Mr. Teh Tarik

You can't blame Americans if they do not understand the rest of the world can you? By themselves, they are huge and have too many places and things to discover within their own country. What about Singapore? Do you know your Singapore?

Sometimes I do wonder if it is actually easier to find things in a big bungalow than a small house. Our small "Singapore" house is changing too quickly. Just like recently, when my son brought us to a makan (eating) place. It was a surprising find for me to discover "Mr. Teh Tarik" Eating House, a 24-hour relax one corner style heartland place at Block 608 Ang Mo Kio Ave 5. It is actually nearby (opposite) the Adam Road Nasi Lemak (Block 603). When here, first thing first -














Order the teh tarik of course. For the uninitiated, teh tarik is tea with evaporated milk where you can have it hot or cold or with ginger added but the most important part has to be the drink being pulled high and down from two containers or cups. It was a hot day so it has to be with ice.


When I saw there is a "Mee Goreng" and "Soup Kambing" stall the good doctor in me sprang into action as I haven't had these stuffs for ages. The kambing (mutton) soup was not the greenish type, this one is brownish and it came with huge chunks of mutton in it not those cut into tiny pieces. It was a bit too much meat for me so perhaps two persons could share one. The mutton was really tender though and the soup was good.

The Mee Goreng too was delicious. Could it be because I haven't had this for too long? No, it was good. I still think to make a mee goreng even much better, throw in lots of onions, bean sprouts, potatoes and tomatoes. Serve it on banana leaf. That would make it perfect. One day soon I am gonna fry my own mee goreng!

The champion stall here may be the Western food called "Charco". The variety is good and so is the wide selection of interesting side dishes. I heard that it was opened by an "ang moh". Look at the chicken.


The fish and chip too was very good. I like their presentation as you can see here. Those potatoes were wonderfully done. Definitely one of the much better western food you can find anywhere. You can say it's like restaurant food served at a coffee shop.

There is a zi char stall which seemed very popular too. The chefs are Chinese but the food is halal. In fact, the whole coffee shop is halal and it is quite packed with people.

There were quite a fair numbers of "ang moh" people here. Maybe they were Muslims from the ang moh countries here for the halal food. The rest of the composition of people on display becomes a good example of our Singaporean people - people of all races, young and old.


















I really like this place. Must be back to investigate further.

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