粥 with 生鱼片 at Amoy Street and Mango Sago at People's Park Centre

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I just had 粥 with 生鱼片 at Maxwell Road Market last weekend, and was not too impressed by it. So Laurens insisted that I visit Amoy Street Hawker Centre, and try the food from "Hai Kee Famous Porridge".

"Hai Kee Famous Porridge"
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Amoy Street Hawker Centre
I have visited Amoy Street Hawker Centre for the famous Piao Ji Fish Soup, cheap Lor Mee and tasty Ondeh-ondeh. There are more hawker food that impressed many working in the region. According to my buddy, the "Hai Kee Famous Porridge" serves excellent 粥 (porridge) and 生鱼片 (raw fish slices ala sashimi), so I decided to give it a shot. I had the Century Egg Porridge (皮蛋粥) and share a platter of 生鱼片 with Laurens.


皮蛋粥
(Century Egg Porridge)
S$3.00
I love century egg porridge. I never fail to order a bowl when I have dim sum at places such as NETUNE (Marine Parade Hawker Centre) and Swee Choon (Jalan Besar). I decided to try the century egg porridge instead of having the regular pork porridge. I was immediately impressed at first look. The different porridge looks different, with mine having a yellow tinge compared to the white chicken porridge. In the porridge, there are huge chunks of century egg, unlike other places that have ''micro' bits. The porridge is then topped with you tiao (fried dough sticks) slices, fried shallots, spring onion and some sauce that gave the porridge its taste. The stall owner gave us more you tiao on the sides.

生鱼片
Raw Fish Slices (Sashimi)
S$4.00
The 生鱼片 comes topped with fried shallots, parsley, shredded ginger and chopped red chilli, served in a sesame oil-soy sauce. The lime are not to kill any fishy taste/smell, because there is none! The lime is to add a tangy taste to the fresh fish slices. The juicy tender 生鱼片 is really fantastic and tasty! I only hope that the fish slices are thicker, like sashimi.



Verdict
The "Hai Kee Famous Porridge" definitely serves 粥 with 生鱼片 that are worthy of their name. Though there some times when long queues do not define good food, the 粥 with 生鱼片 at "Hai Kee Famous Porridge" definitely deserves a 'double thumbs up' from me! If you have the "Hai Kee Famous Porridge", you will probably not find any better-tasting porridge!


"Dessert Hut"
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People's Park Centre
From the overhead bridge linking Chinatown Point to People's Park Centre, the door on the side opens up the a corner of the second level of People's Park Centre, where you find lots of people sitting in small shop spaces having a bowl of traditional Chinese dessert. They serve a variety of hot and cold desserts, such as tau suan, yam paste, glutinous rice paste, ah balling, almond jelly and mango sago. There are two dessert shops competiting with each other, but I decided to try the one with bigger shop space!
Mango Sago
S$2.50
The dessert is made of real mango puree with shaved ice and 'tadpoles' made with agar-agar (gelatin). The dessert is not overly sweet and the consistency is not too watery. Slurping the chilled thick mango sago dessert on a hot day is the definitely heavenly!

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