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2013-05-24
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New Station Snack Bar is located at the top floor of Far East and not difficult to locate, it's one of the food places along the entire food stretch. (I wanted to try Susan Chan but it has a perpetually long queue)This place has got really delicious and proportionally affordable prices. For a budget food hunter like me, I'll happily surrender my money for food of this quality. I ate at this place for two consecutive days, how's that? And I'll go back to this place next week again to try some of
This place has got really delicious and proportionally affordable prices. For a budget food hunter like me, I'll happily surrender my money for food of this quality. I ate at this place for two consecutive days, how's that? And I'll go back to this place next week again to try some of the other things on the menu because both meals have been more-than-satisfying.
I tried their Sweet & Sour Chicken Rice, a generic dish found in quite a few hawker centres and therefore would be able to help discern if the restaurant is of good quality. Their Sweet & Sour Chicken Rice is so good that I actually ordered another bowl of rice. The sauce is very thick and more sweet than it is sour, and drenched the rice adequately. I am more impressed with the chicken - it was piping hot when served and it was super crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.I often order this "safe" dish at hawker centres (Redhill Food Market and also ABC Brickworks Market) and cannot finish it at all because their chicken would be sodden with the lackluster sauce and becomes repulsive.
But here at New Station Snack Bar, I was so impressed by how they managed to keep it so fresh and delicious. I polished off the whole plate and was still raring for more, but worried for my waistline so I stopped there. Oh well, there's always a next time. On a side note, I find that the ratio between the chicken/sauce and the rice could be better balanced - I finished everything nicely only with a top-up of another bowl of rice. Supposedly it should have cost $0.80, but the super friendly auntie only charged me $0.30! She cleverly won over my heart and my stomach completely.
The 'next time' I dropped by here was the next day! My colleague recommended their specialty dish, the Salted Egg Pork Ribs. Strangely, they are two ingredients (salted egg & pork ribs) that does not appeal to me and I would not order them on my own accord. But since it is their specialty dish and I was already quite impressed with their Sweet & Sour Chicken Rice, I decided to give this a go.When I heard the name of this dish, I thought the salted egg would appear as... eggs. But it is actually the sauce that the pork ribs are drenched in. The salted egg yolk taste is only subtle but sufficient, and amazingly, complements the pork ribs quite well. The pork ribs replicate the impressive crispy-exterior-tender-interior sort of texture that the chicken had. Really enjoyed this dish a lot, although I still prefer my Sweet & Sour Chicken Rice Again, I finished the entire plate!
There are also a lot of things on their menu, but I would strongly recommend to try their dishes with rice. Because I'm a rice-bucket and thinks that their rice dishes look more attractive.
A tip for you if you intend to go - this place is almost always crowded to the brim during peak hours, so go as in pairs or fours to get a seat quicker. You might have to share a table with others (happened to me on both occasions) but trust me you'll be too absorbed in the food to realize that!
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