Porridge

Not many stalls selling this type of Cantonese Chicken Porridge in Singapore. This Bib Gourmand stall is located in Jurong West. They don’t even display the Michelin Bib Gourmand sticker, this stall has very short opening hours and it’s only after my third visit, I finally managed to get to taste it.

Ordered an individual set for $4.50. Portion is generous, a large bowl of porridge and a plate of chicken. The porridge is not your typical Cantonese porridge whereby the rice is boiled to a paste. You can still see individual grains here, slightly softer than Teochew porridge. But it is full of flavour, sesame oil and soya sauce drizzled on top and garnished with chopped spring onions. The chicken is soft and tender and it comes with the fragrance of sesame oil.

Overall a good serving of Cantonese Chicken Porridge but personally I still prefer the one from Dunman Food Center.

One of the best Teochew Porridge places in Singapore located along Serangoon Road. Small corner lot Kopitiam with only a few tables, you need to get a place to seat before you queue up to order your favourite dishes.

Especially recommend their otah, salted vegetables and sotong. The otah has huge chunks of fish meat in it and not too spicy. Salted vegetables does not have the usual sweetness you find in other places. Sotong is fresh and crunchy.

This place is a bit pricey compared with others and parking is a problem.

On a cold and rainy day, nothing beats a piping hot bowl of porridge.

This stall in Joo Chiat area has been around for ages. Their porridge is silky soft, load of ingredients and their boneless chicken is literally one of the best in Singapore. Auntie cooks the porridge orders one by one. If you ask to add an egg, she will mix in the egg white while the porridge is cooking and pour the broth into the bowl containing the egg yolk. See my video. Somehow the porridge is more silky and you have a nice soft chew from the egg white. Pork porridge, chicken porridge, fish porridge…they are all good.

The chicken is so tender and Uncle takes the trouble to debone every piece. Drizzled in soya sauce and sesame oil, the fragrance is incredible. Chilli is also quite nice but not the star of the show. I added chicken liver and chicken heart. Both were equally good, the former firm and creamy to chew on, the latter crunchy. Not funky taste at all.

The queue is long in weekends and moves very slowly. I waited 45 mins for my order but it was worth it. Parking is also very limited.

A very good bowl of porridge. I ordered smaller portion of Mixed pork porridge ($4.50) and added an egg and century egg for $0.50 each.

Porridge is not the silky smooth watery Cantonese style but rather small and soft grains of rice type which I prefer. No funky taste in the offals and the liver actually tasted crunchy on the outside but tender as you chew.

Will come back again.

Tried their Kovan outlet. Good variety and nice fluffy watery porridge. Maybe not the best in Singapore, especially when you factor in their price, but the quality is consistent and you get the same from all their outlets in Singapore.

For those who like traditional Cantonese porridge I recommend this stall at Ayer Rajah Food Center. What I like about their porridge is instead of gluey porridge, you and taste fluffy bits of rice. They also sell Bak Chang, yam cake, Chee Cheong Fun and Siew Mai. Ads an egg into the porridge and the silkiness of the porridge comes through immediately. Sedap!

Definitely coming back for this comfort food.

Unlike most Cai Png stall which only offers normal porridge, this stall at Taman Jurong Food Center, offers piping hot sweet potato porridge from a humongous clay vat. Very traditional. The porridge is sweet from the sweet potato but most of the dishes could do with a little more salt. Still it was comfort food on a hot sweltering day.

I’ll be back

Comfort food. Relatively cheap at 25.90 for three persons

Recommended by a friend and since it is only nearby, decided to dabao home for lunch. I ordered the $6 portion of ikan batang and added fish roe for $2. The soup was very umami and flavoured with smokiness of the tee por fish bits. Their chilli sauce is a blend green and red chilli peppers with a high note of sourness, very similar to those you get from Malaysian ban mian. Only complaint is portions are a bit small.

I’ll be back to try their deep fried version and their spinach soup.

I like their porridge. Can taste each grain of rice. Not hard but also not soggy like the Cantonese version. Loads of dishes to choose from. Even have fresh cockles.

I’ll be back.

What better than Taiwanese Porridge on a rainy day. This restaurant is unique. It served Taiwanese porridge, the kind with chunks of sweet potato, paired with a mixture of Taiwanese and Teochew dishes like Cai Poh Omelette, raw cockles, salted vegetables with large intestines, etc. Glad they survived COVID and looks like business is doing well.