Canton Delicacies Review: $3.50 Salted Egg Pork Rice And More By Ex-Marriott Chef At Geylang Bahru

It came as a pleasant surprise, then, when I saw a huge Red Snapper head in our order of Curry Fish Head ($21) . That comes with half a head, but top up just $4 , and you’ll get a bigger one, with more liao.

When we were there, there was also Red Grouper ($22) on the menu—Chef Ericson goes to the trade early every morning to personally select fresh produce for the day. The snapper was undeniably fresh, and cooked just right so the flesh was flaky and moist.

You can’t really go very wrong with good, fresh fish, but the curry gravy here was the MVP. Spotlighting the freshness of the seafood was Steamed Garlic Prawns with Vermicelli ($9) , where you’ll get six prawns on a bed of tang hoon, in a HK-style steamed seafood sauce, topped with fried garlic and aromatic coriander. Before you eat that later, eat the prawns while they’re fresh from the steamer, and allow the vermicelli to soak up all the sweet prawn stock and sauce.

I’m a huge fan of steamed pork patties, and so the Salted Egg Pork Patties Steamed Rice was a shoo-in when I was deciding what to order. At the same time, it’s imperative that your attention is drawn to the absolutely thicc cake of minced pork that was easily two fingers high.

The pork patty was slightly loose but oh-so-lush, thanks to the generous ratio of fat to meat. You’ll also get stalks of leafy greens, and a huge bowl of rice beneath lashings of dark soya sauce—and the fatty drippings from the pork.

Mei cai kou rou is another dish that I’m fond of, and here you can get it as Preserved Veg Braised Pork Steamed Rice ($3.50) , making it yet another affordable lunch option that satisfies your carb, veg, and protein requirements for the meal. It looked promising, but the pork belly wasn’t as tender as I would have liked it to be, except in the layer of meat sandwiched between the fattiest bits. I personally would have liked more of the gravy as well, but I guess I can just request that next time.

There’s in addition a wide selection of soups on the menu, the lowest priced of which is Papaya Stewed Pork Ribs Soup ($3.50) . Ambience at Canton Delicacies Geylang Bahru Market & Food Centre is a well-ventilated hawker centre that’s just 230m away from Geylang Bahru MRT Station .

Canton Delicacies is the first stall in the row, so the seats in front of the stall are closest to the side of the hawker centre, and thus the coolest. Chef Leung’s Authentic Hand-milled Rice Noodle Rolls Review: Ribboned Chee Cheong Fun And Congee In Chinatown The verdict My colleague was so thoroughly impressed with Chef Ericson’s curry and the value of the rice bowls, he has bookmarked Canton Delicacies for many future office lunches.

The freshness of the ingredients in the clean, flavourful dishes, the stall’s proximity to the MRT station, and most of all, the quotation point, make this hawker stall super worth checking out.