No.1 Adam's Nasi Lemak vs Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak @ Adam Food Centre

   Adam Food Centre. A food centre along Bukit Timah Road and near the Botanical Garden. A food centre out of the way but also interesting. Firstly, around 50% of the stalls here serve halal food. So this will be a good place to come try some Malay and Indian Muslim food. But I am here today, mainly to try 2 stalls. 2 Stalls that sell one of the well liked or sought after Malay rice dish is both Singapore and Malaysia. Nasi Lemak.

How to get here : -
Address :
2 Adam Rd, Adam Food Centre

How to get there?
From Botanical Garden MRT, head to Exit B. Take the escalator up until you reach the main road. The main road is called Bukit Timah Road. Once you reach the main road, turn left and walk along the road until you reach the bus stop. Behind the bus stop,you will see the stairs that will lead you to the overhead bridge that will allow you to cross the road. Take the overhead bridge across the road and on the other side, turn left again and continue walking along on the foot path. And after a short distance, you will see Adam Food Centre.

You can also view the direction in my YouTube Video at the link below https://youtu.be/EffN4tym70w


Suggestion :
Please note, if you do come here for lunch during a weekday, please note that there is only a small carpark infornt of the food centre and parking may be an issue. So come early or use public transport.

The first nasi lemak I am going to try will be from this stall called No.1 Adam's Nasi Lemak.

Address

Adam Food Centre #01-01

Timing

8am to 2pm

Closed on Tue

How to Order

1) Join the queue at the front of the stall

2) Look at the signage and decide which set you want to order.

Fish Set                   $4

Chicken Set            $3.50

Sutra Set                $4.50

Adam's Special     $5

3) Place your order when you reach the front of the line

4) Make payment while they prepare your dish

5) Once it is done, take it and go and find a seat and enjoy

    I ordered the Sutra Set, which cost $4.50. At the stall itself, you will see a written notice that you can not get extra chili or chicken wing. Everything is sold as sets only. And the only extra you can order is for the potato or fish cake. Also the speed of plating the food is slow and easy.

The rice used is a long grained rice and there is a strong smell of coconut and when you eat the rice, you also get a hint of the coconut there too. The rice on the whole was nice and fragrant but slightly soft.
The Chili is a sambal chili which is spicy and sweet. It looks abit watery but is thick enough for the purpose. The purpose is to be eaten easily with the rice. 
The Ikan Bilis (Fried anchovies) is crunchy and there is also peanuts.
The chicken wing is super crispy. The meat is not seasoned but the skin is super cripsy with the taste of deep fried chicken skin taste.
The egg is a fried egg and soft and tender in the middle. It was not over fried.
The Otah was ok. Non of the ingredients stood out but it has a nice barbecue after taste.

    This nasi lemak was good. Very good. It was flavourful and delicious. It had everything you look for in a Nasi Lemak. After eating it, I was wondering how the next stall can beat them.  
Rating 4 Damn Good

     This is the next Nasi Lemak stall I will try. It is just next to the first stall I tried. Talk about competition. Anyway, their name is Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak. It even has a LED sign too.

Address

Adam Food Centre #01-02

Timing

7am to 5pm

Closed on Friday

How to Order

1) Join the queue at the front of the stall

2) Look at the signage and decide which set you want to order.

Flash Meal                     $2.50

Fish Meal                       $3.50
Chicken Wing Meal       $3.50
Otak Meal                      $3.50
Full House                     $4.50
Royal Flush                   $5.00
Royal Rumble               $5.50

3) Place your order when you reach the front of the line

4) Make payment while they prepare your dish

5) Once it is done, take it and go and find a seat and enjoy

    I ordered the Full House Set since the ingredients was similar to the set I bought form the first stall. It cost me $4.50. At this stall, firstly, I notice, when I was in the queue, they are actually preparing for a big take out order. There is a sense of urgency in their pace of work. And they constantly have a queue infront of their stall.

They also use a long grained rice here, Basmati rice and the rice is nice and firm. Stronger coconut taste and a slight pandan smell too. The rice is also abit saltier than the previous one. But the rice is very flavourful. 
The Sambal Chili here is also good. It is also sweet and spicy but there is more of a dried shrimp taste in the Sambal. The sambal here is not as watery as the previous one and is just the right consistency.
The Ikan Bilis (fried Anchovies) is also crispy but there is no peanuts here
The chicken wing here is also super crispy. There seem to be a batter on the chicken and it keeps all the oil and fat in the chicken. It taste so good when you bite into it. And all the oily fatty goodness just runs havoc in you mouth when you bite into the chicken
The egg here is over fried and the yoke is totally dry.
The Otah was good but did not have as much flavour as I wanted.

