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I had ate this soon and png kueh many times but getting expensive.

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Support nice thread and good food.

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Eat 3 also will not get full.

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Support good thread.

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Seldom eat this, too expensive.

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Eat 5 also not enough.

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Bump bump this great food thread.

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Introduce food fit for senior citizens. Calling ah gong and ah ma.

Zheng Xing Mei Shi (正興美食)

 Albert Hawker Centre, Blk 270 Queen Street #01-64, 180270, (Bugis)

Went to Waterloo street to pray at Guanyin temple this afternoon. So happy to get to eat the famous green bean soup. It's been a long time since I last ate it. Was there many times but they were either closed or sold out. Today the green bean soup was sold out 10mins after i bought mine.. lucky me!!
Zheng Xing Mei Shi (正興美食) serves only 4 types of desserts.. green bean soup, bubur hitam, bubur terigu and tau suan. Their green bean soup is different from the norm because it is thick with coconut milk (your choice), not the soupy kind. The stall is at Albert Centre hawker centre.. just next to Fu Lu Shou complex. They are open only on tues, wed, fri and sunday. Note that tau suan is NOT available on tues :)

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More and more eating desserts for lunch.

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Love desserts for my sweet tooth.

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I only eat dessert after meals.

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I prefer a bowl of piping hot noodles every morning.

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Makansutra: Reviving the salted duck rice

A new stall serving an old Hokkien dish pops up in Toa Payoh

In my 20 years of working on Makansutra and the heritage and street food culture, I had seen only two stalls offering salted duck rice.

One stall was Ah Ee at Upper Thomson. The other was at Old Airport Road.
Both have fizzled out, but it was not from the lack of response. I sense a lack of knowledge about this old Hokkien dish.

A whole duck is essentially poached in salt water with slices of ginger and other spices, such as shallots and even kaffir lime leaves, to mask the "duckiness".You have it with white rice or rice cooked in a light stock.

So, soon after I came across some mentions, offline and online, about Mr Benson Lim's stall in Toa Payoh, I found myself standing in line.

"I remember eating (the dish) at Ah Ee's, and it was also something my mother cooked at home," said Mr Lim, who added that he was willing to take the risk despite seeing two other stalls go belly up in the last five years.

The operations at his nine-month-old stall is slick - his past experiences working in the kitchens of Tung Lok and Purple Sage catering helped.

Mr Lim's duck was juicy, and it was much like eating Hainanese chicken rice. The reason was the use of "smaller but fresh ducks", Mr Lim explained.

He also used a "sous vide-like method", poaching the duck with a low fire for a long time.

Mr Lim also offers extra cuts such as braised pig skin, duck liver, gizzard and hearts, plus the good old soy-braised duck wings.

The braised duck wings were soft and melt-in-your-mouth.

The duck heart, also soy-braised, was a nice surprise. Not many dare to offer this dish to this Instagram generation and health-conscious population.

It looks like people are taking to the traditional salt water duck dish. There is a constant queue at the stall, and it's usually sold out by 3pm daily.

My only gripe is the chili - Mr Lim uses the chicken rice version.

It is nice, but I much prefer the Ah Ee style - bold, spicy and made with calamansi lime juice, chopped garlic and red chili padi. Blame it on my Singaporean makan DNA.

Benson Salted Duck Rice
Block 168, Toa Payoh Lorong 1, #01-1040
10am to 3pm, closed on Thursdays

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Desserts my fav.

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So many eating desserts for dinner.