$4.70 for chicken cutlet + all the sauces & cabbage. nice but not enough to specially make a trip down for it
Much has been written about this place so I will not delve or explain much, except that you should head down and get your hands (and tummy) on a plate. The gooey mess of a mountain topped with pork cutlet, fried egg, ngor hiang and cabbage is a recipe for food coma. Nothing fanciful or boujee, just simple, honest and ugly delicious food done right that is just oh-so-comforting.
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✨ Beach Road Scissor-Cut Curry Rice
📍 229 Jalan Besar, Singapore 208905
🍴 [Self-Funded]
Most probably can't make up what this plate of messy goodness consists of, but it's this mess itself that makes curry rice so darn attractive. I ordered 4 different ingredients: pork belly, pork cutlet, fried egg and stir fried cabbage and it costed me $6.30. I feel like the pork belly is a must get, as its so well braised due to its tender and flavourful meat! Love how they scooped many different kind of sauces into my plate, soaking every grain of rice with the wonderful curry sauce! Only one word needed to describe this: shiok!
Heard and read so many good reviews on this place, and is usually listed among the best hainan curry rice in SG.
The curry served here was a mixtures of a few gravy/sauces which they lump on your plate, it certainly looks very ugly and messy.
Overall for me though, Sadly, I felt the curry to be very bland and not at all spicy dispute a layer of chilli inside their "layers"
Maybe they having an off day, will Try again in the near future.
Looked ugly but tasted so yummy 😋
Pork Belly Curry Rice
Pork Chop Chicken Wing Curry Rice
Comes with
sunny side up egg
Cabbage
Rice
Pork sauce will be drizzled on rice
packet of curry
Pipping hot at point of delivery
Beach Road Scissor-Cut Curry Rice
Address 🏡 : 229 Jalan Besar, Singapore 🇸🇬 208 905
Open ⏰ : 11am - 3am
A messy plate of rice coated generously with their special curry sauce. Their curry sauce is a mixture of four different sauces - chilli sauce, chilli oil, braised gravy, and curry. The curry gravy is smooth, thick and sticky with a mild spice level.
I got myself chap chye, tau pok, bean sprouts and fish cake. The chap chye was soft and well seasoned while the tau pok is soaked with braised sauce and coated with the curry sauce that makes it so good. The beansprouts together with cubes of tau kwa added more crunch and texture to my plate. The fish cake tasted very normal, not the bouncy type.
Beach Road Scissor-Cut Curry Rice has always been my go-to comfort food as this is one of my family’s favourite dinner/supper spots ever since I was a kid.
We ordered braised pork belly, curry chicken wings, cabbage and ngoh hiang for 3 pax and it costs $21.40, which is pretty reasonable given the generous portion. One thing to note is that the curry is barely spicy, so if you are looking for a fiery kick, this probably will not work for you. Having said that, the combination of thick curry and braised sauce is delicious, with a slight sweet undertone that complements the flavours. It is a sloppy mess when ladled over a plate of rice, but this is one tasty mess.
The braised pork belly is not the kind that melts in your mouth, but there is a good meat-to-fat ratio and the savoury dark sauce complements the curry. The chicken wings are stewed in a rich and aromatic curry sauce till they are fall-off-the-bone tender. The cabbage is very soft and sweet - this is actually one of my favourite dishes and we always order double portion of this. As for the ngoh hiang, it is not crispy at all but that does not bother me as the pork filling is well-seasoned and it goes well with the curry.
It’s kind of weird because the different components are rather ordinary on their own but it tastes really good when you throw everything together and drench it in that thick curry and braised sauce. Simple pleasures in life👍🏻
Curry lacks in flavour and spice. Really expected more because this place is so hyped up by everyone. Ingredients were also cold, with super small meat portions given. Rice was clumpy too. This was also quite expensive for curry rice...
The last time I am here was more than 10 years ago. Came back here again but still it did not impress me. The gravy is too thick and slimy texture. Nothing special about their pork chop. I will still stick to Beo Crescent Curry Rice and Loo's Hainanese Curry Rice 😅
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Beach Road Scissors Cut Curry Rice 剪刀剪咖喱饭 - A Messy Gooey Mess that lost its charm (💵 S$5.40) .
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The sound of scissors cutting could be heard from far away, a tad intimidating and anxious as you choose your ingredients through a glass window while a hoarding a line of customers behind impatiently waiting for you to be done. The end result was a messy gooey goodness of curry rice.
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At least that’s what it used to be. Now it’s just a pile of messy gooey mess. The curry is a little too gooey, nice on the bed but not on the plate. If the curry had more punch to it in terms of spiciness and fragrance, it would’ve been like the good old days. At least the pork chop and several fried items are still decent, if they can fuck that up too then I’ve got more shit to say. Decent, but not the best anymore.
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Everybody’s favourite in this area! Recommend the cabbage, taupok and chicken cutlet for sure 😋 find it a bit too gooey for my liking and would recommend EAT for similar renditions.
So I’m not into greasy stuffs but I decided to give the famed curry rice a try and didn’t regret it! It was delicious, it looks thick but doesn’t taste as thick as expected. Some may say it’s quite thin but it’s still nicelt flavorful so I think it’s not much of a problem. Something that can be recommended to tourists!
It’s even better when it involves lots of curry, braised sauce and sambal. Famed for their namesake, they will literally use a pair of scissors to cut whatever ingredients you choose from the window of food. The rice is then drenched with three kinds of gravy; two types of thick viscous curry and a braised gravy. My usual picks that I get to go with my rice include the chicken cutlet, braised cabbage and ngor hiang which is a pork filling with water chestnuts that’s rolled into a beancurd skin and deep fried.
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Scissors Cut Curry Rice
Address: 229, Jalan Besar, Singapore 208905
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Shared this plate bc we were unhungry after our gym session. I don’t normally go for curry rice, but this was not bad. We got cabbage, sunny side egg, lu rou & cutlet, which was drenched in the brown sauce + curry. Liked the soft cabbage and lu rou more, egg was normal while I would have preferred the cutlet to be a bit more crisp. The colour of the cutlet was a bit pale, idk if they under-fried this batch or it’s supposed to be like that? Liked the sauce combo on rice, would revisit! But I feel like it’s damn sinful and I won’t get a craving for this so maybe next year!
Curry makes the dish. Ordered chicken cutlet, spam and long beans but was given cabbage instead which was fine. Wish there was more rice given! I even heard another patron requesting for an extra serving of rice.
This comforting plate drizzled with thick curry and brown sauce. You get to choose the dishes you want to make your own plate.
Far from it. It is sloppy, gooey, messy; but it's a delicious mess. And the curry rice here ($5 for mine) is one of the best.
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This generous flood of sauce was a marriage of curry and braise sauce. The result boasted an impressive ensemble of flavours — a harmonic balance of sweetness, fragrance, umami with just a gentle touch of spiciness that kept the dish interesting. It was gloriously thick and clinged onto all the components effortlessly.
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I particularly enjoyed the fried pork chop which was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and paired very well with the sauce. It did get soggy after a while though. Talk about not judging a book by its cover; this curry rice is a textbook example.
The only place to go for your curry rice. Choose your ingredients and the uncle will drench it in generous scoop of curry sauce.
Approx $4 to $6 a plate, depending on the ingredients chosen.
This is one of my two favourite spots for hainanese curry rice (the other is at Beo Crescent) in Singapore. My usual orders here are the lor bak (braised pork), cabbage, pork cutlet and slathered with delectable savoury curry gravy. Shiok!
