Had gotten ready - meaning showering had been accomplished (yes, during holidays, showering IS an accomplishment), makeup had been completed, and outfit chosen - to go out of the house to run some errands when I discovered that said errands could be done online. I got so mad; sometimes, little things such as this really piss me off and I just sink into a disgusting mood. But after hurling off some insults to Bryan and Andy (not AT them, just ranting in general), I sat myself down in front of the laptop and got into some serious house music and am feeling a lot better. I've also gone out for a late lunch (I say that, but it was more of an early dinner) with my momsy and hence am feeling a lot better! Music, food, and most importantly, great company. Three definite cheer-me-ups! (:
Today's entry's gonna be on one of the three:
food!
What delicious food adventure are you bringing me on, you ask!
Decided to bring my Danish friend, Maiken, who was in Singapore on exchange (she's since returned to Denmark) to try zi char! Zi char (Tze char/Cze Char/Zhu Chao however you prefer it) is a Singaporean-Chinese style of cooking. It involves many kinds of dishes, but there're certain popular dishes like fu rong dan (omelette), kang kong fried with sambal chili (a particular type of leafy vegetable), tie ban dou fu (fried tofu on a hot pan with a mixture of egg, vegetable and mushroom), curry fish head and so on and so forth! Basically a group of people order a few (or many, depending on the size of your group) dishes and they are shared. Most of the dishes are cooked with really high heat, so things like stir fried vegetables can taste amazing because they get cooked without losing their crisp and greenness, as compared to when you're stir-frying at home, because usually there's a limit to how high the heat of the fire can go. Plus, if you cook all the time at home, you'd know that cleaning up specks of oil splashed everywhere can be a huge pain.
On my way out :D
Decided to check out
Wah Chee at 5 Dover Crescent because Maiken stayed on campus, so I figured it was easier for us to go there. We met at One-North MRT station and we walked there easily within 5-10 minutes.
Maiken and I! We were in the same class (my GEK1058 Language and the Preservation of Culture), and I approached her to ask her if she was from Aarhus just on our first day of class and was bombarding her with questions regarding Denmark :x Quite presumptuous of me but I honestly just like Danish people, okay! They remind me of my happy exchange days. Anyway Maiken was really cool and responded to my questions excitedly. She told me she missed rye bread hehe. I miss rye bread too.
But anyway, back to Wah Chee! It's pretty well known around the area because there're many schools in the area (and we know how hungry developing minds can get) and many foreign students from a particular business school go there to eat. Here are the dishes we ordered:
char siew fried rice! They have a wide selection of fried rice, so you'll be spoilt for choice. I quite liked the fried rice, it had a 'wok' taste (wo-hei?), and the rice wasn't too hard or dry!
Butter chicken! This was really good, sweet and sticky goodness. I especially love the abundance of onions as well. Really succulent pieces of chicken!
Sweet potato veggie with garlic in oyster sauce! This was just okay, I felt that the veggies were a little stringy, maybe they were a little old.
Salted egg pork! The buttery salted egg sauce was glorious, but the pork was a tad too tough for my liking.
Fu rong dan, which is the
omelette! This was my favourite out of everything, because it was really fluffy, and the chef had added something sweet in it. The consistency and texture were similar to cai po on chwee kueh, but it was sweet! I don't know what it is, can someone help me out? It really made the omelette unique!
A speciality of the stall is
butter fried calamari (which I was so looking forward to try, though I have an allergy to seafood hurhur), but Maiken doesn't eat squid so we passed on that.
But anyway, did you think the two of us could finish all these dishes? Nope, we actually had someone else along with us:
Bryan practically volunteered to come with us so as to eat yummy food hahahaahah. :x
He also gave us a treat (was scolded by me, but his excuse was "When will I get the chance to treat a Danish friend again?" I guess I was lucky being there! Lol) and the bill was about 30+? So not too bad 'cos we had 5 dishes. HOWEVER, my verdict is that... I won't go back again! I think overall they're good (because of certain yummy dishes), but it's quite far from my place and there're better zi char stalls near my house. But in any case, Maiken enjoyed herself, which was what was important! :D
The three of us were so full we decided to walk back to school hahahahaha. It was a nice trek!
WE BID YOU GOODBYE :D
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Labels: cuisine, Culture, Food Entries, Local, SG FOOD, Wah Chee, zi char
