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It's not as good as I remembered, but decent soup during cold, rainy days.
Do prefer the goulash / chicken and mushroom soup than this.
I like my order of Beef Navel with Tomato Sauce Rice Noodle Soup ($14.90). The noodle was springy & soup was tasty. Only downside : meat too little đ
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Last week of Round 1 of Bhutan Unfiltered Souperchef Specials and they were sold out of the Spicy Chicken Stew! No!!!! I ended up ordering my default Tokyo Chicken Stew as a safe choice, and enjoyed it as usual. Nothing much to comment about the Tokyo Chicken Stew as itâs always pretty consistent.
The bread roll this time was more of an olive and herb bread roll, which carries a sharper smell of herbs than usual. I found the top of the roll extremely fluffy and soft, but the bottom tended to be dense and seemed to be where all the dough collected. Not my favourite choice of bread as I much enjoyed the previous roll with nutty pumpkin seeds, but still a yummy roll which serves its primary purpose of soaking up all that soupy deliciousness!
One of the choices of salads, sandwiches, flatbreads or cakes as part of the Soupervalue meal is the soba salad with teriyaki chicken weighing in at slightly less than 200 calories.
The side takes some time to prep so the buzzer might ring while youâre enjoying your soup and bread roll. Anyway although itâs prepared to order, the soba noodles tend to be soggy and clump together. I personally wasnât so put off by that, and I found the mix of sesame seeds, alfalfa sprouts, egg, cherry tomatoes and teriyaki chicken quite delightful. The veggies were fresh and crunchy, while the chicken was tender and nicely seasoned. I wish there was more meat though, as it seemed to be more fat and skin. Wouldnât mind ordering this again for a change from my regular flatbreads!
Iâm not sure why people are so taken with Bhutanese foods all of a sudden, but Iâm not complaining whenever I get a chance to be taken back to Bhutan - physically or gastronomically. This seasonâs Souperholic specials feature six Bhutan-inspired soups. The two soups we tried today are from Part 1 of this series - a Bhutanese Spicy chicken Stew (front) and the Chilli Cheese Stew (back, which the cashier actually cautioned against due to the spiciness!).
If youâve been to Bhutan, youâll be familiar with chilli cheese, which is akin to their national dish. This stew is nowhere near as thick as authentic ema datshi, but itâs still yummy and pretty spicy for a stew! It features a lot of dried chillies, as well as three different cheeses. It doesnât quite hit the same spot as ema datshi does, but itâs still a delightful tribute to the National dish of Bhutan. This soup is totally vegetarian, itâs also dairy-free if you request for no ezay condiment (which is an additional chilli âsaladâ mixed with coriander).
The spicy chicken stew didnât strike me as much of a Bhutanese dish, as I didnât have any of this in Bhutan. I never had a good impression of meat dishes in Bhutan as I found that they tended to chop the meats into awkward chunks with really sharp bones, plus the meat tended to be quite hard. Thankfully, The Soup Spoonâs Spicy Chicken Stew has masterfully cut and tenderised the boneless chicken chunks, and cooked it in a hearty chicken broth with lots of vegetables, AND Bhutanese red rice! What a treat! I love the texture of Bhutanese red rice, plus the infusion of nuttiness it provides to the dish! I loved this soup so much I used the bread roll to sop up every last drop!
Itâs also worth noting that the bread roll seems to be bigger than before, plus itâs got more sesame seeds and even some pumpkin seeds embedded inside! I love this change in rolls! Definitely going to be eating more of these Bhutanese soups before they switch to the second half of the series on the first week of October.
Ordered this as part of Set B where you get a choice of a flatbread, sandwich, salad or cake. I originally wanted the sriracha chicken flatbread, but it wasnât available at dinner time when I visited.
The flatbreads, sandwiches and salads are all prepared when ordered, so they do take a while to be served, but theyâre warm! The flatbread is slightly crispy, and stuffed with generous amounts of well seasoned bulgogi beef, gochujang mayo, arugula leaves and quinoa. The savoury and tender bulgogi beef, coupled with the slightly spicy gochujang mayo, nutty quinoa and bitter arugula makes this combination a winner. The portion size is also perfect, itâs smaller than a wrap youâd get in the supermarket, but filling as a set with your soup. Plus, the estimated calorie count is only in the low 200s! Yums!
