Xin Yuan Ji - Fish Head Steamboat And Seafood

I discovered the place a long time ago. We just need a bit of healthier food sometimes and well fish head steam boat sounded kind of suitable. So sometime ago, we decided to check in. At first, we just had fish soup and later we tried the fish steamboat at Lorong Ah Soo or to be exact:

107, Hougang Avenue 1, #01-00, Singapore 530107 Hougang Ave 1, Singapore 530107

Steamboat always brings me back to those days of old where we felt it was good hence the 'good old days''. Those were the days where we used lots of charcoal. Sometimes, after eating half-way, charcoal were added. 

I was curious about their other foods so I ordered the Hokkien Mee which turned out to be different and tasted unique. They use the thin bee hoon (vermicelli) instead of the usual thick ones.

A friend used to comment that nowadays, they seemed to have stopped using thinly sliced pork belly in Hokkien Mee but here they not only do but they gave you roasted ones.

In modern SG, food quality has generally deteriorated as short cuts seemed to be name of the game. I have not had a satisfactory ''sup kam mai fan'' for a fairly long time till I came here. 

Normally, the thin bee hoon has to be fried over the wok and then they cook the gravy (hor fun style) and pour over the bee hoon. That way the bee hoon can absorb the wok hei. When done right - yummy!

Long ago, I used to get the best hor fun at Boon Tong Kee (Balestier). It was absolutely great. The one offered by Sin Ma is excellent too. Their hor fun here is quite good but I think the kway teow (flat rice noodle) is a bit too soft.

In tze char folklore, the 4 main types of noodles are hor fun (kway teow), bee hoon, yee mee and sheng mee (crispy noodle). They do it well here.

They have a few interesting dishes which you may not find elsewhere.

Most good places do good pork ribs with various seasoning style so theirs is up there with the rest. Here it the coffee version.

Tofu recipe in SG are quite similar. THis one here is with minced meat.

You must try the tomato omelette. 

Of course, they are fish specialist so the clear soup batang fish slice or the milky soup fried fish soup are good.

This is a fine tofu too.

Sweet and sour pork ribs

And an interesting meat ball.

Singaporeans love their curry and curry fish head. I like their version and if I am not wrong, theirs has a tinge of assam taste.

Actually I have not been there for awhile and recalling and writing about it makes me want to go back for a feast.

I knew about the other one at Tan Quee Lan Street. One rainy week day, a friend contacted me as he wanted to eat fish. So I brought him here. We thought we were early and plus the rain it should be good, Wrong! There was quite a long queue already formed. 

People like us do not like to queue. Time is better spent on living. So we skipped that time and went next door to another restaurant.

Tonight I am going to eat all those above. Cheers!