Da Jia Lai Hainanese Chicken Rice 大家来海南鸡饭 (Ang Mo Kio)

Another day, another stall that serves up HK-style Cheong Fun. Heard of this relatively new HK-style Cheong Fun stall that also serves up Ban Mian at Ang Mo Kio 628 Market & Food Centre named 大家来 Da Jia Lai — fairly easy to locate considering how it’s situated rather close to the bus stop that leads towards the food centre.

There was a short queue at the stall while we were looking for a seat at the food centre, but the queue pretty much subsided when it was time to make our order. Was fairly surprised by how they claim to be serving up “raw rice stone-milled cheong fun” here — apart from the Fresh Prawn Cheong Fun, they also do serve up their HK-style Cheong Fun plain, with char siew, and also one with “sauce flavoured mince meat”. Perhaps because our order was made for an earlier takeaway order which they decided to let us have first, the Cheong Fun here did feel a little dry. That being said, it does carry that slight qq-texture that is typical of stone-milled cheong fun that we have tried, though the one here is probably the least prominent as compared to the other stone-milled cheong fun that we had tried. Prawns were chunky and fresh, though it lacks the oomph that some others have with smaller bits of prawns overall, while the light soy sauce here is sufficiently savoury — chili was pretty pedestrian, being savoury and packs a pretty comfortable level of heat for those with lower tolerance of spiciness. Portion size is pretty big though on first look, and is rather fair for its price at $4.20, though they did include a layer of shredded lettuce and beansprouts to prop up the Cheong Fun a little on the plate which I found a tad unnecessary.

Considering how this isn’t too far out of the way, I do feel that this is pretty decent plate of HK-style Cheong Fun for those who aren’t too particular with their Cheong Fun. That being said, having tried several other stalls serving up stone-milled Cheong Fun, the rendition served up here does feel closer to a slightly above average version of the standard handmade Cheong Funs without the stone-milled flair elsewhere — not exactly one I would make a special trip down for. That being said, if one does relatively close by, this does make for a decent option to get those HK-style Cheong Fun cravings solved.

One of the two stalls over at Ang Mo Kio 628 Food Centre that draws a long queue because it's nearer to the road and also because both stalls sell roasted meat, the specialty for this stall is for selling chicken rice! The Roasted Chicken Rice ($3) had plenty of flavourful roasted chicken and the rice is real fragrant and tasty as well!

Da Jia Lai chicken rice! The roast pork is to die for!

Queue was long, thought it'd be good. But it was cheap, quality was average, chicken was soft but that's about it. Overall subpar and short of expectations

Very yummy roast chicken n pork!