Sengkang Good Food

Is there good food in Sengkang or Punggol area? If you Google that, more often than not you would find threads of web links talking about ""Sengkang no good food". However, having been lived in Sengkang heartland for almost five years, I do have accumulated my own favorite list and I do have some recommendations for people who are fervently looking for good food or drinks at Sengkang area. Like it or not, there are about 170,000 people living in this new town (according to HDB), so I believe not every family cooks at home, right?

At first I intend to dedicate this post to Sengkang good food. As I wrote along, I found that there are a lot more to recommend =) So I decided to write a few articles on Sengkang good food. Perhaps on Sengkang good bars too. Today I will start from the infamous Sengkang Square Kopitiam.

Sengkang Square Kopitiam 

Yes I know many people will shout, “I beg your pardon? Sengkang Square Kopitiam cannot make it lah, can't you see that more than half of the stalls are empty?” Well, my thought is, despite the fact that the turn over rate for this kopitiam is ultrahigh, those left behind are really the hard core ones. And the best part about Sengkang Square Kopitiam is, especially compared with the air-coned but stuffy and smelly kopitiam at Compass Point, there are always plenty of clean, empty seats in this windy place.

Tiger Beer

In order to attract customers, I believe Kopitiam has done the right thing - to bring down the price of chilled Tiger Beer to as low as $5.10 per bottle. Yeah man I am talking about the 633ml bottle. In the most nearby supermarkets such as Coldstorage, Prime (百美) or even Sheng Siong, the retail price for Tiger normally ranges from $5.20 to $5.50, and don't forget you still need to top up $0.15 to $0.25 for the chilled feeling. So if you are a beer person and you don't mind sitting in a Kopitiam enjoying the national beer, Sengkang Square Kopitiam offers you probably the cheapest Tiger beer you can ever find in a Singapore coffee shop or hawker centre. There are not only one or two but three drink stalls that sell chilled Tiger Beer in this kopitiam. So don't tell me you cannot find it. Oh ya, I forgot to mention that the drink stalls like to keep the temperature of the beer refrigerators to -1 to -4 degrees. So it is really close to draft beer feelings.

Stew Peanuts and Kuay Chap

If you like to drink beer, stew peanuts are a good company. Stewed peanuts go really well with beer. It is available at the Kuay Chap stall which also sells pretty-not-bad stewed pork knuckle. Each plate of stew peanuts is $1.20 only, and the taste is comparable to those atas Chinese restaurants.

Fried Kuay Teow and Carrot Cake

You will be surprised that although Kuay Teow and Carrot Cake are traditional Singapore hawker food, this stall became one of the most popular ones in this kopitiam by a PRC female cook! The portions are very decent, and the taste is a blend of traditional Singapore flavor and China north-eastern style. I will have a separate article particularly on China north-eastern food, for those who love salty, spicy and oily stuff.

Roti Prata and Murtabak

It simply tastes good. There are always a queue, especially during weekend mornings and weekday nights. And I often saw that their staff throwing all of the same-day cooked stuff off to the rubbish bin at midnight - which shows that their food is always fresh everyday.

Shen Xi Soup (老火汤)

Similar as its other chain stalls but simply cheaper, they have very nutrition-ed and delicious soups ranging from economic ones such as 苹果雪梨排骨汤 ($3.80 only) all the way to 十全大补鸡汤 ($5.00) and 佛跳墙(S$8.00). You can always top up soup when you finishes them.

Other Good Food

Some of my neighbours say that the fish soup stall is good too because of its freshness. Some say that the other Indian shop besides the prata shop offers authentic north Indian food. Well once you are here for sure you can come up your own favorite lists, be it Malay stall, Pontian Wanton Noodles, Nasi Lemak or even economic rice (there are more than one). A number of them open 24/7. And last but not least, if you have Kopitiam card, you get 10% off (except beer).