛北菜头粿 Bedok North Fried Carrot Cake
The fried oyster omelette seemed mass-produced on a Saturday night
Categories: Chinese, Carrot Cake, Hawker
Located at #01-51 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
Show me on mapOccupies side-by-side units #01-49 and #01-51. Also sells fried kway teow, fried oyster (蚝煎) and hokkien prawn mee.
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菜市猪肉粥 Chai Chee Pork Porridge
Categories: Chinese, Porridge,Located at #01-250 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
Show me on mapAlso has a unit at #01-210.
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Lin Yuan Satay 林园沙爹
Lin Yuan's satay was tasty but didn't seem extraordinary
Categories: Chinese, Satay, Hawker
Located at #01-53 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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Siang Siang Chwee Kueh
Categories: Chinese, Chwee Kueh, Cakes and PastriesLocated at #01-247 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
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加东大肥坤 Katong Tua Pui Koon
Katong Tua Pui Koon's stall is next to the famous Xing Ji Ruo Cuo Mian bak chor mee stall
Categories: Hokkien Mee, Fried Oyster Omelette, Char Kway Teow
Located at #01-06 Market & Food Centre, Block 85, Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460085
Show me on mapCooked by the man Tua Pui (or Fatty) Koon himself, this stall serves the four major fried hawker dishes - fried oyster omelette, carrot cake, fried kway teow and hokkien mee. I slightly prefer this stall to the other stall selling similar dishes a few units further.
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Bedok Chwee Kueh
Categories: Chinese, Chwee Kueh, Cakes and PastriesLocated at #01-53 New Upper Changi Road Cooked Food Centre, Blk 207 New Upper Changi Road., Singapore 460207
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Charlie's Corner
Changi Village Market & Food Centre up ahead, as seen when walking in from Changi Village Road
Changi Village Market and Food Centre Block 2, where most of the food stalls are located.
Charlie's opens late for lunch and only on Tuesdays to Fridays. Dinner is only on Saturdays and Sundays and Mondays are fishing days as Charlie proudly proclaims.
Categories: International, Western Food, Hawker
Located at #01-08 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
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Sri Sujana
Changi Village Market & Food Centre up ahead, as seen when walking in from Changi Village Road
Changi Village Market and Food Centre Block 2, where most of the food stalls are located.
Sri Sujana is one International Food Stall's worthy competitors and located diagonally oppposite them.
Sri Sujana's nasi lemak gives the other stalls a good run for their money
Categories: Hawker, Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), Halal-Muslim
Located at #01-54 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
Show me on mapThis stall was one of the first competitor to be located close to International Food Stall (IFS). It is diagonally opposite IFS and sells its nasi lemak set for $2 vs IFS's $2.50. I think it's quality is in fact on par with (or even better than) IFS's.
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International Food Stall
Changi Village Market & Food Centre up ahead, as seen when walking in from Changi Village Road
Changi Village Market and Food Centre Block 2, where most of the food stalls are located.
International Food Stall occupies a corner unit in Changi Village Food Centre
Categories: Halal-Muslim, Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), Hawker
Located at #1-57 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
Show me on mapThis stall is one of the most popular nasi lemak stalls in Changi Village. Expect long queues during meal times. There are three other competitors within its vicinity of six adjacent units !
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Mizzy's Corner
Changi Village Market & Food Centre up ahead, as seen when walking in from Changi Village Road
Changi Village Market and Food Centre Block 2, where most of the food stalls are located.
Mizzy's Corner is next to Sri Sujana, another nasi lemak stall and opposite the famous International Stall.
Mizzy's nasi lemak comes in a large bowl-like plate (or is it plate-like bowl ?) with lotsa chilli gravy.
Categories: Hawker, Nasi Lemak (Halal Malay), 24hrs, Halal-Muslim
Located at #01-55 Changi Village Market & Food Centre, Blk 2 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
Show me on mapAnother competitor to International Food Stall (IFS). It is diagonally opposite IFS and next to Sri Sujana, also a nasi lemak stall. The quality of the nasi lemak here is quite good as well, and lunch time sees office staff from the nearby airport/cargo complexes and aviation parks ordering take-aways of tens of packets. $2.50 gets you a rather large bowl-like plate of coconut-flavoured rice and a meaty chicken wing with a generous dollop of fragrant chilli sauce !