Iâve visited Beauty Nutritious Soup numerous times and love the pumpkin rice at this stall but the standard seems to be inconsistent. Todayâs pumpkin rice was tasteless, and tasted almost like regular white rice. Itâs still soft and has better texture than the regular white rice at this stall though (the white rice has a texture like plastic beads). Canât complain for affordable Kopitiam food, and can only try my luck again next time.
Simple and a perfect addition to a bowl of steaming hot soup. The veggies are blanched just long enough so that they keep their crunchiness and texture. The oyster sauce is not that salty, but itâs good enough to impart some flavour to the vegetables. The best way to eat this is to load up on the aromatic shallots with each stalk to get maximum crunch, sweetness and flavour with each bite.
Ordering soups here can be a hit or miss depending on the day or time you visit. There are many factors that go into it - the people working that day, how long the soup has been boiling for, how long the meat has been boiling for, etc, that itâs quite inconsistent with each visit. Usually, I find the taste of the herbal chicken soup quite good anyway - although some days might be richer and more flavourful than others. The chicken is more inconsistent. Some days itâs fall off the bone tender, while on others, itâs tough and requires effort to extricate the meat. Todayâs broth was not bad, probably a 6.5/10 based on all the times Iâve visited, and the chicken was a 6/10 which was not tender enough to pull off the bone with ease, but also not hard and dry as a rock.
The Special Herbal Chicken Soup ($6.80) is one of my go-tos when Iâm looking for a light or soupy meal and is especially ideal pre-workout.
The herbal taste isnât too strong that it overwhelms your tastebuds, instead, itâs a pleasant taste that creeps up on you and brings a slow smile to your face while warming your body and internal organs up from the inside. The soup also has a slightly sweet aftertaste from dates and the goji berries that provide little flavour bombs in between mouthfuls of nourishing soup. You can see the red dates, wolfberries, and other assorted herbs stewed inside the soup. The herbs are stewed for so long that they are super soft and have also lost any residual bitterness. I even chew on the herb roots sometimes just for a change in texture.
Although the quality does tend to be inconsistent from day to day with the intensity of the soup flavour, as well as the tenderness of the chicken, itâs delicious and tender more often than not. Guess it really depends on your luck for the day on whoâs cooking the soups and how long the chicken has been stewing for before youâre served.
The Special Herbal Chicken Soup ($6.80) is one of my go-tos when Iâm looking for a light or soupy meal and is especially ideal pre-workout.
The herbal taste isnât too strong that it overwhelms your tastebuds, instead, itâs a pleasant taste that creeps up on you and brings a slow smile to your face while warming your body and internal organs up from the inside. The soup also has a slightly sweet aftertaste from dates and the goji berries that provide little flavour bombs in between mouthfuls of nourishing soup. You can see the red dates, wolfberries, and other assorted herbs stewed inside the soup. The herbs are stewed for so long that they are super soft and have also lost any residual bitterness. I even chew on the herb roots sometimes just for a change in texture.
Although the quality does tend to be inconsistent from day to day with the intensity of the soup flavour, as well as the tenderness of the chicken, itâs delicious and tender more often than not. Guess it really depends on your luck for the day on whoâs cooking the soups and how long the chicken has been stewing for before youâre served.
Another soup from the CNY menu.
Pretty different from any of the regular offerings at Soup Spoon. I donât think they have any fish soups on the regular menu (clam chowder excluded). I did like the taste of it, slightly sour from the preserved veg, but in a mild and comforting way. I like how tender the fish is, and that it didnât disintegrate into the stew into minuscule pieces. There is, however, a chance of tiny bones in the soup. Also, there was a distinct lack of silken tofu in my stew. I only had one tiny piece of tofu in my stew which was rather disappointing as I enjoy soondubu and silken tofu in soups. Probably much harder to keep soft tofu in larger pieces in soups that stew for hours though đ¤ˇââď¸
