Recommended by Miss Tam Chiak, although for their Peking Duck. The soft noodles have been cut up and didn’t have much of a texture. It came in a sweetish soy sauce, and with a sweet and lightly caramelised but slightly tough char siew, and quite normal and again slightly tough roast duck with non crispy skin. Quite average I thought.
Peking Duck in Coffeeshop? Opened by ex-Imperial Treasure chef, Tham’s Roasted Delights serves good roasted meat, including peking duck!
Granted, the broth wasn't anything special, but I'd eat it again.
I can see why Yong Xin 永薪 has developed quite a fanbase and considering how quickly the line moves here, I wouldn’t mind coming down again to join the snaking queue!
I can definitely see the reason behind the long lines at Cai Ji Fried Fish Soup. Quality red grouper at affordable prices, fragrant soup, and delicious fried fish? You’ll see me joining one of their queues again someday soon!
Overall, I find that food tastes decent but I'm the one who prefers soup to be more of herb taste and sauce to be more on the savoury side. I love that the food handling especially the intestines is well managed.
The her kiao was springy and slightly gummy, liver tender and slightly powdery, factory-made meatballs and fishballs standard and springy. The noodles were soft and ketchup sweet, tangy, vinegary, spicy and lardy in a robust sauce, but slightly sticky and alkaliney. The soup was light and clear. Long queue, with a solid sauce.
Recommended by Wong Ah Yoke as one of the 10 cheap and good eats in Ang Mo Kio. The noodles were wiry and springy, pork balls and sliced and minced pork fresh, pork lard large and crispy, and mushrooms braised nicely and bouncy. The sauce with chilli, dried shrimp, garlic, shallots and ginger was very strongly vinegary and spicy though, overwhelming all other flavours.