Welcome to Marine Parade Central FC. We are visiting here today, since there is news releases last year that they will be doing major renovations to this place, once their lease expires in 2017. So I thought, we should come, here, before that happens and try their food. And come early, so we can try it many times before the renovations. Here are the links for the renovation news. http://news.asiaone.com/news/soshiok/hawkers-fret-over-centre-renovations
How to get there :-
Address
84 Marine Parade Central
Nearest MRT station is Dakota MRT station. Once you pass the gantry gates, you turn left and head towards Exit A. Take the escalator up and once at the top, turn right to the main road. At the main road, turn right again and walk along the MRT station, until you see a traffic light. Cross the street at the traffic light and infront of you, you will see Block 99. Directly infront of Block 99 there is a bus stop. From this bus stop, take either the Bus no. 16 or 31. The Bus ride will take around 10-15mins.
The landmark you should look out for is the Church of Singapore building. It is a brown and white building along Joo Chiat Road. After you see this building, you can press the bell and stop at the bus stop at Marine Parade Road. Once you alight, head back towards the junction and cross the road. Make sure you cross the roads twice. Then walk ahead until you see the statue of 2 dolphins. At the statues, turn left and walk straight until you see the Marine Parade Central FC. Or if you have a direct bus here, please take that. Alternatively, you can also view my trip here on YouTube at the link below or click here, https://youtu.be/uXC90SY9DtM
The first place I head to was here. Mr Wong Seremban Beef Noodles. I remember eating beef noodles in Seremban (a town in Malaysia) their beef noodles and it taste similar. I am not sure if it was from this particular brand of beef noodles but this style is beef noodles, you mainly find it is Seremban. So I always get abit nostalgic when I eat here.
Address :
Marine Parade Central FC #01- 184
Timing :
Daily 11am to 8.30pm
(but i have been there on Monday and it was not open)
How to Order:
1) Join the queue. And decide what you want to order. The menu is on the right hand side of the stall.
2) Decide if you want noodles or just soup?
3) Decide if you want noodles, then
- beef noodles (with fresh sliced brisket)
- beef noodles mixed (meat & stomach/tendon)
- jerky beef noodles (jerky & meat/tendon & stomach)
- beef tendon noodles
- beef ball noodles
4) If you decided to take soup, then
- fresh beef soup
- mixed beef soup (meat & stomach/tendon)
- beef tendon soup
- beef tendon soup- braised beef meal (jerky meat, braised meat & stomach with rice)
5) Decide the noodle style you want soup / dry
6) Decide on size / price
- beef noodles, fresh beef soup & beef ball noodles $3.50 / $4.50
- beef noodle mixed, mixed beef soup & jerky beef noodles $4.50 / $5.50
- beef tendon noodles & beef tendon soup $5.50
- braised beef meal $5.00
- beef ball soup $1.00 / 3 pieces
7) Make payment
8) Get your utensils and chili sauce. Don't forget to put the preserved little shrimp paste into your chili.
9) Wait for you noodles and once you get it, take it and enjoy.
Seremban Beef Noodles is slightly different than the Singapore version. Both comes in a starchy yummy brown sauce. This sauce is usually infused with all the bones and meat flavour from the meat. The difference is that this sauce is slightly sweeter than the Singapore version while the Singapore version is more savory. Another major difference is the condiments. The Seremban version will have perserved veg and the crunch texture of peanuts. I ordered the $3.50 dry mixed beef noodles. I like the mix of different parts of the cow. If they are cooked well, long and with with much herbs and soy sauce, it is very good.
After I mixed the noodles well and started eating it, I felt that there is something lacking. I think it maybe the flavour from the sauce. Either not enough sauce or the sauce does not have enough meaty flavour or maybe it should be thicker. I am not very sure exactly what is missing. But i like the sourness you get from the preserved veg and the off and on crunch you get from the peanuts. It balances out the flavour of the noodles.
Overall, there is alot of meat for my $3.50 bowl. It would have been a damn good bowl of noodles, except I felt something missing in the braising sauce. The meat was cooked well and the spare parts was tender. Rating 3/6 Tasty
Dim sum at a hawker centre? And you would usually be correct. You usually get factory made dim sum at most hawker or food courts. But you are mistaken with this one. The dim sum is hand made and freshly made daily. Once you bite into it, you can tell. Welcome to Neptune Dim Sum. Such places are getting rarer to find in busy Singapore.
Address :
Marine Parade Central FC #01- 176
Timing :
Mon - Sun 8am to 9.30pmHow to order :
1) Find a seat nearby the stall
2) The menu is all the pictures overhead. Decide what you want by pointing or saying the name of the dish.
3) Go back to your seat and wait for them to deliver the items.
4) Once all the items arrive, make payment for the items. Price from $2.80 onwards to $4.00
5) Eat and enjoy.
Prawn Cheong Fun (if you are in Hong Kong) or more commonly know here in Singapore & Malaysia, prawn chee cheong fun. It is basically rice roll with ingredients. This one is prawn. You can also order it with char siew (barbaque pork) and other items. This item was recommended by the stall owner and so I decided to try. This item is freshly made when you order it. It comes with a salty soy sauce. Other places, will serve it with a sweeten soy sauce. So this sauce threw me off abit. I did not know what to expect. The rice roll was also a little thick as compared to what I am used to. But surprisingly, this salty soy sauce goes well with the steam rice roll. It goes extremely well and the prawns were fresh. Really fresh. Rating 4/6 Damn Good
Siew Mai or steamed pork dumplings. This was another good choice. The siew mai was filled with meat. You can actually feel the meat as you bite into the dumpling. It taste fantastic and I really enjoyed it. You get a real satisfying bite feel when you eat this. Maybe the rating is alittle high for this item but recently, I have been eating many examples of this item at other places that is terrible. There is one place, where they put on top of the siew mai, florescent pink fish roe. Florescent pink. I am not kidding. so you do not need to ask me how that tasted. I get shivers just remembering it. So when i get a good one, I am extremely happy. Rating 5/6 Excellent
Har Gow or steamed prawn dumpling. Like the prawn rice roll, the prawn here is super fresh. It taste good and has the bite texture of fresh seafood. The dumpling skin was not thick and when eaten with the sweet chili sauce, it is yummy. This item has very few ingredients and so as long as you ingredients are fresh and the dumpling skin is made with skill and not overcooked, it is a good barometer of the skill of the cook. Rating 4/6 Damn Good
Char Siew Pau or Steamed Barbaque Pork Bun. Their version of the char siew pau was slightly saltier than the ones you usually get other place and there is slightly more bun than filling ratio. And I did not understand it until after. The filling was more condensed in flavour but abit salty. I think, at least for me, you need to take a huge bite out of the bun, then chew it for a longer time. You let your saliva mixed with the carbohydrate of the bun to add sweetness to the bite and you chew until you get the necessary sweetness in your bite. Rating 3/6 Tasty
My favourite desert and it has always been that way since I was young. A good egg tart can bring you back to the old days when you were young. But in Singapore, we do not have a tradition of celebrating this dish. Unlike Hong Kong where there are whole shops that made their fortune by just perfecting this dish.
Their egg tart is good. The egg tart's crust is flaky and crumbly. The egg custard filling is sweet and melts in your mouth. It is a very good egg tart. Rating 4/6 Damn Good
Overall this place is very good. Better than some of the "restaurants" you go to to eat Dim Sum. So go give it a try Rating 4/6 Damn Good
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