Feng Xiang BKT – Klang Style Claypot Bak Kut Teh + Zi Char Delights [MEDIA INVITE]

Feng Xiang is a Klang-style Claypot Bak Kut Teh born during the pandemic 2 years ago. It started when Mr Harvey Ang, the co-founder was yearning for the robust flavour of his hometown Klang’s Bak Kut Teh and he was unable to “balik kampung” (go back home). Created with family heirloom recipes passed down through generations and the skilful use of 16 premium ingredients and herbs, Feng Xiang BKT evokes memories Klang’s signature taste. As Feng Xiang is well received by the customers, they have expanded to nine outlets around Singapore.

Feng Xiang @ Vivo City

We had our tasting at Feng Xiang Food Republic @ Vivocity. It is a restaurant within the Food Republic, with up to 60 seats.

The Menu Board

The Drink Menu

Herbal Bak Kut Teh (Soup) Regular $8.50. Served in a claypot, the ingredients include pork ribs, sliced pork, tau pok, enoki mushroom, shiitake mushroom and topped with fried beancurd skin. The broth is dark, robust and infused with herbs. The short pork ribs are juicy, succulent and infused with the essence of the broth. For a Klang-style BKT, I like the herbs to be very strong, however, the version at Feng Xiang is milder and can be easily acceptable by everyone.

Herbal Bak Kut Teh (Soup) 

Herbal Bak Kut Teh (Soup) - The Ingredients 

The Pork Rib

Bak Kut Teh (Dry) Regular $9.50. It is a sweet and savoury dish, cooked with string-thin cuttlefish strips, dried chilli and covered in the sweet dark sauce. The combination of caramelised sweet dark soy sauce, cuttlefish and dried chilli cooked in high heat, push that delicious and irresistible flavour into the pork ribs. What a “Flavour Bomb” and the best dry bak kut teh in Singapore.

Bak Kut Teh (Dry) 

Feng Xiang Pork Cutlet Fried Porridge $8.50. Signature fried porridge at Feng Xiang. The porridge is infused with shallots and hae bee (dried prawns), cooked at a very high heat. You can see the “fire show” when the chef cooks the fried porridge. The toppings include fried pork cutlet, pork lard, fried shallots and spring onion. The porridge is fragrant, smooth, creamy and not oily. The fried pork cutlet and pork lard provided a contrasting texture to the dish, and the generous portion can easily satisfy 2 persons.

Feng Xiang Pork Cutlet Fried Porridge 

Starting on 1st March 2024, Feng Xiang is introducing Zi Char favourites chosen by the Malaysian-born Chefs.

Har Cheong Gai (Prawn Paste Chicken Mid Wings), promotional price $4.90*, (original price $7.90) & Har Cheong Crispy Chicken Skin promotional price $2.90*, (original price $4.90). Har Cheong Gai is probably the most ordered dish in Singapore and Malaysia’s Zi Char scene. The version at Feng Xiang is well marinated, packed with umami flavour and crisp externally.

Har Cheong Gai (Prawn Paste Chicken Mid Wings) 

Since we always like the crispy texture of the Har Cheong Gai, Feng Xiang is offering the Har Cheong Crispy Chicken skin as well. It is super crispy and such umami overload. I like it as a snack, but it is also good to eat with the fried porridge. Yum Yum.

Har Cheong Crispy Chicken Skin 

Salad You Tiao, promotional price $3.90* (original price $5.90). It has a crunchy exterior, followed by bouncy and tasty squid paste. It is served with mayonnaise dip. Being adventurous, I dipped mine with dry BKT gravy and it was just amazing.

Salad You Tiao

Steamed Fresh Baby Squid, promotional price $6.90*, (original price $9.90). Steamed to perfection, the baby squid is fresh, tender and bouncy. The soy sauce, fried garlic and spring onion paired nicely with the squid. A must-order dish here.

Steamed Fresh Baby Squid

Promotion

With the purchase of Bak Kut Teh Soup, Bak Kut Teh Dry, or Fried Porridge, you are entitled to enjoy any of the 4 zi char dishes at the promotional price throughout March and April 2024.

