Yong Tau Foo: Is this the Ultimate YTF?
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Tucked in the People's Park Complex Food Centre is this stall with the longest queue I have ever seen!! And for something as unexciting (for me) as Yong Tau Foo! How can people get excited over Yong Tau Foo?
Everyone gets a standard bowl of Yong Tau Foo with no options for noodles or beehoon and no questions asked. Each bowl is $3 and the items are all standard. It's beginning to sound like the Food Nazi from that Seinfeld episode!
OK the verdict: The fried beancurd roll with fish paste was the star of the bowl. You can taste that it is really freshly fried and I have never tasted anything so good from any other YTF stalls. The fish balls were also very good as they make their own. The rest of the tofu were good but nothing to rave about.
The reason the stall only opens for business from 1pm is because all the preparation is done in the morning. From the beating of the fishballs, to the wrapping of the ngor hiang, to the frying, everything is done in the stall. I guess that's why it's so popular.
Conclusion
As good as YTF can get, I guess. I am not a big YTF fan, so if you ask me to line up behind 20 people, I'd give it a miss. 4/5 (I am sure YTF fans would give it close to a 5)
Yong Tau Foo
Peoples Park Complex Food Centre
Stall with the perpetual long queue
Opens 1pm sold out by 4pm latest
9 comments:
It must be a generation thingy...have been eating this since I was 12 I guess...my dad used to tar pau 2 big plastic bags home...I like the fried tau fu stuffed with meat and the fried beancurd skin stuffed with prawn/fish paste
Feel this stall is pretty ordinary and the soup is MSGed down. The herd mentality is probably contributing to their success now.
I have Q for this YTH before and I would say that the Q move quite fast as they just need to scope up a bowl for you since every bowl is standard.
I quite like the Tau Hu more then the Ngor Hiang thou. Well at least this is hand made rather then factory mass produce.
This stall is an icon to many people staying at PP.U dont want to Q? there is another stall at the other end. I go there and can also order 'Lau Goh' carrot cake to go with the Yong Tau Fu.Great combination!.
Wouldn't say it's good. Just normal fare. Been eating since young even before the PPcomplex was built, they were selling on the grass patch where og now stands. oh so much for history. i did prefer OK YTF on Mosque street. Real stuff but ex ex $.
lots of MSG in the soup!!!
Love the YTF. This is the only stall where you can have just the YTF to fill you up without having noodles as accompaniment.
The ngor hiang and deep fried tofu have the right balance of meat fillings and the amalgamation of the juices explodes in every mouthful and leaves you wanting for more :)
Seebeh siok man!
I'm not a big fan of yong tau fu. I don't like the combination of noodles or beehoon with yong tau fu at most places. The soup here is great (I love salty stuff a lot so I can't tell if there's MSG) and the individual pieces are awesome.
Thumbs up for the yong tau fu at Yong Xiang (People's Park).
yea! the YTF at mosque street owns all!! ok maybe not that extreme.. but its still the best
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