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Food Review: 136 Hong Kong Street Fish Head Steamboat

The highly rated Tze char at Toa Payoh. 136 Hong Kong Street Fish Head Steamboat famous for their claypot mee tai mak, salted egg pork ribs and Fish Head Steamboat.

On a random friday, me and my friend decided to give this tze char stall a try and we try like it too.
The staff like so annoying, know that i a taking photo, the guy in the photo above just keep standing around there.. Haha.

Claypot Mee Tai Mak - $5

Delightful Claypot Mee Tai Mak. It does has the charm of “wok hei” , cut vegetables in every spoonful which provided the crunch factor, and very gooey gravy. The egg yolk enhanced the overall taste in it.

Taste: 3.5/5

Salted Egg Pork Ribs - $10

The next popular dish over here was the Salted Egg Pork Ribs. I find it very normal to me as the salted egg aroma wasn't that strong and the pork ribs texture was quite tough too. I will give a NO NO to this pork ribs.

Taste: 0.5/5

Sweet and Sour Century Egg - $6

Something unique that you will hardly find at other tze char stalls. The century egg is fried so that it has this crispy exterior. Eaten together with the appetizing sweet and sour sauce, it can really enhance your appetite.

Taste: 2.5/5

Overall experince:

Decent food and affordable for everyone. I will try the fish head steamboat when i visit again.

136 Hong Kong Street Fish Head Steamboat

Blk 19 Lorong 7 Toa Payoh #01-264
Singapore 310019

Opening Hours: Daily: 11am - 2pm, 5pm - 11pm.

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Food Review: Uno Beef House

Heard a lot of good review from my friends so i decided to give it a try! Uno Beef House is located at Toa Payoh! The signature here is black pepper steak!! Uno Beef House also featured in Straits Times before too.

Garlic Bread - Complementary

The garlic was just normal.

Black Pepper Sirloin Steak (Medium) - $12

Sirloin steak (Medium), baked bean, fried potato ball, onion, tomato topped up with black pepper sauce.

It was served in hotplate. The steak was well grilled, it was tender, juicy and soft. The black pepper sauce was slightly disappointed, the black pepper was quite bland, can't taste much of any flavors!!

Taste: 1/5

UNO Beef House
Blk 51, #01-60,
Toa Payoh Lorong 5

Opening Hours: 11.30am - 9.30pm
(Closed on alternate Wed)

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Food Review: Fu Zhou Ban Mian 福州板面 (Toa Payoh)

I heard a lot of good review about Toa Payoh Fu Zhou Ban Mian! This stall is famous for their dry ban mian! What is dry ban mia? Have you eaten before or have you heard about it before? Normally with dry meepok or dry meekia you'd expect some combination of the classic chili/vinegar/tomato/dark soy sauce. However, with ban mian, one would probably be curious as to how on earth do you serve it dry. At Fu Zhou Ban Mian (whose signboard just states Ban Mian), for $3.50, what you get is a huge bowl of handmade broad noodles (ban mian), mixed in dark soy sauce. Apart from the crispy ikan bilis, a cracked egg and minced pork, this dish is a vegetarians' delight.

Dry Ban Mian - $3.50

The dry Ban Mian came with a very generous portion of soup! A generous amount of ingredients (minced pork, vegetables, anchovy (ikan bilis) and Noodle was given. There was dark sauce at the bottom of the bowl. Before eating it, the sauce should be mixed with the noodles till every strand was well coated with the dark sauce. Be honest, it was just average! But the soup was good!

Taste 1.5/5

Overall, The dry ban mian was just average, maybe should try the soup version as i find the soup was good!

福州板面 (Fu Zhou Ban Mian)
Blk 186, J99 Eating House, Toa Payoh Central, 310186
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat, 6:00-21:00; Closed Sun

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Food Review: Ocean Curry Fish Head x Kim Keat Hokkien Mee

Ocean Curry Fish Head, establishment in year 1983,

it has remained as one of the most voted restaurants in Singapore. They take pride in the quality of the food and only use authentic Peranakan ingredients and cooking styles to maintain the taste which has been known for decades. They have earned many positives press reviews and being the number one choice among celebrities and ministers. The endless support got from the customers allows them fast expansion to a bigger restaurant and also setting up a new branch outlet in Telok Ayer Street. With that, they strive to maintain the consistency and quality on both restaurant outlets and continue to serve the customers better in the years to come.

Curry Fish Head - $38

The fish head was huge. It tasted very fresh with not a bit of fishy taste detected. The taste of Curry was a bit too sourish with a rather mild level of spiciness based on a Nonya recipe. The Fish Head was cooked in the Curry to absorb the flavor as compared to some of those that steamed the Fish Head first then added in the Curry later.

Taste: 2.5/5

Braised Pork Belly - $6

The pork belly was well braised. The meat was very soft and tender, the skin was like jelly texture.

Taste: 2.75/5

Long Bean - $6

The long bean was crunchy but it was quite tasteless.

Taste: 1/5

Fried omelette with long bean - $6

The egg was very cold and it was just average.

Taste: 0.25/5

Food: 2/5
Ambiance: N.A
Service: N.A

Overall, it was like "Cai Fan" style, the side dishes order from the display counter and curry fish head order from them. The food was decent but it worth a try.

OCEAN CURRY FISH HEAD 海洋咖喱鱼头
Block 92 Toa Payoh Lorong 4 #01-264 SINGAPORE 310092
Opening Hours: 11.00am - 3pm, 430pm - 9pm (Daily)

Claypot Hokkien Mee with sio bak. Kim Keat is about a 10 to 15 minute walk from Bradell MRT, in the same kopitiam as Ocean Curry Fish Head.

Claypot Hokkien Mee - $15

Cooking good Hokkien Mee requires great skills and time. We thought that the noodles and sauce could have been better ‘fused’ together as one. But the Hokkien Mee was below our expectation, but certainly one worth trying. The sambal chilli was very good, must combine the sambal chilli with the noodle!!

Taste: 2/5

Kim Keat Hokkien Mee
Toa Payoh Lor 4, Blk 92 #01-264, Singapore 31009
Opening Hours: 11:30am – 9:30pm (Mon), 11:30am – 9:30pm (Wed-Sun), Closed Tues

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Food Review: 合衆客家酿豆腐 Hup Chong Hakka Yong Dou Foo

Located in Toa Payoh where some of the famous food place such as Creamier. This small stall serve good Hakka Yong Tau fu in this area. Lots of variety of food await customers to choose. During lunch hours or weekend, the queue is long too.

$3.60 - For 6 ingredients + choice of either Bee Hoon or Yellow noodle -

The meatballs and mini ngoh hiang is the must to pick. the fried stuff really goes well with the sweet sauce and chilli. And not forgetting the soup, it was sweet tasting as well.

Hup Chong Hakka Yong Dou Foo 合众客家酿豆腐
Blk 116 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 #01-140

Opening Hours:
06.30a.m -3.00p.m
5.00p.m - 8.30p.m
closed on Tuesday

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