Alexandra Village Food Center Various Food Shops Compilation

Alexandra Village Food Centre is a very famous cooked food centre along Alexandra Road.  Very busy during weekday lunchtime, and even in the evenings, this place has plenty of good food.  In this blog post, I will put a compilation of the various food that I have enjoyed at AV Food Centre for your easy reference.

The Old Stall Hokkien Street Famous Prawn Mee


Had a hearty bowl of dried prawn mee (kway teow plus yellow noodles mixed) for breakfast at this store, which is in the middle row.  The store has many newspaper cuttings on the signboard, you won't miss it.  It sells its own specially made chilli powder and has a very cute sign on 5 'must-eat' reasons.  Did I enjoy it?  Yes, good taste.  Worth a try if you like prawn mee.

Soya Sauce Chicken Noodle (Hong Kong style)

This Hong Kong inspired eatery specialises in soya sauce chicken noodle.  They claim that this is the only store, and no other branches.  How did it taste?  The chicken was good.  Tender.  The noodles, well, just average.  Overall, quite a decent meal.  Give it a try if you fancy some Hong Kong style soya chicken noodles.

Jin Pai Zi Char - Beef Kailan Rice



A hawker store selling Zi Char?  Yes.  At first, I was skeptical, given that the store looked so small.  There was just one cook and one lady helping (I assume they are husband and wife).  But I noticed that their business was pretty swift, so I decided to try a one-dish meal and chose Beef Kailan with rice.  I was blown away!  The portion was very generous, the beef was tender, the Kai lan was soft, the sauce was good and all that for just $4!  Impressive.  You would be aware that Zi Char stores at coffee shops and other eating places are not that cheap these days.
 
Jin Pai Zi Char Kung Pao Chicken Rice 


Same store as above, this time round I get the Kung Pao chicken with rice.  Again, serving was generous, cooking was not bad.  Best of all was the price.  $3.50.  Good stuff!  Support local hawker fare!

Dover Road Kai Kee Wanton Noodles
Bought lunch for the family from this store, after a friend told us that this store had a long history.  In fact, they started decades ago, at the Dover Road Market (which is now closed).  There was a good queue.  We bought many packets for the family and brought home to eat.  At $2.50 per serving, it was a good size portion.  Makes for a cheap lunch!  Enjoy!

Lian Kee Bak Chor Mee
Had this Bak Chor Mee for breakfast one morning and it wasn't too bad.  Price was $3.  Enjoy!

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Alexandra Village Hawker Centre

Alexandra Village - a very famous hawker centre.  We hadn't been here in a while, so we decided to bring the family there for some lunch.  It would also be very good exposure for our kids.  They are used to eating in air-conditioned food courts and even restaurants.

Good hawker fare is one of the best things about living in Singapore.  Food, glorious food.  As it turns our, our Alexandra Village adventure was fun because we tried many things that afternoon.

Chinatown Tai Chong Kok Confectionary
A very traditional store selling egg tarts and other traditional delicacies.  We stopped to get one egg-tart, just to try.  The store certainly looked antiquated, but who cares.   In Singapore, you don't have to worry about food hygiene.  The standards are very high.

Here are some of the biscuits they sell, including the "Hong Kong Style Old Wife's Biscuit" - second row.

Those are egg tarts, at $1.10 per piece.  Freshly baked.

An old rattan chair.  Looked well-used.  Such chairs were very common 20 years ago in Singapore homes. Not anymore though.

We head over to Alexandra Food centre, just opposite the shops.  For some reason, I decided to try out this Thai store, called Phati Thai Food. Funny name, I guess a spin off 'Phad Thai'.

Here is the menu.  I chose a Phad Thai for $4.

Some chillis and condiments that you could help yourself with.

There were two ladies cooking.  It sounded like they were speaking Thai to each other.  My Phad Thai was freshly fried.

Here is the Phad Thai.  For some reason, I can't get the photo to turn around, hence the odd angle.  It was a decent portion.  Taste-wise, it wasn't great though.  Well, maybe that's because I just had very good Phad Thai in Bangkok.

Got some satay, 60 cents a piece.

The peanut sauce that comes with the Satay, with some pineapple.  Very traditional.  Frankly, I can't really taste the pineapple.

The chicken was quite lean.  Not much fat.  That was good.

Also got a ketupat.

I saw this coffee store nearby that also served premium coffee.  Decided to give it a try.

This place was called White Coffee Corner.  On top of the normal coffee, it served Cappuccino, Latte, Mocha and the likes.

Here was the price list.  For the White Coffee series, a Latte was $2.50 (hot) and $3 (cold).

There were some newspaper adverts.  Apparently, this store had made the news before.

This was the iced Latte.  Very generous with the milk.  Turned out that my kids loved it and they almost finished my Latte.  Oh well.

And now, we consume the egg tart.  It wasn't too bad.

We also got this Avocado juice from an Avocado store behind.  This store specialises in Avocado juice.  Didn't really like it.  There is a burnt taste, not sure why.

After the meal at the hawker centre, we went to look for a store selling kueh.  This wasn't the famous store, but another one facing the main road.

A lot of different stuff here that I wasn't very familiar with.

The various types of kueh - Bean, Coconut, Salty Bean, Peanut.  70 cents per piece.

Quite a number of newspaper cuttings.  Looks like this shop has been well featured in the press and magazines, well at least in the past.  Some of the articles looked rather dated.

On the way back to the carpark, I stopped to take this photo of this rather unique looking buildings.  Looks like some very large LEGO bricks stacked haphazardly on one another.

I gather this is the Interlace project.  Previously, this plot of land was the HUDC estate called Gillman Heights.  A lot of controversy surrounded that enbloc sale, which made so much news and even went to the Courts. Anyway, all that is history now.

Safe travels!