No Signboard Seafood Restaurant @Vivocity

Although this would not be considered a hawker center, we ventured out to Vivo City on Tuesday, due to the heavy rain that prevented us from going to our hawker joints. The No Signboard Seafood Restaurant is located at the top floor at Vivo City, with quite a few branches around Singapore also.

We made sure we did not order too much food, our usual habit we have when eating. This establishment had quite a number of people despite being a weekday, showing the popularity of this place. The first dish was the vegetables, where we ordered the stir fried garlic dou miao or pea shoots. This light dish was nice, not too much garlic taste to give it away. The second dish was the black sauce hokkien mee, a popular favourite that is often eaten by us. Gravy was generous and the portion serving was just nice for two people, with each of us having two bowls of noodles each. The seafood on the noodles was fresh and I was glad that the taste did not overkill. 

Lastly, the awaited chilli crab arrived. It was quite a huge crab for us. They were very generous with the gravy and we ate it with the 'man tou' that we ordered. The gravy was really spicy, and you can feel the heat going down your throat. The crab was fresh and meat was tender. The restaurant had already cracked the crab thus it was easy to peel off the shell. However, we realised that we could not each much of the gravy as it was quite starchy. If you want, you could actually takeaway the gravy as there was really quite a lot left, something that waffle wanted to do! On the hold, the side dishes were quite nice, but the main dish loses out to big established seafood chains that we have around Singapore.

Albert Court Food Center

We ventured out to the East this time, not knowing what to expect at Albert Court Food Center, located behind the famous Bugis Village. 

Despite it looking gloomy from afar and not very well lit in the entire building, we soon came to realised that there were many rows of food. Not really knowing what to eat, we decided to queue for food that had a queue. 

First came the Nasi Lemak. With its pungent rice, this stall attracted a long queue. The service is quite fast despite the long queue as the waffle got in line while the spaghetti analysed the queue. Probably one of the main reasons for the queue was also that the food was cheap, resulting in many workers buying one of the set to fill their stomachs. 

There is a huge variety of dishes if you do not want the set meals, and they are very generous with their servings. The chicken wing was crispy while the hot dog, curry veg and potato was normal. However, one would not forget the chilli which is a must when eating nasi lemak.

Behind this stall is a stall which sells a huge variety of dishes which attracted many also and had a long queue. I could not decide whether to eat the hor fun or the black sauce hokkien noodles. 

However, after waiting in the queue, I decided to go for the black sauce hokkien noodles. Portion wise it was just nice, though it was slightly dry. With a price of $3, it filled my stomach nicely and was too full to have any desserts. 

There are many other food in this food center. It would be worth going back again.

Resort World Sentosa - Malaysian Food Corner

This time round we head to Resort World area in Sentosa where hawker food exist..to be more specific, Malaysian hawker food. In an area built for different hawker food, the selection is just nice, not too many though price is another thing.

The longest queue in the whole 'food court' was the hokkien mee, a different version from the more common one Singaporeans eat. It is the dark sauce kind where can be found at some tze char stalls. Taste wise wasn't too bad though I think there would be nicer ones elsewhere. There were not much ingredients also and at a cost of $6!

If you like the fatty kind of char siew in your wanton mee, this is the right place to come! For a price of $4, you get quite a bit of char siew and the noodles is not too bad, though again nothing fantastic. However, the serving portion is quite generous for the noodles, char siew and won ton.

To end it off, dessert!! The dessert store sold only a few kinds of desserts, ice kachang being one of them. The ingredients in the dessert were plenty though the atapchi was slightly hard.

On the hold, price wise, you might think you are paying loads for such simple food. However, the ambience is different, area is different and you may realised that the crowd is also slightly different with more tourists and visitors to Sentosa. For cheaper alternative, this place might be worth a try, but don't expect the food to be the most delicious one you ever had!