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HIANG 鼎香 @ 379 Upper Aljunied Road

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For just $19 via a Fave deal, you can get a ‘Red Grouper Fish Head Steamboat for 2 – 4 People’. The restaurant is called ‘The Teochew Kitchenette’ (at Tanjong Pagar Plaza #02-102) or HIANG 鼎香 (379 Upper Aljunied Road). The fish head (approx 650g) is chopped into chunks, and served with chinese cabbage, yam, coral lettuce, seaweed, tomato and tofu. We had our dinner at the Aljunied branch this evening and we can only say the service here is 10/10. The guy at the counter was cheery and friendly – I’m not sure if he’s the boss or manager / supervisor – even though we arrived around 5pm when the place had just ‘opened’ for dinner service, after their lunch break.

You can also check out the menu outside the restaurant – it has the pricing stated as well, which I like:

I may be Teochew but I don’t really know what a good Teochew broth should taste like! 😀 I can only say the one they’ve used for tonight’s steamboat wasn’t too heavily seasoned. I think they wanted to let the ‘sweetness’ from the fish and cabbage enrich this broth. The yam was in such small pieces that I think they disintegrated. So even though I don’t like/eat yam, I did end up consuming it.

Good that the fish is all chopped up. Though they could have cleared more of the scales 😀

We did not order rice and I think the auntie who works here was a little surprised. She made a comment to the young(er) man about how young people don’t eat rice these days. But I supposed she didn’t mean any malice because she quickly launched into the disadvantages of having all these young people ride PMDs (they don’t get any exercise!) while the kind young man looked at her as if he’s listening to his sweet ol’ granny talk.

Though we didn’t eat any rice, we did order the prawn paste chicken (small serving at $9)…

I think the chef is a guy who’s very happy to work here as we could hear him sing out the order from the kitchen and he told the auntie who was serving us the food that today’s chicken was going at “buy 6 get 1 free”. She happily relayed the message to us, and also explained that because some pieces were smaller, we got an additional 1 free, compliments of the chef. 😀 So cute lah these two!

Anyway… best part about dining here: no GST and service charge. Plus we could pay via FavePay.

I think you should definitely come here if you’re taking your grandparents out for a meal and you want them to really enjoy themselves. 🙂 I noticed that grannies certainly enjoyed teasing the ‘yandao’ (handsome) young man, and they were quickly made to feel at home in this cosy restaurant.

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379 Upper Aljunied Road

Tel: 6281 0098


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