Shop frontBoss cooks the food himself insideThey have a variety of braised items too!
Braised Pork Leg! Yums!I ordered fish slice with fried bones. If not the soup would be clearer. But still yummy!
Intro:
This is another hawker operating for prolly more than 20 years already. They used to be from the corner coffeeshop at the end of Lor 27 Geylang diagonally opposite Ho Kee Pau. I remember driving mum there to have our favourite fish soup and braised pork leg on weekends and usually the place will be packed with regulars. Moving to this current location may be a lot cleaner and neater, but rental is very high as I was told. Nevertheless I’m glad I found them through my staff Ray, and would like to introduce to you guys one of my top ranking fish soup places.
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Taste:
They are those rice-with-soup porridge specialist. The soup looks clear and deceiving but their fresh sliced fish soup is so damn good, you’ll be hit by the yummy fish flavours once the soup touches your tongue! Check out their braised pork leg or braised duck also! Very nice with steam white rice!
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Price:
From $4.
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Portion:
Average.
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Service:
Order first at the counter and then find a seat. Food will be served.
I’ve been patronising this place for the longest time… maybe almost 2 decades… but since I’ve started eatwithroy.com, I have not written about this place at all! Maybe because they have been doing so well for so many years that I thought they do not need any more publicity. But then again, the other side of me is telling me that their food is so good, more people should know about it… hence this blog post! ;P
I’ve been to Whampoa Keng again recently and the food standards are still there. Really impressed with the way they have kept up the standards for such a long time since they started in Whampoa market! And they have since opened up at Rangoon Road as well as in Batam Island, Indonesia… which I will share some of the pics below. Check out the foods that I would order at this lovely restaurant.
Restaurant frontage. See the queue…Main unit where the main door isThey took over the next door unit also where there are more seating.The chilli sauce goes damn well with the fresh fish slices which we ordered.Our order of Batang fish slices steam boat ($40.00). Lovely thick slices of boneless fish. Something I cannot get in China haha. The charcoal for steamboat is just what makes it so good. Love it!Yummy yummy fish slices closed up. This soup is the typical teochew style where they use sour plum inside and loads of bones to boil the soup for hours.Oyster Omelette ($10.00) – Yummy with loads of medium sized oysters.Sauteed Spinach in Assorted Eggs ($13.00) – Cooked in lovely stock which makes this soupy veg dish so good.See they use deep fried fish baits for making the veg more tasty.Fried Clams with Spring Onion ($10.00) – Pretty good as the sauce thickens and coated all over the clams.Deep Fried Prawn Paste Chicken ($10.00) – A must order. They have perfected this dish over so many years. Crispy and damn juicy inside.Me and lady boss Doris. We’ve known each other for so long and this is our first time taking pic together.
Rating: 5/5
Taste: Been eating here more than a decade, always good and love the fish and soup!
Portion: Good size.
Service: Pretty good.
Ambience: Crowded. Be prepared to go out smelling like charcoal cos that’s what make the soup so blardy good!
Price: Total was $92.66 after discount. Reasonable fit for 4 pax.
RTE: Always!
Location and contact:
MAIN OUTLET : 554/556 Balestier Road Singapore 329872 (Next to Caltex Petrol Kiosk, Parking Available along Ah Hood Road). Tel: 6356 7371 or 9127 6550.
BRANCH OUTLET: 116/118 Rangoon Road Singapore 218396 (Farrer Park Mrt, Parking Available along Rangoon Rd). Tel: 6296 8843 or 9023 2854.
BATAM OUTLET: Komplek Paradise Center Blok J No. 14-15 Nagoya, Batam, Riau, Indonesia. Tel: 0778425557.
Batam Pics:
View from roadsideWah got alfresco seating and also band playing on weekends!Love the decor!Inside the restaurant.They can’t use charcoal there hence these avante garde table stoves!The legendary Ah Keng! Also haven’t taken any photos with him after knowing him for so long!
Alright I’m attempting to write my blogs on the bus again. Can only do it when the bus is not so crowded or else very hard to use 2 thumbs.