     This is also a very good Nasi Lemak. They did the chicken wing so well that I can still remember bitting into it. The rice is the star of this show. Nice texture and coconuty and flavourful. And it all goes well with the sambal.  Rating 4.5/6 Better than Damn Good




No.1 Adam's Nasi Lemak vs Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak

   From my rating system, you can tell which I prefer. And Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak does one hell of a Nasi Lemak. It is just so good and on certain ingredients, they are actually a step above No.1 Adam's Nasi Lemak. Especially the rice and chicken wings. 
    It does not mean that No.1 Adam's Nasi Lemak was not good, they also make a damn good plate of Nasi Lemak too. It is actually very good. 
   My opinion is that they problem is just location. If they were not at this Food Centre and at another Food Centre, then they would do just as well. And more renown since they were not beside Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak.

    Selamat Datang is a Malay saying for Welcome. So this stall is welcoming you to try their food. What I tried here is Mee Soto.

Address

Adam Food Centre #01-09

Timing

8am to 10pm
Closed on Wednesday

How to Order

1) Join the queue at the front of the stall

2) Look at the signage and decide which set you want to order.

3) Refer to the picture beside for what to order

4) Place order and wait for them to prepare your dish

5) Once it is ready, make payment

6) Then take your dish and look for a seat and enjoy

    This Mee Soto with an extra order of begedil. It cost $3.50. Mee Soto is actually a dish that combines Indonesian Chicken Broth called Soto Ayam with chinese yellow egg noodles. 

   The soup here is really really good. That is due to the spice mix that they add to the chicken broth. It is out of this world. It is sweet and spicy and a myriad of slight flavours in between. I heard somewhere that they blend this spice mix themselves and it is very delightful. The noodles is nice and firm and goes well with the soup. 

   There is like this dark chili sauce that you can add to the soup. You are advised to not put too much since it is quite spicy and salty. But if you can take the heat, you may want to put more since it does give a nice kick to your taste buds. Like a horse kicking you in the head and it is quite enjoyable.

Overall it is a very good soup with noodles. Totally enjoyable and worth a try if you are there.  Rating 4/6 Damn Good

I could not eat anymore but decided to buy back home some desert. Decided to try this stall and ordered green bean sago. If you wanted to order tau suan, you will have to wait until 5pm, thay is when they finish cooking it.

Address

Adam Food Centre #01-31

Timing

12AM to 12AM (24 Hrs)

Closed on Mondays

   The desert was ok. Not to sweet. Only issue is that there was uncooked beans in the soup. You will be eating it, n then suddenly you have like crunchy beans in your soup. Not sure how it got in there but not pleased about it. Rating 3/6 Tasty




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Tian Tian Hainaness Chicken Rice, Maxwell Fuzhou Oyster Cake, Hoe Kee Porridge & Zhen Zhen Porridge @ Maxwell Food Centre

   Due to my disappointing YouTube review of my favourite chicken rice stall, due to soggy rice, I mentioned that I would do another review on another day. Which I am going to do today. If you want to see the first review, click on this link, https://youtu.be/IYBCwAKY75c

   So today, we are at Maxwell Food Centre, a very popular food centre in Singapore. Lunch time, here, especially during the work week, is abit busy, with long line for all the popular foods. This food centre, does alot of their business during lunch hours and serve the office worker crowd, and so, most of the stalls here, will be ready to serve their food at least before 11am. So if you do want to beat the lunch crowd, you can come here slightly before 11am and you should be able to get what ever you want to eat, with out having to queue up to long.

How to get there :-

Address

1 Kadayanallur Street

 

Nearest landmark

It is near the Jinrikisha Station along Tanjong Pagar Road and across the street from the Buddha Tooth Temple in Chinatown

If you are at Tanjong Pagar MRT station, head towards Exit B. Once you get out of the MRT station at Exit B, walk to the main road. That road infront of you will be Maxwell Road. On your left, you should see a white building called Maxwell Chambers. Walk towards that direction and keep walking along the road. You will pass a red building called Red Dot Design Musuem. After you walk pass that building, if you look diagonally opposite, you will see this building called The URA Centre. Maxwell Food Centre is just beside this building. So cross the road and you will be there.

   This is Zhen Zhen Porridge. I serves porridge. Previously, they did a roaring business with their raw fish porridge. But due to a fresh water fish scare last year, they have stopped selling raw fish. And their business does not seem as busy as last time. But slowly customers are coming back and trying their other offering.

