#285 - All Hawker Food Friday

 I think the haze 2 weeks back and the sudden

changes in the weather have given me the worst

flu of all time. So last Friday, I finally decided

to surrender the fight and went to the Polyclinic.

 

The line at the Polyclinic was surprisingly short

and I was seen by the doctor and was released with

an armful of medications earlier than expected.

 

The doctor promised me that taking said medications

will result in me being very drowsy ... heh that's not

good right? I better do things before I become very

sleepy.

 

So I went to Vertex and decided to check out what 

10$ can buy me LOL. It turns out I can't buy much

with 10$ ... and so I decided to just pig out. Food is

always there to make one happy :-)

 

Anyway, off I went to Lavender area, to be precise

the Army market at Beach Road.

 

Lunch was at the Thai Experience hawker. This

hawker is difficult to miss since it faces Golden Mile

and is always surrounded by Thais which seem to

be content with the cooking here. Needless to say

the food is authentic Thai and you only need to

see all the Thais eating at this place to believe me.

 

 

 

 

Next is Dessert at the Ah Balling Peanut Soup.

There are lots of 'pretenders' to the throne BUT this

is THE King !

 

I always, always order the Yam balls with peanut

soup. I always order five pieces as well since they

are just 2$ for 5 pieces.

 

 

After dessert is coffee.

Have you seen this Blog Post ?

Well, I have and I had to see for myself since

I'll be taking bus 145 home anyway and I will

pass by the North Bridge Hawker on the way

to the bus stop.

 

To be honest, when I first read that blog, I thought

to myself : "coffee with butter ??? yuck ".

 

But I thought I could always just don't finish the

coffee if it is really yucky, right? Well, when I

finally tasted it .... it wasn't bad .... actually it is

nice !

 

The thing is, that blog really hit the nail on the

head. That coffee shop indeed seemed to be stuck

in the 60s/70s. Even the old uncle who serves

coffee is still wearing the same white singlet

and stripped pajamas. It seems time stood still

and so I sipped my coffee like I was in Starbucks.

But the atmosphere in that coffee shop is much

better. Just you, your coffee, your thoughts

and nice people whose greetings is not :

Good Afternoon but 'cha pa bueh?'.

 

After a few minutes, I finished my buttered

coffee bought a bottle of mineral water and

took my medication. That should ensure that

I sleep immediately once I get home :-) 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Thai Ruk Cuisine

Store front of Thai Ruk cuisine @Jalan Besar Stadium Hawker Centre

Ground pork with Basil leaves, Seafood Tom Yum soup and Mixed Vegies

My wife has been bitten by the fitness bug for this past one month.

Her exercise of choice is swimming. Since she's still learning how to swim (with me and
 my son as her coach), she's so shy she does not want to go swimming
@Toa Payoh. She says there are many 'experts' there. We go to Jalan
Besar Stadium instead. After her swimming sessions we
go and have dinner at the hawker centre at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

While walking around there last Wednesday night, we decided to try this Thai food stall named

Thai Ruk. The employees of the stall (I don't know if they are the owners as well) are Thai.

There are Thai customers as well. Ergo, this must be good home cooked Thai fare!

Ok, the logic is flawed, but you know what I mean.

We ordered Ground pork with basil leaves, Seafood Tom Yum soup, Mixed Vegetables,

rice for the three of us and Tapioca with coconut milk for dessert.

My flawed logic did not dissappoint! This stall was a good find. The Ground Pork with

Basil leaves and the Tom Yum soup brings me back to the days when I was working for

a Credit Card Software vendor and I get assigned to Bangkok for implementations.

It was that authentic. The mixed vegetables, you say? Ok, it's good. But, how can

someone bungle mixed vegetables?

As for the tapioca... this is a bit of a letdown. The tapioca was a bit 'stringy'. It was

as if the tapioca was left in boiling water longer than it should have been. We've had more

'chewy' tapioca before. But, hey, I think that was nitpicking. For 19$ for everything,

how could you go wrong? This is a real "cheap and good" find!