Boon Lay Fried Carrot Cake and Fried Kway Teow

There you have it! Another stall that serves good food over at Boon Lay Food Market! These time around it's one that serves fried kway teow and fried carrot cake. So if you ever get tired of the nasi lemak over at Boon Lay Food Market, this is one option that you can try.

The stall sells both fried kway teow and fried carrot cake so Makan Boy had to try out both! Well, their fried kway teow ($2.50) is quite special actually. This is the first time I seen pork floss with char kway teow. Even the stall uncle claims that they are the first and only to complement their char kway teow with pork floss. I must say this combination is not a bad idea and the char kway teow tasted really sweet. Just right for my taste buds! Oh yeah, they also have a big share of vegetables to go with it.

In order to try both the black and white version, the mixed black and white carrot cake ($3) was ordered. Overall, their carrot cake really didn't taste up to standard. It was too dry and not flavorful enough.

Verdict:
This is definitely a great place to try out their fried kway teow when you do drop by Boon Lay Food Market. You might want to give their carrot cake a miss though. Even though their stall closes at 11.30pm, sometimes they open a little bit beyond that time when there are more customers so do try your luck!


Boon Lay Fried Carrot Cake and Fried Kway Teow
Block 221B, Boon Lay Place, #01-125 S640221
Mon to Sat 6pm - 11.30pm

Allauddin's Briyani

Over at Tekka Food Centre, there are quite a number of briyani stalls that sometimes one would be spoilt for choice. However, there's one supposedly very famous briyani stall that commands long queues during meal hours (or so I read in reviews). 

Introducing the self-claimed briyani specialist: Allauddin's Briyani. Now, there are actually two stall-fronts located opposite to each other. Their business must be really thriving... 

Anyway their briyani rice are stored in their large aluminium pots and they will scoop out the rice on to the plate first then the meat and then the rice again on top to cover the meat. Most probably to allow the flavour of the meat to be absorbed into the rice. In my case, I bought the mutton briyani ($4.50).

 
I think the mutton was really quite tender and the curry was not too spicy. The rice was a tad too wet and soggy for my liking. It was not loosely separated enough.

Verdict:
Overall, I think there was nothing really too special about this briyani specialist. The mutton was not bad but the rice failed to impress me. I tried their chicken tandoori and it was not bad as well. Anyway, if you do drop by Tekka Food Centre, maybe you can give it a try and drop me a comment how you think it fares?

Allauddin's Briyani Pte Ltd
Blk 665 Buffalo Road #01-232/239 S210665
Tekka Food Centre
10am to 7pm (it depends whether they still have food left. I went there at around 10pm once on a Sat and it still opened)