Chinatown Food Centre on 08/12/08

五十年代 02-048

Traditional Kaya Toast $1

Floss Thick Toast $1

Kaya Thick Toast $1

Food / Beverage 7
Value 7
Pictures displayed and what was actually served differs a lot. The toast in the displayed pictures are thick with spread but the ones customers got is different.
Toast is good, no wonder the queue but the spread could have been thicker. Yes it is only $1, what do you expect? but if that is what you have put in the pictures, shouldn't it be consistent?

Long Ji

Egg Century Porridge $2

Food / Beverage 7
Value 8
Much to my amazement, the porridge here serves are very cheap! For the scallop porridge, it's going at only $1.20. And they have quite a lot of choices available.
Got the egg century porridge to try, it was surprisingly good.
At only $2, they are not stingy with their ingredients. They sliced up 1 whole egg century. The porridge is soft, taste is mildly sweet, have those homely feel.
Nice!

$2 noodles from Top 1 Handmade Noodles

Food / Beverage 8
Value 8
I heart the noodles from Top 1. It is smooth, slippery, not too strong of a flour taste. The price of their noodles usually goes at $2.50 and up so when i saw this going at $2, decided to get it.
Turns out to be just a normal noodle, with all the basic ingredients - pork chunks, ikan bilis, mushroom & a lot of veggies.
Still taste excellent though!

Duck Rice from a very Long Queue stall

Food / Beverage 6
My daddy being a typical Singaporean - "long queue, must queue, food must be good" went to queue and got back 2 plates.
Taste?
Normal, disappointing. The braised duck meat flavor isn't strong enough for that kick and in my opinion, if food is served in a Styrofoam plate, it is pretty annoying. The scraping, the anytime plate might fly off as the food is finishing.
Their chili is good though. Specially made i supposed.

Fu Cheng Homemade Springroll

Popiah $1.20

Food / Beverage 7
Couldn't really remember anything special but it's good.

From some stalls selling traditional Hong Kong Dim Sums

燕饺

Food / Beverage 7
First time eating it, taste something like wu xiang. Except this is bigger.
The veg inside gave the dumpling a pretty fragrant taste and though it is fried, it isn't overly oily.
Good.

Chee Cheong Fun

Food / Beverage 6
Normal

Chicken Claws

Food / Beverage 8
This is good!!!
The sauce they have marinated their chicken claws with is superb! The claws upon chewing is filled with the taste of the sauce. The sauce is spicy but not overly spicy till it will get you running off for water. The spiciness gives you that kick.
Yummy!

一一五糖水 02-206

ieat reviews here
hungrygowhere reviews here

Black Sesame, Peanut & Almond Pasta and Gingko Barley

Cantonese style desserts are all specially grounded with mill which is rare, allow me to repeat RARE in all desserts shops.
Yes, all might claim that their desserts are authentic blah blah, traditional but their desserts ultimately are still made from machines.
Therefore the desserts served here are soft, like really soft, while sipping, you can have the picture of the mill grounding what you are drinking therefore the impossibly soft taste.

Black Sesame
Food / Beverage 6
Being a fan of black sesame, this was not up to standard. It taste burnt.

Peanut
Food / Beverage 7.5
Yes, good! Peanut taste is not too thick not too watery, nice!

Almond
Food / Beverage 8
The almond taste is strong, one more bowl please!

Gingko Barley
Food / Beverage 8
I heart the Gingko Barley here. The tiny slices of tofu or egg skin, with abundance of soft gingko and barley is wonderful!
Sweet but not overly sweet.
Heart!!

Overall
Food / Beverage 9
Value 9
It ONLY cost $1.20 for a bowl of really good desserts
Service 8
Auntie & uncle there are warm & friendly despite the long queue.