Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle

A recent visit to Boon Lay Village gave me a stunned with the presence of a couple of new stalls around and one of them was this Fried Hokkien Prawn noodle stall. There was already a few similar stalls around and with one reputable stall that I always patronize. Therefore, to whip up a good plate of fried hokkien prawn noodle there is the only thing to keep the business sustainable. With the FBI 好吃情报 indicated on their sign board, I was automatically attracted to buy a plate from there.

Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle Stall

Portion comes in $4 / 5 / 6 / 8 and we bought ourselves a $5 plate. From the number of patrons siting on the nearby tables staring at the stall, we knew that we are definitely not the first in the queue. Despite of the queue, our food was served rather quickly.

Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle was yummy and was delectable in the mixture of yellow and white noodles with prawns, squid and sweetness from the eggs.

Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle

Without any additional condiments, the plate of Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle was already good by itself. Perhaps the taste will be more interesting by adding more chilli and lime myself.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle
Location: Boon Lay Place Food Village, 221A/B Boon Lay Place #01-135 Singapore 642221

Monster Curry

Monster Curry has spreaded its wings into the western part of Singapore and I could not wait to share with you guys about the news. With this new appearance located at the 3rd level of Jurong Point 2, just beside Bakerzin, I can see long snaky queues outside Monster Curry every evening without fail.

Monster Curry

Marked by its rich and deeply flavoured brown sauce in its chosen level of spiciness (within 5 levels), Shabu Omelette Curry was a great choice in its concoction of chilli padi, garlic, ginger and celery.

Rice was rather moist and covered up by the thin layer of soft fluffy eye striking yellow piece of omlette with shredded lettuce topped with roasted sesame dressing. Pieces of Shabu's flavoured were enhanced by its brown sauce.

Shabu Omlette Curry - $14

The monstrous bowl had kind of tell us the portion was big and as seen by many patrons, most of them are sharing a meal. When we received our meal, we realised that the portion was not that gigantic as what we have imagine and those patrons that we saw were having combo meals, suitable to share between 2 at least.

Thus we had chicken katsu as our add on. Unfortunately, we were so hungry that we finished our main first before we can actually pair these yummy chicken katsu with it.

The breaded portion was crispy and easy on the jaws. I'm more than happy for having such a wonderful meal.

Chicken Katsu - $4.50

Between CoCoIchiban & Monster Curry in the malls, what is your take?

Rating: 4 / 5

Monster Curry
Location: Jurong Point 2, 63 Jurong West Central 3 #03-57 Singapore 648331
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Woo Ricebox [Closed]

Bringing the Original Taiwanese Flavours to Singapore, we have Woo Ricebox located in Basement 1 of Jurong Point Shopping Mall. Woo Ricebox is one of Taiwan's oldest Chains Restaurant and if you dont know, Gong Cha is also housed under the same unit as Woo's too.

Woo Ricebox

Woo Ricebox Buzzer

Even though they are sharing the same shop space, orders are made separately at their respective cashier and each has their own kind of electronic buzzer.

Gong Cha

Using quality biodegradable wooden boxes, it is good in the sense that the rice will not turn out too soggy after some time. With 10 over types of rice boxes from Woo Rice box menu, featuring Taiwanese mouth watering braised pork chop to fried spicy drumsticks.

Biodegradable Wooden Box

Every Ricebox comes with seasonal vegetables, pickles and a braised egg. If you are craving for some Taiwanese snacks, Woo Ricebox also offers a variety of them like Fried Sweet Potato, Salt & Pepper popcorn chicken.

Complete your meal with Double Boiled Soup too.

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Let's give Railway Pork Chop Ricebox a like! Pork chop was evenly braised in its marinates and was absolutely tasty.

Railway Pork Chop Ricebox - $9.90

Woo's signature Rice Box comes with the standards like braised egg, vegetables, tau gua, slice of sausage and cut slices of lean meat.

Woo's Signature Rice Box - $7.90

Pairing with the meals, we had ordered Taro Milk Shake and Mango Smoothie.

Gong Cha

Taiwanese Cuisine is often known for their braised meat and one of their staples will be none other than the bowl of braised minced pork rice. Simple and straight forward meal, with 3 items combination like preserved vegetables, braised egg and minced meat on top of the fragrance and soft pearl grain rice. Enjoy the delicious non greasy Minced Pork Ricebox in its authentic Taiwanese Flavours.

Braised Minced Pork Ricebox - $6.80

The fragrance of the Spicy Drumstick was way too addictive. Portion is generous per se and its crispy exterior were awesome. Underneath its skin, when revealed, we get to taste the tenderness and hot meat.

