What a ribbing day

Last Sunday, it was really a ribbing good day! It was because I had pork ribs for all my meals that day.


In the afternoon, I went out with my family to the Guan Yin temple at Waterloo street in Singapore. As we are going to pray, we decided to have lunch after going to pray. My dad brought us to his favourite bak kut teh stall in that area. It was a stall in a coffee shop at Rocher Centre. The stall name was Song Fa days night Bak Kut Teh. When we reached there, the whole coffe shop was filled with people and nearly 75% of the tables were having the Bak Kut Teh, a good sign on the quanlity of the food that was going to be served.

My father ordered a salted vegetable, a serving of stewed pig trotter, a serving of stewed pig intestine, a pipping hot bowl of pig kidney soup and three pipping hot bowls of Bak Kut Teh as shown in the following pictures.



You can see from the picture above, that the Bak Kut ( Pork ribs) is very big in portion and there are quite a bit of flesh on each of them. Also in the picture is the salted vegetable which was not really that good as it was not really covered in a lot of gravy. ( Matter of personal preference) Some people prefer it less soaky. The other dish in the background is the pig trotter. There is a clearer picture later.



The next picture is again the Bak Kut Teh. See the size of the pork ribs. The ribs were very well flavoured and the soup was also very good. It had a peppery taste but it did not overpowered the soup natural flavour which is actually the soup base using the flavour of the ribs. Most importantly, the ribs had a lot of meat. Good for me a meat eater hehe. The other two items in the picture is the kidney soup and the stewed pig intestine. There is a closer view of the items in the following photographs.

A close up shot of the pork ribs.

The above is the Kidney soup. The soup was not as nice as the Bak Kut Teh soup. It lack a certain punch. In addition, I felt that the kidney was overcooked as it was pretty tough. This dish in a way disappointed me.

Serving of stewed pig intestine

This dish was not too bad as the intestine was cooked to a decent texture. Would have been better if the gravy over it was a bit thicker. This is more of a personal preference rather than the gravy was not good. Overall, it was not bad.

Serving of Stewed Pig Trotter

The stewed pig trotter was quite delicious as it was stewed till it was of the right texture. This dish was quite good.

Overall, the meal at the stall was quite satisfying and it was relatively not expensive as the amount that we ordered could have fed 6 to 7 person and it cost abt 38 bucks. More importantly was the food was good in general.


In the evening, my friend called me to meet up for dinner before catching the Singapore vs Thailand game later on. We met up together with another two friends at Junction 8 in Bishan to decide on what to have for dinner. As my friend got his first pay check, he made the call on where to had dinner. He decided on going to cafe cartel for dinner.

He ordered the 4 person combo meal to share and a serving of the day soup. I did not take a picture of the soup as I forgotten abt it. It was a tomato based soup. I did not really enjoyed it.

Next to arrive is the main course which is the combo meal for 4 shown below. Taken from different angles.

BBQ spare ribs and fried honey chicken wing

Taken from my side. See the sweet corn quantity, there is 3 only. Wonder how we are going to share three sweet corns among four people.

Angle taken from the sausage perspective.

In general, I felt that the chicken wing was a bit on the sweet side, guess it muct be their style of preparing the wings. The sauage was quite good and it was very tasty. There were two type os ribs in this combination set. The ribs given were the black pepper rib and the honey rib. There were not bad, personally prefer the honey ribs better as I felt the sause was better than the black pepper sause which was not that strong in flavour.

It was a good place to gather and talk and the service there is also quite good.