Keng Eng Kee Seafood - Alexander Rd

Had a super heavy tzechar lunch at Dennis' uncle's tzechar stall, which Dennis didn't want to recommendMarmite Chicken ($12)

This was our favourite dish, and it was polished off really quickly. The boneless chicken was coated with marmite sauce, and each bite was a taste explosion - the salty marmite sauce had an intense flavour and went really well with steaming white plain rice. The chicken skin is left intact, for those people who like eating chicken skin - the skin was very crispy.

I think I'm always hungry at night cos I'm always blogging about all the delicious food I had in the day, and now I feel like eating this again.

Coffee Pork Ribs ($20)
The coffee pork ribs were sliced thinly, and since there is an increased surface area, each piece was coated in the sweetish coffee sauce. The sauce is also slightly caramelized, which gives it a yummy looking glaze. The coffee taste is also very strong, and I liked how the additional white sesame seeds made the pork more fragrant.

Ming Zhu Juan ($9)
One of their signature dishes - beancurd skin (tau kee) stuffed with lots of ingredients - prawns, sliced chinese mushrooms, ham as well as a salted egg yolk. Reminds me of a deep fried version of inari (sweet beancurd skin) sushi.

Do note that there's a piece of parsley hidden within all the ingredients - I quite like eating parsley but my friends who didn't like parsley had to dig through the roll and remove the sprig of parsley.

Cuttlefish with Kangkong ($16)
Heaps of juicy cuttlefish pieces and

The cuttlefish was very juicy, and went really well with the slightly spicy brown sauce. This dish is cooked with lard, so all the lard-eaters will be very happy when they discover the crispy oil laden gems hidden within the cuttlefish and kangkong.

Homemade Waterchestnut drink

Complimentary Almond Jelly with Longan, which ended the lunch on a sweet note.

I'm going to come back to eat the salted egg crab. According to the reviews on hungrygowhere, the salted egg crab is supposed to be very good. The food was quite heavy and oily (since it's tze char anyway), and it was just as well that we ordered 4 dishes cos everyone was very full at the end of lunch. Fortunately, we've been having half days, and I happily went home to take a long afternoon nap.

They have an airconditioned dining area opposite the original coffeeshop, and that's where we had our lunch. The aircon is nice and strong, which was a relief as the weather has been scorching hot lately. For the pricing, the portions are huge, and the lunch I had was extremely satisfying. Looking forward to trying the salted egg crab!

Keng Eng Kee Seafood

Blk 124 Bukit Merah Lane 1

#01-136

Singapore 150124

(Where all the car workshops are)

Tel 62721038

Red Tea Jelly - At Alexander Village

The first time I discovered Red Tea Jelly was at Changi Village. But I have since found another one at Alexander Village (which is so much closer and accessible). However, the two red tea jellies are quite different.
I think they make this by themselves, cos there are sediments of tea leaves at the bottom of the jelly. There's also alot less colouring - this looks more natural and with the reddish brown hue of normal tea. There also isn't any red colouring which will bleed into the milk and make it look like bandung.


The textures are similar, both like konnyaku jelly. The one from changi village is actually imported from taiwan (the lady showed me the box).

Anyway, i think it isn't worth the trudge all the way to the east (for me at least) for red tea jelly and the one at alexander village will suffice.

Red Tea Jelly can be found at the Blue Ribbon Dessert Store at Alexander Village. It's in the middle of the hawker center.

It's $2.10 per bowl.

Fish Soup and Yam Rice

When we go to Alexander Village for lunch, we always pass by this coffeeshop with a super long que. So being early for lunch one day, we decided to try the fish bee hoon cos we thought the que was shorter. However, there were already about 14 people in the que. But it was still shorter than before, and being true Singaporeans, our competitive streaks said that we die die must try cos everyone else was queueing and it was sure to be good.

The dish that most people were trying was the deepfried fish beehoon. I suppose if you want to eat deep fried food, having it in soup will negate the extra calories (as compared to something dry like bak chor mee with lard). And since it's fish, it's healthy.
The fish is deepest fried so much that the texture resembles KFCs popcorn chicken. But it's fish not chicken. The batter is tasty with lots of seasoning, and so is the soup.
You can get soup with Yam Rice, which is rice with a few fragments of yam and blackened with soya sauce. It's a change from the usual white rice, and my meal (above) costs $3.30.
I tried the unfried version - the Seafood Soup which came with two fishballs. I must say the the fishballs are not bad - they're pretty soft so I suppose they don't use too much flour. But the unfried fish slices were nothing to rave about it wasn't as fresh as I expected it to be, probably cos this is "frying quality" fish?The soup is rather salty, with the slight taste of 'hua tiao jiu', and it's loaded with long cabbage. I'm not sure if it's because it was an exceptionally hot day, or the soup was rather salty, but I was very thirsty after eating this.
My conclusion: Queing up so long for the food will make you feel that the food is better cos you're soooo hungry after that long que.

