Haiyah! Chicken chop!

And no, Haiyah! is not the name of the shop. The shop is located in a coffee shop called S21 Cafe at Clementi Ave 4 Blk 308. The name of the stall is Clementi Fried Chicken & Burger and it is Halal western food stall that sells chicken chop and other assorted fried items like fried chicken, fish and chips and chicken cutlet. But I particularly like the chicken chop because the meat is moist and the marinade they use makes the chicken chop taste quite unique. The bad point about this shop is that its standard fluctuates, so sometimes it is not as fantastic as when they are on form. You'll have to 'bo heng suay' or try your luck!



Chunks of chicken, fries and coleslaw followed by teh-O: shiok!

Easter hunt continued!

Alamak! NOBODY tried to find the egg tarts? So sad. It must be because less people are coming to this blog. Must advertise. Hey, best food in Singapore! Food blog, best in Singapore and Ubin ah, lelong lelong! Want to know where to eat next? Come to this blog! Yeah! (ok, lets not overdo it)

Well, with all the previous clues, Wendy and I looked high and low for the legendry egg tart. With lotsa luck, intensive interrogation of taxi drivers and good old help from Kedai Buku, we managed to stumble on the X mark of the treasure map: Taman Sri Trebau!

Located near Pelangi, which means Raindow in malay, this part of JB is a nice a interesting eating spot. It has lotsa food and a food centre which houses many BBQ fish stalls and it seems that one of the stall sell very good Begger's chicken. Why do we say this? Well, this is one of the clues that we food hunters use. If an area has a high density of a certain type of food, it is highly likely that there is one or two stalls that sells a very delicious version of that food! (eh, I giving out my trade secrets lei. Come to my blog please!) This explains the laksa situation at Katong and beef hor fun of Geylang.

Battle of the Golden balls

Directed by a lead, we headed to Golden Mile Food Center, which is also known to the locals as the army market, to test out the glutinous rice balls (tang yuan). There are actually two rival stalls in this food centre. How do we know they are rivals? Well, when they sell exactly the same stuff in exactly the same flavors and soup, you'll know there's competition in the air. Actually, this is how we see if there's something particularly good at a certain location. If there is, scores of other stalls which sell the same thing will be there to snatch business from first time customers who stumble in from a recommendation.


With anticipation of good food, we ordered glutinous rice balls from the two stalls and crept to a place out of sight of the two stall owners. Then the ultimate test: munch!

Eh? Both stalls don't taste different. Texture is similar, the taste of the paste is similar also. But the bad thing was that both dun taste exceptional, aka normal. We deliberately bought all the flavours to try, but all of them tasted normal. I must say that we were disappointed.

A few months after the failed Battle of the Golden balls, Wendy suddenly screamed into my ear enthusiastically told me that she had just eaten the best glutinous rice balls. The anticipatory widening of my eyes rapidly narrowed when she said that is was so good that it was better than the ones she made herself. As she dragged me to Ghim Moh food centre, I mentally prepared myself to eat something that tastes 'better than what she makes'. Before I could finish my prayers, I found myself standing at the corner of the food centre where the stall was. 01-43 Ah Balling peanut soup. Oddly familiar.... Oh, it was one of the stalls we tried in Golden Mile Food centre! But since we were already there, we got a bowl of all the flavors of glutinous rice balls.





I closed my eyes and put one into my mouth. Then my eyes open with shock: ultra nice! Wonderful even! Like biting on puffs of cloud which burst into rich flavors! The peanut soup was wonderful too! Not too sweet. I particularly enjoyed the sesame flavored ones. Thanks for bringing me there Wendy!