{"id":24427,"date":"2014-01-31T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubbisheatrubbishgrow.com\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T02:49:34","slug":"truly-curry-rice-sg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubbisheatrubbishgrow.com\/zh\/2014\/01\/31\/truly-curry-rice-sg\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVED: Truly Curry Rice \u771f\u5496\u54e9\u996d, Telok Blangah"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOVED: Truly Curry Rice has opened its own coffeeshop called Truly Test Kitchen<\/strong> at 153 Kampong Ampat, Jun Jie Industrial Building #07-05,\u00a0Singapore 368326.<\/p>\n

\"Truly
\nMy trader friends earn 5-digit salary monthly, with 6 months’ bonus. Deniece Tan and Joel give up their cushy trader jobs to be hawkers, waking at 4am everyday. Joel doesn’t see it as a sacrifice: his past has nothing to do with his future, he says, and when passion meets opportunity, he grabs it. This must have been a truly difficult decision for them both.<\/p>\n

\"\u771f\u5496\u54e9\u996d,
\nThe opportunity arose when Deniece’s father, who was a hawker, wanted to give up his stall. Deniece and Joel take over with the latter doing the cooking. Their philosophy is to present the freshest food: ALL sauces are made from scratch <\/strong>(including the super tok kong<\/em> sambal chili), little MSG, and the stall is equipped with a UV light display to keep the food consistently warm.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Truly
\nPundits may be concerned that the style isn’t Hainanese but I don’t care. We live in a globalized city, nothing is “authentic” anymore. The only benchmark should be if it’s delicious or not. And I love everything I ate.<\/p>\n

\"Truly
\nThe things to look out for in curry rice are the curry<\/strong>,\u00a0pork chop<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>and chap chye<\/strong>. While the pork chop and chap chye were ok, the curry (Deniece’s dad’s recipe, with some tweaking by Joel) was fantastic: A heavy aroma of tomato, giving it a sweetness, and mellowing into an aftertaste of tingles and complex spices in the mouth. A very smart move: The rice was slightly hard, so that it would soften to a right texture when absorbed by the curry.<\/p>\n

\"Truly
\nThe two MUST ORDER<\/strong> dishes are the eggplant<\/strong>, a sweet chili sauce with lots of hae bee<\/em>\u00a0without the stinky smell; and handmade<\/strong>\u00a0ngoh hiang<\/strong>\u00a0from Joel’s mom’s recipe.\u00a0<\/strong>Deniece chops the ingredients by hand at 4am every morning, so the ngoh hiang has chunks of pork and prawn, giving it a very AMAZING texture, and the taste was explosive, lingering. Without a doubt, this is BEST NGOH HIANG<\/strong> I’ve tasted.<\/p>\n

\"Truly
\nI love everything I ate, but I’ve a disclaimer: it is said that I’ve modern tastes and the older generation may be less used to food that is slightly sweet. For example, the curry<\/strong>, eggplant<\/strong>, sotong<\/strong>, and\u00a0lionhead<\/strong> (balled minced pork) were slightly sweet, rather than savory. The\u00a0braised pork belly<\/strong>\u00a0was lean, had a bite, and was lightly flavored, which I liked, but the elders may prefer it fat, tender and heavy handed. The seniors may find the\u00a0sotong<\/strong>\u00a0out of place in a curry rice shop, but I savored its hints of assam and lemongrass although it was a tad overcooked. Some like the\u00a0prawns<\/strong> to be more thinly battered, but this 5 spice-flavored batter that remained crispy after some time in the open worked very well for me: it gives a rich mouthfeel, not doughy at all, when you eat it as a whole.<\/p>\n

\"TrulyI have eaten at a few famous curry rice stalls before but I don’t see the fascination because it’s only cai fan<\/em> with curry what. Cai Fan<\/em> everywhere also has.\u00a0But\u00a0Truly Curry Rice changes me. The food is different because it is homely, sincere AND modern. Anyone below 35 will love it. Consider me a fan. Truly, deeply, madly.<\/p>\n

Truly Curry Rice
\n<\/strong>Blk 79 Telok Blangah Drive Food Center #01-29 Singapore 100079
\nM-F: 10.45am-sold out (about 1pm)
\nS-S: 10am-sold out (about 1.30pm)
\nRating: 4\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks, Charleen (gninethree<\/a>) for the tasting and introducing me to Deniece and Joel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0A. Nathanael Ho.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOVED: Truly Curry Rice has opened its own coffeeshop called Truly Test Kitchen at 153 Kampong Ampat, Jun Jie Industrial Building #07-05,\u00a0Singapore 368326. My trader friends earn 5-digit salary monthly, with 6 months’ bonus. Deniece Tan and Joel give up their cushy trader jobs to be hawkers, waking at 4am everyday. Joel doesn’t see it 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