Dive into the vibrant chaos of this Joo Chiat gem for delicious, no-frills Chinese-Malay street food, where fresh seafood and flavorful herbal soups reign supreme.
It’s just 5 minutes brisk walk from Kembangan MRT, this restaurant is a must try if you want to have a Chinese-style cuisine.
I visit this restaurant every year especially during Chinese New Year. The seafood dishes are fresh and reasonable priced, not to mention the flavour.
For a table of 3, we ordered Steamed Teochew-Style Red Snapper, Steamed Venus Clams (Lala), Fried Beancurd with Chicken Floss and Money Chye with Egg.
Not many places serve Money Chye (Sweet Leaf or Star Gooseberry) but this restaurant. When it is stir-fried with egg, the taste is just perfect.
As fresh as it can get unless you catch it straight from the ocean, the seafood offered here is surprisingly fresh. You can choose your seafood at the glass chiller and choose the choice of cooking.
The Steamed Lala is just a fresh, while the beancurd is normal - how bad can a beancurd dish be unless the bean curd is spoilt or stinky?
The only downside about this restaurant is that they do not have printed menu - the menu is on the wall and it can be stressful to make your orders while queuing up to get a seat at the same time during peak hours. Unless you are a regular patron and you already knew what to order, new customers may have a hard time making deciding what to order while the staff is waiting to take your order at the queue.
A T
Google
Decent food at affordable prices. Drinks overpriced.
My usual must eats are the mee Sua soup. This time went with a group of friends and tried many more dishes.
A blogger highly recommended the fried Hokkien mee & salted egg sotong but I found it so so (note to self: stop following these unknown bloggers).
The must haves are the vegetables : long beans with crispy Hae bee. Chow tar bee Hoon is good too. Lala was decent.
Skip the fried prawn balls that look appetising but….
Not a place to sit down and chat as a long Q awaits your table.
But at $25-30 per head for 8 dishes, can’t complain.
Adrick Loh
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Came many times for dinner here. Normally would order their pork mee sua and liver mee sua for wifey. This time ordered their white mee sua. More like soup but flavor and ingredients are to my liking. Their yellow wine lala is our favorite now. At $15 but worth it. Yellow wine is sweet and lala is the freshest I ever had in SG though small sized. We drink finish the yellow wine soup.
P.S if you dun like your liver more than 50% raw need to tell them u like them cooked. It will still come out 30% raw.
Tried their seafood white beehoon. Stock is good but overall taste no as good as Sembawang popular white beehoon. My gout was activated after 15 mins into eating it. Confirmed rich in ingredients. lol
Zenobia Loh
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Crispy bee hoon is a must try! Petai dish is a bit small for $13+ but it is yummy. Sweet and sour pork is nice and soft inside and crispy outside. Will come back again!! Parking is limited so gotta come earlier
SGP DH
Google
The omelette with Chai Poh is an expensive ($10.80) as it looks like only 3-4 eggs are used as it’s very thin and very little chai poh. Not worth the price. Rest of the food is reasonable and taste is great.
Ian Li
Google
A great spot for local food! You'll need to order and pay at the side counter first, and while the auntie at the cashier might come off a bit fierce, the food is absolutely worth it!
The fried Kailan with Fu Ru sauce is a must-try—such a perfect balance of salty, spicy, and fresh flavors. It’s rare to find a place that can nail such a simple dish so well!
The chicken is wonderfully cooked. It may look dry at first, but that’s because the soup and sauce are absorbed into the meat, making it tender and packed with flavor. It’s neither oily nor too salty, just rich and delicious!
As for the pork chop fried rice, while the rice is average, the pork chop is outstanding! We nearly ordered another one because it was so good. The balance of fat and lean meat was spot on, and the sauce was just perfect.
Overall, a super tasty place you’ve got to check out!
H T
Google
26jan2025
05:45pm
good foods
bad people/staffs. zero smile. zero hospitality. fierce, especially the tall uncle taking order and also the lady cashier.
first and LAST visit
Graeme Kennedy
Google
Stunning. This is one of my favourite spots in Singapore. No frills, nothing fancy, just down-to-earth local food that absolutely rocks.
The chicken soup was fantastic, as well as the seafood, the fried veggies, even the coconut was delicious.