- Operating Hours: 10.00 AM to 5 AM
- Operating Days: Daily
- Address: #01-387, 55 Lengkok Bahru, Singapore 151055
- How to get there: From Redhill MRT walk up the "hill" for 10mins.
- Food I had: Teochew Porridge for 2 pax ($7.90)
When it is lunch, dinner or supper time, taxi drivers have to stop somewhere to eat. And when they have their meals outside so often, they would have a list of not only cheap but worthy places. Ye Shang Hai happens to be one of these places taxi uncle introduced me years ago. I have visited them lots of times, and they recently shifted to a new location near Redhill MRT station at Lengkok Bahru. So those who search for their address online, please take note they are no longer located at Bukit Merah View.
They owned the whole coffee shop this time! 3 thing why I highly recommend this place. First, the food is really really good. Second, the food is cheap to the point you don't expect to be this price. And finally, it’s opened till 5 am in the morning! Now, you might not believe it, and I don’t believe it either, but the owner is 94 years old this year. Ye Shang Hai is one of those places where most of the dishes seem to have something that makes it better.
Their porridge is well-liked by young and old, just look at the queue! We were there at 2 PM and there a constant queue for it and it's really a nonstop queue, so don't bother to sit down and wait for the queue to die off, it won't.
This is only a fraction of the dishes they offered, so it was my turn. The process of ordering food here is you tell them how many porridge/rice, and how many people, now they were asking for how many people not to know your personal life but to know how much of the quantity of food to give you and the prices varies from the quantity.
The food is good. Almost every dish we ordered was good. And look at this amount, do you believe this cost $7.90?! It's less than $10! and I thought the lady boss calculate wrongly, she said it is correct. Really reasonable price. And next is their drinks stall, ordered a Kopi Peng and Milo Peng, and it was priced $2!! So all in with food and drinks cost $9.90! Less than $10 for 2 pax!
People always say - good is never cheap, and cheap are never good. This porridge is one of the top porridge I love, it's not boiled till you do not see the rice, and the porridge water does have the taste which I always ordered it with more water. I can literally eat it with just the porridge alone.
The cai pok omelet looks like a cake slice, it was decently pleasant.
Fresh off the wok, the minced pork stewed with black bean and ginger was punchy, we felt it's too little to share around cause it's really flavorful while not have that too "porky" taste.
This is one of the must order dish in here, cooked cabbage. The softness of cabbage yet preserved a bit of crunchiness, the taste was filled with the sweetness of the natural cabbage, mixed with red carrot slice, Jew's ear (黑木耳), fried anchovies and Cellophane noodles (冬粉).
Lastly, this spicy stingray with salted veg, the sauce used was always a bit of salted vegetable taste with bits of spiciness. But disappointing is the meat was a bit tough today which usually was not the case on previous few visits.
Of the dishes I tried, cabbage and minced pork really stood out. Ye Shang Hai has become one of my top picks for economical Teochew porridge. Best of all, it is opened till the wee hours of the morning!
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