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After all these years of having pork porridge around, I'm still swearing that Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge has the best Pork Porridge in Singapore.
Stall of Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge
I like the consistency of the porridge texture with a mixture of pork in the porridge. The pieces of fried fritter, use of spring onions, Dong Cai and fried shallots add on aroma to the bowl.
Pork Porridge with Egg - $4.50
Topping up my bowl of Porridge for another $0.50.
Add On Egg
Time passes but the bowl of stomach-comforting porridge still tastes as good as before. The minced meat ball still pack with unique flavours that you will not find in another porridge stall.
Ingredients
While we were early but was not the earliest, we waited about 15 minutes for the order. I will be back again for my favourite again!
Over the years, Chin Chin Eating House has been popular among tourists as well as locals for its Hainanese Cuisine such as their Pork Chop, Mutton Soup as well as Chicken Rice. My last trip to Chin Chin was about 9 years back.
We ordered the Ma Po Beancurd to share among ourselves. The dish tasted homely with fermented beans and not very spicy with minced meat. It was not starchy and was topped up with chopped spring
Ma Po Beancurd 麻婆豆腐 - $8
Another delectable dish we had on the table will be the french beans stir-fried with garlic.
French bean 四季豆 - $10 (Small)
Compared to what I had the other time, it seems like they have altered their recipe as the Pork Chop was no longer breaded coated. Nonetheless, the dish was still served with potato wedges and green peas with a bowl of savoury sauce to drench over the Pork Chop. The meat maintained uniform thickness and tenderness.
Hainanese Pork Chop 海南猪扒 - $10 (Medium)
The star on the table is none other than their popular poached chicken. We ordered half a chicken with their fragrant chicken rice for $1 each. The rice was worthy to mention for it was grainy and whet our appetite for more. Poached Chicken was fragrant and tender in its seasonings with an above-average standard but not the best I had from the hawkers.
Chicken (Half) 半只鸡 - $16
The Sweet Sour Pork is most of our all-time favourite dishes from the Cze Char Menu. The pork was deep fried and very well consistently coated in its sweet sour sauce accompanied by cucumber, onions, green pepper, tomato as well as pineapples.
Sweet Sour Pork 菠萝咕噜肉 - $12
The strong aromatic Prawn Paste Chicken was crispy on the exterior and delicious. However, these are not the best we ever had.
Prawn Paste Chicken 虾酱鸡 - $10 (Small)
The local ambience of the coffee shop and the heart-warming service from the servers make diners comfortable on top of their yummy dishes. Price on the other hand is reasonable too.
Posted 8th November 2013
Situated along the shophouses of Purvis Street, Chin Chin Eating House facade is one of the most humble looking among her neighbouring modern eateries. Astounded by the crowd during dinner time, we walked into the eating place and tried to grab a seat. Lo and behold, there was a table for 2, just nice!
Chin Chin Eating House Facade
Besides having good pork chop, they do sell Haianese Chicken Rice, Claypot Mutton Soup which I believe had been drawing the hordes thus its full house on a saturday night. The restaurant interior was simple and decent with hanging ceiling fans at each sector above. Chinese Lanterns were seen hanging from the florescent lights too.
The Crowd
Haianese Pork Chop, being one of its Must Try on their Menu had been awarded for its Best Food for 2011 and 2012.
Green Book Awards for Best Food 2011/2012
It's not quite frequent we come across this dish on the menu moreover it had won the award. Having prepared a similar dish, I would say that it was quite good but not really what I would expect. The dish was served with few potato wedges and boiled green peas with a bowl of tomato gravy.
Hainanese Pork Chop with sauce - $6
The piece of lean meat was fried to golden brown with crumbs coated evenly at its exterior. It was cut into smaller portions equally and was served.
Hainanese Pork Chop
We pour the bowl of diluted tomato ketchup all over the sauce and enjoyed this Haianese fare.
Braised Ee Mee tasted better than average. It's black braised sauce was aromatic and noodles was generously drenched, a little more would have the gravy overflowed.
Braised Ee Mee - $6
Having tried only 2 dishes, I would definitely be back for more when chance come!
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Chin Chin Eating House Location: 19 Purvis Street Singapore 188598
I have never heard of Mariners' Corner Restaurant until they shared that it was previously from Maritime house, serving Hainanese Style Western Food. Since 1984 they have been in the business. The Interior of the dining place was laid back and give an old-school charm feel. However, these indoor dining place was complemented by the outdoor garden seatings on the deck.
These glistering chicken wings were simply good for the starters. They are very addictive and well-marinated. Just alone without the lemon juice and BBQ, these Mexican Wings will do fine.
