My Halal Fork n Spoon

If you are missing authentic Malaysian food, you may consider dropping by to Encik Tan at the newly opened Kallang Wave Mall (nearest MRT Station - Stadium). [Update - Aug 2018: you can also now find Encik Tan at Vivocity Basement and many more places in Singapore! Check out their locations here.]

Carrot cake, popiah, wantan noodles, fishball noodles... the menu seems awfully familiar like those you can find at hawker centres and food stalls around Singapore. But at Encik Tan, it tastes a little different, in a good and delicious way. In fact, it tastes more authentic. (I honestly do not know how else to describe it, you have to try it yourself to taste the difference).

The staff are Malaysians, so that makes it abit more authentic. When I was there, I asked if they could make white carrot cake and would it be nice (I really need better questions to ask), and the uncle (probably the manager) said, of course, confirm nice! and it was!

I visited them a few times. The wantan noodle dish tastes normal to me. The popiah sells out very fast (so sad! so you gotta come early to get it). There are 2 different queues for different food so that gets a little confusing.

Priced decently, and it is family friendly (big seating area for large families). So you tend to see big families dining in. I hope they have more food variety in time to come.

My ratings:

Overall: 6.5/10

- if you are in the area and craving something cheap and satisfying

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This is one shop that is silent, but amazing.

Located at a small corner of Lucky Plaza in busy Orchard, no one would have guessed that this small small Malay shop has an endless queue the moment it opens until it closes.

Very tiny shop, it can house probably about 20 people cramped around 5 tables or so. The queue is perpetually never ending especially during lunch time when office workers come to dine. And there are those who would pre-order like 20 over packets of chicken rice for a feast so the wait can be quite long.

The workers and cooks are really busy, so you can expect not to be pampered at all. You may also get scolded by the worker if you take too much space or place your bag on an unoccupied chair, or take too long to eat, during peak hours - which happen all the time considering the shop only opens from 11am to 3++pm until they sell out or when they feel like it.

But… because their chicken rice is soooo goood. You will end up forgiving them on the other aspects.

Not many people know about this shop as it is happily surviving on it's own loyal customers. and there is only one as-shifaa and they appear to be so secure about their business, they dont seem to care about expanding. But, for the sake of good food, I urge you to try this, at least once in your life. :D

p.s. They have other food too, but... do you really want to forsake the chicken rice?
p.p.s They are on Facebook too people!

My ratings (visited on 22/9/2014):

Overall: 9.5/10 (yes, biased, because of the yummy chicken rice)

- you got one life, you better TRY THIS.

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For you ignorant souls out there, there are VERY VERY few halal-certified established cafes in Singapore. And coffee bean made history by becoming Halal-certified in the past few years. (other cafes include Cafe Galilee in national libraries, and hmm, is that it?).

My ratings:

Overall: 9.5/10
- try it or regret it

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