Chinatown Complex Food Centre was closed for washing today but we didn't worry for even a second because Singapore Chinatown is overflowing with good food options. Just a short walk took us to Foong Kee Coffee Shop 豐記咖啡店 on Keong Saik Road which is famous for their Cantonese roasts and wanton mee.
Foong Kee will close effective from 15 Jun 2021. The Keong Saik Street icon which have been here for 15 years serve one of the best traditional Cantonese roasts in Chinatown. The coffeeshop has new owners who will run their own business. Foong Kee owner Derrick Wong will take a break and we hope he will return in a new location.
The lunch time queue attests to the popularity of Foong Kee's Cantonese roasts for a work day meal.
While waiting for our food, I peeped into the kitchen. Foong Kee roasts their meats with charcoal in an Apollo oven.
Chef boss Derrick was roasting the second batch of meat of the day. The very friendly boss (formerly in shoe retail) has over twenty years of roasting experience (switching careers in his thirties).
A large pot of bone soup simmering over slow fire.
Meanwhile, the queue seemed to be ever growing.
The front office was extremely busy.
It took about 30 minutes before we got our food.
The roast duck meat was tender but didn't have any strong flavours - it was just mildly savoury, and somewhat flat tasting. The skin was golden brown but wasn't very crisp. There wasn't any fat which is good news for some (but not me 😝 ).
The siew yok (roast pork belly) was just mildly savoury. The meat was slightly firm and the golden brown rind had just a slight crisp (not crackly).
The char siew with a nice balance of meat and fat was tender and juicy. It tasted mostly caramel sweet with just a slight underlying savouriness and toastiness.
I enjoyed eating Foong Kee's char siew with their egg noodles.
The generic egg noodles were done al dente with a nice tender crunch. I like how the springy noodles enveloped by the savoury spicy sauce combined deliciously with the tender sweet char siew. Foong Kee's sauce is a blend of oyster sauce, soy sauce and sambal balacan.
We had a bowl of wanton. To me, the best thing in the bowl was the savoury sweet clear soup. The wanton was okay - the skin was a little thick and knob of tender minced meat was mildly sweet.
👉 If you like your char siew tender, juicy and mainly sweet with slight savoury toastiness, Foong Kee 豐記咖啡店 has it for you. I like it together with their egg noodles coated with mildly savoury spicy sauce. Their bone soup is also nice.
Restaurant name: Foong Kee Coffee Shop 豐記咖啡店
Address: 6 Keong Saik Rd, Singapore 089114
GPS: 1°16'45.8"N 103°50'29.6"E 🌐 1.279385, 103.841543
Hours: 11:00am - 8:00pm (Sunday and public holiday off)
Non Halal
Date visited: 26 Nov 2018 | Updated by Tony Boey 26 May 2021
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