Welcome to Old Airport Road Food Centre. One of the top 3 food centres in Singapore. Or at least, top 3 in most Singaporean list of top Food Centres if they kept track of favourite places. Anyway, Old Airport Road. As in the name, had something to do with an old airport. And it does. The old airport they are referring to Kallang Airport. Yes, there was an airport in Kallang. The key word here is "was" and "old". Kallang Airport or the former Kallang Airport is/was Singapore's first Civil Airport, built by the Colonial British Government in 1937. It was built on reclaimed land of what was once the swampy Kallang Basin. You can still see the buildings of the former Kallang Airport if you are driving along Nicoll Highway, towards Guilemard Rd and Mountbatten Road. Directly opposite from the Singapore Sports Hub. Anyway, the boundary of the airport, once extended into what is now Old Airport Road. There is not much evidence that this road used to be am airport runway, except in Wikipedia and we all know how accurate that is.
How to get there :-
Address
51 Old Airport Road, Singapore 390051
Nearest landmark
This Food Centre is between Mountbatten MRT Station and Dakota MRT Station. Dakota MRT station is slightly nearer to he food centre but I will be giving you directions from Mountbatten MRT station.
Take the MRT to Mountbatten Station. Once you get out off the gantry gate, head to Exit A. Keep walking until you reach the escalator and take the escalator up. Once you reached the top, take a right and then take another right.Walk along the side of the MRT entrance until your reach the main road. The main road will be Old Airport Road. Turn left at the main road and keep walking along the main road. Keep walking until you reach the Food Centre. If you want to have a visual guide for the directions, then click on this link, https://youtu.be/xw0M6ERihok
Suggestion :- Please take note of the operating hours of the food you want to try. Some of them only operate during weekday, breakfast and lunch timing, while others operate a full day. And most of them will not be open for at least once a week. Some may not be open during the weekends and/or public holidays.
Toa Payoh Rojak, that is not in Toa Payoh. There is rumored to be another good rojak place in Toa Payoh, In a future blog, I may look out for it, but today, we will be exploring one of the better Rojak in Singapore, or at least the fruit kind. In Singapore, there is 2 major types of Rojak. The Chinese and Indian version. Today we will be reviewing the Chinese Version.
Address
Old Airport Road FC #01-108
Timing
Mon to Sat 12pm - 8pm (or until Sold Out)
Closed on Sunday
How to Order :-
1) Go to the counter and at the counter, there will be a small plastic box with small cardboard cards. On the cards, there will be numbers. Take one of the numbers.
2) Wait for the number on the card to flash on the digital display on the top of the stall.
3) The number will be called in sequence, if the sequence is a long time away, then you can order other stuff and come back. If not, stay within visual range of the digital display.
4) Once your number is called up, go up to the counter and place your order.
5) Choose Price / Size - $3 / $5 / $7
6) Additional charge if you want more ingredients like cuttlefish.
7) Step aside and watch them prepare your order.
8) Once your order is ready, step up to the counter and make payment and take your rojak and enjoy.
Chinese Fruit rojak is more like a salad in that, the only real fruit in it is pineapple. The ingredients in a rojak is cucumber, turnip, pineapple, bean sprouts, boiled kang kong (morning glory), you tiao (fried dough sticks), tau pok (bean curd) and covered with a thick prawn paste sauce which they imported from Penang and generous sprinkling of crushed peanuts. What makes this dish is how they handle the thick prawn paste sauce. Here, they are generous with this sauce, and they also put lime and chili sauce for spicyness. They also add in some shavings of ginger flower and even bits of jelly fish. This version is abit sweet but so good. They actually individually make each dish once it is ordered. They actually cut the fruit and vegetables after you ordered it and so the fruits and vegetables are still fresh and crispy. In the above rojak, I think they ran out of tau pok (fried bean curd) and so it was left out. But the cut fried dough stick were super crispy.
So you get different crunching textures. From the fresh vegetable and deep fried dough together with the slight crunch of peanuts. The thick prawn paste, laced with sugar and chili sauce and lime, oh,.. it is like eating a spicy caramel sauce. It is well mixed into the rojak and it covers everything with the yummy goodness.
