Today's lunch at The Fortune Cookie at the historic Kampong Glam 🥠 TFC serves interesting Halal Chinese & Western fusion dishes.
Beautiful Kampong Glam is one of my favourite places in Singapore. The colours, vibes and rich history of the place add flavour to everything I eat and drink here, making it more delicious. Really.
The Fortune Cookie is on Bussorah Street near to the intersection with Beach Road. It's about 10 minutes walk from Bugis MRT station.
Inside The Fortune Cookie, the space is narrow and long (deep), typical of pre-War conservation shophouses in Singapore. The restaurant is simply but comfortably furnished with token Chinese themed decorations. They have well cushioned bench seats on one side.
TFC is one of Shirley's favourite restaurants and she is a regular here since it opened one year ago.
When I think of Halal food in Singapore, the first things that come to my mind are rendang, satay, mee rebus, nasi biryani, nasi Padang, nasi lemak, and such. Thank you Shirley for introducing me to The Fortune Cookie's Chinese - Western fusion Halal cuisine 😋
TFC head chef Ah Kiong is earnest and committed to serving his customers his best food. He came out from the kitchen to personally get our feedback.
I was putting on my best smile with food in my mouth 😛
Our first dish was Cheesy Dumplings (price $18).
It's a delicious start. I love the juicy crunch of the meaty prawns wrapped in crispy fried wanton skin which were dressed with a creamy savoury sweet cheese sauce with a hint of mild hot spice.
Restart, I mean starter #2 😂 Oyster Omelette (price $26).
Butter baked oyster with garlic sauce and spring onion.
Personally, I like to eat my oysters raw and neat but if you prefer it cooked, check this out. The soft, succulent juicy flesh was overlaid with a quite robust savoury tasting sauce.
Soft eggy tasting omelette pocket stuffed with savoury sweet sautéed prawns, carrot, mushroom, etc.
Honey Glazed Barramundi (price $38).
It's meaty chunks of deep fried sea bass fish dressed with sweet honey soya sauce blend and served with finely mashed carrot, cherry tomato, pineapple and crunchy blanched Kenya beans.
Our gand finale was this huge seafood noodle platter of Boston lobster, large prawn, large mussel, squid ring, scallop, fish cake slices and kai lan (greens) set on a bed of crispy fried wanton egg noodle (price $48). The whole dish was smothered in a thick gooey eggy sauce.
The crisp noodles absorbed the gooey sauce well, turning its wiry texture into a nice soft-tender crunch with a bit of residual crispness. The sauce was savoury-salty eggy which complemented the noodles' subtle savoury sweetness. I was anticipating a little more umami savouriness from the extravagant stash of crustaceans crowning the platter.
Time for dessert. This was my first time having Lemongrass Beancurd (price $14) which is The Fortune Cookie's signature.
The soft-tender sweet soybean custard was infused with the fragrance and taste of lemongrass. Topped with grass jelly cubes, blueberry and raspberry which complemented the cold dessert with sourish zest and more sweetness.
Thank you Shirley for the treat and introducing me to the interesting, delicious cuisine of The Fortune Cookie 😋 🙏
The friendly service staff at TFC were attentive and warm 😁 👍
Oh yes, they really give out fortune cookies after your meal 🥠 Mine had a Malay proverb, "Never let banana fruit twice". I never heard this one before 🤔 It is roughly similar in meaning to "Once bitten twice shy". (Image credit: Wikipedia.)
So, if anyone tries to fool me a second time, I'll say, "I am not letting banana fruit twice" 😂
Written by Tony Boey on 24 Sep 2021
Tony, curious, how much was the seafood noodle dish?
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It was $48. Thanks!
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