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| One Pot 一锅 | 56 Jln Benaan Kapal, Stall 4, Singapore 399644 (Jalan Benaan Kapal Food Centre) 🚅 10 minute walk from Stadium station ☏ 9007 7959 ⏰ 6pm - 10pm (Mon, Tues, Weds off) |
✍️ 10 May 2205. 6pm, the oppressive heat from the evening sun was still beating down on us at the hawker centre.
My guests feeling the heat were beginning to doubt me.
"You bring us here. The food really that nice meh?"
I just grinned 😬😁🤭
Jalan Benaan Kapal Food Centre is just 10 minutes walk from Stadium MRT station. In the evenings, only One Pot 一锅 operates here, so there are plenty of tables. But, even then, I suggest calling ahead ☎️ 9007 7959 to reserve as One Pot is often fully booked.
The menu. You will get the standard set and then tick the a la carte add-ons.
Boss Brent will personally assemble your orders.
It comes out as a beautiful bouquet of beef / pork, handmade fishballs, prawns, fish, vegetables, bean curd skin, etc. The standard set items and ingredients we picked.
There's choice of beef or pork or both. This time we picked beef.
The prawns were huge and fresh. Brent personally goes to the market and hand picks his ingredients. He is a meticulous man with sharp eyes and mind, so no "anyhow" for him.
See how super fresh the pork liver was 💪
Some of the items weren't very photogenic when uncooked but those who know, know 🤭 Fish dumplings of this quality are hard to find in Singapore.
Brent suggests we put the light colour stuff like mushrooms, cabbage, bean curd skin, etc into the pot of stock first and let it come to boil.
Meanwhile, this is a good time to get the sauces from the condiments table. My favourite was this spicy, tangy, sweet, nutty, sesame sauce (I called it). So good, I was eating it on its own.
Brent got one of the best handmade fishballs in Singapore. Soft tender spongy oozing with juice and bursting with savoury sweet fresh fish flavours with every bite.
Most fishball places in Singapore won't give you fishballs this good.
Succulent fish dumplings. Fish meat wrapped in fish meat envelope. Spongy tender chewy, fresh fish on fish flavours.
Fish dumplings are already hard to find in Singapore. This quality, even harder.
Prawn dumping, not very photogenic when uncooked, slightly better looking after dunking in the boiling stock.
But, mind blowing delicious.
The prawn meat had a light springy crunch and fresh natural sweetness which was complemented and accentuated by sweet pork.
Dried fish maw.
The prawns so fresh and huge!
Tender firm crunchy full of crustacean sweetness and umami from the head 🦐 💪
Fresh batang fish slices. I love them with skin on.
Get the lobster ball. Trust me.
Can top up soup.
Can also add optional Hua Tiao wine 花雕酒. We love it 🤭
We had generic udon from a packet for the obligatory carbs. Not my idea and I was thinking to myself.. why... ? I rather have more glass noodle (mung bean noodles).
But, it turned out that the udon was perfect for sponging up the umami savoury sweet flavours from the soup that had absorbed loads of flavours from all the ingredients that went through it.
I wasn't expecting this, so I got no proper photo of the udon. Next time!
I got many more good stuff to show you but I think you got the idea already.
Oh.. that question I didn't answer in the beginning.... .
All my guests volunteered themselves.
"This steamboat is different. Very nice. The ingredients are fresh and excellent quality."
I didn't needn't say anything 🤭
In life, you don't have to react to everything 🤭
Gonna bring more people here and convert them 😁
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| Ample free parking |
Stall name: One Pot 一锅
Address: 56 Jln Benaan Kapal, Stall 4, Singapore 399644 (Jalan Benaan Kapal Food Centre)
Nearest MRT: 10 minute walk from Stadium station
Tel: 9007 7959
Hours: 6pm - 10pm (Mon, Tues, Weds off)
Written by Tony Boey on 10 May 2025
✍ 21 May 2019. Finally came to One Pot for steamboat dinner with kaki kaki since meeting owner Brent Tay at Maureen's office warming party. In my mind, One Pot is "Singapore style" steamboat because steamboats on our sunny island were like this for as long as I can remember.
