Roti Kari (Tekka Centre)

Was going past Tekka Centre and got to learn about a new stall that has opened up in the area where most of the Indian / Muslim stalls within the food centre are situated. Roti Kari is a pretty new entrant to the market; it is noted that Roti Kari is a little bit of a social enterprise that “train and equip ex-offenders with the craft of bread-making and the business skills to one day run their own hawker stalls”; the establishment being one that is supported by the President’s Challenge. Being a bakery stall, Roti Kari used to serve up a line-up of buns, Shokupans and Muffins that comes in various flavours, though it does seem that operations had been scaled back in recent times with the only offerings made available being a line-up of egg tarts that comes in both sweet and savoury variants.

Noting how savoury egg tarts are more difficult to come across, we found ourselves going for the Chilies Prawn Egg Tart — one of those variants that is listed as a Special Tart in the menu board. Going for the Chilies Prawn Egg Tart, we did find that the egg tart comes with chilies prawn filling in the middle of the tart — the crust of the egg tart being light and flaky without being too greasy, while the egg curd filling itself was soft and smooth though it does carry a bit of a sweetness on its own. This does create a savoury-sweet flavour profile with the chilies prawn filling which turns out to be rather similar to that of Hae Bee Hiam, though it does seem to carry a bit of a wetter and paste-like consistency that is more akin to that of Otah somewhat.