I can not imagine, a better dish being made. With the attention to detail of cutting each piece out after you place your order, the good quality gooey and sticky Penang prawn paste sauce and the experience to combine all the ingredients together to make one hell of a good dish. Rating 5/6 Execellent
Fried oyster omelette is one of those side dishes that you order to eat together with your main dish. Most of the time you will share this side dish with your friends. Fried oyster omelette is made with oyster, together with egg and tapioca flour. The mixture of egg and tapioca flour, gives some part of the omelette a gooey texture but if it deep fried, it will turn crispy.
Address
Old Airport Road FC #01-54
Timing -
Not sure of the timing but I know it is open for both lunch and dinner timing. On their website it states Mon, Wed - Sun 5.30pm - 9.30pm
Not sure of the timing but I know it is open for both lunch and dinner timing. On their website it states Mon, Wed - Sun 5.30pm - 9.30pm
How to order : -
1) Go to the stall and place your order
2) Decide on ingredient you want in your omelette, Oyster, Prawn, Sotong (squid)
or 3 in 1.
3) Decide on size / price
Oyster or Prawn or Sotong (squid) $ 4 / $ 6 / $8
3 in 1 $ 8 / $10
4) Wait while the prepare you dish
5) Once it is done, make payment and enjoy your dish.
1) Go to the stall and place your order
2) Decide on ingredient you want in your omelette, Oyster, Prawn, Sotong (squid)
or 3 in 1.
3) Decide on size / price
Oyster or Prawn or Sotong (squid) $ 4 / $ 6 / $8
3 in 1 $ 8 / $10
4) Wait while the prepare you dish
5) Once it is done, make payment and enjoy your dish.
The above picture is the $4 Oyster Omelette. The first thing you notice is the size of the oyster here is quite large. And the oiliness of the omelette goes well with the sourness of the chili sauce. The edge of the omelette is crispy while the middle of the omelette is abit soggy. The quality of the omelette is not consistent. Since the previous time I ate the omelette, it was much better.
I also think that there maybe alittle too much ration of egg to tapioca flour and other than the huge oysters, it is just an ordinary dish. Rating 2/6 Average
I also think that there maybe alittle too much ration of egg to tapioca flour and other than the huge oysters, it is just an ordinary dish. Rating 2/6 Average
This stall is home to one of Singapore's Hawker Legend. It is run by a band of brothers and if you pass their stall, you will always see that they are busy. Alot of people have been saying that the standard has dropped and I have tried it previously and it was not that good. But lets see how it goes today.
Address
Old Airport Road FC #01-32
Address
Timing
7am to 8pm / until Sold Out
No fixed rest day
No fixed rest day
Suggestion :- Find a seat near the stall and go during off peak timing
How to Order :-
1) Go up to the stall and place your order
2) Make payment of $5 and give your table no.
3) Go back to your table and wait. Select a seat near the stall.
4) If you go during off peak period, you should receive it within 10mins. It may take even more than 45mins during peak periods.
Every time I walk pass the stall, you will see that everyone in the stall is busy. They have alot of take away business and you can see them busy packing packets, especially if you visit them before lunch timing. 1) Go up to the stall and place your order
2) Make payment of $5 and give your table no.
3) Go back to your table and wait. Select a seat near the stall.
4) If you go during off peak period, you should receive it within 10mins. It may take even more than 45mins during peak periods.
When the dish arrived at the table, the first thing I notice is that they do not have a sambal chili sauce. They only have cut chili in soy sauce.
The second thing I notice is that this version of Singapore Hokkien Mee is the dry version. And it is really dry. If you lift up the noodles from the plate, you do not see any remaining stock on the plate.
The third thing I notice is that the portion is small. You will not get full eating this plate of noodles. But will you get satisfied? That is the question.
The dish contains, 2 types of noodles, yellow noodle and thin rice vermicelli noodles, with egg, prawns, sotong and bean sprouts. After you sprinkle abit of lime juice on top, you are ready to eat. On the first bite, you notice that eventhough this is the dry version of Hokkien Mee, This noodle is absolutely not lacking in any moisture. Somehow, by what ever witchery or magic spell or experience and skill, they are able to control the noodle or stock and make all the stock permeate the noodles. So that all the moisture are gathered in the noodles and not the plate and locked in there.
