$2.50 chee cheong enjoyable constituted of scratch by milling personal rice at Marine Parade

Chee cheong enjoyable is one in every of my favorite breakfast dishes. Comprising skinny sheets of steamed rice rolls accompanied by your alternative of toppings, this basic Cantonese dish at all times hits the spot. I’d’ve simply discovered my new favorite place for chee cheong enjoyable— Yong Huat Delight at 50A Marine Terrace Market.

What makes Yong Huat Delight so completely different from different chee cheong enjoyable stalls? Apart from making every roll recent to order, the proprietor even mills her personal rice from scratch to create her personal rice slurry. Talk about actual effort!

Yong Huat Delight is run by Ms Liang Yuan and her household. Ms Liang Yuan, a former beautician, determined to search for a extra lively job and finally settled on promoting chee cheong enjoyable. She even returned to her hometown, Guangzhou, to discover ways to make it!

Chee cheong enjoyable is usually made with rice flour and water, and whereas Ms Liang Yuan first began off utilizing this typical recipe, she felt that store-bought rice flour didn’t give her the feel she needed.

Thus started the method of milling her personal rice to create her personal rice slurry. As the hawker stall operates from 5am to 2pm each day, this implies Ms Liang Yuan has to return to the stall at night time to soak the rice, return at 1am to grind the soaked rice, earlier than making ready the stall to be opened.

Even up until immediately, each roll of chee cheong enjoyable is handmade on the spot by Ms Liang Yuan. Despite the lengthy hours she’s put into her work each day, she nonetheless greets every buyer with a smile and snort, and her bubbly persona immediately received me over.

More impressively, Ms Liang Yuan and the remainder of the members of the family at Yong Huat Delight recognise regulars on sight. While I used to be ready for my meals, I seen that they might even recall their orders in a heartbeat, with out the shopper even having to utter a single phrase!

What I attempted at Yong Huat Delight

Yong Huat Delight provides 11 sorts of chee cheong enjoyable, beginning with the most affordable possibility, Plain Chee Cheong Fun (S$2.50). There are additionally different varieties that value S$3.50, resembling Chee Cheong Fun w/ Mangkuang & Shrimps, Chee Cheong Fun w/ Char Siew and Chee Cheong Fun w/ Chicken.

I made a decision to attempt the Chee Cheong Fun w/ Mangkuang & Shrimps, as I’ve by no means had chee cheong enjoyable with bang kuang (aka stir-fried turnip) earlier than!

The minute I positioned the primary piece of Chee Cheong Fun w/ Mangkuang & Shrimps into my mouth, it positively melted. I couldn’t even style the chee cheong enjoyable as the skinny sheets of rice flour dissolved shortly with each chunk. All I might style was the crunchy and savoury strips of bang kuang, which immediately jogged my memory of popiah.

For S$3.50, the parts have been insanely beneficiant. Each piece of chee cheong enjoyable was stuffed to the brim with bang kuang, to the purpose that I’d say there have been extra bang kuang than there have been rice sheets— the stir-fried turnip strips even spilled over onto the plate!

I completely liked this. The bang kuang was crunchy and engaging, and its savouriness took over each spoonful of chee cheong enjoyable. I didn’t even have to depend on the sunshine soy-based sauce for any extra saltiness or flavour— not like most chee cheong enjoyable locations.

While I normally change between dishes for selection every time I’m at a tasting, I discovered myself shoving spoonful after spoonful of clean chee cheong enjoyable in my mouth. Before I knew it, I completed this complete plate of Chee Cheong Fun w/ Mangkuang & Shrimps in a heartbeat, and at last moved onto my subsequent merchandise.

At Ms Liang Yuan’s suggestion, the second plate of chee cheong enjoyable I attempted was Yong Huat Delight’s Chee Cheong Fun w/ Minced Meat (S$3.50).

As in comparison with the primary plate, this chee cheong enjoyable was much less stuffed, regardless of coming with a sizeable quantity of minced meat.

The Chee Cheong Fun w/ Minced Meat definitely didn’t have the identical crunch because the earlier chee cheong enjoyable because it didn’t have bang kuang and chives. As a outcome, it had a extra pillowy impact because the silky but mushy sheets of steamed rice flour shone as the primary aspect of the dish.

I totally loved the springy bits of minced meat, which complemented the luscious rice sheets effectively, and surprisingly sufficient, your complete expertise jogged my memory of the sensation of biting into a chunk of heat, mushy pau.

Yong Huat Delight serves its chilli on the aspect, and apparently, it was extra bitter than candy— virtually just like the chilli you’d get with char siew rice— with a gradual kick of spice.

Apart from chee cheong enjoyable, Yong Huat Delight additionally sells 14 sorts of porridge. I selected the Boat Porridge (S$6.50), the priciest merchandise, because it had probably the most selection by way of elements.

If you’re on a funds, fret not— most of its porridge choices are affordably priced from S$3 onwards, such because the Cuttlefish Porridge (S$3), Chicken Porridge (S$3.50) and Century Egg Meat Ball Porridge (S$4).

This was the epitome of velvety, Hong Kong-style congee. It flowed like lava— thick and viscous— and my style buds couldn’t even establish the person grains of rice! That was how melded the porridge was, making every spoonful extremely comforting.

I liked the mixture of elements within the Boat Porridge, as every served its personal objective— the fish slices for an added silkiness, strips of cuttlefish and peanuts for crunch, and springy prawns for selection. The one ingredient I loved probably the most have been the handmade meat balls, which have been marinated in hua tiao jiu for that fragrant twist.

Final ideas

I liked every part about Yong Huat Delight. From Ms Liang Yuan’s optimistic manner to quantity of arduous work that goes into every roll of chee cheong enjoyable, Yong Huat Delight really is the epitome of 1 phrase: “dedication”.

Its chee cheong enjoyable dishes are admittedly a bit of thicker than others— not by any fault from every particular person skinny sheet— however extra from the truth that every sheet stacks up right into a sizeable piece, so it may not be to everybody’s fancy. Yet, I extremely urge you to nonetheless give it a attempt, as I loved each single roll.

Do word that some rolls promote out by lunch (the Chee Cheong Fun w/ Vegetables (S$3) was bought out after I got here barely earlier than midday), so come early if you wish to attempt sure flavours!

Expected harm: S$2.50 – S$6.50 per pax

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