Reading Food Blogs and watching food shows are among my favorite pastimes. Food blogs with delicious photos and intriguing words have the ability to suck me in for hours, while food shows are somewhat more direct – they make me hungry instantly. I’m sure many of you are currently hooked to Sizzling Woks, the popular food show on the best zhi char eating places in Singapore.
I’m not surprised because I get many requests to blog more about cheap and good Zhi Char in Singapore all the time. Today, I will like to share about one of the Zhi Char restaurants in Singapore that my family always go to: B.K Fortune Seafood Steamboat restaurant. They are located just a few steps away from Bar Bar Black Sheep along Bukit Timah road (towards King Albert Park direction after Sixth Avenue).
Unlike some Zi Char Stalls in neighbourhood coffee shops that charged $40/kg for crabs (prices that are comparable to Seafood restaurants), the ones at B.K Fortune Seafood restaurant are only $30/kg and we paid $56 for two huge Salted Egg Yolk Crabs.
Crabs do not really appeal to lazy people like me. It’s a dish that requires a lot of effort, but offers very little return (in terms of meat) – so you can understand why I don’t really like crabs. But when we eat out at Seafood restaurants in Singapore, I will always go for either the famous Singapore Chilli crab, or the Salted Egg Yolk Crab. And if there’s one thing you should know, Fortune Seafood Restaurant’s Salted Egg yolk Crabs are gorgeous! I’m not going into details about how they taste like, but believe me – they are fingers-licking good!
This isn’t a very pretty photo, but Fortune Seafood’s signature Assam Curry Fish Head ($15) is a must-order dish. The flavours hit you in different waves, first the spicy-and-sourish assam gravy, second the smooth and fresh taste of the fish head – I love it! The assam gravy was so good that I filled my bowl of rice with it.
Amongst the other dishes that we had at Fortune Seafood Steamboat Restaurant, the Sweet & Sour Pork ($10) was exceptionally ordinary – there was too much fatty meat and it didn’t have the right bite.
When eating at Zi Char restaurants, we would usually order the crowd-favorite Hot Plate tofu. But this time round, we decided to throw caution out of the window and went for their Mango Sauce Fried Tofu ($8). It was a disaster. The sauce accompanying the tofu was done the Thai-mango-salad way, but the whole dish was just deep fried tofu (bland and slightly dry) with the dressing. Give me hot plate tofu any day please.
If you have difficulty finding the place, they are located directly opposite the old turf city. Otherwise, look out for the former premises of Brewerkz. Now, it’s your turn to share with me a good zhi char stall in Singapore.
// The name of the restaurant is Forture Seafood Restaurant with a ‘R’, but it seems that there is a common spelling mistake online where everyone calls it Fortune Seafood.
Singapore Food Restaurant Review
B.K Fortune Seafood Restaurant
887 Bukit Timah Road Singapore
Tel: +65 6469 5957
Opening hours: 11am – 2.30pm
Dinner: 5pm – 11.30pm Daily
have u tried the golden spoon at tiong bahru? is nice too..their crab bee hoon.*drools*
by just looking at the photos taken by u, already enuf to make me hungry instantly!~
hello. since i could not find a tagboard/place readers can write comments unrelated to posts… so
i wrote here.
anyway why not try looking for mexican food in singapore? (im craving some) cause i think you do too many zhichar and chinese fare =) just a suggestion la. must be good n spicy salsa and guacamole!
Obviously Singaporean
haha I was there recently.
The food was surprisingly good.
wow i’m so gonna bring my mum to this place!! thanks brad!!
Look very yummy. I will visit it if I ever go there.
Food is just average. Crabs are no longer at $30/kg. Indonesian crab is S$48/kg and Sri-Lankan is S$58/kg. We ordered the Indo-crab and it was badly cooked and tasted like dead-crab meat. Complained but was told off that we should’ve ordered Sri-Lankan and its our fault for ordering Indo-crab. Not recommended at all.
We just went for 11person dinner . I ordered fm lady boss a medium YuSheng so that I can other food she say ok ok. . Ended up is large Price .so I ask d staff y ? He say they only had only two size big n small.. But y is d lady boss dun say before hand !!! He just keep quiet., start my first dish mix veg ,$15, bean curd $12 , both so oily .. Next half herbel chicken $15, fried frog leg $24 both dish size is small but is large Price !! Next.i order two big Crab is $58/per kg .i order white pepper n salted egg , came black pepper so I go ask y is not white pepper??? Lady boss told me our cook they dun know how to cook white pepper so they cook black pepper . Then I say y when I order fm u u say ok ok .both crab side is just normal size yet Price is $58+$58=$116 ..(how can it b both crab can same weight same amount ???) She keep quiet again ,, (both taste crab sucks)
Next . Assam fish head same size as ladyironchef picture above is $20 n is not $15!!!! Next ,honey pork ribs came only six pieces , for 11adult ??? No choice had to order one more plate $17+$17=$34 !!! My LAST dish came BUT is my FIRST order dish , COLD DISH !!! Is big enough for 11person ,(spring roll, fry egg,fry chicken, onion top shell, black sauce pork ) $80 !!! SO SO ONLY .And all dish came wrong timing!!!!
Mostly Dish is so small but charging large price !!!
Ordered for >1kg Sri-Lankan Crab but end up serving me <1kg Indonesian crab. This is really bad and still want to "smoke" me said it was a 1.3KG Sri-Lankan Crab. Lucky I been eating enough crab to realised something is not right. Also ordered their fried bean sprout with salted fish. The salted fish is too hard and lack of fragrant, seems like low quality ingredients. Drinks stall lady face was like I own her tons of millions, not expecting hotel standard service but at least should not give people attitude problem. Charging is S$48/kg for Indonesian crab and S$58/kg for Sri-Lankan crab at a super lousy attitude server place is really super not recommanded.
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