Then you taste the stock and the stock really kicks. I mean it really kicks ass. And it is so flavourful and delicious and well seasoned. I would not mind just drinking the stock itself. It adds so much to the noodles. It is full of seafood flavour that joins together with the taste of the noodles to make such a joyful mouthful, over and over again until it is all gone.
After that one taste of the noodles, it made me forget about the portion size and any other misgivings or last time I ate it it was not as good, left my mind. It has successfully brain washed me to their cause. If it wanted me to take over the world, then,.... I do not know if I would have said no. Rating 5/6 Execellent
Another Fried Kway Teow stall. Yes. Did I forget to mention that my favourite food since I was a young child is fried kway teow? So I am afraid that there will be many reviews about this particular topic/food. Let me apologise about this first. But unfortunately, I will still be reviewing it.
Address
Old Airport Road FC #01-138
Then you taste the stock and the stock really kicks. I mean it really kicks ass. And it is so flavourful and delicious and well seasoned. I would not mind just drinking the stock itself. It adds so much to the noodles. It is full of seafood flavour that joins together with the taste of the noodles to make such a joyful mouthful, over and over again until it is all gone.
After that one taste of the noodles, it made me forget about the portion size and any other misgivings or last time I ate it it was not as good, left my mind. It has successfully brain washed me to their cause. If it wanted me to take over the world, then,.... I do not know if I would have said no. Rating 5/6 Execellent
Address
Old Airport Road FC #01-138
Timing
Daily 8am - 2pm
But I have notice that there is no fixed rest day and the stall could be close on any day of the week.
But I have notice that there is no fixed rest day and the stall could be close on any day of the week.
Suggestion :- The stall owner is a one man operator and so be prepared to wait. He does everything himself and even a queue of 3 people can take up to 15mins before you get your dish
How to Order :-
1) Go and join the queue.
2) Wait until you are at the front of the queue and the stall owner will take your order when he can.
3) Decide if you want the normal portion for $3 or with extra ingredients for $4
4) Wait for your dish to be prepared
5) Once you receive it, make payment and find a seat to enjoy your dish.
I ordered the $3 portion. And I don't know if it was my luck or the stall owner was not in a good mood, but I did not get a consistent quality plate. Yes.... I said plate. Some portions of the Fried Kway Teow was overly spicy and some of it was bland. It can not be that the stall owner was not experience enough and this is not his first day at the rodeo. So I guess that I can only review the good portions.
Firstly the portion was small. You could push all the noodles and ingredients on the plate and it can easily fit into a quarter of the plate. And this plate is not one of those restaurant huge plates or yi sheng plates. This is just a normal sized plate.
The good portion of the noodle dish, you can taste and smell the good wok smell (Wok Hei) and it is well fried and seasoned. The chili sause he used is spicy with a tomato ketchup taste and smell.
What is different about this version of Fried Kway Teow is that it is a combination of 2 styles. Firstly, the cooking style is very similar to the one you get in Penang. It is fried well and dry and savoury. Taste-wise, it follows more to the Singaporean palate, which is sweeter than the Penang counterpart. Overall, a good trans island mixture of styles makes for a unique and delicious dish.
Unfortunately, because of the inconsistency of the dish here, it will affect my rating. But if you want to give it a try, I recommend you to go ahead. Just be prepared to wait a while in the queue.
Rating 3/6 Tasty
Overall a good Food Adventure to Old Airport Road FC. There is much much more to eat there. I will be going back again. Until next time, Bye ByeFirstly the portion was small. You could push all the noodles and ingredients on the plate and it can easily fit into a quarter of the plate. And this plate is not one of those restaurant huge plates or yi sheng plates. This is just a normal sized plate.
The good portion of the noodle dish, you can taste and smell the good wok smell (Wok Hei) and it is well fried and seasoned. The chili sause he used is spicy with a tomato ketchup taste and smell.
What is different about this version of Fried Kway Teow is that it is a combination of 2 styles. Firstly, the cooking style is very similar to the one you get in Penang. It is fried well and dry and savoury. Taste-wise, it follows more to the Singaporean palate, which is sweeter than the Penang counterpart. Overall, a good trans island mixture of styles makes for a unique and delicious dish.
Unfortunately, because of the inconsistency of the dish here, it will affect my rating. But if you want to give it a try, I recommend you to go ahead. Just be prepared to wait a while in the queue.
Rating 3/6 Tasty
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