You Huak Sembawang White Bee Hoon

Found a wonderful local delight at faraway Sembawang, serving delicious Teochew Seafood White Bee Hoon!  This place is a coffeeshop located just at the corner, at the street opposite the Sembawang Shopping Centre.  Its located at the You Huak Restaurant and you cant miss it because the restaurant has such a huge signboard in Chinese saying "White Bee Hoon" (Ba Mi Fen in Chinese) just outside it! And of course, its packed with people too!

Curious as to what everyone is having, Ted and me also joined the people sitting in the packed coffeeshop or waiting around for a seat...  Most were waiting for their food to be served (as I found out later that you will probably have to wait about 20-30 minutes - but its not too bad if its a wait for delicious food!). So we joined the queue!

We ordered the MUST-EAT "Teochew Seafood White Bee Hoon". Very delicious, soft and slurpy bee hoon cooked with egg and fresh ingredients like prawn, sotong (squids) and vegetables. Its a very simple dish yet of great taste and cooked in light gravy.  Believe this is due to the credit of the chefs who must have flavoured the dish well.  Do not think there is MSG as I did not feel thirsty after that.  Its quite rare to be able to find white bee hoon cooked in this manner.  Reasonably priced at $4, $7 or $10. We took the $7 dish (more than enough for 2 person, without you feeling hungry in the night!) plus added on a side-dish of "Sweet & Sour Pork Chop" at $10.

The place offers other side-dishes like the "Fried Prawn Roll" (heh-chor in Hokkien) or "Sweet & Sour Pork" (ku-lor york in Cantonese) also at $10 too. The popular dish seems to be the Fried Prawn Paste as there seems to be 1 plate of this on everybody's table! But we beg to differ and tried the "Sweet & Sour Pork Chop" instead which also turned out great.  The other food in the menu are also pretty reasonably priced from $6 to $8 onwards for egg omelette and vegetables. There are also seafood; like crabs served at the restaurant too! This place is definitely worth a try! And you maybe yearning for it like me after that...  While you are there, dont forget to also try the sweet Lime Juice offered by the coffeeshop.

 

You Huak Sembawang White Bee Hoon is located inside You Huak Restaurant, 22 Jalan Tampang Singapore 7899666 (opposite Sembawang Shopping Centre). Closed on Wednesday.

Happy New Year 2010 at Canopy Garden Dining & Bar

Strawberry Moment wishes all belated Merry Xmas wishes and a Happy New Year 2010!

For a good start to the year 2010, Ted and me decided to go for a healthy delicious meal so we headed to Bishan Park. We had a great healthy breakfast at Canopy Garden Dining & Bar ! Canopy is the newest addition to the Asmara Group serving an Australian style café food complimented by a wide variety of new world wines. Its a perfect place offering a great dining experience in a peaceful garden setting providing the perfect getaway for families, couples and pet lovers alike and for lounging outdoors at their outdoor bar and dining area too.  We tried their breakfast set @ $14/set. The set consists of a toast and choice of sunny-side eggs or scrambled eggs, 2 choices of either baked beans, mushrooms, spinach, bacon or sausages. Ted went for baked beans and mushroom.  My healthy choice to start the year was naturally the mushrooms and spinach with sunny-side eggs! Cheers to a healthy 2010 !

Canopy Garden Dining & Bar is at Bishan Park II, 1382 Ang Mo Kio Ave 1, Singapore 569931 Tel: 6556 1533.