Serangoon Garden Market

5th July, Sunday

Carrot cake (Hock Kee Fried Oyster)

Finally got to try their white carrot cake. In my opinion, this wasn't as good as their black carrot cake; the taste just wasn't there.

V's verdict: 6/10

Tanjong Pagar Food Centre

1st July, Wednesday

Fried kway teow [ Katong (Peter) Fried Kway Teow ]

This was not bad! Not too oily too. Worth a try.

V's verdict: 7/10
K's verdict: 7.5/10


Fried carrot cake (利兴菜头粿 Fried Carrot Cake)

This looked promising, but didn't taste that good. I thought that it wasn't tasty enough.

V's verdict: 6/10
K's verdict: 6.5/10


Chicken claypot rice (Kim Kee Cooked Food)

One of K's favourite foods. But I didn't like it; the rice wasn't tasty enough. It seemed as if the whole dish wasn't cooked long enough for the taste from the meat and mushrooms to seep into the rice.

V's verdict: 5.5/10
K's verdict: 6/10

Kovan Food Centre

3rd June, Wednesday

Laksa (Teochew Fishball Mee)



This is the thick kind of laksa, which may not go well with everyone. For one thing, it's very filling. A lot of dried prawns were used in making the gravy, so the result is a very tasty and thick gravy. It has fishballs too, which is different from traditional laksa. Overall, this was quite good! I used to have this every time I finished a badminton session at Paya Lebar Kovan CC. $3/$3.50

V's verdict: 7.5/10


Carrot cake (Geylang Fried Carrot Cake)



This is an extremely popular stall at Kovan Food Centre. The carrot cake is fried by an old man (does food seem more delicious when cooked by old people? Perhaps people get the impression that old people have more experience) and the queue was quite long, even on a weekday morning when most of the other stalls were quite empty.

So what's my opinion? I think it was decent only. The taste is not strong enough, and some of the kweh pieces were cut too large for my liking.

V's verdict: 6/10

Serangoon Ave 3 Food Court (opp NTUC)

16th May, Saturday

Fried carrot cake (Local Delights)



This was not bad. The taste is a bit on the light side, but still not to the level of being bland. They used very little oil to fry it, so it's an additional bonus. Cheap too! $2/$3

V's verdict: 6.5/10
K's verdict: 6/10

Serangoon Garden Market

2nd May, Saturday

Fried carrot cake (Hock Kee Fried Oyster)



The first time I ordered this was out of sympathy --- this stall had just opened (I think in 2007?) and didn't have many customers. But I was pleasantly surprised. The carrot cake is tasty, a bit crispy and yet not too oily, and the service was also good (much better than the other stall selling carrot cake, I think it's called Ang Sar Li). Will order their white carrot cake and post it in a future entry.

V's verdict: 7.5/10


Chwee kueh (Stall 22)

From the only stall that specialises in chwee kueh. Located opposite the Garden Street kway chiap. My goodness, it tasted horrible. It's definitely the worst chwee kueh I have ever tasted in my life, and it doesn't help that I just had the famous Tiong Bahru chwee kueh 2 days ago for breakfast. The kueh was stale and tasteless, and the toppings were also stale.

V's verdict: 2.5/10
K's verdict: 1/10 (she loves chwee kueh a lot, so she's very disappointed)