Chinatown

A warm and comforting bowl of pho with beef brisket. Don’t forget to add in some spice, lime and chili that provided separately to enhance the taste of the soup.

This Vietnamese restaurant is hidden at the side of Fook Hai Building facing Upper Hokien Street. Yet it doesn’t stop many people who work around coming here for their lunch.

The waiting time gets a bit longer during this lunch peak period, considering they have only a few people working at the kitchen.

The fresh hand roll was served first, which is good enough to fill our tummy while waiting for our pho.

Stuffed with veggie, shrimp and beef. Dipping it to the sauce and you will enjoy much of it.

It is very interesting to see them selling some local dishes like Mee Siam at this place.

But this curry chicken with focaccia attracted me eventually. The curry was surprisingly so rich and tasty that I finished the whole bowl with the focaccia bread. The curry also comes with few pieces of chicken and potatoes.

The rosemary and garlic focaccia really give its fragrant taste when you dipped it with the curry.

Found this stall at this coffee shop that sell decent dung gui herbal roasted duck, which tasted succulent with herbs.

A cosy co-working space with comfortable meeting area, and of course they also serves some in-house dining as well.

I ordered their falafel bowl without much expectation and was surprised with the portion. It is actually very big and fulfilling meal for one person.

Comes with lots of mixed mesclun, cherry tomato salsa and tabouleh.

Of course with their house-made falafel you can’t go without the humus, which they provided 2 type of it; included the traditional and beetroot.

Accompanied by mixed herbs, avocado, house-made plant-based raita, house-made flatbread, dukkah and almonds.

I need some protein for my lunch, which is why I also added some organic chicken to my bowl.

Beside the foods here, I would recommend to try some of the desserts as well.

Although I must admit the price is a bit higher considering the portion for me. But well everything is at a higher cost now.

The hojicha pudding has a very strong in the flavour, sweet but not too overwhelming.

Interestingly I’m the only guy here when I came with my female colleagues, and I can see why they are so excited about this place.

They are all attracted to the merchandises selling here with cat design. Yes, perhaps you can find this shop is surrounded with cat paintings!

They also served their popular Korean-Japanese style of food with wide selection of drinks.

This was mentioned as their best seller. The dosirak rice box comes with luncheon meat, sunny side up, stir fried kimchi with pork and seaweed rice; contain within this traditional tinted rice box.

It was surprisingly delicious, enjoyable to eat them. The kimchi is flavourful for me and match well with the rice.

A very popular food chain from China, Kua Food 夸父炸串 specialising with their fried skewers has expanded their franchise outlet here in Singapore.

Now you can find them at the basement of Chinatown Point.

First, choose the skewers you want from the choice of meat and vegetables. Then they will fried them with special sauce and seasoning.

At this food centre, some time you really need some effort in order to try some of the hidden and secret stalls here.

Take for example this stall called the Chinatown Cooked Food, you may find this stall often closed on the day. That’s because they only opened for a few hours early in the morning everyday.

Started as early as 6:30am in the wee hour of morning, serving laksa and fried beehoon; with add-on available with their yong tau foo pieces.

Came on early morning around 7:30am and there’s a short queue about 5 person in front.

So you really need some effort to wake up early in order to try their laksa or fried beehoon with yong tau foo. The reason I say so many a because they usually sold out by 9am.

I actually came a few times past 9am and unfortunately they usually sold out by then.

A very tasty bowl of laksa they have here, creamy and not too spicy. Topped with your choice of yong tau foo such as fish cake and fried beancurd.

You probably won’t find any much articles about this place on internet, not even on Google Maps. So if you wake up enough to be here by 8am, then you should try this stall for breakfast.

Chai Kee Fish Soup stall at the 1st level is where you can go for some comforting fish soup.

Love their warm and light soup with pieces of sliced fish, comes with pieces of sliced fish and vegetables.

Don’t forget to add their fried shallot to the soup.

You can now find the stall in Maxwell Food Centre, continue to serve variety of soups here.

The portion of the ingredients is surprisingly big enough for me, and I took awhile to finish the whole bowl of it.

Very simple yet so comforting, especially during this raining season.

I know there’s lots of option for Chinese foods here in the food centre, and this round I went to this stall called the Chuan Wei Yuan 川味园.

I must warn you about the portion, as all single dishes would served in big standard size that could feed at least 4 people.

Their sauerkraut fish 酸菜鱼 is so addictive with the soup, filled with generous slices of fish inside.

We also went for their sour & spicy shredded pork, chili chicken and shredded potato as well.

It would get more and more salty as you eat all of them.