This is one of the places that I have been visiting for the past few years for delicious and affordable western food. Best of all, they won't charge you the ridiculous 10% service charge at some of the branches, unlike some other restaurants that will charge you a 10% service charge when they have absolutely no services at all. I still remember that they only used to have a branch at Katong only, but over the past few years, they have been opening a branch after another and now I could say that they were widely spread around Singapore.Crispy Fried Chicken with 2 Side-dish(Potato Salad and Mashed Potato)
Most of the main dishes at Astons will come 2 side dishes. In fact, sometimes for the sake of the good sides dishes, rather than placing an order for the 'Double Chicken Set', I would place an order for 2 different types of 'Chicken set meal' and that would give you 4 side dishes to choose. The 'Potatoes' in the 'Potato' salad are crunchy and nice, in comparison the 'Mashed Potato' are gluey and yummy too. In fact, I have tried most of the side dishes over here and most of them are pretty yummy and delicious. Even though the 'Crispy Fried Chicken' is succulent and crispy, but when you are comparing it with the side dishes, the amount of excitement that I'm getting from the side dishes are far more than the main dish.

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Been a local living in a area pretty close to Tiong Bahru for the past 20+ years, One would definitely have dine at TIong Bahru market before. And frankly speaking, I still miss the old old Tiong Bahru wet market a lot. I remember that I have been eating the 'Chwee Kueh(水粿)' bought from Tiong Bahru Market ever since I was studying in the nearby kindergarten, having lunch at Tiong Bahru Market after my classes during my secondary school days and having my meals at Tiong Bahru Market during my weekends.Left: Ice Cream Ice Kacang, Right: Chendol
Up till today, they are still providing cheap, delicious and big portions of desserts. And they are open to special request to customise your desserts. For example: I would place an order for Chendol or Ice Kacang with only Red Beans once in a short while. And frankly speaking, at a relatively low price of S$1.50 per bowl, you are getting a lot of ingredients and it tastes pretty good too.

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Some dishes have a very long history behind it and it ain't an easy task trying to break away from the same old method of preparing the dish and coming up with a new way of preparing it. However...'Stone Pot Chicken'(香香鸡肉)
Doesn't this dish looks beautiful to you? There's a nice mixture of different colors. Ingredients like 'Special Marinated Chicken', 'Sliced Salted Fish', 'Sausage', 'Mushroom' and 'Vegetable' have been added into this dish.With a lot of tedious stirring, I finally managed to stir all the ingredients inside the 'Stone Bowl' nicely together. Here comes the nice part about this dish.

The taste of this is pretty much similar to a normal 'Claypot Rice' and unlike the normal 'Claypot', this does not have the problem of the rice sticking onto the bowl. Therefore like some of my friends, if you really love the taste and the texture of
the overcook, crispy rice, you could really savour it till the very last bit over here. On top of the crispy rice, each individual bite also comes with a nice fragrance of 'Salted fish' and a good mix of the sweet ingredients listed in the above. Even though the portion of 'Claypot Rice' that I'm getting over here are much more smaller than the regular ones, but I don't need to worry about the bones of the 'Chicken' and I could really emptied the whole bowl without any wastage.

(By the way, as compared to any other types of bowl, the 'Stone Bowl' can keep the food warm for a much more longer period of time, which is a big (+) )

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They have a large variety of ingredients. For example, a large spread of vegetables, noodles, seafood, poultry, etc... They also have cooked food like Fried Bee Hoon, chilli crab, fried chicken, fried buns, etc...One word to describe the Si Chuan Ma La soup base, Shiok. This is probably the best 'Si Chuan Ma La' steamboat soup base that I have tasted for years. You can actually feel the spicy taste using your tongue and eventually making it numb.
More Shiok. And one thing that make the soup completely different from the other 'Si Chuan Ma La' soup base was, some of the soup base out there had a thick layer of chilli oil in the soup and they would named it as a 'Si Chuan Ma La' soup but this one doesn't. You could actually identify the ingredients that they were using to make the soup base so tasty.

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When it comes to Kaya Bread, most Singaporean's will thought of Ya Kun. However, this place also prepares a similar type of Kaya Bread as compared to Ya Kun and at the same time cheaper too.They are preparing the Kaya Bread using a similar method as compared to those at Ya Kun. There's the crispy bread, the nice layer of Kaya spread and a sliced of cold butter on both ends of the bread. However, the good thing about this stall would be the nice short queue that they have over here. But the drawback would be the limited number of Kaya Bread that they are selling on a daily basis.Here's a photo of the stall itself. It's hidden away in a corner of this food market.

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