The stalls we wanted to try out all closed today 😞 We needed a Plan B quickly.
Scrolling through our to-eat lists, the name Char Siu Lang 叉烧人狼 at 340 Ang Mo Kio popped up. To reduce the risk of wasted calories, Aaron called makan kaki Royden who lives nearby to double confirm. Royden vouched for CSL, and so we set off for it.
Char Siu Lang has roast pork (char siew), chicken (sio gue) and pork belly (sio bak).
Aaron ordered 100 gram each of everything - roast pork, chicken and pork belly.
The roast (BBQ) chicken was good.
The meat was tender, moist (not juicy), and tasted gently savoury sweet. Personally, I prefer the flavours slightly more intense.
The sio bak looked good with a slight pinkness reminding me of my favourite in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur.
The flavours were a little flat for me, just gently savoury salty but without porcine sweetness. Meat was tender but the skin or rind was neither crackly nor crisp.
Needed some coaxing to finish up the paiseh (last) piece.
Char Siu Lang is a char siew place and their signature is indeed a winner.
There are three levels of fattiness from lean, medium, to very fat. We opted for the half fat, half lean cut.
It was tender, moist, chewy with a bit of tacky gumminess from the caramelised glaze outside.
Flavour wise, it was robustly savoury salty sweet but well balanced with a subtle smokiness (as Char Siu Lang's meats are charcoal roasted).
Char Siu Lang's roast pork reminds me of Klang Valley's Char Siew Yoong in Pudu Ulu, Toast and Roast in SS2, Spring Golden in Shah Alam, and Famous Seremban Favourites in Petaling Jaya (on their good days).
Aaron kaypoh kaypoh spoke with the boss Ivan and double confirmed that they are using a Kuala Lumpur / Klang Valley char siew recipe.
If I crave for KL style savoury sweet crystal char siew 吉隆坡玻璃叉燒 while I am in Singapore, I can get it here at Char Siu Lang in 340 Ang Mo Kio.
Stall name: Char Siu Lang
Address: Blk 340 Ang Mo Kio Ave 1, #01-1697, Singapore 560340 (Maxim coffee shop)
Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Ang Mo Kio station
Tel: 9677 5212
Hours: 11am - 6pm
Written by Tony Boey on 29 Jan 2024
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