So I wanted to have a look to see why some unnamed person would want to pay $17.5m for this place. And if the deal goes thru, many of the tenants was thinking of selling their stalls to them and retiring. Well, that is the story anyway.
So lets see what they have here.
How to get there :-
Address
144 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Beauty World Centre
Nearest landmark
The nearest landmark is Beauty World MRT Station.
Take the MRT to Beauty World MRT Station and then head towards Exit A.Take the escalator out of the MRT station. and continue to walk
The first food I tried is the Fried Kway Teow. The reason I choose it was that there was always some people around it, waiting for their food. So I thought, they must be doing something right and decided to order a plate. Feng Ji Shu Shi Char Kway Teow
How to get there :-
Address
Beauty World Food Centre #04-45
Timing
Unsure of the timing
Suggestion :-
Be prepared to wait if you come during peak hours, like lunch time. The wait can be 20-30mins
How to Order :-
1) Go to the stall and place your order with the owner.
2) Decide if you want chilli or not
3) Make payment
4) Then find a seat at the nearby table or stand near the stall
5) Once the dish is ready, the owner will call you over.
6) Take the dish to your seat and enjoy
Here is the plate of Fried Kway Teow. I ordered the $3 portion and had to wait 20+ mins for it.I would call it a semi wet version of the Singapore Fried Kway Teow Noodle dish. There is a mixture of Kway Teow (Flat rice noodles) and Mee (Egg Noodles), with beans sproats, chinese sausages, all fried together with egg and a sweet dark soy sauce.
This plate of fried kway teow was cooked well. I know now why there is such a long wait time. The sauce is both sweet and salty at the same time and this creates the semi wet version of the fried kway teow. The noodles have a good chinese sausage smell, as in when you eat the noodles, you smell the fragrance of the chinese sausage. There is also quite alot of egg pieces arund the plate. The sauce had time to penetrate the kway teow noodles (flat rice noodles) but not the egg noodles. The egg noodles did not have time to absord much of the sweet dark soy sauce and on certain bites, were abit dry.
But overall, it was quite enjoyable. Although the waiting time is abit ridiculous. But I think that is beause the owner fried each plate to order. Rating 3.5/6 Better than Tasty
We will start to see more of this type of stalls opening up is our neighborhoods. Some one has an idea and spend a hawker stall to sell it. The food maybe the usual hawker fare but I think there will be more fusion food like this one. Basically this shop is called Hambaobao. Which is chinese way of saying Hamburger. So instead of selling it in a restaurant, they decided to open it here in the hawker centre.
How to get there :-
Address
Beauty World Food Centre #04-49
Timing
Tue-Sun: 12pm – 8pm. Closed on Mon and even
week of Tues
How to Order :-
1) Go to the stall and look at the menu and decide what you want to order.
The Classic Beef $5
Crispy Pork Belly $5
Spiced Pulled Pork $5
Ayam Buah Keluak $5
That Dory Fish $5
Fairy Fried $1 $1.50
Salad $2.50 $3
2) Place your order with the owner, make payment and they will tell you when to come back. They will also give you a number tag.
3) After the allotted time you go back to the counter.
4) If it is still not ready, you can wait around the stall for the dish
5) Once it is ready, they will call your number and you get your dish.
6) Then take it to your table to enjoy.
This is The Classic Beef burger. The portion is abit small. It is around a MOS burger size. But the patty is thicker than normal burgers. Unfortunately, I like my burger medium rare and this was well done. So the burger was just ordinary for me. Nothing to shout about and it was also abit too salty. Rating 2/6 Average. But the fairy fries was nice. It is actually sweet potatoe fries. It was fried until it was crispy.
The Crispy Pork Belly was another matter. This was interesting. You have pork belly which you deep fried until it was crispy, then you put it in a burger with some cucumber and maybe a barbecue sauce. I am not really sure what is the brown sauce. But the crunch of the pork belly is just so satisfying and yummy too. Once you bite into the burger, you get a texture explosion. Rating 3/6 Tasty
One thing I notice about the stalls here is that maybe the lunch crowd comes in later here in the neighborhood area, but they do take their time to open their stall. Some of the stalls open for breakfast and so by lunch time, they are already ready, but those that start operating from lunch, well, it seems to me that some stalls (like this one), even by 12 noon, they are still starting to get ready.
I was attracted by the signnage of the stall. Top 1 Home Made Noodle. Recently, like for the few years, home made noodle stores, some of them, Usually, it is served with soup, but recently, some has started to offer a dry version of the noodles. So it is interesting to go around and see how they interpret this new dish.
