Maxwell Food Centre (Part 1)
Maxwell Food Centre is one of my favourite hawker centres. It’s the place to go if you want to try out a huge variety of finger-licking local fare food in Singapore.
For Maxwell Food Centre (Part 1), I’ll be writing about some of the food that I’ll definitely try most of the time when I’m there.
Ratings: 4.5/5.0
Here they go:
China Street Fritters
“Wu Xiang Wei Chang” is a local food fare that allows you to choose what you want from a variety of ingredients, usually deep-fried, to go with a plate of beehoon. Sometimes, the beehoon is skipped and the plate of “Wu Xiang Wei Chang” is being eaten as a side dish.
Unlike most of the “Wu Xiang” stall out there, this stall has a very small variety of ingredients to choose from. This is because they have mostly stick to the original ingredients that makes up the traditional “wu xiang wei chang” dish.
The favourite food that I love from this stall is the “Egg”, which is actually a rectangular deep-fried item (left hand side of the photo) cut into many smaller rectangular pieces for consumption. It’s very sweet and it always gives me the feeling that it seems to melt in my mouth on the first bite.
The rest of the ingredients that made up the “Wu Xiang Wei Chang” is delicious. I love the accompanying sauces that come with each order. The accompanying sauces are a bowl of chilli and a bowl of non-spicy and sweet sauce. The chilli tastes especially good. I guess that’s the so-Singaporean thing about me. I just can’t live without chilli.
Next up:
Fried Sweet Potato Dumpling
The Fried Sweet Potato Dumpling are small, almost bite-sized food with different flavours in it, such as the original flavour (meaning no extra ingredients in it, just sweet potato and flour), peanuts, red beans and tau sar. To me, all the flavours taste equally nice so there’s no favourite flavour for me.
The Fried Sweet Potato Dumpling and the Fuzhou Oyster Cake (describing it later) are my favourite “second-helping” food or “deserts” at Maxwell Food Centre. They are the best food to fill your stomach further even after your “main course” there.
Note: Not to mention Fried Sweet Potato Dumpling is almost bite-sized, so there’s less guilt when you popped one or two of them into the mouth after a meal. :-p
Last but not least:
Maxwell Fuzhou Oyster Cake
Basically, don’t be deceived by the look of it. From the photo, it doesn’t seem very appetizing. However, it’s one local fare not to be missed because it’s going to be “extinct”. Ok…that’s a bit of exaggeration, but even if there’re stalls selling Fuzhou Oyster Cake at some other stalls, it just doesn’t taste so authentic and good.
The outer layer is very crispy, and there are oysters in it that makes it taste so aromatic and delicious. It’s one of the foods on my “Highly sinful food” list, but I just can’t resist having a bite of it whenever I’m at Maxwell.
Among the three foods at Maxwell that I’m writing on today, this is my favourite among the three. It’s the food to try when you’re at Maxwell Food Centre.
However, if you dislike the raw taste of oysters, you may not like the Fuzhou Oyster Cake.
The three local hawker food fare are not the only food to try at Maxwell Food Centre. This is only part 1. Well, part 2 will come when I finally find some time to go Maxwell to have my lunch again. :-p
~Sanz
