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This humble stall has been operating even before 2012, with locals returning time and again for their tasty desserts, friendly service, and affordable pricing.
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Their rendition has slippery smooth honey sea coconut with a slight bite, springy nata de coco / coconut water jelly cubes, and juicy longan, paired with some calamansi lime juice over fine shaved ice.
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Carries lovely honeyed floral earthy fruity zesty sour sweet flavour, yum.
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Honey Sea Coconut And Nata De Coco
Soon Huat Cold & Hot Dessert
@ Hougang Hainanese Village Centre, 105 Hougang Avenue 1 #02-43
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/12/best-of-singapore-hawkers-honey-sea-coconut.html

Luncheon meat and chicken wing.

Love white carrot cake? Give Hup Huat White Carrot Cake (02-35) a try when you’re at Hainanese Village Food Centre. Only serving white carrot cake, it’s presented differently from your typical carrot cake as it’s cooked in squares, has a pancake like thickness and presented in a flower shape.

The homemade carrot cake cubes are soft and you can actually taste the radish itself. I noticed the cubes are relatively tiny compared to the ones you can find elsewhere.

The carrot cake is well coated with eggs. In fact the egg is pan fried till crispy and nicely coats the carrot cake cubes. And this gives it a nice oomph. This is different from most carrot cake where the egg is cooked till fluffy and doesn’t shape the flavour profile of the dish.

We added chilli sauce to the carrot cake for a spicer touch. As the chilli is well spread throughout the dish, I felt it blended too well into the dish and couldn’t taste it. Perhaps it isn’t too spicy for me to make a difference.

There’s a queue number system in place and you got to wait for a good 15-20 minutes at most. It’s a good carrot cake but I wouldn’t make the special journey out to Hainanese Village for this.

On my recent trips to Hainanese Village, I couldn’t help but to notice the long queue for Punggol Noodles (02-24). Didn’t regret a single bit after joining the queue. Go for the Punggol Noodles ($3) and remember to add on the amazing handmade meatballs ($2/3).

The chef-proprietor Mr Yee has been selling mee pok for over 20 years first in Punggol (hence the stall name), then to Kovan and now to Hainanese Village. Unfortunately, he met with an accident in his earlier days and cooks everything with one hand. And he has went through other trials and tribulations too. I admire his grit and determination as being a hawker is tiring enough.

We had the dry version of the Punggol Noodles and added some meatballs - essentially mee kia (thin yellow noodles) that’s mixed with a chilli vinegar seasoning (no chilli and vinegar available too) with minced pork, pork slices, pork liver and meatballs in a clear pork soup. Free flow serving of lard is available. Try to eat in moderation.

Fresh pork is used in making the handmade meatballs every day. Unlike most meatballs, there’s more meat than flour which is such a treat these days as most of them taste pretty uniformed. It was a delightful treat for me and I could feel the softness and bounciness of the meatballs in every bite.

The mee kia was springy and was well coated with the chilli vinegar seasoning. And you’ll get some stewed shiitake mushrooms to accompany your noodles. I appreciate how the pork liver is not fully cooked so it’s not dry and hard when you eat it.

Ok I went bck yesterday again for Lorong Ah Soo Lor Mee 🤭 because I want to reminisce the taste for Lor Mee again 😋. So the gravy was quite thick and shiok but the ingredients for ngoh hiang and shredded duck meats was quite fresh made. But I need to wait at least around 30 to 45 mins for my turn to order lor mee. For me, I would not going bck for Lor Mee because I want to try punggol noodles nxt time. I felt that the queue was getting shorter compared to the past. Mostly people didn't want to queue and wait for opening hours around noon.

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Missed fried carrot stick 🥕 so much for Dong Jin Yuan Dian Xin last time that I went there for lunch time. Need to eat them while served in 🔥.

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