Overall, it was an enjoyable meal at Feng Xiang. The Dry Bak Kut Teh, Har Cheong Gai Crispy Skin and Steamed Fresh Baby Squid are our picks from the delicious food. Cheers!!

Food & Drink: 7.5/10

Value: 8/10

Service: N/A (Media Invite)

Ambiance: N/A (Food Court)

Budget per Person: $0 – $10; $11 - $25.

Feng Xiang Bak Kut Teh @Vivo City

1 HarbourFront Walk

#03-01 Food Republic @VivoCity

Singapore 098585

W: https://fengxiang.sg/

F: https://www.facebook.com/fengxiangbkt/

IG: @fengxiangbkt

OH: Daily 10.00 – 21.00 Full detail of all Feng Xiang locations are available on their website or click here.

The Three Peacocks – Meat & Live Station Buffet [MEDIA INVITE]

The Three Peacocks (‘TTP’) are known to be a place to go for a great outdoor BBQ experience. They offer an extensive range of meat and seafood for BBQ and they are packed every day.

The Three Peacocks

Recently, TTP has launched Meat & Live Station Buffet, priced at $45++ for Monday to Friday. We last visited TTP a few years back, before Covid landed. When we visited them again this time around, we can see that TTP has expanded their offerings to include a few live stations and cooked food as well. They are becoming a full fledge buffet restaurant plus outdoor charcoal BBQ as well.

Meat & Live Stations Buffet

Back to the Meat BBQ, we started with the beef first. We have Bone In Short Rib Korean Cut, Angus Beef Boneless Short Rib, Wagyu Oyster Blade and Angus Beef Shortplate. We find the quality of the meat is good, almost Korean BBQ standard. The bone-in short rib is juicy with a good chewiness in it, but I like the boneless short ribs better as I do not have to get my hands dirty.

Part of The Beef Selections

Part of The Beef Selections

For the pork, we tried the Thick Cut Pork Belly, Black Pork Belly, Black Pork Collar, Pork Jowl and Pork Loin. We like both versions of the pork belly, as we grill them to the point of crispiness. The pork jowl has a nice fat-to-meat ratio; however, we find it too gamy for our liking.

Part of The Pork Selections

Part of The Pork Selections

Since the meat is not marinated, it is best to dip the cooked meat in different sauces provided to create the taste that you like.

Chilli Padi & Garlic, Chinchalok and Peacock Special Sauce

Salt, Korean BBQ and Yuzu & Ponzu

The skewers were highly recommended, so we grilled the Beef Skewers, Chicken Skewers, Marinated Mid Wing, Chicken Gizzard and Mutton Skewers. They are also known as Chuan Chuan in China. The beef, chicken and mutton skewers are good and you can add cumin powder seasoning to the skewers as well. I really like the gizzard as it was crisp and crunchy as well.

The Chuan Chuan

In between the meals I went to check out the live stations. The first live station that you will see when walking into TTP is the deep-fried and teppanyaki station. Here you can get a range of deep-fried food such as chicken karaage, fries, wedges, gyoza, calamari rings, nuggets and a lot more. The items will be rotated regularly.

Live Station Teppanyaki & Deep Fried

On that day, the teppanyaki station is busy with salmon, calamari rings and or-luak. On other occasions, they even do beef cubes, almost like the beef cubes popular in Taiwan street food. I get to try TTD version of or-luak which was very tasty, although it is lacking some crisp.

Or-luak

The next live station served pizza, pasta and burger. You won’t miss it as the big red pizza oven is so eye-catching, it should be a centrepiece. The pizza is baked on the spot, though I won’t say it is fantastic, it is decent. The slider (mini beef burger) is very good actually. Filled with juicy mini patty and pack with delicious sauce as well. On that day, they also serve carbonara, rojak and tacos.

