An Lock Curry Rice
861 North Bridge Rd #01-109, North Bridge Road Mkt & Food Ctr (Map) 10am – 7pm Daily
The senior, almost Pioneer Generation hawkers here are very friendly. When we asked for an extra bowl of their thick curry, they asked if there was anything wrong with the food. Another regular in the queue interjected “If not nice, he won’t ask for it la! “(it's true.). The range is not extensive but very well thought out- from thin crispy pork chops, sambal terong (eggplant), sambal sotong to lor bak (braised pork) and curry chicken, among others. The curry is thick, “clingy”, savoury, and not overly spicy and they spoon some smokey, sweetish and savoury braised caramelised soy sauce over. There is always a queue and the dishes are made fresh when an item sells out fast at lunch hour.
Loo’s Hainanese Curry Rice 30 Seng Poh Rd #02-67/68 Tiong Bahru Hawker Ctr (Map) 8.30am – 2.45pm Thu
The Loo family began this in the mid-40s and evolved their brand of Hainanese curry rice over the decades. The queue at the stall begins at breakfast, strange, but many love this for a morning power-me-up breakfast. The items are not vast but all are done exceedingly well. The items that are perfect combos for a meal here include their iconic battered and fried pork chop with very light hints of masala in the batter, a fried egg with oozy yolk, stir- fried cabbage, or ko li chai. You can go a few notches up and have the sambal squid or sotong- so soft and gently spicy, plus the fried and braised soy sauce pork chop (tau yu bak). You can also order and then slather your rice with curry chicken with potatoes to immerse fully into this meal. Overall, the curries look mean but aren't really so.
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