Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong MyeongDong | 明洞姜虎东烤肉

It will never to get bored with Korean cuisine. Korean style barbecue is so well-known nowadays. Korean barbecue restaurants are opened everywhere in Singapore, and of course it can be found at almost every corner in Korea. You will never feel how great to having a barbecue meal in Korea until you did, especially is during winter season. Kang Ho Dong BBQ is one of the famous BBQ restaurant in Seoul, specialised with their thick juicy texture of meat and baked eggs. I am not a beef consumer, pork is my only favourite choice for barbecue. 

Korea Roadside Peddles Foods @ MyeongDong Street Foods

This happened on almost half a year ago, during spring season in Korea. I been at Seoul Myeongdong for a week. This post gonna focus on Myeongdong street roadside peddles foods though I have a lot of Korean foods posts still pending. We would prefer to get roadside peddles foods the most, especially at Myeongdong street. Append is my sharing, all about the foods. 

1. Steamed Egg Cake  (Score: **/*****)

This was the first Korean snack I ate at Myeongdong street, and it wasn't the only one peddlers to selling this. With no any idea and had just choose either one. I love the cake, it taste like pancake; but a bit dry for the steamed egg especially its egg-yolk. Overall it was lacking in flavor, and I think supposed to be a little bit salty or sweeter. 

Recommended Hawker Food # Bai Nian at Bugis

I still remember back in School when I would sprint to the canteen during recess, just to get that plate of dried wan tan mee with black sauce and the dumplings that in the soup. In Kuala Lumpur, wan tan mee is quiet a common dish that you would see it at almost every hawker centre/food court/restaurant. It is so common as for our breakfast, lunch and even supper. And when I began my life in The Lion City, wan tan mee over here is taste strange to me. Some are even with tomato sweet sauce instead of common black sauce as what I used to have in Kuala Lumpur. It is on few weeks ago, I got the recommendation about one dried noodle at Bugis area. I had googled it before going to, the photos I browsing through online were literally raised my cravings. This will be the first Singapore hawker food in my blog.

The stall name comes first.

"Bai Nian", I do not know why is people called it as Bai Nian Yong Tau Foo. The scene comes into my mind is those common Yong Tau Foo as I saw at every food court. They put the cart before the horse when they sell every assortment of Yong Tau Foo that is filled with the same fish paste (the white color thing), probably is from the same supplier. Which is the foods that I dislike the most. What I had in Malaysia is really filled with self-made ingredients, might be minced of meat, prawn, fish and even salted fish as well. Therefore, all I saw in Singapore have disappointed me so far. By the way, as aforementioned the photos of Bai Nian dishes have raised my cravings whatsoever.

When my first encounter a steaming bowl of stuffed bean curd from Bai Nian, I literally be mystified.

As far as the eye can see, has no bean curd whatsoever. Instead, there is a whole lot of stuffing, sticks of minced pork and batons of minced prawn. Bai Nian is truer to the spirit than the letter of the dish, with the attention it pays to the stuffing. Among the items, the prawn stick is the most surprising. The mince is smooth, but not too fine, such that you discern separate juicy morsels in each bite. Somehow, the stall has improved on nature and made prawns sweeter and springier. The pork stick has great taste and texture. The bean curd skin-covered fishcake is silky outside and firm inside, while the bean curd skin-covered pork stick is rougher outside and softer inside. And there is few small scallops mixed with it.

They only have 2 selling prices, $5 for regular size, $7 for upsize. Upsize is for the ingredients in the soup instead of for the noodle. You may choose to upsize the noodle as well with no any extra charges, how awesome it was! I do not know how is the queue during lunch time, I used to be there during dinner hour 8pm. So far been there for twice and I never met any long queue. To start your first try, 

01-58 Albert Centre 270 Queen Street

(Nearby Bugis Mrt station)

Opening hours from 8:30am to 9pm Monday to Saturday only 

Typical Singaporean Breakfast (Part 1)

Singaporean breakfast is something of a varied concept. It not must be any grain, croissant, egg benedict etc. Singaporeans used to take breakfast at hawkers and kopitiam, especially during working days. It is as common in Singapore as Starbucks is in the US. Those foods must not only can be lunch or dinner, if an eating house or hawker is serving it in the morning, it can be breakfast, it can be eaten at any time of day. No anyone will look twice if you get a plate of wantan noodle or fried noodle for your breakfast. We are living in a bustle country, but if you have a few minutes to spare, sit down to take your traditional Singaporean breakfast at hawker centers or kopitiams, it is a kind of enjoyable moment in the morning. Append below are just 5 breakfast options to get your day started energetic. 

1. Roti Prata

An Indian food which most commonly to be seen in Singapore and Malaysia, a fried flatbread and usually served with a meat-based curry sauce for dipping. Depends by every different food store, you can ask if can get chicken curry sauce or fish curry sauce instead. The roti is thinner and less chewy, with more of a crisp tender contrast. You can choose to eat roti prata (plain roti) or even with butter/chopped onion/eggs/sardine fish added in. But... Singaporean style "one roti prata and one egg prata"! 

Location: Tampines Central 1, Blk 505

2. Wanton Noodle

Wanton mee (Wanton noodle) is probably one of everyone's favorite local dish. Wanton is the small dumpling that usually served with the noodle, either steamed or fried. Two types of wanton mee are soup based and dried based. As what I knew in Singapore Malaysia Hong Kong, wanton mee used to be eaten for breakfast and lunch. And so, when it comes to breakfast, I prefer dried based wanton mee over the soup based. Don't really like to take hot soup especially in a busy weekday morning. Second characteristic of wanton mee is char siu slices (the Chinese style barbecued pork), it has to be a bit fatty to make dish palatable. 

Location: First Love Wanton, Kopitiam, Tampines Mart, Tampines Street 32

3. Chwee Kueh

Chwee kueh is one kind of breakfast which popular in Singapore and Malaysia. It is a type of steamed rice cake and every single piece has shaped as mini bowl, it served with chye poh (fried chopped radish)  and Chinese style chili sauce. Most of the Chye poh provided taste salty, some are sweet. Perfect taste combined with the plain steamed rice cake plus salted fried chye poh and homemade chili sauce. Singaporeans will request for "more chye poh" when buying chwee kueh, food store owners usually are happy to give you even more without extra charges. 

Location: First Love Noodle, Kopitiam, Tampines Mart, Tampines Street 32

4. Youtiao With Coffee

Youtiao known as Chinese style fried stick, called as Chinese doughnut sometimes. It is a long golden fried bread-stick (about 25cm length), two youtiao (bread-stick) as one piece. A traditional snack in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Youtiao can be eaten plain without any sauce, especially enjoy its crisp texture when just deep fried from hot oil. As breakfast, Singaporeans used to dunk it into a hot coffee, sometimes replaced by hot milo or hot soy bean milk. 

Location: Koufu Shop, Commonwealth MRT Station

5. Economical Fried Noodle/Beehoon/KueyTeow

A common and humble local dish, it serves as a delightful breakfast for the locals here in Singapore. Singaporeans used to dabao (take away) economical fried noodle/beehoon/kueyteow to work, or sit at the hawker to dine. It is literally perfectly-flavored and with some side dish like sausage, luncheon meat, poached egg, otak-otak, fried chicken wing, fish cake etc. If anyone was here as a tourist, forget about the egg benedict in any classy cafeteria, and this fried noodle will definitely brighten up your Singapore trip indeed. 

Location: Holland Village Fried Noodle, Tampines Central 1, Blk 505