As unappetizing as this dish looks, it actually tastes incredible. With the traditional hainanese curry sauce and the savoury sauce from the stewed pork mixed together with rice and all the other ingredients, it creates a tasty explosion of flavours in your mouth.

I love the curry chicken wings they serve here as it is cooked till the meat just simply falls off the bones when you bite into it. No effort is required at all.

The hainanese fried pork chop is a little dry, but I guess it adds texture admidst the gloopiness of the sauces. Depending on my mood.

I really like the traditional hainanese cabbage here as well. It's well cooked, and just slightly crunchy. It goes very well with the rice and sauces.

The overall cleanliness of the place is not that great, but it's definitely an authentic experience sitting there, eating your snotty looking mess of a meal. What I can say is this - it definitely tastes better than it looks! And being open late for supper, it's a hearty post-party food!

Leon Kee sells mainly pork ribs soup that is cooked in a thick herbal broth. The soup will come in a small claypot which keeps it warm while you enjoy it slowly with your bowl of rice. The pork ribs are rich with the flavor of the herbs and cooked long enough so that the meat comes off easily from the bones.They also sell prawn noodles in a claypot and braised pork trotters which are very good as well. The pork trotters is tender but not overcooked.

Long ago, they used to sell their bak kut teh with real tea - you can order Chinese tea to go with your bak kut teh soup but due to space constraints, they have stopped doing so. What a pity...

Fish soup is such a comfort food for me, and I had to try the ABC market fish soup. The queue was pretty long. w
The soup was milky and slightly sweet, exactly how I liked it. The fish was very fresh, and didn't crumble despite being in the soup for a while. The garnish really upped the flavour factor of the dish, and the amount of vegetables in the soup also made it healthier (and easier for my conscience to stomach). I'd return to this stall in a heartbeat! The bowl cost me $3.50, which is quite cheap considering that the average price at shopping mall food courts can go up to $5 or $5.50.

Wow Wow West used to be based in Bukit Merah View Market and Food Centre and is famous because the owner hired ex-convicts to work at the store, providing them a means of livelihood as well as counseling whenever they need help.

The owner has now moved to ABC Brickworks Food Centre. The best selling item here is their Chicken Chop which is juicy and goes very well with the sauce. The Fish and Chips is another best seller as are the various sausages that they have. I find their homemade coleslaw impressive too. And the serving is HUGE! I can never finish the whole plate although my colleagues manage to chomp down everything.

I'm going to write this review without excessive philosophizing, ranting or use of the "I" word. There will be no lengthy back story. I wouldn't be saying anything new anyway, since Selera Rasa has been on TV, blogged about and reviewed. Little wonder why, since this is arguably Singapore's best nasi lemak.

Imagine a simple 3 ingredient high. The rich fragrance of basmati rice simmered and steamed in coconut milk and pandan leaves, the abrupt spicy heat of a sweet chili pepper coulis, and the savory comfort of a curry-fried chicken wing. There are other condiments, a fried egg, cucumber slices and ikan bills, the ubiquitous accompaniment to any self-respecting nasi lemak, but your brain is past caring about these other players on the plate and your eyes struggle to focus on what it is exactly that you've put in your mouth that still has you reeling. It's the triumvirate of chili, rice and curried chicken wing....trust me.

I'd like to think I know a thing or two about nasi lemak, having had it just about every Saturday for tea since I was knee high to a cicak. So I think I speak with some personal authority on the matter of whether Selera Rasa is a worthy nasi lemak hall-of-famer. I think it is. I also think that Selera Rasa is a victim of it's own fame. All the media coverage creates unrealistic expectations in diners who flock here only to be disappointed when angels don't appear and next week's 4D numbers fail to materialize in the basmati. Don't expect too much, come with an open mind and set your senses free to explore and you will come away satisfied, if not pleasant surprised.

It really is just honest to goodness solid quotidian fare. Look beyond the bull-@$!# that's been piled on these guys by the media and see it for the single specialty master hawker stall that it is and you'll see what all the fuss is about. It's just a local stall that serves good honest nasi lemak. No gimmicks. No fancy service. Just think of all the superlatives that pepper reviews of the latest French restaurant, Italian joint or Spanish tapas place; why don't those same superlatives apply here? Based on flavor alone, I see no reasonable explanation why not...unless it's the bull-@#$% these places are throwing in your eyes.

Get real, get local, hug your local hawker today and tell him or her that you deserve better.