local eats

Hainanese Chicken Rice


Hainanese Chicken Rice 

If there is nothing else to eat, Hainanese Chicken Rice is the go-to meal for me. If the world runs out of other types of foods, I can survive on chicken rice everyday. If the world runs out of chickens. Then I guess I will just have to make do with rice. But God won’t let that happen so I will still have chicken rice.

So is this Chicken Rice any better than the famous ones like Boon Tong Kee or Chin Chin at Purvis Street? Yes. This chicken rice and the accompanying Sio Bak is nothing short of tok kong. For $4.50 (SGD) it is cheaper than the branded ones and much much better than the Sambal Petai Fried Rice my woman had yesterday at Yishun Ring Road.

The Chilli sauce is shiok and the soya sauce sweet and savoury. Mixed together, it’s just perfecto! Best part is the coffee-o is only 70 cents (SGD). Best sia. 

Wanna know where? It’s this coffee shop at Block 531 Bedok North Street 3. Hai Tian 531 Coffee Shop. 

Sambal Petai Fried Rice


Sambal Petai Fried Rice 

I met my woman against her wishes for dinner. Haha. She wanted her own “me time” which was a foreign concept to me. We are married! What “me time” or “your time“, it is now “we time; all the time“.

Anyway, she said she was gonna eat this special Sambal Petai Fried Rice and that she was gonna eat it all by herself. Haha. I was so not gonna let that happen. I sneaked up on her at Block 848 Yishun Ring Road, at the coffee shop where we would usually eat our favourite Kway chap. 

It seems there was this littlest unknown stall that sold this Fried Rice dish.

When I got here, the Fried Rice just arrived. Just nice. I tried a little. And wow. It was nice. But liao very little (Very little ingredients for my international friends). Literally nothing visible except for the few petai beans and some bits of scrambled eggs and salted fish. In terms of value, lunch at Warung aka Rumah Makan Minang was much better.

Was it Ho Jiaks? It was okay-lah. Would I order it ever again? No way. At $5.50 (SGD) a plate, I rather pay $2.00 more for my Warung.