I was at Ghim Moh looking for breakfast and decided to get breakfast for my colleagues in office.
I bought two boxes of the following:
- Peanut: The pancake is slightly thick and the peanut filling falls out of the pancake when you lift it up. The peanut filling has peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar. Not bad.
- Coconut: The same pancake mentioned earlier and orange coconut shavings. The coconut shavings is cooked with red jaggery sugar, which the coconut filling its orange color. I liked this more than the peanut offering from this stall. Try it!
They have stalls at hawker centres across Singapore, including Toa Payoh, so you need not travel all the way to Ghim Moh to try.
After I passed the pancake to my colleagues, they commented that they like what they ate. So no complaints from them!
Recommended!

I was at Alexandra Village Hawker Centre one morning and was looking for breakfast.
Most of the stalls were closed, it being 10am.
I chanced upon this stall and it had won an award for minced pork noodles. There was also a magazine article on the stall, titled ‘Not your usual Noodles’. I decided to give it a try.
There was a small pot of stewed sliced mushrooms percolating over a charcoal fire, where the assistant takes your order.
I ordered Mee Pok dry, $3 portion.
It came with fishball, pork ball, minced pork, fishcake, 2 leaves of lettuce and topped with the stewed sliced mushrooms. I spotted a container of crispy pork lard and asked for some. The stal assistant gladly added into my bowl.
The noodles were al dente and delicious. The ingredients were also good portioned, and I had not just noodles, but some of the fore-mentioned ingredient in each mouthful.
The serving size for my order was filling.
No regrets trying this stall and I will be back again.
Try it!

I was with a friend and we were looking for a place for lunch. I suggested this Fish Soup stall which my friend has not tried before, and so we went. I often come here for their sliced fish soup with a bowl of plain rice. To complete the meal, I will often order the Stewed Duck to go with my meal. If you come during peak lunch time (12 – 3pm), be prepared for a 45 minutes wait. I came at 12.50pm and waited 40 minutes for the food to come. There are several tables with people waiting for their food to come. The key reason for the long wait is that there are lots of customers and there’s only 1 person cooking. But its worth the wait. Here are the highlights of the meal:
- Fish Soup: Sliced fish cooked in a clear broth with a slice of Szechuan vegetable and several sliced tomato. It is topped with stall-fried shallots with oil, which adds fragrance to the soup. Must-order!
- Stewed Duck: This is duck chopped up into bite sized pieces and stewed in a soya sauce. The soya sauce is flavourful and goes well with the white rice. In fact the white rice you order will have some of this gravy ladled over it. Nice! At other tables, I realised that they do have duck gizzard and duck legs! I will order them the next time when I am there. If you are planning to go, do go before 12pm or after 3pm, for a shorter waiting time. Try it!

I was with a friend and we were looking for a place for lunch.
I suggested this Fish Soup stall which my friend has not tried before, and so we went.
I often come here for their sliced fish soup with a bowl of plain rice. To complete the meal, I will often order the Stewed Duck to go with my meal.
If you come during peak lunch time (12 – 3pm), be prepared for a 45 minutes wait. I came at 12.50pm and waited 40 minutes for the food to come. There are several tables with people waiting for their food to come. The key reason for the long wait is that there are lots of customers and there’s only 1 person cooking. But its worth the wait.
Here are the highlights of the meal:
- Fish Soup: Sliced fish cooked in a clear broth with a slice of Szechuan vegetable and several sliced tomato. It is topped with stall-fried shallots with oil, which adds fragrance to the soup. Must-order!
- Stewed Duck: This is duck chopped up into bite sized pieces and stewed in a soya sauce. The soya sauce is flavourful and goes well with the white rice. In fact the white rice you order will have some of this gravy ladled over it. Nice!
At other tables, I realised that they do have duck gizzard and duck legs! I will order them the next time when I am there.
If you are planning to go, do go before 12pm or after 3pm, for a shorter waiting time.
Try it!

Popped by this restaurant again for lunch, this time bringing my two colleagues who were a little sceptical that Ma La Xiang Guo will not be spicy for them.
They are not big on chilli and tend to go easy on chilli with their food.
The concept is you pick the ingredients that you like, before handing it over to the cashier who will weigh the ingredients and calculate the purchase. There are different prices for different ingredients, with vegetables costing less and meat items costing more.
We picked a couple of items from the chiller in the front of the restaurant (beancurd, sliced lotus root, brinjal, bamboo shoot, broccoli, straw mushroom, seaweed, black fungus, crabstick, quail eggs, luncheon meat & Chinese white transparent noodles)
Here is the verdict:
- Ma La Xiang Guo: All the ingredients that we picked from the chiller were fried together. You can ask the chef to prepare the food according to your preferred level of spiciness. You can choose no- spicy, to 3 levels of spiciness. We opted for the least spicy option. The spice level was good enough for my colleagues (who can’t take chilli). Fried crispy peanuts were also added to the dish. If you don’t peanuts, do ask them not to include in the cooking process.
- Fried Rice: This was simply rice fried with eggs. It was good, although it would be better if it was less oily.
- Boiled Dumplings: Restaurant made dumplings boiled in water and served. Good!
With the weather turning cold this time of the year (Nov – Dec 2014) with lots of rain days, I will be back to have some spicy food to keep me warm!