Founder Bak Kut Teh (发起人肉骨茶）

Founder Bak Kut Teh (发起人肉骨茶）

 

Needless to introduce much this one of the big 4 BKT in Spore (the other 3 are Ng Ah Suay, Song Ji and Ah Hua).  The original stall is at Balestier Road.  This stall is opened and operated by the son-in law.

 

 

 

They offer 2 types of ba ku – the 小排骨 or 肉骨。小排骨 at higher price and comes with 2 pieces only while 肉骨 comes with 3 – 4 pieces.  The soup is better than Ng Ah Suay stall.  After taking over by the Jumbo group, I no longer like to eat at Ng Ah Suay stall as I find that they are now becomes a franchise and the towkay already cash out and the boss seems to be not really bothered much about the quality like before.  There is always a price to pay when you expanded too fast.  For Founder BKT – the quality is still very much controlled by the bosses (FIL and SIL).

 

 

Nice cutlery.

 

 

Founder Bak Kut Teh (发起人肉骨茶）

154 Rangoon Road

09:00 – 23:00 (Close on Wends)

 

Seng Kee Bak Kut Teh (Ang Mo Kio) 成记肉骨茶

Seng Kee Bak Kut The (Ang Mo Kio) 成记肉骨茶

 

 

This is the BKT stall that you can have it anytime of the day (from 7 am to 9 pm) – long hours !!  They are manned by the family members and on weekdays – their children also came to the stall helping papa and mama.

 

It is the typical Teochew style BKT – the soup is clear with no herbs.  However, I find that the soup is a bit bland as compared to to the big 4 (Ah Hua, Ng Ah Suay, Song Ji and Fa Qi Ren).

 

The ter kah (pig trotter) is much better than the BKT.  I have seen quite a number of old uncle just ordered the ter kah and not the BKT.  Overall, I will not be a fan of this stall especially the hawker centre is very old and dirty and the cleaning aunties are super inefficient in clearing the tables – and forever grumbling !

 

Seng Kee Bak Kut Teh (Ang Mo Kio) 成记肉骨茶

Blk 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 #01-06

7am – 9 pm (Close on Mondays)

You Yi Fish Soup （Havelock Food Market) 友誼炸魚汤

You Yi Fish Soup （Havelock Food Market) 友誼炸魚汤

 

There are 2 good fish soup stalls in this old food market at Havelock Road.  This stall is right at the end of the corner but you will never miss it as the queue is forever long.

The stall sell many types of soup – you can have the typical seafood / fish soup to go with rice/ noodles or you can have the PAN mian style with different favors (clear soup or tom yam).

I ordered the YI Mee with fried fish.  It costs $4 and you get 4/5 extremely generous cut of the fried fish plus noodle soup.  I think it is very good value for money – and that could be the reason that it attracted many patrons during lunch time.  The fried fish is chunky, well marinated and coated a with well mixed batter.  The soup is nothing special but passable.  I trust many customers patron this stall because of the fried fish.

 

 

You Yi Fish Soup （Havelock Food Market) 友誼炸魚汤

Blk 22A/B Havelock Road #01-30

Wonton Noodle (Tiong Bahru Market) 忠于原味云吞面

Wonton Noodle (Tiong Bahru Market) 忠于原味云吞面

 

Ever since the famous wonton noodle Hua Feng 华丰面家 closed in Tiong Bahru Market, I thought there will not have another good wonton noodle in the food centre until I tried this no stall name but called themselves “Zhong Yi Yuan Wei” – literally translated as loyal to the original favor – wonton noodle stall.  It is just next to the famous Koh’s brothers ter huang kiam chye stall.

 

Prepare to wait for 20 – 30 minutes as the queue is as long as when we were waiting for Hua Feng wonton noodle before.

 

The char siew is made by the owner and he used (mix with other part of the pork) “bu jian tian” (不見天） part – ie near the armpit of the pig where ” the area don’t see the sky”.  This is the part where it produce the best char siew as it requires some fat to ensure the char siew is not too lean to make it too dry and hard.  This part is costly though so do not expect to be served 100% from the armpit.

I ordered the shrimp dumpling and the wonton and the dumpling is nothing special (typical Singapore style – can taste little of the shrimp only).

The bu qian tian part of the char siew is quite nice.  Unfortunately (I believe sue to the cost) – the boss gave only one miserable piece from this part and the rest are from the normal part – which is very hard and dried.

 

The best part of this stall is the noodle which is springy and good favors due to the boss using high quality full egg noodle.  My advice is not adding any chili and just taste the original favor of the noodle (and that is why the boss named his stall for).  Overall, I am quite like this stall and will go back again and this time I will ask the boss to just give me the armpits (not his but the char siew!).

 

Wonton Noodle (Tiong Bahru Market) 忠于原味云吞面

Tiong Bahru Food Market, Seng Poh Road #02-30
10.30am to 3pm (closed on Friday)