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Kin Hoi Eat Shellfish Jumbo Cockles @ 6 Holland Close. See Hum Even Kiasi People Can Eat!

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Kin Hoi Best Shellfish & Seafood Jumbo Cockles & More serve well cleaned, delicious see hum which even kiasi health conscious folks can enjoy. Kin Hoi means Eat Shellfish in Thai.


Stall name: Kin Hoi Best Shellfish & Seafood


Address: Holland Close, 6 @ Coffee Shop, Block 6, Singapore 271006


Hours: 4:00pm - 10:00pm



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Perhaps I was feeling bored but anyway.... I joked on Facebook about cockles warming my heart... yeah that overused idiom is getting stale and passé.

Buddy: Tony, you wanna eat cockles issit?

Me: No lah..., I don't eat cockles anymore. (Only medium rare cockles are nice but at my age, I am kiasi extra careful about eating anything not fully cooked.)

Buddy: Don't worry, they can cook it all the way through and it is still nice.

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So, here we are at 6 @ Holland coffee shop at Holland Close. It is "hidden" off the main road (Commonwealth Avenue) but just 5 - 8 minutes walk from Buona Vista MRT station. 

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From Buona Vista MRT station, walk to Commonwealth Avenue, cross the road using the overhead bridge, cross Holland Avenue, at the bus stop in front of BLK 8 along Commonwealth Avenue, turn left into the sheltered walkway, 6 @ Holland coffee shop is at the end of the walkway.

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A queue formed soon after the tiny stall opened for business at 4pm.

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Kin Hoi's menu overhead on the signboard.

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Sylvia ordered and came back with nearly everything on the menu 😄 We had both the signature half shell cockles, juicy full shell cockles and a separate portion of full shell cockles over-done for my benefit.

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Daniel Teo (the non-unker in this picture) created Kin Hoi less than 3 months ago and it was on a fast track to success. So fast that similar concept stalls have already popped up elsewhere in Singapore.

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The signature half shell cockles came cooked to medium doneness and served smothered in a savoury spicy chili sauce. The cockles are medium size.

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The full shell cockles are slightly larger than thumb size. Thoroughly cleaned and served simply blanched to medium doneness.

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Kin Hoi's cockles come from Sabah, Malaysia. I have eaten large cockles from other places before and I recall that they tend to be chewy, in fact quite rubbery tough. They are also relatively tasteless, unlike the smaller Malaysian species.

Kin Hoi's meaty Sabah jumbo cockles, however, have a nice (almost fruity) crunch to the bite (believe me) and similar flavour as their smaller brethren. Even the over-cooked ones for kiasi (scaredy) Tony have the same crunch and flavour. There was not even the slightest hint of mud or sand as the cockles were very well cleaned - in fact, Daniel wants cleanliness to be a hallmark of Kin Hoi's cockles.

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The meaty briny see hum tastes delightful with Kin Hoi's signature spicy sourish savoury sweet chili sauce.

This 
see hum Can Eat!

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We also had gong gong sea snails which were also thoroughly cleaned and served simply blanched.

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The meaty juicy delicately soft flesh come off the shell in a spiral with just gentle tugging. It was great with the chili sauce though in itself gong gong flavour is just subtly sweet.

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Kin Hoi have a few non shellfish sides such as this tender juicy Thai Honey Grilled Pork which tastes sweet savoury.

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I love this beefy savoury Melting Beef which is tender and juicy. Must get this besides the see hum.

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Kin Hoi has jumbo cockles which even kiasi (scaredy) people like me Can Eat!

Written by Tony Boey on 27 Jan 2021

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