On Friday, my boss took us all out to a celebratory lunch (reasons: new joiners including myself, as well as a teammate getting married). We went to a Fujianese place around the block called Beng Hiang that is situated along history-rich Amoy Street. BTW, the geographic region is called Fujian, but the people, their dialect and their food style is called Hokkien. Very confusing. Anyways, my team is currently made up of people from India, Indonesia and Malaysia. The Indians don't eat beef and pork and seafood except fish, the Indonesian guy is a vegan. It was very hard to order here as even vegetables and bean curd dishes came with some animalea. We ended up with leafy greens (with salted fish), bean curd (with prawns), batter-fried prawns, and two different orders of chicken (roasted and steamed).
The chicken was good, except most of my team had a hard time getting past the chicken head staring them down from the edge of the large round serving dishes. I've had better chicken at Cantonese restaurants back home, but never with the assorted condiments of raw spicy peppers (green and red), sambal, etc. The leafy greens were extremely oily and delicious - but the poor vegan had nothing else to eat other than a bowl of rice, so I hardly touched it except to pick out the salted fish pieces on top. The bean curd was a bit slimy for my liking and covered in too much bland sauce. The prawns were covered in a crunchy, yet flaky batter that easily gave way. I liked those and I wish I had some sriracha mayo to dip them in. By the way you only ever order prawns here. Never shrimp. "Shrimp" here means the little tiny floaters that get mashed into a dried, pungent paste - not something you would order on its own, but a condiment. So don't ask for shrimp, as the waiters will not understand you.
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