IVINS

It was Sunday, and after church my husband suggested we go to IVINS for lunch. I was very happy as I've not been there before, although I had heard about IVINS, the restaurant serving authentic Peranakan food.

Apparently IVINS has several outlets around Singapore. We went to the one on Binjai Park, off Dunearn Road, which was not far from our home. The restaurant is decent looking with no special decor. However, the food are very good and reasonably priced.

We ordered Hee Peow Soup, Curry Fish Head, Ngo Hiang, Honey Pork, Tauhu Goreng, two plain and one yellow rice. Actually I was very full after the meal but still could not resist having dessert. So we also ordered Buboh Cha Cha and Chendol. It is really a very satisfying meal and also quite easy on the pocket.

Great place. ! will definitely visit it again when I crave for Peranakan food as the range of dishes offered is huge. I would like to try the other dishes as well. The bill came up to S$44.10 inclusive of 1 English Breakfast tea and 1 Coca-Cola.



Address : 19/21 Binjai Park. Singapore

Tel No. : (65) 64683060



Service : 7.5


Food :8.0

Hung Kang Restaurant

Last Sunday was Father's Day so I was cracking my head on Saturday night as to where to bring the two fathers in my house for lunch. Suddenly I remembered that my husband likes to eat goose and my father-in-law likes to eat steam promfet. We have not savoured these two dishes for a while. So I decided to call up Hung Kang Restaurant who specialises in Teochew dishes.

This restaurant was established in the 60s and has been in operation since then. Always wanted to try it but never did. At last we were there on Sunday and absolutely no regrets!

I ordered braised goose meat with tau kua, steam promfet, deep-fried prawn meat balls, stirfried spinach for our main dishes. We then ended the meal with yam paste with pumpkin and gingo nuts ("Oh Nee"). Every dish was delicious and done to perfection. I liked the dessert the best.

The price is quite reasonable. The total bill came up to S$109.80 including one 7-up, one Coke, two bowls of plain rice, chinese tea and towels. Will definitely frequent this restaurant again. I already know what to try next ... jellied shark's meat, ngo hiang, suckling pig, and cold crab. Can't wait for the next time.

Ratings : 8.5

Service : 8.0

Address : 28 North Canal Road, #01-01 Poh Heng Building, Singapore 059284.

Tel no. : +65 65335300

Wu Xia Bing

From the name of the stall, if you understand some chinese you can probably guess what it is selling. It is a ngo hiang stall selling about 15 varieties of ngo hiang including its own specially made prawn fritter. The prawn fritter is the highlight to me as it very fresh and nice. It is made as you order so you imagine the freshness. The one thing about ngo hiang stall is that the chilly sauce and sweet sauce that comes with it must be very good or else it is not shiok. I have not tried the sweet sauce but I like the chilly very much. By the way, they also sell beehoon which goes with the ngo hiang. The stall sell set with beehoon from $3.00 to $3.50.

Ratings : 7.5

Opening Days : Monday to Friday from 11.00am to 2.00pm

Address :
Golden Shoe Hawker Centre, #03-21, Singapore

AL.Hanifa Muslim Food

As I'm writing this article, I am eating the gado-gado from this stall for lunch. Yummy! Yummy! The sauce is really good and "peanuty". The stall also sells roti john with a very tasty red sauce, mee rebus (yet to try), mee siam (yet to try), mee soto (yet to try) and tau hoo goreng. So far the ones I have tried are very nice. As mentioned, I have yet to try the rest.

Ratings : 8.5

Opening Days : Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5.00pm

Address :
Golden Shoe Hawker Centre, #02-11, Singapore

Don & Set Japanese Food

On workdays, whenever I feel like having Japanese food for lunch, I will head off to Golden Shoe Food Centre to fill my craving.


The queue everyday is very long, which is a reflection of the very good pricing and delicious food. The dish prices range from $3.50 to $7.50.


I have tried the following dishes : chicken don, Japanese pork cutlets curry set (which is my favourite), vegetable curry with udon, tempura set, tempura udon, terrayaki chicken set (the chicken are quite different from normal terrayaki chicken as the chicken are deep fried and coated with the stall's unique sauce), ugnagi set and vegetable curry udon. All the set meals come with rice, salad and miso soup. The miso soup is really delicious.


Ratings : 8.5
Service : friendly

Opening Time : Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 3.00pm

Address :

Golden Shoe Hawker Centre, #03-19, Market Street, Singapore

AHYAT Hunan Restaurant

On my maid's birthday we were wondering where we could celebrate with her. Out of the blue, my daughter suggests the eateries at Turf City. The last time we were there was 4 years ago.

When we reached there, I was very pleased to see a branch of AHYAT Hunan Restaurant there. My first lunch experience at AHYAT was when it first opened its first branch at Singapura Building. My experience then was pleasant. I still remember it served very good fried chicken with salt and pepper. So we decided to give it a try again.

The environment is very pleasant and the food were very good. We ordered fried asparagus and scallop with XO sauce which was very well done, fried chicken with salt and pepper which was very good as it was done just right with the meat very tender and skin very crispy, kangkong belanchan ( my daughter's favourite - she said it was very good), pan-fried beancurd & egg with spicy sauce which my maid loves, pan-fried dumpling vegetable which was delicious as well, and special fried rice wrapped in Lotus leaf which is okay (I think they served us 5 portions as there were 5 of us and it was huge.

We are relatively small eaters so there were a lot of leftovers which we takeaway. If I had known I would have ordered 2 portions which will be just right. As usual, we ordered desserts even though we are all very full. We ordered a potion of mango pudding and red bean. I thought the desserts were below average.

When the bill came, I found that they charged for the towel, pickle and - believe it or not - plain water as well ($1.00 per glass). The bill came up to $142.42 inclusive of a pot of homemade chrysanthemum tea, two Cokes and a Sprite. Next time I go I'll make sure I do not ask for any water.

Ratings : 8.5

Service : 7.5

Address :

200 Turf Club Road,

#03-05 Main Grand stand,

Turf City,

Singapore 287994

Tel: +65 6462 0682

Adam Road Hawker Centre

The name speaks for itself in terms of where Adam Road Hawker Centre is.

This is one of those hawker centres that keeps its environment clean, which is why they have me as a customer. I try my best not to patronise dirty hawker centres that do not up keep their place even if their food is good. I find that cleanliness is the most important aspect of how a hawker centre must maintain to ensure that they can attract the majority of people. Of course the food must be good as well. I also make sure that the specific hawkers that I purchase my food from are clean by examining their stalls first before I order. Most of their stalls there are Malay and Indian with a few Chinese ones. I will be featuring some of my favourite stalls in other articles.

Cleanliness: 7.5/10

Address : Adam Road.

Parking : Easy