Live Station Pizza, Pasta & Burger

Pizzas

Sliders / Mini Beef Burger

Since TTD is evolving to a full buffet lineup, they have beefed up the cooked ready food section as well. The cold food section includes a salad bar, cold cuts, sushi and soba. You can get the lettuce wrap from the salad bar and if you want something healthy, we find the apple salad is good to help balance the heavy meat BBQ.

The cooked food sections contain Soup, Garlic Bread, Fried Rice, Stir-fry Vegetables, Mac & Cheese, Baked Ratatouille, Potato Wedges, Corn with Cheese and Mala Xiang Guo. The Mala Xiang Guo seems to be popular with the guests, as the queue always peaked at the Mala Xiang Guo.

Fried Rice & Stir-Fry Vegetables

Mac & Cheese and Potato Wedges

Spicy Chicken and Baked Ratatouille

Mala Xiang Guo

To complete the meal, drinks and ice cream are free flow. Drinks provided are more of a healthier choice, such as fruit punch, blackcurrant juice, orange juice and sky juice (water). There is no coke, coke zero or sprite. The chocolate and tropicana (corn and coconut) ice cream are great.

Drinks

Ice Cream

Overall, we find the offering at The Three Peacocks to be extensive. We find it impossible to try all the dishes and even go for a second round. For $45++ you will surely get your fill. If you still like your seafood, you can also continue with your all Seafood and Meat Buffet. Cheers!!

Meat & Live Station Buffet

When: Monday to Friday

Where: The Three Peacocks

Price: $45++

Food & Drink: 6.75/10

Value: 7.25/10

Service: N/A (Tasting Invitation)

Ambiance: 6.5/10

Budget per Person: $51 - $80

The Three Peacocks @Labrador Park

8 Port Road

Labrador Park

Singapore 117540

T: +65 8333 2781

F: https://www.facebook.com/thethreepeacocks/

IG: @Thethreepeacocks

OH:

Mon – Thu: 17.45 – 23.00

Fri – Sun: 17.00 – 23.00

[CLOSED] Prima Tower – Singapore Landmark Revolving Restaurant

Shredded Scallops with Fish and Egg White 

Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant is a landmark dining destination restaurant in Singapore. Build on top of a grain silo in 1977, it still endeared diners with its culinary creation and panoramic view of the sea, Sentosa, Resort World Sentosa and around Singapore island.

The View of Sentosa and RWS

Prima Tower is led by Hong Kong Master Chef Chan, who has 30 years of culinary experience. Prima Tower served authentic Beijing cuisine and Cantonese Dim Sim as well.

Peking Duck ($70, whole) is one of the signature dishes of this restaurant. The Peking Duck is served with egg crepe, Peking duck sauce, cucumber and spring onion. Unlike the modern Peking duck restaurant, the serving here is more rustic. The skin is crispy and sliced without the meat attached. However, I found the carving is very barbaric, not elegant at all.

Peking Duck

The egg crepe is thin and moist, wrapped the fillings nicely. One thing for sure, the Peking duck standard here is not as good as other Peking Duck centric restaurant that has open in Singapore for the last 10 years.

The Duck Skin

2nd dish, duck meat with ginger and spring onion ($10). For the second serving, we choose the duck meat to be cooked with ginger and spring onion. Though the dish is fragrant and appetizing, the meat of the duck is very hard. Not recommend.

2nd dish, duck meat with ginger and spring onion

Shredded Scallops with Fish and Egg White ($42 for Large, Anniversary Promo). A must-order dish here. The dish has a subtle natural sweetness, filled with generous fillings of dried and fresh scallops. I suggest you try the original taste of this dish first. Afterwards, add a bit of black vinegar as it will remove any fishiness from the scallops, while the tanginess will accentuate the sweetness in this dish.

Shredded Scallops with Fish and Egg White

For the Cantonese Dim Sum section, there were some outstanding dishes:

Steam Dumpling with Prawn / Siew Mai ($5.80). Juicy, crunchy and complete with a whole prawn as the topping. Yummy.

Steam Dumpling with Prawn / Siew Mai 

Pan Fried Radish Cake ($5.80). It has a crispy exterior and moist interior. The radish cube is generous, spread evenly and you can taste it in each bite. Not a fan of fried carrot cake, but I did enjoy this one.

