Ju Bao Xuan

Steamed seafood dishes have been trending lately, with more stalls focusing on serving steamed fish at attractive prices. In fact, there’s been a surge of such stalls everywhere. 

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Menu

Even my favourite White Bee Hoon stall has transformed into a steamed fish stall after the coffeeshop’s renovation.

Stall of Ju Bao Xuan

We ordered two sets of fish, topped up with additional clams and prawns. Each set comes with one side dish by default. It’s great that they offer a variety of sides to choose from, including refreshing cucumber sticks, Hong Kong–style bean sprouts, Hong Kong–style baby bok choy, and steamed egg.

2 Set of Dishes

The Bean Paste Steamed Seabass was fairly average. We topped up the meal with a prawn at $1.50, only to realise it was just a single piece. While the sauce did complement the seabass, the portion felt rather meagre.

Bean Paste Steamed Seabass - $7.90 + $150

We also had the Teochew-Style Steamed Seabass Set, topped up with lala for an additional $1.50. The steamed fish came with the usual Teochew staples, salted vegetables, tofu, plum, and tomato. While the ingredients were classic, I found the dish overall to be on the saltier side. Unfortunately, the lala was rather disappointing, with sand and cracked shells throughout.

Teochew Style Steamed Seabass Set - $7.90 + $1.50

For our sides, we both chose steamed egg, unfortunately, another let-down. The eggs turned out hard rather than soft and silky, falling short of the texture we expected. Overall, it wasn’t a good experience compared with similar offerings from other competitors in the market.

Steamed Egg

Compared to what I’ve had from other stalls, this would be my least preferred so far. I don’t see myself returning anytime soon.

Ju Bao Xuan
Location: Happy Hawkers, 632 Bukit Batok Central, Singapore 650632