The stall is open 24hrs, which seems to be the only one to do so among the Changi Village nasi lemak stalls.
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Bismillah Sarabat Stall
Changi Village Market & Food Centre up ahead, as seen when walking in from Changi Village Road
Changi Village Market and Food Centre Block 2, where most of the food stalls are located.
Bismillah Sarabat Stall is the only teh tarik stall open in the pre-dawn hours at Changi Village Food Centre
Categories: Halal-Muslim, Teh Tarik, Cakes and Pastries, 24hrs, Sarabat
Located at #01-68 Changi Village Market & Hawker's Centre, Block 2, Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002
Show me on mapNot exactly 24 hours, but this stall opens around 4am everyday till late at night. A fishball noodle stall opposite them is one of the few other food stalls at this hawker centre that were open at 5am when I visited on a weekday.
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大巴窑淉汁 Toa Payoh Kway Chap
Categories: Chinese, Kway Chap, HawkerLocated at BLK 826, Tampines Street 81., Singapore 520826
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Lorong Ah Soo Lor Mee (正宗)罗弄阿酥卤面
Hainanese Village Centre, Block 105 Hougang Avenue 1
Lorong Ah Soo Lor Mee is located at the 2nd floor of the newly (2006) built Hainan Garden Market & Food Centre at Hougang Ave 1
This is the $3 (large) serving of lor mee from Lorong Ah Soo Lor Mee stall. Try the $2 order too as they're not stingy with ingredients
Categories: Chinese, Lor Mee, Noodles, Hawker
Located at #02-10 Hainan Garden Market and Food Centre, Block 205, Hougang Avenue 1., Singapore 530105
Show me on mapThis stall serves up lor mee with gravy that isn't too sticky, unlike what you find at most other stalls. The gravy isn't overly starchy and is good enough to slurp till the last drop. Yum yum :) The stall, which moved to the Old Airport Road Hawker Centre during the upgrading (of the Hougang Avenue 1 one), is quite generous with their portions of braised meat and other ingredients.
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Cheng Kee Beef Kway Teow 清记牛肉粿條
Block 203 Hougang Street 21 is located at the Hougang South Central and a minute's walk from Kovan MRT (NEL NE13) station.
Cheng Kee's beef noodles soup - pretty good still
The cincalok sauce (bottom) with shallots and vinegar was my favourite
Categories: Chinese, Beef Kway Teow, Hawker
Located at Block 203 Hougang Street 21, Singapore 530203
Show me on mapThis stall used to be good and popular, lunch times saw long queues forming here. But it nows seems to have been handed over to employees or third party operators who continue to use the same name. Feedback has been that the standard has dropped much.
Update: I finally got round to eating this recently. Well, I've tried the previous version years back, of which I wasn't a big fan to start with, and found the latest quality to be quite good actually. I think the beef may not be as fresh (think pinkish-red) but the overall taste was in fact better than Ang Mo Kio Block 233's Hong Heng which I last tried not too long ago. I especially like the cincalok (fermented shrimps in brine) with shallots and lime/vinegar which you hardly find served by other such stalls. Lastly, the soup had a slight bitter tinge which I suppose comes from some of the herbs used.
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益食家熟食 Yi Shi Jia Shu Shi
Hougang Street 21 Block 209 Market and Food Centre has two sections (lower and upper) and is adjacent to Kovan Heartland Mall and just a minute's walk from Kovan MRT (NEL NE13) station
Ample parking space are all around block 209 food centre as there are 3 carparks around this hawker centre
Yi Shi Jia Shu Shi is located on the upper floor of the hawker centre near the former Hougang South Interchange. Opens from 9am to 5pm, closed on Sundays
Their noodles has texture that is different from other run-of-the-mill wan tan mee stalls. The $2.50 set pictured here includes 5 chewy wan tans (dumplings) with soup.
