Saturday, December 3, 2011

Fried Fish Soup

There are different kinds of fish soup in Singapore, there are fresh fish used for stocks and main courses and there are also fried fish soups. There are 2 kinds of fried fish soups - the clear Teochew fish soup which uses fresh slices of fish and there’s the milky Cantonese version with fried fish fillets. Most people prefer the clear fish soup but I have to find out which better of the two varieties. Some people are skeptical of how the fried fish fillet will taste with a milk based broth. I have to find out myself.

Off I go to the Maxwell Food Center went in queue at Jin Hua Fried Fish Soup stall. This stall is known to have long lines during lunch. A bowl of milk fried fish bowl costs $4.00, same as the clear fried fish bowl. I made my order and went to another stall to have a plate of Zhi Char hofun. The soup is really delicious and colorful, big pieces of fish fillets compliment the sweetness of the milk with a hint of ginger. The saltiness of the fish goes well with the milky savory soup. The hofun is saucy and its fun to mix all the ingredients. I made sure all the ingredients, pechay, pork, squid, mushroom and fish is coated with the sauce. The thick hofun sauce and then a sip or slurp of the fried fish soup made my day. I had a wonderful lunch. 2 working class dishes at affordable prices, I love Singapore!

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