Mexican Wings with BBQ Sauce - $8.50
The 2 slabs of Grilled Pork Chops were well seasoned with LP Sauce and served with slices of roast potatoes, summer salad and Pineapple Relish. The thickness of was meat was quite uniform and well-flavoured without being too greasy.
Grilled Pork Chop - $20.50
Steak is served in a cast iron hot plate with baked potato and buttered veggies. Such presentation and combination of food are so familiar that they reminded me of Jack's place. There are 4 types of sauces for the steak, namely Black Pepper, Mushroom, Garlic Shallot and BBQ.
N.Z Ribeye Steak - $28
The mushroom sauce goes well with the Ribeye and it was even adorned with a piece of mushroom and English parsley.
Ribeye
The baked potato was soft. The toppings are optional. Like what happens in Jack's Place, Mariners' Corner Restaurant does have servers topping up the condiments like sour cream, spring onions and garlic bits for the potato. For those who prefer to have bacon bits, it may be a little disappointing here instead.
Toppings for the Potato
Nonetheless, the doneness of the beef was perfect.
Medium Doneness
One can top up $5.80 to any main coursed to enjoy a bowl of salad, soup of the day, garlic toasts as well as coffee/tea with dessert. What a classic old-school starter!
Completing a set at $5.80
Ending the meal, we have a cup of coffee with a piece of almond butter cake.
Piece of Almond Cake
Looking at their menu, they have attractive lunch sets set differently for each day of the week as well as weekends. There is also one lady server whom I thought that the service was friendly and impeccable. I will be back again for them.
As we walked past the last stall of the row of hawker stalls, this curry rice stall caught our attention.
Hai Nan Hometown Curry
Items like Pork Chop, Chicken Cutlet, Tempura Prawns and Fish Fillet were all fried upon order, this give the diners an assurance that its fresh to eat and for me, I always like to have my food hot upon serving.
The Pork Chop was breaded and fragrant. Meat thickness and the cuts were uniform. The Curry Pork Chop Rice came with some softened potato chunks too. Curry gravy on the other hand was on the starchy side and was disappointing without having the curry spice/lemon grass fragrance that we are looking for.
Curry Pork Chop Rice 咖喱肉扒饭 - $5
We took up Value Set A which is the Chicken Wing Set. We were given drumlets, curry vegetables, boiled potatoes and half a hard-boiled egg with a generous amount of curry.
Value Set A - Chicken Wing Set 鸡翅膀套餐 - $4
With a purchase of Main dishes, we get to enjoy the side dishes at an additional price. The Curry Vegetables is a version of Sayur Lodeh which contains a lighter taste in curry.
Curry Vegetables - $1.50
The curry lacks the flavour and depth that we are looking for. Though it's consider decent eat, a return trip to the same stall is tough.
Rating: 3 / 5
Hai Nan Hometown Curry Location: 20 Ghim Moh Road Market & Food Centre, 20 Ghim Moh Rd, #01-49, Singapore 270020
Weng Kiang Kee Porridge was one of the Porridge highly raved online and while we are looking for porridge for our breakfast, we decided to give this a try. Though there is no physical queue in front of the stall, we were given a number tag after ordering and were told to wait about 30-45 minutes for our order.
Stall of Weng Kiang Kee Porridge
The plain bowl of porridge looked nothing much spectacular. The usual plain white porridge topped with spring onions, fried shallots and fried fritters was something more than I had expected. After stirring and mixing the egg into the porridge, I realised that there are many other ingredients below. Porridge has a good smooth consistency and is not watery at all.
Signature Porridge 招牌粥 - $4.50 + $0.50 (Egg)
The aftertaste of the egg and the porridge was rich and savoury. This bowl of hearty Signature Porridge comprises century egg, cuttlefish, lean meat, meatballs, liver and intestine. There was no gamey taste from the innards too.
Ingredients from the Signature Porridge
The mixed Pig's organs porridge is a scaled-down version of the Signature Porridge with similar ingredients like liver, intestine, meatballs and fried fritters.
Overall, I love the consistency and smoothness of the grains. Though tasty, it still lacks the wow factor that will give me every reason to be back there on purpose.
The cravings for Hainanese Food had brought us to this corner of a shophouse on Purvis Road. Though there are 3 outlets, Joo Chiat, Kallang and Purvis Road, the ladies prefer to visit the last location for they are more familiar with the surrounding.
British Hainan
Welcome to British Hainan
Dining Area
We ordered a jug of Lemon Grass Drink and share it among ourselves.
