Tasty Street Review: Wagyu Beef Bowl And Iberico Pork Bowl At $6.50 Nett

Even though it’s just a bowl of rice covered with different ingredients, there is something unique and oddly comforting about these grain bowls that I find myself mysteriously drawn to. Needless to say, I have tried many grain bowls in Singapore but Tasty Street ’s $6.50 bowls are the few that really blew me away. Wagyu Rice Bowls At $6.50 Nett | Tasty Street Food at Tasty Street Like an atas version of a cai png stall, Tasty Street allows you to choose your own components to go with the rice.

The first bowl that we dove into was their Asian Black Pepper Wagyu Beef Bowl ($6.50) . With a heap of mixed white and brown rice buried at the bottom, the bowl was topped with three different types of charred vegetables, a soft-boiled egg, and a generous amount of wagyu beef slices that were covered with pepper sauce.

Even if the “standard protocol” would be to mix all the ingredients up, I could not resist just going for the meat alone. For wagyu beef priced at $6.50, I initially thought it was too good to be true.

Slightly savoury on its own, the pepper sauce added a kick to the beef without overpowering the taste of the meat. The next bowl, which is also the 25-year-old stall owner’s personal favourite, was Iberico Lor Bah Bowl ($6.50) .

At first look, the fatty pork belly was a little off-putting but one bite of the meat and I was sold. As cliche as it sounds, the fatty parts of the meat really did create a melt-in-the-mouth experience and the leaner parts were packed with the savoury sauce, giving each mouthful a combination of great texture and taste.

Though the wagyu beef bowl was impressive, this lor bah bowl had to be my favourite. Because of how soft the braised pork belly was, the meat incorporated well with the rice and the sauce in addition added much savour to the entire bowl. As for the rice, those who are not a fan of brown rice may not like the harder texture that it gives compared to its white counterpart.

The last bowl that we went for was their Truffle Hotplate Tofu Sous-Vide Chicken Breast Bowl ($6.50) . Though I was pleasantly surprised by how tender the chicken breast was, the meat alone had no distinct taste and was overpowered by the truffle hotplate tofu sauce. Even so, at the price of $6.50, it was nevertheless a hearty and delightful bowl and my only qualm would be that the first two bowls fared too well compared to the chicken breast bowl.

Though most of the diners are office staff, the cafeteria is not exclusive to them and you simply have to present your IC to the security guards before taking the escalator up. The owner as well mentioned that they are setting up a second stall in the East so for those who do not want to travel to Buona Vista, check out their website for more updates!

Besides the fact that this is one of the most affordable rice bowls I’ve come across, the quality and quantity of the food were beyond satisfactory. For the wagyu beef and lor bah bowl, I will definitely be back here with my friends!