Spicy Drumstick Ricebox - $8.90

To let customers enjoy the best, Woo's drumstick is fried upon order, therefore a 15 minutes of wait is definitely required.

Drumstick

Another item on the menu will be their Taiwan Roast Pork Ricebox, the fried Roast Pork is as addictive as the chicken drumstick, packed full of fragrance. They are sliced into pieces, thus more convenient to patrons who don't want to make their fingers oily, this will be a better choice. Other than the meat, other items in the ricebox are pretty standards.

Taiwan Roast Pork Ricebox - $7.90

For those who have been to Taiwan and had their Railway rice box, you will notice the authenticity of what Woo had offered from their Tau Gua to Sauteed Vegetables and even the taste of the braised pork if you have tried.

Tau Gua

Overall, Woo Ricebox is definitely my kind of choice when it comes to Taiwanese Cuisine. Without going to Taiwan, having them in Singapore is a good way to reminisce the times I was in Taiwan digging into these packed meals on their railway.

Delivery Service

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Woo Ricebox
Location: Jurong Point Shopping Centre, 1 Jurong West Central 2 #B1-60/61 Singapore 648886

Western Food Fried Chicken

I have spotted a few new stalls in Boon Lay Place Food Village and began counting back when was the last time I was there for dinner. After pondering a while,I guess it was about 6 months since I last visited.

Western Food Fried Chicken

We have noticed a new Western Food Stall, the one and only one stall that serves Western Food. It seems like besides the buzzer system that is in place, the numbering system is getting more common in Hawker Centres nowadays. Western Food Stall and its neighbouring stall has a numbering system installed. For each order, the patrons will get a chip (looks like a casino chip) with its queue number on 1 side of the chip and the other side the stall name.

Queue Token with Stall Name

Queue Token with No.

The wait for a plate of western food was quite long and luckily grilled chicken chop tasted not as bad as I had thought. Standard sides include fries, baked beans and coleslaw. The fries were too dry in my opinion.

Grilled Chicken Chop - $6.50

Grilled Chicken Chop was nicely done with charred area and was covered up with sweet mushroom sauce. Chicken was tender and the crisp on its charred skin together with the ground pepper bits enhance the total experience.

Grilled Chicken Chop

Rating: 3 / 5

Western Food Fried Chicken
Location: Boon Lay Place Food Village, 221A/B Boon Lay Place #01-125 Singapore 642221

Westlake

Branching out a Kiosk on top of their usual restaurant business in central Singapore, Bukit Timah, Westlake was one of the stalls that remained affixed at its location after few rounds of revamp and relocation in the mall. So I guess the fittest of the survival rule applies here. Having hear good comments of their food from my pals, there is also no surprise that the stall is still there. 

Interior of Westlake

Menu

Mock up food on display

A traditional delicacy from Westlake not to be missed. Fluffy liked bun sandwiched with braised pork that was slowed braised in the unctous sauce,  what a perfect way to enjoy it. On top of that,  though the thought of having it may deemed sinful but its definitely worth your calories. Besides getting it by individual piece, it can be purchased in 5 at $12. Trust me, if you like Kong Bah Pau, this is good!

Braised Pork Bun - $2.50

Skip the thought of Lor Mai Kai (Glutinous Chicken Rice) and replace this with braised pork. Presentation may be a bit unappetising over here as it was totally dressed in dull colors which made the braised meat camouflage but do not judge the book by its cover.

Braised Pork Glutinous Rice - $3

Soup was served in a disposable plastic container and quick to serve with the service staff heating it up. Taste was rather average and wasn't too spicy on the tongue.

Hot & Sour Soup - $2.80

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Westlake
Location: Jurong Point, 1 Jurong West Central 2 #03-85 Singapore 648886

Traditional Hakka Lui Cha

Having residing in the West side of Singapore for so many years, it hard to find a stalls that sell Traditional Hakka Lui Cha. In fact, the all time listed in my favourite list is none other than this Traditional "He Po Ke Jia Lei Cha" which already has 2 outlets for more than 10 years in the West. Perhaps if you ask the West Side Foodies, they will also name these 2 few apart from those situated in the modern food court.

Traditional Hakka Lui Cha

The dish Lui Cha or rather Thunder Rice deemed to be a healthy bowl of food that helps to dispel "wind" & moisture from the body system, improving blood circulation and aids in abdominal bloat, pain as well as nausea, a nutritional dish among healthy conscious diners.

Lui Cha with brown rice - $4

Ingredients that topped the rice is mostly vegetables, consisting of cabbages, kale, long beans, dried raddish, leek, string beans, shu zai cai and azuki beans each providing its health benefits.