One Pot is located in a little "remote" place tucked away near the National Stadium at the fringe of the CBD (Central Business District). It's a "secret" 50 cents morning coffee stop for folks in the know, working in the city.
This is actually a historic place, the oldest still operational hawker centre in Singapore. Over half a century old, it is the same design as those old public hawker centres in Johor Malaysia today.
So, I asked Brent how he found such a gem of a hawker centre in the middle of "nowhere".
Brent was a top Singapore skater in the 1990s and he spent much of his youth at the skating rink in the nearby Singapore Indoor Stadium. This quiet little hawker centre was the lepak lepak or hang out of Brent and his friends. He thought to himself then, "How good if I can have my own stall here... ."
Late last year, the opportunity came and Brent grabbed it. You heard it before, "Success is when preparation meets opportunity". So, thanks to Brent realising his dream, we can now lepak lepak in a vintage hawker centre, very near but a step away from the maddening city crowd.
Brent's One Pot works the night shift - the only stall opened at night here, so there's plenty of clean tables. One Pot opens at 6pm till sold out (closed on Mondays except public holidays and PH eve).
The idea is simple, customers get a pot of free pork bone stock on a tabletop gas stove. There is only one type of stock / soup, which is fine by me. Ingredients set comes according to per pax servings - 1 pax $18, 2 pax $28, 3 pax $38. There's 4 of us, so ours was $48. Easy as 1,2,3.... .
Besides the basic set, we can add additional a la carte ingredients in boxes. (Pro tip: Must get the 虾饺 har kow or prawn dumpling - ask Brent for it.)
There are 3 types of sauces - all hot. Just hot, hotter, hottest. Brent is proud of his Thai inspired secret chili sauce. Try them all! My favourite is still the simple chopped raw chili pepper 😝
Everything was so fresh. Brent goes to the market every morning to personally hand pick his ingredients. He sells everything the same day as he is usually sold out by 10pm latest.
Brent buys whole Batang fish and cuts it up himself. (Pro tip: Check in at One Pot enough times, and you qualify to ask Brent for the Batang fish head 😄 )
Brent has good sources for his ingredients. These hand made fishballs were excellent. Fresh, has a slight spring to the bite when cooked, and has a subtle fresh fish sweetness. Love it.
Aussie ribeye beef, kurobuta pork etc sliced with One Pot's in house meat slicer, right there at the hawker stall. You won't get those bleedy oxidised meat here 😫
In goes the ingredients into the simmering pot of pork bone stock. The beauty of steamboat is, there is no one right or wrong way to cook it. Anything goes.
Whatever floatsin your steamboat.
Brent's One Pot works the night shift - the only stall opened at night here, so there's plenty of clean tables. One Pot opens at 6pm till sold out (closed on Mondays except public holidays and PH eve).
The idea is simple, customers get a pot of free pork bone stock on a tabletop gas stove. There is only one type of stock / soup, which is fine by me. Ingredients set comes according to per pax servings - 1 pax $18, 2 pax $28, 3 pax $38. There's 4 of us, so ours was $48. Easy as 1,2,3.... .
Besides the basic set, we can add additional a la carte ingredients in boxes. (Pro tip: Must get the 虾饺 har kow or prawn dumpling - ask Brent for it.)
There are 3 types of sauces - all hot. Just hot, hotter, hottest. Brent is proud of his Thai inspired secret chili sauce. Try them all! My favourite is still the simple chopped raw chili pepper 😝
Everything was so fresh. Brent goes to the market every morning to personally hand pick his ingredients. He sells everything the same day as he is usually sold out by 10pm latest.
Brent buys whole Batang fish and cuts it up himself. (Pro tip: Check in at One Pot enough times, and you qualify to ask Brent for the Batang fish head 😄 )
Brent has good sources for his ingredients. These hand made fishballs were excellent. Fresh, has a slight spring to the bite when cooked, and has a subtle fresh fish sweetness. Love it.
Aussie ribeye beef, kurobuta pork etc sliced with One Pot's in house meat slicer, right there at the hawker stall. You won't get those bleedy oxidised meat here 😫
In goes the ingredients into the simmering pot of pork bone stock. The beauty of steamboat is, there is no one right or wrong way to cook it. Anything goes.
