UFO in sight! Shaped like a UFO, this Teochew delicacy is fast diminishing from the local hawker scene. Amongst the handful of hawker and pasar malam stalls keeping this dish going, I reckon Fu Zhou Poh Hwa is the best of the lot. I love that the outer crust remains dry and crisp even though you are having it sometime after. The inside is soft and pillowy and the filling is a good mix of prawns, minced meat and of course oysters! Dab it with some of the chilli sauce that comes with it (I personally love McDonald's garlic chilli sauce on them) and you have the perfect teatime snack with a cup of teh!

Oyster Cake When you are the front of the stall, you would see the surrounding tables have been packed with all the orders ready for pickup. They are constantly preparing the next batch of oyster cake inside the stall non-stop, so you may have to wait longer if you didn’t preorder in advance. However, if you just grabbing one piece like me. You should get it on the spot if they have enough.

I hope this snack never disappears I love the oyster cakes from Fu Zhou Poh Hwa Oyster Cake but I just wish that they didn’t put celery or coriander in it! Other than that it’s perfect and everything I want in a snack.

Original oyster cake Missing Taiwan’s delicacies? Head on down to sixth floor oyster cake and have your hands on this very authentic oyster cake. It’s jammed pack with ingredients such as oyster, prawn and minced meat. Till Taiwan open for tourism, this is my def go to place. Expected Damage: $3-$4~/pc

Fried Oyster Cake Don’t you miss Taiwan? I certainly do! This is the closest I have had in SG that reminds me of Taiwan’s Oyster Cake (胡椒饼). It’s not peppery but the oyster cake is packed with juicy minced meat, two plumped oysters and two frozen prawns. Kimchi is not bad too. Expected damage: $3-$4/pc ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Original $3 a plump oyster cake with generous fillings. remember to eat it while it's hot. the chilli goes well with the oyster cake.

Wonton noodle Second time eating Koung’s Wan Tan Noodles! It tastes different from what I remembered it to be. It didnt leave a superb good impression on me the first time I ate it. After the second visit this time, my conclusion remains the same. It tastes quite pretty average?? Just that the char siew is charcoal roasted so got more taste than the normal wanton noodles. The chilli sauce is super duper spicy though. I didnt mix in all the chilli and I couldnt take it already. The chilli sauce also doesnt taste as good as Hoe Kee.

Wanton Noodle Springy egg noodles with a firm bite that pairs perfectly with chilli and black sauce. Served with handmade wanton and perfectly charred char siew. The standard plate comes with chilli and special black sauce but I requested to have mine mixed with ketchup. The noodles are well executed to a firm bite which managed to retain its firmness until I finish my plate of noodles. I like how the char siew is thickly sliced and not dry at all. The chilli is also not too spicy/overpowering. This is the place to go if you are looking for some old-school wanton mee but be prepared to wait as waiting time can go up to 30mins during peak hour 》$4.50

雲吞麵 (乾撈 | 加料加麵) $8 Wanton Noodle Dry w/ extra noodle & ingredients

Fish Maw Pig Stomach Chicken Soup | $7.30 This soup was unexpectedly revitalising, comforting, and nourishing all in one. $7.30 might not seem like a palatable price considering the location, but the richness and creaminess of the soup, on top of the generous amount of ingredients - fish maw, pig stomach, and very tender chicken meat, made this feel like a steal. If you love rich, collagen-like creamy soup, I will highly highly recommend this! Rate:🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thick collagen soup like BITP In front of Chef Sham’s stall is a humongous pot of soup that is hard to miss. The soup is cooking constantly, extracting the essence of the chicken, pig soup and fish maw all at once. It is evident that the soup has been carefully boiled for long hours by the milky colour of the soup. Read more at: kopiwaffles.com/chef-sham-vinegar-pork-trotters-fish-maw-pig-stomach-chicken-soup/

Chef Sham’s stall at Chinatown Complex has a must-order which is the Fish Maw Pig Stomach Chicken ($7.30). A milky soup that is packed with flavour that you will drink every drop of it. In each bowl contains rings of fish maw, slices of pig stomach, that has a slight gaminess unfortunately, and cuts of chicken. Nevertheless, this is still a comforting bowl of chicken soup for the soup though it might be slightly pricier than the other similar soups nearby. ••••••••••••••••••• ✨ Chef Sham Fish Maw Pig Stomach Chicken 📍 335 Smith Street, Chinatown Complex Food Centre, Unit 02-007, Singapore 050335 🍴 [Self-Funded]

Red Bean Fritters So happy to be back at this stall after such a long time. This stall does the best red bean dough fritters and pandan “ butterfly” fritters . Everything is handmade from scratch daily on site . My favourite stall of all time .

香蘭蝴蝶煎 Pandan Butterfly Fritter Will try this next time!

Red Bean HCP I never like it with red bean fillings, but this is truly a deserving exception!

Oyster Cakes Quite unique. Big, flat and crispy, unlike the common fluffy type. Oysters were plump too.

Fuzhou Oyster Cake Beside selling his briyani, you also can grab yourself a piece of Fuzhou Oyster Cake for only $3. It’s not easy to find this in many place, thanks to this stall owner for bringing it to the hawker centre.

Chicken Briyani This stall actually operates by Chinese, selling their home cook style of chicken briyani. For $3.50, you get a plate of briyani with chicken. The portion was small compared to the usual size of briyani you get in other places.

