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

Nasi Singapura - Stall No.3, Adam Road Hawker Centre

I love Malay food and I found that the dishes from this particular stall are of very good standard. I have tried most of their dishes and like them very much. The dishes I have tried are eggplant with chillies, beef rendang, curried chicken liver (my favourite), fried fish, ikan bilis with peanuts, potato cutlets and sotong. There are other dishes which I have wanted to try but as yet have not. I do not know why each time I am there, I always end up with roughly the same dishes. I suppose the reason might be because I do not eat at the stall everyday so by the time I go back I miss the same dishes so I ended up ordering them again. Today I bought 2 pieces of beef rendang, eggplant with chillies, curried chicken liver and ikan bilies with peanuts, without rice - the lot cost me $9.00. For your information, I am very particular where food is concerned because I do not like to eat the same types of food in a short space of time. I like to "rotate" my food as I believe that different food offers different types of nutrition. I apply this to my drinking and eating of fruits as well. I will feature my favourite fruit juice stall on my next review.

Ratings : 8.5/10

Address : Adam Road Hawker Centre, Stall No.3.

Opening Days & Time : Mon to Sat & 7.00am to 5.00pm

Adam Nasi Lemak - Stall No.1, Adam Road Hawker Centre

At least once a month, either on Sat or Sun lunch, I need a dose of nasi lemak. The nasi lemak that I like best is Adam Nasi Lemak Stall 1. The rice is very fragrant with the right amount of coconut and the texture and quality is very good. I have tried stalls that use poor quality rice and it put me off as the most important part of this dish is the rice. There are few type of sets with different combinations that you can choose from and the prices vary from $2.00 to $4.00 depending on the selection. The different food items available include archar, curried mutton, egg (fried or omelette), fried chicken wings, fish cake, ikan bilis with peanuts, otak, potato cutlet, sambal prawns and small fried fish. All the different sets come with cucumber and yummy sambal chillies which cannot be missed. By the way, I have tried all the food items and they are all very good. Ah! Must not forget to mention that the queue is very long so you have to be patient if you want to savour the food. You will not regret queueing.

Ratings : 9/10

Service : Very friendly

Address : Adam Road Hawker Centre Stall No.1

Opening Days & Time : Wed to Mon & 8.30am to 2.00pm

Zaiton Satay - Stall No.7, Adam Road Hawker Centre

I have been eating satays since I was very, very young and it is one of my favourite Malay food. I used to live in a shophouse and next door is a side road stall selling satays and almost every night I will eat 5 sticks until I went overseas to study. Nowadays, in Singapore, each time I crave for satays and its sauce I will go and buy them from Zaiton Satay Stall 7 at Adam Road Hawker Centre. The satays are very well seasoned, soft and the best thing is you can even eat them without the sauce. There are 4 types of satays sold - beef, beef tripe, chicken and mutton. The beef tripe is very delicious and a bonus to me as very few stalls sell them. To me, Zaiton beef tripe is the best. I haven't yet found another stall that sells beef tripe satay of that quality. 5 beef, 5 beef tripes, and 10 chicken satays and 2 ketupat (Malay rice cake) cost me $11.00.

Ratings : 8/10

Service : Friendly

Address: Adam Road Hawker Centre, Stall N0. 7

Opening Days & Time : Tue to Sun & 11.00am to 10.00pm

Bee Heong Palace Restaurant - (65)62229074

I have been wanting to try this Teochew restaurant for a while and finally did. Can't count how many times I have walked past it and did not patronise it. Mmm! Mmm! No regrets. The food is really very good. I ordered 6 varieties of food. Starters of duck salad and cold dish (6 varieties), fish maw soup, scallop with spinach, stewed pork leg stuffed with mushroom and chestnut served with steam buns, and ended dinner with yam paste as dessert. The whole meal with 2 lime juice, 2 soft drinks and Chinese tea, cost $98.10. Definitely going back to try other dishes that they have. Looked through the whole menu and know what I want on my next visit.

Food: 7.5/10. Service: 8/10.

Address : 132-134 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore 068600.

Red Star Restaurant (65) 65325266, (65) 65325103

Very uniquely located in a HDB building on the whole of 7th floor. As I entered, it reminded me of HongKong dim sum restaurants. Very busy with pushcarts containing lots of dim sum. I had pickled cabbage which was very nicely seasoned, Big Pow which was really huge with delicious stuffing and soft skins, 1/2 a roast chicken which was very well done except for the kolo pok which did not fair as well, very nice chicken feet, delicious siew mai and char siew pau, the char siew cheong fun was okay, jellyfish pig leg was average due to a bit of porky smell or else it could have been quite good, mango pudding, almond jelly with longan, custard with mixed fruits and black herb jelly were okay. With 3 soft drinks and a pot of chinese tea, the bill came up to $76.30. As I was leaving I saw a plate of char hor fun carried by a waitress which looked yummy. Maybe I will go back for dinner and try the other dishes.

Food: 7/10. Service:8.5/10.

Address: #07-23, Blk 54, Chin Swee Road Singapore 160054.