Finally, for the first time ever, Hougang Central finally gets an exciting dining option in the form of the new foodcourt. Now there’s King of Fried Rice, famous ban mee, draught beer on tap, Donburi, Teppanyaki, beer on tap, briyani, beer, Collin’s, draught beer-sorry, where was I? Ah yes, @chefweihkcheongfun has also set up their newest outpost at Foodies’ Garden.⠀

The location couldn’t be more perfect: there are no fresh chee cheong fun (rice roll) merchants anywhere nearby, and I’ve been hankering for some good chee cheong fun (CCF) for a while now. Chef Wei has a reputation as an elite CCF merchant, and their rolls really do impress. The char siew chee cheong fun ($5.60 nett) was the best of the best, with an ideal meat to fat ratio on the sweet & salty BBQ pork cocooned in thin silken sheets of rice dough. It was doused sufficiently in a supremely sapid soy sauce mix, infusing every roll with unbelievable amounts of umami.⠀

Now, while the scallop ($6.80, first pic bottom) was the least impressive of the trio, it’s still plenty palatable with the same tremendous rice rolls & savour sauce, plus there’s fat & fresh scallops encased in the rolls. And finally, the prawn CCF ($5.60, 2nd pic) was more of the same, except with uber fresh, portly prawns. Definitely one for the prawn addicts.⠀

With excellent hawkers like Chef Wei and beer from the tap in Hougang Mall’s new foodcourt, I’ve just found my new hawker haunt.