Close-up of my last wan tan ;D
Categories: Chinese, Wanton Mee, Hawker
Located at #01-57 Hougang Street 21 Block 209 Market And Food Centre, Singapore 530209
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Eddy Western Food
Seen here is the $3.50 pork chop (a cutlet actually) with rice and egg - quite a generous serving for $3.50.
Categories: Chinese, Western Food,
Located at Kopitiam, Block 210 Hougang Street 21. (Near 7-Eleven / VideoEzy shop)., Singapore 530210
Show me on mapTucked away in a corner of a laid-back Kopitiam coffeeshop is this unassuming western food stall that is probably Hougang Kovan Central's best-kept makan secret, mostly known only to local residents and students. Prices are reasonable and you don't have to wait too long for your food.
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Hougang 6 Miles Famous Muah Chee
The stall is located in a small corner of the coffeeshop
The soft melty muah chee is coated with finely ground peanut and not overly sticky
Categories: Hawker, Mua Chee, Cakes and Pastries
Located at #01-346 Blk 682, Hougang Ave 8, Singapore 530682
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Suriya Curry House / Banana Leaf Restaurant
Get your nasi brani, roti prata and teh tarik here.
Strict house rules ! Suriya is open 24 hours daily except Friday noon-2pm for prayers
Bee hoon goreng with egg. Slurpz !
Categories: Halal-Muslim, Teh Tarik, 24hrs, Roti Prata
Located at 536A Upper Serangoon Road., Singapore 534552
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Ponggol Nasi Lemak
The Ponggol Nasi Lemak Centre occupies a shophouse at the corner of Florence Close and faces Upper Serangoon Road.
A long stretch of Upper Serangoon Road outside Ponggol Nasi Lemak Centre. The shophouse is only a minute's walk from Kovan MRT (NEL NE13) station and Heartland Mall.
It only looks this quiet when the stall is closed. Otherwise, opening hours are from 6pm to 5am, and is closed on Thursdays.
There is ample seating but diners may still have to wait for seats during peak hours.
Categories: Chinese, Nasi Lemak (Chinese),
Located at Ponggol Nasi Lemak Centre 榜鹅椰浆饭中心, 965 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534721
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Alishan Taiwanese Porridge 阿里山台湾粥
Alishan Taiwanese Porridge is giving the nearby Teochew porridge and Hainanese curry rice shops a good run for their money
Categories: Chinese, Porridge
Located at 1008 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534746
Show me on mapThis is one of the better ala carte dish porridge options that is giving the nearby Teochew porridge shops a run for their money. It's a shame since this part of Upper Serangoon Road is in Hougang - a Teochew enclave that should really be seeing much better Teochew food shops - and the crowds seem to have voted with their mouths for the Taiwanese. Costs $5-10 per person depending on the dishes ordered, with the unlimited porridge/rice servings for $0.50 per person. Opens 11am till late (or should it be early morning ?) at 2am.
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Midnight Curry
Categories: Chinese, Hainanese Curry Rice,Located at 1010 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534748
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Yong's Teochew Kueh
Categories: Cakes and Pastries, Teochew Kueh, Soon KuehLocated at 1022 Upper Serangoon Road., Singapore 534760
Show me on mapOffers a range of hand-made teochew kuehs (cakes) including ku chye kuehs, ou (yam) kueh and glutinous rice kuehs. Tel: 6287-4328.
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*Happy Steamboat* I've found
*Happy Steamboat*
I've found a new steamboat place at Sempang Bedok (At Shop & Save Supermarket). They serve 2 base soup, (chicken & tom yum) both unique and tasty.
Their handmake meatballs, thin-sliced beef and pork are tasty (Steamboat & BBQ) and able to make me crave for more.
Their seafoods are fresh especially their prawns are extremely fresh and crunchy!
Delicious in-house chilli sauce go well with all their dishes!
They even import Japanese Wok for BBQ! Thumbs UP!
Really recommendable!
Gd food at economical price!
I wish I have photos to post it all!