Chef Leung (Chinatown Complex)

You can easily find lots of breakfast option in Chinatown Complex and Chef Leung is one of them.

Serving handmade rice noodle rolls in a few different ingredients. I really enjoy the smooth and soft texture, mixing it with the sweet sauce and chilli.

Lots of prawn included as well.

This stall is located at Chinatown Complex Food Centre 02-096 ! We were making a point to try out a different new stall at this hawker from what we had previously, so food blogger listings brought us to this page! And we were not disappointed!

Got the char siew chee cheong fan ($4), which came with small bits of charsiew. The chee cheong rice batter is house-milled! Was very intrigued by how the chee cheong fans had soooo many wrinkly folds (while typical chee cheong fan at other dim sum stalls are smooth). But turns out, these wrinkly chee cheong fans were very silky, springy and smooth to eat! The soy sauce mixture, that is topped with shallot oil, was also very good! This Chee Cheong Fan also came along with a side of spicy chilli sauce, which was pretty interesting to eat together, but may get too spicy for some!

If you are thinking of dabao-ing this back home to eat, I read that the chef created a chee cheong fan recipe that allows one to takeaway home and still have these soft and springy chee cheong fun”.

We also tried their pork and century eggs congee ($4.50): This came with sliced pork, pork balls and century eggs. What is different is that instead of coming with the usual crispy youtiao, it was topped with fried cracker pillows (the kind you will find in lohei) for the crispy crunch! The porridge was very smooth and tasted very healthy! I especially liked their pork balls, which was marinated pretty well! I wished there was just a pork ball porridge option!

Between the two, I prefer the chee cheong fan over the porridge! It is soo good that I will want to be back to eat it again!

😋❤️ Silky smooth hand milled HK style Chee Cheong Fun.

Ordered both the original and prawn CCF (S$2.80 / $4.50) waiting time was around 40min. They give you a beeper so it's convenient, no need to wait around.

Texture was smooth and silky, and goes will with the good quality soy sauce. The chilli was good as well! 🔥👍

It's a popular stall and sell out fast. Went there on Saturday around 9.40am and their congee was already sold out. Will visit again to try the congee.

📍Location:
Chef Leung's Authentic Rice Noodle Rolls (Stall 02-096)
Chinatown Complex Food Centre
335 Smith Street
Singapore 050335

First dine-in visit to a hawker centre — and this was because of Chef Leung authentic hand-milled rice rolls; a stall that I had came across whilst scrolling around social media that had recently opened their doors at Chinatown Complex Food Centre. The stall is fairly hard to miss; situated at the red zone where Terry Katong Laksa and Mongkok Hong Kong Dim Sum are located.

While the stall also do serve up congee dishes, it was the rice roll that got us here in the first place — and hence, we found ourselves only ordering the Prawn Steamed Rice Roll during our visit. The stall was seemingly overwhelmed with the orders; after it’s only thereabouts of 8:30am and already there was pretty much a number of orders to fulfil — something pretty astonishing for new kid on the block that hasn’t been much heard of through social media either. The guy at receiving the orders told us the wait was going to be thereabouts of 30mins whilst issuing our buzzer; though the wait seems closer to around 20 to 25mins.

I am not sure how many other stalls actually do hand-mill their rice rolls; that being said, I did actually tried another stall that makes their rice rolls using the stone mill; namely Rice & Roll at Foodloft @ Blk 107 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4. Chef Leung’s rendition comes pretty close in texture; while most rice rolls out there focuses on the smooth and silken texture of their rice rolls, I really dig how Chef Leung’s and Rice & Roll’s renditions do have this chewiness that doesn’t stick to the teeth (in Chinese, 弹牙) — this itself already pushes the rice rolls here beyond the usual that is served in the typical dim sum restaurants around. Would say that the prawns here are of a reasonable portion size; there are also certainly bigger prawns out there in some other rice rolls but these were pretty fine nonetheless. The soy sauce here used is on the lighter side, while the chili does carry a savoury smokiness amidst the slight spicy kick that tickles the taste buds. If there was something to point out, it’s probably the slicing of the rice rolls here that aren’t particularly neat with the — perhaps something got to do with the qq rice rolls.

It may be early days for Chef Leung at Chinatown Complex Food Centre, but I must say that the rice rolls served here are pretty exemplary to say the least. There are tiny qualms where the slicing of the rice rolls are concerned — probably something that they may wish to note, but also an issue that wasn’t a big problem for me at least. Do expect some wait times if one chooses to visit; felt that they might be still trying to straighten out some things with regard to their operations considering how they are new stall anyway — that being said, one may want to consider making an early visit if they are really keen on trying Chef Leung’s hand-milled rice rolls as they open at 7am, and will be typically sold out before 12 noon. Still, a place I would say to be worthy to make the trip for; at least somewhere which I am likely to return to for some satisfying rice rolls that is a showcase of culinary art, skill and effort!