Maxwell Food Centre’s Tian Tian Chicken Rice is a Bib Gourmand award recipient serving good Hainanese chicken rice, starting at $5 a plate.
The chicken rice was fragrant and not too oily, plus grainy. Chicken was meh and slightly tough. This tasted nothing like the revelationary chicken rice that I remember from the first time I tried it. Perhaps its again this thing where I have tried too many good things since, or the first time is always the best.
I still think Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice offers one of the best versions around, and if a tourist friend comes to Singapore, I may still recommend – for its brand, for its name.
They have quite a number of fish slices in the soup. As with other fish soups, Batang fish was used here.
The fried fish strips were well battered and fried to perfection. They were fresh and tasty, and I really liked how the fish had absorbed the wonderful flavours of the soup.
I never knew the differences between the different styles of fish soup so I thoroughly enjoyed the “lecture”.
The clean tasting soup was really quite flavourful with sweet savoury flavours imparted by the noodles, chicken bone, dried prawn and chai sim.
This stall at Maxwell Food Centre sells five types of noodles at $1 per portion! The portions are not big, but you can add another $0.50 to make it a filling...
China Street Rickshaw Noodles offers noodle dishes for a dollar! From mee sua to sides such as fried prawns, you’ll be getting bang for your buck here.
Maxwell Food Centre is home to many good foods such as Ramen Taisho for authentic ramen and Michelin Bib Gourmand Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice.
After such a satisfying bowl of porridge, I felt energised and ready to tackle the rest of the day ahead of me.
Eat it while you can as there is likely no one to take over the stall when they retired, just like many of those older hawkers.
china street fritter proprietor, guo hua, is my OPS friend’s secondary schoolmate, so he frequent this stall often.
For big eaters and hungry monsters, Tong Xin Ju’s huge noodle portions will be a life-saver for you and your wallet.
There must be a reason why regulars still frequent the stall even after its relocation to Maxwell Food Centre.
This stall has been around for over 90 years in Singapore and this family business is currently managed by the third generation. Their items are quite standard and have lesser varieties. Most items are still handmade like Ngoh Hiang, Pork Liver Roll, Egg Cake, and Guan Chang. Other add-on items are the Prawn Fritters, Tau Kwa, Fishabll, and Century Egg.
This stall though had an unexpectedly better sweet sticky sauce. Not the starchy gunk of starch most wu xiang stalls provide.
After having the bowl of pig’s organ soup here, I found myself wanting to go back for another bowl so if you are one of those who are afraid to try pig’s organ soup because the thought of eating pig innards scares you, I encourage you to head down to The Pig Organ Soup at Maxwell Food Centre and try a bowl. Perhaps it could be a dish you can find comfort in when you’re missing home!
Overall, it's quite nice.
The chee cheong fun was soft, slippery and nice. The satisfying and lemak curry packed a lot of spice and heat.
Heng Heng is a good option at Maxwell Road Food Centre which is the chicken rice central of Singapore.
It tasted and felt so good on this rainy wet morning!
