217 Syed Alwi Road
Gar Lok Eating House
Singapore 207776

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Thursday:
08:00am - 05:00pm

Friday:
Closed

Saturday:
08:00am - 05:00pm

Sunday:
08:00am - 05:00pm

Monday:
08:00am - 05:00pm

Tuesday:
08:00am - 05:00pm

Wednesday:
08:00am - 05:00pm

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Very chewy skin. The filling is very very bland, esp compared to their intensely savoury abacus seeds sauce

I don't like

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Everyone tells you this place's food is top notch but everything else is as bad as the food is good. And they'd be right. There's a constant din despite not much happening, queue moves incredibly slowly because the order taker is the same person as the chef who is also the cashier. There's a lot of queue cutting from regulars presumably(while in the queue someone from behind literally received a plate of soon Kueh as he was in the queue, when even I haven't ordered, much less him). Need to fight for seats, things are so inefficient, and a lot of takeaways, not to mention they aren't understanding the orders very clearly and there's a lot of clarification. Are they the best beef balls and best abacus seeds place in Singapore? Probably. Is it good enough to stand 30mins in queue in a constant chaotic and uncomfortable environment? Not to me, I hated it

Food:
This is really good. It's soft and very chewy, which may not be everyone's thing but I liked it. The sauce is strong to pair w the texture, incredibly savoury from the lovely small shrimps

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Their beef balls are really unique. It's kind of how you expect perfection to be, for handmade beef balls. Very tightly bound, very meaty, and the beef muscles can be clearly seen. The bite is strong, and actl abit less bouncy than you would expect but not tough by any means. Solid stuff, pun intended

So they have beef ball and beef tendon ball. The difference is that the beef tendon ball has tiny bits of tendon inside, which has a strong bite on its own, so overall it is more springy and less meaty than the beef balls.

The beef slices are quite decent, the marinate is somewhat unique and despite the rather thick cut it's not unacceptably chewy

Their soup is very clear and very good. Yes it's somewhat mild so not everyone can appreciate it, but it really is good

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Do not judge the book by its cover. The beef balls in the soup make look plain and plain with stingy amount of broth but this simple looking bowl of soup still remain as tasty as before. The flavour tasted full-bodied and was filled with natural sweetness from beef bone broth.

The beef balls are still undeniably chewy and bouncy with beefy flavor in every bite. These are very addictive.
Every piece of YTF tasted fresh and appetizing. As you reach the bottom of the soup with the spoon, you will realize that there are a handful amount of soya beans.
The Hakka Noodle is similar to Mee Pok just that they are narrower in size. The execution of Hakka Noodles usually topped with a handful amount of minced meat.

The special part of the Soon Kueh as compared to the usual ones we had was that the skin was made with yam.

Soon Kueh was plump and had chewy skin. Ingredients were filled to the brim with turnip, mushrooms, shrimp, black fungus etc.

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Hidden in a very dated coffeeshop, lies this stall that sells old school traditional beef noodles and Yong tau foo. Their Yong Tau Foo is pretty unique, as you don't get to choose what ingredients you want and you live it to what the hawker has that day! For just $3, you get a variety of ingredients, with a bowl of noodles. The noodles were already good on its own, due to the lard used 😍 the yong tau foo ingredients were fresh and very old school tasting! You probably won't get such good quality with such prices anywhere else!

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