Welcome to Bedok. Looking for Chinese places?

How about you? The newly opened Hawkers’ Street at Tampines 1 is home to several famous hawker stalls, including Tai Wah Pork Noodle. They usually get the black vinegar balance just right, so if you’re a fan of that tangy kick in your bak chor mee, this spot won’t disappoint. The pork slices are super fresh, and the portion size is pretty generous too!

If you have a spicy appetite, @xiaolongkansg would be a hotpot restaurant for you to consider. With incredibly spicy yet authentic mala soup base and chilli covered meats, you are bound to get your chilli craving fixed here!

The Mala broth itself was a little different in flavour as compared to other restaurants, as the natural flavour of the chilli is more pronounced. We ordered small spice and it had quite a kick already! The other half of the pot we had pork bone soup which was decent, not too flavourful but not too salty as well, even towards the end of the meal.

If you want spice on spice, the Hot and Spicy Beef is for you. Each piece was smoked and a huge amount of chilli flakes were pressed onto it. I mostly taste the natural flavour of chilli used; most Singaporeans may not be accustomed to eating like this but some may like it!

Their other meat options were decent, pork slices were fresh and tender.

Interestingly, my favourite dish among all we ordered was their fried mantou 😂 it was actually fried very well with a crispy outer crust and a fluffy inside without being too oily. Perfect with the condensed milk!

If you would like a good sauce to accompany your meats, I recommend you add their fragrant oil which comes in a plastic can. It reminded me of a mixture between sesame and shallot oil which was just bangin' 😍

A hotpot to consider if you want some spicy kick. Personally, I didn't quite appreciate the spice. Thank you @eatwithkeat for inviting and @foodspo.koh for joining us! Total including other meats like cuttlefish paste and prawns was about $150 for 4 pax.

I wondered why so many people loved @xiangxiangsg and I now know why. With good food, good service and free snacks, what's there not to love? Join their free membership and you can get quite a good discount too!

The Golden Broth Sour and Spicy Fish ($25.90 member price) was a crowd favourite, due to its comforting flavourful broth. It isn't too spicy, and the fish slices had a wonderful bouncy tender, signifying its freshness. This is so good with rice!

Their 18 second Angus Beef Stir-fry ($18.90 member price) is also another good order. Bold in flavours, the beef slices were relatively tender and quite smoky. We absolutely loved the garlic pieces as they had so much umami! Definitely a beer food material as it was so addictive!

Finally, their claypot tofu stew ($14.90 member price) was another staple we had to order. The taste is familiar, but better than the usual claypot tofu. Their tofu is also different, as it had a fish cake texture instead.

There were other dishes that we had but they weren't worth mentioning. I must say their dishes were mostly executed well. I wouldn't say they are the best, but they have the quality and price range that would be accessible to most families and they do warrant return trips. Can't wait to be back!

[Bedok, Singapore 🇸🇬]

Mui Choy with Chicken Rice 栂菜鸡饭 (S$4)
Herbal Chicken Soup 药材鸡汤 (S$5)

金得运香港炖汤盅仔饭 Hongkong Style Stewed Soup & Steamed Rice
Address 🛖 : 16 Bedok South Road, # 01-04 Pasar 16 @ Bedok South, Singapore 🇸🇬 460016

From TamJai SamGor
Tamjai Mixian serves a tasty and comforting clear soup noodle dish with a variety of toppings.
过桥米线
This is Cross Bridge Mixian consist of: sliced pork, sliced chicken, sliced beef, fishcake, fishball, cuttlefish ball, sliced pork belly, sliced pork liver, bamboo fungus, lettuce, pickled cabbage, minced pork, bean sprouts, beancurd sheet, tofu puff, chives.
Its the non spicy clear soup based.
Recommended!

Located within a coffeeshop in Bedok Town Centre is Happy House Sichuan Kitchen Mala Hotpot, our go-to destination for value-for-money, no frills, consistent quality of Chinese stir fries. The 3 most ordered dishes for us will be in the order of 手撕包菜, 番茄炒鸡蛋 and 回锅肉. Can you actually believe that these dishes cost between $6-7 each?

The first is the stir fried cabbage with umami fish sauce and pieces of meat while the tomato egg is just comfort food maximus. The meat dish is twice-cooked pork belly with leeks and scallions. Each of these dishes are meant to go alongside a bowl of white rice.

Fried Hokkien Mee is a hawker food classic that seems to be slowly going the way of dinosaurs. Sure, there are a lot of hokkien mee hawkers, but finding a really delicious plate is rather rare. So I was rather surprised when a fast casual restaurant like @tunxianghokkiendelights stepped up and made Hokkien mee their signature dish, and I finally tried their version one evening.⠀
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At $8.90++ a plate, it isn’t that much more expensive than the standard hawker version. The portion of noodles and fried lard on the plate are quite charitable, but the amount of chopped squid, pork slices and the three shrimp in the dish could be described as…slightly strict. It’s pretty laden with egg however, so you get a lot of fluffy scrambled egg bits here and there.⠀
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Unfortunately, the Hokkien mee was annoyingly bland. The gravy was devoid of most of the umami I was expecting from a prawn broth, and only showed glimpses of salinity here and there. This plate desperately required the intervention of a heaping helping of chili, and luckily enough Tun Xiang managed to bail themselves out on their self made sambal chili. The spicy, salty chili paste added everything that was sorely lacking from the base plate of Hokkien Mee.⠀
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When you make a dish your pride & your signature, you best make sure it’s one of the best around town. Otherwise you’re gonna end up with egg on your face.

Dried Beancurd skin (yuba), Barley, White fungus, Gingko

Total Price: $130 per pax

Overall more of comforting homecooked food than food that would amaze, so it's up to you if you wanna give this a try! Also heard that waiting time is now 1 year instead of the 2 years that we waited :-)

Oh I enjoyed this veg - it was fresh and crunchy, and paired really well with the crispy ikan bilis.

Chef Sam boiled the soup over charcoal, with ingredients including Duck, dried octopus, dried sotong, kidney beans, and 4 kinds of mushroom. Overall pretty sweet, and tasted quite similar to homecooked soup my mum makes.

Fish was fresh, and chyepoh turned out to be our favourite we wished there were more of it.

2.5kg huge chicken, where the caramelised garlic was indeed crispy. The garlic would totally go really well with Teochew porridge 🤭.