Went to OK 美味 at Dunman Food Centre for lunch today. (Thanks to kaki kaki Stanley for the suggestion.) It was a very satisfying meal at the right price.
Stall #02-20 on level 2. No visible queue because food will be delivered to customers' table like at a restaurant 👍
Menu is on the stall front. Colour photos, price tagged, dishes clearly labelled and numbered. Ordering is literally as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Just say the number. Then, go back to your table. They will bring the food to you and collect payment when all your orders are delivered.
Auntie boss helped us with suggestions which we went along. Good recommendations from her.
OK 美味 opened in 1999 by the Yip family who came from Hong Kong to Singapore in 1995. Hence, HK 100%
First dish was Bean Sauce Steamed Tekkia Fish (steamed leather jacket fish).
It was nice - the fresh large leather jacket fish was tender firm, gently sweetish and was well complemented by umami savouriness from the fermented soy bean sauce with flavours and aromas from garlic, ginger, scallion and a bit of subtle heat from chili pepper.
Robust tasting sauce but slurp-able and perfect with plain white rice.
We polished off everything, leaving the bones. Seasonal price - we were billed SG$40.
Hong Kong style steamed sea bass.
I am never a fan of farmed sea bass - the flesh is often soft mushy earthy. But, just went along with kaki kaki's order. Seasonal price - this cost SG$20.
But, I was delighted with the taste of OK's sea bass dish, especially the sauce. The umami savoury dark soy sauce complemented by aromatics like garlic, ginger, scallion, and oil, etc., was slurpingly delicious. The sloshy sauce masked almost all of the fish's little earthiness.
This HK steamed sea bass was good value and tasted great, especially when hottest.
It was so good we gladly combed the bones for every sliver of white tender meat from the bone crevices. I scooped and slurped up quite a lot of the tasty sauce too.
Steamed Minced Pork with Salted Fish.
Very nicely executed. Tender juicy sweet minced pork balanced with cubes of salted fish and complemented with scallion, dried preserved ginger, chili pepper, etc. Homely Cantonese staple approved by kaki kaki Uncle Bob and I like it too - we are both Cantonese.
Cai Pu (preserved radish) Omelette.
Stir Fried Ceylon Spinach. Perfectly executed fleshy, crunchy, juicy green. Seared just enough to drive off the raw green taste and overlay the leaves with flavours and aromas from garlic, oil, etc.
Sambal Fried Kang Kong.
This was called Appetising Soup, a generic, somewhat non-descript name but it was quite apt. The appetising soup boiled with pork, eggs, carrot, tomato, tofu, etc., and dressed with scallion was tasty. SG$4 for a bowl of comforting, mom's home style soup - it's a gift.
Steamed fish envy. While having our meal, my poor eyes strayed 👀 to the Ferrari pretty steamy hot red grouper fish at the next table. Before we finished our meal, I was already plotting our next foray here 😅
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They still write their orders the traditional way. So charming 💛
OK 美味 is very OK 👌🕺
Satisfying, delicious meal at pocket friendly prices. Next on my eat list, is the steamed song fish head in chili sauce.
(Just a small food centre, here in Dunman, there're at least two other stalls offering almost the same menu of dishes in the same format as OK 美味. They also have their own fans and I shall try them in the future.)
Stall name: OK 美味
Address: 271 Onan Rd, stall #02-20, Singapore 424768 (level 2 Dunman Food Centre)
Nearest MRT: 15 minutes walk from Eunos or Marine Terrace stations
Tel: 9434 0043
Hours: 11:30am - 10pm (Sunday off)
Written by Tony Boey on 9 Dec 2025
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Ya their steam fish nice. Got combo Lau Hong Ser rojak bo.
ReplyDeletei call it Zai Shun Light as it’s a lighter taste. definitely good for ppl from HK who appear to have a pathological hatred for fishy eg my Mum (i could never understand her - this fish very good, not fishy)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite 💕💕
ReplyDeleteGreat minds think alike. Just had it for dinner haha ;)
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