Hock Heng Fish • Seafood Soup • Longest Queue @ Sims Vista

You know, I have been loitering around, stalking hawker stalls at Sims Vista for a while and somehow never seen a queue forming up at this particular corner before. The queue snaked around the corner and I couldn't see what it was about. Anyway, I just quickly lined up behind in order not to lose out 😛 When the queue turned the corner, I saw it was for Hock Heng fish & seafood soup.

So..., it is good to be kiasu, again. I was already quite full from the morning's tastings, but decided that I can still tuck in another bowl of fish soup.

Stall name: Hock Heng

Address: 49 Sims Place, Singapore 380049 (stall #01-31, Sims Vista Market & Food Centre)    

Nearest MRT: 5 minutes walk from Aljunied station

Hours: 5:00am - 1:00pm (Mon, Weds, Fri only)

Reached the front in about 30 minutes. They have fish soup / noodles and seafood soup / noodles. There's a little sign that says they open only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. No wonder then that I didn't stumble upon them before, till now.

As I was ¾ tank full, I opted for fish slices (instead of seafood which has prawns, fish balls and fish slices). I also didn't get noodles or rice.

In the bowl, there's just soup, ikan batang fish slices, lettuce, choy sum, tomato, tofu and a sprinkle of fried shallot. Oh...., price was $5.

The soup was clear, light, salty savoury and had that distinct green taste of choy sum which I don't really like.

The fish slices were flaky and had a subtle slime on the surface.

I like it that the fish slices come with skin. The soft-tender fish slices tasted gently savoury sweet. There was no fishy or off taste. A bit of the green choy sum taste was infused or clung to the fish slices.

Not adding this yet to my list of favourite fish soup in Singapore.

After I am done, I went around peeking at what other customers are eating 😛 The longest queue at Sims Vista must stand for something 🤔 Their top seller seemed to be seafood noodles and seafood soup. I shall come back for that and update this post.

Any fans of Hock Heng here? Would love to hear your views 🤟

Another, different opinion on Hock Heng's fish soup.

       

                     

             

             

               

               

             

           

           

           

                         

           

             

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Written by Tony Boey on 6 Nov 2021