How to get there :-

Address

Maxwell Food Centre #01-54

Timing

5:30AM to 2:30PM
Closed on Tuesdays

How to Order :-

1) Go to the end of the queue

2) Before you reached the front of the queue, and place your order, you many want to decide which type of porridge you want to order    Fish Porridge /  Chicken Porridge  / Sliced fish&shredded chicken&century egg /  Century egg&chicken

3) Decide if you want extra egg       additional $0.30

4) Decide on size  /  price                $3  /  $4  /  $5

5) Wait for them to prepare the porridge

6) Make payment

7) Once it is done, you take your porridge to a seat and enjoy

    The porridge was Smooth but alittle watery. It is savory and slightly peppery with abit of crunchiness. The crunchiness comes from the salted vegetables, and green onions. The salted veg also added saltiness. 

    It was bland on the first bite but gets better with the more you eat.  And the ginger gives a nice gingery spiciness every other bite. They also put in some oil to flavour the porridge. But I am not sure what type of oil they put in.

  Once you mixed in the raw egg, it makes the porridge smoother and thicken it all up. It is actually quite a nice bowl of porridge. Quite filling for breakfast and can be an any time meal. Rating 3/6 Tasty

This is a desert shop. It sells desert. The desert it sells is peanut soup, it is a traditional Chinese desert soups. On that day, it also sold red bean soup and mung bean soup.

How to get there :-

Address
Maxwell Food Centre #01-57

Timing

7:30AM to 4:00PM
Closed on Mondays

How to Order :-

1) Go up to the the stall
2) Decide on which desert you want to order,   peanut soup, red bean soup or mung bean soup.
3) Decide if you want glutinous rice ball.
4) Decide price / size    :    $1.50  /   $2
5) The owner will prepare the dish
6) Make payment once you receive your dish
7) Then take it and find a seat and enjoy

The peanut soup is just peanut boiled in water. So first, you soak the peanuts a long time, like overnight, then later you boil it in water until it is soft. You then add soy bean milk. Sugar for flavour. Then you can add additional glutinous rice ball. You make dough balls using glutinous rice flour, then you stuff it with either peanuts or black sesame. Other places have other fillings flavours, but this stall has only peanut and black sesame.

It is nice and smooth. The peanuts were soft and it all goes well with the soy bean milk soup. They also put in afew pieces of fried dough that get soggy very fast when it gets in contact with the soup. Overall a good desert. Rating 4/6 Damn Good

Description of why this food is important to me

How to get there :-

Address
Maxwell Food Centre #01-10

Timing

11:00AM to 8:00PM
Closed on Mondays

How to Order :-

1) Go to the stall on the right first, the one beside a walkway to the carpark.
2) Place your order here

3) Decide how much chicken you want?  Whole or half  or for 1 person.
4) Decide if you want other chicken parts or spare parts
5) Decide if you wan vegetables with your meal (vegetables with oyster sauce or bean sprouts)

6) Refer to picture beside for the prices
7) Once you place your order, make payment and take the receipt
8) Head down to the next counter and give your receipt to the staff there.
9) Wait for them to prepare your dish.
10) Once it is done, take your dish and find a seat and enjoy

    This is one of my favourite hainanese chicken rice in Singapore. I have been eating here before they became world renowned due to an American TV chef introduced them to the world. So I was disappointed when the last time I came here and they served me soggy rice. I mean, one of their main selling point for their chicken rice is their rice. So I decided to give them another chance and review this rice again another time.

   The rice this time was good. Slightly al dente and with the fragrance of ginger. It was much better than the previous rice. The chicken was tender and flavourful, and this time, they has the piece that I like. It is the piece with the gelatinous clear gel between the skin n the flesh. That piece is just so good. Eaten on its own or with the chili. Very yummy. The bright red chili also adds to the flavour of the chicken. Hot and spicy and goes well with the chicken. 
  Overall, a good very good dish, if you are lucky enough to catch them at their best. But I remember, they may have been better previously before all the fame. But it could be me having over eager remembrance of the past. And one other thing, if you do order the side of vegetables, I think they use too much msg in them, especially the beans sprouts. Rating 4/6 Damn Good 

   How they make an oyster cake. First you have a ladle, and into this ladle, you put batter. After that, you put on the batter oyster, mince meat and prawn, with coriander. Next, you put more batter on the ladle to cover the ingredients, top it with some peanuts, then put the whole thing in hot oil. With the magic of frying, you get an Oyster Cake.

