Ghim Moh Food Centre with some 50 stalls is popular with local residents and also with workers from office blocks nearby because it has many good food stalls.
I will be returning again to check out their Penang style prawn mee.
You should come have a taste for yourself and let me know what you think?
Tom’s City Zoom Mee Pok Tar in Ghim Moh market makes an interesting noodle dish. Fried Dumplings, Fish Cakes, Fishballs all in a delicous sauce. Yes, more for me please!
Ghim Moh folks' favourite, a nice re-interpretation of the old staple minced pork noodle by a young hawker.
The fishballs were very nice and clearly handmade, with good flavour, texture, bite and some uneveness. Moist inside and crunchy outside. The noodles with vinegar were well cooked and refreshing. Well worth the queue.
The Hor Fun was well fried with strong aroma of wok hei. The brown sauce provided contrasting flavours that alternated between smokey and caramelised flavours.
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In a nutshell, Hin’s Hor Fun is a heaven for those of you who love hor fun. I’d recommend the beef mui fan and/or hor fun if you’re able to consume beef, if not the fish gravy is not too bad too!
If you are a cockles lover, this plate of CKT might disappoint you. Not only that their cockles are tiny, but they also do not allow adding of cockles too.
It was a special joy as I had been waiting to taste this CKT again for a very long time, one of Singapore's most famous fried kway teow.
I will definitely eat this again when I swing by the hawker centre with my family.
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The fried rice had a nice subtle flavour, and was pressed together almost like a chicken rice ball. The seafood were all fresh, bouncy and sweet. The broth was very good, full of the sweetness and umami of seafood, and murky with flavour. It was a pity there was so little of the broth.
The coffee here is pretty good as well, with a relatively simple menu on offer, though the coffee did register a little more acidic than at other coffee houses, which I quite liked.
The Laksa is suitable for those who cannot take spicy. On the contrary, if you love to have additional spiciness, you can ask for more dollops of sambal chilli.
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Really a fragrant and comforting laksa, with quite a bit of hae bi flavour, and an overall rounded and flavourful gravy. Really nice.
On paper, that sounded like a good thing. But in the process of getting it so crispy, it was also rather burnt...so much that all I could taste was burned potato, even if I tried covering it up with that sour cream. I don't think I'll get that again.
I don't think I'll get that again.
The 6ixs gets rosti right. And for under $10 a serving with a thick cake of rosti and a protein on the side, we think it’s well worth it.
Most stalls would order their carrot cakes from a supplier but at Ghim Moh Carrot Cake, the team insists on making it freshly in their stall.
The carrot cake portion is generous. I polished off the whole plate and is too full to have anything else at the food centre.
The texture of carrot cake reminded me of ketuput (Malay rice cake) but Chinese carrot cake 菜头粿 is softer due to the radish and carrot mixed into the rice flour.
The bowl of delicious herbal soup is slightly bitter from the herbs but still enjoyable. I wished it is served hotter and filled to the brim.
Chuan Kee Boneless Braised Duck is easily one of the best braised duck rice in Singapore for me.
While it may not be the best-best in Singapore, if you are hankering for duck rice that is cheap and good, Chuan Kee is worth the venture to.
Chye Kee Chwee Kueh at Circuit Road Food Centre was the last wholly artisanal water cake maker in Singapore (including milling their own rice flour from scratch).
In fact, with a little over half a century history behind it, Ghim Moh Chwee Kueh should be nominated for a heritage food award of sorts for keeping true to traditions.
One of the most nostalgic experience you can have with Chwee Kueh.
I found myself at Ghim Moh Market and Food Centre on a quiet Wednesday morning trying this highly raved chwee kueh.
The traditional hand-made chwee kueh was slightly soft with some firmness and fragrance of the rice. The chai por was less dark than that of other stalls, and was balanced, tasty, salty-savoury (with pork lard and garlic and no sugar) but not overly salty.
No doubt that the chicken rice tasted not bad, the price is on a steeper side. While there are so many chicken rice stalls available, there are bound to have better ones out there with a pocket friendlier pricing.
chicken breast was especially moist and tender c/w many other places..
The best dish of the day was the mutton soup ($5). The rich thick soup was powerful enough to wake up any sleepy person.
I will try to go early next time to avoid the queue, though I will probably skip the stall if I have to queue for more than half an hour.
👉 With Jiu Jiang in Ghim Moh, I am happy that I can get my crystal char siew fix in a Singapore hawker centre. It's delicious and reasonably priced too.
Overall, the roasted duck at Jiu Jiang Shao La is not bad but definitely not the best I have eaten. I would go back for their char siew instead.
While the guy that swears on this version of White Carrot Cake from Hock Soon is simply the best, I beg to differ. For white carrot cakes, I still prefer them to be served in blocks and not as charred but packed with sweet egg flavours.
I personally prefer my egg to radish cake ratio but I can understand the stall is running a business and it has to watch its cost.
There is always time to have a mee jiang kueh with a cup of kopi or teh. Head down to a branch near you and give Granny’s Pancake a try!
Personally, I preferred thicker mee chiang kueh with overflowing filling. Those are more satisfying and shiok to bite into but its just a matter of personal preference.
The Thai beef noodles stock tasted quite authentic, like the stock of the boat noodles in Thailand, sweet, savoury and herby. The kway teow was smooth and slippery.
All in all, the food was tasty, ordering in was fuss-free, delivery was prompt and for a total of $21.60, including $3 delivery and $0.20 per takeaway container, it was a good price to feed 3 hungry people.
The curry lacks the flavour and depth that we are looking for. Though its consider decent eat, a return trip to the same stall is tough.
If you ever miss the taste of home-cooked curry, pop by Ghim Moh Food Centre to get yourself a nice warm bowl from Hai Nan Hometown Curry.
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The sweet spicy gravy has a creamy and nutty taste, and the sour notes from the tamarind blended in well with the spicy chilli. Definitely appetizing! The fragrance and nuttiness were simply worthy of. The tiny shrimps are the star on the plate! They were crispy and added an umami flavour to the broth.
