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Eminent Frog Porridge @ Geylang Lorong 19, Singapore
Jan 16th
For some people frogs are considered an exotic food. They don’t look exactly cute nor tasty to begin with lol, and heck do they give you the creeps when they hop towards your direction – especially those tiny ones.
But I grown up chasing and playing with them in my house’s backyard, and my father used to take away Kung Pao Frog Legs from restaurants as additional dish when we had dinner. Suffice to say it has became one of our favorite dishes.
So when I knew that Frog Leg Porridge is a popular food in Singapore, I thought to myself it wasn’t really that special since I had it since small, just that I never had it with porridge before that’s all. But one day we went to Geylang in the afternoon for food hunt and what a bad decision! Most of the restaurants and stalls were closed and would only open during evening.
And it so happened that Eminent Frog Porridge was near to us at that time, and they also had the earliest opening hours at 5pm. So you can say that we settled to eat at Eminent simply because we were out of options.
We were pleasantly surprised to know that Eminent was having ‘buy 2 get 1 free‘ for $16 and ‘buy 3 get 1 free‘ for $22 promotions. Because 1 frog already cost $8, it is only logical you order more than that to enjoy the worthy promotion. We ordered a small porridge @ $2 and 2 claypots of frogs @ $32 cooked in dried chili and spring onion styles.
Honestly, I did not harbor too high expectations from the moment we sat down. We didn’t even know if Eminent was good. But it didn’t take us long to change our minds because the combination of porridge and claypot frog was delicious! The porridge had a nice thick consistency but tasteless. So it had to depend on the cooked frogs for flavor, which they delivered well especially the Kung Pao one.
Swee Guan Hokkien Mee & Kwong Satay @ Geylang Lorong 29
Oct 22nd
Remember Swee Guan Hokkien Mee at Geylang Lorong 29 that I didn’t get to try because it wasn’t open yet when I went there the last time? Because of that we had to try the one at VivoCity’s food court instead, which was something regretful for me.
Well since I am working in Singapore now I have plenty of opportunities to make another visit, and I did that just last week. I was 100% sure it would be open at night, and I was right.
I went with my colleague, who claimed that he has never tried any Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee in Singapore before despite working here for almost 2 years. His reason was simple, it didn’t look appealing or appetizing enough to him. But still, I managed to convince him to give it a try because this is one of the food you must try in Singapore.
Although there weren’t many customers when we arrived, it still took quite some time for the Hokkien Mee to arrive. Shown here is the smallest portion available at an affordable $3 only. Two medium sized prawns, some squid and a dollop of sambal accompanied the noodle.
Taste wise, as expected it was a lot better than the one I had at VivoCity previously. It was simply much flavorful, appetizing and had more ‘wok hei’, something important in any fried rice or noodle to distinguish between the good and normal ones.
