I was introduced to this place for its authentic Xing Hua's Cuisine of
Putien (not the restaurant but a place in china eastern coastline of
Fujian province) at an affordable pricing. Xing Hua Seafood Restaurant
was was located in one of the run down eating houses located in the
intersection of Race Course and Perumal Road. If you are tired of those
highly commercialized Xing Hua Dishes in the malls/restaurants, I
suggest that if you don't mind the lacking ambience, this truly Heng Hua
Style dishes may just fit the bill.
Extra One Eating House
Unfortunately, clams were not available during my visit and there goes my vongole dishes! :(
Mum's
dialect is Heng Hua and immediately as this fried Mackerel slices was
served on our table, it gave me the kind of familiarity and good feeling
of home cooked food. Fish was well fried with little grease seen and
filled with the aroma of ginger. The scent from the ginger had also to
cover up the nature fishy smell of a mackerel. Each quarter of the meat
was well defined and its flesh was rather tender under the crispiness of
the fish skin tastes with some pinch of salt. I find it so irresistible
and had them consumed using my bare hands!
Cost: S$6.00
Fried Fish
Oyster egg was my favourite after the fried Mackerel! We was given
such a big plate, with egg beat and mixed together in onions and
oysters, moisture contents was well handled. Simply love the eggy smell
and the taste of the oysters.
Cost: S$8.00
Oyster Egg
Xing Hua Lor Mee is not those conventional Lor Mee with brown
thick gravy and braised meat we found in hawker centres. On the
contrary, soup based are make of seafood and looks clear. Thick white
Bee Hoon was used instead of the traditional yellow noodles. Soup tastes
refreshing with pieces of fried fish cakes, cabbages, mushrooms and
prawns.
Cost: S$4.00
Lor Mee
The bowl of seaweed Soup was big and filled with shreds of dark
green seaweed afloat. Soup tastes of tomatoes, eggs with the sweetness
of oysters included. Although it was a simple dish, I find it rather
refreshing.
Cost: $8.00
Seaweed Soup
Xing Hua Bee Hoon was one of Pu Tien's signature dish. It came in a
generous serving of Bee Hoon that even 2 stomachs cant handle them.
Xing Hua Bee Hoon marks the difference from the usual Bee Hoon by its
delicate and fine strings of Bee Hoon. The dish was filled with prawns,
pork belly, mushrooms, cabbage, chye sim and eggs with a slight
sprinkling of garlic oil to enhance the fragrance of the dish.
Cost: S$4.00
Xing Hua Bee Hoon
We was given a handwritten receipt by the servers when the last
dish had arrived at our table. Having also tried the mall's Xing Hua
Cuisine, this pricing and quantities of food are much more convincing.
Receipt
Dining experience in Extra One Eating House was something I long
for. The place where we were dining was separated by a railing with
drainage beside the road (about a Metre away as I looked down into the
drain from the platform that I'm dining). Once in a while, it just feels
good to dine beside the road watching and enjoying the surroundings as
such views from coffee shops are getting lesser in Singapore.
Waiting time was still alright as the dishes comes in staggered timings, about 5-10 minutes apart from each other.
It
looked rather quiet during the National Day Evening when I was there
with some foreign workers and police officers around, if you are
planning for Xing Hua Cuisine I suggest you to dine in pair or a group
for safety reasons.
Another good thing about the place that it
is within walking distance to the MRT station and there are ample of
open air parking lots available, one can just simple "watch" over the
vehicle while dining.
Xing Hua Seafood Restaurant
Location: Extra One Eating House, 276 Race Course Road, 218628
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