Pigs Organ Soup Seafood Soup/Bee hoon Fried Fish Pork Porridge Yam rice can be found at either Block 126 or 127 (it's the block with the Bird shop further down and it's next to this small confectionary shop) along Bukit Merah Lane. It's not in Alexander Village, but in a coffeeshop near it.

Royal Curry Chicken Rice

Here's another dish from the stall with the name that I can't pronounce. It's the Royal Curry Chicken Rice, and it comes with nice yellow rice. The rice is slightly wetter than nasi lemak rice, and the combination of colours make the dish better for eating. I'm not sure if the rice has coconut, but it's as oily as chicken rice.

It costs $3.50, and comes with a chicken drumstick, ikan billis and lots of peanuts, fried green beans with chilli, fried lunchoen meat and fried egg. The curry sauce was deliciously thick and creamy, and the chicken was a bit small.

Unlike the last time, my fried egg wasn't cooked till charred and crispy, but had it's yolk still runny. The luncheon meat, on the other hand was cooked till it was so hard and crispy and tasted of oil. The dish's probably more lethal than chicken rice.

Btw, this stall isn't Malay like the usual nasi lemak, it's run by this Chinese guy.

Alexander Village

Next to the Avocado Milkshake Stall in the middle

Poh Cheu Ang Ku Kueh

Multi coloured ang ku kueh. Whenever I see ang ku kueh, I keep thinking about the play 'A Twist of Fate', where the angkukueh mould plays an important part in the storyline. This store sells lots of kuehs, including soon kueh (in turnip and bamboo versions), the pink coloured teochew kueh filled with glutinous rice, the chives kueh, and lots of ang ku kueh. For a post on the Soon Kueh, go here.


Hmm I just found out today that Ang Ku Kueh in chinese is Hong Gui Guo (accoding to the signboard). And one day after watching 881 (support local talent), I realised that 881 is ba ba yao and not ba1 ba1 yi1 >.<

This is a durian ang ku kueh - I didn't try it but it smells really nice and durian-ish. I hate eating durian outside (unless i'm cheonging home rightaway) cos then i'll get durian breath.

I will always eat the normal green bean angkukueh cos I'm very boring once I find anything that I like to eat (like the yongtaufoo in Alexander Village).

The angkukueh has nice soft chewy and slightly sweet skin, and there's a good amount of filling (not like the very flat ones). I like all these kuehs with banana leaves, cos I think it makes it more fragrent (like kueh tutu).
There's so many flavours - Normal green bean (which isn't green - it's yellow), salted bean (which I don't quite like), Green tea (I haven't tried it), Coconut, Yam, Peanut and Durian.

Poh Cheu Handmade Ang Ku Kueh and Soon Kueh

Bukit Merah Lane

Eeps I don't know the address - I'll try to find it the next time I drop by. It's in this coffeshop near Alexander Village, but not in it.

___ Jia Ji Coconut Rice

yikes my chinese is so horrible is the first word dao or liu?? or liang or something :S:S:S Anyway, i'm quite sure the back is coconut rice :D I was wandering around Alexander Village wondering what to eat when I walked past my favourite Avocado Milkshake Stall and saw this horribly long que (about 10 persons long) and was curious (but slightly doubtful on the quality of food cos people que for everything here-_-")

The que moves quite fast even though it's a one man show inside - the guy's really efficient and he fries the eggs (each is freshly fried), dish out the rice and collects money all by himsef.

Basically, they have various rice combinations, from the Royal Chicken Curry Rice ($4), sambal prawns, sambal sotong, spicy chicken rice and nasi lemak. (All these prominently displayed with large fonts so you can see exactly what you're getting).

I decided to try the Spicy Chicken rice, which comprises of a drumstick (deep fried with crispy skin), deep fried egg, deep fried luncheon meat, deep fried ikan billis and peanuts, oily rice and a sliver of cucumber and a nice dollop of chilli. This must be one of the most unhealthy stalls around >.< My plate is a mini Brunei.

When I asked him if I could replace the ikan billis with long beans (which is given with some of the other sets) he said I had to pay an additional 50 cents whether I wanted the ikan billis or not. Dunno how come these stall holders are so unflexible. Isn't long beans cheaper than ikan billis? Maybe the law of equivalent trade hasn't occurred to them.

Anyway, the picture above shows my Spicy Chicken Set - the portions are quite small - the drumstick is skinny. This costs $3.
I really don't see what the fuss or que for this is about. It's just oil oil oil oil oil i cant taste any coconut. The chilli, like any nasi lemak chilli, is really nice, the chicken crispy and the egg is charred with lots of benzopyrenes. Top all these with a good chunk of nitrate filled luncheon meat and eat this for a month and you'll probably be guaranteeing some colon malignancy.

