136 Hong Kong Street Fish Head Steamboat | ThumbsForFood

It's Monday! Hopefully your weekend was great [: Blue Monday, go away!

Well, I have always loved eating fish head steamboat but it is not easy to find an affordable and nice one out there. A friend of mine recommended me to this shop and I was not disappointed with its standard!

Red Grouper Steamboat. Okay, the main thing you definitely have to order here is the fish head steamboat. The soup is really good and rich, filled with all my favourite ingredients such as fried yam, cabbage, etc. Of course, they have other kinds of fish too if you do not like red grouper fish!

Other than their steamboat, their tzechar dishes are also worth a try. Pretty good quality for the price that you are paying. What's more is that the place is air-conditioned! Good for the people with extra active sweat glands yet craving for some awesome chinese food. [:

Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves with Sambal. We had about 8 people and we ordered large for all the dishes. Pleasantly surprised at the huge plate of dish served to us.

Stir-Fried String beans with dried shrimps. I love this dish. I like the tinge of spiciness with the salty dried shrimps combination!

Sweet and sour century egg $6. Well well! Recently, I got into a Century-Egg-Craze which means I have this weird compulsion to order any century egg dishes. This is something different from what you see outside! The century egg is fried so that it has this crispy exterior. Eaten together with the appetizing sweet and sour sauce, it can really tickle your appetite open!

Mongolian Tofu $18.  This is their recommended dish. I must say that it is pretty unique. It resembles the Yam Ring that we see normally, with the yam ring replaced by tofu to form tofu ring instead.

Pork Ribs with Salted Egg. I like the flavour of this dish and I would recommend this to all the salted egg lovers out there! What's tze char without some meat right?

Overall, I feel that this is a good and affordable place for big group of family or friends. The standard of the food is definitely above those you see in the average coffee shops. However, take note that the shop is not that big so if you can, try to make reservations before that!

Our ratings of 136 Hong Kong Street Fish Head Steamboat: 7.4/10

291 South Bridge Road
Singapore 058836
Open daily from 1130-1430, 1700-2300

Cheers,
Z

Piao Ji Fish Porridge (Amoy Street Food Centre) | ThumbsForFood

Okay this is one of my favourite food in Singapore. I'm a big fan of fish soups, and this is really the best that I've eaten in town. It is located at Amoy Street, where the Central Business District is so, the lunch crowd during weekdays is really scary. I would advise you to go earlier like around 10am if you want to avoid the queue. Even on weekends, the queue is still pretty long. I would say the queue does not really move very fast as well, resulting in the long wait.

Fish & Prawn $10. Okay the fish & prawn soup comes in 2 sizes: the $7 and the $10. There are 2 kinds of fish there: the Mackerel fish and the Pomfret. Pomfret is more expensive and so if you choose Pomfret, there will be fewer slices of fish! Despite being an old customer of the stall, I must say that it is definitely not the cheapest find you can get in a hawker centre setting. In addition, the portion is not large as well. For me, a $10 bowl is just satisfying and I can definitely have more of it.

The fish there is really fresh and well-handled and it can be eaten just by itself without any sauce. You can taste the sweetness of the fish with just a bite of it. The prawns there are really fresh too, and adds in the seafood taste to the soup. Other than the very fresh ingredients, the soup is also something that would make you queue so long for. The soup is flavourful, but not too oily and salty. The lard and the fried onions brings out the taste of the soup. I also like the Dang Ou vegetables in the soup as most fish soup stalls do not actually use this vegetable.

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  Our ratings of Piao Ji: 9/10
  
  
  
  
  Piao Ji Fish Porridge
  7 Maxwell Road #02-100
  Amoy Street Food Centre
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• Daily: 10.30am – 3pm

(Closed on Thu)

Cheers,

Z