Chomp Chomp Food Centre
Chomp Chomp Food Centre at Serangoon Garden is probably one of the most popular food centres around in Singapore. The signature dish there is probably the barbequed seafood.
However, I wasn’t exactly in the mood of any barbequed food today, thus I decided to try the other food stalls there.
The first stall I tried was the “Adam Road Big Prawn Mee”. The stall owner was pretty nice. Seeing that my family of three was sharing the two bowls of noodles, he automatically offered us another bowl so that it’ll be easier for us to share our food.
Ratings: 3.0/5.0
A bowl of prawn mee costs around $4/$5, slightly towards the expensive side. However, for the pig tail noodles that I ordered from the stall, there were actually quite a few pig tails in the food, so I guess that makes up for the slightly more expensive price?
The pig tails and the pork ribs were slight tough, which I attributed to the fact that it’s probably because they’d used “frozen foodstuff” for their food. By sight, the prawn noodles looked really delicious, especially with its thick brown soup. However, upon tasting, the soup was actually just average. The most important factor in rating a bowl of prawn noodles was probably the “prawn taste” in its soup, which sad to say, was pretty much missing.
On the whole, the prawn noodles were pretty ok, in comparison to those “foodcourt food”. I actually had higher expectations for the noodles, since I had thought that the stall was kind of famous. There’re definitely better prawn noodles around Singapore that I’ve eaten before, so I’m only giving 3 stars for it.
The next dish that I tried was the Fried Carrot Cake, from Stall 24.
Ratings: 3.0/5.0
When I first tasted this plate of fried carrot cake, I felt that it was pretty delicious. It was pretty well-fried, and the taste was alright. However, the carrot cake used was probably mass-produced stuff, so it basically tasted like the usual fried carrot cake that you can find in most places, except that for this stall, the technique of frying and probably the use of the flavourings were better, thus it does taste better than most of the fried carrot cake outside. Other than that, the carrot cake was pretty average.
Seeing that there seem to be many people ordering from Stall 23, “Zhong Zhong Zhu Rou Zhou Tong Xin Fen”, my mum decided to order the Century Egg Congee from it.
Ratings: 3.0/5.0
This stall actually had a “healthier choice” sticker on it. The congee was pretty nicely brewed, and the stall seems to be pretty generous with its “you tiao“. However, I doubt it fitted well with the healthier choice logo on its stall. The congee was MSG-laden, and too much flavouring was used, hence giving the congee a strong taste. If you like food with lots of artificial taste in it, you’ll probably like the congee.
Amazingly, I’d given 3 stars for all the food there, thus the overall ratings for today’s blog entry is 3.0 stars out of 5.0.
~Sanz
