When I was filming for a Japanese TV programme at Maxwell Food Centre, I chanced upon this stall. According to the friendly ladyboss Ah Hui, her “chee cheong fun” (steamed rice rolls) are made based on her family recipe and produced by a supplier according to her specifications. There are actually two kinds - the tubular style which is served simply dressed in one of three traditional sauces, and the flatter design that she uses in her fancier versions of curry and laksa “cheong fun”. These were the two I decided to try.
Priced at $4 each, they come in a paper bowl and are topped with different ingredients. The curry “cheong fun” has items similar to what you can find at “yong tau fu” stalls including a tasty beancurd skin with cuttlefish paste, while the laksa version contains the classics of hardboiled egg, fishball and beancurd skin rolls. Both of the gravies aren’t too thick nor spicy, which should suit most people’s palates. They also don’t steal the thunder from the soft and silky rice rolls which at the end of the day, is the star here.
When I return, my next target will be the tubular “chee cheong fun” in sesame sauce.