It is not easy to find the Malay-style pohpiah that is delicious. As far as I know there are only two good Malay pohpiah stalls, one in Swatow Lane (who has moved into New World Park but after that has moved again but I do not know where) and the second one is the sole halal store at the roadside hawker centre along Jalan Johor, right next to the Yong Tau Hoo stall.
It is quite different from the Chinese pohpiah and it has taugeh (beansprouts) with a different type of sauce. Taste is the sweetness of the . . . → Read More: Halal Pohpiah
I love eating Lok Lok (food – raw and half cooked- on sticks which you cook yourself by dipping it in hot boiling water) and used to go to the stall by the roadside opposite New Lane for my regular Lok Lok binging but I think the roadside stall have since moved away and I don’t know where. Anyway, after that I have started going to the Pulau Tikus market hawker centre for their Lok Lok. It is much easier anyway, with tables and chairs and proper plates and the boiling pot is in the table.
So, in accordance with our gradual lifestyle changes to go for more ‘cheng’ (clear) and healthy foods – in other words soups and non-deep fried and non-curry and not-too-rich foods – we went to one of our favourite haunts for lunch recently.
It is none other than the famous Sin Hoe Peng coffee shop’s Ah Sai Pork porridge, beehoon, koay teow, mee suah, bee tai bak and maggi mee, all in clear soup or now, the new dish of ‘kon loh’ or ‘dry’ maggi mee as in without soup but with sauces.
In times of increasing prices, it is not easy to find places selling reasonably priced or cheap but good food. So, it is quite reassuring when we went to the Taman Free School hawker centre (near Heng Ee secondary school roundabout) to find that the food there is still quite reasonably priced and some of it are quite good too.
This is one of my favourite stalls there…they sell cheap seafood but only limited variety because they only have crabs, mussels, balitong (can’t remember what it’s called in English) and the weird shellfish with . . . → Read More: Cheap seafood and wonderful pancakes
Although I have often seen these special snacks being sold at markets and roadsides, I have actually not tasted Putu Mayong or Putu Piring when I was small. The first time I tasted these wonderfully unique snacks was about 10 years ago.
It was a waste that I did not discover these snacks earlier on! However, ever since I first tasted my putu mayong, I have been trying the putu mayong of every stall I came across. Still, my favourite stall will have to be this one in Pulau Tikus at a corner coffee shop next to the market:
One of my favourite hawker food is definitely the Yong Tau Hoo. We have tried out quite a lot of yong tau hoo stalls and this one next to Padang Brown in Datuk Keramat is a favourite of mine. It is along the lorong (lane) next to Padang Brown and is open air. So, in the middle of the afternoon, it can be quite warm and you will find yourself sweating profusely while tucking into a bowl of hot yong tau hoo.
The stall has quite a variety of ingredients to choose from, mostly are different . . . → Read More: Great roadside Yong Tau Hoo
I love the Malay-style barbequed chicken with peanut sauce (ayam panggang) and usually have a very hard time trying to find really good ones. It is only during the fasting month that we get to find a lot of stalls selling this wonderful, tasty barbequed chicken.
The chicken pieces, usually chicken breast meat, drumstick and sometimes chicken wings, are seasoned with peanut sauce, then speared on some sticks and barbequed over coals.
