How can one ever miss out on having braised pork buns, or kong bak bao, at a Hokkien restaurant! Featuring a rich savoury braised sauce, the braised pork belly here was flavourful although I found it slightly on the fatty side. The wheat buns here, despite being thinner, were pillowy and had a nice bready aroma.
Never knew about this carpark rooftop restaurant serving traditional Hokkien cuisine until mum introduced to us. I was very surprised with the crowd considering its location is pretty hidden, although many of the older generation would probably know of its existence.
We had the braised chicken with lotus seed stuffing, a dish that’s off menu, but very skilfully deboned and stuffed with bountiful ingredients such as lotus seeds, roast pork, shiitake mushroom and bamboo shoots. You could tell that it was probably braised for hours based on how easily we could tear the tender chicken meat apart. Personally, it’s not a dish that I preferred due to the powdery texture of the lotus seeds. That being said, it was still a wholesome dish. Do bear in mind to order the dish in advance.
This Signature dish features scrambled eggs tossed with carrots, springs onions, yellow onions, shitake mushrooms and was served with lettuce.
We are supposed to scoop these ingredients onto the lettuce and wrap them up.
have never eaten such a dish before and I thought it was quite special to bite the fresh lettuce with crunch that wrapped the filling that was accompanied by the sweetness of the distinctive egg.
This features scrambled eggs tossed with deshelled crab meat, carrots, white onions, spring onions, shiitake mushrooms, and served with lettuce.
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Take some of the mixture, and wrap it as filling within the lettuce.
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Bite in, and you get the fresh juicy vegetal sweet flavour of the lettuce with a light crunch, followed by the robust eggy sweet savoury flavour of the filling with a soft chew.
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You can taste the distinct notes of the egg and crab, so fresh. Loved every bite of this, I polished it off.
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This is unique, their version being vastly different from elsewhere.
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The egg omelette is fried till paper-thin and crispy, almost like a cracker of sorts, with an eggy oily flavour.
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There doesn't seem to be any sweet potato starch used.
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The fresh oysters are large and juicy, marinated in a house chili, each bite a burst of sweet spicy salty briny flavour. Decadent but so good.
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This is a house signature, featuring shredded roast duck over strips of cucumber and rock melon.
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A sticky sweet sauce is poured over, then the entire salad is slow tossed and mixed.
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If you get a little of each ingredient with each mouthful, you'll experience the refreshing juicy chewy soft textures, and bright fruity vegetal sweet meaty savoury flavours of this delightful salad.
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There's an option to add on sliced mango too.
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This features large napa cabbage leaves slow braised Chinese Cantonese style in a thick gravy of dried scallops, light soy sauce, and oyster sauce, topped with crunchy carrots.
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The cabbage is super soft and slippery, picking up the richness of the gravy and its bold vegetal earthy sweet savoury flavour.
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This features slow braised pork belly in soy sauce gravy, paired with steamed wheat buns.
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The pork belly is tender and succulent, with a good amount of fat to lean meat, and holds robust salty savoury herbal meaty flavour from absorbing the soy sauce gravy.
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The wheat bun is soft and fluffy, with natural bready sweet flavour, and holds the slices of pork belly nicely. Pure comfort food.
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For those looking for authentic Hokkien fare, do visit Beng Thin Hoon Kee restaurant at OCBC Centre! Love their crispy oyster egg (mad dope), claypot tofu, crispy roast chicken, prawn roll and yam paste. Pretty generous w their portion. Recommended for chinese family/big group meals!
My family & I really enjoyed the Hokkien dishes here! For me I loved the Starter dish & the Hokkien noodles the best! Food came really fast & was price was reasonable for so many dishes!
Love the signature oyster egg omelette ($16). Crispy thin egg and fresh oyster, even to the delight of my parents who are not a fan of oyster egg omelette. Another delectable dish is the Lettuce wrap crab meat with egg. The Garoupa with fermented black bean sauce & capsicum is also a good choice. Nice place for family celebration!
Didn't get any food pictures but I really enjoyed my visit! Hidden atop OCBC's carpark, the exterior stood out. Served a dish at a time, enjoy traditional Hokkien food cooked to perfection. I enjoyed my duck and mango salad as an appetiser and the good old Kong Ba Bao that was so tender and soft. May be a bit pricey ($150++ for 5) but definitely worth a try :)
P. S. they serve the courses really quickly one after the other so you end up finishing your meal very fast.
Looking for traditional hokkien dishes? Beng Thin Hoon Kee is as old school as it gets.
Must orders:
- Kong Ba Bao (don't miss this!)
- Hokkien Mee (love the crispy pork lard!)
- Roast Chicken (crispy and yummy! Missing in picture as we devoured it as soon as served)
- Sharksfin Omelette (good!)
- Orh Nee (not in picture as we they have portioned into individual bowls)
Also ordered:
- Ngoh Hiang and Hei Zo (not fantastic)
- Asparagus with prawns (decent fiber, no wow)
Total tab: $170
Feeds 5 hungry ladies. Super value for money!
I absolutely love orh nee and just had to order it when I saw it on the menu. Super traditional way of making it. Fragrance of yam and lard in the smooth paste. Slightly sweet with ginkgo nuts that are slightly bitter. Yum!
Was a little surprised when it came. Doesn't it look like mee rebus? The taste was definitely on spot and loved the pan fried fish that was inside the noodles. But only down side was that the noodles were too soft. Like overcooked kind of soft. It keeps breaking apart and just disintegrates in your mouth. The bf commented that it could be because they changed their noodles supplier? No idea.
Never had a good impression of hei zo because all those I've had didn't have a good balance of prawn and pork and tend to be overly oily. Plus my ah ma only made ngoh hiang, so I wasn't familiar w it. However the hei zo here was surprisingly good! Good balance of prawn and pork where the prawn added a nice touch to the pork without overpowering it. That crisp exterior and meaty filling was such a delight. The ngoh hiang was the same. 😋 Plus I was surprised by how fresh the meat tasted! The pickled vege at the side was also a nice way to refresh our palette 😁
This inconspicuous restaurant on the 5th floor car park of OCBC building may be hard to find but surprisingly crowded all the time! Their oyster omelette is unconventional, small slices of thin & crispy omelette that still had enough chewiness from the starch topped with small oysters tossed w a slight spicy sauce. Dip it in more of their oyster omelette chilli sauce for ultimate shiokness!
Our group ordered the CNY set meal and I must say it was really good. Will definitely go again.
