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| Lim’s Fried Oyster | 166 Jalan Besar, stall B1-32 Berseh Food Centre, Singapore 208877 🚅 5 minutes walk from Jalan Besar station ☏ 9386 0732 ⏰ 6pm - 12 midnight (Mon & Tues off) |
✍1 Jul 2025. Singapore hawker centres are refreshed every few years, closed for a few months for renovations. Pioneer hawkers take the opportunity to take an overseas break, sometimes it's an opportune time to call it a day. A significant portion of Singapore hawkers are past 60 years old (some waiting to retire).
So, when Berseh Hawker Centre was scheduled for renovations at the end of Aug.......,
.... uncle Lim Wee Huat announced that he and wife Pan Wei Ling will finally be hanging up their pans.
Once the word was out, uncle Lim's fans started the nightly queue for the long good bye (till end Aug).
Buddy Mary is a big fan - her teenage girls grew up with uncle Lim's fried oysters. So jio-ed a few kaki kaki for another round at Lim's.
Uncle Lim was all smiles despite the long queue. I guess he and wife were looking forward to their well deserved retirement and glad that their grateful fans were back in force for the long farewell.
Uncle Lim is known for his huge fat oysters.
Lots of eggs, a little gummy starch, lard, spicy because we wanted it hot, and studded with thumb size succulent oysters.
Scroll down to my archived article which has a detailed description of Lim's fried oyster dish.
HUAT AH! 發啊!
A last hurrah before uncle Lim pulls the shutter down for the last time.
Wish uncle Lim and auntie Pan a happy retirement.
Stall name: Lim’s Fried Oyster 林煎豪
Address: 166 Jalan Besar, stall B1-32 Berseh Food Centre, Singapore 208877
Nearest MRT: 5 minutes walk from Jalan Besar station
Tel: 9386 0732
Hours: 6pm - 12 midnight (Mon & Tues off)
Written by Tony Boey on 1 Jul 2025
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✍16 Aug 2015. Recently, there is a lot of buzz and excitement about the humble stall Lim's Fried Oyster 林煎豪 in Berseh Food Centre. Even my niece who had tried it, said I must go check it out 😄 (I later found out that my niece and the Lims' daughter were colleagues 😃 )
As I love fried oysters or orh chien, I can't help it but make my way here.
These are the faces of Singapore's Pioneer Hawkers.
The Lim couple has been running this orh chien stall for over 40 years. First, as a push cart stall founded by Mr. Lim's father before he joined his dad. They plied along these same streets around Sam Leong Road and Jalan Besar before re-settling into this stall when Berseh Food Centre was built in 1975. The stall is in a corner at the lower ground level.
Lim Wee Huat's wife Pan Wei Ling said: "I was already helping him when we were dating because I couldn't bear watching my boyfriend hard at work by himself". Source: Not for Sale: Singapore's Remaining Heritage Street Food Vendors.
Fried oysters or orh chien is basically eggs, sweet potato and/or tapioca flour batter and oysters fried with fish sauce and oil (lard in the good old days).
Mr. Lim serves basically two types of fried oysters - wet or dry.
This is the wet one.
I like the eggy and savoury sweet flavours from the fish sauce held together by the gooey drippy starchy sweet potato batter.
Many of Lim's Fried Oyster's fans are crazy about their oversized oysters.
Mr. Lim's oysters are imported from Korea. It's sometimes found in other orh chien stalls but are sold at premium prices. As far as I know, only Lim's Fried Oyster serve such big oysters for a SGD5 plate of orh chien (2015 price). And, there were quite of few of them in the plate (I didn't count exactly).
The "dry" version.
The same big oysters.
If you like a little crispiness and slight char in your orh chien, then this is the version for you 😄
What are you waiting for?
Grand daughter Claris helps out in promoting Lim's Fried Oyster.
I am totally sold!
Restaurant name: Lim's Fried Oyster 林煎豪
Address: 166 Jalan Besar, Berseh Food Centre, Singapore 208877
GPS: 1.307259, 103.856548
Opening Hours: 6:00pm to 12:00 midnight (stall will be closed for the month of Oct 2015 as owners are taking a well deserved vacation)
Tel: 9386 0732 (be sure to call before visiting as the Lim couple has no fixed rest day)
Written by Tony Boey on 5 Aug 2015
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Oysters!! Making me hungry!
ReplyDeleteGo and get some LOL
DeleteEh I dun think the review ten years ago reflect the taste now. 🤔🤔 What time did you guys go... Cos that night when the whole bunch of us went and queued, the frying was frenzied and haphazard at best. 🌚🌚🌚
ReplyDeleteAlso, how was last night the orh chien compared to this one two nights ago? Perfect way to compare sia ✌️✌️
Aaron Ong I couldn't agree more whole heartedly. It feels gloopy and misshapen the last couple of visits. My current bedrocks of excellence are Circuit Road Ghim Guan and two from Old Airport: Famous Old Airport Fried Oyster and Xing Li Cooked Food.
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