海鲜之家 or Seafood House in direct translation, is a recent stall at Eunos Hawker Centre which I’ve discovered. Reason is because they opened till 10pm, a time which I can meet after closing the cafe. Stall is owner by a PRC lady who have been living here for the past decade and her hubby is a Singaporean. She goes to buy her fish daily from the market and occasional you may get some premium fish… Just like some single origin coffee beans haha. Heard it’s long queue during peak hours which I doubt I’ll get to see. Anyways check out the pics below:
Stall front
This was the premium fish order which was red snapper. Paid $8 for this bowl.
See the red snapper fillets. no regrets ordering this!
This was another time when i ordered the regular mackerel fish for $3.50 plus rice $0.50. Fish was very fresh and reasonably portioned.
This was the mixed seafood order whichis $5.00 per bowl. loads of seafood!
well well well there were 2 scallops!!!
And loads of seafood!!!
They use the 扁鱼 to flavour the soup
As usual, clean plate/bowl . #cleanplate
Rating: 4.5/5.
Taste: Fish and seafood are fresh and very tasty. My comfort food after a long tiring day!
Portion: Average.
Service: Self-service
Ambience: Hawker centre with large fans
Price: Reasonable
RTE: Many times already 🙂
Location: #01-38 Eunos Hawker Centre. Facing opposite side of MRT tracks. Opens from 10am to 10pm.
A friend had cravings for fish head steamboat one of the weekends and I remembered seeing some sort like that kinda stall in Defu Lane, not far from where I live. So we took a drive to check out the place around 5pm and was delighted to find the coffee shop within this industrial place opened. Apparently this stall is part of the Hao Xiang International Pte Ltd, which owns quite a number of tse char stalls around Singapore.
Found a nice table under the fan, and placed our orders.
StallThe coffee shop.Fish Head Steamboat S$28 – I ordered the snapper fish and look at the amount of ingredients in the soup. Very worth it.Stir Fried Long Bean with Garlic S$10 – This long bean is really nice and crunchy. This slim type is quite rare actually.Prawn Paste Mid-Joint Wings S$9. Crispy coating, juicy inside. Yummy!
Rating: 5/5.
Taste: Very good, the steam boat is very teochew style of using sour plums and yams in them to make the soup taste awesome. Chicken was awesome, long bean too. Yummy!
Portion: Average.
Service: Maybe because we were early, service was good and attentive. 🙂
Ambience: Coffee Shop.
Price: Total damage was S$47.60. Very affordable!
RTE: YESSSS!
Location: 4 Defu Lane 10 Singapore 539185. Tel: 8589 4882.
Was driving around Geylang area on Sun with my mum to look for the acupuncturist her friend was recommending and we decided to have Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Soup) for lunch. So I drove to this pretty good Bak Kut Teh place which not many people know, so maybe I thought I should feature them here.
The coffeeshop is located at the end of Lor 27 Geylang, on the left side. Right side is the famous You Tiao Wang place. Manage to find a parking lot near the coffeeshop (which is rare) and so mummy and I sat down to order a bowl of soup each. We were asked if we wanna order a side dish of Braised Pork Leg as well, so I told the man I only want lean ones. And we ordered yam rice as well to go with the soup. The food came and to our surprise, the soup was fish soup and not pork ribs! Then I realised that the pork ribs stall only opens at 5pm… AARRRRGGGHHHHH… but after peering into the bowl of fish soup, it looks really tasty so we didn’t mind hehe…
Da placeView from across the roadYummy looking fish soup... clear soup typeWah a lot of ingredients... Even comes with fish maw! Woot!Braised Pork Leg... Very nicely braised with all the sauce soaked inside the meat... yummy!!! Yam rice... very nice... really very nice... with lumps of yam, pork belly meat, chinese mushroom. Very good.
Rating: 5/5
Taste: Batang fish is very fresh and not fishy smell, soup is boiled from fish bones, very nice. Pork leg and yam rice rounds up a very satisfying lunch outing. Really a must-try!
Portion: Adequate for all items
Price: Fish soup $4.00. Yam rice $1.00. Braised Pork Leg $5.00. Plain rice $0.50.
RTE (Return To Eat): Confirm + Chop + Sign + Seal with a kiss
Location: End of Lorong 27A Geylang. Try to find parking before you reach the end. If not then try either Lor 27 or Lor 29 and the cut through the back alleys.