Pan Fried Radish Cake

Steam Pau BBQ Pork ($5.80). A traditional version of char siew pau, fluffy with juicy and fatty char siew fillings. The marination is just right and there is a nice smoky aroma in the char siew.

Steam Pau BBQ Pork

Steam Pau BBQ Pork

Steam Rice Roll with Squid Paste & You Tiao ($6.80). A smooth and silky rice roll filled with crispy you tiao. The soy sauce is served separately, to ensure the you tiao remain crispy till the end.

Steam Rice Roll with Squid Paste & You Tiao 

Steam Rice Roll with Squid Paste & You Tiao 

Mango Century Egg Glass Roll ($6.80). A creative and unique combination. You can taste the sweetness of the mango, creamy and pungent century egg plus a bit of spark in flavour from the pink pickled ginger wrapped in delicate glass roll. The pickled ginger also helps to reduce the overwhelming flavour from the century egg.

Mango Century Egg Glass Roll

Mango Century Egg Glass Roll

          

Deep-Fried Yam Ball ($6.80). The taro exterior is light and fluffy, protecting the juicy pork fillings. There is also a Swan Taro Ball with Black Pepper Fillings ($6.80). The exterior is the same as yam ball, but the juicy fillings are pack with black pepper flavour.

Deep-Fried Yam Ball 

Deep-Fried Yam Ball 

Stewed Tripe ($6.80). Tender, bouncy and the tripe easily. The braising sauce is well infused into the trip, making it very addictive.

Stewed Tripe

Taro Lava Bao ($5.80). Nice oozing custard, combining taro with custard that reduce the sweetness of the custard. Tasted like orh nee bao.

Taro Lava Bao

Taro Lava Bao

Some of the dishes that are average:

Steam Shrimp Dumpling / Har Gow ($5.80). The har gow has a thick crystal skin and bouncy, followed with crunchy shrimp fillings. I prefer a thinner and delicate skin compare to the version here.

Steam Shrimp Dumpling / Har Gow 

Steam Dumpling Shanghai ($5). More like a Beijing Xiao Long Bao instead of Shanghai XLB. The skin here is thicker and there is no bursting of the soup when you bit into the dumpling.

Steam Dumpling Shanghai / Xiao Long Bao

Steam Chicken Feet ($5.80). A super spicy fung chao. The chilli is so powerful, I quickly reach for the drink. The chicken feet have a good crunchy texture though.

Steam Chicken Feet

Steam Pork Rib ($5.80). Thick pork ribs mixed with cubed yams. I feel a bit short-changed as there was too much yam.

Steam Pork Rib 

Service is inconsistent. Some of the service staff are friendly and the other can be brusque. If you dine there for lunch, you better finish your meal by 2.30pm as the A/C is turned off on time and the service staff is rushing out as well.

Swan Taro Ball with Black Pepper Fillings

The view from the restaurant still amazing as you get revolving panoramic view of the sea, Sentosa, Resort World Sentosa and around Singapore island. However, ages seem to catch up with the machine as revolving is not smooth anymore, expect some bump during the ride.

The View of Vivocity

Overall, this grand old dame should not be dismissed easily. I recommend their Shredded Scallops with Fish and Egg White, Siew Mai, Char Siew Pao, Stewed Tripe and Mango Century Egg Glass Roll. Not forgetting the revolving panoramic view is still one of the best in town. Cheers!!

Food & Drinks: 7.5/10

Value: 7/10

Service: 5.75/10

Ambiance: 8.5/10

Budget per Person: $26 - $50.

Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant

201 Keppel Road

Singapore 099419

T: +65 6272 8822 / 6272 8988

W: http://primatower.com.sg/home/

F: http://bit.ly/fb-primatower

IG: @Primatower_

OH:

Mon – Sat Lunch 11.00 – 14.30

Sun & PH Lunch 10.30 – 14.30

Mon – Sun & PH Dinner 18.30 – 22.30