Dinner at Guan Hoe Soon + Lunch at Zok Noodle House

Both Baby and I went to Guan Hoe Soon to have our Peranakan fix on a random 'Fridate'. It is located at Joo Chiat - one of Singapore's first heritage shophouse areas. It has a long history and is considered Singapore's oldest Peranakan Restaurant since 1953. 

The appetizer gave us a great start and it was really quite special. Initially, Baby thought it was achar, but when we brought the food closer to us, we realized that it was actually chicken gizzard, cucumber, and pineapple topped with shaved cuttlefish in a sweet and sour yet spicy sambal taste.

We ordered the Otak Otak and it tasted pretty normal, nothing to shout about!

We enjoyed the Nyonya Chap Chye very much. It's one of the good ones among other places we've tried before.


We ordered the Bawang Kepiting, and the soup was refreshing, but I felt that the meat balls were a bit lacking. I was pretty disappointed with it, as I held high hopes from for this oldest Peranakan restaurant.

These complimentary kuehs were served at the end of our meal.

With a long history in Peranakan food, I was expecting more from them. Overall, I find that the food was pretty normal, which cannot be justified with the damage we paid!


On a random Saturday afternoon, we went to Zok Noodle House 竹麵館 which is located at Raffles City for lunch. As soon as we stepped into the premises, we literally felt that we were being transported to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and Macau.

We ordered Curry Fishballs, and the taste was pretty good. 


Our favorite was the X.O. Sauce Stir Fried Turnip Cake. Each piece of the turnip cake was soft which melted in the mouth the moment we ate it. It tasted delicious and the aroma kept luring me to eat more!

Baby ordered the Classic Soup Pork Noodles which contains generous ingredients such as pork belly, liver, meat ball and minced meat. The broth was surprisingly tasty with no gamey smell of pork taste.

The damage was pretty affordable, and we will come again to try out the other items in the menu.

I end my post with a lovely gift received from Korea! I love it so much, thanks J!

Not to forget, my dearest neighbor who brought back the mango sticky rice all the way from Bangkok! Thanks SM!

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