Hakka Thunder Tea Rice (Margaret Drive Hawker Centre)

One of the popular food stall at Margaret Drive Hawker Centre that the queue always long, serving their authentic Hakka style thunder tea rice and yong tau fu.

Since their yong tau fu also one of the popular item here, so I grab this instead. You get to choose the fried items or veggie pieces you want.

I would say the fried items are so crispy and delicious. Get about 4 pieces should be enough to complete it as a meal.

[Hakka Thunder Tea Rice]
Have seen and heard about this famous Thunder Tea Rice at Tanglin Halt Food Market, and only finally got to try it recently! Do be prepared to wait for a really long time though, the queue is pretty long esp during lunch time!

Thunder Tea Rice ($4 White Rice / $4.50 for Brown Rice)
Their Thunder Tea Rice comes with a lot of ingredients in a bowl, and you also get to add Yong Tau Foo (each pc $1) to the bowl. I added on 1 Meat Ball and 1 mushroom, which was really not bad!

Let's start with the Thunder Tea Rice - with so much ingredients in the bowl, and especially with the crunch from ikan bilis and peanuts, there'll be a lot going on, and you'll start to realise the bowl seems to be never-ending. Certainly a huge portion, and I enjoyed pairing with the chilli/ sweet sauce (self-service).

Really recommend getting their YTF, which they were constantly frying, so you know it's freshly made. The meatball was crispy on the outside, and the meat was really juicy and flavourful! The mushroom also had a strong fragrant mushroom flavour you don't get in all mushrooms, so was pretty enjoyable!

Altho I'm not exactly a fan of the Thunder Tea (green bowl), I still managed to finish ¾ of it (surprisingly). I'd say it's acquired taste - pretty Herby and minty, but I found myself not disliking it as much as I used to.

Possibly one of the better (or best thus far) thunder tea rice I've eaten so it's pretty much worth a try!

Address: 3A Commonwealth Dr, #01-31 Tanglin Halt Food Centre, Singapore 141001

Overall Rating: 8/10

The queue for this is crazy. It moves very slowly, I spent about 1 hour queueing for this because the sunk cost fallacy kicked in. Started at ~11.45am on a Sunday.

It’s quite good! There’s ikan bilis, mani cai, long beans, leeks, cabbage, peanuts, firm tofu cubes and cai po. I added on a fried taukwa (which was huge). Each component was done quite well, textures and flavours were great - peanuts/ikan/longbeans were crunchy, veg/tofu were soft with a bite, and the taukwa was freshly. The soup was quite palatable, not too bitter but not as nutty as lindama’s. I would definitely come back again, it was a very satisfying meal. Just that the 1-hour queue is a turnoff so I’ll probably come much earlier next time.

I was searching for it in Tanglin Halt Market but to no avail. Actually it’s at Tanglin Halt Food Centre which is 3min walk away. I ordered thunder tea brown rice ($4 - has chopped veggies, tofu, ikan bilis, peanut, soup is lightly bitter but wholesome and hearty) and the handmade yong tau fu which are filled generously with minced meat/fish paste (1 each of all YTF, $6.40). The soup is very flavourful and the chilli is sedap!

I ordered a bowl of thunder tea with white rice for $3.50.
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There are a medley of ingredients in my bowl including chye poh (preserved radish), tau kwa, fried ikan bilis, peanuts and some kind of vegetable that I was not able to identify.
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The bowl is rather light on flavors as the chye poh is the sweet variety. However, the seasoning from the vegetable makes up for it.
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While everything was chopped up for easy eating, the ikan bilis and peanuts added some crunch and texture to the dish.
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Read more at: https://thedeadcockroach.blogspot.com/2019/03/hakka-thunder-tea-rice-blk-3a-tanglin.html?m=1
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