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The bowl of pounded tea was not too rough to the throat and gave a faint special fragrant of the basil leaves. Some may prefer to have the entire bowl of soup poured into rice and its ingredients to enjoy while some wish to consume them separately.

Pounded Tea

Once again, being quite rare among the hawkers, they are the few few better choices in the West.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Traditional Hakka Lui Cha
Location: Boon Lay Place Food Village, 221A/B Boon Lay Place #01-96 Singapore 642221

Swensens

Swensens on birthday? Not a bad idea as the birthday girl/guy will receive a complete birthday treat over the firehouse flame.

Let me think... It had been quite a while since I "claimed" such offer from Swensens and this idea came in after my birthday dinner when my siblings mentioned that they still have stomach for something sweet.

Firehouse

Lighted Firehouse

 In the past, I used to get birthday songs from Swensens staff but it seems such tradition no longer exists. By default the firehouse comes with Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry Ice cream topped with cherries, pineapple and chocolate fudge toppings but I had the ice cream flavors replaced. Instead of having vanilla ice cream, we opted for durian with little candle stuck onto a portion of the banana in the middle.

And for the sweet tooth, we had the banana crumble on its sizzling skilling with caramelized fresh banana slices, topped with an old fashioned vanilla ice cream drenched in butterscotch cream sauce.

Banana Crumble

Rating: 3 / 5

Swensen's
Location: Jurong Point, 1 Jurong West Central 2 #B1-64 (JP2) Singapore 648331

Ichiban Boshi

I have never been to any Japanese eateries ever since its renovation of Shokutsu Ten (Japanese Street) in Jurong Point. The new outlook from the transformation portrays a very clean, bright and modern Japanese street with Japanese Cart Stalls by the sides. Not only so, the air along the street was much more better than before.

Shokutsu Ten

Hot Green Tea

As usual Ichiban Boshi still attract a snaky long queue of crowd, with their fans waiting patiently to secure a seat in the restaurant. The contemporary Japanese dining restaurant was seemed more spacious now where by you get to buy sushi off the shelves on the left and dine in with a cosy , relaxed and better ambiance.

Entrance

Having the Chef Recommendation just won't go wrong for me I felt. I had the Gyu Koumiyaki Gozen Set with slices of juicy Premium beef placed on top of the potato salad & radish in their house special sauce. Dishes like scallop with cod roe mayonnaise and cheese, half seared tuna with homemade sauce, chawanmushi, rice, miso soup, appetizer and fruit completed the meal. Yum Yum!

Gyu Koumiyaki Gozen - $25.90

Premium Beef

Half Seared Tuna

Scallop with Cheese, Yummy

 The tantalizing chicken cutlet was attractive in its golden crisp color added with sides like vegetables, tomatoes and cucumbers enhancing its color. The meal is definitely value for money with fresh slices of salmon sashimi, soft shell crab tempura, rice, miso soup, appetizer and fruit.

Chicken Nanban Wazen - $18.90

Nanban Chicken

Tempura

Can't take my eyes away from the thin slices of beef for Sukiyaki. The set comes with a pot of vegetables put to simmer in the broth loaded with tofu, mushrooms, vegetables. Having said that the best way to enjoy the Japanese meal is by dipping the meat into the broth to cook then into the raw egg. The meal includes Udon as well as rice to pair along with the broth and meat. Miso soup, appetizer and salmon sashimi were included too.

Sukiyaki Wazen - $21.90

Vegetables

Sliced Beef & Appetizer

Salmon Sashimi

Tori Curry Cheese Wazen was another variation of the Chicken Cutlet. Instead of pairing it up with mayyonise, the fried cutlet was immersed into the shallow pot of sweet savoury curry topped with a square size cheese and chopped spring onions. The exterior of the cutlet maybe soften by the curry gravy but having said so, the meat was not soggy at all. Ebi tempura and ladies finger tempura was part of the meal too with miso soup, rice, appetizer and fruits.

Tori Curry Cheese Wazen - $16.90

Thanks Mum for the birthday meal. In short, at the look of the queue Ichiban Boshi attracts during meal times, it speaks best. There is no doubt about the quality and standard of food. To emphasize further, portion of food on their set meal was big enough for 2 to share and you wont get disappointed. On the other side, the service was abit lacking as its hard to grab the servers attention in order to order something.

 Rating: 4 / 5

Ichiban Boshi
Location: Jurong Point, 63 Jurong West Central 3 #B1-75/76 (JP2) Singapore 648331