How to get there :-

Address
Maxwell Food Centre #01-05

Timing

9:00AM to 8:00PM. Closed on Sunday

How to Order :-

1) Go up to the stall and tell them how many you want
2) Price at $2 each
3) You will be given a package with the Oyster cake
4) Make payment
5) Find a seat and enjoy

    If the oyster cake is still warm, and then you have gotten it at the right time. If the insides are fully cooked and not runny with uncooked batter. If it is not too oily and soaking with oil. Then it is actually quite nice. It is savory and slightly oily (but what do you expect from something fried) and full of the oyster taste.

Overall not a bad snack, it can be abit oily and if everything is cooked well, then it is a nice snack. Rating 3/6 Tasty

    Another porridge review in the same article, you may ask..... well, if there can be 2 porridge stalls operating at the same food centre and both doing good business, then I say why not here. Hoe Kee Porridge is another porridge place in Maxwell Food Centre and they also serve the supper crowd on Friday and Saturday. 

How to get there :-

Address
Maxwell Food Centre #01-45

Timing

Mon to Thu: 6:30AM to 2:30PM
Fri to Sat: 6:30AM to 4:00AM
Closed on Sunday

How to Order :-

1) Go to the counter and place your order.
2) Decide on which item you want. Refer to the picture below for the price list

3) I have not tried the other items here, but I have tried their porridge.And their signature tofu. If you are hungry, you can also give it a try.

4) Make payment

5) Wait for them to make your dish. You can enjoy watching them prepare your dish.
6) After you received the dish, you find a table and enjoy

    Here is the porridge. As you can see in the picture, it is smoother than the previous one. I ordered the century egg porridge for $3.50. It is actually quite a big bowl and filled me up quite adequately. In the big bowl, there was porridge, with century egg and lean meat, deep fried shallots in oil.

   When you eat the porridge, you realise that it has already been seasoned. And it has been seasoned well. You just have to mix it up well and let it cool down alittle before you eat it. That is because, if you were paying attention while you were at the counter, they actually individually prepare the porridge as per order. That does not mean they cook it from scratch, but they have like a base porridge that has already been prepared previously and they scoop out as needed to make you individual porridge into pots which is heated until it boils, with your requested ingredients

Overall, the porridge is smooth and well seasoned, hot and filling, cheap and available if you want it for supper. Not a bad porridge. Rating 3.5/6 Better than Tasty

    This is a Wanton noodle stall at Maxwell Food Centre. I missed eating at this stall since their opening time is slighltly later than the other stalls that serve lunch at this Food Centre. Most stalls, if they serve the lunch crowd, will start operating their stall at maybe 11am or even 11.30am. I have came to this stall afew times and on different days around that time, and it was still not open. Then one day, after walking pass this stall earlier and no sign of life from the stall, I went to eat other food, then on the way out, I notice they were open. And I finally figure it out, they most likely only start operating their stall after noon (12pm) and keep selling until they sell out during dinner time.

How to get there :-

Address
Maxwell Food Centre #01-71

Timing

After 12pm and until they sell out during dinner time.

How to Order :-

1) Go join the end of the queue

2) Wait until you reach the from of the line

3) Decide if you want rice or noodles
4) Decide what type of meat you want or a mixture of which meats
5) Different combinations and prices can be referred to in the picture beside.

6) Place your order
7) Make payment
8) Wait for them to make your dish, then collect it
9) Find a seat and then enjoy

This place is called Fu Shun Shao La Mian Jia. They serve Hong Kong Style roast meats with either rice or noodles. I ordered the $3.50 Mixed meat noodles.

   The mixed meat noodles, consist of thing egg noodles in a soy sauce with blanched vegetables. The meats are char siew (Barbecue Pork) and Roast pork. The char siew (barbaque pork) is the Hong Kong or Malaysia style preparation. It is firstly not dyed red and it is barbaque until certain part of the other layer of the pork has caramelized and added a nice burnt and sweet flavour to the meat. The Roast pork is also well done and super crispy without being hard. The skin is crispy while the meat inside is still tender and juicy. 
   They give quite a big portion of noodles. And also a generous portion of meats. The noodles has a nice texture and goes very well with the meats. Only issue is that they do not give enough sauce for the noodles. And if you do not have enough sauce in the noodles, and eat just the noodles without any meat, then the noodles taste abit bland. Or maybe that is because the meat makes the noodles taste bland in comparison.  But either way, not enough sauce.

Overall, the meats by itself would have gotten a higher rating. But as a whole dish, together with the noodles, Rating 3.5 Better than Tasty

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