Founder Bak Kut Teh: The famous BKT

November 28, 2009 | 8 Comments

It started with another email thread again, this time Camemberu suggested to check out the famous Founder Bak Ku Teh and a date was set. I don’t usually write posts about hawker food. It’s not like I don’t eat hawker food, but the problem is I have too many backlogs of the nice places that I went recently.

Founder is one of the few popular choices that most people will think of them when you mention Bak Kut Teh. You know a place is famous when we actually queued up twenty minutes for a table by the road side of Balastier road, watching the others slurping down their warm peppery soup.

The fact that the walls are filled with the numerous photographs of famous celebrities, and there’s hardly any empty space for new photographs that they probably paste it over some of the fallen-stars. Or the fact that even when we left the place, there’s still a snake-like queue waiting outing for their turn to get in – just for a bowl of bak ku teh.

While the highlight of the show should be the pork ribs, but the pork trotters was even better. Surprisingly, the proportion of lean meat to fats was just right; there wasn’t much fats like the usual pork trotters. The meat was so tender that it falls off the bone and melts in your mouth splendidly.

We also had an pig organ soup that consisted of kidney, liver and small intestines. I like how the medium-rare liver retained it’s tinge of pink, and the robust flavour of the kidney, but the soup lacked the wow factor.

The Bak kut teh was quite a let-down – we were expecting a lot for the fact that we queued twenty minutes for this. Or for the fact that we ordered wrongly and had the normal tough pork ribs instead of the supposedly superior loin ribs. There was the usual side-dishes like youtiao, beancurd skin, salted vegetable, and braised taupok (beancurd).

Founder Bak Ku Teh
347 Balestier Road
(under New Orchid Hotel)
Singapore 329777
Tel: 63526192

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8 Responses to “Founder Bak Kut Teh: The famous BKT”

  1. Shirin
    November 28th, 2009 @ 8:49 am

    hmmm.. bak kut teh!! i try to cook my own (my mom gave me tons of the spices and stuff).. but i still miss home cooked food!! xx

  2. Life for Beginners
    November 28th, 2009 @ 10:00 am

    Sorry the food was a letdown but the pics are nice (as usual)! :D

  3. thisisyummy
    November 28th, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

    wow tender pork! hard to find =) oh lacked the wow factor? was initially quite hopeful =X

    nice pics! =)

    cheers.

  4. Fatkuraprincess
    November 29th, 2009 @ 10:18 am

    hey!u have been reading my mind tisdays la! There a few times that you blogged about the food I am craving for!Food telepathy. Like now, I am craving for BKT. MAybe you can try Ya Hua BKT nx time!Yum yum~~~

  5. ai wei
    November 29th, 2009 @ 10:29 am

    oO, this founder is in sg. i tot u come up all the way to Klang ???

  6. ladyironchef
    November 29th, 2009 @ 9:36 pm

    Shirin: how does S bak kut teh taste like? cooked with missing-home, and lots of love, i bet it taste good!

    LFB: bring me for BKT when i’m in KL!

    thisisyummy: the pork trotters are tender, i was referring to the pig organ soup that lacked the wow factor.

    fatkuraprincess: I like the sound of Food telepathy! yeah sure thing will try ya hua next time round

    aiwei: yeah it’s one of the famous bkt in Singapore, i’m not that crazy to go all the way to Klang for bkt :p

  7. Matilda
    November 30th, 2009 @ 9:25 am

    Overpriced and not nice, wonder wat’s the hype about it, I guess it’s the queue. Leong Kee is way better.

  8. ladyironchef
    November 30th, 2009 @ 9:56 pm

    matilda: you know, Singaporeans have a penchant for queuing : )

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