How to get there :-
Address
Beauty World Food Centre #04-44
Timing
9am – 8.30pm (Thu-Mon). Closed on Wednesdays. But I suspect they may have changed this timing, since I was there on a Thursday and they did not start serving until 11.30am.
How to Order :-
1) Go to the stall and look at the menu and decide what you want.
2) Choose the type of noodle - Home-made Noodle, Hand-made fine noodle, Hand-made flat noodle, Hand made mee suah, or Hong Kong mee
3) Choose choice of cooking - Soup, Tom Yum, Hot and Spicy or Dry
4) Choice of ingredients - Fresh Prawn, meat ball, sliced fish, fish maw or abalone
5) Price will depend on the size and ingredients you choose.
6) After you place your order, make payment and if there is not a long queue, then you can wait nearby, if not you come back later ( I am not sure of the long queue situation, since I was the 3rd customer on that day)
7) Once your dish is ready, the owner will call you over and you collect your dish.
Note : the owner will have already put the chopstick and spoon on your tray. So you do not need to get it yourself. If you do or try to stumble at the counter, the owner does get abit cranky. Especially if you are blocking other customers.
This is the dry ban mien. It comes with flat home made noodles, veg, deep fried ilan bilis (anchovies), mushrooms, mince meat balls, meat balls and at the base, a spicy dark soy sauce. It reminds me abit of like Malaysian wanton noodles.
After you mix it all up, the first bite, you can taste the spiciness. It is not a overpowering spiciness but a nice and smoothing kind of spiciness. Quite enjoyable. But it is a lips tingling kind of spiciness. The spiciness is hidden by the dark soy sauce, so for those how can not take the heat, maybe get a non spicy alternative. For me, the noodles were overcooked. It was soft without any bite.The meat ball had a nice chewing texture to it but the mince meat ball just disappear into your mouth once you bite into it. The soup was abit starchy and it seem like they used the water from cooking the noodles for the soup. There was also slightly too much msg in the soup.
Overall, I enjoyed the spiciness of the dish. If I come back, I may want to try the mala version of this dish. Rating 3/6 Tasty
Due to the recent influx of immigrants from China to Singapore, you get lots of these shops popping up every where. So now you can get China dumplings and noodles in Singapore easily at your neighbourhood hawker centre. So now you have this stall, You
Peng Fresh Mian Jiao Zi Guan. They are selling food from their home here in Singapore. Where our style of the same dishes may have diverge from their in the Mainland of China.
How to get there :-
Address
Beauty World Food Centre #04-23
Timing
Tue-Sun: 12pm – 8pm. Closed on Mon and even
week of Tues
How to Order :-
1) Go to the counter and look at their signage to look at all the food they offer.
2) Make your decision and then place your order
3) Make payment
4) Your will be given a small piece of cardboard with a number on top. You will also be given an estimated time to come back.
5) Come back at that time and if your food is ready, then give the cardboard to the owner and collect your dish
6) Go and find a seat and enjoy
I ordered 2 items. Xiao Long Bao (Soup Dumplings) $7 and fried dumplings $6. I like the presentation for the fried dumplings, one side on the fried side and the other side non fried side. So basically i had 10 of each dumpling. Now that is a deal.
Eventhough I just collected the dumplings immediately and just took a short time to take the necessary photos and videos, it has already gotten warm. Not hot like I liked it. The skin is abit thicker that I lilke it. But the soup is sweet and the meat filling is also sweet and savory. And it also goes well with the vinegary ginger sauce. It is actually quite enjoyable and above my expectation of a hawker centre soup dumpling. Rating 3/6 Tasty
The fried dumpling on the other hand was a disaster. The skin was definately too thick and it was also undercooked. Furthermore, the taste of the undercooked skin and viniger ginger sauce overpower the taste of the meat filling and you don't actually taste the filling at all. If you did not add the sauce, you can get a hint of the taste of the filling. I think they used a similar filling as the soup dumpling and it did not handle the heat from frying well. It is also abit oily but that is expected from a fried dish. Rating 1/6 Don't Try
Overall, my visit here was interesting. There is not the hustle of getting things ready early because maybe their customers do not come in so early for lunch. So that irritated me abit. And when I came there at 10am, there was only 1 coffee stall open and the other 2 was not open yet. Also during a hot day, the heat of the ceiling can be felt radiating down on you. Since it is an open air food centre, there are only fan available to cool you down, so it is important to choose a strategic seat so that you get a good flow of air. I liked the spiciness of the dish at Top 1 Home Made Noodles, eventhough the noodled were over cooked. But I think the mala will be something to sweat about.
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