Char Kway Teow Read a lot about this CKT stall in Smith Street Chinatown Food Center so I finally had to came and try it. Arriving at 2pm, the queue in front of me was about 10 patrons. Took about 30 mins to get to me as uncle fries each order separately and in between, he pre-fries a batch of noodles and kway teow with soya sauce. Ordered the $4 portion. Not allowed to add anything like eggs or cockles. Sad. The CKT is something in between wet and dry types. A little bit of wok heat and the taste is more savoury than sweet. You get about 6 cockles, 1 tail-on shrimp, a few pieces of Chinese sausage. No chives or fish cakes. All in, it’s just an above average plate of CKT.

Nice Char Kway Teow Back here at this stall 😋. Ordered the S$4 portion. There's always a queue and the wait time might be a bit long, as uncle fries the noodles one plate at a time. 🔥Freshly fried with a nice smokey flavour and savoury-sweet taste. Lup cheong, cockles, bean sprouts and spring onions are fried with egg and kway teow. Serving size is good for the price. Ate this a few times already. Recommended 👍 The stall is located right at the corner, in the Yellow zone of this hawker centre. 📍Location: Hill Street Fried Kway Teow (02-32) Chinatown Complex Food Centre 335 Smith Street Singapore 050335

Char Kway Teow (SGD $5) @ Hill Street Fried Kway Teow (Chinatown). Founded by Tan Chiang Boo in 1969 and still operated together with his wife, this is one of 2 stalls bearing the name 'Hill Street Fried Kway Teow'; no relation aside from hailing from the same defunct hawker centre - the Tan's stall was on the 2nd floor, while their competitor was on the 1st floor. . Queues for their rendition stretch up to 30 minutes during peak periods, especially as their opening hours are limited. . They've struck a balance in frying the wide flat rice noodles and long cyclindrical yellow wheat noodles with pork lard, light soy sauce, and dark sweet soy sauce, evenly cooked and tending towards the wet sweet version. . Classic ingredients with crisp bean sprouts, crisp garlic chives, chewy lup cheong / dried cured pork sausage, tender fish cake, wispy egg, and juicy blood cockles. The premium version also has added deshelled prawns, fresh and juicy. . This carries robust savoury salty sweet eggy flavour throughout, with a good smoky wok hei / breath of the wok. Yum. . . . Char Kway Teow Hill Street Fried Kway Teow (Chinatown) @ Chinatown Complex Food Centre, 335 Smith Street #02-32 . More details: https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2022/06/best-of-singapore-hawkers-char-kway-teow.html

Chicken Cutlet Egg Fried Rice They have introduced a few more items to the menu since opening, but this time I came back to try this. Their chicken cutlet was super crunchy and juicy. Fried rice of course remain pretty wok hey.

Shrimp Fried Rice with Egg A new stall just opened focusing on their fried rice series. Sadly the flavour wasn’t strong enough for me, coming together with a few pieces of shrimp which is big and fresh. $5 Recommending you to add $1 for the sunny side egg to complete your fried rice. As the egg really did pretty well.

Pork chop egg fried rice ($6), Prawn egg fried rice ($5). Spotted @numberonehundred.no100 at Chinatown complex food centre last night when we in the area to dabao. The words 菜饭 were a little misleading though, and I didn’t really want to check it out cos I wasn’t in the mood for 菜饭. Turns out they have already moved away from 菜饭, and now it’s 炒饭. Now, that’s interesting because egg fried rice seems to be a rising trend, from DTF back then to the ever-popular King of Fried rice until recently some new ones like Chef Wang. There are 3 options here; prawn, pork chop and chicken cutlet. One thing about the food here is their generosity, be it rice or protein portions. Whiffs of fragrant aroma from the rice and egg was still pretty much evident after the long distance home, while each grain was fluffy, moist and distinct. Probably so because they use freshly cooked rice. There were several salt marinated jumbo shrimps, which were really plump and juicy. Marinated with spice, the pork chop was rather tender and sufficiently flavourful though the exterior could still be slightly crispy. Be warned of their chili with a fiery kick!

Salmon Mentaiko Croissant Found this small bakery shop along Erksine Road, just located beside Maxwell Food Centre. Which you would peek upon the glass door and greet with range of pastries on display. It seems like many people came here for their signature Salmon Mentaiko Croissant. Not an ordinary croissant here with pieces of smoked salmon inside this flaky layers of texture. The mentaiko cream on the top of it added more umami to the overall taste.

Spicy Crabby Croissant The Spicy Crabby Croissant ($4.50) comes with a sweet and spicy mayo crab filling that delivered a kick. The croissant is light and fluffy, but I wished I requested for it to be warmed up as it would be been even better. The croissant is pretty big and at $4.50, this is quite a steal!

Salmon Mentaiko Croissant | $5.50 Was recommended this croissant as it was considered one of customers’ popular choice. The croissant itself was decent — sufficiently buttery. I did think that the amount of smoked salmon was pretty measly, and while the mentaiko atop was pretty creamy, I would’ve appreciated having more of it. Rate:🌟🌟

HerbalMint Green Tea HerbalMint Green Tea (Regular) ($4.80) w Grass Jelly ($0.30) We didn't expected that it was pei pak koa (PPK) lol but really cooling and refreshing drink after hot weather tbh. We opt out for 25% sugar and less sugar to avoid for diluted taste. I doubt myself that I will be trying again next time.

Brown Sugar Black Tea Oatly Priced at $5.40, it didn’t quite meet my expectations. The brown sugar taste was clearly non-existent and the flavour from Oatly milk was lacking. Quite sad that I didn’t get what I paid for 😕

Their Latest Brew That Uses Oatly Milk Finally got to taste their Dark Chocolate Oolong Oat Milk ($5.40) from the Chinatown Point outlet. Btw the stall is pretty secluded, which means you’ll probably not chance upon it at all... Unless you checked the mall directory LOL 。 Great marriage of flavours and its really refreshing. You bet I enjoyed this a lot😋👍