Seow Choon Hua Restaurant

Visited “Seow Choon Hua” after hearing about their Fuzhou delicacies from my parents.
A casual eatery with indoor and outdoor seating, I was told by the gentleman manning the counter that they make everything in-house by hand. So it seemed logical to order their Mixed Bowl.
In it were “Yuan Pi” (the small, juicy pork balls with the thinnest, most delicate wrapping - my favourite of the lot), Wanton (medium size pork dumplings), “Shui Gao” (large triangular dumplings), “Yu Yuan” (fishballs) and Fuzhou “Yu Yuan” (huge minced meat-filled fishballs with a mochi-like texture, so they’re unlike the ones you find at the usual fishball noodles stalls). I had mine with plain rice while @huatkaliao opted for the version with dry noodles (it’s really tasty as they dress the noodles in a sweet-savoury sauce and pork lard oil).
As this dialect group’s cuisine is getting increasingly hard to find these days, I reckon it’s worth giving the food here a try.

Theres a typo on the menu as it wasnt Fish Dumpling, rather just Dumpling. Saw blueskies cottoncloud's review but didnt want to believe it. Now im thoroughly convinced. The fishballs really werent good at all, and had a mochi-esque texture. Filling was decent but really lacking in volume. First time trying yenpi and the filling was too sweet for me. Overall everything was sweet, incl the soup and Dumpling filling, but still manageable. The only saving grace was the Noodles which were proper al dente(like pasta, not like usual mee pok), coated in a tomato sauce-esque chili.

Starchy meatballs (imagine mee hoon kueh disguised as fish) filled with meat just didn’t cut it for me. This is not how I remember Foo Chow meatballs to be. First and last time. The rice cakes were ok, I had better.

Chanced upon this eatery while cafe hopping. We had the red wine chicken meesua [$5] which tasted so good! There was a very strong wine taste but we are okay with it. The chicken pieces were tender but too small.

We also had the mixed soup with mee kia [$5] where we immediately noticed the contrast between a food blogger review's soup and ours. The handmade ingredients (foochow meatballs, 燕皮, dumpling) were so flavourful we ordered another bowl of 燕皮 soup [$5]. The soups here are kind of oily though. But for a Foochow like me, the food here tastes like home!

For those that is used to eating factory made fish ball, you will find the Foo Chow Fish Ball's texture is kind of soft, almost pillowy. It doesn't comes with the bouncy, QQ texture that we usual have. Biting into the huge golf ball size Foo Chow Fish Ball, you will also find marinated minced pork filling in it.
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Find out more at https://www.sgfoodonfoot.com/2018/10/seow-choon-hua-restaurant-sultan-gate.html
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Seow Choon Hua Restaurant
33 Sultan Gate
Singapore 198481
Tel: +65 62982720
Nearest MRT: Nicoll Highway (CC Line)

Opening Hours:
Daily: 10am - 10pm

Foo Chow Mixed Soup which comes with Foo Chow fish ball, yen pi, dumpling and fish dumpling.

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