Foodie Paradise

Walking through Zion Road brought back a lot of childhood memories for me. I hadn’t been to that area for so long. Thankfully, my old school building has not been torn down, even though my primary school had already vacated that site for such a long time. I wondered what the building is currently used for now. It seems as if it was only yesterday where I had to go for the Friday Mass in the church next to my school, and the lovely hymns we used to sing. I always found those Masses boring then, and was always so happy when it’s time to start singing the hymns…..

Alright, back to the actual theme of this blog, i.e. FOOD.

Compared to Chomp Chomp Food Centre, Zion Road Hawker Centre is more spacious, hence offering a better eating ambience. Today was my first visit to the place, and on the whole, I like the experience of eating there.

First up is the “Mohamed Sultan Road Hot and Cold Cheng Tng“. I’d heard reviews about the great Cheng Tng that this stall sells, so for my first trip to Zion Road Hawker Centre, it’s definitely a must for me to give it a try.

Ratings: 3.0/5.0

I didn’t find the cheng tng sold by this stall especially nice, considering the rave reviews that I’d heard about it. The lychee taste in the chng teng was too strong, which I felt it wasn’t appropriate for a cheng tng. The taste of the cheng tng was just right, in the sense it wasn’t too sweet or too bland, which is one of its plus points. Other than that, this dessert didn’t leave much of any impact. I prefer the cheng tng sold at the hawker centre opposite my place, and one of the dessert stall at Newton Circle instead.

The second dish…carrot cake from Goh Teochew Chye Thow Kway. Actually, I found it quite unbelieving that I actually had fried carrot cake two days in the row…oh well.

Ratings: 3.5/5.0

The carrot cake that I ate today was crispier and tastier than the one I had at Chomp Chomp yesterday. It’s pretty delicious, but not the must-try at Zion Road Hawker Centre.

“Foo Kee Famouns Deep Fried”:

Ratings: 4.0/5.0

I’m really excited to introduce this stall at Zion Road, simply because it sells the vegetable fritters that I’d been looking for ever since the stall owners of the stall that sold vegetable fritters at the market near my place retired!

The vegetable fritter tasted great! Haha, I do have a weakness for fried food. Besides the vegetable fritters, the yam roll (?? actually I forgot what it’s called, but it definitely had yam in it) tasted great too. Oh, yam is also another weakness of mine.

However, the fried tou fu that this stall sells was just average, otherwise, it may had gotten a higher rating. Besides that, I think the oil used to fry this stuff had been used for some time, thus the food would have tasted better if the oil used were changed more frequently.

The irony: this stall used to be from Chomp Chomp. Haha, looks like some of Chomp Chomp’s best stalls had moved!

Haiz, I still miss the vegetable fritters that I used to have…

The food from “Hao Pei”:

Ratings: 4.5/5.0

The Hor Fun and the Hokkien Mee tasted really great! Both dishes, especially the Hokkien Mee, had the authentic taste that was missing from most Hokkien Mee nowadays. According to my mum, a plate of delicious hor fun need to be cooked with the thick kind of “guo tiao“. Actually, I only tasted some of the Hokkien Mee and probably one mouthful of the Hor Fun. My parents loved them a great deal and finished them up before I could attack much of it! It’s definitely a must-try at Zion Road Hawker Centre.

On the whole: 4.0/5.0

~Sanz