Inspirasi Bedok has one of the better soto ayam or Indonesian chicken soup in Singapore and only for $2.50 a serving (Feb 2022 price).
Queue was more than 10 deep at 1pm but it moved pretty quickly.
$2.50 for this, though I can't expect this to stay for long at this price with escalating costs (of ingredients, utilities, etc) recently.
There's the light yellowish chicken soup, subtly aromatic from spices. Taugeh (bean sprouts), pulled chicken, fried shallot and cilantro on top.
Soto ayam is eaten with yellow noodles, bee hoon (rice vermicelli) or rice. I always choose rice, if it is available - Inspirasi have it 😄
It's actually nasi impit or compacted rice. Boiled rice is compacted into a slab and served cut into cubes.
The soup, the soul of the dish was mildly sweet savoury with traces of spice flavours (e.g. turmeric, cardamon) and fleeting spice heat. Neither too greasy or salty at all.
There's a generous amount of tender-soft, pulled chicken though it was just protein as almost all its flavours had gone into the soup.
I love the nasi impit, tender and sweet rice cake to complement the sweet savoury, aromatic soup and chicken.
I requested for sambal and makcik pointed me to this watery red chili sauce (I was expecting the usual hot sambal kicap). Inspirasi's sambal is pulpy fresh chili pepper which was zesty and sharp.
I habitually add sambal kicap into my soto ayam to get that hot spicy kick into the mildly sweet savoury soup. Didn't use Inspirasi's sambal as I didn't think it'll work the way I'm used to. So, I could be wrong 😂 Anyway, Inspirasi's soup was already flavourful enough for me on its own.
Yumms 😋 It was a very satisfying way to fill up the spare capacity in my tummy just after my satay bee hoon at the same hawker centre.
Written by Tony Boey on 8 Feb 2022
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