Amoy Street Food Centre. An oasis in the middle of Singapore busy CBD area, where you can find good food for lunch.

Yes in the middle of the busy CBD (Central Business District) area in Singapore, where lots of office workers are drowning in work, there is an oasis for them. A place where they can goto during lunch to find good food and recharge before going back to the office. That place is Amoy Street Food Centre.

Address : - Amoy Street Food Center 
7 Maxwell Road, S 069111 
 
How to get there : -

Nearest MRT station is Tanjong Pagar MRT Station.

When you get out of the gantry, you turn right and keep walking until you reach the escalator. You are looking for Exit G. Take the escalator up and at the top, turn left. You will see a 7-11 infront of you. Beside the 7-11, you will see a corridor. That corridor will take you to Exit G. So walk along the underground corridor until you reach the end of the corridor and you will see an escalator going up. Take that escalator to the top and you will be able to see Telok Ayer Street. Turn left to Telok Ayer Street  and you will see a covered walkway. Walk along the walkway and you will reach Amoy Street Food Centre.

The first food I will review today is actually in the picture above. It is Fried Kway Teow.

   You have in almost every food centre a stall that sells fried kway teow. Some places have more than 1 stall that sells this food. But not all of them do it well. Me being a person who has been eating it since I walk in primary school and it has been my favourite since then, I know abit about it.

I ordered the $3 portion of noodles. It was served quickly since I went during the off peak period. It cam e quite fast. It is cooked with flat rice noodles and egg noodles, together with bean sprouts, in a slightly sweet but mostly savory sauce and with egg, fish cake and cockles.

Address : -
Amoy Street Food Centre #01-01

Timing
8am to 8pm(Closed Sun)

How to Order :-
1) Go to the stall and place your order
2) Decide on price / size  -   $3  / $4
3) Decide if you want chili or not
4) Then make payment
5) The stand aside and wait for them to cook your dish
6) Once it is ready, take you dish and find a seat and enjoy

This noodle is slightly moist and not the wet kind you get from some places. It taste slightly sweet but mostly savory. The noodles has a moist and slightly wet texture but it is well fried. One thing that was good about it was that they were able to keep the beans sprout crunchy and juicy while frying the noodles. 

It was an extremely enjoyable plate of noodles. But one thing about this shop is that their quality is not consistent. It not only depends on who is cooking your noodles but also day to day, the quality varies. But if you are lucky to get it when they are doing it well, then you will find it very enjoyable. Especially the beans sprout. So crunchy and juicy in the noodles. Rating 4/6 Damn Good

Nasi Briyani is a middle eastern dish that was brought over by Arab traders together with their religion to this region. It is basically basmati rice, cooked with spices and meat. They are cooked together so that the rice get infused with the spices and meat juices. But the preparation  methods may vary from kitchen to kitchen. The rice is then served on a plate, with either chicken or mutton curry, or fried chicken.

Address : -
Amoy Street Food Centre #01-70

Timing
Not exactly sure what is their operating hours but they only turn on their signage light at around 11am and open until they sold out.(Closed weekends)

How to Order :-
1) Go to the counter and place your order. Unless there is a queue, then go to the back of the line.
2) Decide if you want chicken / mutton / Fried chicken
3) Then wait for them to prepare your dish
4) After that, make payment and then take your dish to a table and enjoy

Nasi Briyani is a malay dish. This particular stall is relatively unknown at Amoy Street Food Centre. At the stall I just ordered Chicken Briyani and this is what I got.

The rice here is done well. Firstly, they use Basmati rice. And it is nice and fluffy and you can smell the lemon grass from it. And it goes well with the curry. The curry was also good. Abit sweet but full of flavour. Actually, the curry taste abit like a sweet sambal but watery in texture, but full on taste. You only get alittle spiciness as an after taste from the curry. The chicken is tender and goes so well with the curry. Only issue I had was with the achar. Achar is the pickled veg on the side. The achar was not seasoned enough but at least it was crunchy. Tasteless crunchy vegs.

Surprising find at Amoy Street Food Centre, recommended by a good friend. But a good Nasi Briyani. Rating 3.5 Better than Tasty

Yuen Chun Famous Lor Mee is a popular stall here. They are well known for their lor mee. I remember that previously, the queue for their food was just as long as the nasi lemak queue. But today, the nasi lemak stall seem to be doing some brisk business. And by 11am +, they were already sold out

Address : -

Amoy Street Food Centre #02-79/80

Timing
8.30am till finish in the afternoon
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

How to Order :-
1) Go to the end of the queue
2) Once at the front of the line, place your order
3) Decide size / price  =  $3  /  $4  /  $5  /  $6
4) Decide if you want extra ingredients = $1
5) Make payment
6) Then wait for your dish to be prepared and once it is done, you take it and find a seat and enjoy

The Lor mee is good. I mean really good. The sauce is very flavourful. When you taste it, you can really taste it. And this version of lor mee has pieces of fish in them. Which is the original way it was served. The noodles is nice and firm. And it gives a nice bite, especially with the pieces of fish in the dish. The sauce is not as starchy as some other lor mee but it is sour enough and gives a nice vinegary taste from the black vinegar that was added in the beginning.

The only minor issue I have is that there is no contrasting textures in the Lor Mee. Other versions may put in come crispy bits but not here. Rating 4/6 Damn Good

I like it when people try to make new versions of food we all enjoy. Like for example, this stall called A Noodle Story. They are selling wanton noodles but using ramen techniques and ingredients, to make a fusion of noodle dish.

Address : -
Amoy Street Food Centre #01-39

Timing

10:00AM to 7:30PM
Closed on Sat/Sun/PH

How to Order :-
1) Go to the end of the queue
2) Once you reach the front of the line, wait until it is your turn to place your order
3) Decide on price / Size        $5.50  /  $6.50  /  $7.50
4) If you order extra ingredients          $3.50
5) Make payment
6) Wait for them to finish preparing your dish
7) You will be asked if you want sambal or not
8) Once it is done, you take it and find a seat and enjoy

When you see them preparing the dish, you can see their dedication and concentration to put all the ingredients on the dish correctly. And so, if you look at other blogs, you will notice that it looks surprisingly similar. 

First of all, I do not know what type of powder they put on the noodles but it does make it taste nice. The noodle sauce is sweet and the powder gives it an extra savory taste to it. You are also given a noodle wrapped prawn which was nice and warm from being freshly cooked. It was crunchy and had a nice freshly cooked noodle taste and smell. The prawns is fresh too.
The Egg was good. The yoke was runny and the egg white was extremely soft. Almost melt in your mouth soft.
The pork and prawn dumplings was also good. The dumpling skin is smooth and thin and the filling was good. It has a nice meaty texture to it.
The Ramen style char siew was also good. It was soft and flavourful.

But unfortunately the noodles was ok taste-wise but it is abit soft when you eat it. Slightly soggy and soft. Another thing is that the sambal they place on the noodle actually overpower the taste of the noodles. If you add it all to the noodles, you will only be tasteing the sambal. Maybe next time I will order it without the sambal.

Overall it was an exciting new addition to the local food scene here at Amoy St FC. A good try but because of the noodles, it was not a great try. Rating 3/6 Tasty



So here we are at the end of another food adventure. Today we went somewhere new and got to try some new food. Where will we end up next.....




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