Whatever floats
Hence, it led renowned food critic 蔡瀾 Chua Lam to publicly lament early this year (2019) that steamboat is the worst form of Chinese cooking "totally lacking in cultural significance" 😂 Aiyah... whatever lah. (Poor Chua Lam was subsequently boiled alive by steamboat lovers around the world.)
But hor, Chua Lam has a point though he might have overstated it (it's showbiz mah.... right?). We can't deny that for every steamboat restaurant opened in lieu of a regular restaurant, a few professional chef jobs were lost. Don't cook me alive hor... 😱
The staff will constantly top up your pot with bone stock and optional Shaoxing rice wine. But, we took this obligatory posed shot for the 'gram - nowadays have to already 😜😂
My most memorable ingredient of the evening was this shrimp dumpling. The fresh shrimp, minced pork and skin were so flavourful together. Make sure to get the right one, ask Brent for it. $1.50 a piece - damn worth it.
Uncle Bob wrapped up his steamboat meal his favourite way, with udon.
I prefer to drown rice in rich stock thick with layers of savoury sweet flavours from all the ingredients that had passed through the pot during the meal.
And, that's the thing about steamboat - everyone can have their favourite way of eating it and enjoy each other's company.
We had a great time.
While at One Pot, get some vadai from Eatz Vadai - it's the better donut 😄
Recommended for you 👍 Nice old Singapore style steamboat. Daily fresh ingredients. Quaint old nostalgic but clean hawker centre. Friendly boss, and attentive table service - something very rare in Singapore hawker centres whereself no table service is the norm. Eat in the cool of the evening. Plenty of free parking. Reasonable pricing too. Pro tip: Many customers bring their own drinks 😉 Cheers 🍻
Restaurant name: One Pot YiGuo 一锅
Address: 49 Jalan Benaan Kapal Singapore 399644 (next to "The Cage")
GPS: 1°18'04.1"N 103°52'45.1"E 🌐 1.301140, 103.879203
Nearest MRT: 5-minute walk from Stadium station (Circle Line)
Tel: 9007 7959 (Brent) pre-booking is highly adviced
Hours: 6:00pm - 10:00pm or sold out (closed Mon, Tues, Weds except on PH or public holiday eve)
Non Halal
Date visited: 20 May 2019
But hor, Chua Lam has a point though he might have overstated it (it's showbiz mah.... right?). We can't deny that for every steamboat restaurant opened in lieu of a regular restaurant, a few professional chef jobs were lost. Don't cook me alive hor... 😱
The staff will constantly top up your pot with bone stock and optional Shaoxing rice wine. But, we took this obligatory posed shot for the 'gram - nowadays have to already 😜😂
My most memorable ingredient of the evening was this shrimp dumpling. The fresh shrimp, minced pork and skin were so flavourful together. Make sure to get the right one, ask Brent for it. $1.50 a piece - damn worth it.
Uncle Bob wrapped up his steamboat meal his favourite way, with udon.
I prefer to drown rice in rich stock thick with layers of savoury sweet flavours from all the ingredients that had passed through the pot during the meal.
And, that's the thing about steamboat - everyone can have their favourite way of eating it and enjoy each other's company.
We had a great time.
While at One Pot, get some vadai from Eatz Vadai - it's the better donut 😄
Recommended for you 👍 Nice old Singapore style steamboat. Daily fresh ingredients. Quaint old nostalgic but clean hawker centre. Friendly boss, and attentive table service - something very rare in Singapore hawker centres where
Restaurant name: One Pot YiGuo 一锅
Address: 49 Jalan Benaan Kapal Singapore 399644 (next to "The Cage")
GPS: 1°18'04.1"N 103°52'45.1"E 🌐 1.301140, 103.879203
Nearest MRT: 5-minute walk from Stadium station (Circle Line)
Tel: 9007 7959 (Brent) pre-booking is highly adviced
Hours: 6:00pm - 10:00pm or sold out (closed Mon, Tues, Weds except on PH or public holiday eve)
Non Halal
Date visited: 20 May 2019
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