Yong Tau Foo - Alexander Village

The above is supposedly lasagne, but it tastes nothing like lasagne. It has scraps of soggy lasagne, and a weird tasting meat sauce, and lots of artificial parmesan cheese on top :S and it's super ex. Lucky we're saved from the dismal canteen since Alexander Village is located close by.

This is the only kind of yongtaufoo I eat - I think i've eaten my lifetime quota of the pick and mix kind of yongtaufoo already.

This is the kind that comes as a set and there's no choosing. And even better, the noodles are really tasty cos of the bakchor (minced meat). It's very oily too, but you can always ask for less oil (though this may compromise the taste, depending on the condition of your taste buds)This is the standard meal (excluding the kangkong) and costs $3. It's $3.50 if you add extra kangkong. You can also have kangkong with yellow bean sauce (i think) for $4. The minced meat makes the noodles nice and tasty (even without sauce) and the tofu is fresh and smooth.

You get about 7 pieces of yongtaufoo, and bittergourd is optional.
Hmm i don't know how to read the chinese words on the signboard... It's located 2 stalls away from the Old Punggol satay stall.

Alexander Village

To the ppl posted to AH: Do you know that Singapore's 3rd Best Soon Kueh is right next to you? It's at this coffeeshop near Alexander Village, but dont attempt to go there during your lunch break anytime soon since all the S'poreans in the west/central area will be flocking down there - my mum went there and was puzzled to find 18 people queueing before her. It was not until she asked a stallholder in the hawker center that she found out why there was a sudden surge in the usually non-existant lunch-time que. In fact, she first thought that there was some Chinese Festival that needed soon kueh -_-" They also have ang ku kueh which comes in other colours (besides red) cos there's yam paste (purple), coconut (green i think?), mango, red bean and some other funny flavour. And the pink peach shaped teochew kueh too.

Another thing - the avocado stall also have chocolate avocado milkshake - chocolate sauce with creamy avocado - you don't need milk to have a creamy milkshake. I think it costs either $2.50 or $3. It's very sweet too. Ah people who want to try avocado but are scared that they won't like the taste should try this - avocado on top and chocolate below. If you don't like it mix everything and it'll taste like chocolate!

Happy Food Thoughts

Here's some of the food I've eaten recently:

Spelt bread with rosemary baked by my sister - hope she bakes more cos I like bread!Some eggplant thing with youghurt on a baguette tt my sister baked too. It's some no-knead bread recipe that she found. recently, I read somewhere that Vogue magazine had a no-knead bread recipe recently (but I didn't see it) - cant imagine all the women with long long nails (how impractical - cannot percuss) kneading and getting dough under the nail beds. Soon Kueh from Alexander village. It's actually at a coffeeshop near Alexander Village, and it's coffeeshop and not an air-coned stall. The coffeeshop one tastes better i think.
Ang Ku Kueh from the same stall. They've got lots of other flavours like yam, mango, coconut and dunno what else.Creme Brulee from Fullerton
Cheese Cake from xinxin! It's nice creamy and milky and it has a chocolate base. If you want to buy a home baked cheesecake from her, you can contact her... um... through this website haha

Avocado Milkshake

According to Wikipedia, "The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word aguacate, which derives in turn from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word ahuacatl, meaning testicle, because of its shape."
I love eating avocados with my sushi (think California Rolls, and the Phoenix Roll from Sushi Tei) cos it's very creamy, and it taste very good with smoked salmon sandwiches and salads (tofu Avocado Salads). My favourite way of eating the avocado is drinking it in milkshake form.

Whenever I go to Queensway, I will have this irresistible urge to cross over to Alexander Village Food Center to get myself a cup of Avocado Milkshake. This $2 delight is my favourite avocado milkshake (compared to the $5.50 Avocado Milkshake from Thai Express, Avocado Desserts from Pho Hua, Sanaur, Kartrika, the $5 avocado milkshake from the very expensive library cafe in Esplanade, NUS Science Canteen) and it wins hands down.

It's served in a very intimidating tall cup (it's quite alot to drink) and has this weird shade of green that puts many people off but it's really really very nice! For $2, you're getting nearly 1.5X more than what you will get at Thai Express. Forget that $5.50(excluding service charge and taxes) and instead come and get a better quality and quantity.It's very thick, creamy and not too sweet. Great for a hot day after shopping in Queensway. The stall also serves Avocado Milkshake with Chocolate, and for those tiring days in AH, you can even get a pick-me-up Avocado Milkshake and Whisky.
Next time you go to Queensway, do save some stomach space for this very delicious avocado milkshake.

Seng Hong Fruit Juice and Sugar Cane Juice
*Note that there are 2 avocado stalls on the same row. One is called "Mr Avocado" and it's the first avocado stall to be set up, but I prefer this one cos the milkshake isn't overly sweet.