Anyway, I went there cos I wanted to eat the egg beancurd. It's not like the ordinary bean curd cos there is egg inside. I think it originated from Taiwan. The beancurd is more gelatineous and doesn't break as easily as the normal one. It doesn't really taste like the normal bean curd, and is more milky and jelly like. There are many different types of toppings, including tang yuan (glutinous rice balls with seaseme), nata de coco, ginko nuts, red bean, yam paste, honey sea coconut, aloe vera, QQ balls etc etc. If you have it plain, it costs $1.50 and with toppings, $1.80.
It's yellow in colour cos of the egg I suppose.
Next, I ate the satay bee hoon, which is on my must-eat list whenever i go to chompchomp. I like it alot cos it isn't overly spicy so that you can taste the sweetness of the satay sauce. I don't believe in adding chilli to my food, and especially when the dish is too hot and drowning in chilli taste that you can't taste anything else. Might as well eat just plain rice and chilli since you can't even taste anything.
This one comes with lots of cuttlefish (which I like), cockles (even better) and lean pork, fried bean curd and kangkong and prawns.
That's my mother dividing out the noodles cos we were sharing.
And this is her eating while i'm trying to get a good picture of it. -_-"Then, we ate satay. 5 sticks of mutton, 5 sticks of chicken. It was a chinese satay stall but then I didn't order pork cos I usually prefer chicken and mutton :D It's usually softer than the pork.
Satay with cucumbers and no onions (cos I don't like raw onions). I usually ask them to give me more cucumbers in place of the onions, and I like dipping them in the satay sauce. I don't eat the kutupat (rice in coconut leaves) cos I rather spend my stomach space on other foods.
Next I decided to try the popiah cos the stall had sooo many signs saying that it was voted Life!'s Top 8 Popiah. So must try. There is an option to add chicken/pork floss, seafood (like prawn, crab stick etc etc) but I decided to try the plain one cos that is the best way to see if the fillings taste good. It's $1.30 for the normal popiah, and about $1.80 for the ones with floss. 
For $1.30 I guess it's not too bad - the lettuce is thinly sliced (unlike most stalls which put a whole lettuce leaf inside) and the turnip filling is slightly crunchy and not soggy. But my favourite popiah is at Queenstown, in Mei Ling Street Hawker Centre - however I may be biased cos I've been eating it since I remembered (it's only $1 per roll, but can't really compare price cos that place is really really old and thus much cheaper rent).
Then we decided we wanted to eat the char kway teow but then not enough space (getting full already) so we decided on the zero carb option of cockles with bean sprouts.
Good for iron so you won't become anaemic. Its stir fried in a bit of egg, so it's essentially Char Kway Teow without the Kway Teow. Yum! I still don't know why people eat char kway teow without the cockles - It's the defining ingredient of the whole dish...
But then again, it's really dirty - I've heard that they feed the cockles chicken shit or something like that but I don't know how true that is.
Then, my pizza from Devon's Daddy's Pizza arrived. It takes about 10-15min to bake. It's a thin crust pizza, and a one person portion costs $5. There is a choice of any 4 ingredients from chicken sausage, ham, bacon, pineapple, grilled peppers, button mushroom, onion, corn etc
Not bad for a $5 pizza - it's really unique cos i think this is the first pizza store to be set up in a hawker centre?
Another place to get $5 pizzas is Anchor Point Food Junction. There is this pizza store which gives lots and lots of toppings for $5 and the pizza comes with any amount of topping you want from a list, and no extra charge if you want ALL the toppings.
There were 2 choices of goreng pisang, one was 60cents the other was 80cents. According to the lady boss, the 80cents Raja banana was sweeter and thus better. So since 20 cents wasn't an issue, and because of my firm belief that if you want to eat something lardy, don't waste calories on inferior stuff. (ie don't eat those cheapskate oily chocolates which don't taste good when you can eat Royce - it's prob the same amount of calories, but more satisfaction).
The bananas were freshly fried and very sweet as the lady promised, and with the melt in the mouth texture of good Goreng Pisang.
Too bad Chomp Chomp isn't near my house or not I'm sure to visit it more often.
1 comment:
that was a lot of food that you & ur mum ate at chomp chomp!! did u take simvastatin after that meal?? hehe...anyway, badminton on may day with yilin + spiderman 3 + dinner at aston's???
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