Lemon Grass Drink in Jug
As we walked into the restaurant, we were their first batch of customers on the day. The interior was decorated with some of the old school stuff that can be found in the era of my grandparents' time. The furnishing kind of depicts the olden traditional Chinese with the use of the round wooden table, some straw weaved food baskets, charcoal operated iron as well as some metal hotpot and Chinese pictures hanging on the wall. They do have some English decorations with the use of piano, and some old school English luggage.
Interior
Take a look at the decorations
The caramelised onion soup was drizzled with some cheese powder and served with a slice of garlic bread. The soup was tasty but it can be better with the use of real cheese that gives the "cheese pulling" effect.
Onion Soup 洋葱汤 - $8
Garlic Bread
The platter was served with 3 kinds of Sausage and some lettuce with pineapple, tomatoes and cucumber slices. The platter was not really to my liking as one of them has a strong gamey taste although a lot of herbs have been mixed within. On top of that, the sausage meat was too minced and do not have the kind of biting texture and was kind of mashy to me. As we feedback to the restaurant, we were told that their supplier might have changed the Sausage Recipe and they will also feedback to them.
English Pork Sausage and Bratwurst Platter 香肠拼盘 - $16
Sausages
This dish is da bomb! The portion can simply fit 2-3 pax as it is very stomach filling with 2 slices of bread and sauce. The meat was well braised till the point that the meat fell off from the bone easily. Its perhaps one of the best braised Lamb Shank I ever had. While every dish from British Hainan does not require the use of MSG, I would say that the taste was really up to the mark. The sweetness of the gravy was lip-smackingly good. Potatoes chunks, carrots and celery slices were part of the flavours too.
Braised Lamb Shank - $28.90
The Fish was lightly battered and dory fish was tender. However, the batter was quite plain and it can be improved with more seasonings. Nonetheless, overall this dish still score on average and was served with fresh greens and fries.
Fish and Chips 炸鱼 - $16.90
This is the classic dish that I will always order when it comes to Hainanese Food. Pork Chop was breaded and tender with a crispy exterior. Like any traditional Hainanese Recipe, the Pork Chop was served with the classic thickened tomato sauce with cut tomatoes and green peas. The dish is served along with french fries as a side. Glad that the sauce is not salty and makes a good pairing. Indeed their family recipe is based on their memory and tastebud.
Hainanese Pork Chop 海南猪扒 - $16.90
Pork Chop
While the ladies could not take their eyes always from this Ondeh Ondeh Cake in the Chiller, we decided to save some room for dessert. The cake was topped with coconut shavings and alternating sponge cake layers with some Gula Melaka Cream. Well, it was a bit dry and a letdown to the traditional Ondeh Ondeh Cake as it did not impress much.
Ondeh Ondeh Cake - $7.90
Rating: 3 / 5
British Hainan Location: 23 Purvis Street #01-01, Singapore 188600 Website
Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice is probably our nation's most popular chicken rice stall known by locals and foreigners in one of Singapore’s iconic hawker centres, Maxwell Food Center. Even Anthony Bourdain, the American celebrity chef and food program host once commented that their rice is exceptionally fragrant and delicious on its own.
Over the years, Tian Tian has seen expanding its business into Hawker Centers and even Restaurants like this. We chanced by their outlet in Jalan Pari Burong while sheltering away from the rain amidst our exercise. The place was spacious and airconditioned with lesser Dine-In customers due to the pandemic and partially because of the weather, many were seen packaging food away.
Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice in Jalal Pari Burong
We ordered a small portion of Hainanese Pork Chop as a side dish. The Pork Chop was breaded and fried to golden brown with onions and its sweet savoury sauce drenching them. The meat was tender and overall was decent.
Hainanese Pork Chop - $8 (Small)
The meal for 2 pax was served with 2 bowls of soup, rice and a plate of steamed chicken.
Hainanese Chicken Set for 2 - $11.60
The portion for 2 Steamed chicken was dressed with scallion as well as coriander and drenched with the piquant sauce that most chicken rice stalls would use. The meat was smooth and tender with transparent layers of "collagen" found on the underside of the skin.
Steamed Chicken
These are the kind of sauces not to be missed when I'm having Chicken Rice. On a side note, their chilli hits right on the spot, firey and garlicky, definitely good to dip the steamed chicken into it.
Ginger, Black Sauce and Chili
Rice is grainy with a good texture and packed with fragrance. Look at the glistering coat on the rice, yummy!
Chicken Rice
Though reputable among the locals and especially my foreign friends who raved about it, I find that with so many reputable chicken rice stalls in Singapore, we are really spoilt for choices and therefore, my vote for chicken rice still goes somewhere else.
