DDSD (Hong Lim Market & Food Centre)

Went on a sat but pandan beancurd was not avail. Their normal beancurd is very smooth. They used white sugar syrup and soya milk to sweeten the beancurd. It was not too sweet at normal sugar level. The taro balls came in diff flavours - chestnut, taro, sweet potato and sesame. It was chewy but abit bland. Overall, a good bowl of beancurd.

A place I have been meaning to visit, DDSD 大豆小豆’s freshly-made signature beancurds were pretty good. Soft and silky but still kinda firm, the pudding-like texture was nice but the best part for me was definitely the flavours and customisable toppings.

The Black Sesame Sauce Beancurd ($3.20) was satisfying as the generous amount of sauce was rich and nutty but I would enjoy it more if it were sweeter (honestly kinda bitter for me).

I also had to get their daily special and was delighted to order their Pandan Beancurd ($2.50) which is only available on Friday/ Saturday (10.45am onwards). Directly infused into the beancurd, the pandan flavour was subtle yet distinct. The gentle floral, mildly grassy and delicate fragrance was so complementary with the natural flavour of the soy.

Finally trying 大豆小豆 at Hong Lim!

They have pretty interesting and unique tauhuey flavours! You can also customise the sugar syrup for your tauhuey bowl and choose your preferred additional toppings!

Here is what we had:
💙one blue beancurd + tang yuan
🖤black sesame sauce beancurd + tang yuan
🧡soya milk

Smooth silky tauhuey! The soya milk drink also tastes slightly different from usual hawker stall! There was a nutty fragrant taste to it!

Sesame Soybean With Chrysanthemum Syrup 2/5

Helmed by a young husband and wife duo, DDSD serves soy-based desserts freshly made from scratch. Perhaps the summer-like weather of SG made it all the more enticing, but the 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐝 ($3.40) which comes topped with red bean, grated peanut and grass jelly over a generous scoop of beancurd, was the perfect post-meal treat! I like that the beancurd was delicately soft with a rich unsweetened soya flavour - the spoon cuts in cleanly with little resistance. Found it interesting they also offered several sugar options for the soya beancurd - I went with the Chrysanthemum Sugar for the light floral notes! While I enjoyed the grass jelly topping, I felt the red bean could be cooked longer to bring out more of the earthly and mildly sweet flavour.  

Have been dining at Hong Lim Food Centre quite often recently and had chanced upon DDSD 大豆小豆 whilst making around the food centre trying to make a decision on what to eat. Located at Level 2 of the food centre, DDSD is located at the row of stalls that is adjacent to Cantonese Delights at the corner beside a wall, replacing what seems to be a former economic rice stall. It does seem that DDSD has made an effort to make their stall look a little different to stand out from the conventional hawker stalls within the food centre — apart from its cute signboard, we found that the lampshades that they were using in the stall to be particularly interesting; modelled after ceramic bowls that are typically used by stalls soy beancurd stalls. DDSD surrounds its offerings around its Soya Milk and Soya Beancurd products — whilst the Soya Milk offerings are rather standard consisting of just simply Soya Milk and Grass Jelly Soya Milk, DDSD offers some pretty unique creations for its Soya Beancurd items such as the Black Sesame Beancurd and the Summer Beancurd. Patrons can also opt from a wide variety of sugar selection and toppings — those that we found to be rather interesting includes Chrysanthemum Sugar, as well as Black Sesame Sauce.

After taking a while to skim through the menu on what they have to offer, we found ourselves going for the Black Sesame Sauce Soya Beancurd. Whilst the lampshades at the counter was styled just like a ceramic bowl that is typically used to serve up soya beancurd in the past, it was a little pity that the dine-in bowls used at the point of time when our visit was made were disposable bowls instead — the same ones which they would cover using a lid if one were to opt for takeaway. Nonetheless, it does seem that DDSD makes their own beancurd and soy milk from scratch; bags of soy beans can be found on the floor where the counter is. Each order is freshly scooped out of the container as one makes their order; the Black Sesame Sauce Soya Beancurd sees a sugar syrup being drenched atop the soya beancurd after it is being scooped out. Thereafter, it is drenched with a layer of Black Sesame Sauce atop. Digging into the Black Sesame Sauce Soya Beancurd, it is noted that the soya beancurd from DDSD is particularly smooth and silky; so soft and delicate there is almost no resistance as one lands a spoon into it just to get a spoonful of it. The beancurd on its own carries a distinct, unsweetened bean-y note from the soy beans, only lightly, but also adequately sweetened from the sugar syrup that was drizzled atop. The Black Sesame Sauce itself was more like a Black Sesame Paste being drenched atop the beancurd; one could certainly feel that slight grittiness with the black sesame sauce that helps to add just a bit of texture to the soya beancurd — all that whilst it was also carried that signature roast-y and earthy note of black sesame paste that was distinct, but blended well with the sugar syrup and beancurd so that it was suitably sweet without causing the throat to feel particularly scratchy as well.

It was a shame that we visited DDSD by ourselves and was only able to try one single item off its menu. While the Black Sesame Sauce Soya Beancurd is an item that some other Chinese desserts establishments as well as some other establishments serving up soya beancurd attempts to also serve up, DDSD does serve up a pretty good one even though they seem to be very new in the hawker scene trying to make their name out as a hawkwrpreneur. The dedication that they put in their craft is real — having to prepare all their soy bean products from scratch and a promise to their patrons on how their soy bean products are made fresh on a daily basis; they do seem to be all about bringing their very best to their patrons through taking pride in whatever they do. DDSD somehow reminds us of Pure Soya Bean 纯香豆浆 at Toa Payoh West Market that we had visited some time back as well, considering the level of innovation that they had also placed into their offerings. The prices of the offerings at DDSD are pretty reasonable — no doubt some items might be higher-priced as compared to the conventional soy milk / soy beancurd stalls in hawker centres situated in the heartlands, but both the basic Soya Milk and Original Beancurd are priced at $1.60. The highest priced item off the menu at DDSD will be the Tang Yuan Beancurd at $3.60. DDSD does seem to be off a very good start currently; their beancurd being especially well-executed and a showcase of their passion for the craft — a promising name run by some earnest folks that is worth keeping a look out for!