Ru Ji Kitchen and Blanco Court Kway Chap at Old Airport Road Food Centre

We are back at Old Airport Road Food Centre, to,... of cource try more food. Like I said previously, there is lots of good food here and I am going to try to cover as much as I can here. Hopefully you will join me for my food adventures

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. Last time I gave directions from Mountbatten MRT station. But Dakota MRT Station is slightly closer, so I will give you directions from Dakota MRT Station.
After you get out of the gantry at Dakota MRT station, you turn left and head towards Exit A. Take the escalator up until the top, the turn right towards the main road. Then at the main road, turn right again and keep walking until you see the traffic light. Cross the street at the traffic light and continue walking. You will walk pass a bus stop and an overhead bridge. Keep walking until you reach the next traffic light. At the traffic light, you will be able to see the Old Airport Road Food Centre. Cross the road at the traffic light and you will reach the food centre.

The

The first dish we are eating today, which is good for breakfast, and is a common breakfast food, is Chee Cheong Fun. This is a rice roll stuffed with ingredients.

Address

Old Airport Road FC #01-155

Timing

8am - 10pm

How to Order :-

1) Go to the counter and decide what you want to order, the menu is on the signage.

2) Decide if you want porridge, noodles, rice rolls or dumplings

3) Decide which ingredient you want with your rice roll

    Chicken, Mushroom, BBQ pork, Prawn, Turnip, Egg, Pig Liver                        $2 each

    Century Egg, Otah, Scallop                                                                                  $3 each

4) Place order and watch them make it freshly for you.

5) Once it is done, make payment and find a seat to enjoy your dish

This is the dish that was freshly made. I ordered rice roll with BBQ pork and Prawn. Basically, they put a mixture of water and rice flour on a piece of cloth, then put the ingredients on top. Then close the steamer and wait a while. They then open the steamer and scoop out the rice sheet with the ingredients on top. They then proceed to fold the rice sheet over the ingredients, to make a roll. Then then plate it and add the sweet soy sauce.

The sauce was quite pleasant. It is a sweet soy sauce that goes well with the chee cheong fun. The rice roll was soft and smooth. Almost no effort was needed to chew it. The BBQ pork was in thin strips in the rice roll and adds a slightly meaty and sweet taste to the rice roll. The Prawns in the prawn rice roll was fresh. They added the chili sauce. It is like a chili oil with some deep fried ingredients in it that helps to add abit of texture to the rice roll. It also goes well with the prawn rice roll.

Overall, a good start to the day. This dish was freshly made and was very enjoyable. Rating 3.5/6 Better than tasty  

The original shop is still operating at the Holland View Food Centre. The standard at this shop is mostly, most of the time, almost as good as the original shop. But I think the original shop, they give abit more of the sambal.

Address

Old Airport Road FC #01-37

Timing

7:30AM to 1:00PM
Closed on Mondays

How to Order :-

1) Go to the stall, if there is a queue, go to the end of the line

2) Once you get to the front of the line, place your order

3) Decide on the type of noodles      kway teow (Flat rice noodles), mee pok (flat egg noodles) Mee Kia ( Thin egg noodles)

4) Decide if you want dry or soup

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

6) Once your dish is prepared, make payment

7) Find a seat and enjoy your food

I ordered the $3, dry, mee pok (flat egg noodles). The star of this dish is the sambal chili that they put into their dry noodles. The sambal chili is very flavourful and is slightly spicy. There is also pork lard in the noodles. But once you mix it all together. It is very good.

The sambal chili is the star of the dish. You can smell the dried prawn paste. And the deep fried pork lard is nice and crispy. The soup is also nice and refreshing.

 The also make their own fish ball and fish cake. The fish cake has a nice bite texture to it. It is nice and firm. A very satisfying mouth feel to chew. The fishball was quite bouncy, but abit too soft and dissappear too easily when you chew on it...

Overall, I like this mee pok, since it is slightly different from other mee pok. No black vinegar here but a powerful sambal chili to hit a home run. Rating 4/6 Damn Good

 This place sells kway chap. Kway chap is flat rice noodles, But what they serve with that kway chap, really blows your mind. It is just all parts of the pork, all delicious and all so good. This shop originally, used to be from Blanco Court Food Centre 3rd floor.

Address

Old Airport Road FC #01-136

Timing

Wed – Sun: 11:30 – 03:30, Closed: Mondays & Tuesdays

How to Order :-

1) Go to the back of the queue to line up

2) Once you reach the front of the queue, place your order.

3) You can also make request like, which items you do not want or more of certain items

4) Make payment

5) Wait for them to prepare your dish

6) Once it is done, take it to a seat and enjoy

This stall, makes once of the better braised pork innards. In the dish, you have pork belly, intestine, stomach and toufu. The braising sauce, which is savoury and full of all the meaty taste, and slightly herbal and by itself is very salty. But the braising sauce penetrates thru all the meat and intestine and stomach and if you eat it together, it is just right and super yummy. 

Once I started eating, I could not stop. It was very addictive and before I realise it, I had mostly finish everything. The chili sauce helps to neutralise some of the saltiness of the meat. It is spicy and super sour but goes well with all the pork meat and innards. Meat also leaves a nice porky after taste. 

The kway chap was soft and smooth but firm enough that it does not break while you try to spoon it up. It  goes well with deep fried shallots. It is thin and they put some of the braising sauce into the kway chap soup. This makes it so flavourful that you can almost eat it all on it's own. Rating 5/6 Execellent

 Lastly, some desert before we call it a day. Today, our desert is coming from Lao Ban Soya Beancurd and we are having Soya Beancurd Desert.

Address

Old Airport Road FC #01-127

Timing

Tue - Sat 11.30am-8pm, Sun 1pm - 8pm

How to Order :-

1) Go to the stall and place your order
2) Decide on either the drink or desert
3) Decide on the flavour of the desert    plain / almond  / there will be various other flavours in the fridge.
4) Make payment the find a seat and enoy.

When they first open their stall, it was during the Soya beancurd desert craze, afew years before and there were long queue, for their desert. Even at the old airport road FC, there were 4 such stalls selling soya beancurd desert. But now that the craze has died down, I think there is only this and another stall left selling this desert

What I like is that there is a nice vanila after taste you get after each bite. But the texture is not as smooth as I would like and it is actually abit jelly-ish. When they first started, if I am not mistaken, it used to be much smoother and abit thicker (ie. they used more soya beans). But now adays, I think their quality has dropped. Rating 2/6 Average 

I hoped you enjoyed our trip here for the food. Old Airport Road Food Centre really does have many good foods to eat. So please come and explore. You will not regret it.

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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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