Sunny Viet Vietnamese Cuisine

Apart from the South American and Filipino Cuisine mentioned earlier on, to emphasize, Lau Pa Sat is really a good spot to sample the local cuisines as well as the internationals dishes. Not to mentioned that they had undergone 9 months long of renovation before getting such airy, spacious and better than ever Food Centre currently, maintaining its central clock and facade.

The only Vietnamese cuisine available from stall of Sunny Viet serving the staples and authentic Vietnamese food.

Storefront of Sunny Viet Vietnamese Cuisine

Having too much of mains on the table, we decided to go for the healthy and light vietnamese summer rolls wrapped in translucent rice paper, filled with shrimps, rice noodles, vegetables and herbs.

Dipped into their spicy peanuts sauce and these rolls are just great!

In conclusion, they are good but not the best, Im expecting more taste from the peanuts sauce as well as a more moisten rice paper.

Summer Roll - $5

Rating: 3 / 5

Sunny Viet Vietnamese Cuisine
Location: Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, 18 Raffles Quay Singapore 048582

Thunder Rice Tea

One of the famous stalls during the busy lunch hours, Thunder Tea Rice, originated from the Hakka Cuisine and also a healthy option for the health conscious diners.

Thunder Tea Rice

The green bowl of soup is a mixture of tea leaves and herbs grounded, adding liquid with various roasted nuts, seeds as well as grains. It is then poured into the bowl of rice to achieve a complete dish.

Lei Cha aka Thunder Tea Rice - $5.50

Deliciously healthy and you can bid goodbye to constipation as they are rich in fibre. The usual ingredients would make up of anchovies, peanuts, lettuce, cut french beans as shown below. One can opt for either brown or the normal white rice.

Thunder Tea Rice

So are you game enough to try such cuisine out? It has a strong scent of herbs, basil leaves in the tea mixture. Portion is generous and such combinations has given the dish a mixture of textures with its variety of flavours.

Thunder Rice Tea

Every spoonful is addictive given that the tea mixture was not salty and most importantly a healthier meal. It is also hard to come by a stall selling such rare cuisine nowadays.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Thunder Rice Tea
Location: Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, 18 Raffles Quay #01-26 Singapore 048582

Seng Kee Local Delights

Moving into our local delights in Lau Pa Sat, we have Char Kway Teow, Fried Oysters, fried carrot cake, Hokkien noodles from Seng kee. The wide variety of selection may be a hit for tourists who wants to give a try on Singapore's Food.

Seng Kee Local Delight

An average fare of Char Kway Teow but with a good consistency of moisture among the Kway Teow. It lacks the omph which a authentic plate of char kway Teow had. Perhaps the absence of fried pork lards and fresh cockles blood in the plate. Well then, the ingredients used are healthier that what I had expected.

Fried Kway Teow - $4

Fish cakes and chinese sausages ("lap cheong") were added too.

Ingredients

Fried Oyster from Seng Kee wasn't doing bad either. The starchy portion are of good consistency with the crispy eggs, as well as wetness were well achieved.

Fried Oyster -$5

I felt that those oysters added were generally bigger in size.

Oyster at a close up

Though they are not the best or award wining dishes from the hawkers in Singapore, the taste is more or less there and does vary much from those popular ones.

On a side note, Seng Kee's variety is a very good one-stop-station for tourists and us who want to try local delights from this Singapore's Iconic Spot - Lau Pa Sat.

Rating: 3 / 5

Seng Kee Local Delights
Location: Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, 18 Raffles Quay Singapore 048582

Ang Hapag Kainan Authentic Filipino Cuisine

With the newly renovated Lau Pa Sat, there are 3 Filipino stalls now which sells a variety of authentic Filipino Cuisine and one of them is Ang Happag Kainan.

Ang Hapag Kainan Authentic Filipino Cuisine

Crispy pata (when translated from Tagalog is pork leg) is one of the all time favourite among the Filipino Cuisine, and can be served during the daily meals or even on special festive occasions. It reminds me of German Pork knuckles just that they were served differently, in a Filipino Style with soy vinegar and garlic dip.

Crispy Pata - $18

The dip compliments the dish well giving every bite a yummy and unforgettable feeling. You have a best of both worlds with the first touch whereby the skin was crispy and down further as you sink your teeth, the meat is tender.

Close Up

Sinfully addictive! With its blistering looked over the crackling layer of deep fried skin, it makes the dish so irresistible. However the dish is rather unhealthy as it is high in fat content, nevertheless, enjoying such dishes once in a blue moon is worth it.

Rating: 3 / 5


Ang Hapag Kainan Authentic Filipino Cuisine
Location: Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, 18 Raffles Quay Singapore 048582

Mamacitas Costa Rican Cuisine

You will never run short of eating options in Singapore, besides the usual cuisines we had in what a normal food court can find, Chinese, Western, Thai, Viet etc. And right now we get to enjoy cuisine from North America, Costa Rican in Telok Ayer Food Centre aka Lau Pa Sat and commuters now are more spoilt for choices!

Besides seeing the long queues lined up,the curiosity in me would want to have a try of what does South American cuisine taste like.

Mamacitas Costa Rican Cuisine

Having ordered the Krunchy chalupas, it was a deep fried tortilla wrap shaped into a bowl like containing salad in mixture of lettuce, capsicum, and a choice of beef or chicken topped with salsa.And finally drizzle with savoury sweet sauce and tomato ketchup. Kind of unique!

Krunchy Chalupas - $7.90 (excluding toppings)

It was kind of creamy I thought but was delicious and I can never think of such cuisine being the main course. To make it more interesting, it was upgraded with cheese and avocado.

Can you spot the avocado Piece?

Look at the close up of the fried tortilla, it was crispy and well fried.

Closed Up of Krunchy Chalupas

It was paired with white rice and fragrant whipped potato. Still, looking amazing and interesting meal for me.

Rice & Whipped Potato

If you want a change on the daily meals, this is a good experience to try out!

Rating: 4 / 5

Mamacitas Costa Rican Cuisine
Location: Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, 18 Raffles Quay Singapore 048582